Archaeology, Natural Disasters and You [Closed]

[hi_there_aliens]

The trip down revealed that Taleen was going to be of several things, none of which were pleasant. Arid, pale with a light dusting of red from the rocks, and yellow-white grass that extended in plains all the way towards far off mountains . There was a giant gash in the land near the orb landing area, which resolved itself into a massive canyon as

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Day 1 || Daniel Jackson (subthreads)

[hi_there_aliens]

Taleen was one of the most desolate planets Daniel had ever been to, and he'd been all across the globe and then some. Then again, most of the planets he'd actually gone to, the Goa'uld had helped terraform it to support conditions for their slaves

Re: Day 1 || Daniel Jackson (subthreads)

[caringcassie]

Cassie had never done anything like this before, but she was eager to begin. Who knew what kind of mysteries they might find beneath the ground? There was so much that could potentially be learned here and that was a pleasant thought.

She'd brought some tools out with her, mostly various size shovels and brushes, to help with the excavation, but, as she laid out her tools, she found herself very nervous. What if she did something wrong? Deciding quickly that it might be best to ask for advice, she looked around. A man that she didn't recognize was approaching, so she smiled and called to him. "Hello? Sir?"

(OOC: If I'm doing this wrong then please let me know. Thanks.)

Re: Day 1 || Daniel Jackson (subthreads)

[hi_there_aliens]

He was almost done with the clipboard. So far, and this was a first for a dig he'd been on, everything had made the trip in one piece. Everything had also been set up perfectly, and Daniel's opinion of Captain Eneesh and her crew was soaring to an incredible high. He'd never see a people who were so efficient. They might as well live and breath it. Not one wasted time if they could avoid it, and actually, the only one he saw wasting time was the Doctor stealing Eneesh's time by arguing. One you got used to their aversion to tall people or being called "fleshling" all the time

Re: Day 1 || Daniel Jackson (subthreads)

[caringcassie]

Cassie smiled pleasantly as she straightened up and offered Daniel her hand. "I'm Cassie. It's nice to meet you... you'd like for me to call you Daniel then or is there another way that you'd prefer?" She didn't want to risk insulting her new companion.

Her eyes darted back to the tools laid out in front of her at his question as her mind came back to the situation at hand. She smiled a bit worriedly. "I've never really done anything like this before, so I was wondering if you might be able to give me a few tips. I'd like to learn."

DAY 1 || Eleventh Doctor or NPC Captain Eneesh

[makeherblue]

The Doctor, in the meantime, didn't quite find the dig as fascinating as Daniel. The fact he was standing at the bottom of the ramp and having a good old-fashioned argument with an eight foot tall mantis-thing probably had something to do with it.

Captain Eneesh mirrored him, her secondary set of arms crossed over her chest as she twitched at him in irritation. "Where's your mate, Jamiemcrimmon? I should be talking to him, not...you."

She looked down at him over her mandibles like he was inferior stock. Apparently all that time apart and her opinion of Jamie's new "mate" hadn't improved seeing as he still hadn't got the hang of shaving off a useless few inches. Considering how long it'd been since they last saw each other, she thought he had no excuse at all, the Too Old For This Captain looking even more her advanced age as she shook and twitched that insect head of hers, weaving from side to side and clicking, agitated that Jamiemcrimmon hadn't whipped this thing into shape yet. The nerve! Talking back to her"I'm as good as

I will take both, ha ha?

[hi_there_aliens]

Daniel came wandering up, putting the boonie on at the same time. It blocked out the sun a little, but not nearly enough. Too bad he didn't have his clip-on shades. The funny thing about waking up, naked, on Stacy was that you didn't have time to pack the necessitates. Actually, he had them when he'd gone through flying through the Stargate. 'Had them going' in being the keywords. Daniel was also pretty sure he'd had them when he'd hit the SGC ramp too, come to think of it.

Now he was on a dig without anything remotely appropriate to protect his eyes from the sun damage.

His optometrist was going to kill him if he ever got back.

The Doctor looked both a little unhappy to be attached to an archaeological dig, and offended by whatever Captain Eneesh just said. The Captain, he noticed, was being a lot more helpful, barking out orders at the other crew and helping out on occasion as she made her rounds at the growing base camp.

"What was that all about?"

[makeherblue]

The Doctor turned. "She's being a...well, a bug. She thinks she's right. And that Jamie must know something about nuclear fallout just because she says so."

He grumbled and hemmed and hawwed to himself, annoyed and quite happy letting Daniel Jackson know just what he thought about that. He looked the human over. Boonie hat, military clothes (he did like the vest -- the rest, not so much) and over all, as good shape as could be expected. He liked that about humans. Bounce back from anything, humanity. The bouncy balls of the universe! Only with, well...more hair and glasses and on-and-off-again taste in hats and anyway, he was sure Daniel Jackson was here to talk about Something and if it was Gallifrey again, he couldn't expect to get too far with those questions. The Doctor smiled at Daniel as he stepped away from wreckage half sticking out of the wall

[hi_there_aliens]

"She seems nice to me," Daniel shrugged. The Captain had been nothing but pleasant on the trip down. "I doubt there's any fallout here." Yet. Once the meteors hit and set off a chain reaction in the environment and air, probably blotting out the sun with the debris too, who knew what would happen? "Stacy didn't pick up any harmful radiation on the initial scans

DAY 1 || The Master

[controlparadox]

The Master hung back from the mostly-enthusiastic archaeology group, his brow furrowed and his body language screaming discomfort even if he'd taken the time to change into suitable clothing for the task. Well, more obnoxiously cliche than completely suitable-- he'd managed to find a near-replica of the Indiana Jones costume in the TARDIS wardrobe, even down to the hat. That it was missing the whip disappointed him a little.

That wasn't what had him upset at the moment, though. It wasn't even entirely that he had signed himself up for what was likely to be a very dull, stupid venture for a Time Lord who wasn't obsessed with humanity. It was hot here, and dusty, and it didn't help the residual throbbing in his head any. He couldn't help looking up at the sky, which clearly threatened another meteoric event any day now.

"Oh, perfect timing, as always," he muttered to himself. Still, he was hoping he could get what he'd come for-- any useful technology to smuggle back aboard Stacy... and another crack at this Daniel Jackson's head.

Re: DAY 1 || The Master

[hi_there_aliens]

Daniel was so preoccupied overseeing the setup of the tents and eyeballing the largest ruins several yards away that he didn't hear someone behind him. Not until they muttered something under the breath. It sounded rebellious, irate, which was something he shouldn't ignore this early into the dig. They had limited time. They couldn't afford to let the heat or everyone get on each other's nerves. If someone was already unhappy now, it could mean trouble, and they needed to work as a team. He should crack down on whatever it was before it grew.

He turned. Then he paused. For one long, pained second, Daniel took in what the other man (John wasn't it? From the library?) was wearing. A frown crossed the archaeologist's face. He hoped this wasn't John's idea of a joke, because it wasn't funny. How many times had first years admitted to him that they'd really gotten into archaeology because of Indiana Jones, of all people. It wasn't even like the movies were right, in fact, it portrayed the complete opposite of what archaeology was.

Re: DAY 1 || The Master

[controlparadox]

Nope, archaeology was none of those things, usually-- though the Master would have argued that if it hadbeen, it would have made it much more interesting.

He noticed Daniel's eyes looking him up and down, and gave him a wide smile that was not completely forced. Ah, someone truly 'appreciated' the outfit he'd gone to such lengths to procure.

"Not at all... Daniel, was it? I'm happy to be here," the Master said through his teeth. "Just a little worried about the weather, if you know what I mean." He peered at the other man with shrewd eyes even as he spoke affably, wondering just how much Daniel remembered of their previous encounter besides the alias he'd given.

Re: DAY 1 || The Master

[hi_there_aliens]

"Doctor Jackson," Daniel corrected a little stiffly.

It wasn't like he was extremely particular about the title, but there was something about John that rubbed Daniel the wrong way. Maybe the sense of arrogance he got off the man the last time they talked. It probably had everything to do with the way he'd talked down to Daniel about not knowing about the works of Sha'kk-sper, like someone from 90's Earth was ignorant for apparently not being either extremely well traveled in the universe or able to go to the 45th century. Stargate or not, they hadn't found a way to jump time just yet. He glanced up at the sky, namely at the specks of light that, if you didn't know what they were, or the danger, would have looked like especially bright stars. "We should be fine. Captain Eneesh is monitoring their approach. We'll be out of here before they hit

Day 1 || Tom

[echoofaperson]

Tom hung back, uncertain. Allowing the more confident members of the party to get ahead of him, hands wrapped nervously around the straps of his backpack. It has been exhilarating to come down to the planet, but now that he was here he wasn't sure what to do. He wasn't sure why he'd been selected for this mission, or what how he could help when everyone else seemed like they knew what they were doing.

The place looked empty, empty and abandoned. There was a tiny corner of his mind that still wondered if this ruin of a city was what Earth would look like, someday, if the Yeerks got their way. Nothing but a corpse, a remnant of something once full of life and laughter

[morphitudinous]

Billy was right there with him, at least for the first little while. He was a mechanic, not an archaeologist! He could be careful and follow instructions, of course he could, but he lacked the fine training that would make him an asset on this mission. He suspected, in the end, that he was simply needed to be an extra unit of labor. Wasn't that wonderful, he thought.

"Hey," he called, already looking out at the site of their work and dreading it. "Deserts are great places to work in a hurry, aren't they?"

[echoofaperson]

"Actually, I think working fast is a good way to get dehydrated. Or at least, that's what I remember from science class. We'll have to watch our water intake and make certain we maintain a proper nutrient level. The increased heat makes us more at risk for things like heat stoke and-" He trailed off, smiling awkwardly. "Sorry, that wasn't what you asked. Um, I guess we'll probably have to work pretty fast because we won't have time, otherwise, right? I think?" He shifted, breaking eye-contact after a moment and staring at the ground.

"It's kinda creepy, isn't it? I mean, it's a dead city. But, for it to be here at all, there had to be people once. I wonder what happened to them?"

[morphitudinous]

"Right," Billy agreed, remembering all of that. He'd remembered to go back for more water by now, at least, but pacing was still a concern. "That leaves us to locate the balance of obtaining the most information without seriously impairing our health." And he didn't like the sound of that at all. However quickly or slowly they worked, this was going to be a painful job.

"It's hard to believe, that we're the last people who can process this information and try to fill in their story before it all disappears. We can't just capture and save it." He'd prefer more time, obviously, but they had mission parameters. "It could be a climate shift, or another violent act of nature like this one..."

Day 1 || Sofia

[zenithianhero]

The way she was dressed, one would think that the half-Zenithian came more as a bodyguard to the rest of the team than anything else. Truthfully, she had been thinking the past few days on Morgan's words about getting a hobby. One did not chose when Stacy brought you on a planet, but seeing the more enthusiastic of the group into archeology made her curious enough to put the sword behind her and start unraveling all the puzzles that this place imposed.

She was, however, glad to help set up camp first. That gave her enough time to think about her options. Eventually, she ended up overlooking a large cave decorated with the remains of a civilization long gone in a language she could never really hope to understand.

Now it was just a question of what she should do next. Sofia had had her share of venturing into caverns and finding both treasure and lost civilizations, but somehow she had a feeling that this planet was definitely not like her own. But she couldn't deny that coming across something fantastic would certainly make her

Re: Day 1 || Sofia

[hi_there_aliens]

With the camp shaping up, it left Daniel free to check out the surrounding area. The scans, he found, were never as good as actually being there in person. Not the UAV or the MALP, or even the film that some SG teams brought back of rock writing. You needed to be there

Oh my goodness these tags so amazing

[zenithianhero]

"It is," she admitted, remembering Daniel from the trip, although perhaps in a somewhat kinder light from when he had trouble with his luggage. It really was sad that the mission had gone sour, for all the terrible things that had come with it, Sofia had enjoy the simplistic lifestyle of the village and helping them rebuild. It could have reminded her of home.

But this was neither here nor now. She looked at the BDUS in curiosity before speaking again. "It is a shame of what this planet's situation will do to everything."

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[hi_there_aliens]

Daniel was glad they'd gotten past the awkward silences stage, because he wasn't up to wondering if he was putting her off. That was already more energy than he was willing to pull away from the dig. He'd always been like this, something of a one track mind when he got involved in his work. Breaks were fine and all, but they didn't get things done. It wasn't like you couldn't multitask either, like eating at the same time as translating