 Present Day Orpheus was well versed in Vortex |
It was a relatively calm afternoon by New Babbage standards and Mr. Angkarn decided he should take a break from the repairs to his ship. He had gotten the engines working enough for a very shaky flight to a secluded meadow just outside the city wall. "That should be a safe enough place to keep you, Old Girl," he said, pulling the door closed and locking it. He then walked back towards the... |
 Wandering at night through the byways of New Babbage, Piper happened upon a machine that appeared to have been forced upwards through the ground. Though he stood there silently for more that a minute, the gears sticking out of his head appeared to be working at a much faster rate than normal for him. Finally he turned and walked away, shaking his head. "They've always been red... |
 Friday to Saturday (End of week #1)
With research into the micro-portal complete for now, and the portal generator undergoing reconfiguration for a somewhat more important urchin related experiment, Avariel Falcon decided to locate the strange machines that had poped up around the city. "Hey! Unit #12! Lets go for a walk, you can take some nice... |
 The door of the building was boarded up; there were a few gaps between the boards, but those were definitely not large enough to let any urchins slip through. Lisa peered through one of the cracks. In the dimming light, she could make out a long, narrow hallway, with a bench running along the outer wall of the hallway. At the far end of the bench, she could just see a white, rectangular...... |
After that, Gadget took them below to his lab, and introduced them all to Unit 9, the surveillance unit Miss Falcon had provided him. Gadget talked about portals, and monitors, and aetheric receivers, and Lisa didn't understand it one bit. He also showed off his gas chamber, first asking for volunteers among the urchins before sulkily sending in Unit 9. Lisa didn't see or understand much of... |
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Felisa Fargazer sat up, looking around with confusion at her surroundings. Then she remembered--she'd come to the Vole early, to wait there for the meeting of the urchins. She must have dozed off...but what had awakened her? Suddenly, she heard a voice outside. "It would not be hard for me to tie that costume around your neck tight and throw you in the canal!" She heard another... |
 Tepic sat shaking in the Vole, Lisa comforting him. Imagine, after all he had tried to teach the new urchins, to be caught like that! Earlier in the evening he had been searching the pumpkins outside the houses and factories of New Babbage, helping himself to a few treats from each when he spied a familiar figure in the distance - it was that bloke from the Van Creed, standing on the... |
 Once again Gadget's sleep was bought to an abrupt halt, but this time the deaomons had taken on a new form. Yes the old faces were there, but they had been joined by ghastly creatures the like of which Gadget had never before imagined. Except he had seen something reminiscent of their kind and although it was after nightfall, he had not been dreaming. He shivered. He no longer... |
 It was October the 31st. Mornington had been spending most tinkering around in his lab in Clockhaven, oblivious to the other chapters that the automaton had been writing in City Hall. It wasnt until the clockwork rat which seems to be living in the old power plant in clockhaven informed him of the role he was playing, and the new page that appeared on the 31st that thing started... |
Lysana felt as if she'd only just arrived. In truth, it had been about a week, perhaps two. But she'd rapidly realized she wasn't home so much as visiting due to necessity. And those traces of home she'd clung to were vanishing. The Brass Bottle's staff was busy packing and storing everything. The news of Ereh's succession reached her ears, though. She went looking for Piper, hoping she... |
Erehwon read the letter again, hoping it would say something different this time. It did not. She looked across the kitchen to her housekeeper, "Miss Drummond?" Marta Drummond looked over from the stove. "Miss Yoshikawa, you look like you've been told your cat was run over by the Babbage tram." "Worse. At least you won't have to deal with another... |
