The Black Lighthouse ( Onyx Monitoring Station )

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

Saturday, April 11, 2009 1:06 PM

Day 13

Something must have happened to the team and the soldiers that went with them.
They haven't returned for days now.

I'm alone here.

One of them left their monitor on.
It's the one that does the radar sweep of this quadrant of Miranda.

It looks like it's picking up a low lying cloud bank moving slowly eastward, over the ocean, towards the west coast of Onyx.
We are on the far east coast of Onyx, so we won't see it for a while...

THELIGHTHOUSEKEEPER

Saturday, April 11, 2009 1:28 PM

Day 14

Michael has contacted me again.
He says that he is in a bunker with the others from his Station, near Miranda.
They were told to wear gas masks as a precaution.

Michael said that his Station had a chemist assigned there and the chemist told him that there would be 'unpredictable side-effects'
from a chemical gas that's this experimental.

I asked Michael what the purpose of the gas is... but, like here, the project workers are not allowed to reveal any project secrets.

I haven't seen or smelled any type of gas yet.
Neither are the instruments picking up any abnormal readings...other than that cloud bank over the ocean.

I think I will look for that box of supplies now.

THELIGHTHOUSEKEEPER

Saturday, April 11, 2009 2:29 PM

Day 15

Radar says the strange cloud just made landfall on the west coast.

It's still a ways off. Onyx is a big island and we are on a peninsula at the eastern end.

This gas mask is uncomfortable.

THELIGHTHOUSEKEEPER

Saturday, April 11, 2009 2:39 PM

Day 16

No word on the team.
They must have left... or worse.

I went outside to were the map said would be an underground bunker, but it must be well hidden.
I hope it wasn't just a speculation map.
I'll see if the Architect left any clues to a landmark that will help me find the entrance.
Probably needs some kind of key or password anyway.
Also it must need power but I haven't found any thing that will help me with these problems yet.

THELIGHTHOUSEKEEPER

Saturday, April 11, 2009 3:10 PM

Day 17

The strange cloud is still moving slowly in our direction from the west.
The meteorological station reports that a storm is coming in from the east.
The 2 fronts should meet near the middle of Onyx.
Hopefully this will dissipate the strange cloud coming from the opposite direction.

THELIGHTHOUSEKEEPER

Sunday, April 12, 2009 3:50 PM

Day 18

I have just been to the bunker!
Yesterday I took the map down to were it looks like the bunker is hidden.
I walked around the area but found nothing.
Then I walked down to the beach.
I saw a crag in the rock wall that leads up to were the bunker should be.
I went through the crag and came to a large round door!
It had a card slot and a keypad next to it.
They were protected by a waterproof plastic shield.
I released the airtight seals and put my card in the slot.
The screen said 'ENTER PROJECT PASSWORD'.
I entered 'COLOUR SCHEMER'.
It worked! The large round door rolled open on it's track.

The storm from the east was howling at my back so I decided to ride the storm out in the bunker.
The storm was heavy and it lasted all night.
Finally the storm passed over and I left the bunker to come back here and check the radar.

I can't believe it!
It looks like the storm passed right over the strange cloud.
But that's impossible.
At least the cloud should have been pushed in another direction.
Its still heading east, towards Onyx Station.

THELIGHTHOUSEKEEPER

Tuesday, April 14, 2009 2:14 AM

Day 19

Michael has uploaded some preliminary results of the PAX experiment to Onyx Station.
The report is large and speaks in general terms, but it does mention that the gas is odorless and not visible.
But when the G-23 comes in contact with large bodies of water, the humidity transforms the gas into a visible cloud.

Radar shows no sign of the strange cloud.
This is good news, although the moisture from the storm may have kept the strange cloud visible,
(detectable by radar) for the time that it was over land.

Maybe the night vision goggles were brought here to help detect the gas.

That's just a guess.

THELIGHTHOUSEKEEPER

Wednesday, April 15, 2009 12:33 AM

Day 20

The strange cloud will be here tomorrow night.
I'm packing some things and heading for the bunker.

ANOTHERSKY

Wednesday, April 15, 2009 6:12 AM

That's an interesting idea. Nice diagrams.

Have you by any chance played Myst?

"I think we lost our fuzzy dice back there."
"Going for a ride."

Another Sky

THELIGHTHOUSEKEEPER

Wednesday, April 15, 2009 1:07 PM

Thanks for the nice words.
Yes, I love Myst, as you can tell.
I guess this journal is a combination of many of my favorite things -
but set in the Firefly universe of course.
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Day 21

I have been contacted by the Monitoring Station:
'Another Sky'.
It was nice to hear another voice.
Her station had not yet been hit by the strange cloud.

This journal is filling up.
Here's the 2nd one:

http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.asp?b=21&t=37809

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