Spelunky!

Dorito's disappointment managed to coax a little chuckle out of Orion. Not the usual amused and friendly chuckle, though. It was quieter and mischievous, and perhaps even a little devious. It was easily missed in the ensuring exchange though. The two sisters did a nice job of keeping each other busy while Orion was fiddling with his glove. The image file had been uploaded to the ship, but he could not help but do a little looking at it himself for a moment, trying to get a few quick observations about their head structure.

He was the last to jump on the... whatever it was that they had found nearby. Lacking the outward excitement of finding what seemed like a goblin artifact, as his normal ways was to be skeptical until the actual evidence had come forth, Orion still showed energy and anticipation at the prospect.

"Man. We must have been really distracted not to notice this before! So what could it be?"

His glove lacked any kind of digging equipment or app, but it was a metal glove so it was easy enough just to scoop with wanton abandon with it.

"You guys are the experts here. What stuff do goblins make that this could be? And wow that was a weird sentence. This is so exciting!"

The moment Orion saw the handle on whatever the artifact was, he felt his heart began to race. What the three of them were digging up was the real, magical deal! He could not tell what it was immediately though. Between all their hands going at it and Chee's hard light construct, there was a lot going on around it. What he could see was fascinating in its own right already, and all the possibilities were already buzzing about his head. He quickly narrowed his predictions to hand held tools or objects, based solely on the handle as it was exposed. When it was finally uncovered, and even sooner than that since Chee began describing it, Orion let out an excited yell.

"Oh, hell yeah!"

As the axe popped out of the ground, Orion had a difficult time keeping his mind on any one thing. His eyes wanted to wander over the craftsmanship of the axe, attempting to memorize every minute detail. And there were certainly a lot of details to remember. But his ears wanted to listen to everything the sisters had to say, and what they were saying was the exact kind of magical properties he wanted to study. Not so much what it did, but that it had something interesting and esoteric to try and unravel.

"Trailbreaker, huh? And-And I suppose these runes cause this hiding in plain sight property it has? So it has an active... listening effect. Triggered by, maybe, a mental pattern that signals 'goblin' and activates it and..."

Orion was back to typing madly on his wrist computer as his voice trailed off into scientific hypothesizing. When offered the axe, however, he immediately stopped and tentatively, carefully took hold of it. He held it gently, cradling it in his hands like a fossil. His fingers traced lightly over the runes.

"Such craftsmanship. To think... Just the inscription of a certain language in a certain way imbues an object with unnatural properties... The silver is probably a conduit or conductor of sorts and--

Oh, listen to me ramble! This is so cool, you two!

His face scrunched up for a second, then he looked at the two of them, a little pleadingly.

"If you don't mind, I'd REALLY like to take this for study. Like a lot. I'll give it back and I won't take too many samples. But I just HAVE to know how this works!"

Orion nodded vigorously along with Dori's words.

"Yesyesyesyes. I'll be a good archaeologist and study the Trailbreaker with the utmost care! []iPlus[/i], chances are any observations I conduct won't give me the full story on its magical properties."

He took the Trailbreaker, carefully, in his hand. For him, it was much easier to hold and carry than for the two sisters. He could carry it easily in one hand, but chose to keep both hands on it out of safety.

"If this is like any other piece of magic I've heard of, the composition and build of this is only half the story. I'll need to consult experts to learn about the spells put on this thing, and how they work."

Dori's words elicited more nods from Orion, though he kept looking at the Trailbreaker with wide eyes of curiosity.

"Very good idea. My Ship has better tools than I have on me, and you two could be my experts."

With his excited smile and bright eyes, it seemed like Dori's innuendos had completely passed by Orion. The suggestion to go to his place had gotten through, obviously, but he was more concerned with the prize find in his hands. His head was abuzz with hypothesizes, possible tests, experiments, and ways he could try and replicated the effects without magic. He NEEDED to know how the Trailbreaker did what it did, and he wanted to know as soon as possible.

"Come. I'll lead out back. This is going to be so cool!"

Trailbreaker in hand, Orion set off back toward the exit and his Ship.