CH3-03 Photo Recognition
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Andy has a pair of travel binoculars, Alex has a larger pair in the front of the Landrover.
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"You're right," says Liz, "she wouldn't have bothered bringing the climbing gear if she didn't need it. That means we'd better backtrack to where we found her car and climb after her."
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Jacob shudddrs when Liz meantions the car.
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Andy smiles at Alex's joke... "Well... if we find any gold ... it's 50/50 then, right?" he says with a smile.. "But there are no... places of interest, nothing for archaeologists like the Professor?" he tries again...
"That's something else we're going to have to deal with." Andy says seeing Jacob's reaction "It's not safe, we're probably going to have to torch that VW."
"Well, if we're not going to bother the Monks, we'd better head off.." he says, checking that the others feel the same.
Andy smiles at Alex's joke... "Well... if we find any gold ... it's 50/50 then, right?" he says with a smile.. "But there are no... places of interest, nothing for archaeologists like the Professor?" he tries again...
"That's something else we're going to have to deal with." Andy says seeing Jacob's reaction "It's not safe, we're probably going to have to torch that VW."
"Well, if we're not going to bother the Monks, we'd better head off.." he says, checking that the others feel the same.
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"If we find any gold it is all your gold. Gold here will be Verbetoi gold and I do not want any piece of that!" Alex shakes his head and in the background you can hear Lek grunted agreement. "Il professore is not archaeologist" Alex puffs his chest out and then continues in his best impression of an English gentleman "Social anthropology is the study of the relationships among persons and groups, not dead people, dusty old bones or pottery"He smiles sadly clearly taking a moment to remember his old friend. So we never come up here looking for things, talk to people, yes a great deal. Sometimes we go look at places, but no we do not dig or look at ruins"
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"I've taken Anthropology 101," says Liz, "so I know how to do the same sort of thing, only I'm not as good at it. I don't know the first thing about archaeology outside of what I picked up from watching Indiana Jones movies." She nods to Andy. "Ja, we'll have to burn the car, but we ought to wait to do it until we're on our way back. The only people nearby like to find it are the Verbetoi, and if we set the car on fire, we might as well put up a big neon sign saying 'come and get us.'"
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What if this monastery is hideout for the Verbetoi and their camouflage is being silents monks. Maybe it is the right way and Maria bypassed the gate by foot as he didn't want to be spotted. After all, she was not in a mental good shape, she probably had a breakdown in the car with all the writing.
Jacob suggests as he looks around, trying to find tracks
EDIT - I rewrote the post following ghill area explanation
Jacob suggests as he looks around, trying to find tracks
EDIT - I rewrote the post following ghill area explanation
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Gate is not locked says Lek. Verbetoi do not hide out he adds, Monks certainly all Verbetoi or nearly all, who knows with monks.
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"No, if she wanted to get in here, she would have pulled up a lot closer and come in this way, instead of trying to through the valley. That is just crazy..." Clay trails off for a minute. "Still if she was out of her mind, being subtle isn't in the cards. I think she was heading to something in the valley. We need to follow her trail, and this aint it."
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"i agree," says Liz, "Let's get back to where she left her car without delay."
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OOC: I'm in agreement, let's go back to where we found Maria's car and then pick up her trail. |
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Turning the 4x4's around you head back to the trail start, Clay points out Maria's footprint on the car's bumper and the similar footprint further up the trail.
<Snip> all necessary preparations for a hike into the mountains - consider yourselves to all have a day pack warm/waterproof jacket food/drink and survival blanket, as well as the climbing gear.</snip>
First appearances can be deceiving; while it looks easy, the trail is an unremitting uphill climb, ascending through alpine meadows carpeted in flowers, before entering the welcome shade of a thick beech wood. It doesn't take to keen an eye to notice there are carvings on many of the trees. The quality and readability of the carvings varies a great deal, but once they become aware of them you notice there are carvings on nearly every tree. You quickly determine this is not the same "WRITING" as you've seen in Maria's apartment and car or on the blackboard in Brichester U.
<Snip> all necessary preparations for a hike into the mountains - consider yourselves to all have a day pack warm/waterproof jacket food/drink and survival blanket, as well as the climbing gear.</snip>
First appearances can be deceiving; while it looks easy, the trail is an unremitting uphill climb, ascending through alpine meadows carpeted in flowers, before entering the welcome shade of a thick beech wood. It doesn't take to keen an eye to notice there are carvings on many of the trees. The quality and readability of the carvings varies a great deal, but once they become aware of them you notice there are carvings on nearly every tree. You quickly determine this is not the same "WRITING" as you've seen in Maria's apartment and car or on the blackboard in Brichester U.
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Jacob, not wanting to get closer to the writing on the trees tries to decipher them from a far, but that's too much, he undersands nothing.
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Andy is reminded of a Time magazine article he read about the tree carvings of the American West, where lonely immigrant sheep herders from Greece and Albania passed their time carving on Aspen trees. But if Andy had to make a guess he'd say these these carvings are not expressions of loneliness.
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At first Andy enjoys the hike but the weight of his pack and the cosnstant digging into his side of the 'AK47 clone' soon take his mind off of the scenery. The steady incline soon has him breathing deeply and his forehead glistening with sweat. The shade offered by the wood they enter makes him a little happer, ot at least cooler.
The odd carvings that adorn most trees seem to unsettle Jacob but from what he can make out they're just markings... "... these remind me of an article I read a year or so ago... come to think of it that mentioned Albanian's .... he smiles at Alex "The article was about the 'Wild West' and said that shepherds would often carve pictograms and scenes into trees, a custom picked up from their home countries, here and Greece, some carvings were very intricate...." Andy says, as he steps off the path to take a closer look.. "This type of thing would definitely be of interst to the Professor..."
Andy approaches a particlarly large tree that seems to have more distinct marks carved into it...
At first Andy enjoys the hike but the weight of his pack and the cosnstant digging into his side of the 'AK47 clone' soon take his mind off of the scenery. The steady incline soon has him breathing deeply and his forehead glistening with sweat. The shade offered by the wood they enter makes him a little happer, ot at least cooler.
The odd carvings that adorn most trees seem to unsettle Jacob but from what he can make out they're just markings... "... these remind me of an article I read a year or so ago... come to think of it that mentioned Albanian's .... he smiles at Alex "The article was about the 'Wild West' and said that shepherds would often carve pictograms and scenes into trees, a custom picked up from their home countries, here and Greece, some carvings were very intricate...." Andy says, as he steps off the path to take a closer look.. "This type of thing would definitely be of interst to the Professor..."
Andy approaches a particlarly large tree that seems to have more distinct marks carved into it...
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As Andy weaves his way through the trees he realises that not all the carvings are old, some at least have been newly carved into the tree bark. Whereas the large tree he finds itself at the foot of seems entirely covered with the carvings.
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"I never knew that," says Liz, studying the carvings once she's told they're safe. "Maybe she used them to mark her trail."
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"There are hundreds if not thousands of carvings" says Greg "I don't think this is anything to do with Maria, I mean nearly every tree seems to have one or more of these carvings on them."
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