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"I find the whole thing rather inspiring. The tablets, I mean. The first time I heard about them I just had to go visit the museum. I just had to see them! Now that I think about it, it all goes back to then. It really was breath taking just watching how the light played off the lapis lazuli."

"That was when you visited the museum in London? That's when you did these last three paintings? During that Week-In-London trip?"

"Right, that museum in London. The expedition exhibit. What a find!"

"Kamchatka?"

"Right, the Kamchatka exhibit."
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"And this clip? The one you created for the Dresden Short Film Festival in Berlin?"

"Right. Before I got famous. Right before I got famous. Yeah, this one took me three months to pull off. I've really got to thank my university for that one, though. It's been tough. But I had those images in my head and I really just had to ... you know ... get it out there ... show people. I just felt that by doing it I could really free myself, y'know?"

"What did this clip mean to you, exactly?"

"I'm not sure what it meant to me. What do you mean? I mean, it means what it means to everyone who views it, y'know? The hopelessness and the drudgery, and how it's like it's killing us inside, not to know, y'know? So far away from our chance, y'know, to be something special. I mean, these images didn't come from me, they came from outside of me! Y'know? Like I tapped into a collective unconscious or something. Like when I saw that Liltian Tablet I just tapped into something!"
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"A lot of people found this three-minute clip very frightening despite it's overall lack of plot. Professor Hanuda suggested that it was something to do with..."

"Oh, there's a plot to it. It's just subtle. It describes the destruction of modernization through the necessity of answering a call. You know how when a phone keeps ringing you just feel the need to answer it? Yeah, well, it's like that. All of the people in this short film are feeling the call. The blood represents the spilled blood of the innocents trampled in, no, swam in, as represented by the wading figures, in the desire for progress, the greed for furthering one's own ends, the ... potentiality of absolute perfection. That's why the Liltian Tablets inspire me so. They represent a perfect world. A world of absolute beauty. Only what most people don't realize, right, what they don't realize, is what the cost of perfection is. And I think there are some interesting parallels there."
"Fascinating."
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"So is it true what they say about Hollywood approaching you in order to expand on some of your ideas?"
"Yes, they've shown interest in funding a new enterprise. A movie of my own ideas."

"That sounds very exciting."

"Oh yes, thrilling."

"You don't seem particularly happy at the prospect."

"I'm not unexcited. I'm just distracted. Got thoughts on less prosaic things."

"Really? A more important project?"

"Well, there was that finding ... the one the epigrapher made ... that all of the Liltian Tablets say essentially the same thing. Far more interesting."
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"This girl, now she's interesting, I modelled her on my view of Natasha Chaikovskaya, the epigrapher."
"Have you met her?"

"No, but she's coming down to Berlin. Or she's already in Berlin. To do a media circuit. I hope to meet her soon. She's been the only one to translate ... to give us our memories. I mean, our understandings."

"Are you planning on meeting her? I'm sure that would be inspirational."

"I'm in negotiations with Ophidian ... the PR Company involved in the expedition."

"To speak with her?"

"Perhaps be involved. Y'know, with the advertising. And to speak with her. She's the only one who understands the symbolism involved. To decipher it. This figure, I think, it perfectly represents, the duality, of living in two worlds. Ours, and what's written."
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"This is just a personal bit I added on. To represent, y'know, trying to deal with being in a wheelchair and all of that. It's really a struggle, y'know. But everyone's been really helpful. It's been great."

"I heard people got worried about you when you made the trip to the Suicide Forest."

"You mean Aokigahara, a Japanese forest where people come to die. Yeah, I suppose they would be. Though personally I was more worried about San Zhi. It felt worse... I dunno, maybe because they excavated that Liltian Tablet from Taiwan a few decades ago. It has less of an influence."

"Right, the tablet found in Aokigahara was the latest one, wasn't it?"

"Yeah. It's a very moody forest that one. It has signs up everywhere pleading with people to think again on their lives and not just go there to die. People there were very worried for me. A guy in a wheelchair. I mean, who knows what they thought?"
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"So what is this painting about?"

"Oh the film's finished already? This painting means something quite special to me. It's my Forbidden Mountain piece."

"Many of the studio audience find this a fascinating work. It's your top-rated painting."
"Not surprising."

"It sold for quite a lot."

"I'm not interested in money."

"So this is, and correct me if I'm wrong, this is a work on your view of what that particular mountain would look like?"

"No, what the forbidden mountain would feel like. To be there, I mean."

"If I am correct, that particular mountain in the Kamchatka Ranges of Russia has been declared off-limits by the Russian government since 1788."

"That's correct."
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"It's fascinating, really. The placement of all the Liltian tablets, the way they appear to have each come from the same piece of stone, the identical language found on all the tablets so far. The distance between them."

"True, true. That expedition they're mounting in early 2008 ... that's not just an archaeological search team is it?"

"Well, no, biologists and everything. There's a lot of anomalies there. Just take a look through the scientific journals, not that I have, really, I've been busy. But the rumours you hear... It's interesting that they can't do an aerial survey ... the cloud formation that's always over it ... there's some kind of havoc played with the guidance systems in the planes or something. They always either pass around it without meaning to, flying over a different mountain, or they just don't come back."

"That's what this painting is called, isn't it? The Kamchatka Triangle."

"Yes."
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"This one was more fun for anything. This painting was just an idea I had for what they might find at the peak of that mountain. I don't really think it'll look like that at all."

"I'm sure the new expedition will be hoping not."

"Yeah, though the last expedition hardly fared well."

"Though considering the locations of the tablets..."

"Yeah, I mean, Dyatlov's Pass? One was found only a few years later. And then one found in the 1920s from the location of the Tunguska Incident... Can't really fill them full of confidence."

"Well, at least two of them came from the same country."

"Doesn't mean a whole lot considering how large Russia is."

"But isn't it a little creepy how all of these tablets were located in places of bad luck or mysterious deaths? The Suicide Forest, a town where deaths occured during its destruction so no one lives there anymore, a giant crater surrounded by mystery that was created in 1908, a pass on the so-called Mountain of Death where 9 skiers mysteriously died? Japan, Taiwan, Russia, Russia, where else was it?"
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"Ohmigod, I can't believe you'd show my old photographs!"

"This was what you used to do, right?"

"Right, but I abandoned cute long ago. It just didn't quite ... mean anything. I mean, don't get me wrong, it's a cute cat any everything ... but still."

"I understand. I just thought we should mix it up a little."

"Cool, cool, but uh, I can't believe you found that photograph. Wow."

"Yeah, listen to the studio audience, they love it."

"Yeah, wow."
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"Well, to get you back for that, I should show you my latest and greatest find ... I got it from a video camera I just happened across. It's what's been inspiring me even more than the tablets. Every time I watch it, though, I get these ideas ... yet I can never remember what I've seen."

"That sounds disturbing. Do you have this camera footage here?"

"Yeah, I've got it all set up and everything. Your producer agreed."

"Now, anyone in the studio audience who has a weak stomach, please turn away. We have no idea what's on this footage."
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"Change the music ... there we go. Okay, are we ready?"

"Oh, I recognise this music! You've exquisite tastes."

"First, before we play it, I'll tell you the tale of how I found it. Well, I was sitting in a cafe in London when I heard this god awful racket in the alley next door. Naturally, I came running out to go see what was there. I found this homeless man standing there, holding this box. There was no one else in sight. He offered it to me and there was this look in his eyes ... I just couldn't refuse that look."

"The box contained the film?"

"No, it contained a modern video camera that contained the film. I accepted the box, looked up, and he was gone!"

"Ooh!"

"I checked it in with the police but no one had reported such an expensive camera stolen so they returned it to me."

"And it was from that video camera that you found the clip that we are about to see?"

"Yes. Unfortunately, I can never remember exactly what I saw ... but hopefully, that'll change when we all see it."
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Who here wants to see what all of the fuss is about? Who wants to go visit Kamchatka? Watch the video? Who here wants to unravel the mystery? This game hasn't been underway for very long so you can jump right in.

There are a number of pre-generated characters (some are retired PCs though there's little reading required to catch up) and these people often have their own secrets and goals that are necessary for the game. Some examples of these include the Russian expedition leader, the Russian government advisor, the epigrapher (ancient language translator), and the military guards. I'll be doing up a list of pre-gens up in the next week for those who are interested. There is also room for scientific researchers, particularly those involved involved in say archaeology and the study of fungus.
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Name: Milly LeCrique
Occupation: Science Geek, co-Presenter of 'Hidden Places'
Age: 30
Sex: Female
Occupation: Television Presenter
Current Residence: Berlin, Germany; Hotel Adlon Kempinski (junior suite)

Milly LeCrique has always kept on top of things with her sleek personality on the 'Hidden Places' documentary which combines Myth Busters with urban legends and occult rumor. Recently, her sleek persona has been rattled by the murder of a close friend at the hands of a bizarre serial killer. (Requires some reading)
Name: Dr. Magnus Urquhart
Age: 30
Sex: Male
Occupation: Geological Field Researcher for YUKOS (a Russian energy company)
Birthplace: Kinlochewe, Scotland, U.K.
Colleges, Degrees:
University of Edinburgh, BSc - Geophysics, M.I.T, MSc - Climate Physics, Moscow State University, Doctoral research & dissertation on The Practical Development and Applications of Predictive Seismological Technology

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A rather perverse Scotsman who had an eye for the Berlin 'talent', his rendevouz at a strip joint ended in him having to flee a bizarre serial killer. He was rewarded with a knife in the clavicle and a trip to the ER. (Requires some reading)
Stefan Broche
Age: 32
Sex: Male
Occupation: Professor at Delft University of Technology (Technische Universiteit Delft)
Current Residence: TBC

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Wishing to be a part of the expedition, yet not yet on it, this man has managed to keep on top of things from afar. (Requires a little reading)
Name: Timothy Wells
Birthplace: London
Occupation: Boom Operator

Caught up in something well beyond his comfort level, this fellow just wants to do his job, get paid lots of money, and get home in one piece. (Requires some reading)
Name: Natasha Chaikovskaya
Birthplace: Russia
Occupation: Epigrapher

She is the only person thus far to have busted the riddle of the Liltian Tablets and to have discovered whereabouts the mysterious city is said to be. She's also a highly anxious and neurotic person with many social disfunctions who isn't enjoying the current media circuit. (Requires some reading)
Name: Aleksandra Romaschkova
Birthplace: Russia
Occupation: Archaeologist; Russian dig site leader.

The woman in charge of the whole thing. She has made it her mission to get the right to scale the mountain and is responsible for teaming up with media giant, Ophidian, to get the required funding. (Requires a little reading)
Name: Nikita Mikhalkov
Birthplace: Russia
Occupation: Russian attache.

She represents the government's interests on the expedition and it's her word that will eventually hold sway over the military team sent to escort them. (Requires a little reading)
Name: Klaus Schmidt
Birthplace: German
Occupation: Biologist specializing in anatomy.

A rather pompous fellow who always irritates everyone by constantly bombasting everyone with his viewpoint. Very much a "New Money" sort of fellow. (Requires no prior reading)
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Is this game taking players? Is it starting in the near future?
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Are Stefan and Timothy still open? If so I'd be willing to take one of them.
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Yes, this game is taking players. Some of the characters require some back reading. Some don't.

Stefan and Timothy are both still open. Timothy, at the moment, is already in a thread with a few other player characters so he's in the thick of it if you'd prefer. Stefan is in a more leisurely spot.
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Can I play Lukas? I will be out of town from the August 11th through the 14th just so you know.
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I guess I'll take Timothy then.
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Lukas is a good choice, Misfit. It means I get to bring his arrogant, obnoxious boss into the game. I should have it all set up by August 14th for you so you can slot in then when you get back.

As for Timothy, you'll need to read http://www.callofcthulhu.org.uk/viewtop ... 114&t=1727 then http://www.callofcthulhu.org.uk/viewtop ... 114&t=1819 and then halfway down http://www.callofcthulhu.org.uk/viewtop ... 83#p101683 there's a post with Timothy's name on it in very large font. That's the last thread you're in. You'll probably also want to take a look at your Character Sheet and History in the Character Sheet thread. Welcome aboard eliasbloodmoon. Those three threads might look intimidating but there's actually on eight or so pages to look through.
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