Chapter 4 - Power Vacuum

Driving about with the tracker gives you a better impression of the area. Whatever this thing is tracking covers an area just over a square kilometer, with certain areas reading slightly stronger than the others. It's hard to get an idea of just how far deep the tracker is pointing, but when traveling outside of the area a distance of more than 50 to 100 meters, the tracking vector appears to point back at the area in a rather flat plane.

Kneeling down, Guy starts to dig into the ground with this hands. As it was with Kip, after the first couple of inches of digging into the moist ground, Guy's fingers start to coat with a sticky pink dust.

Pushing on, he continues to dig, the pink dust now staring to cover the lower portions of his forearms. Finally, just a few inches deeper, his hands scrape something solid. A rock, which at first appears to be just a normal, generic rock, but this one is perfectly round, and has small seams of an opaque, pink material running through it.

Guy finds a few more of the stones of varying sizes, all perfectly round, and all with seams of the same pink material. As he is finishing up, anywhere on his body that is covered with the pink dust starts to tingle just a bit - not enough to cause pain - but enough to feel it.

Back at the safe house you have a chance to study the stones a bit more and can detect a small amount of energy being radiated from them.

Under the pressure of the press the round stone starts to crack just as one might expect. It doesn't present much of a challenge and the entire thing is flattened to a fraction of a millimeter before a bright flash of pink light fills the room. Examining the remains Kip finds that there are portions of the flattened disk that are nearly transparent, with just a hint of pink. Even more interesting is that material appears to be quite flexible.

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Walking the streets of Falu without trying to draw too much attention to himself, Guy is unable pick up any interesting information from what conversations he can overhear. Pushing on he sees a group of low ranking Imperial officers having a meal in the outside dining area of local diner.

The experiments reveal a few interesting things: 1. The weight difference between the measured samples are negligible - if there was any mass loss due to energy conversion it is at a scale that is practically immeasurable. 2. While electricity flows through the un-pressed samples freely, with very little measured resistance, the flatten sample seems to absorb it, dissipating it slowly over time.