THIRTEEN OF THIRTEEN

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PART ONE: THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH!?

JAEIO JAYLE JODIE JONNI OF THE BROWNSTONE THIRTEEN

 

They were in the MultiTransCube and in a four metre wide and high cube shaped alcove. The triplets sat fairly close with Bob and Old Joe to discuss very special matters.

 

“They are called manifesticants. They can be generated by powerful, highly skilled and very experienced psionicists or exotic entities with the right abilities. They need only a small amount of very special material, the summoning of an animation elemental and some other trickeries, and a copy can be made of many types of things including lifeforms. Lifeforms are the most difficult to do and the easiest to be detected.”

 

Bob was sitting cross legged on a zetaman platform and had just finished a meal of living meatworms, a raw onion, some pristine fresh muttfruit and two bottles of chilled NukaCola. He had also drank about a litre of chilled water. He was trying to remember anything of use to tell the triplets and Old Joe.

 

The big cube-chamber was now added to by a second cube-chamber of the same size but it was still fairly bare. There were also some added cube alcoves and cube antechambers of smaller size though still quite large. The extra animals were making themselves at home.

 

Bob went on speaking. “I learned of manifesticants the hard way when I was landed on one of the Living Hells, worlds of incredible horror and chaos, where the enemy sent wave after wave of manifesticants at us. They came in as many shapeforms from giant reptilian monsters shooting jets of atomic flame to multiple headed dragons with great sweeping wings, giant atomic robots hurling thousands of rockets and... well hordes of zombies. That and much more were sent at us including distorted copies of our own forces. We retreated after heavy losses and the Greytorian Empire never sent zetan forces back there.”

 

Jonni sat in a conforming chair with a crystal mug of cider in one hand. “Manifesticants are weapons usable by anybody, a neutral thing.”

 

“A tool, a weapon, an entertainment, an artwork, a titillation...” Bob shrugged dramatically. “Like a gun or a pair of scissors or a car or a robot, manifesticants can be used for good or evil but they are not intrinsically good or evil. Nor does their use automatically identify the user in any real way. Yet there are ways to detect the identity of the summoner of manifesticants because some kind of relationship is formed and does not totally vanish. There is a kind of 'trail' left behind that fades. The more skilled, powerful and experienced a manifesticator is, the harder it is to find this 'trail' or any other such clues.”

 

Bob went on speaking. “Manifesting manifesticants drains psionic energies and it would seem much such energy has been spent in recent times. Yet manifesticants tend to lack excessive physical or other strength. I doubt that such was involved in the horrific attacks against your adoptive parents or against others. No, that sounds to be more like the use of kineticants, a deadly powerful form of summoned kinetic force elemental added with other dangerous elements and a boost of psionic power. On the Living Hell world we zetan forces were also attacked by many kineticants. Though we had ways to deal with them that we were soon improving, they caused much death, destruction and disorder amongst our ranks.”

 

Jayle spoke. “Who was the enemy? Was it the Living Devils?”

 

Bob shook his head. “There are many Living Devil Factions, the Devilaka, but what we dealt with were Living Grand Demonic Lords known as the Grand Thirteen Devastators. None of this indicates any of them are behind the horrific murders because a great range of entities can use either manifesticants or kineticants.”

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PART ONE: THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH!?

JAEIO JAYLE JODIE JONNI OF THE BROWNSTONE THIRTEEN

 

Bob spoke to other, but related, matters. “I am not sure who or what sent me here but I have been serving them for years now. They call themselves the Thirteen Grand Guardians but that could mean anything. They are linked with something called the Thirteen Foundations, also known as the Sister Foundations. They are also linked with groups like the Followers of the Apocalypse, the Orders of the Way of the Light, the Second Chancers, the Restoration University, the Regulators, the Orders of Steel in DC, the Antislavers and a few I can not and-or will not name.”

 

“There has been a Great Conspiracy that has existed since long before Doomsday.” Bob looked troubled. “A Grand Conspiracy of many faces, of lesser conspiracies, of movements, of factions, of pretend anticonspiracies, of parasitic conspiracies that feed off it until they are destroyed and of manipulated dupes. It has flourished on many worlds. Opposing it has always been the Grand Anticonpiracy but also other forces. Yet very few have worked out what the Grand Conspiracy really is or how it functions.”

 

“I can only tell you that its true reason for existence is for the benefit of only one entity of vast age, power, desire, evil and illness. It is dying because of its own overly cunning, clever stupidity, its lack of even basic wisdom, awareness and compassion. The Conspiracy is its own way of finding a way out of the terrible trap that it has set for itself. It is known by many names such as the Great Shadow, the Great Devil, the Great Undeath, the RothuaRetirwa, the Great Devourer, the Devil, the God of Damnation and many others. Closest to the truth is the RothuaRetirwa.”

 

Bob went on speaking. “The RothuaRetirwa will most likely perish. It can not go back to where it came from because it is as much hated there as it is here and because its nature has changed so fundamentally that it could no longer survive there any more than it can here. The great fear is that before it finally perishes, it will manage to reap incredible death, destruction and disorder across this, the Positive Mirror Multiverse of the Greater Multiverse. It comes from the Negative Mirror Multiverse though that should be impossible.”

 

The zetaman shrugged. “What is happening here in the Subways Unified Republic may well be a vital part in the Shadow Conspiracy's drive to fulfil the demands of this one great horror of an entity.”

 

Bob finished and he gave the triplets and Old Joe a grim look. “As soon as this RothuaRetirwa is destroyed, the better for all of us.”

 

Old Joe shook his head. “No, not really, Bob but you do not know that because you have been duped, manipulated, carefully fed dangerous half truths that are more dangerous than outright lies. The RothuaRetirwa was a young naive entity who made a terrible mistake and allowed the true horror to come through from the Negative Multiverse. How do I know that? Because I met the RothuaRetirwa once. Have pity for it for it wanders now lost in its own hellish limbo, trapped between true life and death.”

 

Then Old Joe promptly fell asleep. Jonni carefully adjusted his position to make him more comfortable.

 

Jayle explained to Bob, alias AzraAzi0123. “To meet the RothuaRetirwa as Old Joe did, is to absorb some of its aspect, its horror. Old Joe did this finally as an act of compassion to ease the terrible burden of the RothuaRetirwa, but has paid for it as have others. Old Joe Brownstone can never leave the MultiTransCube which keeps him stable and well.”

 

Bob gave a sad smile. “Then I will keep him good company. We both like to play chess and I let him win sometimes to cheer him up. We will discuss a wide range of subjects and, in theory at least, solve the problems of the Multiverse. We will visit the various SVR Domains together. Often I will just be a quiet companion. Of course I will also continue to assist you, the Brownstone Triplets.”

 

It was a good answer.

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PART ONE: THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH!?

JAEIO JAYLE JODIE JONNI OF THE BROWNSTONE THIRTEEN

 

It turned out that Bob had only some information to give the triplets that they did not already have but these were important pieces of data. He gave them knowledge of how both manifesticants and kineticants could be detected more easily especially as they were first created and some ways to deal with them, not all of which meant destroying them. It seemed there were ways to pacify or even take control of both of the kinds of entities along with others like them.

 

Bob and Old Joe got on very well. Bob did not realize that he had been tricked in a fundamental way, had been brain washed, but as time passed, his mind became free of the treatment of his mind. He slowly began to realize the truth of what had happened.

 

He had not been one of the rebelling zetamans but one chosen from the still encapped ones, the expendable puppet-soldiers of the zetans. He had been fed a series of falsehoods, clever half truths, and set out to trick others into believing them. He himself strongly believed that these half truths were accurate.

 

Old Joe had already known the truth because he had met all of the free zetaman rebels, had been part of the same fighting unit. Bob had not been one of them. Old Joe had been enhanced of mind, body and spirit by his moment of deep contact with the RothuaRetirwa.

 

The triplets went looking to find out any common denominator behind the various horrific murders, some hidden factor that linked them all that seemingly nobody had found before. They would take overlapping shifts outside of the MultiTransCube. Inside the transdimensional device time was twice faster than it was in 'reality' so they could get much more done there in relative terms. This time they had new knowledge and some clever technologies not just to deal with manifesticants and kineticants but to generate manifesticants of their own or even a dangerous form of safeguard, if they had to, known as counter-kineticants.

 

Old Joe and Bob spent a good deal of time playing chess, debating matters, watching old shows on 3DTV including many 2Dshows, taking care of the animals, spending time in super virtual reality or just reading or even meditating. Yet they also managed to carry out a series of small but important tasks given to them by the triplets.

 

The triplets spent time with the pair, took care of the pets, did research and worked on a series of projects, not all of which they shared with Bob though Old Joe knew about more of them.

 

The Subways Civil War began when the SUR Central Government began an attempted crack down, a purge, of its enemies and supposed enemies along with many innocents who had no part of any struggle or any desire to join it.

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MY VASTLY HUMBLE APOLOGIES; AM STARTING THIS STORY AGAIN.

 

TOO COMPLICATED TOO QUICK SO I WILL TRY AGAIN.

 

MADE SOME EDITING ERRORS DURING CHANGE TO NEW STORY

 

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PART ONE: THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH!?

AARAA AARAO AARIE AARON OF THE ZAVID THIRTEEN

 

Three triplets who had grown up in LifeVault0087A2, in theory they were not supposed to know about anything beyond the vault. They certainly were not supposed to know about the surface-subsurface settlement of Megaton that lay above and to one side of the LifeVault. It was an open secret that not only did Megaton exist but that petty officials frequently carried out secret authorized trade with Megaton and smugglers carried out illegal trading. Their friend, Amata Almodovar, informed them that the LifeVault Leadership Council had given up on stopping the smuggling but had begun attempts to try to register and regulate it.

 

Amata's father, Prime Overseer Alphonse Almodovar, saw hope in increasing the slowly and steadily decreasing vault population by bringing in new 'blood' from the Wastelands. He had swept aside his previous fears because it was one of the few real hopes for his vaultfolk. At the same time he had doubled the Security Force of uniformed guards and Security Service of typical vault jumpsuit wearing, often secretive, agents. The irony was that most people knew who most of these secret agents were because everybody knew at least a fair deal about everybody else. The LifeVault only had a population of just over eighty thousand people, which was not really a great deal.

 

Radroach infestations, the break down of some network-systems and the partial failure of others, along with structural faults, were making life in the LifeVault increasingly difficult. Yet life was far from oppressive or harsh for vault citizens though there were areas people could no longer go and there was a good deal of rationing of goods and services.

 

The triplets' life was not made easier by the fact that their father, Professor James Zavid, had increasing annoyed the Prime Overseer by using resources in unauthorized experiments and attempting to gain access to sealed off forbidden areas of the vault. The forbidden areas were officially unsafe because of breakdowns and while this was true for some of them, it was not true for all of them.

 

Catherine, their mother, had supposedly died giving birth to them, yet she had come to them in strange, amazingly vivid dreams all of their life. Not all the time, no, but at least a couple times a week.

 

On their tenth birthday their father, perhaps out of a sense of guilt because he was generally not a very good parent, gave them an electric double-zapper, a light hunting crossbow and a .22LR calibre bolt-action carbine with a fixed magazine for five bullets. Why the weapons? Because the triplets could gain vault credit points by going on radroach hunts that paid a fair bounty for each radroach killed and taken in for recycling. Official explanations for how the recycled radroaches were used were foolish and not taken seriously but most people did not want to think about the truth. Thus they could earn some bonus credit and increase their positive reputation with the rather basic Overseer Government.

 

It was not until they were older that they realized that their father had also done this to increase his own reputation with the Overseer Government. The Overseer Government was made up of thirteen officials being one Prime Overseer, three Secondary Overseers (Treasurer, Secretary and Minister) and nine Overseer Directors. Each Overseer Director oversaw one of the nine Overseer Departments of the one and only LifeVault Ministry that was overseen by the Secondary Overseer Minister. A Citizen Council officially supervised its actions. In theory it sounded like a good system; in practice it was not.

 

NOTE: EDITING MISTAKE; ACCIDENTALLY CHANGED NAME FROM LIFEVAULT0101A2 TO LIFEVAULT0101B2 PART WAY THROUGH STORY. CHANGING ALL TO ORIGINAL NAME OF LIFEVAULT0101A2.

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PART ONE: THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH!?

AARAA AARAO ZENO ZEMO ZENI OF THE ZAVID THIRTEEN

 

Way deep below LifeVault0087A2 was the Subways Unified Republic that was, again, an open secret amongst vaultfolk. Subwayers were wary of going to the surface, of bringing contamination to their own secured underground sectors, but more inclined to send expeditions to a LifeVault. They did not come often, they met with LifeVault petty officials and everybody pretended such things did not happen. Goods were exchanged including information. The Subways Unified Republic was far too deep for smugglers to be interested; not only distance but danger caused them to think it not worth the effort.

 

A young, slimly muscular woman, Aarao, stood in deep shadows quietly observing the Subwayers arriving into the big chamber. There were two envoys, some traders, guards, workers, some techies, a cook and two robotic hoversleds loaded down with goods. The Subwayers all wore fatigues, boots, body-armour, looked typical for Subwayers but Aarao 'sensed' that something was very wrong. These people were there but, somehow, they were not there at all at the very same time.

 

Manifesticants! Very sophisticated manifesticants! Manifesticants of such quality had to be tuned to real captive lifeforms most likely trapped in horrible jelly like manifestation cocoons. How did she know about such matters? Because the triplets had hacked into their father's secret datafiles and he had gained that knowledge by stealing it from the Overseer Government of LifeVault0087A2.

 

LifeVault0087A2 had been set up as a trap for people to be experimented on but the experiment had failed before it had a chance to begin. The reason for failure had been mundane instead of dramatic; the wrong parts had been sent to the LifeVault and the mysterious experimental network-system had never been activated. It was a prototype of a so called synthetic manifesitcator, a creator of so called synthetic manifesticants. Now it was sealed up in a subvault and had been that way for hundreds of years.

 

These fake Subwayers were not synthetic manifesticants but were the genuine, traditional thing. They spread out and stood with odd calmness as a petty official from the LifeVault, a self important Overseer Supervisor, came to greet them. With him were five security guards in kevlar body-armour and dark blue security fatigues. Four had 5.56mm M1616A3 autorifles with added 30mm grenadeshell launchers and basic laserguns. The fifth had a 12 gauge pump-shotgun (pump-action shotgun) with a lasergun.

 

With them were three basic vault-androids (vaultdroids) of two vaultboys and one vaultgirl. These were very realistic mannequin like figures in basic dark blue (vaultboy) or dark purple (vaultgirls) jumpsuits. The vaultfolk, including vaultdroids, were genuine, were certainly not manifesticants.

 

The blonde, dusky eurowhite Aarao was in a dark, dull purple jumpsuit. She took up her carefully made destabilizergun, aimed it and prepared for trouble. These manifesticants were about to attack the vaultfolk but why? Then she 'sensed' something about all of the vaultfolk there and knew why. They were UnityNeo, were evolved humans with a shared secondary subconscious who did not even know what they were, who did not begin to understand their own nature, and yet who were drawn together. She realized that all the recent gruesome murders of vaultfolk close to LifeVault0087A2 could easily be UnityNeofolk who had chosen to live with their own kind in small outpost settlements. Perhaps they had felt better for doing so but in doing so they had made themselves more vulnerable to attack by aggressors who could detect their unique nature.

 

Why would such an exotic force want to kill UnityNeo and with such savagery as had been displayed? Were the attacks unprovoked or was there something behind them such as revenge?

 

NOTE: EDITING MISTAKE; ACCIDENTALLY CHANGED NAME FROM LIFEVAULT0101A2 TO LIFEVAULT0101B2 PART WAY THROUGH STORY. CHANGING ALL TO ORIGINAL NAME OF LIFEVAULT0101A2.

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PART ONE: THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH!?

AARAA AARAO ZENO ZEMO ZENI OF THE ZAVID THIRTEEN

 

The manifesticants attacked but even as they did the UnityNeofolk brought up their weapons and began to fire the laserguns that were adapted in a smart manner. The pencil thin beams spat out to cause manifesticants to flicker and vanish but moments later they would reappear and continue to fire their weapons. A UnityNeo man fell and the others dropped down even as they realized their adapted laserguns were not effective enough.

 

Aarao fired her special weapons, a pale pulsebeam sweeping across the manifesticants so that they sparkled, crackled, shattered and then vanished dramatically. The fake vaultdroids, who were actually Aarao's follower avatars, took out smaller, weaker but still effective devices and also began firing pale pulsebeams at the dangerous manifesticants. Then they were gone and they would not be returning.

 

Yet it was not time yet to congratulate oneself. Something far more dangerous was soon being felt as a whirling energy pattern began to appear in the centre of the chamber. Aarao fired her disruptor at it but there was only a small amount of effect. Then she was rushing out into the centre of the room.

 

“Everybody, bring the hoversleds and hurry. We must go from here now. What force that sent the manifesticant killers is now sending a far more dangerous kineticant against us. It has limited range and we can get away from it if we hurry.”

 

The UnityNeofolk surprised her by touching what she asked. The fake androids took control of three robotic hoversleds. Controlling the hoversleds meant they could be driven quicker and more efficiently because these were not smart-robots.

 

Even as they fled from the chamber, the kineticant was shapeforming into a translucent sparkling monster of claws, tentacles and other horror features. Already it was striking out at the last of the UnityNeofolk as they left the chamber. Aarao stepped between the attacker and the fleeing man so that a great kineticant tentacle struck her body-shield and rebounded away from her with a sparkling explosion of energies. Such defenses were limited in effect against such a mighty foe and she dared not rely upon them too much.

 

They got away and kept moving until they reached a UnityNeo safechamber, a small hidden base with some extra equipment and more supplies. This was little more than a utility chamber built long ago and forgotten. It had been adapted and added to. There were two workbenches, a refrigerator, a couple of tables, some bunks, some chairs including armchairs and even a 3DTV-set. There were already two UnityNeofolk there and they did not act surprised at all at the sudden appearance of the newcomers but this was to be expected with UnityNeofolk.

 

NOTE: EDITING MISTAKE; ACCIDENTALLY CHANGED NAME FROM LIFEVAULT0101A2 TO LIFEVAULT0101B2 PART WAY THROUGH STORY. CHANGING ALL TO ORIGINAL NAME OF LIFEVAULT0101A2.

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MY VASTLY HUMBLE APOLOGIES; AM STARTING THIS STORY AGAIN.

 

TOO COMPLICATED TOO QUICK SO I WILL TRY AGAIN.

 

MADE SOME EDITING ERRORS DURING CHANGE TO NEW STORY

 

MY APOLOGIES FOR ANY HASSLES CAUSED

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PART ONE: THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH!?

OBSERVITII EYEOTIIBETA OF THE WATCHITII THIRTEEN

 

EyeotiiBeta plunged deeper into the ground than did EyeotiiAlpha, sweeping through LifeVault0087A2 and then into the Subways Unified Republic three dimensional territories. Because of the complexity of this new terrain, EyeotiiBeta summoned forth its three follower avatars and they swept outwards to cover more territory.

 

The Watchitii Thirteen sought dangerous intrusions not just into the troubled world of Nirn, a world that should not exist but which did anyway, and intrusions from unknown dimensions beyond any 'normal' threats and even non threats.

 

The appearance of manifesticants and kineticants was disturbing but not new to the realm of Divinaedra, to the world of Nirn, though they were not very common. What was disturbing was the strange energy signatures that EyeotiiBeta and its follower avatars were able to pick up. They indicated unknown types of intruders from unknown dimensional existences.

 

EyeotiiBeta picked up the actions of other Thirteens of the Thirteen, each based on three primaries as triplets. This was no surprise for EyeotiiBeta knew they were functioning on-in the supercontinent of Amtriel with its robots, power armour, aeroships and broken cities. That three of the Thirteens of the Thirteen were operating in such close proximity to each other, was of interest for it meant that something big was up, very big.

 

EyeotiiBeta glimpsed two powerful entities of very exotic natures but no more than that. They were power, sophisticated but, most of all, they were frightened and on the run from a very dangerous predator. EyeotiiBeta 'sensed' this predator and, though she constantly sent data to a series of unknown destinations, she sent some special status alert briefings.

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PART ONE: THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH!?

ROTHUARETIRWA

 

He, she and it were not there one moment in a bare area of ground between two great chunks of burned smart-stone projecting up into the air that had been huge statues. Then he was there along with a battlebuggy, a cargobuggy and two motorquads, eleven assorted companions and some hidden others. He wore exploration power armour as did the others except for the robots. Even the animals were equipped with special power armour but they were able to use it because in truth nothing there was what it seemed to be on the surface. Like RothuaRetirwa himself, herself and itself, they were all shapechangers of different kinds, even the vehicles.

 

She, he, it? One RothuaRetirwa but three bodies being one young man, one young woman and one sexless nullman.

 

RothuaRetirwa had been drawn there. RothuaRetirwa had come there flowing along paths of karmic intensity. RothuaRetirwa was not like others and did not behave as others did.

 

This was to be expected!

 

RothuaRetirwa She, named Rathina, she observed the sky in its harsh grandeur.

 

RothuaRetirwa He, named Randino, he observed a mutated, tough but lovely flower.

 

RothuaRetirwa It, named Ranullu, it observed nothingness in all of its finery.

 

The others waited patiently but were observant in case of danger. Mostly not danger to them or RothuaRetirwa but that others would have RothuaRetirwa become dangerous.

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