#RouteFinder

[parth1selfcraft]

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[satureja13]

The Boys told Dayn about their issues to repair the ship and he was wondering why they just didn't ask Lenny. Saiwa: "Eh, we cant understand him?" Dayn: "But he could have shown you. Like this: Lenny, where did you break the communication system?" Lenny pointed his little paw towards the stern of the ship. Dayn: "See?" Saiwa: "We didn't know that was a thing ^^' " Dayn cuddled Lenny: "Aouww, he's so shy and cute!" Well, Lenny wasn't all that 'shy and cute' when he crashed and rumbled through the ventilation shafts and scared them to death and destroyed the ship...

Vlad and Jack went back to duty at the bridge and the others followed Dayn and Lenny to the ship's stern. Where they found another engine room they hadn't even noticed before...

Dayn: "It's here? Oh my, poor boy! You must have been so afraid when you hid back here!" The Boys almost felt bad, but just almost. They haven't forgotten yet how they cowered at the bridge in fear - for days!

Dayn collected a few parts together from Great A'Tuin's storage and his own ship and started the repairs. Jeb watched him eagerly so he could learn from him. Dayn: "So this is just an interim solution. I hope it will last until you reach the nearest outpost to replace the broken parts. I'll message the owner you're on your way and if you should get lost, he's going to search for you." Jeb: "Thank you so much. So, what is the purpose of this second engine room?" Dayn: "This is mainly for cooling the engines and devices. A strange coincidence though, that Lenny ended up here destroying the only parts here that are crucial for communication and routefinding..." Lenny looked aside. He might have had his reasons? ö.Ö'

Dayn kept rambling on: "... and what did we have a ball back here! The cooling water in the bassin is very clean. Like almost all the water on the ship it runs through a reprocessing cycle. Yeah, and we used it as a hot tub and had quite the fun, if you know what I mean! ^^' " Well, at least Ji Ho and Kiyoshi know what it means to have a ball in a hot tub ^^' (Ji Ho even three times! 1 - 2 - 3) The last pic doesn't look like they're really having a ball. That was before their first woohoo and they'd been so nervous!)

Ji Ho and Kiyoshi are still reliving their former hot tub experiences, while Saiwa is plotting his first - with Jeb :3 (Their faces!) And poor Jeb didn't get it or he's just too shy to respond ^^' He's still peppering Dayn with questions about the devices of the ship and how to handle them so he can brief Jack what he'd learned. (That's important too!)

And after Dayn finished, they invited him over to have a hot cocoa. But no matter how hard they tried, the tray didn't produce any mugs... So they talked about their adventures instead. Dayn, from when he was part of the Sixam Away Team and they explored a meteorite crash scene and the Boys chimed in because they also found a meteorite crash scene in Selvadorada! Kiyoshi went silent. He wasn't with them then. That was when he lived in the tree... He'd missed out so much because he'd been so busy all the time. Fullfilling his duties for the Resistance and the Council. He's determined to make it up to Jack and the others. This time, he won't fail them again. The decades in the tree reformed him. Jeb looked lovingly at his best friend <3 He's glad it all turned out so well in the end - well, at least until now. Kiyoshi is back together with them for almost a year now and he and Jack are slowly figuring out their fated-mates-thing.

Eventually, Vlad was able to pour some cocoa for them! (Turned out that it can't be served while sitting? -.-)

Dayn also tought them some basic words/meowls in Lenny's language, so they'll have less misunderstandings ^^' He also already messaged Albaleyh and the Kids about Lenny's whereabouts. Seon Mi and Joon Gi are still sad he left. But they are happy he's helping the Boys out to rescue their father. For them this is the turning point and they are positive it'll work out now :3 And they are finally eating again.

Vlad and Jack sat at the bridge and drank their cocoa. Having a break and cherishing the silence after all the commotion. Experiencing thrilling space adventures really isn't as fun as in the movies...

The Little Goats Sartyrs ogled them from their meadow in the cargo bay below. Little Goat: 'That hot tub basin thing will provide so much fun!' Little Goat: 'Ikr! I wonder which couple will explore it first!?' Little Goat: 'Let's place bets!'

What will await them on their odyssey through the galaxy? Stay tuned and find out in the following episodes of

Star Trek - The Original Series Theme (What I was going for starts at 0:29. I didn't find a clip without the intro ^^')

'Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds; to seek out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where no man has gone before!'

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[pseudotsugas]

4, 28, 52?

4. what are you looking forward to?

getting back home from my parents' place in a few days, it's been fun but i miss samson & emi & cooper & my bed.

also, maybe going snowshoeing or skiing in the next couple days?

also, all the concerts i'm going to in the spring

28. i’ll love you if…

you show me trust - especially if i know that you are someone who does not do so easily. if you are willing to ask for care and affection when you want it from me, then i will feel safe to do the same. if you are willing to criticise me/my actions when you disagree with them, and trust me to respond maturely, then i will feel immensely complimented.

also if you will go on a walk with me and be openly enthusiastic about trees or birds or fungi or the smell of dead leaves or really anything i will love you forever.

also if you are a lil fruity, and very neurotic, and trans in a complicated way that you're a little sheepish about.

52. something i’m talented at

routefinding & bushwacking, music, identifying plants, cooking to some extent

[bikepackinguk]

Day One Hundred and Five

It's been 15 weeks on the road!

Whilst it doesn't manifest too often, I am a sufferer of hereditary Restless Leg Sybdrome, and last night it decided to be its wonderful self and do what it could to prevent much sleep from being had.

So, may as well get up and at 'em! It's an easy start today, extricating myself from a patch of trees by Hythe Bypass and rolling down around town to the pier at Hythe, where I don't have long to wait for my first ferry of the day.

The Hythe ferry is a catamaran style vessel, and it's a short cruise over the water to land at the docks by the city centre of Southampton.

Ruah Hour is in full swing right now, so it's some careful maneuvering to navigate around town and over the bridge across the River Itchen, before heading through the streets of Woolston to get back to the waterside.

There's a nice run along the water's edge here, before heading up through the grounds of Royal Victoria Country Park and into the nice little village of Hamble-le-Rice, which is still and quiet in the early morning.

Down to the docks and it's onto ferry #2 of the day, a tiny little pink boat that I share with a few ramblers to get across the River Hamble to reach Warsash.

Around the trails I go and it's up into some rough pathways along cornfields above the sea.

The paths meander around the fields before turning down to Hill Head, before a nice long run looking over the water through Lee-on-the-Solent.

As the road turns inland a little, the busy roads have a good few cycle paths along them, so I have a good charge down the main streets to speed my way through to the town of Gosport, where awaits my third and final ferry if today's river-hopping.

It's only a short journey across the harbour to land in the historic docks of Portsmouth, beside the famous HMS Warrior.

I'm on a bit of a schedule currently so I hit the road once more, rising through Old Portsmouth and missing a turn to take me through aome of the busier urban stretches of town, before zigging down to hit the edge of the Solent once more for a ride down past Eastney Beach.

I double back for a ride up through Eastney and along the easterly edge of Portsmouth and roll up to a hearty greeting with my lovely cousin Sarah!

The last time I was in Portsmouth was for her wedding to her lovely wife Charlotte and riding through has brought back many happy memories of the occasion, so it's all the more joyful to be able to interrupt her busy schedule as I'm treated to a beer and slap-up steak lunch. Thank you so much again and look forward to seeing you again soon cuz!

Farewells said and bellies full, I'm off along the road north as the cycle route hits some major road junctions around the north of Portsmouth, but the cycle paths track around alongside a good ways yet ao I'm spared the heavy traffic as I track around the A27 past Havant.

The route drops on to the A259 here, so it's time to put that hearty lunch to good use as I stretch the legs for a long run along the busy road awhile.

The cycle pathing here is spotty at best, and I end up just staying in the road to get some miles cranked out, and as the miles and small towns drop away it feels like practically no time at all before I hitnthe edges of Chichester.

With some twisting through town, I drop on to the towpath at the Chichester Canal to follow the cycle route down the water to Hunston, where I tack on to the B2166 as it curves around the expansive farmlands.

Along the road and jostling with plenty of tractors and school-run drivers, I keep in peddling away the miles and charge my way down through the growing suburbs and push on through to arrive at the beach at Pagham.

I have a brief pause to appreciate the view up the coast, but I've energy yet in the legs and light in the day, so am eager to keep at it.

Around through the roads of Pagham, it takes a good bit of routefinding to work my way around, but eventually ride around to hook up once morenwith NCN 2 as it restarts once more at the promenade of Bognor Regis.

My eagerness hasn't done me a great deal of favours here as I had been thinking of stopping a little short of Bognor, as it's a long urban stretch ahead with little opportunity for stealthy camping.

A bit of thinking and checking of the maps has me riding up and through the seaside town to head to the northern end of town where there look to be more possibilities to hole up for the night. I'll let you know how the scouting goes in the morrow!

TTFN!

[theghostpinesmusic]

Went outside again this past weekend. Did Hogsback with Lindsey and Doctor on Saturday in clear-but-extremely-cold-and-windy weather, and while it was nice and dry on the way up on the west side, coming down the east side required a little routefinding to get on the right trail and then nanospikes to negotiate a few steep downhills because of lots of hard, weeks-old snow.

Ran Moore Mountain late Sunday, and while the Eulalona route up to the summit was dry and the dirt was frozen solid, coming back down via Five Gallon and some associated trails was a mistake: lots more hard snow meant wearing spikes and basically walking through lots of sections where a slip would've hurt a lot. Then I got to the flat, dry road at the bottom of the mountain and my calf decided to blow out.

I guess I should be glad it didn't happen on top of the mountain or something, but I've been sitting around doing not-much this week while alternating an ice pack and a heat pack...hoping to be ready to tackle something big and tall again this coming weekend!

[riya-sharma-25]

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[afactaday]

#aFactADay2024

#1242: an ant mill, also known as a death spiral, is when ants start going round in a circle. ants follow each other through pheromone paths, which are stackable to optimise routefinding. if they accidentally form a cycle, it becomes a positive feedback loop and ants keep joining it and it gets increasingly bigger. they walk until they die of exhaustion, and a pile of carcasses builds up in the middle. the first one to be properly described in 1921 was 370m in circumference and took two and a half hours to complete one revolution. it's also been observed in fish and some caterpillars.

[poke-irs-real]

like Routefinder? Crabhammer 40k?

i get the impression that you'd play an orc in dungeons and dragon types

I'd play a better game than D&D.

[neveradullmo]

Ordnance Survey.

[insightsinfo]

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[techniktagebuch]

Juli 2021

Bericht aus der Frühzeit der Fahrrad-Navigation

Selbst wenn man im Auto kein Navi hat, kann man meistens einfach der Ausschilderung folgen. Das fühlt sich normal und selbstverständlich an, aber es war nicht immer so. Als das Autofahren noch relativ neu war, gab es keine einheitliche Ausschilderung, und die vorhandenen Schilder waren oft nicht rechtzeitig vor dem Abbiegen erkennbar. Ich glaube, das Kartenmaterial war auch noch nicht so gut. Die heutigen einheitlichen Ortsschilder gibt es erst seit den 1930er Jahren. Ausführlicher steht das alles in Martin Scharfes Buch “Wegzeiger”, das es nur auf Papier gibt, und diese Papierausgabe ist nicht da, wo ich gerade bin, deshalb kann ich das hier nur ganz ungefähr aus dem Gedächtnis wiedergeben.

Quelle: Nationaal Archief, www.flickr.com/photos/nationaalarchief/4192749543/

Das Bild zeigt das Navigationssystem “Iter Avto” von 1932. Wikipedia:

“Das Funktionsprinzip des Iter Avto bestand aus der Anzeige einer vorher festgelegten Strecke. Diese wurde auf eine Papierrolle übertragen und in das Iter Avto eingelegt. Das System ist dabei mit dem Antrieb des Fahrzeugs verbunden. Je nach Geschwindigkeit wurde die Rolle dann langsamer oder schneller abgespult. Durch eine Sichtscheibe im Gerät sah der Fahrer dabei den jeweils vor ihm liegenden nächsten Streckenabschnitt. Bedingung für die korrekte Funktionsweise war, dass auch wirklich exakt diese Strecke befahren wurde, da es außer der Wegstreckenerfassung keine weiteren Sensoren gab.”

Für Motorradfahrer gab es ähnliche Lösungen mit Papierrollen, und den “Plus Fours Routefinder” konnte man sogar am Handgelenk tragen. Über diese und ähnliche frühe Navigationssysteme findet man einiges im Netz, aber auch das Ausschilderungssystem war irgendwann mal eine nichtvorhandene und dann eine neue und unvollständige Technik.

Ich bin gerade mehrere längere Fahrradstrecken gefahren und habe mich oft in diese komplizierte Autovergangenheit zurückversetzt gefühlt. Die Probleme beginnen schon bei der Planung: Google Maps versteht wenig vom Fahrradfahren und empfiehlt mit etwas Glück eine Route, die nicht gerade die am stärksten befahrene Straße ist. In der Openstreetmaps-App OsmAnd kann man die eigenen Fahrradvorlieben genauer eintragen, wenn man bereit ist, sich durch die zahlreichen und eher nicht so intuitiven Einstellungen zu kämpfen. Die Auskünfte der App decken sich aber nur gelegentlich und zufällig mit den vor Ort ausgeschilderten Fahrradwegen. Manchmal befährt man einen herrlichen, beschilderten, geteerten, autofreien Fahrradweg, während die App bei jedem abzweigenden Fußpfad versucht, einen auf die Hauptstraße zurückzulenken.

Das Vorhandensein und die Qualität dieser Ausschilderung ist wiederum regional äußerst unterschiedlich. Möchte man eine Strecke zurücklegen, die zum Beispiel zwei verschiedene ausgeschilderte Fahrradrouten miteinander verbindet, ist man zwischen den beiden Strecken auf sich gestellt. Innerhalb von Orten verschwindet die Beschilderung manchmal ganz. Wenn man eine beschilderte Fahrradroute einmal versehentlich verlassen hat, findet man sie nur schwer wieder.

Das Kartenmaterial ist keine große Hilfe: Es gibt für jede Region eine Vielzahl von speziellen, von der Gemeinde herausgegebenen Fahrradkarten, deren Maßstab, Qualität und Aktualität unvorhersehbar ist. Eigentlich kann man sie alle nur verwenden, wenn man die Gegend bereits gut kennt und die Karte nur benötigt, um herauszufinden, wo ein Fahrradweg sein könnte. Zur Orientierung in unbekanntem Gelände sind diese Karten unbrauchbar.

Letztlich habe ich es in den letzten Wochen ungefähr so gehandhabt: Mit Hilfe einer Papierkarte, auf der Fahrradwege ganz grob abgebildet sind, wird die Route geplant und ich trage in der OsmAnd-App viele Zwischenstationen ein, um die Routenplanung zu nötigen, derselben Strecke zu folgen. Zusätzlich gibt es immer mündliche Auskünfte von Ortskundigen, die mich an die oben abgebildete “Iter Avto”-Karte erinnern: Man müsste sich die Orte, die auf der geplanten Strecke liegen, in der richtigen Reihenfolge merken oder notieren und dann der Autofahrer-Ausschilderung der Nebenstraßen folgen. Dieser Teil der Navigationsstrategie ist aber wenig praxisrelevant, ich lasse die Ortsnamen über mich hinwegrauschen und merke mir nichts außer vielleicht “ah, hier geht es unter der Autobahn durch, das hat er erwähnt!” Unterwegs verlasse ich mich auf eine Mischung aus Fahrradweg-Beschilderung (so vorhanden) und OsmAnd-App, in ganz schwierigen Fällen muss die App noch mal mit der Papierkarte abgeglichen werden, auf der der Fahrradweg verzeichnet ist. Wenn ich mit der Mutter unterwegs bin, greift sie häufig auf ein Verfahren zurück, das in der Frühzeit des Autofahrens vermutlich auch wichtig war, das Befragen von Einheimischen am Wegrand.

Ich muss auch hier wieder dazusagen, dass mein Orientierungssinn nicht schlecht ist, damit niemand denkt, ich sei einfach nur besonders desorientiert. In diesem Beitrag von 2005 bin ich noch verwirrt, aber danach habe ich viel über das Thema nachgedacht und dank Smartphone auch schon bald ein Leben geführt, in dem ich meine Orientierung ständig an der Realität überprüfen kann und das auch tue. Meine Orientierung ist nicht so gut wie die der vier oder fünf extrem orientierungsbegabten Menschen, die ich kenne, aber besser als die der meisten anderen, mit denen ich unterwegs bin. Es liegt nicht an mir, dass die Fahrradnavigation 2021 schwierig ist. Es liegt daran, dass Fahrradfahren immer noch sein seltsamer Ausnahmefall der Verkehrsteilnahme ist.

Eines Tages wird Fahrradfahren normaler werden und man wird dann einfach der Ausschilderung von A nach B folgen können*, selbst wenn A und B nicht zufällig auf dem einzigen touristisch vorgesehenen Fahrradrundweg der Gemeinde liegen. Oder man gibt A und B in die Navigations-App ein und bekommt einen Weg angezeigt, der weder die Hauptstraße (Google Maps) noch ein schlammiger Pfad mit Treppen- und Schotterabschnitten (OsmAnd in der Standardeinstellung) ist.

*  Jan Eckhoff und die_christine weisen bei Twitter darauf hin, dass es in manchen Regionen bereits so etwas Ähnliches gibt: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knotenpunktbezogene_Wegweisung.

(Kathrin Passig)

[thalankycaver]

Finally, some semblance of normality! After picking Anna up from Darlington station and driving to the Farm, a wonderful evening was had and a fine scrounged meal, with the decision being made to do a Lost John’s exchange the next day. The weather was cloudy, but not unpleasant as we changed on Leck fell, a party of five, with one first timer. We were exchanging through the Centipede and the Cathedral route, and myself and Anna were going to be descending the Centipede route. The streamway was nice and easy, and just before some cascades we clambered up into the roof tunnel, and Wassil set about rigging their first pitch. We scrambled past him, onwards towards ours. Anna rigged the first short drop, Hammer pitch. After this it was a nice walking passage, with some pretty formations, until we reached Mud pitch. Here the bolts confused me a bit since there was a set a lot higher up. But down we went, enjoying the spacious shaft. This led almost immediately to centipede, a very impressive 40ish metre drop. Singing as I rigged, it didn’t take me long to reach the bottom, where I waited for Anna to come down. From there, it was a pleasant walk along a rift passage, down some climbs. We soon reached the spot where the other three would join us, with no sign of them yet. We wandered on down till we found the next pitch, so we decided to wait back at the bottom. After five minutes of Anna putting my singing to shame with her own singing voice, we finally heard voices above. They didn’t respond to our wolf howling, much to our disappointment. After some more singing Wassil landed next to us, followed by Killian, who seemed to be loving his first trip. Rob wasn’t long after that and we headed downstream to the pitch. I rigged it and then got very confused by the rigging ahead. After some time we figured out that we just had to carry on with the rope, which led to us being a metre short (probably because of my conservative rigging). We managed to get around it, and soon we were at Battleaxe traverse. It was an imposing rift, so I was glad Rob offered to rig it. I wasn’t particularly sure how much I fancied it, and after some humming and hahhing, I followed the others along for a bit. We were stopped while Rob rigged Valhalla and descended it. The position I had stopped in was incredibly uncomfortable, which I loudly made clear to Anna, who instead of offering words of comfort, just took pictures of me instead. I decided to turn back and waited a few minutes at the start of the traverse. Anna and Killian soon came back along, and told me Wassil and Rob had descended Valhalla to look down the final pitch.

Killian was happy to be left alone for a while so Anna and I started heading back out, ascending up the first little pitch with ease. Then came the Dome pitch, which was out through an eyehole with one hell of a swing out. I managed to rope walk up very quickly, so derigging went slowly as I caught my breath. Cathedral pitch was fun as well, with a very swingy deviation for me to derig. The traverse at the top was fun as well, and soon we were up the second to last pitch, with Anna taking over on derigging, as my bag was full. At the bottom of the last pitch we heard the others above us. Damn, they’d beaten us! Up we went, and we were soon back at the streamway. Here Anna messed up by throwing her bag over a small boulder. It slipped through a hole into the stream below. She valiant crawled and squeezed her way through the steam to retrieve it, while I climbed over, listening to her anguish as she got soaked. We caught up with the others at the entrance, and headed back to the farm. A very pleasant trip, despite my not feeling too well and not enjoying Battleaxe.

At the farm Brendan soon arrived and we decided to go for a walk before dinner, since apparently caving wasn’t enough of an appetite builder. We walked over to County, and went in up to the first pitch to check if it was rigged. It was and so we headed back to the surface, to wander down the gill, stopping to watch Anna and Wassil go for a swim in Cow Dubs. At Link pot we headed up the hill towards lancs, and back to the hut for a nice meal.

The next day was the big one. A full traverse of Easegill, from Top sink to Pippikin. We said we’d leave early, but a few drinks the night before and a late bedtime meant we were setting off at about 11:30. Killian walked with us to the cave, but had a lot of work to do, so didn’t join us for the trip. So we were five, Rob, who had done it before, Brendan, Anna, Wassil, and myself. Top sink went quite quickly, reaching the first pitch in about five minutes. I descended second to last, enjoying the speed of my fig 8 descender. Rob came down and we barely had enough rope to pull through. From here Brendan led the way, through the tight passage, until we reached the next, much shorter pitch. Brendan rigged, and three ahead of me descended, and I immediately realised Brendan had rigged it wrong, not going off the y hang. Rob cursed him for putting rope rub on his nice rope, but soon we were crawling through the streamway and into the oxbows before Limerick junction. Anna “enjoyed” the traverses before the climb into Nagasaki, and we soon made our way through the big chamber towards Easter grotto. Here a small argument was had about ropes and falling on them, until Anna begrudgingly listened to us and climbed down sensibly. Another climb took us down into the Assembly hall and the streamway. From here, an easy stomp took us to Holbeck junction, and on to Stop pot. Up into the upper series we went, practically running through Main Line Terminus, and the big caverns, before stopping for a quick photography break in the Minarets. It was easy going past Oxbow corner, into we reached Stake pot, where we stopped for a quick break.

From here until Link pot was all unknown to me. We went the wrong way a few times before we ended up at Canuck climb, wondering how on Earth people had gotten the long lengths of ladder in here. From here we crawled from chamber to chamber, until Rob uttered the infamous words of “That was the routefinding crux of the trip”. We proceeded to get quite lost trying to find our way to the 88 foot pitch, crossing several sketchy traverses which Anna cursed us for having to go back over. Finally we managed to find our way there, and I was the last down the spectacular pitch down to the Wormway. This was the part I was least looking forward to, a long crawl in the streamway. To my pleasant surprise, a good chunk of it was just stooping, and after a short section of crawling we were at Echo Aven. It took a little while to ascend this, but soon we were making our way through to Hylton hallway. I led the way through Pybus bypass, and on to Link crawl. This was actually the most unpleasant part of the trip, pushing through the Wet Wallows, and through the gravely crawl towards the Muddy wallows. We regrouped at Dusty Junction, getting several chocolate bars down us as we got ready for the ascent out of Pip. The thought of heading out of Mistral crossed my mind, but I decided I wouldn’t be this close to finishing the traverse again for a while, so I decided to press on. The crawling and walking passage took us through to Hall of the Ten, and through the boulders to Pip. The first pitch was simple enough, but then came the rift traverse. Anna didn’t enjoy the fact that you had to wedge yourself in, but persevered heroically. The short climb up was also a challenge for her, and I was used as a ladder, including one point where she stood on my head to get some height in the tight rift. Then up another pitch took us to the first of the four squeezes, off the stemple. The others seemed to manage it with ease, so it was clearly my time to struggle. I wriggled and puffed, trying to get through the squeeze. Inch by inch I moved, until I finally gave up a bit and asked them to pull me through, Winnie the Pooh style. I popped out like a cork and lay there exhausted for a minute while the others ascended the pitch. Finally it was my turn, and at the top I crawled through to the next squeeze, thrutching my way through, with only a small pull from Wassil to get me through. At the bottom of the next pitch I waited till the pitch head was clear, since the next squeeze was immediately after it.

At this point I was almost giddy with happiness. I was so close, only about 20 metres to the surface! Once the squeeze was free I headed up, and into it, getting through with only minor difficulty. From here it was just one more squeeze and a crawl to the entrance pitch. Anna waited for me past the last squeeze, which I was thankful for, since due to exhaustion and my long legs, I struggled to get purchase in the squeeze, having to take several breathers before popping out the other side. From here we scrambled over the scaf bar, and whooped as we entered the final crawl. Anna went up the entrance pitch first, leaving me as the last out the cave. It’s one hell of a feeling to be back on the surface after nine hours underground, and we even still had daylight. Anna quoted Edmund Hillary, “We knocked the bastard off!” It was a long, arduous and thoroughly bruising trip, but also a satisfying and enjoyable one too! One I will definitely be doing it again, though definitely not soon.

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DBH Mirror Universe

The DPD

-          Cole Anderson survived thanks to an android surgeon keeping a cool    resolve and steady fingers when the human doctor was high on Red Ice.

-          Hank therefore holds androids in high regard and specifically requested Cornelia from Cyberlife. His addiction is sugar.

-          Sumo is a tiny little St. Bernard cub.

-          Tina is an extrovert and cheerful person, one of the most popular detectives around. She appears instead of Gavin in “The Interrogation”, “Eden Club” and “Last Chance, Connor”.

-          Gavin isn’t interested in a career, he is still a little beat cop and appears instead of Tina in “Capitol Park”. He also enjoys hanging around with the android police auxiliaries and tries to befriend Cornelia when she arrives at the DPD.

-          Perkins is an over-emotional whiner.

-          Fowler is an old rival of Hank’s and tries to make that one’s life harder

Kara

-          Todd is rich, but still an ass. He divorced his wife when he didn’t deem her representative enough anymore for a man in his position.

-          Possibly still a drug dealer, only now on a much bigger scale.

-          Alice is bratty and foul-mouthed.

-          Kara is a state of the art RK200.

Kara’s path

-          Rose now experiments on androids on her farm.

-          Rose experiments are evil, aggressive and devoted to her.

-          Adam tries to talk sense into his mother, in the end turning her away from her path.

-          Luther is a deviant who serves Rose, because she promised to undo the change. He hates children.

-          Zlatko now is the one who helps androids across the border. He has a faithful android polar bear pet/guardian.

-          Jerrys are solitary, territorial and always grumpy. They chase Kara & Co at Pirate Cove, but are easily turned against each other. The exception is the single Jerry Kara rescues. With no other Jerrys around he turns out amiable and cheerful.

Manfred Household

-          Carl is unfair and cruel to Markus. He also isn’t a painter, but an art broker and investor, caring only about the money it brings.

-          Markus is an old model, maybe a CX100, and very limited in the beginning. He only acquires his hacking and routefinding capabilities after deliberately upgrading himself by consuming some more android parts at the landfill.

-          Leo is a thoughtful, gentle and gifted young man. He tries to retrieve a painting of his that Carl took. After Carl sends his android against Leo, Markus deviates and Leo helps him escape.

Jericho

-          The Jericho is now an old Cruise Ship.

-          Simon is a risk-taker and adrenaline junkie. He lives in the casino.

-          Josh is Jericho’s general, he advocates the violent solution and after “Spare Parts” wears a uniform. Unlike his loyal canon self, this Josh tries to undermine and replace Markus as the leader at every step. Also unlike canon North throwing herself into the fray, Josh’s approach is more tactical and calculated.

-          North is a make love not war hippie. Seducing someone is her way of saying “Hello”.

-          Lucy lives on the Jericho’s stage and is a glam queen.

Cyberlife

-          After losing the android patents Kamski lives in poverty with a single Chloe.

-          Connor is now a Cornelia. She likes cats. She develops a fear of tight, enclosed spaces.

-          Amanda is still alive, otherwise pretty much her canon self. The Amanda in the Zen Garden is simply the human’s avatar.

Others

-          Rupert lives in a basement. He runs a chicken grill.

-          The Phillips couple doesn’t want to replace Daniel. They want to send Emma away to a boarding school. The girl runs away, taking Daniel with her.

-          Daniel now thinks before acting. But he also considers androids expendable, because they aren’t built to last and will die quickly anyway.

-          Ortiz’ android has heard of, but doesn’t believe in RA9. He actively attacks Hank and Cornelia in the attic.

-          Ralph is a clear-thinking, rational character, also a bit of a philosopher. He runs a homeless shelter.