Sounds like some fun times. My char is also a researcher and he also explores. He focuses mostly on older civilizations, primarily Nym and Beleda'da and a renewed intrest in Alg (for interesting reasons) but he tries to avoid the shroud. However, his dad is a botanist and lives in the shroud lol. Maybe we can hook up and see what happens. Actually, I will be doing sometime soon a server wide rp event that might interest him and we can meet then.
