Case of the Psychic's Lament, Part 5

Effect is preceding Cause...
 
We grabbed evidence off the board, also "Eraser" aka Pichana, and what we could off the boxes, and take them back to the Abbey Normal Investigations panel van.
 
As for the cargo crate, ruined files and all, Chameleon uses his Hard Light blasts to shove the pieces into the cargo crate. Then we swap it with another crate. This way we have hidden the crate with the sensitive materials where can find it, but others won't nor will they stumble over it.
 
But I consider calling Silverwing. I need more information on Time Threads.
 
Once in the van we swap information.
 
Chameleon was pulled in by looking for a missing person, Toshi E Metet who filed on land for a group that supposedly represented a tribe. Algonquin? Haudenosaunee Confederacy and Delware nation. This connects to:
 
"legal briefs and case documentation from a now-defunct law firm in Brooklyn, including waterstained and badly damaged originals of invoices from the graphical arts firm of "T. E. Metet", also including references to something called a "Shivan" (mispronounciation of Shiwan, as in Shiwan Khan).
 
Which again connects to Transcorp, the building where time travel took place.
 
Chameleon explains the group called "SHADE" an extra-dimensional group. This would connect to "The Belgian government is suppressing knowledge of stargates." article where exiled Japanese State Department insider Shigo Hideyori observed a Stargate Suppression team.
 
Psypher hands over a Native American flute. Algonquin flute. Badly handled, perhaps 200 years since it was last in good condition. Water damage. This ties back to "Some are surveys of NYC in the 1800s". Which in turn could connect back to the Brooklyn law firm.
 
This could connect back to a legal case where some of those involved didn't appear. This happened in 2000 era case. No idea who filed the lawsuit. Old decaying old metal fabrication shop in Columbia Street. Psypher mentions in Jan 2000, a searcher was looking to see if any were owned by a Kryptonian.
 
When I asked more about the law firm, Chameleon had the lawyers names but now doesn't. Law firm on Columbia Street in the same location as the artist. Same address that was contested in the 2000s.
 
The law firm is connected to the Transcorp event and time travel, but also the key locations that the group .. possibly connected to Shiwan Khan .. is interested in as moments in time that are anchor points, branches that could be altered to adjust the flow of time.
 
I asked Psypher about the building the time threads circled around, and the gramophone that may be on a time anchor.
 
We need to examine and study both places. In the meantime, we need a babysitter for Pichana and information on Time Travel related information, and a loaner tablet with high security. I open a secure line to contact Silverwing to fill in him on what is happening and why he cannot be directly involved, but can help as an asset. Such as a high secure tablet. Second I need a babysitter. Someone off the grid that cannot be traced. I'll have to use a quick ritual to contact Summon and ask a favor to babysit Pichana.
 
First. I contact Silverwing, then tell him what is happening to warn him. I give him copies of the evidence and discuss. Silverwing says this:
"Napa Journal
Volume 86
Number 68
21 March 1940
page 8
 
At 10:24 a.m. on March 20th, five young Scouts working on their Pathfinding and Photography Merit Badges witnessed the appearance of a "glowing ghost" in a Coombsville meadow. The lads raced to focus the long-range lens of their amateur photocamera"
 
was him as he time traveled and caused a minor incident.
 
We also discuss that this is a time travel but also a multi-dimensional type "heist". Someone is looking to steal something from the past either in this dimension or another one. Silverwing confirms items like the gramophone is one of several 'space time anchors'.
 
It can't be moved while it's on and active as it's connected to the others. It's important to find the source or the others. Those devices are possibly a way for someone to find, and or create, a stable wormhole. All so they can commit a theft. The Shadow will tell Silverwing.
 
"They could be trying to steal the present, and by extension, the future"
 
After that, I perform the ritual to contact Summon, and pay half up front by letting her drain my electronic devices. She takes Pichana for seven hours to babysit him. Mentally, I remind myself to bring something to offer her as 'payment' if I *ever* need to contact her again. Which I would only do if the situation was that dire.
 
Though, once we return to collect Pichana from her in 7 or less hours, I will warn her about all this. If someone is attempting to make a stable wormhole to steal the present by altering the past, she could be directly harmed.
 
Kabuki, which apparently is Psypher's alter 'ego', says the Shivans are the slime creatures that plagued New York not long back. Mutagenic creatures. So the ooze, or the related tech is important to the heist.
 
[1] We need to find where the tech the Science Court used went. Possibly recovering it if we can.
[2] Also, we need to shut down at least one gramophone to examine it, also to keep it. This will be a key to what the villain is doing.
[3] Other than that, we need to get into that building where the space-time threads are circling around.
 
I explain that someone is trying to steal the present. So we go either steal, if not control, the gramophone devices. All so we get control of the wormholes to steal the present back.
 
We head to : https://maps.app.goo.gl/WsxRJHHLuB1arNLS8
 
Once there, I cloak myself and my companions before we enter the shed to catch anyone off guard ... if anyone is there. Covering our approach as best as possible to let Psypher and Chameleon get inside the shed.