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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Falkus" data-source="post: 3619279" data-attributes="member: 22634">"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.</blockquote>

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