New Schedule Going Forward

Dear Readers,

  The technology left behind after the attack has created an exciting new possibility for

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our department: I may now be able to publish some of my work in the time streams where I write, yours included.

  My schedule posting has slowed of late, in light of this.  I'm preparing a few different pieces, translated works, for publication in respected journals in my audience time streams.  I will keep you appraised of how that progresses.

  However, it means that a good deal of my attention and bandwidth share will be directed towards those efforts, and so it will be harder to keep to a once-daily schedule for at least the forseeable future.

  To be perfectly clear, the issue is entirely one of bandwidth.  Only a certain amount of information can be injected into a given period in a given time stream, no matter when that information departs its origin time stream.  Therefore, we must be parsimonious, and I must limit my influx of information for the time being.  Don't worry, you will still hear from me, but perhaps not seven days of your week.

  Always,

  Dr. John Skylar
  Chairman
  Department of Anachronism
  University of Constantinople

After the Attack

Dear Readers,

  Most of the University's functionality is back online.  My injuries, while they started to he

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al on their own, are now fully repaired thanks to Maimonides, our medical director.

  The Augury facility is now secured.  The demons seem to have come through a hole, of sorts, that they opened by causing feedback in one of our Augury machines.  They brought the device that made this possible through their portal, so that they might return after their raid.

  It seems this worked against them.  They stole a number of our artifacts and equipment, though we believe there is a pattern.  We need to learn a lot more about their time stream, and my department will be delployed in that effort.  There is a lot to catch up on.

  We estimate that there were originally forty of them, and it is likely that we killed roughly ten of that number.  Five of them we captured, and four of those committed suicide before we could stop them.  The last has yet to regain consciousness, but we are hopeful.  While it is difficult to heal a creature without a strong idea of its biology, our medical staff is up to the task.

  About a hundred of our people fell in the battle, and two hundred more were injured.  Still, those problems are easy to correct, and we're picking up the pieces.

  The artifacts they stole suggest certain problems in their time stream.  Perhaps we can find a way to help them.  If not, they have already helped us in a great way.  The device they left behind should allow us to visit certain candidate time streams and explore.  I'm very excited.

  Always,

  Dr. John Skylar
  Chairman
  Department of Anachronism
  University of Constantinople

Attack Repulsed!

Dear Readers,

  We've driven back the monsters that attacked our University, for the most part.  Some remain, but they will be captured.

  Also, we discovered something interesting.  They left behind the machine that helped them get here.  That is something we did not have before.  More information when I have more connectivity.

  Always,

  Dr. John Skylar
  Chairman
  Department of Anachronism
  University of Constantinople

Field Update

Dear Readers,

  My connections are still down to most of your time-normal services.  We ran into an Augury graduate student in the tunnels recently, and it seems that the creatures are mostly pushed back from their facility.  Still, it is disputed territory.

  I can tell you something more of the things that attacked us.  They are winged creatures, with deadly weapons and fierce intelligence.  They do not look horrible or deformed.  In fact, they are quite pleasing, and hence I referred to them as "angels" on Twitter earlier.  Their bodies are less fragile than the humans you are used to, and so a small group of them has managed to keep Constantine XI's men at bay for some time.

  We are not sure what they want.  They've stolen food, weapons, medical supplies, and fuel, and our information sources do not know why.  We doubt at this point that it is total eradication of the University.  This appears to be more of a raid.  More chilling is the prospect that they may be after some of our rare artifacts.

  I am still injured, but slowly healing.  The other day Amelia found some weapons, and she has led the able-bodied professors in several skirmishes against the invaders.  They seem to pull back and regroup away from the tunnels at signs of aggression.  We hope that soon our forces on the surface will push them back from whence they came.  I find this entire episode chilling on the whole.

Always,

Dr. John Skylar
Chairman
Department of Anachronism
University of Constantinople