Returning to the Cavern
It has been a while since I have written anything here about what's going on in the D'ni cavern. I have been watching a number of other sites since the announcement earlier this year that the DRC was pursuing funding to continue the restoration. There has been a lot of activity, mostly town hall style meetings with members of the various groups involved in the pursuit of funding and the restart of the restoration.
I was not able to make a lot of these meeting. Fortunately, there are transcripts posted on a couple of forums and other websites. I will have to thank the Liaisons if I get a chance to speak to any of them.
The announcement of the meeting that was held on 19 December seemed to get a lot of attention. There had been rumors that the announcement of the official reopening of the cavern was coming very shortly, and I believe that everyone expected that this would be the meeting where the cavern was going to be reopened, officially, and the restoration efforts restarted.
As normal, there was a transcript of the meeting posted at the Liaison site. The meeting appeared to go as so many of the sessions with the DRC have gone, when about an hour into the meeting, Dr. Kodama gets some kind of message on his KI, and then it gets weird.
The reports I have seen say that everyone in the cavern, not just in the meeting but anywhere in the cavern heard the loudest Bahro scream. And then everyone was linked to their Relto, without using their linking books. Someone was able to post some video they had taken.
I saw this when I got home, and started to see posting of messages, people having linked to their Relto to find it was different. The four pillars were missing. Their bookshelves were empty. And the KIs, all of them from reports, were not working.
I went and got my KI and Relto book from where I had them hidden here in the house.
The KI was not working. I am used to not being able to do much with the KI here on the surface, but the thing was just dead.
Due to having to deal with the holiday coming, I was not able to get away and link to my Relto until 20 December.
I found it just like all the others had reported. Things were missing, it felt different. I checked the book, and it even seemed that pages were missing.
I did not stay long, I linked back to my neighborhood and then on to get a new KI, 00221440.
I still didn't have the courage to go back to the city, but I did make my way over to the neighborhood where the Guild of Greeters were known to gather. I was fortunate enough to be there when Marie Sutherland showed up and chatted with us for a while (transcript here).
Today was the first day that I actually found the courage to make a trip into the city.
I kind of got used to couple hundred years worth of destruction, but even just in the ferry terminal there are new signs of just how fragile the city just might have become.
The DRC has barriers up at the top of the Great Stairs.
I did not stay long. I wanted to check the other ages, and see if I could find out if anything else had happened.
