Dark*Matter: Discovery, The Delphi Paradox

[Shayuri]

She hefts the shield...then frowns and shines her light into the case to try to see those pieces of metal.

"Cade, could you bring the sword over? It's okay...I'm not going to go crazy. I think this shield is related to it. There's a couple of pots in here too...they have those Greek pictures on them."

She turns the shield around and looks it over.

"Egyptian...hey, there's hieroglyphs on this. I didn't know Egyptians used metal shields... Nick, can you read these?"

 

[Friadoc]

Once Cade is sure that Meri is okay, he'll bring her sword over and hand it to her, hilt first.

"Found a new toy?"

 

[industrygothica]

She hefts the shield...then frowns and shines her light into the case to try to see those pieces of metal.

"Cade, could you bring the sword over? It's okay...I'm not going to go crazy. I think this shield is related to it. There's a couple of pots in here too...they have those Greek pictures on them."

She turns the shield around and looks it over.

"Egyptian...hey, there's hieroglyphs on this. I didn't know Egyptians used metal shields... Nick, can you read these?"

"I'll give it a shot, let's see."

 

[Falkus]

As Nick examined the shield, he could instantly tell that it wasn't made out of any metal the Egyptians were known to work with. In fact, it didn't seem to be any known metal that he could tell. It was incredibly light, but seemed to have a sort of timeless durability.

The hieroglyphics read: "Go forth, Confronter, and smite the enemies of the Companions of Horus."

The clipboard under the shield indicated that it had been found in the Delphi digsite, and brought back with the rest of the artifacts. It also noted that acquiring a sample of the metal of the shield was impossible, the shield having so far resisted all kinds of metal cutters, industrial torches and fifty thousand rounds of 12.7mm ammunition.

As Meredith examined the metal shards, she could see that they, now that she had seen three of them, looked vaguely liked the shattered remnants of a blade.

 

[Shayuri]

As she waits for Nick to finish puzzling out the characters, Meredith picks up the pieces of metal...carefully, once she sees they're edged. Edged like...

"A sword," she says quietly.

"Broken pieces of a sword's blade."

For some reason the revelation makes her heart pound faster. She stands up and reads the charts, then adds, "These were at Delphi. What were Egyptian artifacts doing in a Greek oracle?"

 

[industrygothica]

"It reads: 'Go forth, Confronter, and smite the enemies of the Companions of Horus.'"

 

[iwatt]

Larry had seem lost to the world the last days, as he kept staring at the objects in the right case. The others had all focused on the far hand side, but the wanna be psychic kept his eyes focused on the other case. Slowly advancing, he makes his way closer and examines the case.


OOC: Sorry for the no-posting. My ISP screwed me over the weekend, and I just remembered to check today.

 

[Falkus]

The case contained a dark metal wand, about a foot long and the width of a pencil, a holster that had curious arcane symbols etched into the leather, a gold ring with an oddly carved ruby, emerald and diamond in it, a old fashioned mechanical watch made entirely out of white crystal (it also happened to be running backwards), and a set of diamond cufflinks.

According to the clipboard, these items were taken off a pair of female agents who had attempted to infiltrate the base a month prior to the 'incident'. Not much was known about the objects. In fact, the only thing that was known was that, when worn, the holster was completely imperceptible to anyone other than the person wearing it and that a gun placed in it could be drawn virtually instantly.

All the objects were being held for future study and possible replication.

The watch and the ring were the objects radiating psionic energy.

 

[Shayuri]

"It reads: 'Go forth, Confronter, and smite the enemies of the Companions of Horus.'"

Meredith feels a shiver run down her spine at the words. A moment of chill, then an almost feverish warmth.

"This isn't officially what we came for, but it feels a little too...it can't just be a coincidence."

She looks up at Cade and Nick through the visor of her suit.

"These pots in here, are they what we're looking for? It seems like this is the case of stuff they got from Delphi."

She looks at the labels to see what the Russians identified them as.

 

[Falkus]

The clipboard confirmed what Meredith suspected, the urns were recovered from the Delphi site and contained the creatures that the Society of Pythia called Ephemerals. Most of the information was complicated scientific analysis involving advanced maths, spectrometric readings and other such info that was of no immediate value.

The clipboard also said that there were three urns recovered from the site, along with a ruby and the keystone. Neither the third urn or the ruby and keystone were in the case, though there were empty spaces where they would be stored.