ROLEPLAY

chapter 20

it has been two full years have passed since the last message was sent home from the great explorers. in their last message they stated that they were not sure if they would be able to send messages home after they made the upward climb. after so long we can only assume that their worry about sending messages home was correct. in the end only time will tell...

chapter 21

homins of atys:
we realize that it's been over three years now since you had any messages from us. we know this because after a week in the lands above we sent a message to the other teams about an update so that we could put together a message home, the day after we released the izam it had returned with the same message we sent out. that made it clear to us that as long as we were in the lands above no messages could be sent out. thanks to planning ahead between the teams prior to going up the branches it was agreed that if this happened we would spend no longer then 3 years searching the lands above, and would return to the base of the upper branch to make contact with our findings and compile a message home with our various results. this is that message.
all four teams took the full three years time to explore the upper lands. what each team found is exactly like the rumors said as far as being other lands, complete with cities. there is things to note about the lands above that everyone should know now.
first the cities are indeed there, and it would seam that they are full of bandits. each team sent in various homins from different backgrounds to try to make contact, each homin was attacked and chased for a short while. this would lead us to our conclusion that they are bandits because they would not allow anyone to enter the cities. as a result of these attacks we have little information on the cities themselves.
the creatures in the lands above are much stronger then those on the surface, there are breeds that normally don't grow so strong on the surface that can be found here. some seam to roam in strange patterns thought out the lands above, and every season seams to favor movement of different creatures. there is much to learn about these stronger creatures, the one's that we encountered that were stronger then their surface counterparts are as follows: clopper, cray, goari, igara, izam, javing, yber, ragus, bawaab, bodoc, capryni, frippo, gnoof, lumper, messab, raspal, and rendor. you can also find all of the other creatures found on the surface in the most dangerous regions of the homin lands. it's our belief that because of so many dangerous creatures these are forced to grow stronger in order to survive. perhaps these are closely related to those on the surface, but of a more robust line of breeding then the surface creatures.
we're all on our way home from the base of the upper branches following the sending of this message, when we reach home we intend to share the recovered scrolls found on our journeys for all to see and read themselves. we also intend to meet with those of us at home that first started the great quest's work of the scrolls, and to decide how to proceed on finding a way to share with others a chance to see the lands above.

chapter 9 of those against the great explorers