It Had to Be You, Log 1/??? [Audio]

[libraritology]

Hello?

[The audio crackles, buzzes into the correct tuning, and there's the click of a dial. A distinctive, very proper, English voice speaks over the comm unit. At least she's familiar with radio enough to manage this much.]

Is anyone there? This is...my name is Evelyn Carnahan, and this is not Cairo or Hamunaptra.

[A pause.]

I don't know where I am, and I was right in the middle of something very important, and this is exceedingly inconvenient. If someone could-

[Rustling noises.]

-if someone could please tell me what's going on, I need to find my brother, Jonathan, and our guide, Rick, as I was in the midst of an expedition, thank you, I'm in...I think it's a foyer.



...anyone?

[For those interested in seeing Evelyn in person, seeing as the last thing she can remember was falling into a river off of a boat, she's wearing a soaking wet nightgown. This. This will not stand. This is scandalous.]

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[blimeyjamwalls.livejournal.com]

Algeria. The fighting there made it something of a risk; but I suppose Herbert, whose expedition it was, thought the find worth the danger.

[ A little from recovered memory. Most of it from careful study of his own diaries. It feels strange to speak of Herbert - he can tell they were friends once, but now the man seems as much a stranger as a character in a story Daniel's only half-read.

Daniel falls silent, suddenly wishing he hadn't brought the subject up. ]

[libraritology.livejournal.com]

[Oh, no. Oh no, did she bring up the wrong sort of conversation topic? He seemed all for it, and now...

A distraction. Yes, one was certainly in order.]

You know, our expedition wasn't going to be a walk in the park, either. The whole reason I was thrown into the Nile was because a group of men in black attacked us for the map to our destination.

[blimeyjamwalls.livejournal.com]

[ ...okay, that sounds interestingly ominous. Bet it was more of a cakewalk than HIS expedition. ]

What on Earth was so valuable as to cause that?

[libraritology.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure. They weren't the usual Bedouin people - they had tattoos on their faces, symbols of...well, my most educated guess would be the Medjai.

[But they haven't existed for thousands of years, so that simply doesn't make sense.]

We were heading towards Hamunaptra, though, which might have had something to do with it. It's the City of the- Oh!

[Oh. The puzzle box. She had taken it from Jonathan while they were flailing about in the river. She'd slipped it into one of these pockets...there!]

They might have been after this.

[Evelyn pulls the box (http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x408/dashboardlite/ariane179254_TheMummy_0766_Chapter03_TheKeyToHamunaptra.jpg) out, holding it up to the light.]

[blimeyjamwalls.livejournal.com]

[ These names, he really really wishes they meant anything to him.

The box would probably be more ominous if he knew that it was a mysterious artefact rather than just Evie's jewellery case. He peers at it with interest, though. It looks super old. And the lid is all fancy. ]

The box itself, or its contents?

[libraritology.livejournal.com]

Well, when the men boarded our ship, they asked for the map that I had found contained within it.

[Fingers searching over the little box, waiting for a part of it to give, she explains.]

Our guide found it - the box with the map - in the City of the Dead, which is where we were headed. They said they wanted the map and the key. But...we never had any sort of key.

[With a little SNAP, the box lid flips open (http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x408/dashboardlite/ariane179254_TheMummy_0775_Chapter03_TheKeyToHamunaptra.jpg). It's empty, but still important as artefacts go. She holds it out to Daniel for him to take.]

[blimeyjamwalls.livejournal.com]

[ He reaches out for it, but then draws his hand back slightly before it touches the box. All of this sounds a bit mysterious, and he's had nothing but bad experiences with mysterious things found in ancient places of death. ]

Er--

[ Then again, he doesn't want to look like a pussy in front of a nice young lady. And horrible shadowy doom clearly hasn't befallen her since she found it yet. He carefully takes the box, and turns it around, examining it. ]

...What was your guide able to deduce of its origins?

[libraritology.livejournal.com]

Very little, I'm afraid. He's a rather uncouth man, and couldn't tell us more aside from the location he'd found it in.

[Cue explorer sigh.]

All is not lost, of course, because he knows the way there, and I'm sure we'll find plenty of artefacts upon arriving, but it's still somewhat disappointing.