Godblood! It looks like the last transition damaged this thing's memory. I just lost the last three or so month's worth of entries in one fell swoop. Maybe it was the fire we just escaped...these things are hardy, but not to any temperature extreme. The journal's screen goes weird when I try to access anything earlier than a day ago--the pigments ( Read more... )

So the force field bubble was shrinking rapidly, pulling both Nik and I into the whirling blur of rings. Only the blur was starting to take on some definition other than fast-moving metal--somewhere down inside, we could see an orangish light that wasn't there before. It definitely stood out against the bright blue lights in the background, ( Read more... )

There was a solid mechanical kachunk as Nik hauled on the lever ( Read more... )

So, here's what happened: Nikolai found a ladder. More like a pylon with a ladder...that turned into a stairway halfway up, that then turned into a catwalk. This was some more gravity weirdness... 'down' went from the inner surface of the sphere, to the surface of the catwalk. And the walkway led into, well, what I've started to think of as the ( Read more... )

#*[[[MISSING TEXT]][].... so by the time we ran back to the gate, it had closed behind us! Godshit, we waited almost a week for that gate to cycle open the first time, following the gearlines carefully to be sure of the timing. All of our supplies are on the outside of the factory, just sitting there... behind a steel wall probably three feet thick ( Read more... )