Adventure Seventeen: Get Back To Where You Once Belonged


 * The gun used by the man is a 12mm pistol, which P0P1 has in its records but is not one we have seen in use.
 * There is a framed PhD from McGill University on the wall that identifies the man as Dr. Jacob Reines.
 * The papers and diagrams on the desk reference dimensional mechanics and are recognizable to Vania and Ruth as containing Aklo knowledge. Their volume and disorganization indicate someone working with great focus. They gather the papers and relevant books.
 * Alder hears a door slam and a woman call out a greeting to Dr. Reines. She seems to be a professional cleaner. She informs us that we are on Alfriston Crescent, but is too suspicious and runs away.
 * We are on a suburban cul de sac surrounded by farmland to the north, east, and south.
 * We see military police in Humvees and an ambulance arrive at Dr. Reines’s house. After they enter the house, we hear air raid sirens. A missile silo starts to emerge from the ground beneath the farmland.
 * The rocket launches straight up, then banks sharply to the right, hitting an invisible barrier, resulting in a nuclear explosion about 1 mile to the east. Just as the blast occurs, we find ourselves back in the library with Dr. Reines again.
 * Reines is trapped in a time loop, which Vania suspects is related to the Aklo experiment in the garage. He developed the reset ability for the military and is using it in an attempt to save the town. The missile is unable to break through the time loop barrier, and the energy released by the repeated explosion is building up within this dimensional pocket. Vania thinks the energy is already leaking, hence the anomalies Davked is investigating.
 * Reines is on Shiloh, an American military base in Canada, but has had his credentials revoked and is barred from the non-civilian areas.
 * Reines sends us out to gather supplies. P0P1 gets canola oil from the Canex. Ruth and Earl go to the research lab to get graphene. Vania and Alder go to the municipal reactor to get boronic acid. He builds a device that allows him to detect a weak point in the dimensional barrier, which is located where the missile has repeatedly hit and deflected.