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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr Simon" data-source="post: 5587171" data-attributes="member: 21938">Gulati gives Kirth a strange look."I thought you were the ones who found it?" she says [OOC: Actually, Kirth wasn't.]. "Well anyway, no, the Lison Bug isn't old, which in itself is the strange thing. That it contains Shadow technology is without a doubt, but Dr. Sushar ran some tests and she reckons that it is merged with much newer technology. She found something that worried her, but she didn't share what it was with the rest of us. I think she wanted to tell us all at the same time - her sense of the dramatic!"She walks over to a large wall screen and activates it with a touch."Here, let me show you." She pulls up a series of images with finger strokes."These are what we had in the vault. The Lison Bug, you know about. This one we called the Remote Control - it is evidently a control unit for something, but what that something is wasn't found with the artifact. These are, as far as we can tell, inert, or pieces of a larger device or artifact. We call them the TMJs - thingamajobs. My research student Solomon named them," she adds with a smile, cycling through TMJs 1-6. Then something like an ornate bowling ball filled with swirling gases or liquids appears on the screen."Ah now, this, this is our top piece. We call it the Mirror of Dreams, after an old Abbai children's tale. The Mirror of Dreams is a magical pearl that grants wishes, but always what the wisher needs, not what she wants." She glances at Kirth. "Kind of a morality tale, told in a variety of different ways. Our Mirror, however, seems to be some kind of psionic focussing device, but to what end we haven't been able to discover."She deactivates the screen."I can copy this data for you if you like. You asked about value. There are certain collectors who will pay any price for XAs, and theft to order isn't unknown in our line of work. Even the TMJs would be worth something to somebody."[sblock=Kevin]Kevin notices that the locks to the lab and the artifact vault are both numeric keypad types. Neither door shows signs of having been forced. Someone may have known the code, although there are devices that can spoof these types of lock.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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