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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Falkus" data-source="post: 4243131" data-attributes="member: 22634">Once the team is aboard the helicopter, it takes off and heads back to Tokyo, with a speed and range you've come to expect from institute vehicles. The base quickly vanished in the distance, and you were able to turn your mind to the future.Experts in Tokyo were able to identify the items you recovered while you waited for your flight. As per direct 8942-C.23, you were allowed to keep them as they directly benefited your activities.[sblock]Wand of the lesser magus: stores three spell levels and lets silent spell be used twice a day for freeShield of the Confronter: +2 shield bonus with a +1 magic bonus and no armor penalty.Holster of Concealment: Turns any gun invisible in the holster and can be drawn instantly.Blade Focusing Ring: Gives a +2 to hit and a +3 to damage with a psi-blade.Cufflinks of Disguise: Casts change self on the wearer three times a day.Watch of Power: Gives the owner four extra power points a day.[/sblock]One week laterWith time and proper tools, Nick was able to study the ruby and the stone more thoroughly, and determine how to use it to remove an ephemeral, thus allowing Carol to be saved. Since Team Libra had already had contact with her and her family, another team was assigned to perform ritual.A day later, it was reported a complete success. The ephemeral had been removed from Carol and stored. The young girl was recovering fully, and was giving no signs of any more prophetic statements. With the ruby, stone and ephemerals in position, the Institute itself would now carefully conduct their own research into prophecy, using volunteers and controlled environments.As for the vase containing the psychotic Ephemeral from the Russian base, that was taken into custody by the Institute, to be stored in a secure location they said.As for the shards of the sword, the Institute still couldn't make heads or tell of them. They defied all conventional, unconventional and downright supernatural analysis. Given their obvious link to Meredith, it was decided to give them into her custody for the time being, to see if anything new developer.MeanwhileThe Mega-Ton Mega-Secure Mega-Safes were very expensive storage devices used by the Hoffmann Institute, products of alien technology. Only a few were made each year due to the expense, time and rarity of the material needed. In previous eras, new safes were tested by hiding them at the ground zero of nuclear test sites and recovering them after the blast.Once sealed, the safes could only be opened or breached by a complex array of electromagnets that only existed in one location. This only rarely happened, something put into one of these safes was put there with the understanding that it was something that should never be seen again.It was into one of these safes that the vase containing the psychotic Ephemeral was sealed by the Hoffmann Institute Special Branch, and then it was dropped into the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the Pacific Ocean.OOC: Mission complete! You each receive 6500 EXP!</blockquote>

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