There was no flat surface to land the LairJet on in the strange new basin so Trickshot kept the craft in hover mode while Yo, CSFB!, the Shoggoth, and Hatman dropped down to examine the damage.

“It’s really smooth!” CrazySugarFreakBoy! observed, running his hand over the exposed strata of deep rock. “And slippery,” he added, catching Hatman as the capped crusader lost his footing and almost went on the slide ride of his life.

“There is definitely a dimensional component to whatever has been done here,” the Manga Shoggoth rumbled. “The coterminous dimensions are extremely agitated.”

“I’d be agitated if someone had just scooped out a whole nation and swallowed it up,” CSFB! pointed out.

Yo used his/her rapier to carve a sample of rock from the side of the basin and pocketed it for later analysis. Yo thought s/he might be able to do something in the portable lab on the LairJet, but if not at least it would keep Al B. happy for a while. “There is not much else we can be doing here,” the pure thought being pointed out. “Is to be we must either be heading back with what we have found or else head down into the mistings at the bottom of the crater.”

• Head back to report what they’ve found
• Check out the deepest part of the crater, where the mists seethe