Furthermore, why should we have to sue to you for access to property that belongs to every explorer? I don’t like the idea that “I can’t get in unless Iwork with you” any more than Ian did. I am an explorer, and the day I decided that, I knew there were certain risks involved, and it should be obvious I was at peace with them. Your “escort” smacks of “chaperone,” and at 61, I am certainly responible for myself.

Quote: “Just ask her not to let Kingsley know. He’s not a big fan of letting people who won’t do stuff for the group in. Slippery slope kind of thing. Let one in and everyone else wants in to. Suddenly you have five thousand people spray-painting “LOL” on tapestries. ;)”

THIS is positively insulting. Of course everyone wants to be there, and absolutely no one is going to deface a D’ni treasure. There may be some who try to make off with it, but destroy it, I seriously doubt it. Those who have come to the Cavern love D’ni culture. I, therefore, want the right of every explorer to go where he wants. I have ZERO interest in acquiring, restoring, translating, or otherwise messing about with the artefacts. They should be left alone anyway. I just cannot accept your (high-handed) appropriation of an area of the city and its contents.

Hope things go well.

Not joining your group is a matter of honesty. I could volunteer for restorations, visit the museum, and then never be available or never have time for any real work; that wouldn’t be fair of you, as you’d be wasting resources trying to contact me or finding substitutes for the work I’d be supposed to do.

I’ll try to get in touch with Ms. Cormac about that invite.

Odd that stability wasn’t mentioned. I’ll have to let the others know about that. We’re all a bit flustered by some recent internal events so we’re not as organized as we hoped to be.

I think there shouldn’t be a problem with giving you the link even if you don’t want to work on a project. Being able to help IS the price tag for joining the team as well as becoming a volunteer (otherwise there’s not much point in joining, is there?). But it isn’t required, at least to my knowledge, for you just to come by. We just don’t want that sort of thing getting out, otherwise poor Olivia would be swamped with every man woman and child here wanting to go there.

If you want to get an invite, the person your should talk to is Ava. As you can imagine, there’s a few issues outside of the cavern to deal with, if you catch my meaning.

Just ask her not to let Kingsley know. He’s not a big fan of letting people who won’t do stuff for the group in. Slippery slope kind of thing. Let one in and everyone else wants in to. Suddenly you have five thousand people spray-painting “LOL” on tapestries. ;)

The DRC thing is from their forums, where one of yours said you’d be ready to dispute in court the DRC’s claims on the Cavern if necessary; being your second or third post there as SR, it just felt to me like a bad opening.

As for the stability, that wasn’t mentioned as an issue until after I wrote this post. Personally, I accept more easily a ‘you can’t get in because it might fall on your head’ rather than a ‘you can’t get in unless you work with us’.

As I said to Ms. Cormac in a private conversation, I don’t currently have the time nor the desire to help another restoration group; my current Cavern groups and out of Cavern activities take up all of my time already. I just wanted access to that museum/building, even one time only, just to take some reportage photographs and documentation about the artworks. If the price tag is to restore a D’ni design for one of your projects then I’m very sorry, but I can’t do that right now and, even if I did, I would probably submit the finished work to the DRC.