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Rebonack
[Strange Forest]
Geneva gives a hum as she glances around. "Weird. Almost as if it only grabbed you and the landscape, but none of the other people. Didn't have any issue with gobbling up the trees, though. How odd..."
She heads over to the patch of melted snow an draws an odd device from her inventory, causing it to materialize in a wave of electric blue pixels. She extends a tripod from the bottom and sets the machine up, fiddling with it both directly and through her wrist computer. After a few minutes, a trio of saucer-sized drones disengage from the device, buzz straight up into the air, and begin to slowly spiral outward.
"Alright! Surveying outpost is ready. And now just one more touch-" she says as she withdraws a small sign affixed to a completely mundane galvanized steel spike. She hammers it into the dirt next to the automated surveying station.
Should Gary read it, he'll find it says:
"There! All done. My gear will collect the data I need, provided roving hooligans don't decide to kick everything over for the fun of it."