A letter to me Mum. 

 Well, I had the most dreadful experience on my last mission, Mum. I tell you sometimes these B-13 people can be so horribly rude. You won't believe were these uncouth, unwashed, and uncultured reprobates sent me this time. To the far side of the Moon!! With no warning or even a "How do you do?". How is one to deal with it all? Well, I handled it the British way, the MI-13 way, the Sumner way (which are all the same, of course) with a stiff upper lip and impeccable class. 

 First, they stuck the whole team (in a terrible rush) onto a sub-orbital flight on one of their rocket-jet thingies. I tell you right now, I don't mind flying, but it really should be under my own power, not this super-hyper-techno-drivel. In truth, I feel that if we really have to fly, it should be by magic carpet. Don't you agree? You know what Mum, that's an idea I had completely forgotten about. I really should get to work on my own magic carpet. Da' always said it should be the first artifact I make, if he doesn't give me Grandpapa's first. Hey Mum, thats not a half-bad idea in its self, ask Da if he would send that one until I make one of my own. Besides, having it to work from would help for my own's development. 

 Alright then, on with the mission. After we landed at the base, they took our things, stripped us naked, marched us around a cold lab, stuck cold, icky, techno-things to us and quite roughly stuck us in heavy, hot, cumbersome space suits. After a half an hour of utter silliness they realized that the reason they couldn't get any readings from my suit was (you guessed it) the anti-techno field that all mages produce. Had they thought to consult me about it, I could have told them right away. Well they figured it out on their own, then stripped me out of the suit and dipped me in a magic-supressing latex bath that felt devilshly sinful at the beginning and devilishly icky when dry, but it did work. Then it was back into the suit. They didn't think about Edgar though and at the last moment stuck him in a makeshift atmosphere in a sealed spare helmet. We couldn't even touch, it was unthinkable! 

 After we were ready and they were sure we had everything we would need (snort, Ha Ha), they literally threw us into space. I mean it they had this big, muscle-bound psycic lad physically pick us up and through a psycic gate. Now I have no problem with psycics and their abilities, in fact I trust them far more than "modern" technology, but I do have a big problem with being on Mother Earth one moment and spinning in the vacuum of space over the moon in the next. That is exactly how it happened, and I was really quite shaken up by all of it. 

 After I had regained my composure, I looked around with the rest of the team and we saw the terrible state the secret space station was in, all banged about with holes in it.  That was the whole reason we were here, you see, the lads on earth had lost all touch with it and grabbed the first available team (us) to check it out. It was all quite higgidly-piggedly, and it only got worse. It seemed all terribly bad, the station was a wreck, no air, no power and no one left living on it. A spherical thing greeted us at the air lock. It ate a wrench that our truly fearless leader Bull's Eye tried to poke at it with, and spit out little pieces of metal at everthing at super-speed, including through B.E. and his suit. Let me tell you Mum, perforations through one's space-suit while in space simply don't do. I mean B.E. handled it all terribly well, he simply patched his suit and carried on, bleeding and all, like the hero he is. I don't believe that I could handle it nearly as stolidly as he, in fact I would probably panicked and screamed,while I leaked air and blood as i spun willy-nilly through the vacuum of space. 

 Well, after that Yoshi came up with a valiant plan where he went inside the station to release the lunar lander modules (llm), while others distracted the sphere. It worked!, and then we had access to the llms, which was good, seeing how our suits only carried 6 hrs. of air and they held a week's plus food, too. 

 Then I used my Sight twice to find out exactly what had happened. It was sad and unpleasent so I won't go into detail. Let's just say that from what I Scryed and what the psi's found plus a brief communication with the hidden lunar base, I figured out that the scientists were examining a specimen excavated from the moon, a black marble-like structure, and attempted to use a laser drill on it. The effect it had was quite bad. It seemed to me that the specimen was actually an egg and the drill prematurely hatched it with terrible effects. It destroyed the station and most of the people on it. Only the Biologists made it out, in the 3rd llm, safely to the moon, but not to the base. 
 To get the biologists to safety the team hatched a daring and dangerous plan in which Yoshi showed his true bravery. He went to the moon alone with extra fuel in one of the remaining llms. Then he refueled and attatched himself to the outside of their llm, it was at full capacity. Then they lifted off and rendezvoused with us in low moon orbit, and Yoshi was on the llms outside the whole time!!! 

 It seems that in hatching the entity alerted it's own kind on the moon of its being, and they for destroyed most of the moon base and its people in search or retaliation or both. This is a terrible tragedy of an attempt to gain knowledge going wrong. Of 30 people on the station only 6 survived, and of the 200 on the base only 30 survived. 

 In trying to understand what it was and what was going on I developed a new spell that I think is very nifty. It's a combination of Sight and Divination, I call it "Know True Self", and it lets you analyze an unknown object or being by sight, and sums it's reason for existence in a 1 minute blurb of the senses. It didn't work right away, but with all the information that we had collectively gathered I had a good idea what was up. 

  I came to the conclusion that it was alive, so I talked our best psi, Jake, into mind-melding with it and it paid off! It was just an alien baby, scared and alone in space. It didn't even know where its home was or its kin were. We figured out how to get it back to it's kin on the moon and just in time. The entities on the moon had started throwing large of rock at us!!! And Yoshi was still outside. Thankfully I was on my toes this time and cast Protection from moon rock on Yoshi just before a large chunk slammed into him. Talk about lucky. 

 Well, it worked out as best as it could after that. B-13 got everyone left, on base and in orbit, home safely, and we now know a new (to us) alien race. But still I am sad for all the life lost. While I do appreciate the benefits of knowledge, I have my own limits on what I'm willing to do for it, and going into space is not one of them. 

 Well, that's all for now Mum. Give Da' my love (and remind him about the carpet). I will be seeing you soon I hope. 
 

      Your loving son, 
       Gordon. 
 
 

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