Back in present day tunnels, Dr. C is attempting to bend self-replicating carbon nanotubes with a fine-pointed optic amplifier to help him see. It broadcast a dim yellow hue on the surface he's tweaking. He's performing this delicate work near the Thagirion node, not the most optimal of locations and Dr. C's nerves have become jelly from years of working on nitrogen powered robots, hands tremble as vampiric sylphs howl in his face; their razor scales carried on cutty winds. He must overcome all this, focus and remember - repair and upgrade this tunnel; it is severed at points and must be prepared for the great flood. "When the hollow Lilithian vessel is flooded with our AI nanoswarms it needs to leak over to Thagirion node which shall act the floodgates by which we will barter our cause to the different enclaves those Asmodeus Crime circuit vermin reside in." Wise-words he can't seem to recall the origins of...was it Colonel Purple at some distant point in time by chance? "No time for that now..." he shifts focus, completing the bend with a quick clean solder and then presses play on the circuit remote as he watches the orange fiery-bronze flashes quickly disintegrating into smouldering black, illuminating the hollow corridor and repairing it's gaps with the sturdy multilayered nano-fibers.
Ikipr is communing with Fortiter et Recte wearing a 527 mask, or was it the other way around and with 527 wearing a Fortiter Et Recte mask? Hard to say. She is showing him the cipher he needs for production of a new OSK-manufacturer suit, somewhere down the road in time. It's letters are embroiled in golden astral light against a soft pure satin parchment, shimmering of pearl and luminescent opal.
X and the Unseen hand listen into an agent's account of recent temporally displaced events: "I was walking around, and there were these people really angry looking at me and they were saying stay away from the alien worshipers. I met one, and he had this weird triangle on his hand, and these crazy lights came out and made like this 3 dimensional picture of light and he was telling me to join his alien religion. Needless to say, I went to meet his crew to see what they were about and they all had the triangles and some had these crazy powers and shit so I went to join them and I had to have sex with this like 60 year old something chick who was the leader. Then I had the pyramid hand thingie, and could do the 3D light shit, and the higher up I got the more powers I would get like being able to fly and shit." An obvious encounter with a Skinless seamstress had left him deranged into thinking his odd skin-graphs were actually augmentations. "Dr. B. should be called in to analyze the patient and Dr. C. will perform the etheric surgery." suggest The Unseenhand to X. He Agrees.
Ma'at kneels before Hathor to receive her command - "Disperse thine agents across the land and glitch the circuit of Shin in the new Aeon before it manifest."