their hearts spoke the truth, but their minds would not listen: Cryptic Mechposting

ARCHAEOLOGICAL REPORT: SITE 12, DESIGNATION “ANTIOCH”. 14/7/92

All information has been reviewed by the Board prior to release, censored appropriately for public consumption.

This is the third location in which concrete evidence of Supernova-class weaponry has been found; designation FEMUR. Dig site located on the Marrow Fields, a blasted waste in the Karnish-controlled southern reaches of the Hills of Bone and Whispers. Primary detonation-based excavations revealed a large network of vein-like tunnels painfully wrenching deep into the earth at approximately a mile below sea level. These tunnels were lined in a petrified, calcified matter currently being researched further, though progress has been slow given its tendency to scream in pain react violently to contact with any form of metal.

Spelunking team assigned to navigating these caverns suffered a number of returned intact, mumbling incoherently about the fragmented shards of the osseous whole having gathered little information. However, when they returned, chunks of its flesh the same reactive material were found among their Board-approved gear, bearing its last breath strange glyphic inscriptions. The current attempts at translation have yielded the following:

ONE OF THE WHOLE. ONE OF THE WHOLE. WE BEAR YOU UPON OUR BACK, AND WE SCREAM WHEN YOU FALL. BORN TO (translation incomplete), RAZED TO BE BIRTHED ANEW. THE ONE FROM THE STARS, THE ONE FROM THE SEA, THE ONE FROM THE EYES, THE ONE no spoilers here, AND WE SEAL WITH THE ONE FROM THE FLESH.

Relation to Dig Site Carthage and ULNA is unknown; investigation at both sites is in shambles, what are you keeping from us proceeding slowly. Current Board recommendation is to kindle the flesh-fire continue sending in field researchers until progress has been made into cataloguing the there’s a reason the psychics kill themselves caverns. How did the Red War end, in those two years we all forgot? Why does the Board ask us to hunt and kill diviners on sight? Why did we all hear the same poem in our dreams at Nazareth? Why won’t the drums stop beating in my head in my head in my head in my head in my hea Report concluded.

YOU KNOW IT IS THERE

BACK THERE, YES; YOUR MIND CAN TASTE IT

YOU LOOKED INTO THE EYES OF THAT WHICH FELL FROM THE SKY

THAT’S WHY THEY WANT YOU

THEY NEED YOU

GIVE INTO THE SERPENT, TASTE THE RED APPLE’S KISS

YOUR SOUL KNOWS, AND IT BEARS THE MARK

YOUR SOUL WILL BEAR US

DELIVER US INTO YOUR PAPER WORLD

DO NOT TRUST THEIR HONEYED TONGUES

LIES IN YOUR BONES

LIES