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== Events ==
== Events ==
On May 19th, 2007, things had continued on from previous events. Douglas Sharper had announced he was going on another trip to Negilahn to hunt down the predator killing the creatures there, and would be accompanied by Nick White, who had recently been fired from his role as a D'ni translator for the DRC. That same day, some seismic activity had been detected in Ae'gura, resulting in a small crack forming in the corner of a wall in the Kahlo Pub. Michael Engberg's daughter, 14 year old Willow "Wheely" Engberg, and her friend Rosette "Rose" Taylor were in the cavern running Marker Missions. Explorers had been cautioned to not investigate the crack, and they similarly advised the two girls to not go to the Kahlo Pub for their Marker Hunt despite similarly wishing to see it out of concern over the teenage girls lives.
=== May 19 ===
* The [[Relto page]] for the [[cannen]] appears in the [[Descent]].
* All [[neighborhood]] linking books to [[Eder Delin]] disappear.
* The [[DRC]] announces a release party for [[Minkata]] to be held at Thursday, May 24 at 7pm [[Cavern Time]]. Rand Miller will be a guest.
* [[Douglas Sharper]] visits the [[Uru Obsession]] neighborhood and tells [[explorer]]s that he has set up a blind in [[Negilahn]]. He and [[Nick White]] will be putting out an [[urwin]] as bait to lure the predator.
* [[Victor Laxman]] answers questions in [[A Beginner's Bevin]]. He said:
** The DRC will be making an effort to communicate more with the explorers in pre-scheduled weeks every month.
** The recalibration of the [[Great Zero]] is going well, and that repeated [[marker missions]] do help the calibration.
** There has been some sort of 'seismic disturbance' in cavern.
** The [[Gahreesen Wall]] has been delayed to an accident with a [[ResEng]].
** The [[bahro]] are making their way into every [[Age]] the DRC has access to and that they are changing their behavior.
* Nick White visits several neighborhoods and exchanges angry words with [[Sydney Austin]]. He also mentions that he "took some things with him when he left".
* [[Michael Engberg]] examines a new crack in the rock just outside of the [[Kahlo Pub]]. He asks people to be careful and report new cracks. After several loud bahro screams in the area, he sends out a KI message that asks explorers to stay away from the area.  


Wheely and Rose seemed to heed this advice, for a time.
=== May 20 ===
* The pith helmet appears in [[Eder Gira]].
* The [[DRC]] fix a [[KI]] machine in the [[Descent]] that causes the KI to emit light for a short period of time.
* Explorers ignore [[Michael Engberg]]'s warning and crowd in to see the crack near the [[Kahlo Pub]].
* [[Nick White]] visits the [[Guild of Greeters]] neighborhood before going to [[Negilahn]] in order to get some emotional support for the trip.
* [[Wheely]] and a friend ([[Rose Taylor]]) go around collecting [[Great Zero marker]]s.
** Wheely reports a new crack in the [[Ae'gura library]] and abruptly disappears.
** [[Michael Engberg]] and [[Victor Laxman]] arrive in the city, looking for Wheely and to inspect the new cracks.
* Rumbles and [[bahro]] screeches are heard throughout [[Ae'gura]] and the [[DRC]] evacuates the city.
** Bahro are sighted on the top of the library.
* The crack outside of the [[Kahlo Pub]] fills up with rubble.
* The [[DRC]] sends out a KI message stating that there was a collapse in the city and that the main instance of the city is closed. Neighborhood instances are unaffected.
* DRC members turn off their KIs to focus on what [[Marie Sutherland]] calls "the recovery".
** Nick White is told that Victor Laxman has managed to detect a weak KI signal, assumed to be Wheely.
** Several explorers (such as [[vid]]) manage to link into the city in order to assist rescue efforts. They are removed by [[ResEng]]s.
* Nick White asks people not to get into the city, out of respect for the rescue effort (and Michael Engberg), and the fact that multiple KI signals may disrupt the attempt to locate the Wheely's KI.  


May 20th, 2007, the crack in the Kahlo Pub would widen, and while Explorers would stand guard around the Kahlo Pub to prevent Wheely and Rose from examining it, the girl's curiosity got the better of them. Using a DRC KI trick, Wheely concealed the location of herself and Rose as being at the Library before declaring the existence of a fake crack in the Library of Ae'gura, that they were supposedly investigating before vanishing. The guarding Explorers, concerned and panicked, headed to the Library, leaving it exposed. Other explorers, upon hearing of a new crack in Ae'gura, went to investigate, flooding into the city and causing some confusion. A few other explorers, however, realized this meant the Kahlo Pub could be unguarded and the Girls may head there instead. Few made it during the rush of explorers linking, not before tragedy had already transpired.
=== May 21 ===
* [[Victor Laxman]] manages to remotely activate [[Wheely]]'s [[KI]].
* Wheely is alive and talking to her father over the KI. She reports that her friend [[Rosette]] is dead.
** She and Rosette lied about the crack at the [[Ae'gura library|library]] to distract people so they could investigate the crack at the [[Kahlo Pub]].
** She found herself in a room with [[bahro]] carvings. Her [[Relto]] book was inoperative.
** A bahro touched her Relto book.
** She reported eyes watching her from the darkness and scratching sounds.
** After saying a bahro was coming towards her, Wheely stopped talking for a while.
** Later, she recontacted her father, apparently suffering the symptoms of dehydration.
** At the suggestion of an explorer (Dr. Britcom Mom), Wheely draws the bahro symbol for 'water', which she knew as she had played [[Cyan]]'s [[Myst V: End of Ages]]) in the dirt. The bahro 'takes' the drawing and goes back to watching her. Explorer K'laamas tries to teach her the [[D'ni (language)|D'ni]] phrase to ask for water.  


The DRC were called in to investigate, and search the city, which was locked out of the Nexus to aid in ease of searching. Nick White would hear about this and return to the City, using Explorer aid to sneak through a Yeesha-modified linking book back door into the city. Nick convinced the DRC to allow the Explorers to help search the city, and so limited access was granted. However, nothing would be found of the two girls until their KI devices were brought back online through a remote hack on May 21st. Their KI signals were located the next day beyond the crack in the Kahlo Pub wall, now collapsed and filled in with debris and rubble.
=== May 22 ===
* The [[Relto page]] for the suns and moons appears in the [[Ae'gura museum|museum]].
* The "lush" [[Relto page]] appears in [[Negilahn]].
* Reports indicate [[Sydney Austin]] damaged her [[Relto]] book and became trapped in [[Kadish Tolesa]]. [[KI]] contact was lost after she attempted to cross one of the support beams in the [[Kadish Tolesa vault|vault]].
* The [[DRC]] continues to dig for [[Wheely]].
** Wheely's KI turns on and she says she fell asleep, is no longer thirsty and the [[bahro]] are still watching her.
** Her KI suddenly reports her as in [[Gahreesen]], [[Kadish Tolesa]] and then [[Relto]], then disappears again. [[Victor Laxman]] insists the signal never moved, however.
** [[Michael Engberg]] links to the above Ages, presumably to search for [[Wheely]].
* [[Nick White]] tells explorers of a symbol found on a tree in [[Negilahn]].
** The symbol looks like a percent sign "%".
** The symbol apparently doesn't show up in [[KI]] pictures.
** A similar symbol was found on a wall during the rescue effort.
** He also says that [[Sydney Austin]] was likely just doing a publicity stunt for attention and no harm came to her.  
* [[Nick White]] gets a message from [[Douglas Sharper]] that something is dragging away the [[urwin]] he had been watching.
** Sharper referred to the urwin as "Peggy Sue".
** Sharper has gone off to follow.
* The [[DRC]] break through to [[Wheely]].
** They lower down a [[Linking Book]]. It is inoperative when it gets there.
** Wheely says the [[bahro]] doesn't like when she draws symbols. It erases them.
** The bahro with her makes a repetitive noise. She finally identifies it as the word "[[Noloben]]". It's getting increasingly agitated.
** As rescue members begin to lower down [[Michael Engberg]], Wheely cries out and then is silent. Michael is pulled out, despite his protests.
** A [[ResEng]] is lowered down instead. He screams to be pulled out and reports that "She's still down there, but ... you don't want to see it."
** [[Michael Engberg]] disappears. The [[DRC]] shuts down the area and falls back to private communications.
* [[Nick White]] manages to access the private communications channel and reports details to explorers.
** The [[ResEng]] is "a wreck."
** He is too distraught to keep listening to the channel.
** He says [[Douglas Sharper|Sharper]] is late in returning and hurries off to [[Negilahn]] to search for him.
* [[Marie Sutherland]] addresses explorers.
** She confirms that [[Wheely]] is dead and that the collapse did not kill her.
** She declines to pass along details, out of respect. However, she describes the scene as "horrific".
** She confirms that the bahro symbol they discovered is gone.  


As we would later find out through talking with Wheely, she and Rose had climbed through the widened crack and found themselves in what was described as a room covered in glowing icons and symbols- a Bahro Cave. Rose had touched one of these symbols, triggering a Bahro Scream, and a cave in of the wall, which killed Rose, and trapped Wheely. It is unknown if at that point a Bahro was inside the cave with them, or if it appeared in there later. However, at that point, Wheely's Relto Book was disabled much as the books tend to be within Bahro Caves.  
=== May 23 ===
* Memorials and flowers are placed next to the crack. [[Michael Engberg]] sits quietly.
* [[Cate Alexander]] gives a speech to all explorers.
** Cate says that a structural integrity test has revealed no damage to the area, so all barriers are being removed.
** Cate tells explorers to respect Michael because he's grieving.
** Over the next several weeks, there will be investigations into the cause of damage and subsequent events.
** [[Douglas Sharper]] still hasn't been heard from, which Cate is worried about given the events of yesterday.
* [[Douglas Sharper]] returns and tells explorers of what he saw.
** The predator that attacked the [[urwin]] was in fact a [[bahro]].
** It left the body shredded, but took the head.
** It left an easy trail of blood which Sharper followed. After making his way to the urwin's head, he realized it was a trap. By his count, 30 bahro surrounded him and his [[Relto]] Book stopped working.
** Then another lone bahro appeared, and shortly after, more bahro appeared everywhere, attacking everything. It was a war.
** Sharper was able to link back to Relto when two separate bahro jumped on him to save him.
* [[Michael Engberg]] wanders through several neighborhoods, obviously distressed, but saying little and not responding to others.
** He goes to the city to sit by the flowers again. He whispers "Watson...", then uses the [[bahro stone]] to travel to the [[Descent]], after which his KI signal disappears.
* Dr. [[Ikuro Kodama|Kodama]] asks [[explorer]]s if they knew where [[Michael Engberg]] went, because he is missing and isn't answering messages on his [[KI]]. He wonders if anyone can understand Engberg's grief.
* The [[DRC]] sends out a [[KI]] message announcing that [[Michael Engberg]] is missing and ask that any details about him be passed onto them.  


During all the time since this incident had transpired, Bahro activity had spiked within the Cavern. People were hearing more frequent screams, as well as seeing them on rooftops in Ae'gura and occasionally in various other areas (Unconfirmed Reports).
=== May 24 ===
* Cate Alexander sends out a KI message stating that the [[Minkata]] release party later this day will continue as planned.
* A music player appears in the [[Kadish Gallery]], which adds the Gallery music to the Relto [[cannen]].
* Rand Miller visits several [[neighborhood]]s and answers questions.
* The [[Minkata]] book is placed in the library.  


The DRC began digging down through the Kahlo Building's roof, going down floor by floor, trying to reach her. They would dig for a day, non stop. During that time, it was discovered that either one or two different Bahro were within the cave with Wheely. It was never confirmed how many, as Wheely only ever saw one at a time. In theory, it seems most likely that there were two, based upon actions taken. One Bahro would help Wheely with issues of thirst when she drew the Bahro Glyph for 'Rain.' The other... It grew agitated as the DRC dug down through the building until they reached the final floor above them.
=== May 25 ===
 
* The grass [[Relto page]] appears in [[Eder Tsogal]].
According to Wheely, the Bahro began chanting something starting with the word "No." It is generally assumed that the Bahro was saying the word "Noloben," name of the Age where a mad D'ni man tortured Bahro to learn how they linked.
 
Finally, the DRC breached the floor, having to dig through a mysterious Bahro Glyph that refused to appear on camera. A drawing of a zig-zag line with circles on either side- a symbol Nick had seen carved into a tree on Negilahn.
 
As the floor and roof was finally breached, the Bahro attacked, and Wheely was murdered by the Bahro on May 22nd.
 
May 23rd, Sharper returned from Negilahn with a terrifying story. He had tracked the predator after it killed an Urwin before his eyes, dragging its head off into the distance. Sharper followed, walking into a trap. He discovered a swarm of Bahro, waiting in the trees, ready to kill him, when suddenly another group of Bahro appeared to fight the other group. Sharper saw it with his own eyes- the Bahro were at war with each other, and had two Bahro not saved his life, he, too, would be dead.
 
Finally, on May 24th, the DRC released the age of Minkata as originally scheduled. The Age's name, according to Nick, meant "Heavily Scarred." A fitting memorial for the events that had transpired.
 
Michael Engberg would also go missing soon after, disappearing under appearances of looking for someone, and last being seen in Descent- effectively abdicating his position in the DRC for the foreseeable future.


== Major characters ==
== Major characters ==

Revision as of 21:30, 7 November 2019

Scars was the first episode of Myst Online: Uru Live, which ran from May 19, 2007 to May 25, 2007.

Events

May 19

  • The Relto page for the cannen appears in the Descent.
  • All neighborhood linking books to Eder Delin disappear.
  • The DRC announces a release party for Minkata to be held at Thursday, May 24 at 7pm Cavern Time. Rand Miller will be a guest.
  • Douglas Sharper visits the Uru Obsession neighborhood and tells explorers that he has set up a blind in Negilahn. He and Nick White will be putting out an urwin as bait to lure the predator.
  • Victor Laxman answers questions in A Beginner's Bevin. He said:
    • The DRC will be making an effort to communicate more with the explorers in pre-scheduled weeks every month.
    • The recalibration of the Great Zero is going well, and that repeated marker missions do help the calibration.
    • There has been some sort of 'seismic disturbance' in cavern.
    • The Gahreesen Wall has been delayed to an accident with a ResEng.
    • The bahro are making their way into every Age the DRC has access to and that they are changing their behavior.
  • Nick White visits several neighborhoods and exchanges angry words with Sydney Austin. He also mentions that he "took some things with him when he left".
  • Michael Engberg examines a new crack in the rock just outside of the Kahlo Pub. He asks people to be careful and report new cracks. After several loud bahro screams in the area, he sends out a KI message that asks explorers to stay away from the area.

May 20

  • The pith helmet appears in Eder Gira.
  • The DRC fix a KI machine in the Descent that causes the KI to emit light for a short period of time.
  • Explorers ignore Michael Engberg's warning and crowd in to see the crack near the Kahlo Pub.
  • Nick White visits the Guild of Greeters neighborhood before going to Negilahn in order to get some emotional support for the trip.
  • Wheely and a friend (Rose Taylor) go around collecting Great Zero markers.
  • Rumbles and bahro screeches are heard throughout Ae'gura and the DRC evacuates the city.
    • Bahro are sighted on the top of the library.
  • The crack outside of the Kahlo Pub fills up with rubble.
  • The DRC sends out a KI message stating that there was a collapse in the city and that the main instance of the city is closed. Neighborhood instances are unaffected.
  • DRC members turn off their KIs to focus on what Marie Sutherland calls "the recovery".
    • Nick White is told that Victor Laxman has managed to detect a weak KI signal, assumed to be Wheely.
    • Several explorers (such as vid) manage to link into the city in order to assist rescue efforts. They are removed by ResEngs.
  • Nick White asks people not to get into the city, out of respect for the rescue effort (and Michael Engberg), and the fact that multiple KI signals may disrupt the attempt to locate the Wheely's KI.

May 21

  • Victor Laxman manages to remotely activate Wheely's KI.
  • Wheely is alive and talking to her father over the KI. She reports that her friend Rosette is dead.
    • She and Rosette lied about the crack at the library to distract people so they could investigate the crack at the Kahlo Pub.
    • She found herself in a room with bahro carvings. Her Relto book was inoperative.
    • A bahro touched her Relto book.
    • She reported eyes watching her from the darkness and scratching sounds.
    • After saying a bahro was coming towards her, Wheely stopped talking for a while.
    • Later, she recontacted her father, apparently suffering the symptoms of dehydration.
    • At the suggestion of an explorer (Dr. Britcom Mom), Wheely draws the bahro symbol for 'water', which she knew as she had played Cyan's Myst V: End of Ages) in the dirt. The bahro 'takes' the drawing and goes back to watching her. Explorer K'laamas tries to teach her the D'ni phrase to ask for water.

May 22

  • The Relto page for the suns and moons appears in the museum.
  • The "lush" Relto page appears in Negilahn.
  • Reports indicate Sydney Austin damaged her Relto book and became trapped in Kadish Tolesa. KI contact was lost after she attempted to cross one of the support beams in the vault.
  • The DRC continues to dig for Wheely.
    • Wheely's KI turns on and she says she fell asleep, is no longer thirsty and the bahro are still watching her.
    • Her KI suddenly reports her as in Gahreesen, Kadish Tolesa and then Relto, then disappears again. Victor Laxman insists the signal never moved, however.
    • Michael Engberg links to the above Ages, presumably to search for Wheely.
  • Nick White tells explorers of a symbol found on a tree in Negilahn.
    • The symbol looks like a percent sign "%".
    • The symbol apparently doesn't show up in KI pictures.
    • A similar symbol was found on a wall during the rescue effort.
    • He also says that Sydney Austin was likely just doing a publicity stunt for attention and no harm came to her.
  • Nick White gets a message from Douglas Sharper that something is dragging away the urwin he had been watching.
    • Sharper referred to the urwin as "Peggy Sue".
    • Sharper has gone off to follow.
  • The DRC break through to Wheely.
    • They lower down a Linking Book. It is inoperative when it gets there.
    • Wheely says the bahro doesn't like when she draws symbols. It erases them.
    • The bahro with her makes a repetitive noise. She finally identifies it as the word "Noloben". It's getting increasingly agitated.
    • As rescue members begin to lower down Michael Engberg, Wheely cries out and then is silent. Michael is pulled out, despite his protests.
    • A ResEng is lowered down instead. He screams to be pulled out and reports that "She's still down there, but ... you don't want to see it."
    • Michael Engberg disappears. The DRC shuts down the area and falls back to private communications.
  • Nick White manages to access the private communications channel and reports details to explorers.
    • The ResEng is "a wreck."
    • He is too distraught to keep listening to the channel.
    • He says Sharper is late in returning and hurries off to Negilahn to search for him.
  • Marie Sutherland addresses explorers.
    • She confirms that Wheely is dead and that the collapse did not kill her.
    • She declines to pass along details, out of respect. However, she describes the scene as "horrific".
    • She confirms that the bahro symbol they discovered is gone.

May 23

  • Memorials and flowers are placed next to the crack. Michael Engberg sits quietly.
  • Cate Alexander gives a speech to all explorers.
    • Cate says that a structural integrity test has revealed no damage to the area, so all barriers are being removed.
    • Cate tells explorers to respect Michael because he's grieving.
    • Over the next several weeks, there will be investigations into the cause of damage and subsequent events.
    • Douglas Sharper still hasn't been heard from, which Cate is worried about given the events of yesterday.
  • Douglas Sharper returns and tells explorers of what he saw.
    • The predator that attacked the urwin was in fact a bahro.
    • It left the body shredded, but took the head.
    • It left an easy trail of blood which Sharper followed. After making his way to the urwin's head, he realized it was a trap. By his count, 30 bahro surrounded him and his Relto Book stopped working.
    • Then another lone bahro appeared, and shortly after, more bahro appeared everywhere, attacking everything. It was a war.
    • Sharper was able to link back to Relto when two separate bahro jumped on him to save him.
  • Michael Engberg wanders through several neighborhoods, obviously distressed, but saying little and not responding to others.
    • He goes to the city to sit by the flowers again. He whispers "Watson...", then uses the bahro stone to travel to the Descent, after which his KI signal disappears.
  • Dr. Kodama asks explorers if they knew where Michael Engberg went, because he is missing and isn't answering messages on his KI. He wonders if anyone can understand Engberg's grief.
  • The DRC sends out a KI message announcing that Michael Engberg is missing and ask that any details about him be passed onto them.

May 24

  • Cate Alexander sends out a KI message stating that the Minkata release party later this day will continue as planned.
  • A music player appears in the Kadish Gallery, which adds the Gallery music to the Relto cannen.
  • Rand Miller visits several neighborhoods and answers questions.
  • The Minkata book is placed in the library.

May 25

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