No we can't care for children

After a few minutes of frantic battle, the owner operators of Dinotours Excursions LLC secured their safety for the rest of the evening. Wraith surveyed the battlefield to ensure they were safe and found that the area showed signs that this was not the first conflict with the ghosts as there were remains of many locals scattered about.

The following morning they spent some time looting the golden age hotel they had discovered. Florida man and Butch managed to break open a safe containing a pile of golden age cash and a diamond necklace, which though obviously expensive was ultimately left behind because neither of them thought to collect it.

Socket was eager to get back to base camp to report on their findings and so Ray with a relatively large bundle of golden age furniture, flew them back while Butch and Florida Man headed home on foot.

Florida Man and Butch eventually encountered the large area that Socket had them avoid on the way up with the moldy ruins of some kind of town in the center. Throwing caution to the wind, Florida Man decided he was going to investigate and quickly encountered the spectral children that Socket had them avoid. Instead of provoking them, he channeled his inner child and spent some time playing on the playground. After a short while butch caught up with him and managed to convince him leaving was a good idea.

That evening they reached base camp and found everyone relaxing. Wraith had gone off earlier in the day to see if he could make contact with the 'Mice' and Socket was deep in the middle of constructing a magical Mega Damage Concrete recycling and processing machine.

When Ray returned from the tunnels, he brought a pile of armor fragments that he discovered and showed them to everyone but socket. After some prompting from Lexington, Kage became a bit perturbed and tried to distract Florida Man, managing to distract Wraith as well. When they were off in the woods trying to figure out what Kage was pointing at, Kage explained that the armor should be stowed and hidden for some time because it was from Splugorth assassins and this would likely distress Socket quite a bit given his history; which, though he probably shouldn't have, Kage related a tiny bit of to Butch. Butch did not like the idea of hiding the information and Kage convinced him to just wait until a better time to tell him.

Florida Man had found a really awesome stick, which was actually more of a sapling tree, and had begun vaulting the stream that Wraith had made while he was laboriously landscaping the business grounds. After a while thought Kage rounded everyone back up and asked them to report and was curious about the plume of smoke to the north the day before that was almost in the direction they had come from. Butch and Florida Man could not explain it and had not noticed it either. There was a brief discussion about what to do next and that is when Kage noticed another plume in almost exactly the same spot. Butch suggested that Wraith make a fly over and Ray was all to happy to oblige.

Ray did his best to sneak up to the smoke and first came across a village ruin that was obviously burned to the ground and after making note, proceeded to the fresh smoke. He found another village that was embers and in complete disarray. Bodies were strewn about and the place was a mess of footprints. Some small bare foot prints headed west and many large booted foot prints were heading to the east. Wraith attempted to follow the small prints but quickly lost them. While he was trying to find the trail again, he heard some whimpering from a near by building ruin and discovered a wickedly wounded woman with a baby and 4 small children. Ray did his best to heal the woman but nothing could be done to her extensive wounds. As soon as she laid eyes on him, she sighed, thanked him for coming and then passed away. Ray did his best to explain to the children but simply couldn't eventually settling on taking them back to base camp to see what he should do.

When he got back to camp, Kage freaked out and Lexington immediately took the baby and was doing his best to calm it. There was a lengthy discussion about what to do and when Kage explained they had to take the children to the Kopar to be cared for because it was more than a little hazardous to keep them around, Lexington handed off the b aby and proceeded to go into his workshop and rampage. Kage said he would get over it soon enough and then they made preparations to leave.

Socket prepared a floating nursery on the only working grav platform and they all headed to the Kopar settlement. When they arrived, Ray acted as spokesman and they all eventually made their way into the settlement to see where the children would be cared for. Satisfied that Tanya, Joel, Abigail, Jeff and Babe would be properly cared for, they headed back to base camp. On the way Back Butch had a conversation with Socket about the Splugoth assassins.

The following day, there was a lot of discussion about what to do next. the investors had come and gone and expressed an interest but the first batch of tourists would be arriving in a week. Many discussions about merchandising and safari attractions were had and everyone got ready to go speak with the SEEGA clan about possible shared services contracts.