entranceway | [video] IT IS ROCKS, WHAT COULD GO WRONG?

[Far below Wonderland's rolling hills and questionable forests lies a complex, cavernous maze that put the one in the gardens to shame - a veritable labyrinth of natural passages and crevices, pools and underwater tunnels. A subterranean system that has yet to be properly explored and documented.

Behold, then, Wonderland's very own intrepid explorer and ~~wannabe~~ archaeologist!

Evelyn has set up something of an encampment site a little ways from the basement steps into the caves. A steady drip...drip...drip in the background accompanies the brushing sounds of her tools on stone, and she very excitedly picks up some of her samples before taking them back to a lantern-lit table. She switches on her communicator.]

I've discovered something really quite remarkable, it- the geological strata here is a complex amalgamation of impossible stones and rock formations, many of which should be separated geographically by thousands of miles, much like the plants above ground, but here...here there are veins of pyrope garnet right next to limestone stalagmites, enormous calcium deposits, and chalk beds, of all things!

[Physically impossible, by all accounts. Next thing you know there will be dwarves mining for precious gems down here.]

I'm not certain if anyone else has made findings regarding the cave system, but if you have, please let me know; I'd very much like to share notes.

Threaded | Top-Level Comments Only

I didn't even know there was a cave system.

I've only visited once; it's right down the cellar stairs.

[Creepy. We know.]

The basement is a little windy but the door at the far end leads you here - there are absolutely magnificent rock formations, I might add, you simply must see them.

[It's been a few days, and now that he's had a chance to calm down (and trying to figure a way out has been fucking pointless), he's getting a little interested in the people he supposedly knew before.

Seems like as good an opportunity as any.

Even if he doesn't understand half of what she just said.]

See, that right there is probably we've never been on a date.

[See Dean Winchester try and fail to make an ice-breaking joke.]

[There, there, Dean. Wouldn't want you to strain your two brain cells trying to decipher her science-y speak, would we?]

I understand,

[Evelyn nods sympathetically with a tiny smile, blowing dust from a chunk of tourmaline before taking a small, needle-like tool and scratching off calcified pieces.]

Intellect can be intimidating.

[ :) ]

Edited 2013-01-30 22:15 (UTC)

[His interest is caught with the magic word "Pyrope" but oops, that doesn't seem to be the case. The situation is still interesting.]

ii thiink that ii2 a liiteral fiir2t.
diid you fuckiing fall liike the giirl iin that wonderland 2tory people alway2 talk about?
that ii2 a 2eriiou2 questiion.
kiind of.

Don't be silly, I didn't fall. I took the stairs down here.

you're riight that wa2 propo2terou2.
except the 2taiir2 go up and not down.
techniically.
you know what ii mean.

...I'm afraid I don't, actually. Stairs are used to go both up AND down.

[Har, har. Sam was always the brains, alright? He was the beauty. And the muscle. And the skill. And pretty much everything else.

So suck it.

The look he flashes isn't his least amused face, there's a hint of something that suggests he's not entirely serious- because he's trying, you know? Now that he's figured out these are all just people, just refugees, he can make an attempt at being... civil. Getting to know them. Whatever.]

Yeah, yeah. What's with the stupid rock?

Is it really that weird?

[Oh, darling, Evie won't suck it, even if you are the pretty one in your family.

And she knows full well that he's trying to make an effort - commendable, actually - so she's only teasing.]

The 'stupid rock' is tourmaline,

[Evelyn states matter-of-factly, using a small rag to wipe it off before holding it up to the lens.]

It's a bi-coloured stone most commonly found in Africa. What's unusual about it is that I discovered it next to stones only found in Appalachia, or Great Britain.

Edited 2013-01-31 20:06 (UTC)

[A smile.]

Is that an invitation?

[She gives him a look that says what do you think?]

Don't get lost on your way down, monsieur.

but the oriigiinal iintent of 2taiir2 ii2 two go hiigher up.
and down ii2 ju2t a conveniience ii thiink.
iit doe2n't matter two much anyway.
2o ii gue22 what ii want two a2k ii2.
diid you appea2e the 2taiir god2 and they opened the 2ecret pa22age two the underground or what?

[He smiles and heads downstairs. In person, she'll notice the bruising on his face hasn't faded completely. Other than that, he shows no signs of the attack, except that the gold cross he normally wears prominently is missing.]

How did you find this place?

[oh my god is he trying to have a philosophical conversation about stairs or WHAT]

I didn't have to appease anyone. The stairs were in the furthest room of the cellar.

[The lighting down here isn't perfect, but Evelyn had only herself to carry down a generator of no mean size and there's only so much that the lamps can reach. Conditions aren't ideal, but she's worked in worse.]

I tend to wander,

[she admits guiltily, and it's the God's honest truth. Looking up from her table and standing, she moves to greet him and-]

...oh my word, what happened to you?

[Evie almost reaches out to touch the still-healing bruises before retracting her fingers.]

[Gotta warn you about the stairs, brosis...!]

what ii2 a cellar?
the ba2ement?

It's physically impossible, is what it is.

[That kind of geographical proximity is simply illogical.]

All of these stones require different chemical conditions in order to be created.

Even in a place like this...?

[He's pleased that she even thinks to touch his face, even if she doesn't follow through.]

I had a bit of an unfortunate encounter during the last event. I hope you fared better.

[Rocks. Someone on the magical rock (ha) is holding up a rock.

Toothless stares through the device, both intrigued and confused as to what the female Viking is doing.]

Well, I certainly didn't end up with a black eye,

[It had to look really awful after the first day.]

I hope you gave the other party the what-for.

It was a demon. I'm afraid I didn't give him as much 'what-for' as I normally would.

[...it takes Evie a good, long moment to realize that someone - or some thing - is watching her through the system.]

Well.

[Um.]

Ah.

[It looks like a lizard. A very large lizard with massive, catlike eyes.]

...hello there?

Page 1 of 12

[video] IT IS ROCKS, WHAT COULD GO WRONG?

[video]

[video]

[Video]

[Video]

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

[Video]

video;

[Video]

[video]

[video]

no subject

[action forever!]

no subject

[action]

no subject

video;

video;

no subject

[video]

no subject

no subject

[video]