Rinn Family
June 17th, 2028, Talos, California
“42 hours in meditation!! I knew to expect something special, but wow, just wow” Evelyn exclaimed. “I expect you will all gain a number of attribute points as well as a much larger Aether pool once the system activates! Please, eat, you must all be famished.” Evelyn finished.
“Thank you?”, I said,” Um, what happened to us? Why did we all piss our pants, sweat out black schmegma and throw up like we were drinking all night? I meditate a lot and I’ve never had results like this.” I finished.
Evelyn was kind enough to respond, “When you circulate Aether through your body, there are an enormous number of impurities in your body, especially with your western diet full of preservatives, GMOs, processed foods, and copious amounts of sugar. So, when you start to cleanse yourself and circulate Aether through your body. You get, well, you get a mess.”
“The disgusting garbage in your system has to get out somehow.” Adam laughed. “The first time is always the worst. As you refine yourself and clear out all of the bad things lurking in your system it makes the process much less messy.”
“Well thank you for the lesson and the dinner, we appreciate all you have done for us so far and we look forward to helping out as much as we can. Do you mind if we smoke a few joints and go to sleep? We have been going for a few days now with little rest.” I inquired.
“No, in fact we recommend a long rest as we have much to discuss and plan for in the morning. We will await your arrival in the control room parlor for breakfast. Then we can discuss plans to get you to and from Catalina Island safely before the tribulation begins.” Adam replied. “Goodnight, my new friends, we will see you when you are up and awake, thank you again for being here.” Evelyn added.
Julie and I discussed the need to make a game plan and lineup a boat ride to the island from Long Beach or LA harbor, I was pretty sure one of our bigger clients in LA had a boat we could use if we were in dire need of transportation to the island. Honestly, we decided he might be the best choice if we couldn’t just get a ferry. Julie promised to call the ferry in the morning and get the schedule so we could make plans as early as possible.
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Hillary, Julie, and I smoked a couple joints and went to sleep in the richly adorned beds they directed us to. I drifted off to sleep quickly and also, I think thanks to the glowing cannabis before bed, I had dreams of the Chinese man Shu, the Dr. in Peru, Cava Alverez, she looked like she was in trouble inside of a bank vault, also saw the pair of Russian women, they were drinking with a large man in shining armor, I also can’t shake the feeling that we need to find these people somehow.
Rinn Family
June 18th, 2028, California
We woke up and went to the parlor where we had been meeting Adam and Evelyn to find them waiting for us. “Good morning, Adam, Evelyn. We have secured transportation to the island, and we are all ready to go. Do you have any last-minute instructions regarding our journey?” I asked our host.
“Derrik, we have given the info you will need to gain access and return safely. Of course, we cannot foresee all possible obstacles in your path, we can only hope you are able to manage them.” Adam replied.
Adam was kind enough to teleport us back to our cabin so we could prepare for the trip down to Catalina Island then to the armory to retrieve the Aether crystals needed to get Talos back up and running at 100%. “ The Jeep is all loaded up and ready to go, Dad.” Hillary said to Derrik. “Thank you, Hillary, you are amazing.” Derrik replied.
The drive down to LA was mostly uneventful, lots of traffic, lots of people leaving and traveling in every direction, away from the city. After my 8-hour driving shift, we were almost to the 405, Julie took over and we proceeded straight south to Long Beach harbor, where my client Jesus (Aztec) has left us with a boat and the captain has agreed to take us to Catalina at 8:00 am tomorrow.
As she was driving, we suddenly felt the ground shaking, BOOOOOOM, BOOOOM, BOOOOM, then she saw it off to the left in what was probably Bel-Aire. A 25-foot-tall monstrosity. It looked like a giant Crow/goat man with the head and wings of a crow, the body and arms of a giant man and the legs of a goat. It looked to be agitated and angry, we could almost make out what it was saying but it was difficult because it was smashing the shit out of everything in its path.
“Give me what my mistress is due!! Give me our lost Matron Mother.” The creature screamed. It looked like there were multiple different law enforcement agencies as well as some national guard attacking the creature, but they didn’t look to be making any progress. Honestly, I was surprised to see that law enforcement was trying to tackle that big mean scary creature.
So, we punched it down the freeway and left it in our rearview mirror. We continued unhindered to the harbor, where the girls went to sleep in our car. I waited until the first light to fall asleep myself, Julie woke up to keep eyes out for our ride.