Over the hills and through the woods

[Brian]

Liao can't add much more than to scratch his head in confusion.  He studies the stones, trying to see if their patterns look coincidental, or if they appear to be intentionally placed.

[Dracos]

Clearly intentionally placed as they circle about a center, almost artistic like.

These things were pretty big.  Probably took four or five men to haul them here, if not more.

The rocks were all made of granite as the light snow continued to fall about them.

Dracos

[Halbarad]

Phil stares for a moment.

"What the heck... Stonehenge? How'd we wind up here? That's all the way up in Winters!"

[Brian]

"My aim must have been off," Liao says, frowning.  "I guess it was the robots and the panic ... well, where do we go next?"

[Zenthor]

"Winters!?"  Jade looks at Liao.  "How did you mess up teleportation enough that we ended up all the way up here?"

Jade shivered for a moment.  This cold weather wasn't doing much for her temper.  "Is there a house or anything around here we can go to?  A cave?  It's too cold outside."

[Halbarad]

"Look around, I guess. I know there's a famous scientist that lives up this way - Andonuts, I think's his name. I read an article that said he had a lab near Stonehenge, but I have no idea where it'd be."

With that, Phil does just as he recommended, stepping out into the clearing where Stonehenge is and looking around for any signs of civilization - footprints, a road, a trail, a building...

[Dracos]

Checking around they found a pit in the middle of the rock enclave.  it was dark deep in it, but the light shone down, showing a rocking floor below.  Some kind of cave perhaps?  On the way there, he can spot a trail, running to the clear ground around stonehedge and leading off down towards where they'd come from but curving off.  He could see a few footsteps on it too.

In the back, He spotted a large cave, visible as he walked around stonehedge.

Liao could see that Phil seemed relatively unharmed walking in the strange cold dust.  Heck, he even left cool footprints in his wake!

Dracos

[Brian]

Liao follows Phil around, still not quite trusting this mysterious substance.  It seems to be sapping the feeling from his fingertips and toes....

[Halbarad]

"Well, there's some kind of cave down there, but I don't think the lab is underground. It'll probably be a little warmer in the cave out of the wind and snow, but I don't know how far it goes."

He looks to his two companions. "You want to go in, or keep looking for the actual lab?"

[Brian]

"If we can't find your friend, we could use the cave as an emergency shelter," Liao muses.  "Let's look around for a bit, and then if we can't find his place, stay in the cave until things warm up."

[Dracos]

Approaching the hole, they came to their first dilemma.  How to get down it.  Or rather, how Phil saw that they might want a way back up, since while it wasn't that deep, it also seemed to have pretty smooth walls, which would make getting back up difficult without a ladder or rope or something.

Dracos

[Halbarad]

Phil shakes his head. "Too hard to get back out if we go down. Let's try the trail over there, see where it goes."

So saying, he strikes out for the trail to add to the footprints already on it!

[Dracos]

Heading down the trail a ways...he saw a rather sizable laboratory.

At least he thinks it's a laboratory.

It kind of looks like one.  Either that or a government facility.  But that's not as cool.

Dracos

[Halbarad]

"Cool, I think we found it!" Phil grins. "Now, how do we get in?"

He makes a circuit around the lab, looking for an entrance.

[Dracos]

There's a lone pair of green doors, the paint seemingly unmarred by the elements, facing the path end.  Opening them, Phil is assaulted by nifty sights and sounds, tons of little gizmos all over the walls as a loud doorbell rang.

Dracos