Dark*Matter: Discovery, The Delphi Paradox

[Friadoc]

While Meredith is asking Dr. Ryland, if possible, Cade will do a quick research check via OSIRS and see if he can pull up anything about the Society of Pythia.

Also, Cade will try and see if anything pops up in his brain, if he's heard it before via his studies into arcane and fringe lore.

 

[industrygothica]

ooc: Knowledge History/Arcane Lore, +10/+12 respectively, and you can bet there'll be a research check (+15) at the first opportunity. Surely there's an internet connection around here somewhere (which will make the check +17, I believe).

 

[Falkus]

"It's entirely new to me," Dr Ryland admitted, sparring a worried glance at the skeletons. "The name indicates an association with Pythia, the Oracle of Delphi. Perhaps an inner circle of the priests of Apollo who managed the temple at Delphi. Conjecture, of course. Further examination of the site should confirm or deny it. Odd, the Oracle is one of the better documented Greek religious institute. You'd think that there'd be something written about this society."

"Perhaps an explosion? Maybe a generator exploded and killed these poor men, and also caused a collapse at the entrance burying the others?" he continues, still glancing at the skeletons. The other members of the dig team have spread out in the room, studying it, though aside from the statue, there isn't much too look it. The career archaeologists are guiding the students through the basics.

Cade can manage to jury rig a crude, but effective tracking device that will ping the location of each member of Team Libra onto the maps on each of your PDAs. However, given that the team is underground in a complex cave system, the range isn't likely to be very long. The signals can get blocked easily.

There's nothing in the OSIRS files about the Society of Pythia, and no real rumors about it that Cade can recall ever hearing or reading.

In addition, Nick hasn't ever heard anything about it which is odd, as Dr Ryland said, the Oracle of Delphi and its related trappings are one of the better documented Greek religious institutes.

One thing, perhaps related, perhaps not, that Nick does know, as he searches his memory, is that there is a historical note that there's a discrepancy between records of the various payments, gifts, boons and tributes given to the Oracle of Delphi, and the records of the payments received, with the Delphi records indicating sums and values lower than the records of those who gave them. Given the lack of a real bureaucracy, and, in many cases, a complete lack of any sort of records, this was considered be within bounds of reasonable error. Also, there were tablets indicating that there several priests and priestesses at the oracle site who did not actually live in Delphi, and that their place of residence was unknown.

OOC: The cave blocks radio signals, so you'll have to exit the caves if you want to do any research checks online.

 

[Friadoc]

While the others are busy, Cade does a quick inventory of the comm gear to see if they have any small repeater units.

If so, then he'd set a couple of them up to give them a route of communication with the outside and it's resources.

However, if there isn't any, or at least not any powerful enough, he'll keep them in mind for if the group splits up.

Under his breath, Cade mutters to himself, "I knew I shoulda finished the d@mn URAVs."

 

[Falkus]

Among the communications gear and other electronics packed by the Greek branch of the Institute, are a number of repeaters. There's just enough to establish a stable line of communications with the outside world from the cavern that the team's presently in.

A search on the internet, however, does not turn up any additional information on the subjects in question at this moment.

 

[Shayuri]

"I don't know...I don't see any debris or evidence of an explosion. I suppose if they cleaned up after themselves it's possible."

Meredith looks around. "Just the same, do we have any kind of weapons, or tools that might work as weapons? I'd rather dig them out now and feel stupid when we don't need them than find out we DO need them and not have them ready."

 

[industrygothica]

Nick relays the information that he's recalled to the other members of his team. He relays only the information, and keeps his ideas and opinions to himself for the moment, confident the the group will come to their own similar conclusions about the caverns before them.

"I think weapons are perfectly in order," he says to Meredith.

 

[Friadoc]

In response to Nick's words, Cade just gives a nod and a simple thumbs up with his right hand.

When the group move's out, Cade will gather up the repeaters for use if, or when, the team splits up.

"We're good to go, Doc," says Cade after establishing an external comms route. "We've got enough repeaters, if we should be pretty safe going further."

 

[iwatt]

When Meredith talks of weapons, Larry loosens the shoulder hoster to keep the weapon in easy reach. After Cade speaks up about safety, the conman just grins. "Hey, we're team Libra. It's all going to be alright" he adds in through the private comms.


OOC: Talk about famous last words

 

[Falkus]

One of the students, a young woman, nineteen to early twenties, walked up to Diego. "What's she talking about weapons for?" the student asked, indicating Meredith. "It's not like this is a DnD dungeon crawl, there aren't any monsters waiting in here for us," she said with a chuckle.

"Well, it's the only explanation I can think of," Dr Ryland said nervously, rubbing his hands though his hair, glancing at the bodies again. "We should stick together until we've made a map of this place, and cordoned off any unstable area. It looks stable enough here, though. Let's keep moving, look for a central temple area."