Who Read the Plan Called Tombstone
Session: 2024-12-11
The record takes up with a page headed Profile. The first name on it is Admiral Serevok: an elebrian necrovite, who does not concern himself with the day-to-day. The journal does not say where the profiles came from, or how the secure room ended. Of Grek and the pale stranger, nothing.
Who read the names of the dead command.
— the Long Names, Zigu, 75
The heaviest mass moves least. All else moves around it.
— the Cycle, IV.11
Below him, Captain Gerd Nishal, written as Malikar's superior. Som noted that the captain seems familiar, a kind of undead he had met before. The journal does not say which kind, or where.
Who knew the captain's kind, and did not write its name.
— the Long Names, Zigu, 76
Old light is faint. It is still light.
— the Cycle, I.8
Malikar here; Malaki in 121. One name heard twice, perhaps, and written two ways. I cannot be sure.
Beside the captain's name, Project tombstone. Notes on how to disrupt a command and cause a mutiny: eliminate or embarrass them. The journal does not say whose plan it was, or whose command it was meant to break.
Who held the plan called Tombstone.
— the Long Names, Zigu, 77
When the core gives way, all that stood on it trembles.
— the Cycle, IV.1
With the plan, two viruses. Wraith 2.0, which keeps the security systems from seeing the crew. Tombrobber, which raises false alerts and can use video. The journal does not say whether they were used.
Let the watch see nothing where you stand.
Let it see you where you are not.
(Zigu, from his journal.)
— the Forms, Form 43, later additions
Observation post 50ft away from train. One line. The journal does not say where the train ran, what the post watched, or who stood in it.
Choose the ground before you step onto it.
Where there is one place to stand, the enemy knows it too.
— the Forms, Form 14
Then a fight. He wrote first that he was shaken. By the next exchange he was not. Three times he drew on gravity, three times he raised a shield; the haste in his armor ran, then went still, and his guard hardened in its place. The journal does not say whom he fought, or how it ended.
Who began shaken, and was not shaken long.
— the Long Names, Zigu, 78
Set the feet wider than the shoulders.
Lower the center. Keep the weight over the back foot.
Do not step back to strike.
Let the attacker close the distance.
Hold until the line breaks or you do.
— the Forms, Form 7
He wrote his own fear, and the next line wrote it gone. That seems out of character for the recital. It is in character for the journal. He set down what was.
What was taken: four seeker rifles, four lashes, eight flash grenades, eight healing serums. A d-suit, and a combat rifle. The journal stops there.
Look to what the fallen carried.
A thing that steadies the dying is worth the carrying.
Know what they eat, and whether you can eat it.
(Zigu, from his journal.)
— the Forms, Form 33, later additions
Many small weights, held together, make a world.
— the Cycle, III.2
Four rifles, four lashes. Four who carried them, I would guess. He does not say.