The Black Lighthouse ( Onyx Monitoring Station )

POSTED BY: TheLighthouseKeeper
UPDATED: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 13:07
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THELIGHTHOUSEKEEPER

Thursday, April 9, 2009 4:57 AM

Day 9, sunrise

Tomorrow is the PAX project release.

There was a loud noise from the jungle just before sunrise.
The 4 team members scrambled down the stairs from their quarters to go investigate it.

As they hurried to the door of the station I heard part of a conversation they were having.
One of them said that the Alliance was going to use the wind as a 'delivery agent' - at least on some parts of the planet.

The details of the PAX Project were never fully disclosed to me, or anyone else, who didn't have high clearance levels,
but the way this is being treated is a little bit scary.
And living between an ocean and an electrified fence now feels different than when I 1st came to this beautiful island.
Originally, I liked being on this side of that fence. Now I'm not so sure.

THELIGHTHOUSEKEEPER

Thursday, April 9, 2009 5:05 AM

Day 9 noon

Only 2 workers returned from the jungle.
They seem very angry at missing 2.

I think they are calling for replacements.

The big one is really mad.

I have to go.

THELIGHTHOUSEKEEPER

Thursday, April 9, 2009 5:09 AM

Day 9, sunset

The replacements just came - with a large military escort.
I hope they're not all staying.

THELIGHTHOUSEKEEPER

Thursday, April 9, 2009 5:13 AM

Day 9, 9pm

Alarms!
I hear them coming for me.
The Alliance is releasing the PAX early!
Maybe to preempt any kind of opposition... I don't know, but they need me at my station now.

THELIGHTHOUSEKEEPER

Thursday, April 9, 2009 12:53 PM

Day 10, 3 am

I only have a moment.
They need us at our stations. The PAX Project was released early for some reason.
The 'monitoring' is exhausting, and they have only given me 5 minutes break today.
I have just been contacted by one of the other Monitoring Stations while at my console,
by a man named Michael.
I don't know if he is a 'Keeper' like me, or just a worker, but he was frantic.
It sounded as if there was some sort of uprising or something at his Station.
He was cut off before he could explain.

My 5 minutes are up...

THELIGHTHOUSEKEEPER

Friday, April 10, 2009 12:56 AM

Day 10, 5 am ( I think, very tired )

They finally let me leave the monitoring terminal.
I'm going to bed.

I can see some military personnel from my window, down at the dock. Looks like they're unloading boxes of gas masks... but I can't be sure... I'm tired... it's a ways off.

More tomorrow - later today. Sun's coming up.
Seagulls outside my window.
I need sleep.

THELIGHTHOUSEKEEPER

Saturday, April 11, 2009 2:47 AM

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A thunderbolt woke me up.

I rushed out of bed and ran outside my room into
the main monitoring area.

It is empty.

I ran down to the dock.
No one there.

I ran out to the growing field...

EVERYONE IS DEAD!

They're lying all over the field.

I can't breath!

Again, the loud, low howling sound blasts.

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THELIGHTHOUSEKEEPER

Saturday, April 11, 2009 3:14 AM

Day 10, noon

I'm woken from a nightmare by that howling blast.
I watch from my window and wait.
Soon I see another ship fall from the sky.
There is more to this than just some kind of warning.

The team heads out to the jungle, accompanied by the small military detachment that stayed from yesterday.

I'm alone in the station.

I use this chance to try to contact that 'Michael',
who contacted me earlier on the network.

I wait...

After about an hour, a response!
It's Michael.
He was waiting for a chance to talk to me without being overheard. He suggests that we don't talk, but just use text. I agreed.
He says he's a medical consultant at an OCS monitoring station, similar to Onyx, but near Miranda City, on the other side of the planet.

He said that the PAX Experiment went as planned.
He said the airborne delivery method was higher concentrated than the indoor method.
He said the results won't be noticeable immediately but...

His transmission ends.

No one has returned from the jungle yet.

THELIGHTHOUSEKEEPER

Saturday, April 11, 2009 3:25 AM

Day 11

No one has yet to return from the jungle.

The box of gas masks also had other items, including night vision goggles.

THELIGHTHOUSEKEEPER

Saturday, April 11, 2009 4:42 AM

Day 12

No sign of the team yet, or the soldiers that went with them.

Still haven't heard from Michael again either.

I found a hidden compartment in one of my 8 rooms today.
It was behind a panel in the wall.
There was a map in it and some other documents.
Looks like from the original architect.

I've never heard anyone talk of an underground bunker. I wonder if this team even knows about it.

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