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Days of the Dark Forest [trailhead?]

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djsampson
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Days of the Dark Forest [trailhead?]
The Journal of Keridwen Oculet

Well its been a while since I have been in here. Hello to all the vet. and new fish. I got this my email tonight. Hope it hasn't been brought up, I coundn't find it so who knows and it doesn't look like spam. Hope it is something good. I really miss me some ARGing.

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Days of the Dark Forest - The Journal of Keridwen Oculet

Day 9: My most interesting recent discovery has been a small blue
spider. It
is quite hairy, the coloring almost cyan but less saturated. The eyes
are the
most interesting feature, dark with colored depths. This is the only
spider I
have ever come across to really take notice of [people] and watch us
with what
I can only call curiosity. The spider moves its head to track us huge
creatures stumbling around the forest. And if one of us gets too close,
the
spider jumps backward--and continues to watch! Very intriguing.

Despite the hardships of camping out in this strange forest, I'm
enjoying it.
This is the first time I've really felt challenged to use everything I
know,
not just to perform my research and other duties, but to merely
function day
by day. The hunters are sworn to take care of me, of course, but I take
pride
in not requiring their help. Often.

Day 10: The leader of the hunters is Davadron Toluin. He's been quite
kind, I
would almost say solicitous, in providing for me. Of course, *I'm* the
one
who's supposed to find out what's edible and what's not in this forest,
but
the hunters perennially do things their own way. I suppose I'll have to
treat
one of them when he eats a bad berry. Still, they have their uses;
their
[tricks] for finding interesting species are almost as good as mine!

Day 11: I've procured some glass to rig up a primitive terrarium for
the
spiders. The hunters have caught a few for me, but it's hard to keep
them
around so I can study them. The spiders, that is; the hunters don't
really
have any choice in the matter, though I shudder to imagine what *they*
think
of me asking for all these silly blue spiders. I find the creatures so
intriguing, but I'm not even sure why.

The hunters tell me there's a type of bee that builds hives in certain
trees
around here. And they say these bees do in fact create honey. *That*
should
prove their worth even to the hunters!

Day 12: [Expletive] tricky spiders! They can climb right up glass! Who
ever
heard of a spider that can climb glass? I just returned to camp to find
the
last one scurrying up the terrarium and out the top! I'm going to need
more
glass to build a *real* terrarium, [viz.], with a lid.

Well, I shouldn't fill this journal with silly things like that. The
truth is
that the bees are turning out quite interesting. Good quality honey
with a
distinctive, slightly bitter and almost smoky taste. I'm sure gourmets
back
home will go wild for it. As much as gourmets *ever* go wild!

What's more interesting to *me* is that the bees only build hives in a
certain
species of tree. The hunters call it a "bee bush"; I guess that's as
good a
name as any, for now. (The bees, of course, are "bush bees". How
pointless.)
Right now I'm getting ready for a field expedition to see these bushes
for
myself. In my copious spare time, of course.

Day 13: The bush has stiff branches with alternate compound leaves,
with nine
leaflets each. The leaflets are elongated with rounded tips and smooth
edges,
dark green on top and smooth white underneath. These branch-trunks
spiral
upward in a twisty manner I haven't figured out yet, forming a large
bush.
Each bush has what appears to be somewhere between half a dozen and a
dozen
flower stalks, quite stiff, each stretching nearly [a meter] upward.
This
stalk is woody and light brown, with no leaves, but a few odd ridges
and
structures I don't recognize. Atop each stalk is a magenta flower with
a wide
base, myriad short petals and both stamens and pistil in the center.
The bees
are often seen taking nectar from these flowers.

What's *really* interesting is that the bees build their hives between
the
flower stalks. The stalks are plain, nearly featureless, sticking
straight up
in the air for [a meter]. The hives usually join three of these stalks,
as if
someone had wrapped a [scarf] around the stalks and filled in the area
thus
delineated. Each plant has three hives with startling regularity. The
whole
arrangement is completely bizarre and unlike anything I've ever seen
before.

I had to stop writing because Davadron just brought some amazing news.

We aren't alone in this forest.
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Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 12:50 am

thebruce
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Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 1:23 am

djsampson
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thanks bruce, when you gonna play some halo 3 with me. I think you scared Twisted Evil

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Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 1:38 am

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