This last week was interesting. Still not entirely certain what I saw but It looked like a giant person. Watched it from afar, and followed for a bit while Eivan and Fiske wandered about chasing mooing noises which turned out to be mutated bison. Eivan shot one in the name of science and fresh meat (pre-smoked and great with a bit of salt) and Fiske had a cow about that. As for the giant, they kinda looked like they had plant matter for flesh or something.. heavy bark as an outer skin with scraggly moss in the spots one would expect hair. And where it walked I found fresh plant life had grown, kinda dark gray/white grasses, additionally newly grown leaves on the manzanita plants we found are a dark gray... I decided not to tell Fiske about the creature. Kinda looked like a Tolkien style Ent, and we've been kinda taking a lot of plant samples and it might take offense to that.
Anyway the day after that, after some experiments with the bison hide (surprisingly heat resistant, though it already looks scorched as it is), we collected some more plant samples and started heading back for the humvee since we're starting to run low on supplies and a genuine earthqakes shook the caldera and more lava started bubbling out of the "spring" we've been camping near.We're going to head out while everything's still good and we're not running from an angry plant giant, or fast moving lava flows.
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