[center][h1][color=A7E6EC]Howlite[/color][/h1][/center]
 
Looked like apart from Chromite  the others were busy doing their own thing and as a result it was slow going. They got perilously close to losing the drill and spiders to the sinking muck but in the end the mission’s primary piece of equipment was saved and dragged to a more stable part of the swamp. After everyone got outside Howlite sealed all the doors to the ship to prevent more water going in, but the vessel was still buried pretty deep in the muck and the hull had enough reaches that the ship continued to sink slowly.
 
Howlite took this opportunity to examine the place they had crashed in. The ship itself was in a large muddy crater that was rapidly refilling with water. The rest of the area consisted of pools of water, floating greenery or actual land with plants growing on it. The problem was it was very difficult to tell those last 2 bits apart. Beyond the marshland was a hilline featuring much larger plants of some kind and even further in the distance was the light and smoke coming from what was apparently a human settlement of some kind.
 
[img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Bride-Brook-Salt-Marsh-s.jpg[/img]

Now that the drill was clear of the sinking ship Howlite tooks some time and properly rigged it up to the two spider drones with an improvised harness, meaning they would not need gems to carry it anymore.
 
[color=A7E6EC]”so where is this dry spot you mentioned?”[/color]