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0x8D	PIRTTIMÄKI

 Allrighty, now there's every crew's signs on the bridge.

 Hopefully they shall last there for a mininum of a hundred, preferrably
a thousand years.

 Yeah. Even if da generation after us was fuckin' lame, maybe da
next could be a bit less so again.

 Let us then proceed our journey towards Pirttimäki.

...

 I recommend that you shall not proceed until I have described the
area and provided you with the required safety instructions.

 Allrighty then...

 Don't then stay there blabberin' for hours. I've got such a helluva
hangover!

 As you surely know, in a few tens of metres, the so-called Pirttimäki
Anomalous Zone shall begin.

 The zone has been known as anomalous since ancient times. It has a
reputation as a place where cattle disappears and gods appear.

 The people entering the area return changed if ever. In the seventies,
a multitude of UFO observations were made in the vicinity.

 Thus, the area is darngerous, powerful, even holy. We shall not step
on it due to our curiosity, but for we must approach it.

 Lietevesi and other localities are being filled with so-called
Pielavetian energy which is poisonous by nature.

 Pirttimäki might be the only means to neutralise this energy. We shall
have to proceed to the core of the zone and release the power ingrained.

 is carrying diskettes, which, according to his theory, can bring
part of this power to our own reality.

 D'ye have any clue how to actually release that power?

 No, but I trust that the power itself has.

 Right.

 Yet, a reminder before we leave: in order to keep safe, you must
follow my instructions literally!

 Every step must be carefully considered. I shall lead the way and throw
rocks on the path in order to ensure the safety of taking the steps.

 If someone wishes to abstain from the journey, let them do so no!
At the vehicles, it is safe to wait for our return.

...

 So, it seems nobody decided to stay there and wait.

 I'm scared like hell, but stayin' there alone would've scared
me even more...

 Indeed. An alright Lovecraftian atmosphere of horror emanates from
the area.

 But it somehow feels it's callin' for us at the same time...

...

 Now we are at the location where the Hut was located before burning
down in 1968. The foundations are still partially visible.

 Pirttimäki was named after the building in question. Before that,
the place was called Pirunmäki, and before that, Hiienmäki.

 Wasn't the Hut itself a thousand years old?

 Not at all. It was built in 1858 by a person named Juhani Nousiainen,
or Pirtti-Juhani.

 How did he dare to build it in a place like this? Wasna
dark-fearer that chap, I reckon.

 As far as I know, the one who lured to choose this place was his wife,
Pirtti-Kaisa. Juhani himself died soon after the Hut was finished.

 Right, should've gussed that some supertitious hag demanded to
get the hut built here.

 After the death of Juhani, Kaisa, known for her poweful witchcraft,
created a kind of astral Faraday cage around the Hut.

 Well, that explains why my Communicator ain't findin' the GSM
network anymore...

 I recommend you to power off the device. Anomalous phenomena might
permanently disrupt it.

 Allright! I'm even gonna remove the battery so that the computer
side won't disrupt either...

 Nevertheless, the cage in question protected the Hut-dwellers for
over a hundred years. The space inside it is relatively safe.

 Immediately outside the cage, however, the anomalous phenomena steeply
increase. I believe the border is approximately at that birch.

 Very peculiar indeed. It seems like the far side of the birch had
mutated into an entirely different life form.

 I'd heard from Osmo that the last Pirttimäki residents had been
radio HAMs...

 Affirmative. Pirtti-Jalmari and Pirtti-Alma were also enthusiastic
to commit parapsychological experiments with electricity.

 Once the couple's children moved away and Jalmari died in 1945, Alma is
known to have continued the experiments until her death.

 Osmo has also told how some of his older HAM friends have been
in contact with Alma...

 Reijo also had some fuckin' sick story 'bout Alma -

 Could we now quit 'em history lessons for now and do what we hafta?
I've gotten a bit anxious already...

 Yeah, I wouldna stay for very long in such a place no matter
how interestin' the histories are.

 Indeed. We have a mission to accomplish.

 You already know everything you need. Let us then carefully proceed
towards the core of the zone.

=== Ilmiöiden alkua ===

 Hey, didn't we already pass this place?

 It indeed looks like a location we have already visited.

 Apparently, we have walked straight forward, but the exceptional space
topology made me return to a prior point.

 So, we can't trust our sense of directions anymore?

 At least not in the Euclidean sense, or not even in the Euclidean
sight. Astral sight would be more reliable.

 Right, so let's open the astral eyes then, dammit.

 I assume we should walk as closely to each other as possible, to ensure
nobody gets lost.

...

 Err, well, wasn't that sun lower just a while ago?

 Yeah, I also feel like it'd been morning or evening a while ago,
and that it's noon now.

 Even though 'twas one PM when we left Höttövaara...

 I believe the zone causes optical disturbances in the astronomical
phenomena as well.

...

 Hey, there's some figures there at the end of the path!

 I ain't seein' nuffin'...

 Indeed. I sense them to be humanoid creatures in a vibrational mode
slightly different from ours.

 They're also pointin' at us...

 Let us carefully proceed towards the creatures.

 Whatta hell!? It's Mika from our school and their entire gang of
morons!! Whatta hell are Y'ALL doin' here!?

 I was just 'bout to ask da same thing from ya dammit!!

 is here to release the energies of this area, to make sure
THAT KINDA losers don't get to boss aroond anymaw!

 So, ya have founded SHK again...

 Whaddye mean again??

 COME ON HEY! Even if ye don't follow the scene anymaw, ye should've
at least heard aboot SHK's success -

 Whatta fuck's 

!? Sounds like the lamest crew ever!!

 WHATTA HELL, HENKKA?! WE'VE TAUGHT Y'ALL EVERTHANG Y'ALL KNOW!

 And where in fuck did da fuckin' CLAN ZERO clowns pop up!?

 Whatta fuckin' CLAN ZERO?

 Well, yar miserable shitcrew or whatever clan it is -

 Wa are CREW ZERO!!! Ya came the same way to Abduction with us -

 WE FUCKIN' DIDN'T, WITH THAT KINDA QUAKE LAMERS!!!

 But ain't y'all YERSELF the Quake lamers...?

 WHATTA FUCK!? WE DEFINITELY AIN'T!!

 We in C.O.P. chose 

 to continue our work, as it felt that 

was worth nuffin'...

 Hey, whatta hell, are there two of us here?

 It looks a bit like we're at sumkinda crossroads of parallel
realities.

 Yeah, it'd really seem so. The real Jyri stopped speakin'
Savonian over a year ago...

 (Bloody hell, I've gotta take this all easy now...)

 Hi Mika!!!

 FUCKIN' TIM, GETTA FUCK OUTTA HERE!!! YA DON'T EVEN LIVE IN
LIETEVESI ANYMORE!!

 Eh?? I do live here...

 I recommend that you discuss with the dwellers of other parallel
universes as rationally and benevolently as possible.

 Indeed. We have a unique opportunity to exchange inormation between
realities, and 

 just keeps cranking at everybody.

 Well, okay, I'll try to take it easy... but THOSE GUYS STARTED IT!!

 For real, what's up with ye, Mega? We're s'posed to be best friends
and brothers -

 Err, could ya now keep away from me and quit talkin' to me, OKAY?

 Err... yeah... okey then...

 I would be interested in how 

 became the leading crew in the
other parallel universe.

 Well, we had a tradin' contest against CWU and needed some help
to have a chance...

 Then we went to tawk with 

 at school and then 

 gave us
a kinda darkbox...

 Why in da fuck did they give it to YA instead of us? After all,
we made an Amiga intro with Amos and used it to approach 'em!!

 Well, on our side we heard nuffin' from you, and you seemed even more
childish and arrogant than them...

 In our universe, CWU impressed us in a particular way by taking the
effort of using a traditional means of communication.

 Have you been in contact with Vornas-Heikki and aware of your position
in the Lietevesi sagely continuum?

 We ain't heard nuffin' aboot any Vornas-Heikki!!

 I reckon I've heard that name some day, but I'm sure I've never
heard about a "sagely continuum"...

 Whatta fuck, how can ya even LIVE in Lietevesi without hearin'
'bout Vornas-Heikki?

 Peculiar. What about Turun-Martti, have you heard of him?

 Yeah, I reckon my father's tawked aboot it, and maybe I've
heard aboot him at school too...

 It would seem like that the differences between our parallel realities
are indeed substantial. What is the story of CREW ZERO?

 Well, we got interested aboot demos last autumn, when the CWU
fellas showed 'em to us at our school...

 On our side ya were only interested in the Internet!!

 Well, we never got very often to the Internet from the computer
classroom, but we could watch demos very well...

 Whatta fuck? What kinda computers ya got in da classroom?

 Some 486s with VGAs and Sound Blasters...

 And ya never got the fixed Internet line we arranged...?

 I heard that would've been the other option the town would've
used their money for...

 Whatta hell, a fixed-line Internet? In PIELAVESI? -

 It was in the municipality of Lietevesi at the time.

 There ain't never been nuffin' called "municipality of Lietevesi"!
 

 On our side, the Lietevesi gained independence from Pielavesi in 1876
and lost the independence merely half a year ago.

 By the way, would anybody got diskettes or sump'n with 'em? We could
swap a bit of software...

 Oh, so we got the same idea regardless of the differences between the
parallel universes.

 I've got a couple of C64 disks here...

 I recommend that you exchange the items by leaving them on the ground
in order to not experience a so-called vibrational shock.

 Allrighty then...

 Err, hey, I wouldna like to interrupt, but I'm a bit worried
if we ever get back to our own reality anymore...

 Indeed. I sense that the space-time topology surrounding us is becoming
ever more chaotic.

 I suggest that we move immediately towards a more static subzone.
Follow me.

 Bye then, 'twas really interesting to talk to you!

 Okey, bye...

 Oops.

 Whatta fuck!!

 It seems that all the static reference points of reality just vanished.

 Could we get the hell outta here somehow!?!

 I recommend that you do not wish to get to Hell or any other Undeworld
location, even on a metaphorical level.

 Yeah, right, o-okey... so, would we get the HOME outta here??

 I'm also scared like hell!!

 Yeah, some helluva horrors came over just after Jyri'd taken
the floppybox from the other Jyri.

 How advanced are your astral sensing skills, 

? Can you provide
us with any kind of directional recommendation?

 My recommendation would be better than pure guessing.

 Well, let's walk at least to SOME direction!! Or rather run...

 Keep in place. It is important for us to move as a group.

 We could try to summon Forest Goat. After all, we are still in
a forest in some sense.

 Your idea sounds considerable.

 FOREST GOAT, WE PRAY FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE! LEAD US BACK HOME!

 O FOREST GOAT, HELP US!!

 I feel that we are even outside Forest Goat's sphere of influence.

 Could some doodz from the other realities been able to help us?

 Did you see any Kassu there...?

 I guess I did...

 Could you try to lead us to a direction where you detected him?

 Maybe we should first just try to yell at him... at least I don't
dare to move nowhere from here so it wouldna get any worse than this!!

 Good idea.

 KASSUUU!! HAUL YAR FUCKIN' ASS HERE!! WE NEED YA!!

 OF 

!!

 Don't fuckin' call any CWU Kassu now, but someone in that fuckin'
CLAN ZERO...

 Indeed, that is a very good point.

!! DaRK FUCKIN' FuCKeR!!

 OF CLAN ZERO!!!

 KASSUUUU!!!

 Greetings. I would suggest you to hasten. It has already been two weeks
in the everyday reality -

 Yar the wrong Kassu!

 Why so?

 Our Kassu stopped speakin' formally...

 All clear. I shall proceed to look for my real crewmates.

 It would seems that many of our parallel versions also called Kassu
for help, and now we have to make sure that -

 I don't tawk formally!!

 Okay. Are ya in CWU?

 Yeah, I am in 

...

 Right, ya ain't da real one either, especially if yar in some fuckin'
Chaos and not in Cooles.

 Whatta hell, did that first Kassu really say that we've s'posed to
have been like TWO WEEKS here?

 Peculiar indeed. I would estimate that a maximum of two hours of
subjective time has passed.

 Hey... CWU, COP, and are y'all there in CGK?

 Yeah, we are...

 Good, y'all felt just right to me.

 Feeling right is not enough. We need to ensure that we return
to the same reality that we left.

 We ain't got time to twiddle 'round, if our every minute here
matches to a day outside or sumthing!!

 Right! I've gotta get back to my workplace RIGHT NOW!! My vacation's
been over ages ago!!

 At least we should ensure that the returning persons are as same
as possible, or at least that they amount -

 I don't care, as long as WE GET TO THE ALMOST SAME REALITY
AS WE LEFT!!

 Yeah, this time we must be happy in finding' a Kassu that's
RIGHT ENUFF! No time for endless comparisons -

 Allrighty then, follow me!

 I'm still a bit suspicious -

 But I feel that yar the exactly right ones!!

 At least say whether you are a CWU member.

 Nope, 'cause Mega kicked me out once I started to play Quake -

 Okay, he's right enuff. Now let's fuckin' go!

 Yeah, that's absolutely enough for me too.

...

 The landscape's a really buggy here...

 I am nevertheless relieved by the notion that we are sprites
rather than background graphics.

...

 I sense a decrease in the level of anomality.

 Yeah, I guess it goes down, 'cause we're headin' the way y'all
came from to begin with...

 And there's our cars even.

 Bloody fuckin' hell, if we actually spent many weeks in the
woods... gotta turn on the Communicator right now and check it...

 Well, at least we gotta outta there! Ain't that the main
point...

 Well, the main point is now that I start drivin' back t'wards
Kuopio right now!

 So, did we move forwards in time for real?

 Yeah, we did, for the fuck's sake. It's goddamn third of July...

 In which year?

 Ninety-seven, thank gosh. But for the fuck's sake for real,
god-bloody-dammit -

 So, it's exactly three years since CWU was founded!!

 Indeed.

 The time has really gone quick...

 You mentioned that you have made a tape recording of your crew's
foundational meeting.

 Yeah, we did so, right... and I've been listenin' to it like every
day after Abduction!!

 Whatta fuck!? I thought we'd lost it!!

 I'd also hoped that it'd been lost someplace...

 Well, it's still there! I could like bring it over to Hönttölä, so
we could listen to it together!

 This could be very interesting indeed.

 But I'm outta here now! So, bye to y'all -

 Hey, could ye also give us a ride to Hautataipale? -

 I guess Juho might have better time?

 Affirmative. My vacation is still continuing, and besides, I had
already been planning to visit my parents anyway.

 But maybe we could take the ride to Kuopio with Technie?

 Yeah, well, that's okey.

 We could also maybe jump in the cargo hold if y'all drop
us at the nearest train station or sump'n...?

 Well, get in then if y'all want that, as long as we leave NOW!

 Allrighty then, so let's get aboard without any more tawkings.

 Okay.

 Farewell to CWU guys... I'm sure we're gonna meet again some day!

 Bye then...

 Bye...

 We shall absolutely see agin. This meeting created a unique bond
between us -

 They left quite fast.

 They're always like that, them city-dwellers...

 Have the grown-ups been worried about us in the meantime?

 They were so damn worried!! And me too!

 Do you know if Arja has already moved out...?

 Yeah, I heard she's gone... and she also gave his stuff to Osmo
to keep.

 Well, good that they left 'em for me... maybe I should get to
Osmo's place from here then.

 By the way, 

, have ya got a kinda GSM phone...?

 Unfortunately not.

 Okay, maybe then ya should drive us all straight to Osmo, and we
could call other grown-ups from there.

 I maybe drive my moped, 'cause we came with it in the first place -

 WHATTA FUCK? Have ya got a moped in this reality -

 No, I just borrowed one for this trip -

 PHEW! I got scared as fuck that we'd taken da wrong Kassu!!

 Still, I shall probably be extremely carefully observing every possible
detail over the next few days.

 Yeah, that's maybe worthy.

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