MOD PLOT ↠ SECRET STEEP'D ROOTS: WHERE THE HELL ARE WE?

[faderifting]

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Various
RECIPIENT: Everyone
NOTES: A catch-all for trying to figure out how to get the jungleteers back home. If you signed up for a mini jungle adventure or a research assignment and we gave you some info that contained clues to the jungle's location, please share them here! Everyone else is also welcome to participate and try to sort out where they are and what to do about it.

Comments

[justashotaway]

We found eggs.

They are edible.

[Are they fertilized? Look, they're edible, what else do you want.]

[aventuriere]

Was there anything remarkable about them?

[justashotaway]

Only if you are squeamish.

If someone is hungry, they may have one.

[degenere]

[Not here to be helpful, here to eat--]

What do these edible eggs taste like?

[justashotaway]

Like eggs. And like birds.

[rathercommon]

We found some stuff - looks like a bit of an axe and part of a belt. It's got a Qunari symbol on it - What was it called, again?

[degenere]

We have a word for such symbols, yes.

'Letters'.

[rathercommon]

[ Rather viciously: ]

Piss off, Valentine.

[sulahnan]

Is it the one that looks like a fancy diamond-shaped braid?

[raas]

( haltingly: )

For a soldier? Or for cutting wood.

[sarcophage]

Was anyone else assaulted by unusually large ants?

[Surely no one could have seen the great billows of smoke coming up through the canopy, so there's no need to mention that.]

[assistente]

Ants.

How... large?

[justashotaway]

No.

Where were they?

[keenly]

Found a couple things: an enormous carnivorous plant, and a purple butterfly with yellow spots.

[assistente]

[!!!!]

Yellow spots, you say. Perhaps the color of-- of the sun, rather than the color of saffron?

[bloodandsand]

Hello dears, the strangest thing happened! Dear bunny had a charming little golden frog fall on his head and he collapsed, frozen!

He's quite all right now I believe, but it was incredibly funny, he was all stiff for absolutely ages.

[doneisdone]

A golden frog?

[She's thinking. And she doesn't ask who bunny is, because she doesn't care.]

[esquive]

There are large snakes. [A pause. Actually no, this warrants elaboration--] Very large.

[technologist]

Are we positive we're not in bloody Australia.

[ Why is this just a big list of terrible animals. ]

Were they aggressive?

[mereandrastianism]

That sounds terrible, Serah. I hope you weren't injured.

[sohighandwild]

I really want to second how unreasonably large this damn snake was.

to recap;

[sumptus]

[ A vaguely Tevene voice hitting the crystal at an odd angle, accompanied by the rustling of parchment -- the tapping of markers against maps, ]

So it's a jungle. East to west, that narrows it to the Donarks, Seheron, northern Rivain, or Par Vollen, or whatever lies north of those that you haven't mapped.

[ Which could be a lot. Nonetheless, ]

Some of you [ he assumes you have names, also: doesn't care, ] have seen monkeys found in Rivain, but that could have been brought there by Qunari, who have encampments in all four jungles.

A Qunari axe could, again, be found in any of the four, though it may make Par Vollen least likely.

Then there are the snakes. Recorded in the Donarks, was it? How likely is it to find that species elsewhere?

Has anyone found anything else that might narrow the options?

[imbroccata]

A big purple butterfly with golden spots, and a grove of carnivorous plants.

[sarcophage]

You left out the ants.

[And the fire. Did anyone notice the fire? Did any qunari notice the fire? Are they coming to investigate? Let's hope not.]

[overharrowed]

Mlle. Durfort-Lacapalette and I have been trying to narrow down the origin of a possible poison generated by a golden frog. A paralytic agent, by the description. Vincenzo Valisti was especially interested in Qunari poisons, and his recorded travels might provide something of a lead?