From: Flores š¹
To: Adriana
Wat da hell is up with Dylan? Why wasnāt he prepared before heading out? Itās an excavation site not a tourist attraction. Now I have to haul my ass out of bed in the middle of the night while a blizzard is raging outside because he decided to play explorer without proper equipment? Grrr! I know itās not your fault, sweetie, but you couldāve been a little more persuasive, if you know what I mean (wink wink). In any case, off I go to play errand girl for his royal highness (š¤)
From: Dylan
To: Adriana
This is unreal! I found a network of tunnels behind the broken wall. Tell everyone to get over here! If I didnāt know any better, I would almost say they were artificial. Wouldnāt that be something? The poles used to be warmer prior to the impact, so I suppose itās not outside the realm of imagination; maybe a race of lizard people prospered but eventually succumbed to the cold. Haha! Listen to me. Iāve been here far too long. All this ice is getting to me. Anyway, these tunnels look interesting though a bit creepy with all this mist hanging in the air.
From: Ben
To: Everybody
Urgent! Iāve registered several events across the cap. Weāre now under seismic protocols. Comms still down and canāt relay the messages. Howās the tower work going? Listen, I'm not the superstitious kind, but thereās something odd going on out there. Weird mist and lights flying around. Now these icequakesā¦ I donāt think itās space invaders, but just keep your eyes open out there and stand by.
From: Floresš¹
To: Adriana
Where in the world is Dylan? This better not be another one of his cute little pranks. I hauled his gear all the way to the site, and heās nowhere to be seen. I hope he's not buried under all that ice 'cause I ain't digging him out. Looks like someone made paint marks on the ice. They lead into the cave. Maybe he left these markers for us to follow. Sigh! I guess I'll go check it out. He's going to owe me big time for this.
From: Ben
To: Everybody
THE MIST! STAY AWAY FROM IT! ITāS ALIVE!
From: Dylan
To: Everybody
This is incredible! Whooo! You have to see this and you won't believe it! I found a massive head encased in ice. It looks like a piece of a much more larger structure. By all the gods! The ice around it is melting and giving off a gray steam. How could we have missed this with our instruments? The scanner did not detect any archeological remains. A civilization capable of building this must have left traces of its existence. Where are they?
From: Adriana
To: Everybody
All the towers are relaying the same radio signal. It sounds like a song in a strange dialect. The instruments are so haunting. Guys, what is going on?
Research Drawer
As lava cools and solidifies, the minerals in it become magnetized to the Earthās field. Sediment cores deposited on the ocean floor have shown that thousands of years ago, the earth magnetic poles were reversed in a gradual process of polar shifts. The cyclical reversals take place every 200-300 thousand years. The last reversal occurred 781,000 years ago in what is called the BrunhesāMatuyama reversal. So, weāre way overdue for one. Currently, our magnetic north pole is migrating northward at 40 miles per year and since the early 19th century, it has migrated 600 miles in the same direction. In the past, it was believed that such reversals coincided with mass extinction events. That is no longer a generally accepted theory, though I'm sure you don't have to look far to find someone who believes it. In addition, magnetic pole reversals do not coincide with rotation in the Earthās axis. So geographic north will remain so even after the magnetic poles reverse. Given the complexity of Earth magnetic field(s), the exact mechanisms of their wandering are presently unknown.
So how did the Statue of Liberty end up at the poles? I supposed more research is needed to put the clues together.
Any given archeological site may be altered by cultural and non-cultural processes. Investigating these site-formation processes requires the analysis of the remains found in the archeological record, which contains the clues to a group's cultural history.#aiart pic.twitter.com/ZFJKLG0syV
November 30, 2022ā litguru (@litguru23)
Resources
Earthās Magnetic Field Reversal Took Three Times Longer Than Thought
Fagan, Brian Murray. In the Beginning : an Introduction to Archaeology. 9th edition New York: The Lindbriar Corporation, 1997
Other parts
Images generated by @litguru using Stable Diffusion software
Yay! More story. š I still have no clue what's going on but I guess that's the point. š Although we could guess, as this seems like a post-apocalyptic setting.
You got some typos here and there btw, like 'how did the Statue of Liberty end up at the poles', and a couple of little ones here and there. Just a head's up if you're doing a second draft.
Thanks for posting on Scholar and Scribe! Cheers! š»
Thanks @grocko! I will update the story to get rid of the typos, which I appreciate you pointed them out.
You're right, it's not meant to be a clear story, but leaves a lot of background info out. For example, who are these people doing scientific research? At the beginning it seems like they're just regular scientists doing research in the Arctic or Antarctic. Yet, this doesn't square with the fact that the statue of liberty has been found in the ice and they don't seem to be recognize it. Then there's the gray mist, which I don't clearly state what it is, but it's a vague reference to the gray goo problem in nanotechnology. The ice is melting around the statue, so maybe this gray steam has something to do with it.
I do plan to rework the story more fully and tighten things up later. Thank you for reading!
It's your story, you can write it however you like, but I think the less the reader knows the better. Not sure if you've heard about the iceberg way of storytellin but its a philosophy I very much prescribe to. š
Good luck and keep at it! š»
Nice and inspiring. Started with the third part, but drives me to know more of the story.
Thank you @oblivionlost! I hope you found it intriguing. The story was partly driven by the generated images, so it was interesting to craft.
What an interesting story and it motivated me to finish my story.
Right on! I look forward to reading it! :)