Location: Area around the Magical Scar, South of Myrefall Date: May 24th Time: Midday Status: Self-para/Open
The secrets of life are revealed in the laboratory of Merrinyn Delorsath, wherever that may be this week, with her research notes plumbing and cataloging nature's wonders. At least, that's what the triton likes to believe. Her original self-imposed mission was to discover new ways to improve and augment existing issues involving health, but her time on the surface has led her to believe that complete health, of individuals and of the society as a whole, depends on the mutual adaptation of nature and civilization with one another. Suffice to say, biological experimentation has always been among Merrinyn's greater interests.
Her approach to her mission has mostly focused on the incremental progress towards a utopian ideal of thriving biology, remaining more aloof from politics than other researchers, which was why she was able to bypass, rather ignore, the otherwise necessary courtesy call to Myrefall's ruling body. Instead, Merrinyn just made her way directly to the area of the magical...scar, desperately hoping to study and learn what could be welcomed additions to her notes. "When I said I wanted to visit Myrefall, the city didn't have to welcome me with such a magnificent development. A wonderful detour, this is, if I say so myself."
As soon as they were close, Merrinyn wasted no time in taking out her Journal of Easy Noting and dictating her thoughts to it, its magic quickly writing down everything she had to say. "This is marvelous. The surrounding area of the earthquake that had unexpectedly welcomed us on our way to Myrefall has, well, changed, for the lack of a better term. I'm assuming, from the looks of our coachman's face, the width of his opened jaw and its distance from the ground, that this deep chasm, a hundred foot or so, was not always here... A literal scar across the earth, left by the eruption."
She turned her attention to the roots sprouting from the chasm, squinting, poking at them with a stick, while she continued to take notes. "Roots, seemingly unbreakable, have sprouted from the chasm, clawing into the nearby ground." Taking a closer look, she catches a whiff of an unpleasant scent and coughs, almost gags at least once. "There's a garden of strange flowers, too, oozing viscous liquid, smelling like...entrails? That's new. All around, the grass have changed colors as well, mimicking the shades of the rainbow." She yelps as birds suddenly dive into the chasm from behind and above her. "Now that isn't anything you see every day. Birds are diving straight into the chasm, and without any warning, I should add."
Merrinyn spent the next few hours making more of the same observations. The coachman she had hired to deliver her to Myrefall had wanted to leave, afraid of the uncertainty this geographical intrusion was presenting, but the promise of more coin ensured his loyalty. At least until nightfall. Still, he returned to his carriage and insisted he'd wait for her a safe distance away. The triton could only grin. Small men, small surface men, always fear what they do not understand.
That is why she was here in the first place, to understand what this was, to ensure that there was nothing to fear. Of course, the surrounding trees wilting and re-growing half a dozen times did not help matters with the coachman, but the possibility to harness that sudden growth, Merrinyn believed to be useful in her research. "Just imagine... We might be able to regrow limbs by isolating this specific event. We could help hundreds, thousands... Not just in Myrefall but beyond."
Unbeknownst to her, she was fast becoming lost in her thoughts, unable to notice someone else was now closing in on her.
