Questions/Question 269

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#1 wiki | comment Topics: Edit question: edit sighnari asked on Log - August 2025/Event FAQ at 2025-08-08 Answer date: 2025-08-13	Tighnari is organising and conducting explorations under Kelesis. His intention is to (himself + any other terra volunteers, I use "he" below just for convenience) see exactly where the wailing is noticeable and strongest and map that. He's not trying to get through the concrete again, but the "dig deeper" messages mean he's thinking he's being directed under the concrete. He particularly wants to know if there's a point outside Kelesis' barrier where it's noticeable. so here's the plan for what he's intending to do, (this will take a significant amount of time, he's intending for this to be most of his month though he will be caught up a bit with the plant stuff): At 45 (ish) degree increments outside the barrier (as kelesis is circular-ish) he's going to root, and attempt to reach through the barrier with his roots, noting the change (if any) to the wailing, and if he can find the concrete layer at approximately the depth he found it inside the city At each of these points he will also root just inside the barrier and record the same. If after three points, it's clear the wailing is not detectable outside the barrier, or there is no noticeable change between in the barrier and out, and the concrete is just inside the barrier and not outside the barrier he will choose to only root once at each point. Inside the city, he will root at approximately the center, and at approximately the mid-point between the centre and each of the points he rooted for 1. If the concrete depth was even at the points he rooted in 1, he won't bother going that deep. Set some golem and digging soul'd augmented to making a.... SECRET TUNNEL (cue song). He'll get them started a bit outside the barrier, just off the path to kelesis, so they don't get in the way and if it collapses it's hopefully not going to be a huge deal and once the perimeter rooting is done, will potentially start another team at the loudest point. This will be done in shifts, with at least one golem (or someone with geo rock powers) present to try to prevent cave ins and also to remove the displaced earth. I think that's all for now. So, how does the mapping go? This is all without having breached the concrete yet. Having passed out previously and now involving other people, he's going to approach that part cautiously. (Him passing out: fine. Others passing out: reckless and unnecessary.) Edit: given the answer to "is there a map" tighnari will sigh deeply about the apparent shifting and do his best to log it, but keep his basic plan of using the compass points and ordinal points the same. ((saying "root" and "rooting" this much is a time when I'm from nz)) (((also thank you mods, this is so fun!!))) Edited 2025-08-09 07:16 am (local)	At least when it comes to mapping... the further down one goes, the less anything seems to change. Tunnels that are dug one day, will still be there the next (barring any sort of collapse, though that wouldn't be the work of anything in Kelesis). It's only the city above (and particularly, the parts of Kelesis outside of its inner ring of business, and along the waterfront) that resists being properly catalogued. So Tighnari and his crew could certainly map their way underneath, and given the way they're doing it, should face little interference from the Kelesian population. The wailing is detectable outside Kelesis and the barrier, but it is quieter, indicating that it is at something of a distance. But it is there. Concrete does extend this far out, but not by much. How far down they have to go to reach the concrete at any point within the city is variable. At some points it is relatively shallow- and at others, they would have to dig quite far in order to order to hit it. Through all of their hard work, they could discern that it's not just one concrete mass, but a whole network of pre-existing tunnels. And more than tunnels, but spaces suggesting of 'rooms'. These structures are... large, and are arranged in a way that suggests something more nest-like, or underground-habitation-like, rather than, say, a sewer system, or subway system. The room spaces are where the emotions are at their most furious and miserable, thus contain the most wailing. There isn't one singular point where they're at their worst, but instead a multitude of nodes, each radiating out into the concrete tunnels. There are potentially... quite a few hell pits altogether, further suggesting that piercing through the concrete and going inside should be done carefully (next month, but the efforts characters make towards this end may provide which entry points are available/most viable, thus determining The Immediate Danger Level(TM)).