It seemed there were no treats to be cadged today, and Boreal let out a mournful sigh before spotting a nearby Belial and perking up. The peryton could usually be counted on for a game of chase, at least... but a low whistle from Tal had the dragon reluctantly trotting over to his side as Evie explained the first task.
They were all momentarily distracted by the gleam of metal in stone and the courier crouched down to trace one of the letters curiously. "Huh." Cultists would have been his first guess, having so little experience with the Ascended himself, but Deimos's question to Sah had Tal jerking his hand back as if stung and scowling down at the inscribed words. "Oh."
Without a look back, he headed up to the Peregrine to grab his shovel - and a large section of spare canvas. Returning, he looked from Deimos to Evie and chewed his lip fiercely in indecision, but after his conversation with Hotaru over Deepfrost he finally sighed and tromped over to where Evie was working. Spreading the broad, heavy-duty cloth on the ground he began to shovel the loosened earth and stone onto the canvas. Boreal helped, carrying head-sized rocks in her jaws like a cat with a mouse and adding them to his pile until the canvas was fairly well covered.
Then Tal strung four ropes through rings in the corners of the canvas and headed back to the Peregrine. Pulling the anchor up a little ways, he drifted the skyboat over to where Boreal was waiting with the ends of the hawsers. She flew them up, one at a time, and Tal tied them off to the gunwales then lifted the nimble skyboat up a little higher and sent her towards a nearby canyon. Untying two of the ropes at the front allowed the canvas to dump its load before he brought her back around, dropping the other two ropes and the anchor near their current quadrant before starting the process again.
Tal uses the Peregrine to shift large amounts of broken earth and stone away from the worksite!
They were all momentarily distracted by the gleam of metal in stone and the courier crouched down to trace one of the letters curiously. "Huh." Cultists would have been his first guess, having so little experience with the Ascended himself, but Deimos's question to Sah had Tal jerking his hand back as if stung and scowling down at the inscribed words. "Oh."
Without a look back, he headed up to the Peregrine to grab his shovel - and a large section of spare canvas. Returning, he looked from Deimos to Evie and chewed his lip fiercely in indecision, but after his conversation with Hotaru over Deepfrost he finally sighed and tromped over to where Evie was working. Spreading the broad, heavy-duty cloth on the ground he began to shovel the loosened earth and stone onto the canvas. Boreal helped, carrying head-sized rocks in her jaws like a cat with a mouse and adding them to his pile until the canvas was fairly well covered.
Then Tal strung four ropes through rings in the corners of the canvas and headed back to the Peregrine. Pulling the anchor up a little ways, he drifted the skyboat over to where Boreal was waiting with the ends of the hawsers. She flew them up, one at a time, and Tal tied them off to the gunwales then lifted the nimble skyboat up a little higher and sent her towards a nearby canyon. Untying two of the ropes at the front allowed the canvas to dump its load before he brought her back around, dropping the other two ropes and the anchor near their current quadrant before starting the process again.
Tal uses the Peregrine to shift large amounts of broken earth and stone away from the worksite!
