[I put both tags because I got nervous. ; m;]
He probably should have done this final check before he trekked his way all the way up to Basantha Shrine, but here he was, digging through his bag to make sure he had everything. Basil was normally meticulous, but he had jumped so quickly at the chance to be both explorer and teacher that it was highly likely he had forgotten something important.
"Let's see," he muttered as he took a seat, trying to run through everything before the people he was supposed to be meeting showed up. Had it been a good idea to meet up here, or should he had waited for them at the bottom of the mountain and made the journey up with them? Too late. "Empty notebook, spare pages, rubbing charcoal... Copies of A History of Shrines, Anthology of the Trimunitive, Astrological Phenomena, and Evelonian Myths and Legends volumes two and three..." He pushed at the edge of his glasses and stacked things in neat piles around him. Pens, pencils, chalk, two changes of clothes, a map of the temple and surrounding area, and a smattering of measuring tools joined the books and papers on the floor.
That seemed like everything... Hopefully if he really had missed something, one of the students who would be joining him would have remembered it.