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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yellow Sign" data-source="post: 885911" data-attributes="member: 5619"> Miskatonic University Library, Arkham Mass. September 27th, 19332:35 PMFather Steele finally closed Professor William Dyer's Summary Report on the Miskatonic University Expedition to Antarctica, 1930-1931. It is a fat university press document and the text is pedantic and dense, couched with abstruse technical vocabulary. It was a very dry read. "Well, at least I learned a thing or two." thought Father Steele. It praised Lake's work again and again, but carefully turns aside from sensationalism. The "Pre-Cambrian" footprints are identified as the fossilized imprints of some incredibly ancient form of sea-dwelling plant life, similar to the more recent well-preserved specimens found by Lake's party in the fossil cave. Lake's description of the specimens as "animals with internal organs" is clalked up to scientific error resulting from over-excitement, lack of rest, and possible "snow craze". Dyer is at a loss to explain the disaster at the camp, though is sorrow and regret are very clear. He concludes from the state of the remains that the men of the party would almost certainly have died from the blizzard in any case, but lays the blame for the destruction of the dogs and the dispersal of the evidence on a person or persons unknown--possibly the student George Gedney, who ran amok during the hours of the storm. Father Steele sits back and thinks. "I think my next move is to go see the specimens and evidence that was collected. I believe they have it stored in the Geology Department here." As he looks up he sees a familiar face, Richard Lawton sitting at a nearby table. "Thats the photographer from the National Geographic that's going on the expedition. I wonder what he is doing here?"</blockquote>

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