The Forest -- Kamina

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PANDOR. Exploration commenced. Kamina Kamina strides into the forest with little to no hesitation, eyes glancing up at the treetops in search of anything familiar. Though he'd come out here in search of regaining some of what he'd lost, the paragon couldn't help but stare in awe at the sight of a surface untouched by war, nature flourishing far stronger than anywhere else he'd ever seen. He makes his way to a particularly smaller looking tree then the others, and taps on the back of it with his knuckles, before glancing up to see if there is anything hanging low enough he can snap off to use as a makeshift weapon. He isn't entirely clueless after all. Anything could be wandering in trees this hard to see through. PANDOR. As you tap on the tree, a bird flutters out of the branches, flying off to find another place to rest that isn't being knocked on. There isn't much that's low-hanging, other than some thin, somewhat bendy branches that may do in a pinch. Kamina With a tilt of his head, Kamina decides that he could still punch and kick anything he came across far stronger then those particular branches, and anything stronger than strikes like that probably wouldn't take more damage from those. And so he shrugs, turns back and heads further into the forest. After a few more steps he opts to bellow as loud as possible. "SIMON. YOKO. YOU OUT HERE?" before waiting idly for a few more seconds and beginning his walk again, keeping his eyes open for anything that wouldn't really belong in a view filled with so many trees. Particularly anything extremely large, metallic, and in the shape of a giant robotic face. Basically Gurren. PANDOR. Your shout echoes through the forest, and in the distance you can hear more wings fluttering away from the sound. Doesn't seem you're making much of a friend of yourself to the wildlife that was enjoying the tranquility that the forest offers. You continue to walk through, watching as the forest grows more and more dense the deeper in you go. Not only are the trees closer, but some are adorned with vines that twist and travel up the trunks. At first it seems a little unsettling, how much darker it grows the further in you walk, but it seems it's just from the canopy of leaves blocking out the light of sunset. Nothing metallic catches your eye. Kamina Having lived most his life underground, the dark caused him to glance up in curiosity and annoyance. The idea of the sun failing to be seen on the surface irritating him, but eventually Kamina shrugged it off and continued walking deeper into the forest. He is after all, tenacious to a fault, and had set out with the express intent to find something close to what he was looking for. Removing the glasses from his face, the world lost its signature shade of orange and the man pushed on, continuing to shout out the same names every few meters, while still keeping an eye out for anything remotely interesting. At this point he was remembering the ruined style of gunman and the broken buildings they had come across, and so had opted to look now not for just anything metal, but anything at all that looked worth running towards. PANDOR. The deeper you walk into the forest, and the more dense it grows, you begin to notice the chirping of birds and the skittering of wildlife is growing quieter and less often. However far out you are venturing, it's clear that humans don't usually come out here -- even animals seem to stick to the area closer to the city limits. Your shouting seems even louder than it did before without the sounds of life scuffling in the background. Eventually, you hit a wall -- literally. A large stone cliff seems to bring the forest to an abrupt end. Kamina A giant wall. That was definitely not what he expected to find in the middle of the forest. Halting his loud voice for a few moments, the man tilted his head back and gazed upward, to try peer and see if he could see any sort of height to the cliff in front of him, before turning his gaze to curiously peer at the trees nearby. The silence was gnawing at the back of his mind, like a sort of warning to be on his guard. But, he had come all this way and didn't intend to just stop now. And so, taking a few steps back, he ran up ahead, jumped, and attempted to scale the wall before him. PANDOR. The cliff face is massive, disappearing into the tree tops and, from what you can see past that, fading into the clouds.

You throw yourself at the cliff but struggle to find anywhere to grab that would help you climb higher. The cliff is sheer and very oddly smooth -- not smooth as marble, but distinctly lacking in any of the stones jutting out or tiered rocks that most normal cliffs have that would allow you to climb them. Kamina Flat on his back, grumbling as he'd landed down in the dirt after his jump, the man stared up at the clouds for a few moments. There had to be something. He was starting to have serious flashbacks to the last time he had tried to climb a wall like this, and grumbled in annoyance. Before, he simply did what he'd done last time this had happened to him. And started to climb up the tallest tree he could find. PANDOR. It doesn't take long to find a suitable tree -- one that's sturdy enough to climb and has a remarkably convenient set of holes and branches to clamber up. It takes you a little while, and drains some of your strength, but you're able to get to the top without any issues.... Only to see that the cliff continues to extend far, far about the canopy of branches. Kamina He had come across trees before, but never a forest this thick. And the fact that the forest itself seemed to have formed a ceiling of sorts annoyed the man greatly, as he clung to the top of the tree and peered around the area. Glancing up, and still unable to see the top of whatever the wall before him was, the man closed his eyes in thought briefly, before using his height to look around him. The trees were tall, but they wouldn't hide the giant form of Gurren completely, after all. Maybe he could see something that didn't belong in a forest from up here. Or at the very least, see how far that wall went, and if it ended, or curved at all. PANDOR. The wall seems to form the border of the forest. On one side, you can see a waterfall before it tapers away into the ocean, and on the other, it meshes into the mountain range. Nothing else seems to catch your eye, other than some wildlife standing quite still, perhaps waiting to see what this strange newcomer is doing. Kamina Looking at the wall once more, a frown crosses his face and he sheds the mask that he wears in front of all others, gazing thoughtfully at not only the wall before him but how it seemed to simply stop anyone heading any further. He absentmindedly turns to the local wildlife around him at the top of the tree or below, knowing that they probably cannot respond and simply comments as he gazes between the mountains and the waterfall. "Can't get any deeper into this place, huh. Not too sure if I can climb up a waterfall either. You think I can get up to the top of this wall climbing those mountains?" He then turns to see which way the city is, to get a clear direction on how to head back, before climbing back down the tree. PANDOR. The wildlife remains still and, as predicted, does not respond. Not even a flutter of a wing or the scuttle of a claw. You must have really scared them.

The city is back to the south, easy enough to see from your spot high in the trees.

Is there anything else you would like to do? Kamina With an idle shrug, he turned in the direction of the city and started to head back. He was done with the forest for now. Time to head back to the city. PANDOR. EXPLORATION ENDED.