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[Agent Kallus]

The Tale of Doctor Alfredson of Corrington: Chapter 5

Chapter 1 : Embarking on towards Adventure.
Chapter 2 : The Voyage of the Autumn Blossom.
Chapter 3 : Rehearsal in Rassilon
Chapter 4 : Hurriedly hiring help.

Character list in spoiler brackets.

Spoiler

 - Ragnar Alfredson : Corrish Doctor of ecology.

 - Calder Norrington : Corrish Student of ecology and apprentice to Doctor Alfredson

 -  Satoshi Kaijik : One of Yiroe's crew and a Marine in the service of the All Seasons Trade Guild.

 - Sillas Elŝerco

 

Whilst Yiroe and Ruri attended to their business, Ragnar took the opportunity to observe and record the ecology of the nest of thieves. This was largely 'uncharted territory' as though there were an odd few but by and large sea rats were not scientists and cared little for the natural surroundings on their isles. Ragnar Also though that he could use this time to continue his instruction of his apprentice in the disciplines of ecology. So they went along the coast to

"This should be a good site to start with"

"Are you not going to systematically measure along the to gather your sites?"

"No we have not the time for such frivolities, and I have found stratified sampling methods to be more favourable anyhow." 

"No overall slope angle."

"This we have here is a soil pin, you stab it into ground to measure the depth of the soil, you should be able to tell when you have reached that depth as you can feel the difference and hear the sound of the rocks below."

"Right, should I be taking notes?"

"This is mostly stuff you should already know, just to refresh your memory, feel free to take notes if you'd like."

"We'll want to place down the quadrat over this area"

The quadrat was large and hefty, Ragnar needed Satoshi and Calder to carried it over and placed it on top of the environment.

"I don't recognise this type of palm tree. We should of course double check the reference books but I think this may be an undocumented species."

 "i can't find anything like it in the reference material for this ecosystem."

"Brilliant, sounds like a new discovery to me, I'll note it down as the Man-wide palm foe now, we can work on its scientific name once we've determined it's genus"

"The Man-wide palm? why the Man-wide, I'd have expected you to call it the Alfredson tree or something like that."

"Well at 3 studs wide it is close to the width of a man, and there is already a tree named after me."

" Ah soil samples, this is my favourite part. Could someone fetch me somwthing to dig with?"

"Here ya go."

"That's not quite what he was asking for."

"Yes, using a shovel for soil samples would be like using a musket as an oar."

"Is this better?"

 "Ah my trowel! Thank you Satoshi." 

"Grr"

Ragnar filled up jars with earth and then went to sit down and note down his observations.

"Calder look at these results, do you notice anything odd about them."

"The habiat looks inhospitable with the salty sea breeze, but it somehow supports the tree."

"Yes, quite. This is however as expected, remember that palm trees and the like are the exception and not the rule."

Meanwhile in Corrington ,the navy were training the Marines on how to use a musket as an oar, though some of the officers were concerned that they should first make waterproof muskets.

OOC: This is a very little one but I like it. I haven't been posting theses in the same order that I built them and this one was photographed before I swapped backgrounds. Thanks for reading, comments are criticism are welcome.

 

Edited May 6, 2018 by Agent Kallus

[Bregir]

Interesting surveys and results, Agent Kallus! I like the sampling of the soil, and particularly the grating to map the bedrock. It would be nice to see the full palm - I like how you made the trunk, but I wonder what you did for the top!

[Agent Kallus]

On 5/14/2018 at 8:17 PM, Bregir said:

Interesting surveys and results, Agent Kallus! I like the sampling of the soil, and particularly the grating to map the bedrock. It would be nice to see the full palm - I like how you made the trunk, but I wonder what you did for the top!

Duh, I did photograph it but I forgot to upload it .

Here's a better look at the tree. (though I didn't take a top down shot without the quadrat.

 

Sorry for the late reply, June was a hecteic month for me so haven't spent much time Botbsing recently.

Edited June 23, 2018 by Agent Kallus

[Ayrlego]

I missed this one while I was away, I'm glad it got bumped! Great dialogue, it was a very enjoyable to read! The scene illustrates the story well, the use of the 'quadrant' is especially clever. Great work.