After the holidays in the cavern

It seems that a large number of explorers are starting to make their way back down to the cavern after the holiday. I did manage to link down once or twice during this surprisingly quiet time, almost amazed by how familiar the quiet of the cavern seemed. Relto has been anything but quiet recently. The storm has gone from rain to thunder and lightening. And I seem to have broken the music player, stuck playing some sad and lonely tune that sounds like someone's heart breaking, slowly over years. Very unlike the music in the gallery. And it mixes with the calling of the birds and the storm like glass breaking. The sporadic explosions that seem to launch out of the one island like fireworks do not help the feeling at all. The anticipation of the next explosion adds to the suspense that something is going to happen. It may just be the fear that I have that one day I am going to link into Relto only to find bahro there. And I am kind of afraid that I will be slaughtered there, alone, and no one will ever even know I went missing. A stain on the rocks of the island being washed away by the near eternal rain. And my family would always be left to wonder what had happened to me.

The risks of exploring alone.

This does show how little we really know about the situation in the cavern. The members of the DRC have left the cavern because of the sudden lack of funding. Whether waiting for more funding to arrive, or seeking out a new source, there is not much that they can do for us down here. I still do not know what to make of Dr. Watson and Michael Engberg. Are they even in the cavern, on the surface or holed up in some yet unreleased D'ni age? I am considering trying to contact the DRC, et al, via the DRC forums. Fortunately, my expectations of actually getting an answer are not that high.

The risks of not having build myself a network of people earlier.