CALLING: LINKS, BANAGHER
TO: ALL

[ Over the sound of the comm channel opening up, an airy noise flutters across the speaker. Then a distant, "Luna, get out." that paints the bahari tracker as the culprit. Banagher picks up where she left off as his voice cuts across the call. Time for some CDC Ghost Adventures, with 1000% more nature. ]

Hey. I know everyone's probably still getting settled in, so this won't take very long. It's about the smoke we saw rising from Sector 2 a few days ago. A small group of us went in to check it out once the stampedes died down. We tracked it down to the Northeast corner of the sector, but... there wasn't much. A grove of vorux trees was growing there, and part of it was completely burned down.

[ A pause, as if he considers how he wants to say this. Vorux trees are wild in their own right. ]

Whatever did this to the area, it was on purpose. Wildfires aren't contained like that. But I couldn't tell why that was — huh? Oh, yeah.

[ Another voice pipes up from the background, and both are quiet before the Blackglass rises again. Some of you will recognize the next voice as Ginko’s. ]

While I was taking a look around with the help of some mushi, I could sense that the Neraki were aware of what we were doing. Despite how quiet they've been since the last mission, they are still very much keeping an eye on us.

[ Banagher's voice returns to being the stronger of the two. ]

So if you head out there to take a look, be careful.

[ There’s a pause then, and the tell-tale shuffle of the blackglass exchanging hands. Ginko speaks up again, voice clearer than before. ]

As for the second order of business — I’m sure we all remember that god-like creature we fought against recently. I’m beginning a little project to study some tissue samples from it, maybe see if we can’t find out any weaknesses or unique traits that might be handy to know should we ever encounter anything like it again.

So this is something of a “call to arms” for anyone who might be interested in joining me in this little endeavor. Thanks to Mothership’s generosity we have all the necessary tools, but extra hands will do us good in finding out as much as we can, as quickly as we can.

((Anyone wanting to lend a hand in the research can come bother Ginko in the mingle log!))