Sleepless in Kalachi

Mission brief: - Email from Dr. Collette Arceneaux

- “Mr.Timmins: Please, I’m in dire need of your help, there is something sinister going on in Kalachi. If you have contacts or someone who can help me, I beg of you. Cellphones don’t work here and the landlines have been cut. I don’t know what is causing this but for one I can tell you that it isn’t leakage from the uranium mine nearby, I fear that it’s something more sinister. My partner has vanished and none of the villagers even acknowledge there ever having been anyone here but me. I’m trapped, I can’t get out of the village, I’m being watched all the while. You’re my only hope. Collette”

- Got a news snippet: Missing: World Health Organization members; Doctor Abigail Archibald specialist in infectious diseases, and Colette Arceneaux

Location: Kalachi, Kazakhstan

Objectives

 * 1) - Find Collette
 * 2) - Find out what’s going on in the village
 * 3) - Find out what’s going on with Dr. Mozes
 * 4) - Extract Collette if need be
 * 5) - Locate Dr. Abigail Archibald
 * 6) - Identify Sarif agents

Operative After-Action Reports
Jason:

Patrick:
 * Entry plan
 * Airdrop to Kalachi
 * Exfil?
 * Gear
 * Light radioactive protection and measuring eq
 * Cybernetic tools
 * Long distance tasers?
 * Flashbangs
 * Sonic weapons
 * Dartguns
 * Jammer eq
 * Tactical eq - dragonskin, handgun etc
 * Trauma kit
 * Cover story
 * Greenpeace activists
 * My alias: John Williams
 * Jason: Sergei Vaschlenko
 * http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3162867/Mystery-Kazakh-Sleepy-Hollow-SOLVED-Villagers-fell-asleep-days-time-suffered-hallucinations-poisoned-disused-uranium-nearby.html
 * Kalachi’s Mayor: Asel Sadvokasova


 * Kalachi
 * Almost a ghost town
 * Something wrong with the citizens.. strange vacant stare. Creepy.
 * Mayor’s office
 * Strange behavior, the mayor didn’t seem to be like a real human. Kept writing gibberish and smiling.
 * A few other people nearby with similar behavior, but not all
 * Hospital
 * Many patients sleeping in their rooms
 * Professor Leonid Rikhvanov
 * I believe it is caused by Encephalitis Lethargica
 * Old disease
 * High fever, people are slow
 * Similar to sickness from the tse-tse fly
 * One of the rooms:
 * Elderly woman, very malnourished
 * Elderly man, foreigner
 * Collette
 * "People who brought her in found her"
 * Brought in two days ago
 * Sleeping, Professor referred to it as a comatose state
 * Guard at the receptionist desk with pistol and rifle
 * Followed some tracks from the hospital
 * Two Jeeps
 * Seven men with rifles.
 * Back at the hideout
 * Explosions during the night
 * Carpetbombing
 * Jason is gone
 * Large shapes in the sky. Huge ones, massive like mountains, Can’t make out details
 * Newspaper on the ground with the date: 14.8.2020
 * Someone walking from behind a corner. The elderly man that was sleeping next to Collettte
 * Dr. Tomas Wentworth Greely
 * “I need to wake up"
 * Dr. Collette Arcenaux and Dr. Abigail Archibald are sleeping too.
 * Small red figure approaching dressed in a brilliant crimson frock that glides smoothly on the ground behind the figure. Suddenly appeared next to us. Elfin features. Lithe and beautiful, white hair, lips and eyes are bright crimson red. Androgynous. Holds a silver rod with a fossilized flower on top.
 * “Behold, I have come.” in a terrible beautiful booming voice. In a language I can’t place.
 * Dr. Greely woke up.
 * It’s Iridium, second densest material. Related to platinum,
 * Discovered 1803
 * Amongst the rarest elements in the world
 * Iridium content of meteorites is much higher than what is found in earth’s crust.
 * Soldiers came in to shoot us. We made a daring escape, both of us getting shot in the progress. Jason was worse off. Collette and Dr. Greely came with us running from the paramilitia
 * Escaped the paramilitary to an abandoned building
 * Dr Greely: I know a man named Charles Rutherford II, a botanist who lives in a big mansion in Kalachi.
 * Douglas arrived
 * Charles Rutherford II’s mansion
 * Elderly African-American maid (Lulu) opened the door and greeted us with a thick southern accent.
 * Paintings, statues and plants from many different areas and cultures.
 * Library - Charles
 * Black hair, black suit, late fifties perhaps. Sipping port, smoking a cigarette
 * Beside him - standing is another man, thin, approx eight feet tall. Wears a black leather coat past his knees. Black pants and boots, gloves. Covering his face is a cloth (like Rorscharch in Watchmen) and a wide-brimmed hat.
 * Douglas: Holy shit, is that human?
 * Charles: This is Mr. Black - he has been with me a long time. He suffered an accident as a child.
 * Pin on his lapel is of the same flower I saw in the dream that the red-coated creature had on its silver rod.
 * Jason found a pin of a Canada’s flag.
 * Douglas found a heavy metal object that showed a hologram of earth.
 * Hospital
 * We infiltrated the hospital. Found out that Dr. Rutherford is behind the decision to try and kill us.
 * Rutherfod’s mansion
 * We got in after Charles and Mr. Black had left. Found a few interesting books:
 * Man-Eating Plants by R.J.Crandall. This slim book details the legends of alleged man-eating plants from around the world. Most of the stories come from South America, Asia and Africa. Flipping through this volume, you discover that the corner of the page is turned down. Examining the page, you find a story from China about a giant flower that swallowed people. An accompanying illustration shows a large blossom closed around a woman, her head and torso fully swallowed by the plant.
 * Buddhism by Dr.Xou Chen. This is a large dog-eared book about Buddhism with several book-marked pages. Checking those pages, you find that they all deal with the legend of the birth of Buddha from a giant lotus.
 * Obscure Religions of the World by Dr Herschel Smythe. This is a large and heavy treatise on hundreds of world religions, common and little-known. In the chapter on obscure Asian sects one part is marked. It is a very short discussion of an obscure and mostly unknown sect called They Who Never Sleep. It says the sect believes that The Ancient One will be born again from a giant red flower like Buddha, except evil. When the Ancient One comes, he will destroy the world and enslave all men. The Ancient One will control all men through their sleep, and so the sect never sleeps, lest they miss the signs and the Ancient one comes  and enslaves them. The apocalyptic signs They Who Never Sleep watch for include the unearthing of strange round stones. Whenever one of these stones is found, the sect destroys it, crushing it and burning the dust. These stones are only found in China, although the text does not give the location of the sect or where the stones are allegedly unearthed.
 * National Geographic Magazine, Oct 2006. A short two page article about a secretive Chinese sect called They Who Never Sleep explains that the sect’s purpose is to watch for signs of the coming of an evil deity who they believe will be born out of a giant red flower. The article says that the group continually digs and searches for the fossilized seeds of some unknown giant plant that they say will bear the evil god.
 * Letter in Rutherford’s office:
 * Long and difficult trip. But after much searching I believe that I have located the sect of They Who Never Sleep in Shaansi Province. The locals are hesitant to speak of them and say that they do not welcome outsiders. I was told that the sect continually digs, searching for the fossils and that they guard them with their lives when unearthed. I could not get confirmation of what becomes of the fossils, however, or how frequently they are unearthed. The terrain is treacherous and the locals are suspicious of foreigners, but I believe we can deal with them. I await further
 * In Rutherford’s bedroom:
 * A note written in Latin inside a small chest
 * Person named Abon
 * Was contacted through dreams by an Ancient One, not of this earth named Wulthuun. He was coming to earth to spread his seed and take over mankind.
 * Diary
 * First words: I found one.
 * Talks about being in China
 * Has to find a place for it so nobody can find it
 * The seed speaks to him
 * The radiating quantities that come from Uranium mining affecting the soil is the best possible place to plant it. (10 years go)
 * Talks about us visiting him
 * Dr. Archibald had visited him. She was onto them, and before Rutherford could interject Mr. Black disintegrated her.
 * In Mr. Black’s bedroom
 * Glove with only three fingers.
 * Afghanistan Military Base
 * Video conference with Director Pearce:
 * Keywords Abon and Wolthuun - they have come up before. Wolthuun is a very high priority threat.
 * Agents had been infected by pollen and had some very vivid dreams
 * Dream:
 * He woke up in an enormous chamber, cold and dark. Spots of sickly red green lights. Several figures, as many as a dozen. Giant humanoids 8-10ft strangely angled bony limbs. High flaring ears eyes tiny glowing red dots. Enormous aliens shouted at each other in paniced voices. Concerned with several banks of controls and lights and screens. Odd furniture, strange designs. Red blue screen appeared with an image. Planet of blue and green swiftly approaching. Felt like it was earth, except the continets were wrong. Spacecraft plunging into eart 65 million years ago. Ship was crashing. Dinosaurs, jungles. Suddenly heard a sonorous voice: “Behold, for I have come.” (same thing that I heard in my dream)
 * Pearce: There’s been simultaneous attacks against Division offices in Munich, London, Rome, Brussels
 * Phosporous bombs.. there might have been a robbery and then everything got incinerated
 * Video was left to headquarters
 * Man sitting at a desk. Oak red curtains. Teak desk. Beard and whiskers. Chiseled features. White shirt, Red cloak with a hood. Golden chain with buttons in front holding the cloak
 * I am sending you this message. To acknowledge the divisions acts of war against us, the templars. You have broken in and stolen the head of Baphomet from us. And this an act of war that you have started and we will only retaliate. We will attack soon.
 * Headquarters
 * We’re opening this here on earth and not on our enoch station in space (that we fly a shuttle to from Area 51 in Nevada) to avoid another tutankhamon incident (opening the sarcophagus and releasing a deadly plague)
 * The box
 * The two mages division hired performed a ritual and suddenly with a burst of smoke the symbols started glowing.
 * The box started opening
 * Thomas Karlsson lifts the lid and moves it aside
 * Inside the box:
 * Four oval-shaped objects - deep blood-red, set in their indentations
 * Seeds? (Garofanis mentioned there were rumors of seeds that were before our first generations)
 * The seeds were taken to a lab for testing
 * Each stone has the same dna as one of us.
 * They are 9900 years old
 * They’re not really seeds, but fossilized blood
 * The silvery flower we saw on the pin does not resemble any flower in the world
 * Volthuun keeps coming up whenever the flower is searched. Plant god, Extra terrestial, mind control
 * The hologram pedestal. Shows earth from 65 million years ago. The metal is from Mars.
 * Genevieve contacted me
 * The attacks against Division also happened against Templar offices in Napoli, Berlin, Vienna and Oxford
 * Templars took higher casualty than our Division.
 * Our offices in Frankfurt were also attacked as well as our bank accounts in Switzerland.
 * I have no idea who’s behind it.
 * We sent her the video of the templar who threatened us.
 * I have no idea who’s behind it.
 * We sent her the video of the templar who threatened us.