Kelran returned to the cave Jason had spotted.
Flying high above the human visual range, he made several sweeping arcs around the square mile surrounding the cave.
The cave itself was virtually invisible, and opened onto a small plateau of rock, surrounded by a rock outcropping englufed in beautiful trees of several varities both alien and almost familiar.
The mountain was very steep on all sides near the outcropping, it would be very hard to climb to on foot.
Further down was a small two lane flat surface for vehicles to navigate by. It was apparently only sparsely used.
On the other side of this another quarter mile away was a peculiar and similar traveling way consisting of two metal alloy rails on cut wooden supports sunk in a crushed rock bed.
Closer to the mountain, in the direction of town was a large area consisting of a few well kept buldings, small paths, large areas of green turf cut very smooth intersperced with sandy areas and pools of water. Kelran puzzled over this for a few moments, but after observing some men radically propell small white ridged balls into flagged holes, he inferred that it was the course for some sort of game.
He made a note to avoid being to close to the area during the day.
Landing in the cave Kelran took stock of his provisions.
a Hyper-spanner welding tool, a non-conductive pair of claw coverings, (to prevent electrocution when dealing with 700 volts or more)
A vibro-incisor tool, a tortional multi-tool, and an EM-omni-current generator.
The medical kit contained some dermo-plast patches, 4 injections of anabolic protoplasmers, 500ccs of pain killer in various strengths, materials for a splint, and sanitizing fluid.
All in all very mediocre fare by Kelran's standards. Even by Yeerk standards in some cases, though Visser 1 himself likely couldnt have figured out the EM-OCG.
First Kelran decided he wanted some light incase he should wish to stay up after dark.
Gryphons can see much better than humans in the dark, though their visual abilites are reduced by the lack of light, and it would be more comfortable to simply have all the light desired.
Kelran had the tools necessary to make a lighting fixture, but he would need a mount for several and some sort of simple crystalline material.
He chipped at the rocks around the mountain until he unearthed a cloudy crystalline rock, which would suit his purposes just fine.
He later found out that this mineral was locally known as 'quartz'
With several dozen kilograms of it, he set out to the mroe difficult task of finding a metallic mount.
It was getting on towards evening, and the gaming course below the mountain was largely empty.
After scouring the area, Kelran decided the best material would be the struts from the roof of one of the small vehicles used to covey the players around. Some had a flimsy roof supported by metallic stanchions, and Kelran swiftly removed several of them, dropping the roof itself into one of the water features.
Returning to the cave, Kelran stripped the paint from the metal, galvanized and triaxilated it to make it suitable, then used the Hyper-Spanner to weld and cut and merge the pieces into four quarter-circle 'donught' sections.
Inside each section he mounted the crystals, which after subjection to several types of radiation from the EM-OCG were capable of producing a nearly exact replica of any mood color and type of light visible to normal eyes, though admittedly anything fancy would require a more complex control circuit, and Kelran hoped he wouldnt be here long enough to make one.
