GAIA'S TIME LINE

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Journals of ElfTech 138

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005
7:32 PM

Everything is FINE!  

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Journal of ElfTech 123
Tuesday, November 29th, 2005
8:38pm

Wow! Big claw...

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Journal of ElfTech 003
Wednesday, November 30th, 2005
12:21 AM

Holes have appeared in my memory. This week floated and flashed through my foggy mind. Something has twisted deep inside this place, it festered and echoed in the walls of the building. Ramble and Ruin, my two young ones have escaped whatever assailed their kin- that horrible Whatever, that awful Whatever heard only when I pressed my ear against the floor.

I have not met my quota for three days, but no one came searching and asking why. Even the enthusiastically-browed elf ceased to gush about his duties, instead he has lapsed into a drowsy, blank silence. Something has changed. Deja vu, I've been here before. My notebook revealed patterns. Page seven. Page ten. Page twenty, thirty-seven, sixty-two, eighty-one. I can't remember. Why do entries change slightly at the end of each ball? A new location, walls painted different colors, a rubber band found in a pot containing an exotic flower only found thousands of miles away. Flight. The sensation awoke, it's sleepy wings stretched out and thumped against my chest and demanded that freedom be granted.

Flight. How will I know where to go if I don't know what I've left behind. Where are my sixty-two completed spheres of elastic strands listed so carefully in my worn book. I have only the last.

Flight.
F l i g h t.
F l i g h t.

The ceiling lights flickered near the cubicles. Our singing friend was nowhere to be seen or heard, his scrub-brush and playing cards laid abandoned on the floor. I only stopped once as I sprinted toward the door.

Night beckoned to us, stretched out her rosy fingers and left her mark on my cheeks. The little ones laid curled in a furry hammock. Five yards of warmth wrapped over my chest and kept their quick pulses against mine. The fresh air revived them, two identical white faces tilted upward, noses twitching. I know they will survive with their thick coats and wintry hearts.

I will walk into this crystalline darkness, each step pointing forward and my lungs drawing breath until my heart fills up and bursts. Onward, with Ramble, my lost explorer and Ruin, dearest quiet Ruin, who carries in her namesake a reminder that everything must fall down.  

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Journal of ElfTech 003
Wednesday, November 30th, 2005
1:28 AM

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Journal of ElfTech 062
Wednesday, November 30th, 2005
3AM

Can't sleep again... but at least this time the dream is different... there was a voice, telling me that I'll have an early retirement... I felt a sign of relief.

A few elftechs have been absent from work today. Must be the nasty weather coming down on everyone.

Our latest and greatest toy had finally been complete! I am eager to show it to everyone, especially to Mrs Clause. I'm still trying to find the right name for it.  

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Journal of ElfTech 722
Wednesday, November 30th, 2005 6:20 AM
Locked here in the closet I await sunrise ... Just me and the spiders.

My last privilege has been revoked. S Corp blocked me from reading my fanmail. Cut off from the world, I find existence here to be monotonous and dreary. The idea of working on a top-secret project is starting to lose its appeal. I mean, it sounds like actual work! I might actually have to do stuff. Scrubbing floors was bad, but what if this new position is even worse? Mrs. Claus is sure to find out I am a fraud. I have no skills in toy making of any kind. What does she want me to make? She said something about magic. A magician's starter kit? A book revealing all my magical illusions? This could be disastrous!

My final magical performance here at S Corp will be a disappearing act. Let's just hope I can make it out alive ... You may try to bring me down, but The Amusing Elf will rise again! The bonds that shackle me shall no longer ---


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now known as
THE AMUSING ELF!

 

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Journals of ElfTech 126
Tuesday, November 30, 2005 :: Morning.

Oh, the hectic times of working in a secret arctic facility! It's been a busy few days... 912 and I finished up way ahead of schedule for our self warming coffee mugs, and to my suprise, when accepted my invitation to sneak out and go for a moonlit walk in the snow.

Last night, in between the guards rounds, and with the lockpicking help of ElfTech571, 912 and I were able to sneak out of the facility. Ooooh, it was soo cold, but thanks to the generous donations of several Gaians, we were all bundled up for the cold. The moon was full, and as we adventrued around the facility gounds (avoiding the searchlights, of course), I hesitantly reached out my gloved hand to hold 912's, which she accepted. I was so elated. The happiness in my soul was bubbling over. The moon was almost full, and so bright, that I had to keep my sunglasses on. xd

We walked the crunchy snow-covered gounds in almost total silence, not needing to say anything. My happiness almost made me lose track of time, but I had my blue watch that 912 had given me, and realized the time before it was too late, and we made our way back to the door that 571 had rewired as to not set the alarm off. As we entered, we got caught! Two security guards grabbed 912 and I and before I knew it, the world had gone dark.

I woke up this morning in a completely dark room, with only the blinking lights of the security locks on the door flashing on and off to illuminate the room. We seemed to be in an office of some sort, and luckily there was a terminal here so that I could record the events of last night in my journal. 912 was still sleeping beside me, but... somehow... we were still holding hands. At least something was good in what was quickly becoming a scary situa------

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Journal of ElfTech 137
Wednesday, November 30th, 2005 12:00 PM

*WHRAAAAMMMM!!!!*

Thats the noise I woke up to today. I don't remember falling asleep or really much of anything after she made me that soup last night.. but thats not important. What is important is that something huge is on the other side of that wall.. and its beating its way through little by little.

Shes here with me. Shes holding onto me and looking down I notice that I am holding her too.. I guess we are both scared to the core of our beings or something @__@;;

*WHROOooAAMMMMMM*

I take out my butterfly knife and open it one last time.. and for the first time, I am truly glad to be with her...


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Journals of ElfTech 138
Wednesday, November 30th, 2005
12:00 PM
*deafening banging and roars coming from behind the wall*

Everything will be fine as long as I'm with y--

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Journal of ElfTech 977
Wednesday, November 30th, 2005
12:58pm

edna st. vincent millay Wrote:
Branch by branch
This tree has died. Green only
Is one last bough, moving its leaves in the sun.

What evil ate its root, what blight,
What ugly thing,
Let the mole say, the bird sing;
Or the white worm behind the shedding bark
Tick in the dark.

You and I have only one thing to do:
Saw the trunk through.

i woke this morning .. drank fresh, green tea out of my favorite blue mug .. wrote for a time in my private journal .. i've filled it entirely over these last days .. trying to make sense of the things that have happened in the past few weeks .. trying to make sense of the terrifying things i have seen .. today i wrote the last words on the last page .. the end .. or rather the clearing of space for somthing new to begin ..

i've cleaned out my knapsack .. i've been carrying around a few things for some friends of mine .. a gas mask and some vials .. (an antidote of some sort i think) .. other things to keep me safe should danger arise .. i've placed these away in a chest at the foot of my bed .. i will not need them for what comes next ..

my bed is made .. my laundry done .. my desk is the image of elfly order .. everything is folded or stacked or put away.

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i had another dream last night .. my vision is so clear now .. i apologize .. i do not have time to write it down here .. i have an important appointment which i cannot miss ..

(don't worry .. the truth of my dream will be obvious to everyone soon enough)

.. only 4 minutes now .. then i will need to go .. there will have been yet another set of strange sounds.. this time from the direction of the j-level dining commons .. i'm sure my curiosity will get the best of me and i will go to investigate it .. is it some malfunctioning machinery? .. is it elftech 247 planning a surprise party for mrs. claus? .. who knows ..

but i will not reach j-level .. i will find Mr Claus along the way ..

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how i miss him ..
how glad i will be to see his face this one last time ..
despite what has happened ..
what will happen ..
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i know in his true heart he loves us all.

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.. and if this is true .. if through this sacrifice .. i can show Mr. Claus somthing that will tip the scales .. that will lead him out of his personal abyss .. how could i not move forward with what i now know.

571 once told me there was an ancient chinese curse which says, 'may you live in interesting times.' these last weeks have shown the fullness of the curse that 'interesting times' can bring.

i think of the story of Ananda .. the disciple of Gautam Buddha .. when Buddha died .. Ananda cried and cried not for the death of his master .. his master had died completely fulfilled .. but Ananda cried for himself .. for most of his life Ananda had been at the side of Buddha .. but Ananda had not attained his enlightenment .. it is said that .. while Ananda meditated on his sorrow .. while he experienced it without judgment .. that night he was enlightened .. the path before me, however, is still too long .. and my strides shorten .. i will not find what i seek before this leg of my journey is finished.

i also think of the mice .. that live in the base of the east wall of my room .. when i am unable to feed them .. will they still find food?

even this page grows closer and closer to it's end .. the last page of my last book .. my last story of traveling from nowhere to nowhere .. and when this page is full .. something greater awaits me .. a new adventure to be discovered .. bigger than any i have ever known .. the point of no return has been passed and i release my will to the will gravity and trust it in my falling .. this too is only temporary and must make way for something else .. ... .. alas .. all good things ...
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Journals of ElfTech319
Wednesday, November 30, 2005 1:17 pm

Darn it all! I've been so busy again that I forgot to keep up on this silly journal. Finally found some time away. Everyone else seems to be just as busy, I guess, since I see the other Elftechs less every day.

I'd like to say that my routine has been straight back on schedule, but it hasn't. Plenty to do ... Oh! And a wonderful speech by the big man himself last week. How could anyone not feel proud to work for such a great place after --

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Merry Christmas!
I am not related to 977.

 

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Journal of ElfTech 912
Wednesday, November 30, 2005 ~ 1:25pm

OH SHNAPPS!!!!! my world is flippin upside down and sideways and all around! eek well, to start off, elftech 126 and i are already finished with our production of the 'self-warming mugs' biggrin and i've been really good with taking my ADHD meds. xd OH! and OMG... 126 and i went out on our first date!!!! whee 3nodding IT WAS THE JOLLIEST, SWEETER- THAN- CANDY experience (which, later lead to where i am now, but i 'll get back to that soon) OMG!!!! he held my hand...and we went walkin on SNOW!!!! mmm... crunchy, yummy SNOW! sooooo kewl...under the moonlit, night sky, and if it weren't for my fellow, sugar-sweet Gaians, i would have never been able to go on this date in the super, icy, cold atmosphere. 3nodding heart big thumbs up for elftech 571 pickin the lock's nose wink he's such a kewl ninja did i mention that IT WAS THE JOLLIEST, SWEETER- THAN -CANDY experience ever! ooooh, my hand is still warm from his hand holding mine... AND he's wearing the blinking, blue, watch that i gave him!!! whee jeez im feelin so warm i probably could melt all the snow and get my lil elf butt-butt kicked for doin so... but i guess it doesn't matter now. After our cheesy frolic, we were on our way back to the "mission impossible" door of 571's, and upon entering... we... crying ... were ATTACKED!!!!!!!! eek surprised xp All i remember was darkness and desperate yelling of 126... or was that me... ...naw... that was 126, and now we're here... together... alone in some big, dark office of some sort with blinking, red lights of the alram on the doors...... our blinking, blue lights on our watches are better.... i wonder if i'm in trouble for eating the snow... shnapps!!! i NEED to take my medic----

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Journal of ElfTech 062
Wednesday, November 30th, 2005
2PM

The new toy is finally ready! Mrs Claus had told me that once I had finished it, that my tenure here is over. I am so glad that it's finally over. I worked a long and hard 50 years for S-CORP and had finally achieved my pension. Julia will be pleased that I am finally able to come home and spend time with our children. My whole life is ahead of me now. And eventhough I am well into retirement age, that will not stop me from enjoying the rest of my life growing old with h--

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Journal of ElfTech 369
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
2:03pm


What... where...?

Where am I? It looks like I'm in the supply room. Why is everything all over the floor?! Why is it so dirty in here? It looks like some wild animal ripped through everything!

Ugh, I feel so groggy. I must've fallen asleep here on accident while working... the break room is down the hall, did I not make it there? ...Where is everyone? And what in the world is all this noise??

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W.. what... the door is slammed shut, I can't open it! Is anyone there?? Can anyone read this?

HELP! HELP ME! I'M STUCK IN HERE!!

ARGH!!! only 10% battery life left on this laptop... and the light is flickering!

I'm scared......

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... I hear someone!! Someone calling out from the vents...!

... It sounds like Elftech957! Gosh, I'm so happy to hear his voice! I'm so happy I'm not alone! But he sounds really frantic too...

I stacked up some crates so I could get closer to the vent... I asked him if he was okay, but it seems like he's stuck in the next room too, and he has no idea what's going on!

W... What is happening...?!

AHHHH!! Some kind of black water is gushing in from a hole in the ceiling... it's coming in fast!!!

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... AAAHHH!! The light just shorted out... it's so dark in here... and the laptop is fading...
Elftech957 is still yelling out to me... I'm trying to make out what he's saying... but the gushing water is drowning out so much of it...

It's... it's up to my waist... I'm so cold... it feels like it's sucking my energy...
I tried pulling on the vent cover, but there are huge screws holding it in place... tools! Must find... tools!!!

Where... what... I can barely see anything... OH GOD!!

HELP ME!! HELP ME, ELFTECH597! PLEASE... ANYONE!!!

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