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Liz,Computer and Library use please

OOC,I mixed my Library Use score up with my Listen one, but I still succeeded.

OOC,Whoops, not sure where I got "Gunderson"!

ghill,Spot hidden[60]: [dice]0[/dice]

Spot hidden,Spot hidden[60]: [dice]0[/dice]

Albert,try putting some glasses on. ;)

random roll,for whatever you think I need to roll for, here it is. [dice]0[/dice]

A % roll,Just in case [dice]0[/dice]

OOC,I think we should let Jacob do it but we must prepare what we want to say. I prefer to quicken things and just tell you what we want to say instead of roleplaying it.

ooc,yes I know all the names are misspelled.

Liz/Clay wrack their memories,you can either go look through the notes and find what Shauna said, or failing that see if your memory serves you properly ([b]intx3 roll[/b])

OOC,I'm up for reading the paper, but I thought I already did that. We found the latest draft in the hard drive we salvaged, and we had nothing but time during the week we were laying low.

Liz the Thesis,My memories may be playing me up, but all I remember Liz doing with the thesis was skimming it. At the safe house she spent the majority of her time looking through the Hard Drive Albert recovered from the burning house.

OOC,I think I skimmed the early draft we found on [b]Gosshamm[/b]'s computer. I found [url=http://www.callofcthulhu.org.uk/pbp/viewtopic.php?p=159188#p159188]this post[/url] detailing what we found on the hard drive in the safe house. Since it took a few days, I must have assumed that I'd read everything and you'd summarized my findings. In all the time we had there, I certainly would have read it, though I hadn't explicitly said so. If there wasn't enough time, I'll read it now, and make copies of the document for the others to read.

Reading the thesis,+2% Cthuhlu Mythos, A [b]History[/b] or [b]Archaeology[/b] skill roll as well if you fail these then a KNOW roll as well please. Reading it will take 2-3 days

Thesis readers only,The thesis is that the Verbetoi are a the last remaining remnants of a civilization which predates our own. Gosshamm ballparks this "Hyborian Age" as being around 10,000 B.C. (most archaeologists would mark this as the start of the Neolithic period in the development of human technology) although he later mentions it could be as late as 32,500 B.C. The Verbetoi first appear in Malta when it is a larger mountain chain, some Maltese fragments are examples of their written texts, but many others are from later neolithic cultures who were simply copying the patterns of their texts without understanding. At some point the Verbti (the tribal name is Verbetoi) moved to Illyria (modern day Albania) where they re-established themselves. [b]History/Archaeology[/b] [u]or[/u] a [b]Hard Idea[/b] success roll: The ideas are well formed, the evidence and arguments well-structured and well presented, but they are not conclusive. The archaeological evidence particularly is open to a great deal of interpretation without specific sites or artifacts he can highlight in Albania and Malta the thesis remains unsupported. [b]Succeed[/b] any of the above take [b]2 SAN[/b] loss + History or Arch check and +2 C.Mythos

OOC,Is there any indication of where the Verbetoi came from before they showed up in Malta, or why they left Malta?

Liz The Verbetois ancestors,were a nomadic people, their savage forefathers members of wandering clans on the banks of the Nile river. Over millennia the blood of the Verbetois' forefathers was mixed with the blood of more advanced cultures to produce a fierce, hybrid people who established a series of city-states. These proto-Verbetoi served their more powerful neighbours, providing savage mounted warriors to at least one empire of the time to violently suppress domestic disorder in vassal states. Gosshamm described the proto-Verbetoi as being polytheistic in nature , dividing their worship among a number of gods. His most amazing claim, however, was not just that he had identified an ancestor for the modern Verbetoi - the Atahath, a small clan, known for their copper and gold-smithing as well as horse breeding - but the very event that created their tribe. The Atahath were refugees, seeking a hiding place away from the constant fighting that plagued their existence and chose the haunted ruins of the long-dead city of Yb - also known as Tal'ib, the "city in the waste", and the only source of water to be found in the area of the Western desert of Shem known as 'The Waste'. Decades later when they left the safety of Tal'ib, they worshipped only one God - 'Verbti' and named themselves after him. The land the Verbetoi returned to was inhabited only by nomadic tribes. No cities remained; successive barbarian invasions had leveled them, leaving only ruins. The damage wrought by waves of barbarians, however, was as nothing to the terrible convulsions of the Earth that were to come. As the Pleistocene Age gave way to the Holocene, a massive polar shift occurred causing devastating geological upheavals. The Pillars of Hercules were breached and the Atlantic Ocean poured through, flooding the Mediterranean basin and the Verbetoi homelands, forcing them northwards. Their movement towards Illyria seems to a simple issue of seeking new pastures or better lands for their horses.