Oliver: -to Dustin- Yeah, but you just randomly brought up that your sword wasn't your only weapon beforehand. Without a reason.
-Elena, in the meanwhile, additionally disembarks the jeep. She takes a moment to inspect the lasguns, but also attempts to see if there are any tracks-
"Seven is here too, dressed like the concept of choosing clothes that look nice together was an arcane secret far beyond their grasp."Scipio
-The space marine looks at the furry kid start trying to hack into the plants and immediately starts trying to bellow a warning-
Einar: "Wait! no!"
-The Second Dustin starts trying to hack into the foliage, the foliage starts trying to hack into him as two of the trees sprout metallic blades from multiple branches and starts swinging at him as the grass itself tries to coil around his legs to restrict his movements-
-unfortunately this kinda distracts from the whole 'finding clues thing' though it's easy to tell the lasguns have been sitting around for at least 5 days if not a solid week-
Scipio
Oliver: That isn't the p-
-Watches Dustin get himself trapped-
-Notices the lasguns-
-Dives off of the jeep, and moves to grab a lasgun and start trying to burn the plants off of him-
-Elena, in the meanwhile, steps back, wishing she had a light bowgun about now-
"Seven is here too, dressed like the concept of choosing clothes that look nice together was an arcane secret far beyond their grasp."Hey Rocket, if you haven't already, mind checking out the discussion
? Thanks!
Scipio
Einar: "I'd prefer we didn't start burning down my home, but honestly a herbicide would work best...if we had one. Also just give it a moment and they'll calm down, they're agitated because someone started hacking away at them."
-After a few moments the hostile foliage begins to calm down, the grass returns to being normal grass and the trees return to being ominous looking trees, but immobile and not trying to slice and dice anyone. For the moment things are calm again.-
Rupert: "whelp that was a jolly good show, so did anyone find any clues? I can't figure out which direction the team would have gone in."
Scipio
-Oliver lowers the lasgun, satisfied that everything is alright again for the moment-
Elana: I'm trying, but somebody... uh... pissed off the trees, apparently.
-The Hunter resumes her search for any tracks-
"Seven is here too, dressed like the concept of choosing clothes that look nice together was an arcane secret far beyond their grasp."Ironscales: If they kept movin' for five days, that is. -sniffs around, trying to pick up any unusual scents-
I mean, they were there five days ago, for sure, but the fact they dropped their weapons right here ain't really givin' me good vibes.
Say, Einar, how do these plants work already? -looks up on a hunch, half expecting to see the dead soldiers hanging from the branches-
Asagi: If I can take a crack at it...
-She screws her eyes tightly behind her helmet and temporarily adopts a very flat tone-
Context and hostile behavior suggest...planetary flora has profoundly evolved sense of perception. Particularly strong sense of thigmonasty in trees and grasses suggest aggressive herbivore consumption, trees adopting sharper prickles and thorns that shaped into a blade like structure to cut through thicker dermal layers, grasses have tendril vines which moved from simple structures for detection to a form of entrapment to catch smaller herbivores but respond to any type of aggressive stimuli when trodden on by medium to large sized creatures.
-She shakes her head, looking like she has a headache-
Asagi: ...Basically, this shit's evil and I wish I packed a weed killer coming here.
We Are Our Avatars Forever (Now on Discord by invitation, PM)Einar - Scipio
Einar: Effectively, everything on Scipio is constantly in an arms race to eat everything else while not being eaten. Thus everything has some method of defense against threats and is likely to be carnivorous, but at the same time the best rule of thumb is to just not wildly hack away at nature, or else nature will start wildly hacking away at you.
-Ironscales does manage to pick up a scent, that smells very ratty in a northern direction.-
some of the villages use the foliage as protection against larger creatures, planting seeds of some of the more aggressive trees at key points. The good news is that people are so small that we actually aren't hunted as a food source by most animals or plant life, not enough nutrition to make up for the burned energy.

Scipio - Jungle cruise
-Eventually the jeeps come to a stop when they reach a part of the jungle so thick with foliage they can't drive their vehicles through it. In addition, somewhat helpfully they were some abandoned lasguns on the ground in the area, covered in dust and moss showing they had been laying there for quite a while-
Rupert: "Oh good, it looks like we're on the right track, Alfred get me my magnifying glass! I want to search for foot prints."
-Meanwhile the space marine took off his helmet briefly and started sniffing the air to get a sense of direction and if there was any detectable traces left of the people they were searching for or local wildlife inbound.-