Norkchronicles
06-07-2006, 08:35 AM
Tattoo, the Nine Faces of Orjuka
Operation Encounter
Scene Opening:
Digital illustration in an open scene that becomes clearer as the desert sand reveals the terrains.
Digital Illustration:
Time: 11oo Hours
Day: 21 April 2560 AD
Location: Ageh, Orumila’s Heart, 21 degrees South East Nork
Mission: Operation Encounter
It’s been four centuries since anyone displayed interest in these plains, since Pharaoh Tamoose II the Titian, rose to the power in the upper kingdoms, rumors have spread about a private army, within the plains, stealing and killing merchants who employed this once advantageous trade route.
Some believed the plains to be cursed, attributing its unholy existence to a monument that once depicted an end time for Nork. They say beneath the sands of Ageh lies the temple of eternal doom, the passage to Akamara, the Under World of the Jaguns of the Old beliefs.
Today however, these lands bring new interest and with this interest comes strangers from across.
Three hover APC’s race across the desert plains in a pyramidal formation, leaving a large space at the center. Their destination is classified, all that is known at this point is the ensign born on the right sides of the never before scene models of the Striker 2250, Delta model. There had been rumors that these new stealth models existed and were secretly under production by the Sentry Foundation. Today these rumors are confirmed by the Ensigns born by these vehicles.
The Vehicles all come to a halt a 20 yards ahead of a large pyramid. Its structure is impossible for its age, the carvings born by it four sides tell a tale which only those whom have knowledge in Xaianian history can interpret.
The doors of the APC”S open all at once, to unleash a squad of ten sophisticated shock troopers, there faces concealed in optically power satellite helmets. Their visors reflecting the orange sun of dusk. They make combat maneuvers to secure the perimeter. The trooper in front stares for a while and then communicates through the radio on in his helmet.
Trooper: “Captain …perimeter secure…awaiting orders”
Radio: “Maintain position….sergeant….”
Inside the APC in front, are three other Shock Troopers. Captain Delgado he is in command of this operation, Mike Stavros the satellite communications expert and driver of the APC and Cornel Jones the sentry. This is the satellite communication APC, where all communications procedures concerning the squad are communicated to a base 100 km from encounter.
A holographic control screen panel appears before him.
Delgado: “Convoy to Zulu one do you copy”
Radio: “Zulu one to Convoy…read you loud and clear….go ahead Convoy”
Delgado: “suspect encounter ahead 10 yards….awaiting confirmation encounter”
Radio:” Confirmation in T minus 2…”
Delgado:” copy that…Zulu 1 convoy standing by”
He switches to another radio channel on the holographic Screen
Delgado: “ Hey Doc”
A feminine voice responds on the new channel
Radio: “What is it Captain”
Delgado: “We are awaiting satellite confirmation of target…meanwhile id suggest you and your crew suit up, its getting dark out there….wouldn’t want you searching for alternatives…get the picture”.
Radio: “Id let you know if I require alternatives”
Delgado: “Ill keep that in mind”.
The holographic channel screen blinks to indicate contact from Zulu 1
Delgado: “Convoy to Zulu one…go ahead Zulu 1”
Radio: “Target is confirmed, Convoy…operation encounter is a go…. I repeat operation encounter is a go”.
Delgado: “Copy that Zulu one…switching radio silence in T minus 5…keep a good eye Zulu 1.
Radio: “Roger that Delgado…don’t pop those cigars yet….Zulu one out”
Switching the Channel again.
Delgado: “ Yo doc…ready for a little break in and entry?…..this is the place, make yourself seen”.
At the command, a larger APC manifests from the center of the Pyramidal formation, its design is more sophisticated than the other three.
A sprout of steam emerges as it’s boarding doors open. A black suited shock trooper emerges from the APC. The feminine nature of the shock suit reveals the trooper is a woman. Unlike the other grounded shock trooper she is unarmed; here golden visor emits a green sensor. In her hand is a beeping device, resembling a stocky crucifix.
Her helmet radio comes on…its Delgado
Delgado: “Yo doc…with these winds the only mode of communication is through sat com, I suggest you synchronize all channels.
Doc: Understood…captain”
Delgado: One more thing doc…”
Doc: “What is it Delgado”
Delgado:” On this operation….I am in command….my orders are to keep you alive…so no funnies….okay”
Doc: “I try to keep that in mind Delgado…anything else”
Delgado: “Yeah…if you fuck with me…I’ll ensure that whatever’s in there that we got all these guns for….makes its first meal outta your ass”.
Doc:” My ass Delgado?...we can play dirty old captain when this is over…for now. leave my posterior outta this”
Delgado:”Doc”
Doc: “What now”
Delgado:” It’s Captain Delgado”.
She cuts off the transmission to synchronize her channels.
Inside of the Doc’s large APC are there other crew members Sati Sharam a communications expert and Cain Maloy the vehicle driver.
Delgado disembarks his APC and approaches the sergeant.
Delgado: “Cowasky…any sign of hostiles within the perimeter?”
Sergeant Cowasky: “That’s a negative sir….if there are shouldn’t be to much of a problem”
Delgado: “Counting on that Sergeant”….Say Doc might be a good time to get the party rolling don’t you agree”
Doc: “Ready when you are Captain”
She makes a slight adjustment to her radio, switching to a concealed channel
Radio: “Doctor Onasis”
Doc: “Sati…you have your orders”
Sati:” I understand….out”
Delgado: “Okay Doc…here’s the picture its 0200hr that means we got two hour and two hour only…after which I am pulling the plug….and you know how much of a pleasure it would be to drag you ass outta there”.
Dr Onasis: “You have your orders captain…and I have mine”
Delgado: “Two hours Doc…are we clear?”
Dr Onasis: “We are Captain…”
Delgado: “Good….Your lead Doc”
He ushers her ahead of the squad of ten men.
Onasis forges ahead holding her device which has begun to shorten the breaks in its beeping.
Going Under
The mission commences with an accession of a sixty step flight to ten foot high stone door, bearing morbid engravings that tell a tale of death to anyone that dares to trend within these walls. At both sides of the door stand two large statues of what appears to be a humane with a lion’s head. Dr Onasis devices beep with shorter intervals as they draw nearer to the door.
Dr Onasis:” Sati run a scan on our present location”
Sati: “Target is twenty feet below…Doctor…I am picking strange heat signatures”
Dr Onasis: “Confirm”
Sati:” Nothing alive probably a rock close to the core”
Dr Onasis: “Keep me informed if you see anything I should worry about”
Sati: “Understood”
They reach the large stone doors, Onasis observes the carvings on the walls as she scraps the Polymerized hand ware of her suit on the doors inscriptions.
Her hand comes to a stop and she clears the dust away from what looks like a star shaped code lock. She stares at it for a while
Delgado:” Some C4 might come in handy about now don’t you think”
Onasis: “All about the bangs and the booms…eh?”
Delgado: “that what I am paid to do doc”
Onasis: “Not this time Captain”
She reaches for her hip and ejects two disk like devices, placing on over the other she fixes the merged device onto the star shape lock. A digital information screen displaying Nork hieroglyphics inscription come on.
Doc: “Sati initiates decoding sequence…”
The symbols on the device begin to change at high speed emitting an electro-mechanical sound…it goes on for a couple minutes and then stops at three different symbols.
Sati: “Lock decoded…entry is now affirmative”
Onasis: “Thank You sati…Captain…”
The large doors begin to slide upwards unleashing an inhumane darkness within the walls of the pyramid. The troopers make combat maneuvers to secure the area.
Delgado:” Mike switch to night mode, we are going under”
Radio: “copy that Captain….night mode 2 initiated….going to radio silence”.
Delgado: “copy that”
The night mode two sequences is imitated via satellite link, automatically small twin flood lights with extremely powerful fluorescent green rays emerge from both shoulder guards and hip guards of all shock suits including the doctors. The elements initiate green night sensor which send thing rays through the darkness. Their visors as well have become a darker shade of green, while Doctor Onasis becomes a brighter shade of gold. In an instance is a complete optical display cutting through the pitch darkness of the tomb.
The squad descends about twenty feet blow, using an ancient stair way built by the constructors of the tomb. Onasis devices beep faster and louder. The descent comes to a halt at twenty five feet. Where a large Egyptian style coffin rests. The inscriptions on in are Ton Hieroglyphics, unusual in a Xainian tomb.
Delgado:” Now what the hec is that” He watches as Dr Onasis observes the coffin
Onasis: “Ancient history captain…one of those things you’re not paid to know”
Delgado:” is that supposed to impress me doc…”
Just then Sati makes contact to Onasis
Sati: “Dr Onasis I’ve confirmed the heat pattern….your standing right next to it”
Onasis: “How much further to contact”
Sati:” Exactly 5 feet below your present location”
Onasis:” We should move on Captain…the mine’s not far from here”
The squad moves ahead of Onasis who still stares suspiciously at the coffin.
Delgado: “Hey doc…something I should know?”
Onasis: (still staring at the coffin)…if there were id let you know”
She walks ahead of him still holding her device. Delgado stares at the coffin for a couple of seconds and then follows on.
Five feet below they are confronted by another door with equally morbid inscriptions. The door stand about 9 feet high and about 8 feet wide, with a curved shaped top appearing to have a siding manner of opening. Onasis radio signal blinks
Sati: Doctor Onasis, encounter is just ahead of you….I am picking up high heat signatures like a fire”
Onasis:” Scan for lower signatures…anything moving….”
Sati: “Nothing doctor, every lower signature is immobile”
Onaisis: “ prepare decoding sequence again”
Onasis deploys another set of unlocking devices which she performs a similar ceremony as the last.
The squad takes combat ready positions, their LR 250 assault rifles beaming green targeting sensors.
Delgado: “I implores you step outta the way now doc… this might get messy”.
The Large door slides up and reveals a large chamber, illuminated by what appears to be a fire place, held by a twenty foot statue. The statues of man dressed like a monk he’s face concealed by a hood. In his hand is a large stone crucible held as though he were pouring it content on stone slab before the statue. The slab is about ten feet long and six feet wide. On the slab are tools of a black smith covered in soot, dust and cobweb. The slab is engraved with an imprint of a sword, presumably were a the weapon was molded, there are other similar imprints of short daggers, spears and what appears to be small spikes on the slab.
The Marble floor within hall is decorated with Ton and Xainian hieroglyphics, they are tales of event that have transpired within these walls and warnings to the trespassers within the hall. It is twenty feet wide and twenty feet long, depicting the perfect nature of the base of a pyramid only this time they are twenty five feet below the base.
Sati: “Doctor…encounter is confirmed…this is it”.
Onasis: “It sure is sati”
Onais slowly make for the entrance but she is halted by Captain Delgado
Delgado: “Just a minute doc…gotta make sure it all clear…..Santos”
At his command the trooper called Santos aims his weapon and fires a disruptor into the hall. It unleashes millions of screaming golden particles into the hall allowing the squad to identify any shapes within the hall, but it real objective is to identify any moving shape even at the lowest of densities.
Santos: “All clear captain….got some torches on the wall…..think we should light em up?”
Delgado: “Okay doc….this is it …we got less than an hour…so lets make it count.
Santos lights a flare and put it in one of the wall torches, a blaze begins and is immediately followed by simultaneous lighting of all the torches in the hall, revealing a marvel of architecture and ancient science.
The squad is astonished…by the structure, but not Onasis, she slowly heads for the statue…the squad making slow maneuvers behind her.
Onasis reaches the statue, she is a bit intimidated by its height, but what seems to concern her more is the content of the crucible.
Inside of the crucible is a molten like liquid the color of ruby red blood, heated to temperatures above a thousand degrees. There is no fire beneath the crucible; it content seems to be heated from within the earth.
Onasis: “Sati”
Sati: “Its amazing doctor, the heat sources seems to be more than a 300km below the surface….by my analysis doctor the whole temple is the source for the element”.
Onasis: “you should see is Sati…..but as I suspected they are not here”
She stares at the ring around the crucible on which are eight engraved imprints, imprints that seemed to have housed eight objects, imprints of what appears to be faces….masks.
Onasis: “something is missing….”
Delgado : “Yo doc…I assume we’ve found what we came for?”
Onasis: (still observing the statue)…Yes we have indeed…captain, let’s retrieve the sample”
Delgado: “Santos…the containment now”
Santos unpacks a cylindrical device, which by the touch of a button, extends in length to about four feet. The three men dip the device into the crucible. An electronic meter on the device begins to indicate the level of containment. Within a few seconds the cylinder is full.
By this time Onasis has reached another view of the statue, she is able to view the top of the crucible. Where if only her face can been seen, a smile has formed.
Onasis: “There you are”
On the tilted top of the crucible is another engraved imprint of a last mask, but unlike the rest it content remains. A black mask, forge of a strange light metal. Smooth and resembles the face of a female lion.
Onasis stares at it for a while and then observes Delgado and the squad. She diverts her attention to the mask and then slowly moves her hands to claim the prize. But to her amazement, it withers away like smoke disappearing completely from her sight.
Onasis is startled. A strange chill cuts through her spine, the feeling similar is to a naked body suddenly exposed to the worst of frost winds. Only this time it the wind felt as though it were alive, whispering a morbid chant as it cuts through her being .
She looks around the hall and sees nothing strange but her soul says otherwise. Danger lurks within.
Operation Encounter
Scene Opening:
Digital illustration in an open scene that becomes clearer as the desert sand reveals the terrains.
Digital Illustration:
Time: 11oo Hours
Day: 21 April 2560 AD
Location: Ageh, Orumila’s Heart, 21 degrees South East Nork
Mission: Operation Encounter
It’s been four centuries since anyone displayed interest in these plains, since Pharaoh Tamoose II the Titian, rose to the power in the upper kingdoms, rumors have spread about a private army, within the plains, stealing and killing merchants who employed this once advantageous trade route.
Some believed the plains to be cursed, attributing its unholy existence to a monument that once depicted an end time for Nork. They say beneath the sands of Ageh lies the temple of eternal doom, the passage to Akamara, the Under World of the Jaguns of the Old beliefs.
Today however, these lands bring new interest and with this interest comes strangers from across.
Three hover APC’s race across the desert plains in a pyramidal formation, leaving a large space at the center. Their destination is classified, all that is known at this point is the ensign born on the right sides of the never before scene models of the Striker 2250, Delta model. There had been rumors that these new stealth models existed and were secretly under production by the Sentry Foundation. Today these rumors are confirmed by the Ensigns born by these vehicles.
The Vehicles all come to a halt a 20 yards ahead of a large pyramid. Its structure is impossible for its age, the carvings born by it four sides tell a tale which only those whom have knowledge in Xaianian history can interpret.
The doors of the APC”S open all at once, to unleash a squad of ten sophisticated shock troopers, there faces concealed in optically power satellite helmets. Their visors reflecting the orange sun of dusk. They make combat maneuvers to secure the perimeter. The trooper in front stares for a while and then communicates through the radio on in his helmet.
Trooper: “Captain …perimeter secure…awaiting orders”
Radio: “Maintain position….sergeant….”
Inside the APC in front, are three other Shock Troopers. Captain Delgado he is in command of this operation, Mike Stavros the satellite communications expert and driver of the APC and Cornel Jones the sentry. This is the satellite communication APC, where all communications procedures concerning the squad are communicated to a base 100 km from encounter.
A holographic control screen panel appears before him.
Delgado: “Convoy to Zulu one do you copy”
Radio: “Zulu one to Convoy…read you loud and clear….go ahead Convoy”
Delgado: “suspect encounter ahead 10 yards….awaiting confirmation encounter”
Radio:” Confirmation in T minus 2…”
Delgado:” copy that…Zulu 1 convoy standing by”
He switches to another radio channel on the holographic Screen
Delgado: “ Hey Doc”
A feminine voice responds on the new channel
Radio: “What is it Captain”
Delgado: “We are awaiting satellite confirmation of target…meanwhile id suggest you and your crew suit up, its getting dark out there….wouldn’t want you searching for alternatives…get the picture”.
Radio: “Id let you know if I require alternatives”
Delgado: “Ill keep that in mind”.
The holographic channel screen blinks to indicate contact from Zulu 1
Delgado: “Convoy to Zulu one…go ahead Zulu 1”
Radio: “Target is confirmed, Convoy…operation encounter is a go…. I repeat operation encounter is a go”.
Delgado: “Copy that Zulu one…switching radio silence in T minus 5…keep a good eye Zulu 1.
Radio: “Roger that Delgado…don’t pop those cigars yet….Zulu one out”
Switching the Channel again.
Delgado: “ Yo doc…ready for a little break in and entry?…..this is the place, make yourself seen”.
At the command, a larger APC manifests from the center of the Pyramidal formation, its design is more sophisticated than the other three.
A sprout of steam emerges as it’s boarding doors open. A black suited shock trooper emerges from the APC. The feminine nature of the shock suit reveals the trooper is a woman. Unlike the other grounded shock trooper she is unarmed; here golden visor emits a green sensor. In her hand is a beeping device, resembling a stocky crucifix.
Her helmet radio comes on…its Delgado
Delgado: “Yo doc…with these winds the only mode of communication is through sat com, I suggest you synchronize all channels.
Doc: Understood…captain”
Delgado: One more thing doc…”
Doc: “What is it Delgado”
Delgado:” On this operation….I am in command….my orders are to keep you alive…so no funnies….okay”
Doc: “I try to keep that in mind Delgado…anything else”
Delgado: “Yeah…if you fuck with me…I’ll ensure that whatever’s in there that we got all these guns for….makes its first meal outta your ass”.
Doc:” My ass Delgado?...we can play dirty old captain when this is over…for now. leave my posterior outta this”
Delgado:”Doc”
Doc: “What now”
Delgado:” It’s Captain Delgado”.
She cuts off the transmission to synchronize her channels.
Inside of the Doc’s large APC are there other crew members Sati Sharam a communications expert and Cain Maloy the vehicle driver.
Delgado disembarks his APC and approaches the sergeant.
Delgado: “Cowasky…any sign of hostiles within the perimeter?”
Sergeant Cowasky: “That’s a negative sir….if there are shouldn’t be to much of a problem”
Delgado: “Counting on that Sergeant”….Say Doc might be a good time to get the party rolling don’t you agree”
Doc: “Ready when you are Captain”
She makes a slight adjustment to her radio, switching to a concealed channel
Radio: “Doctor Onasis”
Doc: “Sati…you have your orders”
Sati:” I understand….out”
Delgado: “Okay Doc…here’s the picture its 0200hr that means we got two hour and two hour only…after which I am pulling the plug….and you know how much of a pleasure it would be to drag you ass outta there”.
Dr Onasis: “You have your orders captain…and I have mine”
Delgado: “Two hours Doc…are we clear?”
Dr Onasis: “We are Captain…”
Delgado: “Good….Your lead Doc”
He ushers her ahead of the squad of ten men.
Onasis forges ahead holding her device which has begun to shorten the breaks in its beeping.
Going Under
The mission commences with an accession of a sixty step flight to ten foot high stone door, bearing morbid engravings that tell a tale of death to anyone that dares to trend within these walls. At both sides of the door stand two large statues of what appears to be a humane with a lion’s head. Dr Onasis devices beep with shorter intervals as they draw nearer to the door.
Dr Onasis:” Sati run a scan on our present location”
Sati: “Target is twenty feet below…Doctor…I am picking strange heat signatures”
Dr Onasis: “Confirm”
Sati:” Nothing alive probably a rock close to the core”
Dr Onasis: “Keep me informed if you see anything I should worry about”
Sati: “Understood”
They reach the large stone doors, Onasis observes the carvings on the walls as she scraps the Polymerized hand ware of her suit on the doors inscriptions.
Her hand comes to a stop and she clears the dust away from what looks like a star shaped code lock. She stares at it for a while
Delgado:” Some C4 might come in handy about now don’t you think”
Onasis: “All about the bangs and the booms…eh?”
Delgado: “that what I am paid to do doc”
Onasis: “Not this time Captain”
She reaches for her hip and ejects two disk like devices, placing on over the other she fixes the merged device onto the star shape lock. A digital information screen displaying Nork hieroglyphics inscription come on.
Doc: “Sati initiates decoding sequence…”
The symbols on the device begin to change at high speed emitting an electro-mechanical sound…it goes on for a couple minutes and then stops at three different symbols.
Sati: “Lock decoded…entry is now affirmative”
Onasis: “Thank You sati…Captain…”
The large doors begin to slide upwards unleashing an inhumane darkness within the walls of the pyramid. The troopers make combat maneuvers to secure the area.
Delgado:” Mike switch to night mode, we are going under”
Radio: “copy that Captain….night mode 2 initiated….going to radio silence”.
Delgado: “copy that”
The night mode two sequences is imitated via satellite link, automatically small twin flood lights with extremely powerful fluorescent green rays emerge from both shoulder guards and hip guards of all shock suits including the doctors. The elements initiate green night sensor which send thing rays through the darkness. Their visors as well have become a darker shade of green, while Doctor Onasis becomes a brighter shade of gold. In an instance is a complete optical display cutting through the pitch darkness of the tomb.
The squad descends about twenty feet blow, using an ancient stair way built by the constructors of the tomb. Onasis devices beep faster and louder. The descent comes to a halt at twenty five feet. Where a large Egyptian style coffin rests. The inscriptions on in are Ton Hieroglyphics, unusual in a Xainian tomb.
Delgado:” Now what the hec is that” He watches as Dr Onasis observes the coffin
Onasis: “Ancient history captain…one of those things you’re not paid to know”
Delgado:” is that supposed to impress me doc…”
Just then Sati makes contact to Onasis
Sati: “Dr Onasis I’ve confirmed the heat pattern….your standing right next to it”
Onasis: “How much further to contact”
Sati:” Exactly 5 feet below your present location”
Onasis:” We should move on Captain…the mine’s not far from here”
The squad moves ahead of Onasis who still stares suspiciously at the coffin.
Delgado: “Hey doc…something I should know?”
Onasis: (still staring at the coffin)…if there were id let you know”
She walks ahead of him still holding her device. Delgado stares at the coffin for a couple of seconds and then follows on.
Five feet below they are confronted by another door with equally morbid inscriptions. The door stand about 9 feet high and about 8 feet wide, with a curved shaped top appearing to have a siding manner of opening. Onasis radio signal blinks
Sati: Doctor Onasis, encounter is just ahead of you….I am picking up high heat signatures like a fire”
Onasis:” Scan for lower signatures…anything moving….”
Sati: “Nothing doctor, every lower signature is immobile”
Onaisis: “ prepare decoding sequence again”
Onasis deploys another set of unlocking devices which she performs a similar ceremony as the last.
The squad takes combat ready positions, their LR 250 assault rifles beaming green targeting sensors.
Delgado: “I implores you step outta the way now doc… this might get messy”.
The Large door slides up and reveals a large chamber, illuminated by what appears to be a fire place, held by a twenty foot statue. The statues of man dressed like a monk he’s face concealed by a hood. In his hand is a large stone crucible held as though he were pouring it content on stone slab before the statue. The slab is about ten feet long and six feet wide. On the slab are tools of a black smith covered in soot, dust and cobweb. The slab is engraved with an imprint of a sword, presumably were a the weapon was molded, there are other similar imprints of short daggers, spears and what appears to be small spikes on the slab.
The Marble floor within hall is decorated with Ton and Xainian hieroglyphics, they are tales of event that have transpired within these walls and warnings to the trespassers within the hall. It is twenty feet wide and twenty feet long, depicting the perfect nature of the base of a pyramid only this time they are twenty five feet below the base.
Sati: “Doctor…encounter is confirmed…this is it”.
Onasis: “It sure is sati”
Onais slowly make for the entrance but she is halted by Captain Delgado
Delgado: “Just a minute doc…gotta make sure it all clear…..Santos”
At his command the trooper called Santos aims his weapon and fires a disruptor into the hall. It unleashes millions of screaming golden particles into the hall allowing the squad to identify any shapes within the hall, but it real objective is to identify any moving shape even at the lowest of densities.
Santos: “All clear captain….got some torches on the wall…..think we should light em up?”
Delgado: “Okay doc….this is it …we got less than an hour…so lets make it count.
Santos lights a flare and put it in one of the wall torches, a blaze begins and is immediately followed by simultaneous lighting of all the torches in the hall, revealing a marvel of architecture and ancient science.
The squad is astonished…by the structure, but not Onasis, she slowly heads for the statue…the squad making slow maneuvers behind her.
Onasis reaches the statue, she is a bit intimidated by its height, but what seems to concern her more is the content of the crucible.
Inside of the crucible is a molten like liquid the color of ruby red blood, heated to temperatures above a thousand degrees. There is no fire beneath the crucible; it content seems to be heated from within the earth.
Onasis: “Sati”
Sati: “Its amazing doctor, the heat sources seems to be more than a 300km below the surface….by my analysis doctor the whole temple is the source for the element”.
Onasis: “you should see is Sati…..but as I suspected they are not here”
She stares at the ring around the crucible on which are eight engraved imprints, imprints that seemed to have housed eight objects, imprints of what appears to be faces….masks.
Onasis: “something is missing….”
Delgado : “Yo doc…I assume we’ve found what we came for?”
Onasis: (still observing the statue)…Yes we have indeed…captain, let’s retrieve the sample”
Delgado: “Santos…the containment now”
Santos unpacks a cylindrical device, which by the touch of a button, extends in length to about four feet. The three men dip the device into the crucible. An electronic meter on the device begins to indicate the level of containment. Within a few seconds the cylinder is full.
By this time Onasis has reached another view of the statue, she is able to view the top of the crucible. Where if only her face can been seen, a smile has formed.
Onasis: “There you are”
On the tilted top of the crucible is another engraved imprint of a last mask, but unlike the rest it content remains. A black mask, forge of a strange light metal. Smooth and resembles the face of a female lion.
Onasis stares at it for a while and then observes Delgado and the squad. She diverts her attention to the mask and then slowly moves her hands to claim the prize. But to her amazement, it withers away like smoke disappearing completely from her sight.
Onasis is startled. A strange chill cuts through her spine, the feeling similar is to a naked body suddenly exposed to the worst of frost winds. Only this time it the wind felt as though it were alive, whispering a morbid chant as it cuts through her being .
She looks around the hall and sees nothing strange but her soul says otherwise. Danger lurks within.