With the majority of the assassins taken care of, the adventurers easily ended the rest of them. While the lowlanders began taking stock of the situation, the adventurers explored the village.
Near the back of the town, the adventures happened upon a lowlander woman arguing with a young lowlander man. The teen lowlander was angry because the woman was trying to convince him that they needed to hide and leave RAM to someone else. When the adventurers met the pair, they spoke with the woman and did not manage to convince her, but they did manage to help the young man make his argument. The teen stopped arguing with his mother and joined the adventurers, telling them that he would take them to the RAM base.
As they talked with the young man, whose name was Fynn, he asked them how they got there. When the adventurers explained they had a ship and it was sitting in the soup nearby, Fynn told them to call the ship and have it pick them up.
Once on board the ship, Fynn told them where to land near the Eastern end of the space elevator. After they departed, Fynn told them to park the ship on a nearby plateau.
As they walked along the edge of the space elevator, they discovered a recently crashed cargo ship. Weary of what may have moved into the ship after it crashed, they avoided it. Fynn explained that Ursadders and Acidium are dangerous creatures that could easily inhabit this kind of wreck.
Moving on, they got closer to the RAM base and as they traveled, they heard a disturbance in the vegetation nearby. Fynn dropped to the muck and hid with just his eyes sticking out. Max did the same, doing their best to emulate the lowlander’s behavior.
As they watched the place the disturbance took place, a group of three lowlanders emerged. When the lowlanders saw Buzz, Zaphod, Seraphina and Alex, the lowlanders immediately began to ask if they needed help and offered to get them to safety.
Zaphod explained they were on safari, thinking these guys could be RAM sympathizers. When the lowlanders offered the group of adventurers another of the solar compasses, Zaphod cut it in half with his mono sword. The lowlanders observed that the adventurers were either insane or actually OK, so they began to move on.
As they began to move on Fynn threw mud at one of the lowlanders, hitting him in the back. This caused the lowlander to turn and demand to know what their problem was. Fynn revealed himself and the group changed their tone completely. After some back and forth, the adventurers and the group of lowlanders parted ways jovially.
A good 8 hours after they landed, they finally saw the large domes sunken into the swamp that comprised the RAM facility. As they observed the facility from a ridge nearby, the group of adventurers saw three more lowlanders watching the facility as well. Fynn approached the group with Max once again attempting to emulate Fynn’s behavior.
The lowlanders did not seem to know Fynn, but when they came back to meet with the adventurers, they were willing to help as best they could. The lowlanders introduced themselves as Gila, Sim and Dan. Gila did most of the talking and told the adventurers that the base did not have any entrances other than the large entrance in the top of the main dome that allowed the gliders to come and go.
Gila showed the adventurers how the space elevator was right next to one of the base domes, either because it was built there or because it had sunk into the muck and come to rest next to it. Gila opined that if one were to get into the space elevator wreck and find their way to the place where the dome was, they may be able to gain entry to the facility by cutting through the wall. Because of Ursadders, and no real reason to, the lowlanders had not yet explored this possibility.
The adventurers decided this was a great avenue for exploration and so the whole group went over the top of the space elevator, and then heading further West, found their way to a crack in the wall of the space elevator. At the crumbled side of the space elevator, the group decided to spend a few hours resting.
Sim, Gila and Dan produced a large six man pressure tent for the adventurers to rest in. While they rested, Buzz somewhat successfully flirted with Gila, Zaphod proved he was as greedy as possible by not letting the low landers have any of the alcohol he stole from the low lander village, and Max spent time talking with the lowlanders to learn more about their bushcraft and society.
After everyone had gotten some sleep, they broke camp and started to traverse the space elevator ruins. Inside, Gila scouted ahead to make sure that they didn’t trip over any Ursadders. Things were going smoothly until Gila called a halt and explained to everyone that there were Ursadders ahead. Gila explained if they were very quiet, they may be able to sneak past the creatures without incident.
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