Day 15

I started the session by checking out each of the pod Ages: Payiferen, Dereno & Negilahn. I was very pleased to see the power was on in all three despite it being four days (over six pod cycles) since the last time I visited. It was night in Payiferen and Nagilahn (I'm completely convinced the sun never sets in Dereno) and I began playing with the buttons by the windows and discovered that they were lights.

Payiferen Lights

Very cool! In Dereno you can see the lights only in the lower, left window (below the ice), but in Negilahn I couldn't see the lights at all. I noticed that I was only about 13 tahvo from when I guessing the Negilahn sunrise was. It's possible that it may be too bright out to see the lights. I don't know, but I'll try again at another time. I left each of the pods with the lights one and one of the sound buttons turned on as well (I made it the third button in each just for consistency).

But the best was yet to come. I went to the museum in Ae'gura and discovered that there was a new, massive, sculpture in the center of the stair case. Impressive, but better still was a fourth linking book had joined the other three. This one went to an Age called Tetsonot.

New Museum Sculpture

Obviously, I linked there right away, but inside it was almost pitch black with a dim read, throbbing light above the Nexus linking book. I fumbled my way to the back of the pod where the power switch was in the other Ages and noticed that the floor was flooded. I managed to find the switch. The lights pulsed in and out, and none too brightly, but there was enough light to see the D'ni number six on the floor - this is pod six. Unfortunately, there was not enough light to see anything but a red glow out the pod windows. However, I got the distinct impression that I was situated under water. A check of the pod map seemed to confirm this hypothesis. I decided to link out and do the calculations to figure out when the portal will be coming here. By my calculations, the next convenient portal will be there between 16:20 and 17:01 pod time, which is approximately between 10:10pm to 10:15pm EST, Sunday. You know where I'll be.

HC