Terra Nova Research Base, Antarctica.
RAIN-4490: “Gil Perez's Helmet”
Written in 1915 [no updates required]
Sometimes, the most difficult part of the retrieval process is to get the artefact back to the place where it has to be stored. When we are talking of what we call “transportation artefacts”, we are bound to the conditions in which they are activated, and the whims they could be subject to. As far as we are concerned, those who randomly send you to a destination can be divided in two categories; those who need contact with the user to do it, and those who don’t. In the grand scheme of things, those who don’t are annoying in a particular manner, because it means that from wherever you are sent to, now you have to do all the way back to have a new chance on retrieval of the artefact.
Since Queen Grimhilde’s mirror, we tend not to take on face value those artefacts which we considered fiction before. On the same realm of “fictional artefacts” there’s a couple that overlap with the category we are seeing now. One is Dorothy Gale’s ruby slippers from the movie “The Wizard of Oz”, which have a mythical counterpart on the Silver Shoes which are in themselves another artefact. The other is the one we have to talk now; Gil Pérez’s helmet.
In the year 1593, during an indigenous uprising, the governor of Manila, now the Philippines, was killed on the palace made by the Spanish conquistadores. At the same time, in the middle of the plaza in Mexico City, a soldier started screaming about the issue, having just appeared in the place. His job? To protect the governor of Manila.
This was before the Schism of 1692, so people appearing and vanishing at will wasn’t uncommon then. However, when someone who’s an absolute human, appears further away than what magic allows you to, we have an issue. Back then, the covens were a dying breed, a decade short from the Purge of 1581, so no one really kept track of the rumours, turning them into the stuff of legends, and part of Spanish Folklore, like the Cid, in a much smaller scale.
When they locked up this soldier, while checking his ramblings., his stuffed was parted and sold to maintain him while in prison. What made him travel was the helmet.
That is considered the last artefact Ms. Athenida helped recover before her disappearance in 1915, while the Falcon-Scott Base was well under construction. We are still not sure about the cause of her disappearance, if this was because of the Gil Pérez’s helmet, or her permanent working in the bowels of Sophia. Nonetheless, the retrieval of the helmet itself was not a great prowess; it was bought in an auction after the Mexican Revolution and sent directly to the base instead of the tower. Reasoning behind these was that, given the transportation of artefacts was done during the construction and not after, it could very well be mixed with the new arrivals.
Due to its proprieties, it’s one of the artefacts that has to be stored under special care. Much like the two which gave Sophia its randomness; the Staff of Hermes and the Janus Coin. And is, with them, in safekeeping in a secluded area of the Transportation Hub, though still can be accessed in case of emergency or to power the incoming retrieval teams and their artefacts when the system is down for maintenance.
Ariel Bonheur, Chief Archivist
Attached note from the Overseer’s Office.
Ariel,
Okay, this does it. We are having an inquiry from the Bureau this afternoon. Your stubbornness regarding not following the new rules to update has ended with all of us in hot water. I tried to be accommodating, nice, and everything in this motherflower earth so you did it as quick as possible. Now that didn’t work, phase two is at hand.
This is a formal communication from the Overseer Office. You are required in an urgent meeting between the Department COOs, RAIN-Falcon Directory Board, and the Director of the Bureau. Today at midday. No excuses would be accepted in this situation, due to the severity of the meeting.
Overseer Rutgers.
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