#lari

inside you there are two moomins

(just Larry without his body..)

Outer Wilds Geological Survey Founder: Lari, drawn by @merrydock

Heyo! Lari here to give you all a little background about me and my interests.

When I was a hatchling, I really enjoyed making maps. I'd make maps of the village, mostly little scavenger maps for my friends to solve. When I got older, and had a harder time figuring out what I wanted to do, Gossan gave me a few old geological maps of the crater and showed me how to interpret the legends. I noticed just how wrong we were about so much by comparing them to what I learned exploring as a hatchling, and I began mapping out the craters myself to create more accurate references for our miners.

That was where it all started: a few old maps. Before long, I was starting to notice all the little things around me. What the rocks in the Village Crater had in common with the ones in the Nomai Ruins Crater, or Youngbark, or the one on the South Pole. What was different. I started bringing notes and photographs, sometimes even samples, back to the village to ask the miners what they meant. I started reading up on what certain minerals could tell me about the formation of these rocks, what their shapes could say about their history. And that's when I really started to get into geology.

On Timber Hearth, I got really interested in the geysers and how they formed. But, turns out, studying such dangerous landforms up close and personal is harder than it seems! Mohs and I paired up to tackle the daunting task, and the Outer Wilds Geological Survey formed from our continued partnership.

By the time our explorations of Timber Hearth were beginning to wrap up, I was craving my next adventure. That was when I decided to join Outer Wilds Ventures as an astronaut and geologist. I'd already worked on samples and photographs brought back from space by the other Travellers, but I wanted to get out there and make my own observations. All the planets have something unique to offer, but it's hard to stay away from the excitement Brittle Hollow brings, especially when I'm chasing down one of Hollow's Lantern's volcanic bombs to get a sample. It'd be much easier if I could get ground control to just let me land on one of those volcanoes, but I haven't quite managed to convince them. Yet.