The doctor's tired face lit up a bit when Filo and Jaden contributed so many questions to the conversation. He nodded and smiled a bit as he replied. [color=f6989d]"Ah, I'm glad to see that you lot care enough to look into this further. And here I'd thought the Commission was going to give me a group of brutes who just wanted to get paid."[/color] He adjusted his glasses and dug through the mess of documents on his desk, fishing one sheet out and looking it over. [color=f6989d]"I will have a team move all of the building and research materials up north once you secure the area, I won't expect you to bring anything you wouldn't bring on a normal expedition. But as for that, we're unsure of the climate north of the Elder's Recess. We do know that the crystalline structures at the Recess's edge do extend north for quite a while. But we have no evidence to suggest that it gets significantly colder or hotter beyond that. Our best topographical data suggests that climate changes here in the New World gradient in a west-to-east formation rather than north and south."[/color]

Daelen set the paper he was reading from back down, and looked up at the group. [color=f6989d]"I'd like a report daily, as you establish a route to the meteor and once you secure the area."[/color]