Exploding Drill

Hot news off the presses regarding a recent explosion on the Mars.  My sources tell me that the drill site is to the east of the Plains of Curiosity named after the unmanned probe 'Curiosity' sent there in the early seventies. Leamas Industries are the co-owners of the project to find...well actually nobody knows what they expect to find by the drilling.  One of sources on Mars believes they are looking for the Old One's energy source and their drilling point is a convergence of cosmic energy.

Having looked up their location in the Link's Mars map it appears to be dead center between four peaks some thirteen miles high, there are three peaks to the south-east of the drill site and the fourth to the north-west.  My source goes onto say that the peaks in question are in fact of unnatural origins, she believes that they are part of he Old One's cyclopean cities and that any attempt to access their technology will result in disaster.

Well disaster they got when the drill hit something very very hard and the whole drill exploded, most drills would of just stalled but not this one.  Below is a fantograph that my source took, unfortunately it is quite unclear and no real scale but it is from some of the 'rock' thrown out when the drill blew its top.  According to my source it is at least twenty feet in height, I know the angle suggests different but he states he took it from one of the project's mini airships.

Dotted about on the ground in the ruins of the drill were nine cubes of dark metal each about six inches across.  Leamas Inc. have reported that despite a few injuries there were no deaths and that most of the drill team are fine.  Yet again Leamas Inc. are being somewhat economical with the truth my inside source states that two men and one women have lost their minds to the incident.  One of the men tried to eat his own hand saying that it was no longer his own.

You have to wonder though why Leamas Inc. a maker of teabags is drilling holes on Mars, not to mention Leamas Inc's new company slogan: "Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence."

Who's There?

Our Globe is apparently about 4.54 billion years old according the Royal Institute of Applied Sciences (excuse my ignorance, scientists prefer the term 'Planet' the rest of us common folk just say globe) also according to the same institute humans appeared on the scene some 2.5 million years ago whilst the more modern humans turned up 200,000 years ago.

Based upon information found in Lovecraft's unpublished journals which the Empire have secreted away on Mars (one of my sources has copies, well copies of copies) for fear of panic regarding man's dominance over the Earth shows that before man walked, other older things live upon the land.  Where these older beings went is unknown although Lovecraft mentions the dark spaces out beyond our solar system.  There is of course the prophecy that they will return and retake the land for their own.

A number of my sources have recently sent me details of something walking our lands, something we cannot see perhaps it is beyond our perceptions or comprehension.  I will not go into the details because some are particularly gruesome suffice to say the recent Red Thames incident is now sending a distinct chill down my spine.

Is this a omen or portent of things to come?

Bonnybridge's Iron Curtain

Had several different reports from sources close to Bonnybridge, the town is still locked down.  However at night you can see a white glowing curtain of light emanating from one of side of the town, during the day it is barely visible, it reaches several hundred feet into the air.  My sources tell me that whilst it does not look to be moving it is advancing just very slowly. 

My sources also tell me that some wild life have been seen to pass through the curtain with fatal consequences.

Still no word from the Empire other than the continued disinformation of an outbreak of Typhoid.  I am not sure how much longer the Empire keep the news blackout in place without causing a serious panic in the surrounding areas.