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current chapter word count: 11119
scene currently written: spiritual spelunking
scene complete? Nope, not even close, although I fear that a lot of its current details will end up cut for stringent story telling. Too many detours. Too many hints at other plot options. Ah well...
facts researched for today's session: cave geckos on Okinawa, habu snake habits and venom components, troglodytic ants, Kasukabe cistern and drainage tunnels construction (1993 - 2006), malevolent water spirits, bat guano, and clothes' sizes for gents in Japan.
slight author panic: and they aren't even underground yet!
Excerpt of today's session:
"What did you have to do in the cisterns?" Subaru asked, while they pulled on the cave gear.
"Do you really want to know what they dug up there?" Seishiro snorted, stepping into the boots. "A Mizuchi-obake(*)." He straightened. "It managed to sit on the construction committee as a consultant."
"How big was it?"
"Probably a size M." Seishiro shrugged. "I didn't measure its suits."
"In its natural form," Subaru specified, exasperated.
"About 25 meters with spittle that ate through concrete, why do you ask?"
(*) Mizuchi is a great water serpent that dwells in a river or other stream and may breathe or spit its deadly venom on passersby; also known to demand human sacrifices from anybody disturbing its watery home (as with building dams, canals, drainage tunnels…); obake is a shapeshifting apparition in Japanese mythology.
scene currently written: spiritual spelunking
scene complete? Nope, not even close, although I fear that a lot of its current details will end up cut for stringent story telling. Too many detours. Too many hints at other plot options. Ah well...
facts researched for today's session: cave geckos on Okinawa, habu snake habits and venom components, troglodytic ants, Kasukabe cistern and drainage tunnels construction (1993 - 2006), malevolent water spirits, bat guano, and clothes' sizes for gents in Japan.
slight author panic: and they aren't even underground yet!
Excerpt of today's session:
"What did you have to do in the cisterns?" Subaru asked, while they pulled on the cave gear.
"Do you really want to know what they dug up there?" Seishiro snorted, stepping into the boots. "A Mizuchi-obake(*)." He straightened. "It managed to sit on the construction committee as a consultant."
"How big was it?"
"Probably a size M." Seishiro shrugged. "I didn't measure its suits."
"In its natural form," Subaru specified, exasperated.
"About 25 meters with spittle that ate through concrete, why do you ask?"
(*) Mizuchi is a great water serpent that dwells in a river or other stream and may breathe or spit its deadly venom on passersby; also known to demand human sacrifices from anybody disturbing its watery home (as with building dams, canals, drainage tunnels…); obake is a shapeshifting apparition in Japanese mythology.
