closed mingle: welcome to amity island.

[highflights]

[ Kara has cleared out a landing site just outside the area of the ship Mimi was camped in. Each member of the party has been given a rough map marking the more thickly forested areas, contours marked for hills, and an arrow in the water indicating the general direction back to the underwater base. There are Xs for where the old shipwreck emerges through the green, but only those visible from the air, if you're on foot you're on your own. In Kon's handwriting, the maps are all labelled Amity Island in block letters. The wildlife is friendly unless provoked; we can't vouch for the plants. ]

[ The body itself is in a sturdy wood coffin resting on a bed of freshly dug earth, the lid can be easily pushed off. Time to get cracking. ]

[ ooc info about the island can be found here and here. any questions should be directed to the mods at the second link. ]

Comments

[lightbulbvampire]

Ah, I see.

[She understands. But time to get to buisness]

When I went to investigate the burnt area, it smelled strongly of raspberries and acid, which is apparently what Dark Matter engine fuel apparently smells like. At least according to my device.

[Kanaya shows some of the pictures she took of the area on her device]

What is your opinion on this? Things that are mechanical in nature are not my forte, so to speak, but I recognize the implications of this.

[splinten]

[Dirk looks at it and frowns. Well, fuck.]

That suggests the possibility that someone managed to get a Dark Matter engine to work and let them take off on this planet. That could potentially be enough to let them escape the planet. Which is a little unusual, since the planet seems to really enjoy shooting anything moving too fast out of the sky. [Kara and Kon were a case in point.]

[lightbulbvampire]

Either that, or someone attempted to start a Dark Matter engine up, and it exploded.

[That was honestly one of the only other scenarios she could come up with]

Due to lack of evidence for this scenario though, I find the other option more likely.

[Kanaya looks up to the sky questioningly.]

If they are able to achieve take off, then do you suppose that there is something different then about using a Dark Matter engine? Or perhaps the ship was also shot down?

[Kanaya wonders if the ship they found all those animal corpses and the console in runs on a Dark Matter engine.]

[splinten]

As far as I know, the Aurora and the Nostromo also used Dark Matter engines and were all shot down. [So nothing different there.] It could have been shot down out of range from us. We're back to lack of evidence again.

[lightbulbvampire]

Lovely.

[She hasn't read the tablets yet, so she doesn't have anything else to inform.]

Well, have you found anything?