[end of the first day of the jaunt] Tell me baby, how do I turn my back on you, tell me how to leave

[finalizes]

Can we leave the immediate area of where any of us showed up safely?

And does anyone know or knows how to find out which direction would be best to head into if one wants to find the closest free wolf packs?

[When they arrived he figured that he would just stick with his pack and sometimes return to Liminal and it would be good, but he's already fed up with all the noise and all the humans. Plus he could really use some off-time from all this human-mind business. Just running with a wolf pack for a few days or more sounds perfect.

He just needs to find one and hope that it all works out.]

Comments

[truerevelation]

The concert itself's on the edge of the forest, it's a state park... Dunno what the wildlife situation's like out there - the local rangers would be the folks who know if there's any packs in the area. But if ya wanna go stretch your legs or, I dunno, go ask the locals if they've smelt anything funny, seems like a good place to start?

[finalizes]

Humans can't smell that well.

[He knows how human bodies work. He has one. They are positively deaf when it comes to anything but sight.]

Where can I find those rangers?

[truerevelation]

I was thinkin' the fuzzy kind of locals, if you're going looking for packs in the area... as for the rangers? Probably gonna find all that kinda stuff around the park entrance. Information stations and exhibits and everything like that.

[finalizes]

Most animals with a good sense of smell don't have territories large enough to make their information something I couldn't find out for myself. [As for other senses, though... his voice reflects him thinking what animals he could look out for to acquire information from that spans larger areas. Some species of larger or wide-roaming bird, probably. Maybe certain species of prey mammals, if the humans here let them roam freely enough. Assuming any of those want to talk to him.] I'll look into it.

How do I find the park entrance?

[truerevelation]

Fair enough, yeah. [It was worth a thought anyway. As it is, Kanji doesn't really have the time to make his overlay deal with the after effects of his own animal forms...] Hope somethin' works out.

Follow the road between the camp 'n the local town? There oughta be signs along there somewhere...

[finalizes]

[...] What would such a sign look like?

[He's going to have to drag someone along to help him identify the right signs. Maybe Gale. Gale could need some getting out right now. Even if the tracking in question is just a question of finding the right sign and the right human.]

[truerevelation]

[To be honest, Kanji'd probably agree with that sentiment.]

Man. Uh. Good question... Signposts, arrows... [Casey might have been looking on his way to the concert venue, but as for park specific information signs, Kanji's wondering what would be relevant.]

[finalizes]

...Is there a specific kind of picture that would denote rangers?

[Because if it relies entirely on reading, he'll be completely useless and have to rely entirely on someone who can identify the right words for him.]

[truerevelation]

[Can't read, huh - well, he's not going to get onto someone across the network about it when he doesn't know their background.] Lemme think. Maybe a tent, or a tree, or ... I can't remember if there's a standard one. Sorry, dude.

[finalizes]

[And this is how Laughs ends up on five campsites and two tree-themed restaurants before actually finding rangers.]

I'll ask Gale if he wants to come.

[That's what packmates are for, after all. And if Gale refuses he'll bother... okay, not Hajime, but Lyall or Tick-Tock.]

[truerevelation]

[He's trying, at least?]

You guys friends? Yeah. Good thinking... [Kanji can totally get with the whole idea of 'distracting Gale'.]

[finalizes]

Packmates.

[His favourite packmate, even, though Lyall is a very close runner-up and generally just really not to be compared.]

[truerevelation]

[Kanji's looking at Casey's choice in jewellery, and fidgeting with the heaviest ring - the one most like a Junkyard Tag Ring. Of course. His reply's plenty friendly, though-]

Heh. He's a good guy to have in there.

[finalizes]

He is. I'm glad to have him.

And it's good for him too to have an additional group that he belongs to, too. [Especially now that the people-from-home group is kind of failing him. Pack might not mean the same for Gale that it does for Laughs, but he still thinks that it is important enough to him that it will make Lupa's absence easier, and well. The way their pack here works, there is a certain baseline emotional stability that comes with it, faint as it may be.]