Suddenly Dr. Hodge starts convulsing in the floor. His eyes and mouth wide open emmit a light golden glow.
A woman's voice fills the room.
Spin the Wheel,
Spin the Chao!
Those who've left
Have brought us sorrow...
Yet the wheel must spin
Coz he who guards these burrows
Would not say it's the 'fin'
But just Verwirrung tomorrow.
After the chant finishes, the glow dissappears, and the doctor wakes up mumbling... must find the Five Orbs of Chao...
During his 'holidays' in Planet Toulouse, waiting for the big meeting with Council to happen, the Dr felt nostalgic, and decided to quietly board a Scimitar from the Fifth's hangars, and flew to the Kiva once again.
Mooring, walking the corridors, stretching down to reach the trapdoor, it all brought warm memories through his pineal.
As he descended the ladder of the Sanctum he could smell the particular odors of the room, once the meeting place where Popes would come to 'fix' their spirits with the well chosen words of the Polyfather.
He walked throught the room slowly, studying the new view the Kiva had, now that Pueblo had been re-located.
Mal, am I doing it right? Is this what you wanted?
He climbed the ladder up again, walked thru the corridors in silence, and jumped into his ship back to Rousillion.
Being already stationed at Ravenhurst Watch, the Erisian Replicant and Templar known as Helena Agrippa didn't take too long to arrive at the Kiva in Pueblo Bonito. As Dr. Mojo had told her, she had to follow the signaled corridor and find the trapdoor that led to a descending ladder. This was also easy, and before too long she was climbing down and entering the holy sanctum.
She had obviously never been to the place, so her eyes were drifting from object to object, as if analysing the nature of the room. A small fire was lit in a corner, and that reminded her of the old Sol mores. She continued looking around until she finally noticed a woman in priestly robes sitting in the lotus position.
Lady Mnemosym, I asume? A pleasure to finally meet you. Dr. Mojo has told me a lot about you. I am Helena Agrippa. Said she, while standing straight like a soldier. I believe you and I have some matters to discuss regarding the safe return of your daughter to Baffin.
The lady raised her head to take a look at the visitor. "Kallisti. Welcome to the Kiva."
She observed the woman for a short while from under her hood, and finally said : "I didn't meditate here since Mal-3 passed away. He never really understood the connection i had with my daughter. Many are the ones who can relate."
The woman took a pause, as if she was collecting her thoughts, and finally nodded. "This is a place for meditation, allowing popes to consult their pineals and be enlightened by the Goddess herself. Baffin was always a place filled with potent energies; A vortex allowing us exercise our art without being disturbed. Perhaps you should consider to relax and sit so that your psyche can come to the required balance. You do have questions. Ask. I have nothing to hide."
Eric Stone takes his research along with him and heads towards the reception. While walking in the corridors he greets every Pope who crosses his way. A home... He hopes Pueblo Bonito will forever be a peacefully as it is now, yet the future will prove if it will be like this or not. Eric fears the fact that an invasion can always happen. Ones who are now your closest and best allies can turn in a matter of seconds towards you most worst enemies. After entering another corridor he sees the reception on the end there is a woman standing there with some tattoos on her arm.
"Kallisti miss, I am here for the Chao Key for the Cabal Room. I was informed I was able to pick this up at the reception." She looks at Eric and takes a look at the screen on her left side, still she hold her drink and cigarette in her hands. While looking at the screen she takes a smoke. "Let me see.." few moments have passed and then suddenly. "Here it is." she looks closely at the screen where a picture of Eric Stone appears to which she has to hand over the Chao Key. for the Cabal Room. "Al seems in order, give me a moment and I shall grab the key.""Thank you miss." she empties her hands. The cigarette she places in an ashtray and she turns around and grabs a key from within a sealed of closet. Closes it again and hands over the Chao Key to Eric Stone. "Here you are sir. I will add a small layout where you can find this room." Eric smiles "I think i know where it is. But please some additional info may always come in handy." She looks at him and hands over the additional information about the room. "Here you are sir. After you are done with this meeting can you bring the key back as soon as possible? So our staff could clean up the room.""I will thank you and may Eris be with you miss.""23's"
After the last words Eric walks towards the Cabal Room. After arriving in front of the door he grabs the key out of his pockets and opens the door. He seems to be the first one. He takes a chair and opens the window so the sun within Baffin shines through the room. While he awaits the others he makes some preparations..
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Doc arrived at the Kiva. The last time he had been there was with Mal and the thought was on his mind. He still missed his old friend. Getting to the receptionist, she just smiled, "Pope Stone is inside so go on in."
Doc returned the smile and entered.
"Pope Stone," greeted Doc, "You look well. I'm curious as to what you have to show me."
The receptionist dazzled a smile, blew out a gentle ball of cigarette smoke and flicked a pen in the general direction of one of the many doors accessing the interior. "He's with Doc. In the Cabal. They're waiting for you."
"Meh! Late again." Mumbling to himself Rackham scurried across the reception area and disappeared into the maze of corridors...
And with a quick rap on the door enters the Cabal Room to find his friends.... "What's up?".......
When Doc entered the room Eric was sitting on a chair behind a table. It was a big circle shaped table. If you would look close to the table they could see some discordian engravings into it. "Please take a seat Doc. I think we have to wait for Rackham." just at that time Rackham entered the room. After his words Rackham took also a seat and both Doc and Rackham where listening to what Eric had to say. "You both are aware of the research I did and the request we made towards the Phoenix in the past. This was sadly denied, but I did not gave up." A brief moment of silence followed. "I have talked with Elizabeth Tate, she gave me the blueprints and the information of the Levithian Class. Within the last few days I have researched if it is even possible to create another one."
Eric stands up and takes a ball outside of his pocket and just before he throws it on the table he hits a button on it. The ball rolls to the middle and then opens and clamp itself to the table and starts projecting images above it. Walks around the table with Doc and Rackham following his movements and closely listening to his explanation. "This is a minor part of the information Elizabeth Tate shared with me. And I trust you both to keep this confidential and between us. Now I want to point you guys out on its design. It’s a slim design compared to the Nephilim class. But do not forget this ship class has another purpose then the Nephilim. In time we have learned a lot from the Levithian and derived much from it. If we would create another one it will not be the exact same. I shall point you both out, some problems if we would make another one." A spinning model of the ship is shown, when it reaches its back it stops and zooms in. "Here you can see its behind. Just in front of the engines you can see that the chamber with the powercore is there. This is the biggest issue as we are aware how the core operates and our scientists came with a possible solution with it. There is a smaller version of the Nephilim powercore. The only problem is the costs to create it, not only that but all the pieces are just expensive. The power that the original singularity supermass reactor provides is almost exactly the same as this one. We can compensate it with the newly designed engines and more energy sufficient shields." The ship model zooms back out and turn around and shows the ship from above. "Another thing is the Armortype: the zero-neutron superalloy. We can rather produce this fast due to our scrubby farms within Baffin. But this process will take a lot of time." Eric takes a look first at Doc and then at Rackham.. "The question is now.. Do we have enough funds gathered to make these efforts worthwhile? And how do you both think on this issue? I guess it will have a good morale on the others as well. And don’t forget it will need a lot more maintenance then an Aquillon or a Nephilim."
With these last words Eric sits down and awaits their responses.
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Doc watched as the images spun and zoomed in before him, his chin resting on his hand as he watched. It was pretty magnificent but with all the technical talk, Doc was a bit lost. He was, after all, a doctor and not an engineer.
Although he had initially given some preliminary approval for such a ship, he wanted to understand more. He knew only of one person who understood engineering to such a grand scale and he was on Med.Force.One.
He took a look to John to see his initial reaction. Then as he continued to study the drawings in front of them, he commented, "Very interesting, Eric. I'd like to say that I like what I'm seeing but a lot of what you describe is beyond me."
He then looked up at Eric, "I don't need to tell you that technical stuff is a bit beyond me. It's the same thing as explaining surgery to a child."
Before he answered the question of funding, he looked to John, "So what do you think, John?"
Rackham sat for a while, then he started a big, wide, grin.
"I gotta say, Doc, Eric has something here.... if the engineering's right."
But shuffling in his seat, took a more serious tone..........
"Eric, who did the drive, reactor and power core calculations? I want to have some confidence in the designers, especially as we are talking about adapting an original model. There could be side effects such as stresses on the structure and fabric of other areas of the ship if you go messing with the power core, who's looked at it for us?"
"And cutting to the chase, what are we looking at in terms of initial capital costs and then maintenance?."
"And another thing...how's yer business case stand up against other TAZ good causes like repairing the Temple roof? "
Rackham looked Eric in the eye, seeking doubt or clarity......