Tu Shanshu | Logs

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Date: October 20th - ongoing
Location: Ioa Elanag
Situation: Tu Vishan has come to a rest at the edge of a previously unexplored continent.
Warnings/Rating: Add warnings as needed.



The empty coastline and rocky beach they disembark to seems untouched, and fish school plentifully in the shallows without fear, something that the kedan are quick to take advantage of.

Once they move away from the shoreline, the landscape quickly turns to savannah scrubland, the arid sand a deep ochre colour. The grasses that grow there are thin and spindly, adapted to what appears to be a lack of water. Although the temperature is cool -- though not cold, despite the lateness of the month in a northern hemisphere -- it would be easy to extrapolate that it would be extremely dry and hot in the summer months.

Like the schools of fish, the wildlife here seem untroubled by the presence of newcomers, unless overtly threatening moves are made toward them. In addition to a host of different types of birds -- which all seem to be hunting each other, and openly cannibalistic -- there are a few types of species which become familiar sights to explorers.

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Some three miles inland, well within the range that Tu Vishan's protective aura extends to power the soul gems, a city stands quietly, surrounded by a massive wooden stockade. There are no roads or trails which lead to it, as if the city was simply dropped from the sky. This wall is hewn from logs larger than most have ever seen in their lives -- easily as big as the oldest redwoods or sequoias on earth, and many larger even than that.

They've all been cut precisely, ingeniously locked together so that no bindings or fillings have needed to be used to hold it together. Certainly, they're nothing like the scraggly, bent things seem to be growing in the area, which are only deemed trees by virtue of being marginally taller than bushes. The height of the wall is easily fifty feet, encompassing a square area of approximately a mile on each side, and there is one gate which is closed, but not locked, and is in impeccable shape.

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LINKS
Local Wildlife Encounters | Exploring the Compound | Mysterious Discoverables | OOC Info Post

OOC
Please direct questions to the OOC post! For threading, you can either use the areas described under header, or create your own -- don't feel you have to be limited to threading only in the locations mentioned in the starters! Just don't forget to label your top-levels with specific locations, and remember that Tu Vishan's radius that powers the soul gems only extends ten miles inland.

ACTIVITY CHECK NOTE: Due to the late-month timing of this landfall, threads from this log can be counted toward either October or November AC. Just don't use the same comment thread for both months.