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LOCATIONS: UMUI
LOCATIONS: UMUI
The fifth island to materialize for exploration is rife with flowers, trees, and meadows, and all manner of creatures besides.
Temperatures on the island, unless otherwise specified within search requests, match those experienced on Ensō. This island is not currently accessible for exploration.
Temperatures on the island, unless otherwise specified within search requests, match those experienced on Ensō. This island is not currently accessible for exploration.
Squares that do not contain a link have yet to be explored.
Searched Areas
B1 | § ORE
Searched by Legion and the Knight in July 2018. B1 is a peaceful edge of the island of Umui - full of lifting grass and thick clusters of vibrant flowers of incredible variation. Purple delphiniums, butter-yellow marigolds, orange sprays of poppies all flower in glorious abundance at the lip of this tiny strip of colorful world. The waves crash peacefully against the gold-green grass. All told, it is quite a beautiful, tranquil scene. Perhaps a little too tranquil, honestly; no life stirs here, aside from the vegetation. No birdsong shrills out overhead, and no animals scuffle in the underbrush.
An ore-rich, deactivated automaton once rested here, but has since been harvested for its resources.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Ore (formerly)
Searched by Legion and the Knight in July 2018. B1 is a peaceful edge of the island of Umui - full of lifting grass and thick clusters of vibrant flowers of incredible variation. Purple delphiniums, butter-yellow marigolds, orange sprays of poppies all flower in glorious abundance at the lip of this tiny strip of colorful world. The waves crash peacefully against the gold-green grass. All told, it is quite a beautiful, tranquil scene. Perhaps a little too tranquil, honestly; no life stirs here, aside from the vegetation. No birdsong shrills out overhead, and no animals scuffle in the underbrush.
An ore-rich, deactivated automaton once rested here, but has since been harvested for its resources.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Ore (formerly)
C1 | ₪ MANA POOL
Discovered in July 2018. Travelers arrived to Umui via a mana pool situated on the C1 square. The thick crops of flowers spring freely across the lush, grassy landscape, clustered in dense knots. The variety behind these growths seems profoundly limited: it is as though each flower has only sprouted around others of its kind, mingling solely at the edges. A large building looms in the corner of the region, a twisting, unfurling mass of piping and a half-crumbled metallic shine.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Mana pool
Discovered in July 2018. Travelers arrived to Umui via a mana pool situated on the C1 square. The thick crops of flowers spring freely across the lush, grassy landscape, clustered in dense knots. The variety behind these growths seems profoundly limited: it is as though each flower has only sprouted around others of its kind, mingling solely at the edges. A large building looms in the corner of the region, a twisting, unfurling mass of piping and a half-crumbled metallic shine.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Mana pool
D1 | ⋈ TOOLS
Searched by Edward Elric, Ginko, and Jowan in July 2018. Not far from the island's mana pool, the nearby building juts out like an ugly blot of shadow. Even a thorough sweep of the meadowland surrounding will turn up very little, aside from a truly shocking variety of rich blooms. The number of them alone is not the sole implausibility; far too many of them are blatantly out of place for this region, and plenty should not be growing in grassland at all. And yet, here they are, in spotty clumps of bristling, colorful splotches - from dahlias to daffodils, foxgloves to roses, lotuses to cattails...it seems as though every floral family might be represented.
The building is an abandoned laboratory, where glass beakers, paper, and pruning shears had survived the elements and were available for the taking.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Lab equipment (formerly)
Searched by Edward Elric, Ginko, and Jowan in July 2018. Not far from the island's mana pool, the nearby building juts out like an ugly blot of shadow. Even a thorough sweep of the meadowland surrounding will turn up very little, aside from a truly shocking variety of rich blooms. The number of them alone is not the sole implausibility; far too many of them are blatantly out of place for this region, and plenty should not be growing in grassland at all. And yet, here they are, in spotty clumps of bristling, colorful splotches - from dahlias to daffodils, foxgloves to roses, lotuses to cattails...it seems as though every floral family might be represented.
The building is an abandoned laboratory, where glass beakers, paper, and pruning shears had survived the elements and were available for the taking.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Lab equipment (formerly)
E1 | ⋈ TOOLS
Searched by Legion, Foster van Denend, and Hinata Hajime in July 2018. E1 is a quarter-circle ridge of gentle slopes and curving inclines, and as liberally peppered with bright puffs of floral color as everything else on this island. It's as tranquil a section of island as everything else here, rounding away at the sea's edge.
The grass fades into sand only at the very lip of the island. The rest is an extension of the thick grassy crops that cover every other inch of this place. E1 once held a crate containing first aid kits, a solar-powered miner's cap, and jugs filled with a substance called "FLURO".
Dangers: ???
Resources: Various equipment (formerly)
Searched by Legion, Foster van Denend, and Hinata Hajime in July 2018. E1 is a quarter-circle ridge of gentle slopes and curving inclines, and as liberally peppered with bright puffs of floral color as everything else on this island. It's as tranquil a section of island as everything else here, rounding away at the sea's edge.
The grass fades into sand only at the very lip of the island. The rest is an extension of the thick grassy crops that cover every other inch of this place. E1 once held a crate containing first aid kits, a solar-powered miner's cap, and jugs filled with a substance called "FLURO".
Dangers: ???
Resources: Various equipment (formerly)
B2 | Σ REMNANT, ⋈ TOOLS
Searched by Keith Kogane, Lance, Héctor Rivera, and Papyrus in July 2018. B2 carries along down the coastside, a gentle breeze tussling the grass and the many vibrant varieties of flowers that dot the landscape. Curiously, the remnants of what appears to have once been an old dock sit at the edge of the land in this square, covered in thick vines which may very well be the only thing keeping the structure together.
Near the docks a scroll was found, whose transcript can be read here.
B2 was also an ideal place to begin launching off a sea voyage, as ventured by Connor Murphy, Laurent, and Shion in July 2018. The dock provides a good place to board and anchor, should the trip get rocky. Combing the ocean area bordering the coast of Umui at B2 proved a lengthy and largely quite boring endeavor...though no less eerie. The ocean surrounding Umui is just as silent and bereft of life as the island proper. There are no fish, there is no kelp, and no sign that anything dwells beneath the waves at all.
The seafloor hosts little, in fact, besides the odd, spiky outcropping of what appears to be long-dead coral. The group did encounter a few crates sunk to the ocean floor, all marked SUPPLY.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Various equipment (formerly)
Searched by Keith Kogane, Lance, Héctor Rivera, and Papyrus in July 2018. B2 carries along down the coastside, a gentle breeze tussling the grass and the many vibrant varieties of flowers that dot the landscape. Curiously, the remnants of what appears to have once been an old dock sit at the edge of the land in this square, covered in thick vines which may very well be the only thing keeping the structure together.
Near the docks a scroll was found, whose transcript can be read here.
B2 was also an ideal place to begin launching off a sea voyage, as ventured by Connor Murphy, Laurent, and Shion in July 2018. The dock provides a good place to board and anchor, should the trip get rocky. Combing the ocean area bordering the coast of Umui at B2 proved a lengthy and largely quite boring endeavor...though no less eerie. The ocean surrounding Umui is just as silent and bereft of life as the island proper. There are no fish, there is no kelp, and no sign that anything dwells beneath the waves at all.
The seafloor hosts little, in fact, besides the odd, spiky outcropping of what appears to be long-dead coral. The group did encounter a few crates sunk to the ocean floor, all marked SUPPLY.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Various equipment (formerly)
C2 | ⋈ TOOLS
Searched by Foster van Denend and Tim Wright in July 2018. The majority of C2 is taken up by a large, almost factory-like building. Entering it, travelers will immediately see that the building itself has not been used in some time. A heavy layer of dust resides upon concrete floors, what little furniture remains inside in a heavy state of disrepair - much like the roof. This building was perhaps some sort of research center, as contained within it were first aid-kits, test tubes, match boxes, and pruning shears.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Lab equipment (formerly)
Searched by Foster van Denend and Tim Wright in July 2018. The majority of C2 is taken up by a large, almost factory-like building. Entering it, travelers will immediately see that the building itself has not been used in some time. A heavy layer of dust resides upon concrete floors, what little furniture remains inside in a heavy state of disrepair - much like the roof. This building was perhaps some sort of research center, as contained within it were first aid-kits, test tubes, match boxes, and pruning shears.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Lab equipment (formerly)
D2 | Σ REMNANT
Searched by Ren and Kravitz in July 2018. The region of D2 is largely taken up by an ungainly sprawl of what appears to be a derelict laboratory - either very old, or very worn away by the elements. The initial room most resembles some sort of disused center of research. Shards of broken glass powder the ground, and creepers have swarmed desks and table legs, in some cases shrouding entire sections of the room utterly from view. Search as they might, explorers will find very little of use here; just a great deal of equipment so old and broken that it may as well be useless, unless you have a fondness for shattered beakers, pieces of microscope, and torn shreds of paper.
Initially, this laboratory appears to be the resting place of yet another automaton, whose overgrowth pinned them to the floor as if returning them to the soil they were birthed and then shaped from. This automaton, however, still had work to do.
Dangers: ???
Resources: N/A
Searched by Ren and Kravitz in July 2018. The region of D2 is largely taken up by an ungainly sprawl of what appears to be a derelict laboratory - either very old, or very worn away by the elements. The initial room most resembles some sort of disused center of research. Shards of broken glass powder the ground, and creepers have swarmed desks and table legs, in some cases shrouding entire sections of the room utterly from view. Search as they might, explorers will find very little of use here; just a great deal of equipment so old and broken that it may as well be useless, unless you have a fondness for shattered beakers, pieces of microscope, and torn shreds of paper.
Initially, this laboratory appears to be the resting place of yet another automaton, whose overgrowth pinned them to the floor as if returning them to the soil they were birthed and then shaped from. This automaton, however, still had work to do.
Dangers: ???
Resources: N/A
E2 | ⋈ TOOLS
Searched by Shion, Gladiolus Amicitia, and Shouto Todoroki in July 2018. E2 exists in the shadow of the building crouched just beside it in an ungainly sprawl - beyond that, there is only meadow and thick curls of richly colored flowers of all sorts. They vary wildly, a veritable rainbow in very particular splotches. Here, a clump of periwinkle; there, a thick knot of peonies. This square remains utterly silent but for the hiss of wind through the grass and flora. No animals or people may be found.
A shovel, a match box, and two jugs of a substance called "FLURO" were discovered here.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Various equipment (formerly)
Searched by Shion, Gladiolus Amicitia, and Shouto Todoroki in July 2018. E2 exists in the shadow of the building crouched just beside it in an ungainly sprawl - beyond that, there is only meadow and thick curls of richly colored flowers of all sorts. They vary wildly, a veritable rainbow in very particular splotches. Here, a clump of periwinkle; there, a thick knot of peonies. This square remains utterly silent but for the hiss of wind through the grass and flora. No animals or people may be found.
A shovel, a match box, and two jugs of a substance called "FLURO" were discovered here.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Various equipment (formerly)
D3 | § ORE
Searched by Yellowfang in July 2018. The region of D3 is largely a peaceful one. Granted, it's plagued with the same eerie emptiness that inflicts the rest of the island. It is bereft of even small prey animals; there is almost nothing but an incredible array of flowers. Marigolds, bindweed, phlox, dandelion, all speckling the grass in colorful clumps.
A rusted automaton lay in a bed of its own weeds in this region, nothing more than an inactive hunk of ore.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Ore (formerly)
Searched by Yellowfang in July 2018. The region of D3 is largely a peaceful one. Granted, it's plagued with the same eerie emptiness that inflicts the rest of the island. It is bereft of even small prey animals; there is almost nothing but an incredible array of flowers. Marigolds, bindweed, phlox, dandelion, all speckling the grass in colorful clumps.
A rusted automaton lay in a bed of its own weeds in this region, nothing more than an inactive hunk of ore.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Ore (formerly)
E3 | § ORE
Searched by Shion, Gladiolus Amicitia, and Shouto Todoroki in July 2018. E3's region is the thin bottleneck of the island, connecting to the rest, and the most definitive thing about it by far are the empty husks of three automatons, scattered throughout the region without much indication as to why. One is frozen in a strange kneeling position, as though it were taking a step forward and then simply lowered itself to the earth. The other two are supine. All are entangled in creepers and thick clumps of grass, and made of an unidentified ore.
Oh, and flowers. We can't forget those. Midnight-blue cornflowers erupt from the busted lower jaw of one, while sprouts of rosemary have started to poke feelers out from the ruptured chest of another. It's hard to say, but it looks as though they simply may have been exposed to the elements and to the steady progression of time for far too long.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Ore (formerly)
Searched by Shion, Gladiolus Amicitia, and Shouto Todoroki in July 2018. E3's region is the thin bottleneck of the island, connecting to the rest, and the most definitive thing about it by far are the empty husks of three automatons, scattered throughout the region without much indication as to why. One is frozen in a strange kneeling position, as though it were taking a step forward and then simply lowered itself to the earth. The other two are supine. All are entangled in creepers and thick clumps of grass, and made of an unidentified ore.
Oh, and flowers. We can't forget those. Midnight-blue cornflowers erupt from the busted lower jaw of one, while sprouts of rosemary have started to poke feelers out from the ruptured chest of another. It's hard to say, but it looks as though they simply may have been exposed to the elements and to the steady progression of time for far too long.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Ore (formerly)
F3 | § ORE
Searched by Shion and Connor Murphy in July 2018. Not-terribly-distant, blocky shadows pepper the horizon to the south of F3, regularly spaced in such a way that might suggest buildings in the distance. However, F3 is largely more of the same - cresting waves of rippling grass and intensely compact sprays of vibrantly colored flowers. The variety really is something to behold: you would be hard-pressed to find birds-of-paradise blooming alongside dandelions anywhere else. The ocean, at least, provides a gentle rhythm to the otherwise utterly silent backdrop.
More automatons in various states of disrepair were found here. The ore they're made of may be incredibly sturdy, as any attempts to scratch or dent the automatons will reveal, but it's not impervious to the inexorable erosion of time.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Ore (formerly)
Searched by Shion and Connor Murphy in July 2018. Not-terribly-distant, blocky shadows pepper the horizon to the south of F3, regularly spaced in such a way that might suggest buildings in the distance. However, F3 is largely more of the same - cresting waves of rippling grass and intensely compact sprays of vibrantly colored flowers. The variety really is something to behold: you would be hard-pressed to find birds-of-paradise blooming alongside dandelions anywhere else. The ocean, at least, provides a gentle rhythm to the otherwise utterly silent backdrop.
More automatons in various states of disrepair were found here. The ore they're made of may be incredibly sturdy, as any attempts to scratch or dent the automatons will reveal, but it's not impervious to the inexorable erosion of time.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Ore (formerly)
G3 | Σ REMNANT
Searched by Troupe Master Grimm and the Knight in July 2018. With the ocean lipping the edge of this part of the island to the north, the grass and flowers grow in thick unfurlings of multicolored blooms. The section of "beach" in this area is negligible - most of it is grown over with buff-colored grass. There are no buildings to be found here, though to the south, it seems as though there might be silhouettes that suggest something to that end.
A surprisingly advanced datapad was found here, whose transcript can be read here.
Dangers: ???
Resources: N/A
Searched by Troupe Master Grimm and the Knight in July 2018. With the ocean lipping the edge of this part of the island to the north, the grass and flowers grow in thick unfurlings of multicolored blooms. The section of "beach" in this area is negligible - most of it is grown over with buff-colored grass. There are no buildings to be found here, though to the south, it seems as though there might be silhouettes that suggest something to that end.
A surprisingly advanced datapad was found here, whose transcript can be read here.
Dangers: ???
Resources: N/A
H3 | § ORE
Searched by Chip Abaroa and the Knight in July 2018. H3 is as peaceful a region as any other part of Umui...inasmuch that any part of this island could really be called peaceful, that is. With waves lapping up against the shore to the north and bunches of flowers swaying lazily in the light breeze, one could even call the scene picturesque.
One may be surprised to discover how many different kinds of flowers can grow in one area, particularly as many of them herald from entirely different regions and grow in different seasons - let alone in different conditions. And yet travelers will find red poppies blooming alongside lovely edelweiss, yarrow growing plentifully a mere stone's throw away from a clump of common lilac. A crop of bluebells bob cheerfully near the ocean lipping H3's northernmost edge, and to the east, thick patches of honeysuckle flourish with careless abandon. Buried in the dirt and flowers of H3 were a number of usable resources, including two ancient drills and four largely empty first aid kits, in addition to a solar-powered miner's cap.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Various equipment (formerly)
Searched by Chip Abaroa and the Knight in July 2018. H3 is as peaceful a region as any other part of Umui...inasmuch that any part of this island could really be called peaceful, that is. With waves lapping up against the shore to the north and bunches of flowers swaying lazily in the light breeze, one could even call the scene picturesque.
One may be surprised to discover how many different kinds of flowers can grow in one area, particularly as many of them herald from entirely different regions and grow in different seasons - let alone in different conditions. And yet travelers will find red poppies blooming alongside lovely edelweiss, yarrow growing plentifully a mere stone's throw away from a clump of common lilac. A crop of bluebells bob cheerfully near the ocean lipping H3's northernmost edge, and to the east, thick patches of honeysuckle flourish with careless abandon. Buried in the dirt and flowers of H3 were a number of usable resources, including two ancient drills and four largely empty first aid kits, in addition to a solar-powered miner's cap.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Various equipment (formerly)
E4 | § ORE
Searched by Chip Abaroa in July 2018. Aside from the decidedly unnerving quiet, this region is uneventful, if highly colorful. The waves crest the grassy shores of Umui at the southern ridge of the region, pressing up against clumps of orange poppies, rich strands of lavender, even a few springs of holly, their petals soft and white against the jagged green of their dark leaves.
Two automatons rest in peace here, covered in nothing but flowers, made from nothing but ore.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Ore (formerly)
Searched by Chip Abaroa in July 2018. Aside from the decidedly unnerving quiet, this region is uneventful, if highly colorful. The waves crest the grassy shores of Umui at the southern ridge of the region, pressing up against clumps of orange poppies, rich strands of lavender, even a few springs of holly, their petals soft and white against the jagged green of their dark leaves.
Two automatons rest in peace here, covered in nothing but flowers, made from nothing but ore.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Ore (formerly)
F4 | ⋈ TOOLS, Σ REMNANT
Searched by Shion, Connor, and Lup in July 2018. F4 reveals some variation in the form of buildings: ten of them, in two lines of five, and all looking about as ramshackle as the laboratory found near the mana pool. They're large, and their construction suggests that they have been built into the earth, possibly extending deeper into the island itself. It is inside these buildings that a shovel and bloodied pruning shears were found.
Notably, however, most of the buildings were all but impossible to breach, thanks to the abundance of growth. Opening the doors to most of them revealed what were essentially solid walls of flowers, packed so tightly and densely that they had begun to choke each other out and die in the process. Colored blooms poked out from the windows and between cracks in the walls - metallic, but clearly assembled in pieces.
After their discovery, Lup and Connor Murphy burned these growths away. While many of the buildings were unremarkable on the inside, one held a diary entry, whose transcript can be found here, as well as a page of sketches.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Gardening tools (formerly)
Searched by Shion, Connor, and Lup in July 2018. F4 reveals some variation in the form of buildings: ten of them, in two lines of five, and all looking about as ramshackle as the laboratory found near the mana pool. They're large, and their construction suggests that they have been built into the earth, possibly extending deeper into the island itself. It is inside these buildings that a shovel and bloodied pruning shears were found.
Notably, however, most of the buildings were all but impossible to breach, thanks to the abundance of growth. Opening the doors to most of them revealed what were essentially solid walls of flowers, packed so tightly and densely that they had begun to choke each other out and die in the process. Colored blooms poked out from the windows and between cracks in the walls - metallic, but clearly assembled in pieces.
After their discovery, Lup and Connor Murphy burned these growths away. While many of the buildings were unremarkable on the inside, one held a diary entry, whose transcript can be found here, as well as a page of sketches.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Gardening tools (formerly)
G4 | § ORE
Searched by Ardyn Izunia and Shouto Todoroki in July 2018. Moving inland, the warm air in G4 begins to take on the bitter-saccharine scent of flowers; layered beneath it is an unfailing persistence of rusted metal. The source, however, doesn't seem to be this area alone; the winds blow from further inland yet, and while G4 continues its trend of occupation by buildings run down to ruin, there is nothing of extraordinary deviation.
Two non-functioning automatons were found here, whose overgrown bodies were crafted from ore and rich for mining.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Ore (formerly)
Searched by Ardyn Izunia and Shouto Todoroki in July 2018. Moving inland, the warm air in G4 begins to take on the bitter-saccharine scent of flowers; layered beneath it is an unfailing persistence of rusted metal. The source, however, doesn't seem to be this area alone; the winds blow from further inland yet, and while G4 continues its trend of occupation by buildings run down to ruin, there is nothing of extraordinary deviation.
Two non-functioning automatons were found here, whose overgrown bodies were crafted from ore and rich for mining.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Ore (formerly)
H4 | ⋈ TOOLS
Searched by Noctis Lucis Caelum, Pyrrha Nikos, and Lance in July 2018. H4 is occupied by several buildings. Most of them appear to be crafted of sheets of metal and carefully shorn planks of wood, though age and overgrowth has rendered many of them ramshackle and collapsed inward upon themselves. The buildings are wide and flat, built low to the ground. In the distance, they stretch onward in a paired row.
Combing through the buildings uncovered Match boxes, pickaxes, and pruning shears.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Various equipment (formerly)
Searched by Noctis Lucis Caelum, Pyrrha Nikos, and Lance in July 2018. H4 is occupied by several buildings. Most of them appear to be crafted of sheets of metal and carefully shorn planks of wood, though age and overgrowth has rendered many of them ramshackle and collapsed inward upon themselves. The buildings are wide and flat, built low to the ground. In the distance, they stretch onward in a paired row.
Combing through the buildings uncovered Match boxes, pickaxes, and pruning shears.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Various equipment (formerly)
I4 | Σ REMNANT
Searched by Amaterasu, Ichimatsu Matsuno, and Ren in July 2018. I4 is as peaceful a region as any other part of the island, and the group will be discovering plenty of flowers to boot. Surely that's a good sign, right? Periwinkles, bluebells, lavender, and heather sprout along this corner of Umui in blue-indigo abundance. The waves to the east, ridging the region, make it quite a tranquil scene.
The group unearthed, buried beneath a clump of purple heather blooms, an old binder. The faded ink scrawled across the dirt-stained front labels it: RECORD 1.001. Most of the leaves of paper within have crumbled away, even if they have been sheathed in what appears to be some sort of hydrophobic plastic. One page, however, still remains, even if it bears the distinct marks of having once been waterlogged. The first side is too water-damaged to be legible, but on the reverse side, the group will be able to discern some thin, spidery scrawls - text from a long-ago age. The transcript can be found here.
Dangers: ???
Resources: N/A
Searched by Amaterasu, Ichimatsu Matsuno, and Ren in July 2018. I4 is as peaceful a region as any other part of the island, and the group will be discovering plenty of flowers to boot. Surely that's a good sign, right? Periwinkles, bluebells, lavender, and heather sprout along this corner of Umui in blue-indigo abundance. The waves to the east, ridging the region, make it quite a tranquil scene.
The group unearthed, buried beneath a clump of purple heather blooms, an old binder. The faded ink scrawled across the dirt-stained front labels it: RECORD 1.001. Most of the leaves of paper within have crumbled away, even if they have been sheathed in what appears to be some sort of hydrophobic plastic. One page, however, still remains, even if it bears the distinct marks of having once been waterlogged. The first side is too water-damaged to be legible, but on the reverse side, the group will be able to discern some thin, spidery scrawls - text from a long-ago age. The transcript can be found here.
Dangers: ???
Resources: N/A
B5 | Σ REMNANT
Searched by Nari Nishitani in August 2018. B5 is a lonely corner of Umui: a rounded edge of sprouting flowers lined with lapping waves. There is less floral variation here, due to the general lack of landmass. Sprouts of purple-blooming thistles, white spangles of hemlock, and bubblegum puffs of scabious irregularly pepper the area. A few multicolored bands of petunias can also be found chasing Umui's shoreline, though they quickly peter out once the grass fades into sand, and then saltwater. The ocean floor, at least the parts that one can see from the shore, appear to be as dead and bereft of life as ever.
Lumped in the midst of the thistles will be a very interesting find, however - an ancient backpack that looks like it must have once been a typically childish, twee little thing. The embroidery is almost entirely faded, but it seems that the backpack was once bright pink, with yellow flower patterns lovingly stitched into the cloth. Inside it is mostly dust and dead flowers that crumble to the touch. But there is also a few wadded-up scraps of paper, kept preserved by the lack of air friction over many, many years. If one is careful in untangling them and then smoothing them out, they provide another, final piece in one very, very somber puzzle: two legible pages, whose transcript can be found here.
Dangers: ???
Resources: N/A
Searched by Nari Nishitani in August 2018. B5 is a lonely corner of Umui: a rounded edge of sprouting flowers lined with lapping waves. There is less floral variation here, due to the general lack of landmass. Sprouts of purple-blooming thistles, white spangles of hemlock, and bubblegum puffs of scabious irregularly pepper the area. A few multicolored bands of petunias can also be found chasing Umui's shoreline, though they quickly peter out once the grass fades into sand, and then saltwater. The ocean floor, at least the parts that one can see from the shore, appear to be as dead and bereft of life as ever.
Lumped in the midst of the thistles will be a very interesting find, however - an ancient backpack that looks like it must have once been a typically childish, twee little thing. The embroidery is almost entirely faded, but it seems that the backpack was once bright pink, with yellow flower patterns lovingly stitched into the cloth. Inside it is mostly dust and dead flowers that crumble to the touch. But there is also a few wadded-up scraps of paper, kept preserved by the lack of air friction over many, many years. If one is careful in untangling them and then smoothing them out, they provide another, final piece in one very, very somber puzzle: two legible pages, whose transcript can be found here.
Dangers: ???
Resources: N/A
C5 | Σ REMNANT
Searched by Mira and Nari Nishitani in August 2018. Buried among a lurid clump of cattleya orchids is an ancient lockbox, thoroughly rusted. But if the travelers are careful in prying it open, travelers discovered that it once contained a great deal of old, important-looking documents. Indeed, the lockbox bears the nearly-faded words VOLUMES inscribed across its front in what was probably once elegant, careful script.
Due to the age and wear of time, only one document inside remained legible. A transcript can be found here.
Dangers: ???
Resources: N/A (formerly)
Searched by Mira and Nari Nishitani in August 2018. Buried among a lurid clump of cattleya orchids is an ancient lockbox, thoroughly rusted. But if the travelers are careful in prying it open, travelers discovered that it once contained a great deal of old, important-looking documents. Indeed, the lockbox bears the nearly-faded words VOLUMES inscribed across its front in what was probably once elegant, careful script.
Due to the age and wear of time, only one document inside remained legible. A transcript can be found here.
Dangers: ???
Resources: N/A (formerly)
D5 | ⋈ TOOLS
Searched by Mira and Nari Nishitani in August 2018. D5 is largely a strip of hilly grass approximating a bluff, dipping cheerfully down into the waves that ridge this particular corner of Umui. Naturally, there are flowers here in rich abundance. For those interested in identifying plant types, D5 hosts a very lovely selection of chrysanthemums, daisies, and alyssum in a wonderful and variegated array.
As is the case for the rest of Umui, there is nothing beneath the waves but ancient beds of long-dead coral. No fish swim in these waters, and no ropes of kelp thrive beneath the waves. It is as though the entire ecosystem is deadened. Except for the flowers, of course. Those flourish where all else has been choked out, though they certainly aren't growing beneath the waves. D5 contained boxes of matches, first aid kits, and a single dilapidated drill that have since been retrieved.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Various equipment (formerly)
Searched by Mira and Nari Nishitani in August 2018. D5 is largely a strip of hilly grass approximating a bluff, dipping cheerfully down into the waves that ridge this particular corner of Umui. Naturally, there are flowers here in rich abundance. For those interested in identifying plant types, D5 hosts a very lovely selection of chrysanthemums, daisies, and alyssum in a wonderful and variegated array.
As is the case for the rest of Umui, there is nothing beneath the waves but ancient beds of long-dead coral. No fish swim in these waters, and no ropes of kelp thrive beneath the waves. It is as though the entire ecosystem is deadened. Except for the flowers, of course. Those flourish where all else has been choked out, though they certainly aren't growing beneath the waves. D5 contained boxes of matches, first aid kits, and a single dilapidated drill that have since been retrieved.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Various equipment (formerly)
G5 | Σ REMNANT
Searched by Mira, Lance, Ignis Scientia, Connor Murphy, and Ardyn Izunia in July 2018. G5 reveals the first variation in the landscape proper since travelers have begun scouring this island: trees. They're scattered across the fields of clustered blooms in slender groves. At some points, they jut out at strange angles, as though they have grown oddly, or unevenly. But nonetheless, they are trees, and therefore likely a welcome deviation from the otherwise quite homogenous if colorful landscape. The trees are not clumped together very densely at all, meaning that travel is all in all a relatively straightforward progression.
The thickest knot of trees gives way to a clearing, again speckled with grass and unfurling petals of every possible size and shape. A dark shape swells out from the center of said clearing: a blocky, prismatic chunk of what seems to be a very large, very dark sort of stone. Its cuts are precise, but it's clear from the wear and erosion that has chipped at its edges and scuffed its surfaces that while it may have once glimmered with a shine and polish, it has since been worn by age. Much of the writing upon it is faded. But the largest letters stand out:
IN SOLEMN MEMORY
OF THOSE WE COULD NOT SAVE
--
The 100 names of our fallen brethren.
May they be the last to succumb.
They lived and died free of the draperies of their fiction.
--
EST. A.E 21
The rest of the text, and the list of names mentioned, appears to have been worn utterly away.
Dangers: ???
Resources: N/A
Searched by Mira, Lance, Ignis Scientia, Connor Murphy, and Ardyn Izunia in July 2018. G5 reveals the first variation in the landscape proper since travelers have begun scouring this island: trees. They're scattered across the fields of clustered blooms in slender groves. At some points, they jut out at strange angles, as though they have grown oddly, or unevenly. But nonetheless, they are trees, and therefore likely a welcome deviation from the otherwise quite homogenous if colorful landscape. The trees are not clumped together very densely at all, meaning that travel is all in all a relatively straightforward progression.
The thickest knot of trees gives way to a clearing, again speckled with grass and unfurling petals of every possible size and shape. A dark shape swells out from the center of said clearing: a blocky, prismatic chunk of what seems to be a very large, very dark sort of stone. Its cuts are precise, but it's clear from the wear and erosion that has chipped at its edges and scuffed its surfaces that while it may have once glimmered with a shine and polish, it has since been worn by age. Much of the writing upon it is faded. But the largest letters stand out:
OF THOSE WE COULD NOT SAVE
--
The 100 names of our fallen brethren.
May they be the last to succumb.
They lived and died free of the draperies of their fiction.
--
EST. A.E 21
The rest of the text, and the list of names mentioned, appears to have been worn utterly away.
Dangers: ???
Resources: N/A
H5 | ⋈ TOOLS
Searched by Ignis, Gladio, and Prompto in July 2018. H5 is occupied by a large building, whose walls have caved in on the side, along with a good portion of its roof. Most of the interior lays on other regions, and the building's interior walls have held up considerably better than its exterior - all built of the same metallic substance that comprises the automatons, it's worth noting - but the rooms that are accessible on I5 and H5 offer a small abundance of tools, albeit somewhat aged.
An abundance of items were found here, to include test tubes, coffee mugs, jugs of FLURO, match boxes, a magnifying glass, a drill, and a broken-down computer.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Various equipment (formerly)
Searched by Ignis, Gladio, and Prompto in July 2018. H5 is occupied by a large building, whose walls have caved in on the side, along with a good portion of its roof. Most of the interior lays on other regions, and the building's interior walls have held up considerably better than its exterior - all built of the same metallic substance that comprises the automatons, it's worth noting - but the rooms that are accessible on I5 and H5 offer a small abundance of tools, albeit somewhat aged.
An abundance of items were found here, to include test tubes, coffee mugs, jugs of FLURO, match boxes, a magnifying glass, a drill, and a broken-down computer.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Various equipment (formerly)
I5 | § ORE
Searched by Ignis, Gladio, and Prompto in July 2018. I5 hosts the strange building continuing from H5 - strange, mostly, because it deviates quite vastly from the neat rows of buildings in groups of ten that the group will have to have passed prior, those that have been aligned so carefully that they may as well be on a grid. From this side of the building, one may observe that it is considerably larger and blockier, and is marked by a single label over its door:
BETA
If there's an entrance, it isn't to be found on this square. There are, however, several more automatons which can be broken down for supplies - namely, the ore they're made of.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Ore (formerly)
Searched by Ignis, Gladio, and Prompto in July 2018. I5 hosts the strange building continuing from H5 - strange, mostly, because it deviates quite vastly from the neat rows of buildings in groups of ten that the group will have to have passed prior, those that have been aligned so carefully that they may as well be on a grid. From this side of the building, one may observe that it is considerably larger and blockier, and is marked by a single label over its door:
If there's an entrance, it isn't to be found on this square. There are, however, several more automatons which can be broken down for supplies - namely, the ore they're made of.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Ore (formerly)
A6 | ⋈ TOOLS
Searched by Connor Murphy and Shion in August 2018. A6 is, the most part, ocean. But there is a dock of some kind jutting out into the waters from Umui's landmass, very similar to the sorts located on B2 and E6. As weathered and aged as the wood there seems, it is nonetheless very much intact, and therefore makes a useful point for a boat to anchor itself, if need be. From there...well, from there, the landscape is likely very familiar. Tufts of flowers sprout in a smattering of gloriously colorful clumps, though the grass and blooms thin out not long before A6 segues into the next region over.
The dock bore five crates containing various supplies - magnifying glasses, sets of pruning shears, first aid kits, sheets of paper, and jugs of fluro.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Various equipment (formerly)
Searched by Connor Murphy and Shion in August 2018. A6 is, the most part, ocean. But there is a dock of some kind jutting out into the waters from Umui's landmass, very similar to the sorts located on B2 and E6. As weathered and aged as the wood there seems, it is nonetheless very much intact, and therefore makes a useful point for a boat to anchor itself, if need be. From there...well, from there, the landscape is likely very familiar. Tufts of flowers sprout in a smattering of gloriously colorful clumps, though the grass and blooms thin out not long before A6 segues into the next region over.
The dock bore five crates containing various supplies - magnifying glasses, sets of pruning shears, first aid kits, sheets of paper, and jugs of fluro.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Various equipment (formerly)
B6 | Σ REMNANT
Searched by Chip Abaroa, Commander Shepard, the Drifter, Legion, and Lup in August 2018. The quarry continues - and ends - at B6, at least in regards to this particular line of exploration. The cliff slopes steeply back up toward Umui's more typical hilly landscape, and a few sprigs of flowers sprinkle the dirt near the edge of the drop into the strip mine below.
Much of the mine has been picked clean of resources, unsurprisingly. The odd outcropping may conceal a vein or two of ore, if anyone feels like digging, but if there's anything of note, it's not apparent on the surface level. The real prize is the rusted lockbox that's half-buried beneath some tumbled stone. It may take some time to pry it open, but inside, a crinkling mass of ancient documents exhale a thick whuff of dust.
Most of them have crumbled or been rendered illegible. But one, water-damaged and old as it is, contains text that is still readable, and its transcript can be found here.
Dangers: ???
Resources: N/A
Searched by Chip Abaroa, Commander Shepard, the Drifter, Legion, and Lup in August 2018. The quarry continues - and ends - at B6, at least in regards to this particular line of exploration. The cliff slopes steeply back up toward Umui's more typical hilly landscape, and a few sprigs of flowers sprinkle the dirt near the edge of the drop into the strip mine below.
Much of the mine has been picked clean of resources, unsurprisingly. The odd outcropping may conceal a vein or two of ore, if anyone feels like digging, but if there's anything of note, it's not apparent on the surface level. The real prize is the rusted lockbox that's half-buried beneath some tumbled stone. It may take some time to pry it open, but inside, a crinkling mass of ancient documents exhale a thick whuff of dust.
Most of them have crumbled or been rendered illegible. But one, water-damaged and old as it is, contains text that is still readable, and its transcript can be found here.
Dangers: ???
Resources: N/A
C6 | § ORE
Searched by Chip Abaroa, Commander Shepard, the Drifter, Legion, and Lup in August 2018. The woodland clears as travelers venture into the region of C6, leaving nothing more than those familiar mounds of colorful flowers peppered heartily among the grass. A little ways into the territory, however, the ground drops away in an almost sheer plunge, the ground cut away to reveal thick striations of rock buried beneath the weight of plant matter. The northwest corner of a rather large quarry has, over time, become more of a strip mine.
C6 is a sharp departure from Umui's gloriously floral landscape. Despite the fact that this sizable chunk of earth has more or less been shaven clean from Umui entirely, this mine hasn't been fully exhausted just yet. Thorough travelers will be able to discover a few veins of shimmering, silvery ore still buried in the rock: floriocite.
It's a tough metal, a sturdy metal, and digging it out might be just as difficult as discerning a way to refine and process it. But if one can extricate it from the chambers of the earth, it can be an invaluable resource.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Ore
Searched by Chip Abaroa, Commander Shepard, the Drifter, Legion, and Lup in August 2018. The woodland clears as travelers venture into the region of C6, leaving nothing more than those familiar mounds of colorful flowers peppered heartily among the grass. A little ways into the territory, however, the ground drops away in an almost sheer plunge, the ground cut away to reveal thick striations of rock buried beneath the weight of plant matter. The northwest corner of a rather large quarry has, over time, become more of a strip mine.
C6 is a sharp departure from Umui's gloriously floral landscape. Despite the fact that this sizable chunk of earth has more or less been shaven clean from Umui entirely, this mine hasn't been fully exhausted just yet. Thorough travelers will be able to discover a few veins of shimmering, silvery ore still buried in the rock: floriocite.
It's a tough metal, a sturdy metal, and digging it out might be just as difficult as discerning a way to refine and process it. But if one can extricate it from the chambers of the earth, it can be an invaluable resource.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Ore
D6 | Σ REMNANT
Searched by Hifumi Togo and Nari Nishitani in August 2018. D6 contains more of the woodland that has been present on the regions preceding it - slightly thicker and denser than before. The flowers, of course, are as present as always: begonias, yarrow, and jasmine blooms.
Travelers found something ensnarled in the roots of one of the trees - a slender, square-shaped datapad. Its screen has been scraped and cracked in areas, and it's clear that its mechanisms have been stalled out to the point where it will display only one entry. On top of the subpar quality of the datapad itself, someone has rather rudely scrawled all over the single entry displayed in some sort of bright red substance that has, over time, dulled into a brown, coppery finish. It's possible it was done with paint or plant dye...or something a little more visceral. Who can tell? A transcript can be found here
Dangers: ???
Resources: Ore
Searched by Hifumi Togo and Nari Nishitani in August 2018. D6 contains more of the woodland that has been present on the regions preceding it - slightly thicker and denser than before. The flowers, of course, are as present as always: begonias, yarrow, and jasmine blooms.
Travelers found something ensnarled in the roots of one of the trees - a slender, square-shaped datapad. Its screen has been scraped and cracked in areas, and it's clear that its mechanisms have been stalled out to the point where it will display only one entry. On top of the subpar quality of the datapad itself, someone has rather rudely scrawled all over the single entry displayed in some sort of bright red substance that has, over time, dulled into a brown, coppery finish. It's possible it was done with paint or plant dye...or something a little more visceral. Who can tell? A transcript can be found here
Dangers: ???
Resources: Ore
E6 | Σ REMNANT
Searched by Kravitz, Lup, Magnus Burnsides, Barry Bluejeans, and Taako in July 2018. By now, the buildings constructed in rows of two may prove an eerily familiar sight: ten of them total, five in two rows, stretch down along the southern edge of the region of F6. As their new metal detector will attest, these buildings are all comprised of the same sort of material that has made up the others: metal sheets, hammered out and constructed in pieces.
A slim volume with childish writing was found in a tangle of buttercups, whose transcript can be read here.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Ore (formerly)
Searched by Kravitz, Lup, Magnus Burnsides, Barry Bluejeans, and Taako in July 2018. By now, the buildings constructed in rows of two may prove an eerily familiar sight: ten of them total, five in two rows, stretch down along the southern edge of the region of F6. As their new metal detector will attest, these buildings are all comprised of the same sort of material that has made up the others: metal sheets, hammered out and constructed in pieces.
A slim volume with childish writing was found in a tangle of buttercups, whose transcript can be read here.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Ore (formerly)
F6 | § ORE
Searched by Kravitz, Lup, Magnus Burnsides, Barry Bluejeans, and Taako in July 2018. Like the buildings prior, these ones, too, are packed full of flowers - but a metal detector will signal the presence of yet more materials inside several of them. Which, indeed, there are. Some half-dozen automatons can be found in the buildings on the area of F6 total, all in just as overgrown a state as the rest that have been found thus far.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Ore (formerly)
Searched by Kravitz, Lup, Magnus Burnsides, Barry Bluejeans, and Taako in July 2018. Like the buildings prior, these ones, too, are packed full of flowers - but a metal detector will signal the presence of yet more materials inside several of them. Which, indeed, there are. Some half-dozen automatons can be found in the buildings on the area of F6 total, all in just as overgrown a state as the rest that have been found thus far.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Ore (formerly)
G6 | Σ REMNANT
Searched by Muffet, Chara Dreemurr, Shouto Todoroki, Frisk, Connor Murphy, and the Knight in July 2018. Traveling southwards, explorers will find themselves traveling through a sparse forest area. Through the thick overlay of flowers across the ground, brief glimpses of stumps may be spotted- the area has clearly seen a purposeful reduction of the trees in the area, though why is up for debate.
Amidst the trees and the thickly-laid flowers, a book page was discovered, whose transcript can be read here.
Dangers: ???
Resources: N/A
Searched by Muffet, Chara Dreemurr, Shouto Todoroki, Frisk, Connor Murphy, and the Knight in July 2018. Traveling southwards, explorers will find themselves traveling through a sparse forest area. Through the thick overlay of flowers across the ground, brief glimpses of stumps may be spotted- the area has clearly seen a purposeful reduction of the trees in the area, though why is up for debate.
Amidst the trees and the thickly-laid flowers, a book page was discovered, whose transcript can be read here.
Dangers: ???
Resources: N/A
H6 | Σ REMNANT
Searched by Gladiolus Amicitia, Ignis Scientia, and Prompto Argentum in July 2018. The remainder of the building marked "Beta" is spread out over the H6 and I6 squares, but to the south in the H6 region, travelers will discover something familiar...yet more of the double-rowed buildings, spanning downward toward the south. These ones, unlike those on H5, are empty of all but thick clumps of flowers, again packed very tightly together to the point where it's difficult to get very far at all, even if digging. No; the real prize here is the building marked "Beta." And searching the rest of it, the group uncovered a solar-powered miner's hat and an old stapler, as well as three pairs of pruning shears, stained with very old blood.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Various equipment (formerly)
Searched by Gladiolus Amicitia, Ignis Scientia, and Prompto Argentum in July 2018. The remainder of the building marked "Beta" is spread out over the H6 and I6 squares, but to the south in the H6 region, travelers will discover something familiar...yet more of the double-rowed buildings, spanning downward toward the south. These ones, unlike those on H5, are empty of all but thick clumps of flowers, again packed very tightly together to the point where it's difficult to get very far at all, even if digging. No; the real prize here is the building marked "Beta." And searching the rest of it, the group uncovered a solar-powered miner's hat and an old stapler, as well as three pairs of pruning shears, stained with very old blood.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Various equipment (formerly)
I6 | Σ REMNANT
Searched by Gladiolus Amicitia, Ignis Scientia, and Prompto Argentum in July 2018. It's I6 that contains something a little more definitive, buried in one of the drawers of old metal desks. Creepers and floral growths have long since overtaken much of the materials in this section of the building, nature seemingly intent on retaking this part of the facility in particular. It does seem similar to the building nearest to the mana pool on Umui - what little can still be left of it looks very distinctly like some sort of secondary laboratory, though somewhat smaller in design.
An old datapad was discovered, cracked and dusty, whose transcript can be read here.
Dangers: ???
Resources: N/A
Searched by Gladiolus Amicitia, Ignis Scientia, and Prompto Argentum in July 2018. It's I6 that contains something a little more definitive, buried in one of the drawers of old metal desks. Creepers and floral growths have long since overtaken much of the materials in this section of the building, nature seemingly intent on retaking this part of the facility in particular. It does seem similar to the building nearest to the mana pool on Umui - what little can still be left of it looks very distinctly like some sort of secondary laboratory, though somewhat smaller in design.
An old datapad was discovered, cracked and dusty, whose transcript can be read here.
Dangers: ???
Resources: N/A
B7 | § ORE
Searched by Connor Murphy and Lup in August 2018. The rocky swath of strip mine stretches on through B7, more or less bisecting the region. The cliff is less even in places, and it occasionally dips low enough for one to climb in or out of the quarry, even without tools or climbing gear. B7 is almost entirely rock and hill - very few flowers are to be seen here. The tufts of grass that do sprout toward the region's western edge are toughened and browning over; nothing at all like the delicate petals much of Umui boasts.
B7 contains no buildings, but it does contain something that might be just as useful: veins of raw floriocite, and quite a significant portion. Shimmering, silvery threads of the unrefined metal glow in stripes of starlight among the cut edges of the stone.
Dangers: ???
Resources: N/A
Searched by Connor Murphy and Lup in August 2018. The rocky swath of strip mine stretches on through B7, more or less bisecting the region. The cliff is less even in places, and it occasionally dips low enough for one to climb in or out of the quarry, even without tools or climbing gear. B7 is almost entirely rock and hill - very few flowers are to be seen here. The tufts of grass that do sprout toward the region's western edge are toughened and browning over; nothing at all like the delicate petals much of Umui boasts.
B7 contains no buildings, but it does contain something that might be just as useful: veins of raw floriocite, and quite a significant portion. Shimmering, silvery threads of the unrefined metal glow in stripes of starlight among the cut edges of the stone.
Dangers: ???
Resources: N/A
B7 | § ORE
Searched by Connor Murphy and Lup in August 2018. The rocky swath of strip mine stretches on through B7, more or less bisecting the region. The cliff is less even in places, and it occasionally dips low enough for one to climb in or out of the quarry, even without tools or climbing gear. B7 is almost entirely rock and hill - very few flowers are to be seen here. The tufts of grass that do sprout toward the region's western edge are toughened and browning over; nothing at all like the delicate petals much of Umui boasts.
B7 contains no buildings, but it does contain something that might be just as useful: veins of raw floriocite, and quite a significant portion. Shimmering, silvery threads of the unrefined metal glow in stripes of starlight among the cut edges of the stone.
Dangers: ???
Resources: N/A
Searched by Connor Murphy and Lup in August 2018. The rocky swath of strip mine stretches on through B7, more or less bisecting the region. The cliff is less even in places, and it occasionally dips low enough for one to climb in or out of the quarry, even without tools or climbing gear. B7 is almost entirely rock and hill - very few flowers are to be seen here. The tufts of grass that do sprout toward the region's western edge are toughened and browning over; nothing at all like the delicate petals much of Umui boasts.
B7 contains no buildings, but it does contain something that might be just as useful: veins of raw floriocite, and quite a significant portion. Shimmering, silvery threads of the unrefined metal glow in stripes of starlight among the cut edges of the stone.
Dangers: ???
Resources: N/A
C7 | § ORE
Searched by the Knight in August 2018. The strip mine visible on the surrounding regions carves away a significant part of C7, the hills heavy with the perfumed scent of blooming flowers dropping sharply away into the striated bands of dug-up rock. There is no floriocite to be found here, at least not right away; any remaining ore is likely buried beneath parts of the mine that have not yet been explored very thoroughly. The flowers that do sprout on this region are as varied and colorful as the rest on Umui: chrysanthemums, daisies, delphiniums, and sage blossoms spring in abundance. The last of these is likely to be useful - sage makes a good seasoning, if one doesn't mind its gruesome origins.
There are no automatons in this region, a lockbox was discovered wedged between a crack in the mine's landscape, as though it was shoved there with the intention to be hidden or forgotten. Within, two objects were discovered: the first, a band of colorful wires that had been carefully coiled up and set inside the box. Their frayed edges suggest they were torn from something, and they have accumulated a thick layer of dust from age. The rubber-like casing has cracked and crumbled away, leaving the bare circuits.
The second, a datapad caught between two screens, displaying one entry total. A transcript can be found here.
Dangers: ???
Resources: N/A
Searched by the Knight in August 2018. The strip mine visible on the surrounding regions carves away a significant part of C7, the hills heavy with the perfumed scent of blooming flowers dropping sharply away into the striated bands of dug-up rock. There is no floriocite to be found here, at least not right away; any remaining ore is likely buried beneath parts of the mine that have not yet been explored very thoroughly. The flowers that do sprout on this region are as varied and colorful as the rest on Umui: chrysanthemums, daisies, delphiniums, and sage blossoms spring in abundance. The last of these is likely to be useful - sage makes a good seasoning, if one doesn't mind its gruesome origins.
There are no automatons in this region, a lockbox was discovered wedged between a crack in the mine's landscape, as though it was shoved there with the intention to be hidden or forgotten. Within, two objects were discovered: the first, a band of colorful wires that had been carefully coiled up and set inside the box. Their frayed edges suggest they were torn from something, and they have accumulated a thick layer of dust from age. The rubber-like casing has cracked and crumbled away, leaving the bare circuits.
The second, a datapad caught between two screens, displaying one entry total. A transcript can be found here.
Dangers: ???
Resources: N/A
E7 | § ORE
Searched by Kaworu Nagisa in July 2018. E7 hosts another double-row of buildings, again a group of ten in two rows of five. These are far more dilapidated than those gathered closer toward the mana pool; indeed, if one is keeping track, they'll note that those farther from the mana pool seem to have been more and more poorly maintained over time, if they were maintained at all. So it is that these buildings are the most overgrown yet. Pocked with holes and half-collapsed, the flowers that have coiled out from the crumbled gaps and forced the segments of metal aside reach eagerly for the sky.
E7 contains eight of the ten buildings in the area. In one of them, one can discover a distinct lack of most of the thick-packed flowers that other buildings of this caliber typically contain...largely because it is instead full of inactive automatons. Nearly three dozen of them have been piled haphazardly inside - thirty-three total. These automatons are also distinct in design, more reminiscent of those found on F8: they're older, less sturdy, and look as though they were assembled more hastily. Some of them contain nameplates, though most of the wording has been worn away.
The only legible nameplates are the following: ERIA-2, LIAN-12, DRAN-9, and DRAN-3.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Ore (formerly)
Searched by Kaworu Nagisa in July 2018. E7 hosts another double-row of buildings, again a group of ten in two rows of five. These are far more dilapidated than those gathered closer toward the mana pool; indeed, if one is keeping track, they'll note that those farther from the mana pool seem to have been more and more poorly maintained over time, if they were maintained at all. So it is that these buildings are the most overgrown yet. Pocked with holes and half-collapsed, the flowers that have coiled out from the crumbled gaps and forced the segments of metal aside reach eagerly for the sky.
E7 contains eight of the ten buildings in the area. In one of them, one can discover a distinct lack of most of the thick-packed flowers that other buildings of this caliber typically contain...largely because it is instead full of inactive automatons. Nearly three dozen of them have been piled haphazardly inside - thirty-three total. These automatons are also distinct in design, more reminiscent of those found on F8: they're older, less sturdy, and look as though they were assembled more hastily. Some of them contain nameplates, though most of the wording has been worn away.
The only legible nameplates are the following: ERIA-2, LIAN-12, DRAN-9, and DRAN-3.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Ore (formerly)
F7 | Σ REMNANT
Searched by Jaune Arc and Pyrrha Nikos in July 2018. F7 hits another chain of buildings, skewing this time toward the north. The landscape reveals more of the same: rolling hills, colorful petals speckling the grass in beautiful, eye-catching clusters. It's the buildings - the same sort of smaller, neatly arrayed sort that have been so very prevalent here - that contain the real find of the search. One of the houses is slightly less overstuffed with flowers compared to the rest, meaning it's possible to sift through some of the rich, pollen-scented blooms. Soft white daisies and proud, golden sunflowers all but thoroughly coat the dirt floors.
A battered, metal-worked desk is also crammed in a corner close to the door. Some of the flowers have managed to pry its drawers open and thus claimed much of its contents, but there are a few thin, flaking pages crammed inside. Only one is remotely readable, with a transcript here.
Dangers: ???
Resources: N/A
Searched by Jaune Arc and Pyrrha Nikos in July 2018. F7 hits another chain of buildings, skewing this time toward the north. The landscape reveals more of the same: rolling hills, colorful petals speckling the grass in beautiful, eye-catching clusters. It's the buildings - the same sort of smaller, neatly arrayed sort that have been so very prevalent here - that contain the real find of the search. One of the houses is slightly less overstuffed with flowers compared to the rest, meaning it's possible to sift through some of the rich, pollen-scented blooms. Soft white daisies and proud, golden sunflowers all but thoroughly coat the dirt floors.
A battered, metal-worked desk is also crammed in a corner close to the door. Some of the flowers have managed to pry its drawers open and thus claimed much of its contents, but there are a few thin, flaking pages crammed inside. Only one is remotely readable, with a transcript here.
Dangers: ???
Resources: N/A
G7 | § ORE
Searched by Muffet, Chara Dreemurr, Shouto Todoroki, Frisk, Connor Murphy, and the Knight in July 2018. Sadly, the greatest feature of G7 is five automatons that have failed in years long since past. Two of these can't be called more than mere shells of what they once were, already hollowed out of any potentially useful machinery and discarded on the ground with limbs askew. A thick burst of purple and white flowers cover the bodies almost entirely, with only small expanses of rusted metal to indicate that the odd shape of the growth is not entirely natural. These automatons, too, were constructed from a rich but unknown ore.
Dangers: ???
Resources: N/A
Searched by Muffet, Chara Dreemurr, Shouto Todoroki, Frisk, Connor Murphy, and the Knight in July 2018. Sadly, the greatest feature of G7 is five automatons that have failed in years long since past. Two of these can't be called more than mere shells of what they once were, already hollowed out of any potentially useful machinery and discarded on the ground with limbs askew. A thick burst of purple and white flowers cover the bodies almost entirely, with only small expanses of rusted metal to indicate that the odd shape of the growth is not entirely natural. These automatons, too, were constructed from a rich but unknown ore.
Dangers: ???
Resources: N/A
H7 | § ORE
Searched by Shion and Xion in July 2018. H7 marks the end of one line of buildings and the beginning of another, which extends southwards into H8. Again, the groupings are painfully uniform: two rows of five, totaling into a group of ten. Each building is in varying stages of decay. The metallic composite that comprise the walls hasn't been able to wholly resist the wear and tear of the flowers that have begun to jut through holes in the ceiling and cracks in the walls. H7's buildings contain thick growths of different types of flowers: variants of primrose, shooting star, pimpernels, and snowbells. Notably, the buildings located on the H6 square (with the exception of the building labeled "Beta," that is), contain the same.
One can also find three automatons, all disused and overgrown. One has been overtaken by pink spots of rockjasmine, while another has been swallowed almost entirely by sprouts of milkwort. The third has lost an arm and part of its chest to swarms of brookweed; despite the lack of any water nearby, the flowers seem to have had little difficulty in flourishing.
The strip of buildings that proceeds down toward the H8 square contains yet more variation: irises, crocuses, and gladiolus flowers grow side by side in thick-packed snarls within.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Ore (formerly)
Searched by Shion and Xion in July 2018. H7 marks the end of one line of buildings and the beginning of another, which extends southwards into H8. Again, the groupings are painfully uniform: two rows of five, totaling into a group of ten. Each building is in varying stages of decay. The metallic composite that comprise the walls hasn't been able to wholly resist the wear and tear of the flowers that have begun to jut through holes in the ceiling and cracks in the walls. H7's buildings contain thick growths of different types of flowers: variants of primrose, shooting star, pimpernels, and snowbells. Notably, the buildings located on the H6 square (with the exception of the building labeled "Beta," that is), contain the same.
One can also find three automatons, all disused and overgrown. One has been overtaken by pink spots of rockjasmine, while another has been swallowed almost entirely by sprouts of milkwort. The third has lost an arm and part of its chest to swarms of brookweed; despite the lack of any water nearby, the flowers seem to have had little difficulty in flourishing.
The strip of buildings that proceeds down toward the H8 square contains yet more variation: irises, crocuses, and gladiolus flowers grow side by side in thick-packed snarls within.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Ore (formerly)
I7 | § ORE
Searched by Chara Dreemurr, Connor Murphy, Erika Fisher, Foster van Denend, and Tim Wright in July 2018. I7 features a thicker copse of woodland, small clumps of trees sprouting from the otherwise unremarkable and likely familiar canvas of flowers and grass. The trees are raggedly spaced, far from the dense sort of woodland one might encounter on Ziziphus or Monsun. But nonetheless, the deviation from the norm may very well be welcome.
I7 contains no less than five automatons in varying stages of disrepair and decay. One is fetched up against the trunk of a tree; thick creepers of clematis have threaded in and out of its mechanisms and more or less rooted it to the spot. Its neck is at an odd angle due to the overabundance of vines that have ruptured out from inside its chassis, squeezing its head to one side to make their way into the sun. Another automaton lies facedown in the grass, nearly invisible among the purple sprouts of delphinium that pock its metal exterior. Yet another has been covered almost entirely in vivid blurs of gray-indigo heather. The other two have been claimed by yellow roses and daffodils respectively.
The ocean portion of I7 isn't much more exciting; the sea floor is empty and utterly lifeless of even schools of fish or beds of algae. The odd pale outcrop of dead, bleached coral is the only deviation from the otherwise eerily empty ocean floor...save for one exception. A single automaton resides off of I7's coast, its silvery metal crusted with orange-brown from the overabundance of rust and age.
It looks as though it may have attempted to walk into the ocean, only to collapse a little ways in.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Ore (formerly)
Searched by Chara Dreemurr, Connor Murphy, Erika Fisher, Foster van Denend, and Tim Wright in July 2018. I7 features a thicker copse of woodland, small clumps of trees sprouting from the otherwise unremarkable and likely familiar canvas of flowers and grass. The trees are raggedly spaced, far from the dense sort of woodland one might encounter on Ziziphus or Monsun. But nonetheless, the deviation from the norm may very well be welcome.
I7 contains no less than five automatons in varying stages of disrepair and decay. One is fetched up against the trunk of a tree; thick creepers of clematis have threaded in and out of its mechanisms and more or less rooted it to the spot. Its neck is at an odd angle due to the overabundance of vines that have ruptured out from inside its chassis, squeezing its head to one side to make their way into the sun. Another automaton lies facedown in the grass, nearly invisible among the purple sprouts of delphinium that pock its metal exterior. Yet another has been covered almost entirely in vivid blurs of gray-indigo heather. The other two have been claimed by yellow roses and daffodils respectively.
The ocean portion of I7 isn't much more exciting; the sea floor is empty and utterly lifeless of even schools of fish or beds of algae. The odd pale outcrop of dead, bleached coral is the only deviation from the otherwise eerily empty ocean floor...save for one exception. A single automaton resides off of I7's coast, its silvery metal crusted with orange-brown from the overabundance of rust and age.
It looks as though it may have attempted to walk into the ocean, only to collapse a little ways in.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Ore (formerly)
B8 | § ORE
Searched by Damianos, Hifumi Togo, Keith Kogane, Laurent, Pidge Gunderson, and Pyrrha Nikos in August 2018. B8 contains the source of the floriocite. The quarry spans several regions, too large to search in one day alone. Much of the earth has been reduced to a disconcerting strip mine, plunging several meters into the earth and leaving nothing but ragged cliff for a not insignificant stretch of ground. Nonetheless, a few veins of floriocite still glimmer here and there, distinctive thanks to its silvery glaze and the way it catches the light. One would have to have the tools or means to dig deeper to determine just how much there is, but it is raw ore, and therefore likely quite useful.
A building visibly rests to the south of both C8 and B8.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Ore
Searched by Damianos, Hifumi Togo, Keith Kogane, Laurent, Pidge Gunderson, and Pyrrha Nikos in August 2018. B8 contains the source of the floriocite. The quarry spans several regions, too large to search in one day alone. Much of the earth has been reduced to a disconcerting strip mine, plunging several meters into the earth and leaving nothing but ragged cliff for a not insignificant stretch of ground. Nonetheless, a few veins of floriocite still glimmer here and there, distinctive thanks to its silvery glaze and the way it catches the light. One would have to have the tools or means to dig deeper to determine just how much there is, but it is raw ore, and therefore likely quite useful.
A building visibly rests to the south of both C8 and B8.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Ore
C8 | Σ REMNANT
Searched by Damianos, Hifumi Togo, Keith Kogane, Laurent, Pidge Gunderson, and Pyrrha Nikos in August 2018. The woodland that's spotted the lower half of Umui comes to a petering, unceremonious end partway through the region. At the southern edge, the dark rim of some sort of building is silhouetted against the sky. But the real find is in the way the ground drops away abruptly, at C8's westernmost edge: for the first time, explorers have located a place where the floral outcroppings do not spring forth in fruitful abundance. Within these strange, rocky remains, it seems there's not enough earth to accommodate fresh growth.
Caught among the tumbled rocks of the cliff edge, sloping steeply down into the quarry, are the remnants of some sort of old knapsack or pack. Most of the fabric, hardy as it may have once been, has crumbled into uselessness, along with anything else that may have once been considered useful. There is, however, a small box that looks as though it was carved with great care, even if the etchings have been so worn and weatherbeaten that they are almost entirely smooth. Within, a few small objects reside. A handful of smooth pebbles. A tiny nodule of curiously-colored stone - opal, to anyone with the skill to recognize it. And, most precious of all, a small journal. Though most of the pages are illegible by now, one still remains, though the writing has faded over time. A transcript can be found here.
Dangers: ???
Resources: N/A
Searched by Damianos, Hifumi Togo, Keith Kogane, Laurent, Pidge Gunderson, and Pyrrha Nikos in August 2018. The woodland that's spotted the lower half of Umui comes to a petering, unceremonious end partway through the region. At the southern edge, the dark rim of some sort of building is silhouetted against the sky. But the real find is in the way the ground drops away abruptly, at C8's westernmost edge: for the first time, explorers have located a place where the floral outcroppings do not spring forth in fruitful abundance. Within these strange, rocky remains, it seems there's not enough earth to accommodate fresh growth.
Caught among the tumbled rocks of the cliff edge, sloping steeply down into the quarry, are the remnants of some sort of old knapsack or pack. Most of the fabric, hardy as it may have once been, has crumbled into uselessness, along with anything else that may have once been considered useful. There is, however, a small box that looks as though it was carved with great care, even if the etchings have been so worn and weatherbeaten that they are almost entirely smooth. Within, a few small objects reside. A handful of smooth pebbles. A tiny nodule of curiously-colored stone - opal, to anyone with the skill to recognize it. And, most precious of all, a small journal. Though most of the pages are illegible by now, one still remains, though the writing has faded over time. A transcript can be found here.
Dangers: ???
Resources: N/A
D8 | § ORE
Searched by Agent Connecticut, Agent Washington, and Zelda in July 2018. While the flowers are in marvelous abundance in this region, with the bright yellows of dandelion and yarrow making up the overwhelming majority, there is an equal amount of lush, thick grasses and wooden groves that stretch above with syrup-colored trunks. Brightly glinting in the sunlight, it may soon become apparent that it had not been stars winking throughout the night, but rather the still forms of six automatons scattered through the square.
Like all automatons before them, these machines have been deactivated, and remain statuesque among their floral graves like metallic gargoyles. Tangles of thin vines stretch across their joints, and of them all, only two of them have remaining nameplates: TERA-11 and NOLI-6.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Ore (formerly)
Searched by Agent Connecticut, Agent Washington, and Zelda in July 2018. While the flowers are in marvelous abundance in this region, with the bright yellows of dandelion and yarrow making up the overwhelming majority, there is an equal amount of lush, thick grasses and wooden groves that stretch above with syrup-colored trunks. Brightly glinting in the sunlight, it may soon become apparent that it had not been stars winking throughout the night, but rather the still forms of six automatons scattered through the square.
Like all automatons before them, these machines have been deactivated, and remain statuesque among their floral graves like metallic gargoyles. Tangles of thin vines stretch across their joints, and of them all, only two of them have remaining nameplates: TERA-11 and NOLI-6.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Ore (formerly)
E8 | Σ REMNANT
Searched by Agent Connecticut, Agent Washington, and Zelda in July 2018. The dense overgrowth that ravages the buildings of E8 is absolute. While the integrity of each structure is reasonably sound, the doors and windows have all but rotted away, spilling forth brumes of flowers and leaves that creep along the walls in veinlike patterns. They give off more the impression of grim, square vases, packed to bursting with flora, than they do of constructions where people once, perhaps, lived.
Only one building escapes total domination. Its interior greets the explorers with a grove of bright, cheery sunflowers that sway playfully in the shade. They may not want to leave without a closer inspection: tucked between the leaves and thick stem of the smallest sunflower is a folded piece of stationery, upon which a message has been written front and back. A transcript can be found here.
Dangers: ???
Resources: N/A
Searched by Agent Connecticut, Agent Washington, and Zelda in July 2018. The dense overgrowth that ravages the buildings of E8 is absolute. While the integrity of each structure is reasonably sound, the doors and windows have all but rotted away, spilling forth brumes of flowers and leaves that creep along the walls in veinlike patterns. They give off more the impression of grim, square vases, packed to bursting with flora, than they do of constructions where people once, perhaps, lived.
Only one building escapes total domination. Its interior greets the explorers with a grove of bright, cheery sunflowers that sway playfully in the shade. They may not want to leave without a closer inspection: tucked between the leaves and thick stem of the smallest sunflower is a folded piece of stationery, upon which a message has been written front and back. A transcript can be found here.
Dangers: ???
Resources: N/A
F8 | § ORE
Searched by Troupe Master Grimm in July 2018. The buildings on F8 look, if possible, even more dilapidated than those that have preceded them. Roofs have caved in, walls have sunk inward, and dense crops of lilies have utterly distorted those neat, prismatic shapes. There are six automatons scattered throughout the region of F8, both in and out of the buildings. Some have been swallowed up by tulips of varying colors, while another has been almost entirely engulfed by yellow stars-of-Bethlehem.
Though this find is largely unremarkable, one will be able to determine something that wasn't evident from the other automatons discovered thus far: these ones all bear nameplates. This may be due to the fact that they seem to be of a more aged design than the others; they're not as refined in shape, and the metalwork that holds them together is patchier.
The automatons are labeled as such: LIAC-31, LIAC-43, LIAC-42, and LIAC-50. The remaining two do not bear nameplates; it seems those have fallen off or been otherwise lost to time.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Ore (formerly)
Searched by Troupe Master Grimm in July 2018. The buildings on F8 look, if possible, even more dilapidated than those that have preceded them. Roofs have caved in, walls have sunk inward, and dense crops of lilies have utterly distorted those neat, prismatic shapes. There are six automatons scattered throughout the region of F8, both in and out of the buildings. Some have been swallowed up by tulips of varying colors, while another has been almost entirely engulfed by yellow stars-of-Bethlehem.
Though this find is largely unremarkable, one will be able to determine something that wasn't evident from the other automatons discovered thus far: these ones all bear nameplates. This may be due to the fact that they seem to be of a more aged design than the others; they're not as refined in shape, and the metalwork that holds them together is patchier.
The automatons are labeled as such: LIAC-31, LIAC-43, LIAC-42, and LIAC-50. The remaining two do not bear nameplates; it seems those have fallen off or been otherwise lost to time.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Ore (formerly)
G8 | ⋈ TOOLS
Searched by Lillie and Guzma in July 2018. More buildings, constructed in rows of two, stretch out beyond the thin scatters of sparse woodland on the regions prior. Uncharted lands fan out to either side, but for now, explorers can take heart in the fact that they've found yet more of these squarish, flattened buildings, all liberally packed through with flowers, just like the rest.
Clawing through the brambles revealed shovels, hypodermic needles, and match boxes, no longer in use.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Assorted equipment (formerly)
Searched by Lillie and Guzma in July 2018. More buildings, constructed in rows of two, stretch out beyond the thin scatters of sparse woodland on the regions prior. Uncharted lands fan out to either side, but for now, explorers can take heart in the fact that they've found yet more of these squarish, flattened buildings, all liberally packed through with flowers, just like the rest.
Clawing through the brambles revealed shovels, hypodermic needles, and match boxes, no longer in use.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Assorted equipment (formerly)
H8 | Σ REMNANT
Searched by Shion and Xion in July 2018. The buildings on H8 are no less packed than the others, though one at the southeastern corner proves to be slightly less so. Travelers managed to uncover an old binder. Much of its contents have been shredded, but one page was salvageable, whose contents can be found here.
Dangers: ???
Resources: N/A
Searched by Shion and Xion in July 2018. The buildings on H8 are no less packed than the others, though one at the southeastern corner proves to be slightly less so. Travelers managed to uncover an old binder. Much of its contents have been shredded, but one page was salvageable, whose contents can be found here.
Dangers: ???
Resources: N/A
I8 | Σ REMNANT
Searched by Chara Dreemurr, Connor Murphy, Erika Fisher, Foster van Denend, and Tim Wright in July 2018. Those with a love for botany will be able to identify the incredible variety of flowers that reside in the region of I8: from sunflowers to peonies to calla lilies to lavender, it's clear that Umui can somehow sustain species that should not be anywhere near each other. Not only do certain species bloom in entirely different seasons, but the different sorts of flowers are from all sorts of different regions as well. Crane flowers flourish alongside common dandelions, snapdragons alongside morning glories.
It was those searching the ocean that pulled in the real find, this go around. A datapad was found on the seafloor, a little ways away from the automaton keeled over in I7. While the water damage will have rendered much of its functions useless, it still has one entry open. The letters may be faint, but they're readable.
Dangers: ???
Resources: N/A
Searched by Chara Dreemurr, Connor Murphy, Erika Fisher, Foster van Denend, and Tim Wright in July 2018. Those with a love for botany will be able to identify the incredible variety of flowers that reside in the region of I8: from sunflowers to peonies to calla lilies to lavender, it's clear that Umui can somehow sustain species that should not be anywhere near each other. Not only do certain species bloom in entirely different seasons, but the different sorts of flowers are from all sorts of different regions as well. Crane flowers flourish alongside common dandelions, snapdragons alongside morning glories.
It was those searching the ocean that pulled in the real find, this go around. A datapad was found on the seafloor, a little ways away from the automaton keeled over in I7. While the water damage will have rendered much of its functions useless, it still has one entry open. The letters may be faint, but they're readable.
Dangers: ???
Resources: N/A
B9 | Σ REMNANT
Searched by Hifumi Togo, Keith Kogane, Lance, Mira, and Pidge Gunderson in August 2018. Spanning the stretch of B9 and C9 is a sprawling, pipe-riddled mess of a building. Perhaps, once, it was proud and even impressive, belching smoke into the clear, periwinkle-blue air.
Now? Well, now it's empty. It's a mere shadow of its former self. The metallic finish has rusted and worn away, and the building's exterior has been tarnished with ancient soot - and overgrowth. We can't forget that, of course. Vines have clawed their way up the network of pipes and long-since defunct machinery, visible from even the outside. Flowers have torn gaping holes in the walls. Inside, what was probably once smooth cement has been cracked open like the shell of an egg, as eager sprouts of delphinium poke gleefully through the crooked split.
It's difficult to tell, with all the overgrowth, but one thing is clear from the bits and bobs of machinery strewn about, from the skeletons of unfinished automatons that lie incomplete on tables, from the empty husk of what sincerely resembles some sort of furnace for smelting and refining ore.
This is most likely the place in which the automatons were made.
There's no question that everything here is old...very old...and that it has been abandoned for quite some time. But there is something recoverable in all this mess, despite that. A slender rectangular shape may now be very familiar to some in this group, and recognizable due to its basic shape and function to others. It's a datapad, albeit one with a severely cracked screen. A trio of rust-red fingerprints still cling, filmy and flaking, to the scuffed screen.
It's frozen on one entry, whose transcript can be found here.
Dangers: ???
Resources: N/A
Searched by Hifumi Togo, Keith Kogane, Lance, Mira, and Pidge Gunderson in August 2018. Spanning the stretch of B9 and C9 is a sprawling, pipe-riddled mess of a building. Perhaps, once, it was proud and even impressive, belching smoke into the clear, periwinkle-blue air.
Now? Well, now it's empty. It's a mere shadow of its former self. The metallic finish has rusted and worn away, and the building's exterior has been tarnished with ancient soot - and overgrowth. We can't forget that, of course. Vines have clawed their way up the network of pipes and long-since defunct machinery, visible from even the outside. Flowers have torn gaping holes in the walls. Inside, what was probably once smooth cement has been cracked open like the shell of an egg, as eager sprouts of delphinium poke gleefully through the crooked split.
It's difficult to tell, with all the overgrowth, but one thing is clear from the bits and bobs of machinery strewn about, from the skeletons of unfinished automatons that lie incomplete on tables, from the empty husk of what sincerely resembles some sort of furnace for smelting and refining ore.
This is most likely the place in which the automatons were made.
There's no question that everything here is old...very old...and that it has been abandoned for quite some time. But there is something recoverable in all this mess, despite that. A slender rectangular shape may now be very familiar to some in this group, and recognizable due to its basic shape and function to others. It's a datapad, albeit one with a severely cracked screen. A trio of rust-red fingerprints still cling, filmy and flaking, to the scuffed screen.
It's frozen on one entry, whose transcript can be found here.
Dangers: ???
Resources: N/A
C9 | ⋈ TOOLS
Searched by Hifumi Togo, Keith Kogane, Lance, Mira, and Pidge Gunderson in August 2018. The ancient factory contains a number of salvageable resources, if the adventurers are thorough. Picking through flower-choked cupboards, half-shattered desks, and more, uncovered beakers, shovels, drills, reams of paper, a solar-powered miner's cap, and an ancient computer.
Dangers: ???
Resources: N/A
Searched by Hifumi Togo, Keith Kogane, Lance, Mira, and Pidge Gunderson in August 2018. The ancient factory contains a number of salvageable resources, if the adventurers are thorough. Picking through flower-choked cupboards, half-shattered desks, and more, uncovered beakers, shovels, drills, reams of paper, a solar-powered miner's cap, and an ancient computer.
Dangers: ???
Resources: N/A
D9 | Σ REMNANT
Searched by Ann Takamaki, Pidge Gunderson, and Xion in September 2018. D9 is flush with trees, albeit of the same sort of scrubby, stunted variants that populate much of Umui. This land does no service to towering woodlands, and the hilly flatland is not very well suited to sustaining much beyond the thready copses present on this region, and others. As the region progresses south, even those scattered trees start to thin out. By the time the travelers reach the coast, the island has returned to its brightly floral backdrop. Sprigs of lavender, heather, and rich purple orchids flourish spectacularly close to the littoral air as the grass slopes into a sandy coast.
Out in the ocean, a few wooden crates were found bobbing in the flotsam. They don't seem to be filled with much, if at all - more than a few have been smashed into planks and kindling over time, and some are very obviously empty. But at least one was retrieved, though most of the contents are waterlogged beyond repair. A pulpy mass of what was once paper coats many of the salt-slick planks. But near the bottom of that mess, a rusted lockbox has remained intact and, even more incredibly, sealed against the inevitable water damage...for the most part. The bottom line is that a section of the documents contained within is still legible, even if the rest could not be saved, a transcript of which can be found here.
Dangers: ???
Resources: N/A
Searched by Ann Takamaki, Pidge Gunderson, and Xion in September 2018. D9 is flush with trees, albeit of the same sort of scrubby, stunted variants that populate much of Umui. This land does no service to towering woodlands, and the hilly flatland is not very well suited to sustaining much beyond the thready copses present on this region, and others. As the region progresses south, even those scattered trees start to thin out. By the time the travelers reach the coast, the island has returned to its brightly floral backdrop. Sprigs of lavender, heather, and rich purple orchids flourish spectacularly close to the littoral air as the grass slopes into a sandy coast.
Out in the ocean, a few wooden crates were found bobbing in the flotsam. They don't seem to be filled with much, if at all - more than a few have been smashed into planks and kindling over time, and some are very obviously empty. But at least one was retrieved, though most of the contents are waterlogged beyond repair. A pulpy mass of what was once paper coats many of the salt-slick planks. But near the bottom of that mess, a rusted lockbox has remained intact and, even more incredibly, sealed against the inevitable water damage...for the most part. The bottom line is that a section of the documents contained within is still legible, even if the rest could not be saved, a transcript of which can be found here.
Dangers: ???
Resources: N/A
E9 | ⋈ TOOLS
Searched by Ann Takamaki, Pidge Gunderson, and Xion in September 2018. E9 contains four buildings, a part of the cluster of ten initially found on E8. Many of these have been overgrown, thick with flowers and dead plant matter choked out by the sheer overabundance of how many blooms are packed deep within them. Travelers were able to recover pruning shears, shovels, one pickaxe and one drill within.
What's more, is to the south of the region, what is unmistakably a dock juts out into the ocean. This may have been the source of the crates that were toppled into the surf on D9 - while the dock looks as though it was once used to transfer supplies from boat to land and vice versa, there is nothing of note on it now.
Dangers: ???
Resources: N/A
Searched by Ann Takamaki, Pidge Gunderson, and Xion in September 2018. E9 contains four buildings, a part of the cluster of ten initially found on E8. Many of these have been overgrown, thick with flowers and dead plant matter choked out by the sheer overabundance of how many blooms are packed deep within them. Travelers were able to recover pruning shears, shovels, one pickaxe and one drill within.
What's more, is to the south of the region, what is unmistakably a dock juts out into the ocean. This may have been the source of the crates that were toppled into the surf on D9 - while the dock looks as though it was once used to transfer supplies from boat to land and vice versa, there is nothing of note on it now.
Dangers: ???
Resources: N/A
G9 | Σ REMNANT
Searched by Foster van Denend and Héctor Rivera in August 2018. Stubby trees are likely a familiar sight by now, as is the sparse woodland that peppers the region's westernmost edge. And, behold, another recognizable silhouette looms at the region's easternmost side - yet another dual row of buildings, constructed, as always, in two rows of five. These ones are as full to bursting with flowers as all the others, but that does not mean they do not contain something useful.
They seem in a less well-constructed state than those that preceded them on other regions. It seems that no one's bothered to repair of maintain them at all; some have caved-in roofs and crumbled walls, and one has collapsed in on itself entirely, leaving nothing more than a twisted hunk of rusted, ancient metal with ragged edges protruding into the pollen-perfumed air. A heavy volume of some sort was found snared in the brambles of a few rosebushes in one of the buildings. The pages near the very start can be unstuck, however, though only a few of them bear any text that's still legible, and a transcript can be found here
Dangers: ???
Resources: N/A
Searched by Foster van Denend and Héctor Rivera in August 2018. Stubby trees are likely a familiar sight by now, as is the sparse woodland that peppers the region's westernmost edge. And, behold, another recognizable silhouette looms at the region's easternmost side - yet another dual row of buildings, constructed, as always, in two rows of five. These ones are as full to bursting with flowers as all the others, but that does not mean they do not contain something useful.
They seem in a less well-constructed state than those that preceded them on other regions. It seems that no one's bothered to repair of maintain them at all; some have caved-in roofs and crumbled walls, and one has collapsed in on itself entirely, leaving nothing more than a twisted hunk of rusted, ancient metal with ragged edges protruding into the pollen-perfumed air. A heavy volume of some sort was found snared in the brambles of a few rosebushes in one of the buildings. The pages near the very start can be unstuck, however, though only a few of them bear any text that's still legible, and a transcript can be found here
Dangers: ???
Resources: N/A
F9 | ⋈ TOOLS
Searched by Kravitz, Lup, and Taako in August 2018. F9 is dominated by a coal-dark building comprised of rusted, twisted metal. Overgrown as it is - as much as everything else on Umui, of course - it is nonetheless impressively intact, suggesting a structural integrity that its fellow buildings may have lacked. The crumbled remnants of the buildings lining the region are in much worse shape than this rectangular sprawl. Vine-choked and flower-strewn as it is, it is still very much traversable. The majority of this building is crafted from metal, as well as a number of objects inside it.
The first thing travelers will likely take note of upon setting foot into the building is the smell - the sharp tang of something very similar to ammonia, the bitter cling of plant sap and dead leaves. The walls of the central room are lined with heavy vats - crafted, no doubt, from floriocite, if the familiar rusted cast of their make is any indication. If anyone looks into the vats, they'll be smacked face-first with the strong reek of fluro.
This is likely the place where fluro was produced and "manufactured," in a sense, though any machinery or materials used to craft it seem to have been lost in the tangles of greenery that have overtaken not-insignificant portions of the building.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Various equipment (formerly)
Searched by Kravitz, Lup, and Taako in August 2018. F9 is dominated by a coal-dark building comprised of rusted, twisted metal. Overgrown as it is - as much as everything else on Umui, of course - it is nonetheless impressively intact, suggesting a structural integrity that its fellow buildings may have lacked. The crumbled remnants of the buildings lining the region are in much worse shape than this rectangular sprawl. Vine-choked and flower-strewn as it is, it is still very much traversable. The majority of this building is crafted from metal, as well as a number of objects inside it.
The first thing travelers will likely take note of upon setting foot into the building is the smell - the sharp tang of something very similar to ammonia, the bitter cling of plant sap and dead leaves. The walls of the central room are lined with heavy vats - crafted, no doubt, from floriocite, if the familiar rusted cast of their make is any indication. If anyone looks into the vats, they'll be smacked face-first with the strong reek of fluro.
This is likely the place where fluro was produced and "manufactured," in a sense, though any machinery or materials used to craft it seem to have been lost in the tangles of greenery that have overtaken not-insignificant portions of the building.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Various equipment (formerly)
H9 | ⋈ TOOLS
Searched by Pyrrha Nikos and Touko Fukawa in August 2018. The straggling band of woodland ringing Umui's eastern edge curves down to the southern ridge of the island in thickening clumps. Plenty of the trees seem healthy; others have already been overtaken by corkscrews of flowering creepers, doomed to die feeding a parasitic growth. Even the largest of the trees in this region - and most others, for that matter - seem on the thinner and stubbier side. Either something has stunted their growth, or they're comparatively rather young. Or both.
The burst-open, slightly rotted wooden remnants of what seems to have been some sort of storage crate uncovers shards of the same kind of earthenware that most will likely recognize the fluro being contained in. Whatever happened to this particular crate, it appears to have been on purpose: there is a shovel jutting out of the shattered fragments of wood, half-buried in the grass and flowers. Its wood handle has lost some of its integrity over time and the metal of the spade itself has rusted over, but it is nonetheless quite recognizable. Besides the remnants of the jugs of fluro, travelers also found a shovel, drill, and some sets of pruning shears.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Various equipment (formerly)
Searched by Pyrrha Nikos and Touko Fukawa in August 2018. The straggling band of woodland ringing Umui's eastern edge curves down to the southern ridge of the island in thickening clumps. Plenty of the trees seem healthy; others have already been overtaken by corkscrews of flowering creepers, doomed to die feeding a parasitic growth. Even the largest of the trees in this region - and most others, for that matter - seem on the thinner and stubbier side. Either something has stunted their growth, or they're comparatively rather young. Or both.
The burst-open, slightly rotted wooden remnants of what seems to have been some sort of storage crate uncovers shards of the same kind of earthenware that most will likely recognize the fluro being contained in. Whatever happened to this particular crate, it appears to have been on purpose: there is a shovel jutting out of the shattered fragments of wood, half-buried in the grass and flowers. Its wood handle has lost some of its integrity over time and the metal of the spade itself has rusted over, but it is nonetheless quite recognizable. Besides the remnants of the jugs of fluro, travelers also found a shovel, drill, and some sets of pruning shears.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Various equipment (formerly)
I9 | ⋈ TOOLS
Searched by Jules Dagger Samari and Pyrrha Nikos in July 2018. I9 hosts a thicker band of woodland, curving gently away from the slopes that duck toward Umui's ocean at the southeast corner of the island. The hills are as thick with flowers as every other part of this island, but the trees at least provide a break from the monotony of the landscape.
It will only be by combing the landscape proper that travelers will unearth much of note. Thankfully, some of these finds are a bit more obvious than others. Certain objects protrude from the ground, half-buried and entangled in floral growths. Others might require a bit more digging, but everything found here will share one commonality - they all say something about the people who once lived here, don't they? Travelers uncovered shovels, a box of matches, and three earthenware jugs labeled FLURO.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Various equipment (formerly)
Searched by Jules Dagger Samari and Pyrrha Nikos in July 2018. I9 hosts a thicker band of woodland, curving gently away from the slopes that duck toward Umui's ocean at the southeast corner of the island. The hills are as thick with flowers as every other part of this island, but the trees at least provide a break from the monotony of the landscape.
It will only be by combing the landscape proper that travelers will unearth much of note. Thankfully, some of these finds are a bit more obvious than others. Certain objects protrude from the ground, half-buried and entangled in floral growths. Others might require a bit more digging, but everything found here will share one commonality - they all say something about the people who once lived here, don't they? Travelers uncovered shovels, a box of matches, and three earthenware jugs labeled FLURO.
Dangers: ???
Resources: Various equipment (formerly)
C10 | Σ REMNANT
Searched by Chara Dreemurr and Kravitz in 2018. C10 is a thin slice of hilly ground overlooking the ocean at Umui's southern edge. Sprouts of geraniums and thistles nestle in colorful clumps, until the thick grass fades into pale streaks of sand sloping into the foam-tipped ocean waves.
At this forsaken corner of the island, something has become hidden away to the point where it may have been imperceptible, if one were not looking hard enough. Propped up against a jagged spike of rock, some eroded fragment of a cliff or chunk of debris, is a tangle of oblong, slightly curved objects that must have once been bleached white. Time and sand has dried and stained them, until they are more of a dried-out beige-brown. An ancient skeleton lies in pieces here, partially sunken into the sand. Perhaps most startling is not the fact that the skeleton is here, but rather the fact that there is no trace of any kind of floral taint that has saturated even what few remains travelers have found here.
And tangled up in its distorted shape? An old, leatherbound journal of some sort. The wind and weather has tormented at its covers and torn many of its pages out entirely, but one entry still remains, a transcript of which can be found here.
Dangers: ???
Resources: N/A
Searched by Chara Dreemurr and Kravitz in 2018. C10 is a thin slice of hilly ground overlooking the ocean at Umui's southern edge. Sprouts of geraniums and thistles nestle in colorful clumps, until the thick grass fades into pale streaks of sand sloping into the foam-tipped ocean waves.
At this forsaken corner of the island, something has become hidden away to the point where it may have been imperceptible, if one were not looking hard enough. Propped up against a jagged spike of rock, some eroded fragment of a cliff or chunk of debris, is a tangle of oblong, slightly curved objects that must have once been bleached white. Time and sand has dried and stained them, until they are more of a dried-out beige-brown. An ancient skeleton lies in pieces here, partially sunken into the sand. Perhaps most startling is not the fact that the skeleton is here, but rather the fact that there is no trace of any kind of floral taint that has saturated even what few remains travelers have found here.
And tangled up in its distorted shape? An old, leatherbound journal of some sort. The wind and weather has tormented at its covers and torn many of its pages out entirely, but one entry still remains, a transcript of which can be found here.
Dangers: ???
Resources: N/A