text; un: alenko

[majorbiotic]

If anyone is investigating the mines, be careful around the ore they take out of there. My co-workers at the Trading Post have warned me that it's very dangerous. I tried to confirm this by scanning some with my omni-tool but it doesn't even register that there's something physically there when I try. And my tool does work-- I tested it on a chair just to make sure and the readings were normal.

But back on the subject. They tell me that the ore is made into something they call "pulsefire". All three of my co-workers agree it's nothing good. One of them said that if you use it as flint, it'll create a pulsefire storm "as big as a whole town" and then said it killed her grandmother. Another told me that it's "pure evil" and "only kills living things in its path".

Has anyone else come across this "pulsefire" in their investigation? I would suggest trying to sprinkle it into your conversations with the locals and gauge their reaction. The comment on a storm "as big as a whole town" really set off alarm bells, considering everything else we've discovered so far.

There's also something else that's been troubling me. Whatever is happening is affecting our technology and even our perception. Words blur and start to look like gibberish if we focus on it for too long. My omni-tool didn't register the ore as a physical object and when I tried later, it just turned off. And of course we have the locals who repeat themselves or just look blank if we ask them certain questions. It feels... too familiar to things I've seen back home. I don't like it. I really, really don't like it.

Comments

[callada]

Not everything here adds up, we all know that. Those bandits just disappeared after the attack like some kind of an illusion. What if there's a whole ruined town right under our noses and we just can't see it?

[spacedisaster]

[ Sorry for the butt in, he's just freaking out. ]

Let's hope there's a better explanation for this mess because learning that the local snakes have been feeding themselves with the ashes of the previous town citizens wasn't in my horror card bingo until today

[callada]

Considering the very first mission had us fighting the former citizens of a country morphed into monstrous, aggressive creatures that apologized when they'd been shot, I can't say it doesn't follow. These orbs are devastating.

[spacedisaster]

I wasn't here for that one, but I've heard the stories. [ And boy, they suck ] The more we find, the worse they get it seems.

[majorbiotic]

That's definitely one theory. But given that my omni-tool is acting up when I try to scan the ore, I don't think we'll be able to use technology to find out.

[callada]

I don't know a thing about that tool of yours, but when you say acting up, what's it doing?

[majorbiotic]

Well, like I said, it didn't register that the ore was a physical object. That in itself is really strange. Since it did show normal scans of the chair, I'm thinking that whoever controls the orb is actively interfering with tech when it's used for certain things.

[callada]

Right, wasn't sure if there was something else to "acting up." Some of the devices people have give some kind of errors or warnings when they go wrong.

Strange no matter how you look at it.

[majorbiotic]

That was the strangest part: it didn't show any errors before just turning off. It took five seconds for me to turn it back on, which is five seconds too long for a device like this.

[callada]

Have you had anyone else look at it? We've got some pretty clever tech-inclined people here. Or the Doctor, he's got that screwdriver that seems to do just about anything, maybe he can fix your device.

[majorbiotic]

Aside from not giving a reading on the ore, there's nothing wrong with my omni-tool.

If someone wants to take the ore out of the mine and try analyzing it using other methods, they're welcome.