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TERMINUS: The Mystery of Mobius
Topic Started: Mar 14 2015, 03:13 PM (1,549 Views)
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With Mobius having been on the edge of space for long parts of its history, they really should have seen the meteors coming, at least weeks in advance. Instead, the shower had seemed to come from nowhere, abruptly appearing on a collision course with the planet.
Not that the sudden storm of space rock was dangerous; most of them were too small to have even the slightest chance of them hitting the ground. Still, the abrupt nature of the meteors was enough to start a storm of gossip and hearsay, just because of the sheer novelty factor.

In an inner-city café, a young black cat answered his cellphone as it rang. "Yeah, Cade. Hey, Julia. Yeah, that's freaky. Far as I've heard, they haven't-- what? No way. They did? Wow. Okay, I'll... I'll meet you after classes, then."
As Cade's call concluded, his attention would turn to the café's entrance as someone he knew entered. He would wave the newcomer over to his table and greet them.
Indeed, there is nothing more repulsive than these monsters that defy nature and are known by the name of witcher, as they are the offspring of foul sorcery and witchcraft. They are unscrupulous scoundrels without conscience and virtue, veritable creatures from hell capable only of taking lives. They have no place amongst decent and honest folk.
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"Hey, Vestra! Over here!" Cade offered, waving her over. Just because Vestra seemed inapproachable didn't mean she shouldn't be approached, or so Cade believed. In his peripheral vision, he recognized Vesper as well, but she seemed occupied in her writing at the time.
Indeed, there is nothing more repulsive than these monsters that defy nature and are known by the name of witcher, as they are the offspring of foul sorcery and witchcraft. They are unscrupulous scoundrels without conscience and virtue, veritable creatures from hell capable only of taking lives. They have no place amongst decent and honest folk.
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Cade nodded as Vestra sat across from him. "Oh, yeah, of course. Far as I can tell it's working. Real test's gonna be how long it keeps recording, but I'll keep you updated if anything changes," he assured her. "So, am I the only one who stayed up for last night's meteor shower?" he queried.
Indeed, there is nothing more repulsive than these monsters that defy nature and are known by the name of witcher, as they are the offspring of foul sorcery and witchcraft. They are unscrupulous scoundrels without conscience and virtue, veritable creatures from hell capable only of taking lives. They have no place amongst decent and honest folk.
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Cade nodded as the others chimed in. When he spoke, it was in a quieter voice, though. "Yeah. Cool as it was, my friend at the space center says it didn't follow the path of any of the known meteor groups. And according to her, they think that one actually changed trajectory midflight! If it's not a sensor glitch, it actually impacted not too far from here," he said.
Indeed, there is nothing more repulsive than these monsters that defy nature and are known by the name of witcher, as they are the offspring of foul sorcery and witchcraft. They are unscrupulous scoundrels without conscience and virtue, veritable creatures from hell capable only of taking lives. They have no place amongst decent and honest folk.
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"Yeah, Eve. That's basically what Julia told me about it. Vestra's inference is more-or-less on the mark. So Julia's asking one of my instructors to take a look at the data the space service has recorded, confirm their suspicions and so on. The space service and the militia probably intend to destroy it if it did impact. But they can't do it if they can't locate it. If we were on-hand in the lab and just happened to overhear..." Cade looked up at the newcomer. "At the very least we can get a good view when they blow it up."
Indeed, there is nothing more repulsive than these monsters that defy nature and are known by the name of witcher, as they are the offspring of foul sorcery and witchcraft. They are unscrupulous scoundrels without conscience and virtue, veritable creatures from hell capable only of taking lives. They have no place amongst decent and honest folk.
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Cade bowed his head, covering his face with his hands. "Guys... you're making this whole thing sound so... nefarious. It's something different and I want to be part of it." He looked up. "Far as I know, there's no conspiracy or anything. The shower could be the result of a freak convergence of Chaos energy. I'm just curious about what's going on, and I just want to help figure it out. Heh, it's not like I need to sneak into the lab to be there," he added with a smile.

Not for the first time, Vestra's speech patterns made Cade wonder if she were training herself for an eventual upload into a robot. He wouldn't put it past the fox to be building one for that purpose.
Indeed, there is nothing more repulsive than these monsters that defy nature and are known by the name of witcher, as they are the offspring of foul sorcery and witchcraft. They are unscrupulous scoundrels without conscience and virtue, veritable creatures from hell capable only of taking lives. They have no place amongst decent and honest folk.
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Cade stood up, with a hand on the table. "Oh, is that all, Eve? I'm pretty sure that trying to get involved won't be illegal. I mean, all told, they're not actively trying to hide this stuff. It's more, there's more pressing stuff to call people's attention to," the cat assured the others. "Like I said, they want to get one of my instructors involved, I think he'd appreciate a few volunteers to assist him with fieldwork," he suggested.
Indeed, there is nothing more repulsive than these monsters that defy nature and are known by the name of witcher, as they are the offspring of foul sorcery and witchcraft. They are unscrupulous scoundrels without conscience and virtue, veritable creatures from hell capable only of taking lives. They have no place amongst decent and honest folk.
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Cade looked at the stranger, introducing himself as Aaron, and a... what, a 'String Mage'?
"I'm Cade, pleaure to meet you. They should show up at the campus observatory about three, maybe three-thirty?" he told the others. "And with that, I should be off; class in forty-five." He took the bag from under his seat and started to leave the café, with a wave to the rest of the group.
Indeed, there is nothing more repulsive than these monsters that defy nature and are known by the name of witcher, as they are the offspring of foul sorcery and witchcraft. They are unscrupulous scoundrels without conscience and virtue, veritable creatures from hell capable only of taking lives. They have no place amongst decent and honest folk.
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Later that afternoon, Cade would be waiting for the others outside the university's observatory building. He'd checked in with the professor and with Julia already, so to his knowledge, everything was A-okay for a set of student volunteers to assist them with the meteorite.
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"Yeah, Eve, it's all straightened out, the professor's happy to have some extra help for this," Cade said, nodding to Eve and turning to the approaching Aaron. "Just about, we're waiting for the space guys to arrive with the satellite data. Actually thought you were going to run into trouble with security here, almost," he said. "Now we're just waiting on Vestra..."
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Cade nodded. "Yeah, the team from the space center's due just about any time now. I'm gonna go in and help the professor finish setting up for when they get here," he announced as he headed into the labs.
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"In answer to your question, Zed, we do suspect the object may possibly have a passenger. So it was decided to have someone with medical experience present. You were the first to hand, and the matter is urgent enough that we don't have time to pick and choose," the young echidna woman accompanying Zed, name of Julia, rattled off, matter-of-factly. "But we're here because something interfered with satellite telemetry when the object changed course to impact Mobius. We have to locate it before your services even have a chance to come into play," she explained before entering the lab.

Within the lab, Cade and company had finished getting the equipment set up for the professor. "Thank you again for your help, all of you. I've just received a call that the team from the space center have arrived with the data. Between the orbital telemetry and the data here on the ground, we should locate that meteorite within the hour!" crowed the professor. Cade couldn't help but smile at how excited he was about this, he found it infectious.
Indeed, there is nothing more repulsive than these monsters that defy nature and are known by the name of witcher, as they are the offspring of foul sorcery and witchcraft. They are unscrupulous scoundrels without conscience and virtue, veritable creatures from hell capable only of taking lives. They have no place amongst decent and honest folk.
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"Surprisingly little. Satellite feed indicates that the meteor group appeared suddenly just beyond the outer orbital ring, you know, what's left of all those Eggman-era space stations. Moving fast, but on a trajectory just to graze Mobius's outer atmosphere. Fast enough we couldn't analyze their composition on approach. About an hour before it would reach that point, one of the objects emitted some kind of pulse, disrupting the signals we recieved from the observing satellites. By the time we were able to reconnect, one object had veered off course and was already in the magnetosphere, which made it so we couldn't get precise data on its velocity then," Julia explained as Eve inquired, handing a data-storage unit to the professor, who connected it to the lab's main computer.

Cade shook his head. "In English: It was almost too fast to find anything out about, except where it was supposed to go; and when it changed direction, it basically blinded all the satellites until it was too far in to really pick up again. So we won't really know anything until we find where it hit," he translated.

The professor smiled. "Very good, Cade. But between the data from the satellites, and the data from the observatory here, we should be able to work out the impact point rather quickly here," he would assure the group as he worked. On the big screen, an image of Mobius would pop up, with one dot on the planet itself representing the observatory, and other dots over the planet representing the satellites. "It'll take a minute or so to figure out which points of data are useable," he confessed.
Indeed, there is nothing more repulsive than these monsters that defy nature and are known by the name of witcher, as they are the offspring of foul sorcery and witchcraft. They are unscrupulous scoundrels without conscience and virtue, veritable creatures from hell capable only of taking lives. They have no place amongst decent and honest folk.
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"Not before they were picked up within the outer ring," Julia confirmed. She was about to go on when the professor cried out: "Got it!" While the conversation went on, the screen showed the supposed path of the meteor after it turned towards Mobius.
"That's... what, in the Preserve? That's a good 20 clicks outside of town," Cade commented, eliciting a nod from Julia and the professor. "Well, we have our location now..."
Indeed, there is nothing more repulsive than these monsters that defy nature and are known by the name of witcher, as they are the offspring of foul sorcery and witchcraft. They are unscrupulous scoundrels without conscience and virtue, veritable creatures from hell capable only of taking lives. They have no place amongst decent and honest folk.
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Julia was on the phone, relaying the coordinates to those in the militia taking part in the project, while Cade merely shook his head at Vestra and Zed. "A bit premature, Miss Kroy; we shall be using one of the university's vans to drive most of that distance. Though some hiking will be involved, it may not be as much as you assume. By the time we get there, the area should be cordoned off, and we can go about our analysis without interruption," the professor explained.

Roughly half an hour later, the group, in the commandeered van, would reach the militia's perimeter around the impact site. Several of the trees had some branches removed from the meteorite's passing.
Indeed, there is nothing more repulsive than these monsters that defy nature and are known by the name of witcher, as they are the offspring of foul sorcery and witchcraft. They are unscrupulous scoundrels without conscience and virtue, veritable creatures from hell capable only of taking lives. They have no place amongst decent and honest folk.
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