Play@YSDC

[b]The book[/b] Stored within a small thinking:   unadorned stoneware box itself placed within a well-made velvet lined wooden box: A codex with four pages of what appears to be solid gold sheets - The book measures 8 centimetres in length and 4.5 centimetres in width. It is bound together by gold wire. Each plate is covered in what appears to be text of some kind. Although the characters are indecipherable at the centre of each page is a single image: they are a horse, a boat, the sun and a knife or possibly a sword. Know roll – the gold is of high quality workmanship (it is only 3mm thick) . The gold is of an exceptional purity (just under 24 karat) the whole implying a highly developed metallurgical ability. There's a marked similarity between the script in the book and the as yet un-deciphered 'hieroglyphic' script, Linear A, although the script seems more developed. Noble Gas Analysis of the gold dates the book to around 11,000 BC years old, which pre-dates any similar book by at least 10,000 years and any previously recorded gold artefacts by 5500 years. [b]The Golden Femur[/b] Wrapped within a velvet cloth and sealed within a hard leather map case: 20 inches in length the two ends of a human femur have been carefully covered and capped the whole thing has an embossed design of a naked male with upraised arms the head however is that of a the sun or more likely a star, the whole thing is covered in flat, thin sheets of gold (2mm thick) which have been carefully beaten around the bone. Analysis of the bone indicates it is that of a human male or of a tall woman. Noble Gas analysis of the gold and/or Carbon dating on the bone will indicate the artefacts age as between 9-10,000 years. There is a hand written note on the paper here in Westerlunds handwriting says reminder: show them the special!!! [b]The Coin necklace[/b] Stored in a blue velvet lined box, the necklace consists of 18 ancient coins hanging on a heavy gold 9" chain. The coins have all been crudely struck on fragments of other coins. Noble gas analysis indicates the gold in the coins to be 12-15,000 years old, although the gold in the chain is around 3000 years old. Designs on the coins themselves is unrecognisable The oldest known coins date from 900 BC, whereas the age of the gold would seem to imply these are considerably older examples. While the gold can be dated, the coins cannot. [b]The faded ceramics[/b] Wrapped in a yellowed copy of the Times dated 12th October 1913 are three large pieces of ceramic. Two bear heavily worked painted decorations incorporating equine motifs. The third, larger, piece was also decorated, but has been defaced: At some point in time someone has scratched the same pattern of symbols into the pottery over and over again. The equine motifs are unique and cannot be matched to any known culture. Although they bear a striking resemblance to Palaeolithic cave paintings, they are far more refined. There are several stylistic connections to cave paintings such as those in Lascaux, The design of the ceramics itself is more in keeping with the Hellenistic style, which should date them as being from around 323 BC to 146 BC, but the fired glazing would date it much, much later Thermoluminesence dating of the ceramics confirmed with radiocarbon dating of organic material found in the clay indicates they are around 10,000 years old. There is a marked similarity between the symbols on the ceramics and those symbols in the Gold book.  

OOC:   if you want to try and read the prayer then you'll need a POW roll as you struggle to read the strange words.  

OOC:   Sorry, thought I'd have more time during my two weeks off work.... DIY takes it out of you!  

OOC:   Guys, this is going be like reading a Mythos tome with a massive time overhead and requiring both a specific skill set and equipment to do it with both of which Westerlund has. Can you do it yourselves, Yes, but from a practical POV do you want to spend months with one or more of you out of play?  

OOC:   Have we dropped the pretence of being a 'documentary crew''?  

OOC:   Nobody has said anything to the contrary, and Westerlund hasn't questioned matters since(despite?) the events in the classroom. A successful Psychology roll - if your interested - will indicate he's clearly too interested in the artefacts to question any weakness in your cover story.