Stone Men In Water Street

[Brian]

This is unfortunately not possible, as the uplink (and the laptop that used it) were both left behind in New Delphi.

[Rezantis]

Rez drops face down on the other bed.

"No. We sorta left it behind. And I can't be bothered looking for a . . . a . . . computer . . . email . . . place . . . thingy."

Rez trails off.

"Screw this. Sleep. Night. Bleagh."

And unless something really really important crops up, Rez does not move for many, many hours.

[Bjorn]

Bjorn rolls his eyes in irritation, but does not complain.  Instead, he takes a quick shower (airplanes always make him feel a little greasy), and then leaves the hotel to explore the area -- taking the cellphone, and leaving a note for Rez.

[Brian]

It's before sunrise, only about 6:30 AM when you head out.  But it's good to get some fresh air after the plane, and the hotel's AC/heating system.

In the dim morning night you can make out the monolithic mass of the rock towering above the city south and to the east.  You have to stop and stare at it, blotting out the stars overhead with its size for a moment.

That's one big rock.

[Bjorn]

Bjorn stares at the rock for a while, then, shrugging to himself, starts to wander in that direction.

As he goes, he tries to make note of the area -- specifically searching for a net cafe or the like.  But, mostly, he walks towards the Rock, and studies that.

[Brian]

It's huge.  Gargantuan, even.

As the sun rises (and it does while you're walking towards it) it becomes clearer.  The northern face is just that -- a cliff face.  Not quite sheer, but very close to it.  Fallen rock forms a pile at the base of the cliff visible from across the town.

As the light increases, the massive shadow of the western flank turns into a thickly forested slope, with more fallen scree below.  Beyond the southern edge of the mountain is only the sea, and a thin screen of fog, dissapating with the sunrise.

It's very serene.

[Bjorn]

Bjorn wanders around Gibraltar, taking in sights for a couple hours, and then he returns to the hotel to kick Nathan awake.

[Rezantis]

It takes quite some effort to wake up Rez.  Quite, quite some effort.

But he DOES wake up.

Eventually.

After a shower, etc, he's even semi-coherent.

"So . . . didn't you owe us cookies, or something?"

[Bjorn]

"I owe myself some cookies," Bjorn corrects.  "I'm a priest.  You're just the Guardian.  Different story.  Now, let's go find us some email."

[Rezantis]

"Yeah, but we had a deeeaaaallll!"

Rez digs through the room for a phone book - and if he finds one, looks through it for a 'net cafe or the like.

[Brian]

It's currently around noon.  Neither of you have eaten in a while.  Gibraltar hosts not one, not two, but THREE internet cafes.

One of them even advertises games in addition to internet access.

[Rezantis]

"Right," Rez scrounges for some paper and a pencil, then writes down the addresses, "Email, then food, sound good?"

[Bjorn]

"As long as it's email, and not another pathetic attempt to try and prove yourself a UT god or something," Bjorn grumbles.

[Rezantis]

"Hey. I'm better than you!"

[Brian]

After a while, you reach the internet cafe that Rez chose.  It also happens to be the one with games.  Rez assures you that this is a coincidence, and it happened to just be really close.

It's conveniently located, up on the second story of a building with a wall almost entirely made out of glass showing a view of the rock.  It probably actually sucks in terms of lighting just after sunrise, but right now, as it gets towards late afternoon, the view of the rock is pretty awesome.

The sun begins to set while Rez gets around to e-mailing Relm.