Rolled 3, 3, 4, 6, 3, 5, 2, 4, 4, 2 = 36 (10d6)
>>5978710Arsi's silence in response lasts for over ten seconds. Confused gazes press against your back like heat from the summer sun, and you don't turn around to show them your own confusion. Finally your operator speaks up. "My apologies. The camera feed from the three of you has died. Clientside issue - not much you can do. Policy is to turn off your cameras until I have it working again... Ah, and. Permission granted. Walk slow, I need to tell the group there that you're coming."
That's odd. You've never had camera feed issues in the three months you've worked with your primary operator, Sumika. And precisely at this point of the mission?
What your <span class="mu-i">cunning</span> gut feeling is telling you right now is that <span class="mu-b">whatever is at the compound should not be captured on camera.</span> Given Leshy's high station, the man must have his reasons. Security is a very reasonable one. Rather than have footage of the compound stored in Stormwatch servers where it could be leaked or intercepted, L4 Hotakainen is having you not record it at all.
But you know what? You don't mind. He didn't tell you that you can't go.
After personally making sure everyone has disabled their bodycams (a small green light shows when the camera is on - its absence proving the device is off), you begin walking through a valley and climbing up the hill that Kai says he saw Ms. Jousten come into view from. The birch grove seems noticeably more resplendent and verdant than the rest of the wood, as if autumn has yet to lay claim on this neck of the woods. The radio is silent, and you begin to feel something more to this grove.
<span class="mu-b">The environment is shifting drastically as you approach the chief naturalist's domain. What manner of work he does to his own workspace, you do not know. Though you feel a powerful presence... you know it isn't hostile. A silent, strong heartbeat of mother nature's heart.</span>
<span class="mu-b">Roll</span> <span class="mu-g"><span class="mu-s">Attunement:</span> Two anons, roll 4d6. Target 4. Rolling for Kai's and Yoshimitsu's checks.</span>
