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saveourearth2020-04-25 07:35 am
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Thanks, Ben [Mingle]
Date: 4th of January 20, 3 hours after everyone came out of the cavesCharacters: OPEN
Three hours after everyone came out of the caves, an earthquake of the magnitude 5.7 shakes the echo boundary.
Up on the ruins, a single block from one of the lower walls gets dislocated and falls.
Down in the city and villages, things go a bit worse. A couple of sheds collapse, things fall over and off things, and some houses are left with cracks in their walls and might end up condemned. A number of telegraph poles fall over and a few on cars. There's three injured and no fatalities over all, and a few related car accidents because people got distracted that again go without fatalities.
...And, of course, the Media are back. The next day, the Sun titles "IS THERE A NEW CRACK IN THE EARTH'S CRUST??? Another earthquake strikes Mossgate 4 houses condemned, 10 admitted to hospital, powerlines down", but newspapers with more journalistic integrity send reporters as well.
Someone else is back, too - Numbered will see Mr Neutral, Mr Evil and Mr Helpful wander the streets.
Three hours after everyone came out of the caves, an earthquake of the magnitude 5.7 shakes the echo boundary.
Up on the ruins, a single block from one of the lower walls gets dislocated and falls.
Down in the city and villages, things go a bit worse. A couple of sheds collapse, things fall over and off things, and some houses are left with cracks in their walls and might end up condemned. A number of telegraph poles fall over and a few on cars. There's three injured and no fatalities over all, and a few related car accidents because people got distracted that again go without fatalities.
...And, of course, the Media are back. The next day, the Sun titles "IS THERE A NEW CRACK IN THE EARTH'S CRUST??? Another earthquake strikes Mossgate 4 houses condemned, 10 admitted to hospital, powerlines down", but newspapers with more journalistic integrity send reporters as well.
Someone else is back, too - Numbered will see Mr Neutral, Mr Evil and Mr Helpful wander the streets.
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“...I lost my grip,” he admits with regret. He had made a serious miscalculation. “I had no issues the first time I climbed up, but I couldn’t see above the head from there.” Trying to move the conversation off of himself and to what he had learned, he adds, “Its head is upriver about a mile from the mouth and the tip of its tail is roughly a mile and a half out under the ocean. Maybe two.” Hence why he had tried to go up again.
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"You free climbed. Without a spotter." She hisses out the statement that tells everyone gathered just what she thinks of that decision.
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"Alone, a mile away. Climbing, without any way to contact anyone." He shakes his head slowly, letting out a breath in less of a hiss than a shudder. "That's... I thought I should stay back. We shouldn't have let you stay back alone."
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Compliant with Sadie directing him to move his left arm around at the glenohumeral joint, he demonstrates full range with signs of pain flickering at end ranges, “I suspect it’s a grade one sprain...it just needs a rest.”
“None of you should have stayed,” he says with certainty that fades from his voice as he continues. “Chalk is not a stable base for anchors, so yes, I did free climb. Being in there with me would have placed a spotter at risk. I can at least handle more force. And I have my phone, I could have dialed with my Number in an emergency. It was far from ideal, but from our limited options, it seemed like the best.” He could think of no safer route aside from being able to fly around the mouse, and he would never ask a child to attempt something so potentially dangerous.
Bowing his head forward, he closes his eyes and cups his forehead silently. After a moment, he turns reaches into a pocket of his bag to retrieve his phone. His phone is still disconnected from any services, keeping the images isolated on the device. “Please, look.” He offers the phone with the first picture pulled up at the tip of the mouse’s tail. It and subsequent photos capture the way the cavern is molded around the mouse without any tool marks to be seen.
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"What if the damage you sustained was too much for you to contact us?" Sadie shoots down Ben's point and leaves it at that before turning her attention to the phone
"It's like the rock formed around the mouse but that shouldn't be possible, the chalk here formed over sixty-five million years ago at the bottom of the sea before being uplifted due the changes in the land and sea levels..."
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"Because I can tell you're right about the size from these photos, Ben, and we should ask: were mice even around, in a recognizable form, that long ago?"
It really did resemble the smaller dormice, and all species changed through evolution over time, even if in sometimes-subtler ways.
"If it's like certain aliens we know, it may simply be assuming this form for convenience, or assumed it long enough ago to make an impression on more modern history as well."
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The teenager listens as Sadie and Walter discuss the photos with Russell looking at them as well. He replies after hearing his name, “Eutherian mammals, the common ancestors of most mammals, were present no less than 145 million years ago and potentially as long as 165 million years ago. Ischyromyids, which are probable ancestors for the mice, were present roughly 60 to 65 million years ago, but they would likely look drastically different.”
“Whether the mouse at the river mouth evolved since burrowing, burrowed and grew more recently, or simply took shape based on seeing a mouse in the tunnels, there is one thing I am certain of...” He looks up, his expression serious and troubled, “It barely moved when I dropped. Imagine if it were to be attacked. Escaping or fighting with no clear exit...it would be catastrophic to Mossgate.”
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"...Ah. Well. That might not go over swimmingly," Russell concludes, mind running through notions of what might happen if a shark does go hassling the mouse. "We... need that shrink ray for more than sharks, don't we."
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"Magic is bullshit," She states grumpily, "And if its not magic but something more sci-fi there are very few ways I can think of to verify it. If that was the reaction to Ben falling near it, I dread to think what would happen if we tried to get a blood sample to test."
Sadie flops to the ground to the Ben and ponders possible solutions to the problem that had found themselves with.
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An out-there thought, even Walter will admit, but if they're brainstorming, may as well share it, right?
"We could just use samples already discarded. Surely there must be something that has recent enough cells from the Mouse on it?"
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Watching Sadie drop to sit next to him, he nods in agreement with her assessment. Testing the giant dormouse itself could prove far more dangerous. He listens as Walter prompts for other options, and Benjiro thinks on the matter carefully out loud, “...I might be able to build most of the parts myself with enough time for something like that if Sadie doesn’t have access at university. We have to prioritize checking in on the shark maestro, but I would be willing to try. If nothing else, we can collect hair samples the mouse has shed and start with that.”
“In the mean time, I did take samples of the chalk from the cavern around the mouse. Last time I examined the tunnel minerals, they were different from a sample right outside the entrance. I couldn’t pinpoint what made them different at the time unfortunately. Whether the cavern and tunnel samples will match is another matter.”
In an effort to disclose all of what he found, he adds, “And there is one more thing. When I stood on the top of the mouse the first time, my Number reacted to it. It was only knowledge, but the feeling that came with it was a lot like what you described in the river mouth, Sadie. I almost forgot to breathe.”
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"...The river mouth. Right. Didn't Mary Ann say... You said it's right under there? Can't be a coincidence you both had something." Russell glances back the way of the tunnel. "I think everyone's gotten something from the smaller mice, by now. Was it... Was it when you started climbing, or when you reached some specific point, do you think?"
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As Ben talks about his Echo experience Sadie's lips thin and her ears flatten, "That sounds like what happened to me," She grits out, "We can confirm that that giant mouse is the nexus of th Boundary. Maybe that's why it's asleep, the Boundary could be a massive energy drain so it hibernate to offset it?"