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After packing up camp and heading up, they reach their destination only an hour north.

The tomb is just a little off the road, a massive door with intricate carvings around the frame in an unknown script. The characters in the script are made up entirely by straight lines. Given that straight lines lend themselves well to carving, it may indicate that whoever created this script was used to carving in stone. The door looks like it will open, as the hinges are intact, but it's ridiculously heavy and will need a lot of people to pull on those big carved handles.

Heave ho?

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Natives? Precursors to the townsfolk? What about the other castle, isn't somewhere in this general vicinity?

[And damn if she had her augmentations, she'd have heard that much sooner.]

[She steps forward, going silent and tilting her head, breathing deep to see if she could catch the scent in addition to the sound.]

Tombs aren't that unusual for royal societies. [Even if she's never seen one before in her life. Still York's signal of hearing water distracts from the conversation. She's slowly turning in place, trying to figure out where exactly it's coming from. The side chamber attracts her attention and she steps carefully inside. Well, the waterfall would explain the sound of waterfall. The back wall of the side chamber is completely open, revealing the waterfall just beyond.

Finding the water first, to her, though, is a victory and some needed proof of her capabilities.] In here.

--Good eyes. Think we ought to try it out?

[See if it tasted sweet, or metallic, or maybe sulfurous...three's a lot they can learn from the water. Once it's filtered, of course. York's not dumb.]

[Kat steps over to it, offering a nod to Carolina, good work, and stoops down to stick her fingers in, before turning to York.]

Delta, is this something you can sample, or would that take too much processing power out here?

[Carolina acknowledges Kat's nod with a slight nod of her own, feeling more like a new recruit than she's ever felt in her life. The mention of Delta just continues to remind her of just how behind she feels.]

We can take samples back to the castle with us if he can't.

My apologies, but my abilities here are minimal. Do you have a sample collection kit?

--Yeah, all I got are full water bottles. Got a filter though, if you want to taste it?

Sure, I'll take a taste. [She slings her sack down to pull out an empty bottle and fill it up, and then replaces the sack and stands, holding her hand out for the filter from York. She offers Delta a little smile.]

Maybe next time.

[Carolina was just about to remove a bottle from her pack as well, but Kat beats her to the punch, so the freelancer just reshoulders her bag.]

Delta, can you give us anything on what might be the source of the water? [She's not the most familiar with the geography of the new universe she'd been plopped in.]

[York hands his filter to Kat - it's the easy kind, just attach it to a bottle and pour through it.]

Possible. It appears we are in a tectonically active region; if the water has a high mineral content, an underground spring is likely. If it is icy or contains surface sediment, rain or snowfall through a fissure in the mountain is more likely.

[Kat gives it a few moments to cool before using the filter to make herself a potable sample, listening to but not contributing to Carolina and Delta's conversation for the moment. Once satisfied it's cooled and filtered enough, she takes a drink, swishes it around in ehr mouth a moment in consideration, and then leans over and spits it out.]

Sulfer, slightly acidic. Geothermal hotspring, maybe. York, do you recall any major eruptions or seismic activities in your time here?>

[Carolina nods, watching Kat take a drink of the water. Sulfur, slightly acidic. They had come through the mountains, there's any number of possibilities that could give that. She glances between them.]

If it hasn't, we could be standing in a ticking time bomb.

No eruptions I know of. Seismic activity's a little harder to judge, because that could just be the castle messing with us at any given time.

The tunnels look pretty clean of cracks, though, and I haven't seen anything that looks like pyroclastic flow.

Well, the water's enough to point at something going on, but unless we see or hear further proof I don't think there's immediate threat.

[Carolina takes another look around the side chamber they're standing in before taking a couple steps toward the open side of the room.]

Unless we just haven't seen it yet. [Below, she can see there's a long way down.]

Think we ought to get back to the group and warn them to be careful?

Wouldn't hurt. [She shoulders her pack, hands the filter back to York, and then pauses a moment to adjust part of her robotic arm.]

[Carolina eyes Kat's robotic arm, reminded a little too much of Tex's arm that failed while on the training floor. Mental note to keep an eye on Noble Two.]

Good idea, York.

Okay. You going to keep the sample, or should I grab a fresh one? We can run an analysis on it when we get back, see if anything sticks out.

I'll keep mine. See what we can find when we've got full use of tech at our disposal.

[And you can bet Kat catches Carolina eyeing her arm. She smirks.] It's the arm, isn't it? Don't worry; it won't be a liability.

I'm not worried. [Again a little brusquely. She's not worried about Kat being a liability.]

It wouldn't hurt to take a second one.

[Calm down, ladies, there's enough water here for everybody.]

Probably doesn't taste good, but if this ends up being our only water supply, it won't hurt to fill up anything we have.

[Might as well do so before they head back to the main group.]

[Kat snorts.] Well, at least it's not recycled.

[Carolina pulls her canteen from her pack, nodding at York.]

And there could be more where this came from. [She's now more than a little curious as to what they might find here.]

[He finishes filling a bottle himself.]

Almost wish I brought some tea bags.

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