Friday, July 20, 2007
Adventure seed: missing person; woods/fungi
Adventure location: Bosnia
Investigators: Taj (from India), Calibor (British)
Bosnia made American news as the site of the tragic and vicious "ethnic cleansing". It is also home to some of the most pristine forests in Europe. A folk saying says, "To know Bosnia, know the forest..."
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Searching for Bosnian subjects pertaining to fungi, I came across the following:
Illegal loggers- Kiseljak-
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jan2005/2005-01-03-01.asp
Company called "Mushroom"- Celinak-
http://www.usaid.gov/stories/bh/cs_ba_mushroom.html
"Project Independence" helps women of Bosnia, victims of the
horrors of the "ethnic cleansing", and other strife. "“Now my
husband and I grow mushrooms in our basement. There are many
people in Konjic who do this as well, but I do not give up. I
look for new buyers and I sell mushrooms in the open market and
in stores."
http://www.womenforwomen.org/ProjectIndependence/BZprof.html
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The missing man is Zulfo Omeragic. He is in his 30's, something of a hermit, and he makes his living as a woodcutter.
(We often do web searches to find resources for naming NPCs more appropriately.)
http://www.gaminggeeks.org/Resources/KateMonk/Europe-Eastern/Former-Yugoslavia/Bosnia/Names.htm
(1-10: Urban vs. Natural? 1- a park in a town; 10- the wilds. 3)
The location is woods outside a small village.
(1-10: How detailed is our info? 7)
The investigation includes good photos of the area.
(1-10: How large are the fungi? 1- tiny yet somehow noticeable 10- a contiguous fungi occupying miles. 3)
They're are hand-sized mushrooms, of some previously unidentified species.
(Calibor: "Are they arranged in a ring...?" Likely.)
Yes: the mushrooms are growing in a large ring.
(1-10: How big a ring? 10)
The mushrooms form a ring so large the formation wasn't apparent to someone standing near it!
