Greetings, Agents of Division 66. First off, congratulations to everyone involved to the success of both operations SILVERSPEAR and MOTHER RUSSIA! While AMWOG is still a threat, we did deal them a great blow, which should take a while to recover from! Also, thanks to agent Msika who's perseverance and hard work is almost solely responsible for our intervention in AMWOG's affairs. It's truly a tragedy that you could not be there for these great successes. it does, However, seem as though that may not always be the case, and that is a little concerning. After the events of Operation: MOTHER RUSSIA, an email circulated among our agents. The message was coded, but thanks to the quick work of a few good agents, we have a, relatively, decoded version! A copy of both the coded and decoded message can be found below. Spoiler: Encrypted Message ERROR - RELAY ID // 01110100 01110100 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110011 00110101 00110110 00111000 // Vg jnf qnex jura gur tnyyrl cnffrq orgjvkg gur Onfnyg Cvyynef bs gur Jrfg naq gur fbhaq bs gur hygvzngr pngnenpg fjryyrq cbegragbhf sebz nurnq. Naq gur fcenl bs gung pngnenpg ebfr gb bofpher gur fgnef, naq gur qrpx terj qnzc, naq gur irffry erryrq va gur fhetvat pheerag bs gur oevax. 179579107 Gura jvgu n dhrre juvfgyr naq cyhatr gur yrnc jnf gnxra, naq Pnegre sryg gur greebef bs avtugzner nf rnegu sryy njnl naq gur terng obng fubg fvyrag naq pbzrg-yvxr vagb cynargnel fcnpr. Arire orsber unq ur xabja jung funcryrff oynpx guvatf yhex naq pncre naq sybhaqre nyy guebhtu gur nrgure, yrrevat naq tevaavat ng fhpu iblntref nf znl cnff, naq fbzrgvzrf srryvat nobhg jvgu fyvzl nyvir cnjf jura fbzr zbivat bowrpg rkpvgrf gurve phevbfvgl. Gurfr ner gur anzryrff yneinr bs gur Bgure Tbqf, naq yvxr gurz ner oyvaq naq jvgubhg zvaq, naq cbffrffrq bs fvathyne uhatref naq guvefgf. ERROR - RELAY ID // 01110100 01110100 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110011 00110101 00110110 00111000 // Spoiler: De-crypted Message ERROR - RELAY ID //tt0113568// It was dark when the galley passed betwixt the Basalt Pillars of the West and the sound of the ultimate cataract swelled portentous from ahead. And the spray of that cataract rose to obscure the stars, and the deck grew damp, and the vessel reeled in the surging current of the brink. 179579107 Then with a queer whistle and plunge the leap was taken, and Carter felt the terrors of nightmare as earth fell away and the great boat shot silent and comet-like into planetary space. Never before had he known what shapeless black things lurk and caper and flounder all through the aether, leering and grinning at such voyagers as may pass, and sometimes feeling about with slimy alive paws when some moving object excites their curiosity. These are the nameless larvae of the Other Gods, and like them are blind and without mind, and possessed of singular hungers and thirsts. ERROR - RELAY ID //tt0113568// The number set in the center is a link to a password protected video. The password is "Alive" The video is of a girl, drawing. She speaks and says: "And then I was running in this house and it was part of the Sprawl. There were all these men with glass faces and they were playing. Mixing things together. So many different kinds but they didn't look like they were having fun, they weren't smiling. I always smile when I play. Not like Grisha, he never looks like he's having fun. Then there was lots of snow, it was cold and I didn't like it. I just wanted to leave and go home. Go home and see Gwen, but I couldn't go. They wouldn't let me leave. Who's Gwen mommy? Why isn't she here? When is she coming back?" The girl is drawing the AMWOG code for "Help" The text is apparently from Dreams of Terror and Death (Thank you everyone in the "Mother Russia Epilogue Email" thread) This does raise a number of questions, but not the one you might think. Things like Were Msika is, how we get to her, whats happening to her and who the kid is, are all questions that we will eventually, and inevitably find out. But no, the questions I have are these: Is Msika's wife Gwen truly dead? I did some checking and "hit by a train" seem kind of convenient.. I've seen people come back from death before, both figuratively and literally, and its never good for anyone involved. If she happens to be alive, where is she? If she is, she may still be out there plotting our doom. That really doesn't sit well with me. If it's true, that's a problem we should nip in the bud before it gets out of hand. If we find her, can we catch her instead of actually killing her? I understand that she killed one of ours and i'm not condoning it at all, However, I can kind of understand why she did it. That was a situation "we" (the Agency) created when we refused to extract Miska in the first place. (refer to Archive file: MS79KA) The fourth, and probably the most pressing is: What happens if and when we retrieve Msika and she finds out we may or may not have killed her wife? Lets just be honest, we're going to need to go get her, if only because she may have important information about AMWOG that we need. I'd hope that we'd go get her simply in the spirit of "not leaving a man behind", though. I can see this going one of a number of ways and none of them are good. That is unless we come up with a plan first, Or rather several. I'm sure i'm not the only one who has thought about this. I just figured its a rickety bridge we should discuss before we make the attempt to cross. Regards -William Ravenhold
