The Towel and the Camera

Joe Miller
Finally the nightmare is over! The drinking glass covers the team found are working to help Anna. Naturally several series or tests were done prior me letting to use them on Anna. I just am hoping one month worth of backwards aging is enough...

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Brock Storm
Leah suggested she could act as a guinea pig for the experiments, but Mike did not think it was suitable to put a lady in distress. So I offered myself to the task. My job is to risk my safety to keep Mike safe. So it was not that different. That meant couple of very confusing and disorienting days, as the team tested how human body coped with the time-going-backwards -thing. At least I did not have to shave.

The results were interesting though I do not remember anything from the time inside the event horizon. Apparently every living being get stressed a lot when time runs twice backwards. But the effect is not that bad when the person is asleep. Also if the person stepped inside the event horizon on his or her own, the time would run backwards until the person walked backwards out from the horizon... remembering nothing and about to step in as if she/he never stepped in the first place. But if she/he was put in the horizon by other people, the person stayed in as long as the lids were on.

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Leah Maddoc
After we finished doing testing with the lids we left Joe to take "project Anna" unto his custody and begun to look for the next Object. Joe had tracked few scattered ones in Canada and one in Mexico. We decided to rent a car from New Mexico and drive across the border. Mike speaks fluent Spanish so he booked motel rooms for everyone.

When we arrived we were astonished about the size of the motel complex. It consisted of several high-rise buildings, two hundred rooms altogether. Ours were on the sixth floor.

The Object was located to be in the nearby small village, so we did not spend too much time in the motel. A short drive later we found ourselves in the pueblo... well more like a pre-made housing for the soda-factory employees. Brock was able to pinpoint the Object to be in the local church. But before just barging in, we decided to act like tourists and bought some souvenirs and ate and drink local products.

Then we went to the church. Mike acted as if he was interested of the architecture of the building, which was very true in a sense he owning a building company. A young padre was in. And after we explained why we were there, he let us view the building alone, as he needed to finish his sermon for Sunday.

The Object was not in the main hall. It was obvious the Object had to be in the back room. Mike went ahead and knocked on the door. Excusing politely, asking if he could see how it was in the back. The padre was not too happy, but must have though to get sooner rid of us if he complied. And again the Object seemed to be further... in the bathroom. Mike asked if he could see also the bathroom, and the padre sighed deep and agreed.

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Michael Monroe
There was a perfect white towel for hands hanging in the bathroom! With Sunshine motel logo! I took a deep breath and put my widest excited smile on my face and went to talk to the padre again. I spoke voluble about my hobby collecting vintage items and told him how this was perfect item of that era, in perfect condition and all. The padre told he had a very competent house-keeper, and that was why the towel was so bright. He told the towel was given to the church as atonement and he could not sell it. Then I offered a huge donation to the church and he went to make a phone call.

He came back after few minutes and said he thought the church can afford to buy a new towel now.

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Leah Maddoc
Soon Mike came out from the church telling he got the Towel! We returned the motel Brock suggested we put the Towel in the Room for safe keeping, just in case. He thought the phone call the padre made to be peculiar. As we had already paid for the rooms and had a long drive to return the rented car, we decided to take advantage of the hotel's refreshments and bar.

It was almost midnight when we returned to our rooms, only to find our drawers rummaged and our bags opened.

The oddest thing was nothing seemed to be missing. "They are after the Towel" Brock was sure "I bet the padre's phone call has something to do with this" Mike was not convinced the church had something to do with this, but was perplexed why only the lower-level drawers were open.

"Perhaps it was very small guy?" Jacob laughed "Or a monkey"

That was enough for Brock so he took Larentia and went after the guy before the track would get cold.

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Brock Storm
Larentia got a sniff from Leah's suitcase and went galloping towards the service-elevator. It was too small for me to walk in, but I put Larentia in and told her to make a sound when we get to the correct floor. And I took the stairs.

Four floors down and out she went galloping hurriedly towards the backside balcony. Over the rail and footsteps in the sand. The track led us towards the highway and ended in motorbike tire marks.

It was so late and the motel almost empty I did not bother to seek for witnesses. All they could say anyways was "a small guy jumped over the rail and escaped with a bike", which we already knew. Instead I took a clear shot of the tire markings with my phone-camera and sent that to our IT-geek allies in New York. I knew they would be wide awake at this hour.

Twenty minutes later I got an answer: Bikeman said it was too thin to be a full-size motorbike. He said it looked more like an electric wheelchair tires. That meant the bike was custom.

After that piece of information I called to the only Spanish-speaking IT geek in the group: Marco alias MarcoPolo1176 and asked if he could look for motorbike customing shops in the area for us.

"That makes sense. If the guy is small his bike must be custom-fit for him" Jimmy and Mike said in unison.

I still had a bad feeling about the whole rummaging thing and decided to do a bug scan on the luggage. And indeed, a tracking device was found on Mike's suitcase handle! It was agreed to send the bag traveling around USA alone in the morning.

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Jacob Erez
The Towel is the most comfortable to touch! Just holding it and your stress-levels go down and you become refreshened, smelling chamomile, but fresh bathed and washed. Interesting. We call it "The Towel of Refreshment".

We also did series of testing with Brock and the Towel in the event horizon and as our hypothesis was proven to be correct: the Towel DOES ease the stress the double-speed causes, if not completely a null it. This was enough for Joe to put Anna in double-speed sleep in reverse with the Towel. Heh heh heh aka the DeSSeRT heheheh

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Michael Monroe
Two months have passed since I ordered the film for the Camera. So I made a phone call to enquire what took so long. A fidgety voice answered and I gathered from his scatter they "had to make the whole process from scratch" as the original process contains mercury and is hazardous and finishing the phone call with unsure "it will be ready for you next week". Sounded like a time for plan B to me.

Brock and Leah begun pulling their contacts and soon found two professional photographers, an old guy who had taken a series of black and white art shots out of the professional wrestlers twelve years ago and a bit younger woman, who used to took images of people's auras and is now doing that as an art form instead of cashing with faux diagnosis.

Brock was able to track the old guy to be in retirement home, partially demented.

Both sources told exactly the same thing the fidgety lab guy had told: the old polaroids had mercury. They also got an overall info about how the old film was developed and stored properly.

The old guy did not remember what was the last location called he bought his film from. he was not that much in the present time. So Brock told Leah to call his son, maybe he could remember something about his father's business. So he did, he also said he had many cases of the said film in the freezer and we were welcome to come and take it. He hesitated to dispose it anyways because it contained environment-toxins, but he was not sure if the film was on good enough a shape to work.

Leah took cupcakes to thank him and they left 22 films richer. 8 shots in each.

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Jacob Erez
Of course we had to test the Camera! The first shot we took did not develop, but the second one of a mouse did. In the image the mouse seemed dead. Same thing with a potted plant. I thought perhaps it shows how a living thing dies. But frankly it did not show any clues of the how. So we took courage and took shots out of Joe (cause perhaps the Camera does not work on him since he is also an Object)

In the image Joe had a beard!. Leah asked if Joe could actually grow a beard and he replied: "Sure, I shave every day". That made Jimmy very perplexed and he asked: "How on Earth you manage shave your non-breakable hair???"
-"Easily in the Room" Joe replied with a wide smile.

Brock it shoved a bit older and Mike in a coffin! We took another shot of Mike with both newspapers (today's and May 4th 1961) The Object did not seem to have changed at all, but the today's paper was dust.

We came to the conclusion the Camera shows the most probable result in the future of the target approximately N amount of time later.
In which N represents the subjective 8-10% more time the target has already lived.

Was that too hard to understand?
Let's take an example. Our mouse here has lived 1 year. (Normal life expectation for a lab mouse is 2-3 years.) 10% more time in this case means the mouse dies in 1 month.

In Joe's case he has lived 38 years 10% more would mean 3-4 years. But he was not dead in that pic, but he had a beard.

In Mike's case he is dead in 9 years, which was not a surprise to Mike as he IS already 90 years old...

But we KNOW it is possible to change the future. So the glimpse can only be a high possibility.

Could not figure why Kreuzfeldt would want the Camera, unless he knew something we don't.



Case report no 6 by Cattrina