2017-08-23 Solaris AAR: Guardian Temple
| AFTER ACTION REPORT (AAR) SOLARIAN SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND (SOLSOC) Prepared by Elhaym van Houten Authorized for release to Gebler Special Exploratory Group (SEG) (Clearance-confirmed contractors included) |
| SCENE LOG: | A Double Date in Unlikely Places |
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| LOCATION: | Guardian Temple |
| PARTICIPANTS: | 2LT van Houten, Fei Fong Wong, Lily Keil, Leon Albus, Ruby |
| DESCRIPTION: | Infiltrated Guardian Temple due to conflict erupting outside on temple grounds. |
| PRE-EVENT SUMMARY: | I was invited to survey the "Guardian Temple" by POI Fei Fong Wong, who I had contacted while in Linga. Fei anticipated a Metal Demon attack, and it turned out that he was correct on an extremely large scale. (I did not ascertain his source; it may have been the Yggdrasil pirates' intelligence group.) During this conflict we were forced to flee into the Temple's grounds due to Fei's injury by enemy commander attacks. We were contacted by former Kislevi operatives POI "LILY KEIL" and a comrade of hers, Leon Albus. We were also aided by a communicative creature that called itself "Ruby." |
| EVENT SUMMARY: | We were able to infiltrate past Metal Demon residual forces (see supplementary report, "Metal Frog") and cross several dangerous situations, which I believe were created by the "Guardians" through dynamic methods of some sort. They included the creation of a point gravity source of near-singularity status, so caution is indicated in the Guardian Temple.
We reached a center of the "Guardian" ritual manifestations and religious activity and were confronted by several of the entities, or their holographic represented, who posed a complicated challenge to us. The canon of "Guardians" appears to include 24 entities, and we were challenged to array 24 statues corresponding to their various traits in relationship to a "Human" statue to represent an understanding of the order of the universe. Below please see my solution, which was successful. (IMAGE: A circular field loosely arranged, generated in a freehand art tool in the Solaris app suite. Elly placed the Elemental, Terrestrial and Celestial guardians 'behind' the human figure, who was surrounded by the 'Greater' Guardians and faced towards clusters of the 'Ideals' and 'Guardian Lords.' This may seem familiar to religious scholars.) At this point an entity who identified itself as "Dan Dairam" (the 'Guardian of Time') appeared and interacted with us, which was a surprise. We did not confirm physical presence of the entity, but it appeared capable of reason and novel response to conversation. "Dan Dairam" took the form of a felinoid demihuman wearing formal attire, approximately 0.8 meters in height. "Dan Dairam" informed us that the Metal Demons sought to destroy the statues of the Guardians in order to free restraints on "Mother." Mother was not clearly identified, but appears to be a Metal Demon commander or other supporting force. Conversation between the others also revealed a perception of political discord in the Metal Demon ranks and repeated contact with "Riesenlied." "Dan Dairam" exhorted us to protect the statues. He did not reveal where they are, and when I inquired if it was possible to relocate the statues (e.g. storage in a secure facility), he seemed to believe I referred to the statues present in the chamber, and indicated that those statues were not what he spoke of. "Dan Dairam" also exerted an unknown force on Lily Keil after identifying her as containing Malevolence, which was, evidently, extracted and extirpated by unknown means. Albus was alarmed at the manifestation, but Keil was unharmed and reported feelings of well-being afterwards. "Dan Dairam" then provided us with several stone tablets engraved with icons of the Guardians, which appear to in some sense contain transmitted energy from them. I was given one corresponding to "Solais Emsu," "Guardian of the Sky." (The parallels are interesting but may be a linguistic artifact.) We were then shown an exit that led through stone tunnels, although we did not escape battle entirely... |
| RECOMMENDED ACTION: | None specified. |
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