TUP,<br/><br/>I think you are doing a splendid job!<br/><br/>I am getting a vibe of genuine creepy alien wrongness from the island, and it is a result of you verbally showing us the strangeness, not simply telling us how strange and wrong it is.<br/><br/>I'm reluctant to give constructive criticism because:<br/><br/><br/>A.  You don't need much if any.  This current fight is a very nasty one, more than we can handle, I think.    But it has the practical effect of making plain how dangerous ruins are, how they continue to twist things overtly.<br/><br/><br/>B.  You are in a groove, you have a clear picture in your head of what you want us to see, and you are presenting it very well.<br/><br/>One thing that will be on Aeryn's mind when she has time to think it through is how much more dangerous more intact structures might be to mess around in if a ruined garden is this much of a hot spot.  dealing with this is a longer term problem.  I' thinking that a result of the long term Investigation might be enableing a series of boosts, one shot nuggets of knowledge that will be useful when messing about with these sites.  The discovery of a pattern of, hm, "taint" that can be predicted to a degree perhaps.<br/><br/>And neither Aeryn nor Reliyian can  do it alone, whatever was done by the prior culture, it very much was a cross-disciplinary project.<br/><br/><br/>