Monday: October 29, 2007 Who: Zach, Nico, Adrienne, and Umeko! When: Begins late afternoon, and lasts all through the night. Where: The path between Helicharis and the Ancient Elven Ruins. What: Camping trip!
The four of them left together from the initial house of meeting, which was Zach and Nico's cottage, and started on their journey through Elysium towards the south. Heading north would only bring them straight into much colder air, and none of them were quite up for that. They wanted to keep as warm as possible, and the forests in the south were nice and sparse, easy to travel through, and they could set up shop near the Ancient Elven Ruins. Maybe another time when it wasn't so cold they could travel to the palace for the night.
They had to bring a horse with them to help them carry all of their supplies, which wasn't all that much. It made the trip easier with a horse to help them along the way, so they brought Nico's horse from the stables to carry the two bags with the tent folded inside of them and another bag full of extra supplies. Everyone carried their own backpack with personal stuff in it, like clothing and whatnot. Blankets and pillows were also on the back of Nico's horse. They probably helped keep the fellow warm, so Zach doubted he minded it.
Zach and Nico were also leading the troupe of four simply because they had declared themselves group leaders. Adrienne insisted they carry lanterns, but Zach could barely see anything ahead of him in the fading light with just a lit wick shielded behind some unclean glass. This camping trip would require some heavy duty lighting props if they were going to find their way in the dark.
"Okay, this lantern isn't lighting up anything," Zach said, hooking the lantern onto his backpack and letting it hang. A moment later, he whipped out a flashlight from his backpack and clicked the bright light on, turning around to face the others. He held the flashlight under his chin as he walked backwards. "Toniiight," he said, using an ultra-fake Translyvanian accent, "we are taking 'ee road less traveiled." He turned around to watch where he was going again, shining the flashlight around their surroundings. "Hey, Nico, does this look familiar to you?" Zach aimed his flashlight at a big tree to their right. "Why does everything always look different at night?"