The Bastion - a DWRP game

Who: Nathaniel (NPC) and whoever else is interested in getting information
Open: Open
When: Day 83
Where: near the monument
What: Nathaniel translates some important papers, and questions can be asked.
Format: action
Warnings: none

[After the search party had gone looking for Marie and returned with some papers, Nathaniel had taken all of the papers and worked on translating them for everyone to understand. However, it took some time, for reasons which he is about to explain.

To begin with, he sets out the wallet which had been found a while back.]

Okay, this wallet here belonged to a Mancer by the name of Dav. I've never met the guy personally, but apparently he worked right out of the Mancer HQ, or so his papers say. This guy had some pretty high security clearance, so he was probably working on some secret stuff, which would explain why I never saw the guy.

[Next he lays out the papers that were found during the search for Marie.]

Now these here, these are project notes. I haven't been able to translate them all, they're written in some kind of code, but what I've been able to get from them is that there was this long-term project going on that was nearing completion. There's also some mentions of a guy named Venn in these notes. I do know who Venn is, though I haven't met the guy personally. He's a top Mancer, though, so chances are he was working on this project here.

Now, these notes on their own aren't really enough to tell me what was going on. You've got about half of the project notes here, and the other half is probably at the Mancer headquarters. But here's the interesting thing: when you look at these-

[And he lays out the blueprints that were recovered from the farm.]

- there's some similarities between them. These blueprints here, they're for building a fuel convertor that turns corn into biofuel, and going by the dates in the corner, these blueprints were drawn up and mailed about a week before the Calamity happened, and about three days before the most recent of the the notes you found at Dav's place were written.

I'm not sure how a biofuel convertor relates to all of this, though. To be honest, we haven't used fuels in ages. Cores are the main source of power for Caelondia, and what we can't power with Cores we power with steam. Fuels aren't that great for the environment, so we stopped using them some time ago.

So there you have it. If you've got any insight into all of this, we might be able to figure this mess out, but we'll probably need more information before we'll get any real answers out of this.