Borneo- questioning the locals

[Mr. Handy]

"You got a minute, Dr. Shapiro?" asks Harry.

[Starspawn338]

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Butch grunts with the exertion in the heat and humidity of the tropics but continues until the job is done.

[Mephistophilis]

Labouring beside Butch, the diminutive priest soon gets left behind, his half of the trench almost a foot higher than his companion's. He slows and eventually slumps to sit down on the edge of the hole. Watching the big man powerfully clearing the soil.

[kabukiman]

Butch works for two men, and after 10 minutes, he discovers that in the grave he is digging, the body has been stolen... by a tunnel excavate.

[kabukiman]

"You got a minute, Dr. Shapiro?" asks Harry.

"Sure, what is it?"

[kabukiman]

"Gentlemen, we have some oddities for you all to examine. Don't touch with your bare hands, obviously."

In one hand, Crowley produces the weird fruit, currently skewered on the end of a long stick to enable safe carriage. With the other he drops a bloodied handkerchief, tied up at the corners to make a small sack on the end of another stick. With a flourish, careful not to get blood on himself, Crowley cuts the sack open with his Gurkha knife to reveal bits of shot-up rat-thing.

Nobody pays you much attention: Harry is in the tent with Shapiro and the other two are... digging graves?

Crowley and Jan:
Spott Hidden roll please

[Snapper]

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"Gentlemen," Crowley says quite loudly and with distinct irritation, "Stop your grave digging and nursing, and come examine these objects. We have risked our necks collecting them."

"Nursing and grave digging will shortly become irrelevant if we don't solve this mystery."

[Mephistophilis]

Alex hears the shouting but he's too busy peering into the excavation under the grave. 'Do you think this tunnel was man-made or could it already have been here, formed naturally maybe?' he asks Butch. 'And what would someone, or something want with the bodies?'

[Mr. Handy]

"One of the locals has some questions about the cure, and I'd like to know what to tell him, please," says Harry.

[aine]

Jan saunters into camp with Crowley and sits on a log for a drink and to watch the others hard at work.

[kabukiman]

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"Gentlemen," Crowley says quite loudly and with distinct irritation, "Stop your grave digging and nursing, and come examine these objects. We have risked our necks collecting them."

"Nursing and grave digging will shortly become irrelevant if we don't solve this mystery."

You notice that several hours have passed when you were in the forest... but only some minutes (less than one hour) have passed in the camp.

[kabukiman]

Alex hears the shouting but he's too busy peering into the excavation under the grave. 'Do you think this tunnel was man-made or could it already have been here, formed naturally maybe?' he asks Butch. 'And what would someone, or something want with the bodies?'

Make a spot hidden roll please.

[kabukiman]

"One of the locals has some questions about the cure, and I'd like to know what to tell him, please," says Harry.

He seems surprised. He looks at the machine and then says:
"Yes, I'm working in a cure, It will take several days of course".

[Starspawn338]

"Gentlemen," Crowley says quite loudly and with distinct irritation, "Stop your grave digging and nursing, and come examine these objects. We have risked our necks collecting them."

"Nursing and grave digging will shortly become irrelevant if we don't solve this mystery."

Butch leans on his shovel and looks over to Crowley.

"I'm not digging a grave, I'm exhuming a body for examination!" He replies equally loud and irritated. "And it just so happens the body is gone and there is a tunnel beneath the grave. Perhaps making a cure for the locals and investigating the disappearance of the infected body is more important than you finding colorful fruit and a dead rat."

[Mr. Handy]

"Thank you, Doctor," says Harry. "I'll leave you to it." He returns to his guide. "He said it will take several days."

[Snapper]

Crowley sighs and tries again. "This fruit has never been seen in the civilised world before. Nor the rat-thing. They are worth examining as they are connected to whatever is happening here."

"After that, by all means, let's head down this tunnel you've uncovered, see where it goes."

[Mephistophilis]

Dangling off the side of the excavation, almost hanging into the hole underneath, Alex struggles to get a look at the tunnel.

'Dammit, I can't see anything down here. One of you youngsters take a look.'

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[Snapper]

"Strange things are happening here. Time moves differently out there in the jungle, hours passed for us and minutes for you. Maybe Shapiro should be doing his research out there, he might get a week's work done while people here are sick for only a half day. I don't know."

"But I do know there's animals and vegetation out there not even close to anything observed by civilisation. I think we should make a plan then stay together as a team. Follow this tunnel under the grave or whatever."

[aine]

“Crowley’s got the right of it. There’s something strange going on with time. We’ve been exploring for hours and, well, you’ve barely dug this hole.”
Jan looks across the ground in the same direction that the tunnel leads- does it head towards the jungle?

[Starspawn338]

"Look, I'm not trying to diminish your discoveries at all, I'm just not sure how they tie into what's happening. I suppose you could ask around and see if any of the sick people ate the fruit or the rat meat. I'm more convinced that whatever dug this tunnel under the grave and stole the body has a much higher probability of being connected to what's going on here. Therefore, I think we should investigate this first, even if we can wander around the jungle for hours with only a few minutes going by in camp."

Butch will examine the tunnel. Is it big enough to go in without slithering like a snake or is it only as big as the corpse was?