Tiksi (Northern Siberia)

Tiksi - Visit One
We (Macabre, Phantom, Aqua, Frostbite) headed to Tiski in Northern Russian to try and locate what the circle on the map referred too. In the location of the circle there had been some odd sonar results similar to the ones we saw near the bunker in Heligoland.

The town was very run down, lots of closed shops. As we walked through we noticed they had a museum which seemed a bit out of place. We headed inside. Inside we met an enormous man who Phantom said was not normal. Eventually after some negotiations by Frostbite we are allowed to buy tickets to look round the museum. Inside the first room is a jumbled collection of things, it's all very dusty and not very well looked after. There is also a drum which Frostbite says are Shaman drums, these have a pattern similar to those we have seen before.

The next room was somewhat of a surprise as it holds an enormous frozen mammoth. The mammoth looks to be in very good condition. Also in the room is a man working at a very old computer. He introduces himself as Dr Gelesh, a Paleobiologist. He explains that the mammoth was removed from the permafrost 40 years ago by a professor Yurst, a palaeontologist. The mammoth is so well preserved that the food it had eaten is still inside its stomach. Frostbite believes that it would have taken a very sudden unnatural change in climate to have frozen it in that condition. He also mentions that the professor wrote a book about some cave paintings he found in a cave near here. Dr Gelesh shows us the book and explains that the professor was discredited because he could not find the cave again. We took his contact details.

We left the museum and headed to the docks where we saw another enormous man who seemed to be in charge. Again Phantom said he was not normal. Frostbite spoke to him and he was willing for us to hire a boat but we didn't have any money. So we headed to the bank, this building was a small independent bank which seemed very plush indeed and very out of place for the town. Wifi wired us some money. We headed back to the docks and the big man gave a small cut of the money to a fisherman who took us out into the river to where the odd sonar readings were. We dived down into the freezing water. We found a small corner of a bunker, like the other one we found. It was just a corner of the building and a bit of a window. There was no energy across the window and we could see that sand and silt had poured in through the window. The was also no feel of essence from inside like before. It was clearly empty. We headed back to the town and decided to return to the museum.

Inside we found the professor was inside the freezer area taking samples from the mammoth. The professor was very skinny, with straggly long brown hair and oddly it was very hard to place exactly how old he was. Phantom determined that there was something of the mammoth about him. He wasn't very friendly but he said he was looking at particle matter within the mammoths blood. We talked to him about the cave explaining that we believed about the cave paintings. Eventually we confronted him about what he was doing and he got very angry and denied everything. We were fairly sure he was lying. He stormed off. We spoke to Dr Gelesh again who said he couldn't understand why he was looking at the mammoths blood. We headed outside.

A jeep headed towards us inside were three of the enormous men. They insisted we went with them in a threatening manner. We did and they took us back to the bank. We went upstairs where we found a giant mammoth headed man in a smart purple suit carrying an ebony topped cane - leader of the Mammoth Clan. He again threatened us as he tried to find out why we were there. We believe that he is probably Russian mafia. We established that the professor, the enormous men and mammoth man had all been injected with the blood from the mammoth. Other than that we didn't really discover any more.

We left and were escorted from the town by an enormous man.

We spotted some tribal people herding reindeers and we headed over to talk to them. Frostbite asked about the caves and he said that we should speak to the Alman, a shaman of sorts. We paid for a jeep to take us to the village where he lived. We spoke to him about the cave we had heard about. he told us that the professor was a foolish man who had tried to enter the cave and had been chased away by the spirits in the cave. He asked us why we were looking for the cave and we said we were looking for answers about what had happened to us. He said that this sounded like a good reason. He explained that his people often went to the cave when they came of age. It was necessary to appease the spirits on the way, Fire, Sun, Hunt, Stone and Water. He brewed us some tea which made us feel very lightheaded, although Macabre seemed less affected. He told us to follow the black stones and pointed us to the path.

We started to head up following the path, we eventually came across a flat rock which had burnt ashes on top of it. Macabre burnt the remainder of our money and we felt a tang of essence. We continued on our path until we got to another stone which had plant remains on it, Macabre hunted out some flowers sheltered between rocks and placed them on the rock again we felt the essence. We continued upwards and on the next rock we hunted a bird and placed it on the rock. Macabre looked for interesting rocks as we continued upwards and he placed the one he found on the next rock. On the final rock we carried some water from the stream and placed in on the rock. We continued upwards until the path narrowed into a cave.

Inside the cave there were very detailed cave paintings.
 * Some stick people fighting a mammoth
 * Those same stick people fighting stooped axe men.
 * A woman wearing a feathery mask outside a bunker.
 * The woman is inside the bunker and there is a large tiger there.
 * The woman leaving the bunker holding a disc in one hand and a green bag in the other.
 * The woman fighting these hunched over figures with axes, with power coming from the disc.
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 * The mammoth attacking the stooped axe men but behind them was a giant neanderthal figure
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucidagrande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:15.454545021057129px;">There is also a giant white tiger, the size of a horse, which we later decide is the Spirit guardian here. It however does not seem aggressive to us. The cave paintings go down one arm of the cave and the other arm of the cave, behind the tiger, contains a plinth like we have seen before we believe it was moved there from the bunker. The plinth contains a little of the Essence liquid that we have found before. After some discussion about what to do Frostbite drinks this liquid, which apparently tastes disgusting.