IronFort: TheThreeEdgedSword205

Session 2.05 - Swimming through Stone

: 'Some said it was the dawn of the third age of mankind ...'
: 'It was ten years after the Earth-Minbari war'
: 'Ancient forces restarted their game like monsters from the deep.'
: 'I had seen too many false dawns ...'
: 'it gets dark again before it gets light but we did not realise how dark it can get.'
: 'Great Maker protector us from the fanatics, priests and heros.'

: Characters: GrahamBond, WeyungLi, DaroonVolaan, KeReen, TalHem, GloDer, TraLe

: TalHem order the minor scratch on the ship fixed. He writes a large report for the Quadrent 15 goverment and after swaping cargos with another trade ship they fly on to B5.

: The Minbari trading ship the ThePassingWind arrives at B5. Security [Chief Michael Garibaldi] ask 'Dulshan' TalHem about the attack. TalHem gives him a copy of his volumnious report. TalHem looks for cargos in TheZocolo. He also sees KatyaRomanov being chatted up by [Amb. G'Kar] (see: [2.1])

: DaroonVolaan arrives and is expecting to be told to report directly to [Amb. Delenn], but instead she orders him to investigate KatyaRomanov and verify her identity, Telepaths might be needed. He sets up a meeting room. KeReen things that [Amb. Delenn] and the Minbari on the station must be certain the KatyaRomanov is not a Shadow Souled Minbari like Gael Char'Grax was. He gets access to some Narn PPG and he sets up his squad in the next room and watchs the meeting room 'just in case'.

: WeyungLi returns to the EssSheena and reports that he has found a city and that they have permission to land on [Owlish 23]? but he has had vouched for the crew.

: GrahamBond dashes off the bridge and returns with his PDA and a strange Alien artifact. It is about hand sized and looks like a smooth rocks. It has always randomly changed colour and shape since GrahamBond won it but since arriving in the system it has started to show runes. GrahamBond used his PDA to record what it showed and had just remembered it (see [1.6]). He shows the PDA record to the Proffessor and he says that he does not know what it means but they are seen on Middle Ages documents connected with Rituals and Magic.

: GrahamBond, WeyungLi, The Captain, Professor Schnell and two lingists land on the planet (The natives read the crews mind and descover how to build a radio and build one so that they can have Air Trafic Control). The professor thinks that the archetecture is from the earth in the late middle ages, but modified after years of restyling. There are masive stone buildings in high gothic style. All the building have gargols and other stone decorations. A large stone stab arrives at the shuttles stairs and they walk on to it. It then floats towards a building. WeyungLi and Schnell come to the conculsion that not only are the natives Teps but they mush be powerful ... and hence they do not need high tech machines. A large stone door opens and inside there are 75 humans all dressed in somber coloured flowing robes. There is a stilted conversation. They descover that these 75 have 'just learned english now' so that they can converse with them. They ask for the leader's name, the natives have Tep Mind Pictures as 'Names' and he called himself 'He who swims in the sky'. They are then taken into a vaste inner chamber where hundreds more natives are sitting around in Telepathic conversation.

: The group descover. They call themselves the Nephlin and the planet Avlon. When asked about King Afther, they say intresting myth with a smile. They have the Arc of the Coventen but it is busy on the Project. Some of them last went to earth 600 plus years ago, but they used to like on earth until the Vorlons told them to wait here. They are elete soldiers here to fight Demons from the last war. They wait for the start of the new Great War. They hold a Great Demon now, he is traped inside the planet using the Arc.

: DaroonVolaan and the two Telepaths, GloDer & TraLe are waiting for KatyaRomanov in the room. There is a very tense atmosphere. The Minbari are paranoid that KatyaRomanov will turn out to be a Shadown Soul monster and Katya is just young and inexperienced. The Minbari Teps attempts to scan her and fail. DaroonVolaan request that they surface scan her to verify her identity. She allows them, the Teps 'nod to DaroonVolaan'. DaroonVolaan then asks why she is here. KatyaRomanov because she is on a mission from Valen and she shows proof, KatyaLetterFromValen. The Teps in there mind see the Vorlon giving her the Letter and they say "That this is very important" ...

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