<div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OOC</div><div class="spoiler_body">Nope, no rolls necessary.  I'll bear your stance on futahood in mind--she's not one yet, but she could become one later by a few different avenues, voluntary and involuntary.</div></div><br/>Though Jasmine negotiated the pyramid steps with ease the descent still took some time.  When she reached the plaza the morning breeze could no longer honestly be called 'cool'.  The wind that stirred up phantoms of knee-high dust from the square's flagstones still felt refreshing, but it now carried the first hints of the day's heat promised by her dessicated surroundings.  Even the stones beneath her bare feet were warm to the touch, having soaked up only the first measure of the day's sunlight.  Standing in that plaza at noon must feel something like strolling over a frying pan.<br/><br/>Jasmine's climb down from the pyramid's heights was enough to send cracks and fractures running through the bandages wrapped about her.  Her efforts to free her arms and legs of the material saw it disintegrate in her hands, scraps and powder falling to join the plaza's windborne sand and grit.  The bandages gave way till they wrapped her only from stomach to shoulders, leaving limbs and hips bare to the wind's touch and the sun's incrementally rising warmth.<br/><br/>While Jasmine uncovered and examined herself, it seemed the jaguars had taken her rhetorical questions to heart.  Golden eyes scanned the horizon, ears pivoted like radar dishes, and tails twitched while the their muzzles furrowed in concentrated sniffing.  After a few moments' concentration one of the beasts padded closer to Jasmine to nuzzle against her thigh, its eyes peering up at her--and then swung its head towards the south to stare past the mesa's crumbled slope, towards the distant glimmer of water.  There, almost lost against the horizon, rose a single dark, spindly column: an unmistakable trail of smoke.<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Mechanics</div><div class="spoiler_body">Perception+Survival to assess that smoke from a distance, still no rolls required to travel to the edge of sight in any direction.</div></div>