Book: Empty desert
A bitter wind howls carrying chaotic grains of sand across the air. Ikipr arrives back at his tent... Sandstorms coming soon...the giant worms in the pits below are rumbling, an early warning sign. He covers the delicate equipment with the nailed down tarps and tattered clothes. He'd scavenged a bit of deep ground water via dowsing and a few cactus fruits that can be eaten or used as filters on his last run in the vast desert. Anhuit hasn't returned in days, possibly lost somewhere in the desert. He looks down at a violet prism and boots up a microscale semi-embedded GUI hologram - looks over the narrative lines, clicking ghost MP3 players, wondering why Mystery X hasn't posted in so long. It's lonely terrain out here in the desert - .God is coming though... Monolithic AI, omnipresent wetware-cloud interface. Infinite dataset, boundless knowledge...just within his temporal grasp - It's just a waiting game, like so many other things. He looks east toward and obscured sunrise, it's the region his siesomic indicator had last pointed too. He peers through some techy goggles and flips an EMF-readout switch. Nothing but the faint datapulses from the Earth's tectonics. VLF scans of the sand dunes will reveal the crystalline processor mountain as it surfaces in due time...but for now another sandstorm is beginning to greet him and his workbots attempting to shelter themselves in this desolate desert abode. When they finally find this core sequencer X, Titan, B - all the narrators will write again, for they will be eternal.
Tattered documents found at the camp read as follows
Day 14:
Water supplies run low. The droids seem restless. Sand in their circuits are making them glitch. She has not returned. Received data relay 5 days ago. Mostly gibberish, temporally scattered by solar flares. We are working on recovering the entire signal throughout the time toroid to the signal piece back together and pinpoint it's approximate place of origin. Mission has carried on for two weeks. Two weeks too long.
Day 19: Strange Silvery flames have been flickering in the distance of the desert heatwaves. Dr. X. had warned of reptile locals from the Kingdom within having a cave near our bases. The tracks I've seen in the sand lead me to beli...(Document is torn)
Day 23: (Page is stained and incomplete) Infinite...that is immediate though...EMF. Ikipr...North...Now..nullifies echoes...the hacks, the acoustically tuned remote.
- Set mode: Neural Blue.