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

[rathercommon]

Yeah. What's it called? Flint told me the name of it, but I forgot.

[sulahnan]

House of...something. House of Tiiiiiides? Maybe?

[rathercommon]

Yeah! That was it.

[sulahnan]

[ Isn't being right supposed to feel...good? ]

All of a sudden I have a feeling we're...pretty far north.

[rathercommon]

[ ...Oh. ]

I mean - Qunari have gone south, haven't they?

[sulahnan]

Yeah, no, definitely. They've definitely gone south. There's a whole settlement in Rivain, yeah.

[ How many jungles are south of Seheron? ]

[ipseite]

Rivain, Rivain—

( the sound of swiftly turning pages. )

Kon-Taar, yes, they may have introduced—could you tell me a little bit about the animals that you've seen?

[sulahnan]

Here, or in Rivain?

[ipseite]

( there is a short delay. )

Presently around you, please.

[sulahnan]

Uhhh well there was a fish, Jenny Lou said it was a piranha? Isaac caught one and has it in a jar. Dead, I mean. Other than that...uhhh dragonlings? A big fuck-off bird that almost carried Sister Sara away...

[ipseite]

We may have some luck looking into where the Kon-Taar settlers settled from, perhaps. Thank you.

[sulahnan]

'Kay.

[ ... ]

Didn't they settle from Seheron?

[ipseite]

One rarely pole-vaults from one place to another, though I realise saying so in these particular circumstances has some irony to it. I refer more to a specific path.

[sulahnan]

Heh, yeah we kinda did something like that, didn't we. Is that the kinda thing you can work out from a map? Or are you thinking more of asking someone who'd know?

[ipseite]

We will pursue all avenues in order to locate you as swiftly as possible.

[sulahnan]

You might ask Sten, I think he didn't come through the Crossroads with us. But he might know.

[ He might, if he were still around, but he's gone soooooo whoops. Dead end. ]

[ipseite]

( given that the only native-born qunari male she's aware of in riftwatch threatened to rip her hands off the last time they spoke, )

We shall certainly look into it.

[rathercommon]

It's awfully hot, too. If that helps.

[ipseite]

Thank you, Mlle Jones, it does. Any observations at all that you can make about what's around you are most valuable now.

[rathercommon]

Sure.

[ Mm - ]

We came across a hot spring earlier. So it's got to be in a volcanic region, yeah?

[ipseite]

Yes, likely—we can use that to narrow you down.

[forwardmomentum]

Fostro Hubert's Dictionnaire des Singes has a sketch of a kind of monkey that very closely matches the description of one described by some of our jungle-ward comrades. Known to inhabit the tropical forests north of Rivain -- "Seer's monkey". Thought to be named after the city Seere. Does that track to you, madam?

[sulahnan]

[ Butting in, 'scuuuuse me, confused elf here. ]

What's the difference between a tropical forest and a jungle?

[forwardmomentum]

An excellent question. [ a beat. ] No idea.

[sulahnan]

Hmm. I bet Salvio would know. Or Val, but good luck getting a straight answer outta him.