Circe sat at her coffee table, using it as the name intended. Plus muffins. Not store muffins, Circe muffins thank you.


The bathrobe clad Fairest was utilizing the coffee table for another purpose. Trying to figure out how to address the flooded tunnels under Funderland.


Fencing them off would be so easy, but there was still a concern for other matters. What if there was an access to the river through them? What if there was a Hedgegate under the water? How would you explore to check it?


The last was a big issue given the hazards. Circe knew there weren't gators in California, but a nesting large size fish could hurt a diver. Worse if it knocked out their air supply. And the discovery of the shitty hazard meant that the tunnels could be filled with more then just water.


And these dry-suits used to address that were expensive.


So, the Groundskeeper sips her coffee as she explores the Internet. Trying to see what methods would-be modern explorers have used to map underwater tunnels. And the ridiculously rich person option of sonar mapping was right out.


So was hiring professional divers to do it or renting such sonar equipment. Secrecy was the point here!


But the Fairest eventually stumbles upon another option, albeit expensive one. A documentary about exploring the Titanic gives her an idea. A little cross searching and she has the results she needs. Those annoying buzzing drones in the sky? Combine those with the one used to explore the Titanic. And yes, they have swimming cousins. Expensive ones no less, the first she found was $5000. A little chasing around on Amazon allows the Larcenist to adjust the price meter to much lower then that.


She gets a result that is rather cheap and cutely named. Sipping her coffee, Circe smiles at the thought of how Sonja Wu would react to the name and probably attempt to follow through on said name. $500 though? Circe keeps reading then frowns as she sees why it is so cheap.


It operates from a buoy and tether line. The tether provides 49 feet of exploration only. Circe might be able to splice two similar lines for greater distance, but tech companies were getting better about making thinks proprietary and easy to break.


Still, it'd be a way to initially explore any flooded tunnel before anybody did something stupid to explore. Stupid or pricey drones would be step two if a wet tunnel was viable.


Not that she could afford it right now. Roshon still had to pay her back before it'd be in her budget.