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Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Cause and Eventuality

Journal excerpt from The Legend of Saramago and the Sixth Mage Guild:
Reassessing, we decide to solve the 'goblin' problem before we move on and discover more of these ancient sites. Since when we leave the goblins will come anyway. More walking. We find the goblins and I try and talk to them to see if they will buy the dream but no one listens. A big ugly hobgoblin comes out  I try to talk to him, he sniffs and leaves...have both of my Scorching Rays in your back! All the way to the encampment and its a large red dragon running them. I try to talk to him and would have given him the site for his lair and given him a share of the treasure we find in our careers, but he also didn't want to talk or want any 'help', and after some Ray's of Enfeeblement, and arrows and failed blindness spells, he slowly flew away before we could kill him or subdue him. He burned the ornithopters and any other written evidence.  I guess at least we can head to the next site, but of one thing I am sure. We haven't seen the last of Red.

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Its Full of Stars!!!!

Mi-Go training complete, our party departs for Earth and their first mission. Retrieve the missing Mi-Go agent at the Windthrope Institute for Dream Research in Colorado.
Having two options to gain entrance:
  1. Pose as a Nora Popes cousin, who recently suffered a major psychotic break and is currently at a Denver Hospital from something that happened
  2. Pose a volunteer for dream research.
  3. Or the popular 3rd option of sneaking in and pointing guns.
Retrieving Nora's personal effects and then promptly told to leave, they return to Denver to see Nora 'tim' uses his mind probe ability and sees a lake  where the stars move and form a colossal being made of stars that looks like Cthulhu! Then Nora Pope must have gone insane
So going with option 3, the party gained entry to the Dreamweb building and noticed that 5 patients were sleeping in pods with a multitude of wires tracing all around the room and out to banks and banks of mainframes, video rendering farms, and storage. Pulling a gun and walking  in to point it at the doctor and the staff present. We find a Dr. Carl Weemes doing his job of watching the subjects and the equipment. When asked about Nora and her fate, he exclaimed that he remembered being near to her when whatever happened but he awoke in the woods with an hour of his life missing. 'tim' correctly wonders if his mind had been clouded and attempts to un-cloud it and does. Finding out that Dr. Dandridge lead him to the woods and clouded his mind also  he remembers seeing Nora while out on his nightly walk around the lake and remembers also Nora coming to him about the chef who attempted to rape her.
The party goes immediately to Dandridge and accuses him and instantly he begins casting spells but 'levi' saves against them. Shooting, spells fail, shooting, 'tim' shoots black ray out that instantly turns him to a dessicated husk. The other guests and employees come out and the party questions the chef who seems aloof but respectful and has no information.

--till next time

Tuesday, November 09, 2010

Into the Great Wild Yuggoth (Pluto)

The last few months feel like a blur to all of you. Things have been very busy and your brain, your sanity, and soul have been rewritten. The prisoner's brains at Guantanamo were extracted and put into jars and 'levi' and 'aj' were then transported to Yuggoth as well.
Many truths of horrific nature are revealed to you including that the infamous 'grays' work for the Mi-Go
Listen up you stinking maggots, it seems you just don't get it.
Well I've been appointed to inform you, your days are numbered.
You would cry, you would scream
If you knew half the things I see.
Please, please just do as I say,
Repent and leave your evil ways.
Meanwhile....planes drop from the sky,
People disappear and bullets fly.
Little grey men are coming our way,
(Tastes just like chicken, they say.)
Actually they're all around.
Secret bunkers underground.
Round 'em up, skin 'em alive,
Rolling, rolling, rolling, rawhide.
'tim' being actually there is away most of the time doing tasks and all of you are learning about the horrors that await just outside of reality. Life in a brainjar isn't very fun, phantom leg syndrome sucks, hook you up to electrodes and break your sanity, then rebuild it.

Finally, all of you are ready for your first mission as Mi-Go Rescue Agents. You can go where the Mi-Go have a difficult time with their disguises and find lost Mi-Go trapped in Earth's timeline.
The soulless bodies in Guantanamo are released to a mental facility and after a month or so they are shunted to the catatonic ward, where you easily escape and all of you can return home.
Where 'levi' has a letter waiting for him (tonight) and orders are telepathed into your brain that 'levi' is Nora Pope's cousin and they are to investigate the Dreamweb Institute for Dream Research in Clauson, CO and in the process find the missing agent.

Wednesday, November 03, 2010

...and now ... the rest of the story.

A crack forms in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula 

By Dan La Ponsie, 8 October, 2010, 7 Comments

200 yards long, 5 feet deep in parts.


UPDATES at bottom of the post. (Last updated: Oct 12.)
A large crack can evoke something ominous and unsettling. They are like the door at the end of the hallway that is only partially open — nagging at you to find out where it came from and what lies just beyond the opening. There is something alien about the sudden arrival of a crack.
These are the very sorts of feelings gripping residents of a small town in Michigan’s upper peninsula. A crack has arrived, accompanied by tremors, in Menominee Township — right at the southern part of the base of Michigan’s upper peninsula. View Map
The crack isn’t noticeably growing bigger — and it has a long way to go if it’s going to turn the peninsula into an island. So rather than being afraid, local residents are simply scratching their heads and wondering where it came from. A team of researchers are expected to investigate soon.
Fortunately, the crack didn’t swallow up anyone’s home. It runs through a woodland. No one was reported injured.
An article at Upper Michigan Source has comments from residents who reported the tremor that announced the arrival of the mysterious crack:
It all started early Monday morning between 8 & 9 a.m. Central time, when Eileen and her neighbors heard a loud boom, and that’s when Eileen felt her house start to shake.
“I heard something, but I was concentrating more on the chair moving than I was listening,” Eileen explained. “It was just moving back and forth, like I had a vibrating chair, which I don’t have.”
Later on, Eileen told her friend, Doug Salewsky, what happened. On Tuesday, he stumbled upon the crevice a short distance away in the woods and later called the state police.
But what caused this unusual event? An earthquake? A sink hole? Authorities say, at the moment, no one seems to know.
“It’s a pretty remarkable sight really,” said MSP Trooper, Paul Anderson. “Everyone will speculate I’m sure. There are probably a hundred different opinions out there as to what caused this, but at this time, we don’t know what caused this.”
The U.S. Geological Survey along with Michigan Tech professors have been called to help “crack” the case. Until then, it remains a mystery.
A local FOX News, from WLUK, article reports that the crack has become something of a local tourist attraction. It also mentions that, while local residents felt tremors, there were no reported earthquakes.
Nestled just beyond the tree line of Eileen Heider’s 53 acres, is Menominee County’s newest tourist attraction. “It’s amazing, I want to get back there and check the rest of it out,” said Kevin Clermont of Wallace, Michigan, who stopped on his way home from work to sightsee.
Heider and neighbors heard an explosion-like sound Monday morning. Heider found the nearly 200-yard-long crevice, which measures five-feet deep in parts, Tuesday. “I was sitting in my recliner and the recliner started to vibrate,” said Heider. “And it’s not electric.”
Trooper Paul Anderson with Michigan State Police was the first to check it out. He said he ruled out a gas line leak, but could not determine much more. “This would be a first,” he said. “You don’t learn that at the academy.”
Anderson said he called some geological experts. So far none have come to look at the crevice.
There have not been any reported earthquakes in the area.
According to an article at WWLP, the crack is ”up two feet wide and five feet deep” in some parts.
A large unexplained crack now runs 200 yards through the Salewsky family’s property, eight miles north of Menominee in Birch Creek.
The family thinks it happened Monday around 9:00 in the morning. The ground raised five feet up, taking trees along for the ride. Some cracks were
“The house shook, the chairs shook,” Doug Salewsky said. “The logs weren’t there when I piled them.”

UPDATE — Oct 12:
There’s an article at mtu.edu titled “Menominee County Shakeup was an Earthquake, says Tech Researcher.” This is only a portion of the article, the entirety of which is available online.
That shaking and loud noise experienced recently in Menominee County of Upper Michigan was indeed an earthquake, albeit a small one, according to a Michigan Tech researcher.
“The large crack and ridge were created most probably by a magnitude 1 or 2 earthquake,” said Wayne Pennington, chair of geological and mining engineering and sciences, of the events that took place Monday, October 4.
The ridge and crack are 361 feet long, and the ridge is 4 to 5 feet high and 20 to 30 feet wide at its largest point, Pennington said after visiting the site. The crack is 2 feet wide and 4 to 5 feet deep at its largest point. Trees are tipped away from the crack at about 14 degrees on either side, showing that the surface is now tipping, having formed the ridge.
That ridge, according to Pennington, is the most informative feature, not the crack. Residents report that this ridge was not there earlier, and it appeared at the same time as the crack.
“The most-likely explanation is that the underlying limestone has faulted in a manner that has pushed rock on one side of the fault up and over the rock on the other side—a ‘reverse’ or ‘thrust’ fault,” said Pennington. “The limestone is hard and brittle, and this movement can be described as the small earthquake that was felt.
Overlying the limestone is about 20 feet of soft clay, he said. This clay will deform in a “mushy” manner, rather than breaking along a fault. It ends up being pushed together, and this is what formed the ridge.

Stranger In A Strange Land Part 2

Waking up amongst either the dead, dying, or the dessicated, two men come together in a room full of bodies suspended from the ceiling. Realizing that they can communicated via Telepathy is an interesting few minutes.Moving very slowly, due to the muscles atrophied from months of non-use, they explore and find 3 more rooms full of bodies and a locker room. Entering the locker room, they find a changes of clothes and a gun and a nightstick. Hearing someone approaching they notice a female completely bedraggled, filthy and brandishing a club of her own. With a wild  and hungry look in her eye, she charges at half speed. Attacking and hitting she wounds "Tim" and "Levi" shoots in the air with his gun. A male appears and the female both stop and proclaim that they can 'help' Some talking about what they have been eating since it appears that 6-9 months have elapsed since they were captured. More exploring, split up with the new people who also say a bomb was exploded high up on the elevator shaft and it is blocked. Levi spots a medium sized winged, tentacled dark skin creature bent over a suspended human in one of the coma rooms. He shoots and hits it, and it retreats. Tim is off with the guy and girl who go off on their own a few minutes later there are screams and can't find them. They find the elevator shaft that extends up and down into darkness.
They find two large surgery sections with airlocks passing to two completely separate surgery sections that are in accessible due to the two large security doors. "Levi" being ex-military demolitions  finds materials to make a shaped charge and plants the hinge on one of the doors while 'Tim' explores about getting the power on in the Maintainence section downstairs. He finds the server level full of mainframes and data storage, and next level down he finds a dead and bloated guard and a locked steel door leading to Maintenance.  He searches for the keys and doesn't find them. In his head he hears that 'he swallowed them'. Put off by the thought, 'Tim' turns to leave, when suddenly he finds himself on his knees elbow deep in the guards stinking chest cavity with keys in hand. Promptly making a check of his own sanity, he heads back to 'levi'.
The detonate the charge and gain entry into a security checkpoint with thick glass another locked door, and on the floor behind the glass, is a pentagram. Not finding entry to the other side they instead head to Maintenance and find generators, not running, water and sewage reclamation, a large humanoid with half a alien species from the top of his head down his back complete with vestigial wings and small tail. Barely able to communicate he explains that  he shut off the generators prematurely so they still have some fuel and they find that the creatures are the Mi-Go, a extra-dimensional group of aliens with unknown everything. Finding a exhaust vent and fire oxygen gear there is a dumb waiter cleaning pulley system in the vent that leads to the surface. Riding up to the top they find themselves in the woods. Coming to Menominee Township and a gas station the attendant immediately calls the police. Taken in and questioned, sampled told not to leave the state they are released. As they are leaving there are miltary vehicles showing up on the roads.
'tim' calls a few of his cultist friends for some money so he can go back and get video and information on the project. 'levi' just wants to go back to normal but is called to action again.

Grabbing some weapons,  gear and GPS, they head back down from Iron Mountain to a old logging road 'tim' remembers that is on the NW side of where they came out. Crossing the terrain, they come to the hatch realize the generators are off but there is also air passing through as well.
Riding back down they find the lights on, computers, etc. Talking with 'Quatto', who is somehow still alive tells them nothing really new but the lights and the occasional drilling sound from somewhere.
They go off and explore again to get video footage of the entire thing. Coming into a coma room, they find  another male waking up. They tell him whats happened and get him a change of clothes and shower. He'aj' explains hes a movie star ie Viggo on the run from some kind of debt. They find pentagrams at both security doors with strange white powder over the lines. Smudging it with his foot 'levi' activates the gate and a puddle of dark liquid  appears and 3 very small flying 'bugs' charge out. Shooting 'levi' manages to kill one, much whacking and damage that stuns. The remaining insect flies off. Using the Maintenance key they gain entry to the other side and find grisly work on Mi-Go, large cylinders of fluid with Mi-Go floating dead, lots of Mi-Go in a room similar to the coma room,  research room/testing room full of beakers and computers and sequencing equipment. Two surgery rooms with a few dead humans. They find that the computers are in the process of a full core dump to the surface, presumably by the military and they set out to cut off the information so that no one can have access to it. Heading down to the computer level, they find a Mi-Go busy on a terminal. 'levi' approaches speaking telepathically he finds out the Mi-Go is stopping the transfer and setting the self destruction 10 megaton device.
The Mi-Go asks if they want to come with him, and only 'tim' agrees. Heading to a larger pentagram, activating it, 'tim' gives 'levi' all his data and video camera etc and tells him to 'catch this' as he and the Mi-Go vanish across the horizon.

'aj' and 'levi' make their way back to the exhaust vent and help 'quatto' up and they ascend tot he top of the vent only to find a detachment of military who immediately confiscate everything and kill 'quatto'  take 'levi'  and 'aj' into custody and send them to Guantanamo for treatment.
The soldier that took the video had a greedy streak and they got posted on youtube within a month. Currently, one of the highest rated conspiracy videos.

Meanwhile, on Yuggoth 'tim' finds out what it means to learn new things.