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Recorded March 19, 2009, Six days after Appearance of Barrier
“Okay, here goes nothing. This is Dave Dolan, manager and owner of WKHF 104.9 radio in Harper’s Ford. According to our clocks it is 10 PM Pacific Standard Time on Thursday. Eddie Moran JR tells me this altered and strengthened signal has some chance at punching through the barrier that surrounds Harper’s Ford. He’s up on the tower roof, outside the station, trying to make this happen. We have to do it at night to avoid the home guard. But the trees are active at night. I imagine the guard was surprised not to find us at the lighthouse. We all have to take risks, and we can only hope this works. As near as we can tell, we’re trapped in an area approximately 100 square miles in size. Nothing we’ve tried penetrates the barrier. Even home guards’ weapons and explosives have had no effect. The sky seems all wrong here, and I’m told the constellations make no sense. Lives have been lost, many died in the confusion and chaos of the first days. Some died from Stettler and his insanity, and some are lost to the creatures in here with us. We found a few potential allies from the place they call haven. Umm, they claim to have been isolated long before we were here and they’re almost as strange as our present situation. It is important that somewhere out there knows that we are not gone. We are not dead. I hope that Eddie is right and that you’ll find some way to free us. Please, help us. We will continue to broadcast on this frequency every Thursday night, at 10 PM, as long as we can. This is the voice of Harper’s Ford, signing off. “
Recorded March 26, 2009, Thirteen days after Appearance of Barrier
“This is the voice of Harper’s Ford, WKHF 104.9. Dave Dolan on the air. We’re still here. Tonight we talk about the monsters. It’s almost funny that even with the barrier and the things inside here with us; we brought our own worst nightmare with us. If the home guard ever catches on to what Eddie and I are trying to do here, I have no doubt that we will be taken out and executed in a heartbeat. They did it to the Police Chief and others. They’ll do it again, probably to keep their power. I guess you really don’t know people until a catastrophe brings the real them out. We all thought we knew Jack Stettler (spelling?) pretty well. He owned the sporting goods store more years than even I have lived here. And when he started the Booster Club, it all seemed good. They helped police with Traffic Control for events, and they helped search when little Sarah Hadley (again spelling?) was lost in the woods. The town got used to having the club there as a resource for times of emergency <static>. Jack was a take-charge kinda guy and we all came to depend on the club in those situations.
At first the club really was a godsend. It turned out Jack had a lot more gear hidden away than any of us could have imagined. Serious military shit like you wouldn’t believe. When the creepies and crawlies attacked, the police weren’t ready to handle that. The club jumped in with its’ automatic weapons, grenades, flamethrowers. Hell, they even came up with a half track. They rescued folks from the outlying areas and brought them into town. It helped us fortify the downtown area and they even tried to punch a hole through the barrier. None of us worried that they did their own thing, none of us worried when they started wearing military fatigues or when Jack started calling himself Colonel. Then the haveners contacted us. I could do hours on those first contacts and the folks from haven. After a first few confused encounters, they came and bailed us out when lizzies broke though our perimeter. By then Jack and the club had changed their name to the home guard. Anyway, the guard got caught flat footed, and the haveners came to the rescue.
I guess Jack and the boys didn’t like that much. The haveners came soon after offering a trade and mutual assistance agreement. We had a full blown town meeting. The mayor spoke out in favour of the deal. Jack Stettler asked to speak. He calmly walked up, and put a bullet right through Mayor Lance’s eyes. When chief Higgins tried to do something about it, he had Higgins and the haveners taken out to the square and shot by a firing squad. Then the bastard told us he was declaring martial law. No one in Harper’s Ford fucks with the home guard. No one openly deals with haveners. No one disagrees with the fucking Colonel, or they’re shot or just disappear. Jack is the worst kind of monster in here. We hope you folks out there will find a way to break through the barrier. Then you can send the goddamn US army in here, to round up Jack and his boys. We got plenty of rope and plenty of strong tree branches. We will continue to broadcast on this frequency on every Thursday night, at 10 PM, as long as we can. This is the voice of Harper’s Ford, signing off.”
Recorded April 2, 2009, Twenty days after Appearance of Barrier
“This is the voice of Harper’s Ford WKHF 104.9. Dave Dolan on the air. We’re still here. It shimmers almost like pearl. It seems translucent. You can touch it; your hands slide over it as if it’s immune to friction. Bullets, drills, explosives, torches, trucks, cars, acids, caustic chemicals, carbide steel, diamonds and people bounce or slide off it. You can’t fly over it. Charlie Lang tried it with his hot air balloon and fell to his death. You can’t tunnel under it – the road department guys tried that. That’s when we found out angry plants aren’t just <unintelligible>. It seems to let sunlight through, and I’m not even sure if it’s our sun. It is still possible to get a tan here. We can’t be sure whether it lets air in or weather in or that’s all self-contained with us. Eddie is the closest thing to a scientist I know, and he says it isn’t made of matter, he says it’s made of some kind of energy. We checked out the exact centre of the area in the woods. There’s nothing special there. Mrs McDunner, the science teacher from the high school was measuring it from day one. She says its expanding outwards from that centre. About a hundredth of an inch the first year and about a half an inch a day now. Granny Tribal, who we always thought was a witch, claims it hums to her. And yeah, we eventually tried all of her suggestions just short of human sacrifice. Zip. Zada. Zilch. Jack shit. Merry fucking Christmas. I’m talking of course about the barrier. The 800 pound gorilla around town. The big <unintelligible>. It caused the first casualty on the first day. Jack Shotwell took off across the bridge in his truck like a bat out of he like he always did. I heard the sirens. Eddie was getting some breakfast at the diner. He said the lights went out about a minute before they heard the crash. Young Jack died on impact. Never hit the bricks.
We’ve had long power outages before, so almost everyone was busy putting up their generators. Then we started hearing stories. Lizards as big as horses. Plants that feed on animals and humans. Some things straight out of horror stories. And things that really don’t have words or concepts to describe them. We lost a lot of good people because nothing could prepare us for this. Some of us think its little green men from space; some think its terrorists or Russians. Some think God has an axe to grind in Harper’s Ford. I don’t really much care. We’ve tried everything we can do with the resources we have. We’re counting on you. The good old U.S. of A. We will continue to broadcast on this frequency on every Thursday night, at 10 PM, as long as we can. This is the voice of Harper’s Ford, signing off.”
Recorded April 9, 2009, Twenty Seven days after Appearance of Barrier
“This is the voice of Harper’s Ford WKHF 104.9. Dave Dolan on the air. We’re still here. More about neighbours tonight. Now there’s an old staple of classic America. We all depended on that community spirit, almost from the first moment we realized we were in trouble. Hell, the Guard was even in on that bandwagon at first. Colonel jackass made quite a few stirring speeches about it until the shit hit the fan. We’ve all banded together in town, gathered resources, lived together and fought together. We sent expeditions out to gather our neighbours who lived outside town for the common good. There were a few obstinate individuals who stayed out there. Many of those didn’t last very long. There were exceptions. Frank Osman and his family told us all to collectively go piss up a rope. Later when the Guard went out to his place to take them into protective custody, the Guard suffered its first serious ass whomping. Apparently Colonel Jack and company weren’t the only ones who had stashed military stuff. We heard rumours about mortars and claymores and tried not to grin. Frank used to brag that he and his sons could shoot the hairs of a gnat’s ass at a hundred yards. This might very well be.
We all laughed ten years ago when some hippies bought land for a commune out in the swamp. At the first barrier meeting they told us they would continue to live in harmony with the land. The group that went to rescue them lost sixteen men to nasty plants with peace signs painted on them. No one goes anyone near that swamp now. Those who wander too close claim to have heard Hendrix and Joplin blaring off in the distance. Sometimes I’m tempted to dig out that old bandanna and bib overalls. Far out man.
Umm, Granny Tribal took off about two years ago with twelve other women. I’m pretty sure where that was going, and I haven’t heard from them and I’m not sure we want to. The people who have settled out by the old river ford seem to be doing okay. I suspect they’re protected because they trade with anyone and everyone. I’m fairly sure it ain’t the Home Guard doing the protecting.
When no one saw Eddie and I grabbed all the equipment we could from the station and got the hell out of dodge. I’d love to tell you the story of where we are and who helped us, but we can’t be sure the Guard isn't listening in on these broadcasts. If they are, here’s a message for the Colonel. Rot in hell, you fascist asshole. So far, we’re doing okay. Eddies a jack of all trades, and my river life taught me how to keep a low profile. We will continue to broadcast on this frequency on every Thursday night, at 10 PM, as long as we can. This is the voice of Harper’s Ford, signing off. Peace and love.”
Recorded April 16, 2009, Thirty Four days after Appearance of Barrier
“This is the voice of Harper’s Ford WKHF 104.9. Dave Dolan on the air. We’re still here. We talked about neighbours a week ago, so I imagine you noticed I left out some new neighbours – the Haveners. Most of what I know is second hand, we call them Haveners because they told us that’s the name of their city. As far as I know no one from Harper’s Ford has ever seen or been to Haven. They first started showing up when we were all in shock and a trigger happy so people took some pot shots at them. Never found any bodies, so they’re either very tidy or very agile. Apparently they obtained some of our books, maybe from the High School. When they came to offer us help, they said some of their people felt our language, from books, and they all spoke fluent English. They claim to have been here for hundreds and thousands of years. They call themselves the first chosen. When we asked, they said they were the first chosen to establish order. I’m not quite sure exactly what that means. Their Offer peace and mutual assistance seems sincere to anyone with half a brain. The Guard, of course, took a week on that parade.
By the way, the Haveners bodies from that incident disappeared mysteriously. There were no attacks in retaliation for that mess. After that the Haveners seemed to become masters of stealth. I‘m told that they trade with the folks down at the ford on the river.
They say they come from a time where there was no colour. I almost want to believe them by looking at them. Their skin is pale white. They might think they're albinos except their irises are black. Their hair is the blackest black of black that you could possibly imagine. They’re thinner and shorter than we are. They seem to be shorter than five foot as a rule. Their faces are thin and angular, and their eyes have an almost oriental shape. Their movements are fluid and sometimes you get the feeling they can move like a bat out of hell if the need arose. You might think that no one has any knowledge of Havener anatomy due to corpses that go poop. As per usual, the young folks of Harper’s Ford are way ahead of us dinosaurs. I’ve been assured Haveners, male and female alike, have the same equipment that we do, right down to a belly button. I have a feeling if we stay here a while, there might be some cross breeding going on. Maybe that will give some people enough backbone to take on the Guard. I wouldn’t call them human, but I’d certainly call them people. Just a different kind of folks, you know. The Guards hunts them yet they seem to have the wisdom to realise the Guard doesn’t represent all of us. I can’t help but wonder if we would be as understanding. When I can I spend time at the old ford hoping to engage our new neighbours in conversation. I’ll let you know if that ever pans out. I’ve a feeling that we might have a lot to offer each other if we got beyond all the bullshit.
There is something about them that tells me that you wouldn’t want to piss them off. Let’s hope enough of us give them the idea that we’re the kind of people we really are. We will continue to broadcast on this frequency on every Thursday night, at 10 PM, as long as we can. This is the voice of Harper’s Ford, signing off.”
Recorded April 23, 2009, Fourty One days after Appearance of Barrier
“This is the voice of Harper’s Ford WKHF 104.9. Dave Dolan on the air. We’re still here. Tonight I thought we’d discuss what we know about the local flora and fauna we found here. Flora and fauna do seem to be entirely two innocuous words for some of the nasty shit. Nature isn’t very cute and fuzzy in here.”
<Slamming sound in background>
“What the hell is going on? Well, the Home Guard has reared its ugly head. John, I haven’t seen you in quite a while. Folks, John Boden is here, along with a half dozen members of the Guard. They’re heavily armed, and I’m thinking they aren’t here to discuss advertising. Some of you knew John as the owner of a small insurance office in Harper’s Ford. Hell, I played softball and drank beer with him. He’s wearing captain’s bars on his collar. Couldn’t stand all that lack of notoriety, eh John?”
“Dave, we warned you. I have a warrant here for your arrest. You are charged with sedition, <unintelligible> with the community at large, conspiring with enemies of the rightful authorities of Harper’s Ford, and operating an illegal broadcast station without permits. You are urged to surrender yourself to us. We will be escorting you to town where your story will be heard by an official board of inquiry.”
“Rightful authorities? What the hell has happened here, John? That maniac Stettler rules by force of arms and uses fear to control your neighbours and friends. That’s not America, John. My only crime is disagreeing with your master. And I’m willing to bet fifty bucks and the last known box of raisinettes in Harper’s Ford that I’ll be shot trying to escape before we get anywhere near town…”
“This isn’t America anymore, Dave. Jack is just doing what’s needed to keep us all alive. Sometimes you have to trim the herd to save them. For all it’s worth, I’m sorry you wouldn't listen to reason. Gag and cuff him, shut it down.”
<Long silence. Three Gunshots, followed by short silence and a clap of thunder. More silence.>
“This is Eddie Moran. I’m the engineer here at WKHF. I just heard multiple gunshots, off in the distance. I believe my friend Dave Dolan was just murdered for being a voice of reason in this crazy hell we all live in. I’d like you all to know that Dave didn’t die for nothing. I’ll move the equipment, and I’ll continue to broadcast until they come for me. I owe that much to my friend, and to all of you. We will continue to broadcast on this frequency every Thursday night, at 10 PM, as long as we can. This is the voice of Harper’s Ford, signing off. We love you, Dave.”
Recorded April 30, 2009, Fourty Eight days after Appearance of Barrier
“This is the voice of Harper’s Ford WKHF 104.9. Eddie Moran on the air. We’re still here. I’m still broadcasting from the same place though. I couldn’t get the damned truck running to make the move. I haven’t seen anything of the Home Guard since last week. I’m not really sure why. I’ve heard from a lot of you folks out there – Dave would have been glad to know that a lot of people in Harper’s Ford had been listening. Frank Osman sent two of his sons here with a message. He says he never liked commune hippies, but Dave was one of the few residents of Harper’s Ford who hasn’t been acting like a horses arse since we got caught in here. He offered WKHF sanctuary in one of his empty silos, and he had some very powerful comments about the Home Guard coming to try and get it. I may take him up on his offer. He also requested some Garth Brooks music.
A small shrine has appeared outside the door here. There are candles, flowers, notes mourning Dave’s passing. Someone left a piece of bark with a peace sign and the words ‘Right On’ written on it. Someone has painted a strange symbol in red on the wall out there. I have no idea about that, but I’d like to thank you all for your thoughts and prayers. It’s good to see that the humanity Dave spoke about is still alive out there. Hang in there everyone. I believe our signal is reaching through the barrier. Our countrymen won’t rest until we‘re free. But if we don’t pull together, there might not be anything left. We will continue to broadcast on this frequency every Thursday night, at 10 PM, as long as we can. This is the voice of Harper’s Ford, signing off.”
Recorded May 7, 2009 The title of the transmission does not tell how many days after Appearance of the Barrier like the others did.
This transmission seems to be a code - maybe Morris Code, but not 100% sure until someone solves the code.
Randy states:
"This is what was recorded during the brief time the lines of communication were open. If you have any idea of what to make of it, please let me know. My e-mail address is gro.kradehtnithgilruoy|ydnar#gro.kradehtnithgilruoy|ydnar"
Here is a site that may help decipher Morris Code: Morris Code Letters and Numbers
"This is the voice of Harper's Ford WKHF 104.9 Dave Dolan on the air. We're still here. Yes, you heard that right. This is Dave Dolan on the air… still alive. I really appreciate the shrine and all the messages you've sent about my assumed death, but I'm alive and that's my theme for tonight.
John Boden and eight member of the guard took me out of here and headed towards town. About 2 miles out, they took off the cuffs and the gag. Boden told me I might as well run because they were going to eliminate a source of irritation for the guard.
Kinda odd, isn't it? Eddie and I hoped to reach the world outside, but apparently, we have listeners in here, both good and bad. I'm certainly not complaining, but it gets better.
Anyway, I was weighing my chances to get behind a tree and make a break in the dark and it didn't look good. Suddenly, Boden and his crew got very excited. Five of the men just… disappeared. I mean it was POOF! and five men were gone! The others reacted fairly quickly - fired a few shots in the dark, and it seemed they were in a decent defensive position.
Something tapped me on the shoulder. I turned around and thought I was having a flashback. There were just 4 of them. I initially thought they were robots or… something. They were 5 1/2 feet tall, covered by what seemed to be some kind of mirrored metal. They moved fast, I mean REALLY fast. It was like a trip - their movements seemed to blink rapidly like overlapping images that stuttered. Three of them had swords that looked like Japanese katanas on steroids. One had a staff with nasty looking blades on both ends.
The guardsmen saw them too and fired off a few rounds. At that range, there was no way to miss. Where bullets should have been hitting, there was some kind of electrical discharge - no holes, no damage, no nothing.
They cut through the three guardsmen in no time at all. Not pretty at all. Boden turned around to look at me and the one who had spoke to me cut him up like sliced lunch meat. It then turned back toward me. I ain't proud. I was terrified! It simply said, "Relax, Mr. Dolan. We mean you no harm." The headpiece sorta retracted into the shoulders, and I was looking at a Havener woman.The three others were two women and one man. The woman who saved me told me here name was Taryn. The story gets even more hinky. She told me her squad had orders to watch andprotect me, Eddie, and the station. They had been here from the first day we got set up. Suddenly, Ihad lots and lots of questions.
Taryn offered to take me to their camp and I accepted. As it turns out, I had met the military forces from Haven. They were pretty damned impressive. I learned a bit about our new neighbors. The first chosen are not the only ssss…species who live in Haven. There have been many others over the course of hundreds of thousands of years.
When asked why they were protecting me, she told me that Haven believes that I might have some sssss.. part to play in ssssss..something coming. She told me she isn't authorized to say anymore about this. After seeing that in combat, I asked why they hadn't taken out the whole Home Guard - who seem hell-bent on killing Haveners. Again, she inferred that the Guard might also have some greater purpose here.
The power-assisted armor that Haveners wear is standard issue for their ground troops. Scary to think what their high-end gear might be. I spent some time at their camp. Taryn did most of the talking with me. It seemed as if she constantly went through a list to decide what information I was allowed to know. I can verify that the first chosen had the same physical equipment that we do. They don't wear anything under their armor and seemed totally unembarrased about nudity. She told me that they make children the same way that we do. Pregnancies take longer for them so their birth rate is a lot lower than ours. Haven is run by a council with one representative from each faction in their society. Their native language is lyrical… almost musical. They joke and laugh amongst each other and they bitch when they're given a shit job to do. I enjoyed my time with the four of them and I think they liked me.
Finally, Taryn told me they were going to return me to the station. Eddie's face - when he saw me and then Taryn and company - was priceless. Taryn showed me a red symbol they painted on the outside wall of the station. It means that we are officially under the protection of Haven.
Hey statler, you rat bastard! I know you're listening. I think you should personally come out here and try to take me again.
Taryn says she will stop in to talk with me occasionally. I did ask if there was any way I could repay them for saving me. She said many in Haven hoped we'd play some music during the day. Her people are curious about this rock and roll they've heard about. Score another point for the teenagers of Harper's Ford as cultural ambassadors.
I tried one last time to find out anything I could about this prophecy. Taryn would only tell me "Something is coming." I need a drink - a good God damned stiff drink. I got back here about an hour ago. Eddie and I have a still set up in the back shed. We are going to proceed to get shit-faced. We will continue to broadcast on this frequency every Thursday night at 10 PM as long as we can. This is the voice of Harper's Ford signing off."
Tenth Transmission Recorded May 21, 2009
"This is the voice of Harpers Ford WKHF 104.9 Dave Dolan on the air. We are still here.
Awhile ago Taryn and her crew brought us an intern. The kid's name is Dante and he has a somewhat tragic situation. Dante is in here with us. His mom is out there. Taryn told me they found him living in a room out in the boonies. I think that is the old Olson place out by the river. That's pretty amazing considering the stuff that shares the land with us now. Taryn says that she suspects he has latent skills that what we call, they call a Soother. When I asked what that was she told me that, and I know this sounds crazy, soothers sing to the plants here, in order to calm them and make them less aggressive. If we were anywhere other than here, I would be laughing about this. Now get this, kid told me he didn't have to worry about any attack because his Rose of Sharon bush protected him. I am not going any futher with that; count on it. Karen said she problely bring us Haveners soother around to talk with us and it seems hocus pocus but I've lost my capacity for amazment these days. The kid was a little scruffy when they brought him to us but he cleaned up pretty well. He makes a mean mulligin stew and sets a decent table. The garden eddie and I started 6 years ago suffered terribly under our care but it has thrived since Dante got here. He's also fairly handy with tools and Eddie and I are glad to get any help that we can get. He doesn't ask stupid kid questions, and in fact, has come up with some great ideas that have made our live here a little easier. He really is a great kid. This broadcast was for Dante. I hope someone out there will let his mom know that he is being taken care of. He is as well and as safe as anyone can be here although I am not sure who is protecting who. We will continue to broadcast on this frequency every Thursday night as long as we can. This is the voice of Harper's Ford signing off."
Eleventh Transmission Recorded May 28, 2009
"Tonight we have some ads and announcements for around the Harper's Ford area for our local audience.
For some of the finest dining to be found in the old Ford, try Lil's Place. Our stew and biscuits are the finest to be found in the county. I happen to have personal experience with Lil's menu and I am telling you that's no lie. If you catch Lil's stew on the 3rd day, it's the closest to can get to escxtacy as you can get without breaking the law.
Bob and Dan's bait shop, your one stop shop for all things fishing. Night crawlers as big as your arm. For the right price, Bob or Dan will climb onto your ? where you are looking to help the big ones. shew…Bob and Dan aren't wrapped to tight are they?
Osmonds swap meet next Tuesday all day at the Osmond farm. All are invited except the Home Guard. Understand Frank has alot of ammo for weapons he doesn't have and is looking to trade for 00 Buck and 30 0 six traps ? Equipment, weapons and lots of handy things to be found there for trade also. Here is some inside info. Right now Frank will give practically anything away for a pack of any brand of cigarettes.
Formary? is looking for classical musical albums and is willing to cook home cooked food for them. She needs the music to keep the weeds in her vegatable garden from eating her cats.
Pastor Olan informs us there will be a prayer virgil at the church tommorrow night at 6:00PM. Add your prayers for those we've lost and for our deliverance for this place. Hey it couldn't hurt could it? The Pastor will be also accepting any supplies you can spare for those less fortunate neighbors around town.
Someone sent us a copy of a poster that the Home Guard has plastered all over the downtown area. Apparently, Jack has put a bounty on Eddie and I. Lots of nice stuff offered for capturing Eddie alive, or for bringin me in dead or alive. Hey Jackass, why not save the cost and come get us yourself?
You may not be aware of it, but the barrier has created some orphans. These are the children who are seperated from their parents when we were seperated from the rest of the world. Mrs. McDunner (Mrs. D) took these children in at the high school. Times are tough for everyone. Lets take a little time to help these kids out with any kind of supplies we can spare. Dante and Eddie have delivered a load of veggies from our garden. Trust me, any help you can give Mrs. D and the kids will be greatly appreciated.
This last one is for me. The only family I have left outside is my younger brother Randy. When we were kids, we didn't get along very well. Hell, we were kids we beat the hell out of each other most of the time. After mom and dad passed on, we got older and wiser, Randy became the best friend I ever had. I would appreciate if someone would repeat my message to him. Randy, I am doing OK, between Eddie, Dante and Taryn and her crew, I am doing pretty damn good. I think about you everyday, man. I am still racking leaves against the wind, and fucking with the man every change I get. I love you bro.
We will continue to broadcast on this frequency every Thursday night at 10:00PM as long as we can. This is the voice of Harper's Ford signing off."
Twelfth Transmission Recorded June 4, 2009
"This is the voice of Harper’s Ford, WKHF 104.9. Dave Dolan on the air. We are still here. Tonight we go back to an interrupted topic. I thought we might discuss what we know about the local flora and fauna we've found here. Let's start with animals and insects. Cute and fuzzy, they are not. We have deer, bunnies, birds and bears in here. I think they were trapped with us, and they seem to be thriving. It's like they don't fit into the ecosystem, and get ignored by the locals. Most of what I know comes from hearsay.
Actually… shit. All I know is hearsay. But I hesitate to discount any rumours because of what I've already seen. Badgers with reptile-like armour plate, beavers and otters that carry sharpened sticks as weapons, vampiric foxes, snakes that fly, insects ten times their normal size. And that's just a few of the rumours I've heard. Generally these local creatures seem to stick to specific territiories. The few predator types seem to be small and have specific prey that does not include humans or animals from outside the barrier. We leave them alone, and they haven't been a problem so far.
The animals that have caused humans the most problems are what we call Lizzies. Picture an eight foot long lizard with six legs. They are capable of running at about twenty miles an hour. They have claws that can do horrific damage, and they have an attitude like… a rabid wolverine. That is itself isn't a problem, the problem is that Lizzies travel in herds of a hundred or more animals. We're fairly sure the're herbivores. They haven't tried to eat anyone they've killed. Like other herd animals, we knew before the barrier they do have a tendency to stampede. We almost lost the entire downtown area to one of those stampedes. The Havener's saved our asses on that one.
These days Harper's Ford has a ring of pits and barbed wire surrounding it. And I'm more than willing to give the Home Guard a nod for making that happen. <Unintelligble> it up. I hope there aren't ever any more massacres we are not aware of.
I worried a long time about what kind of beast might hunt the Lizzies. I mean, what would a local grizzly be like? Karen straightened me out on that one. Most of the predators here are not animals. They're plants. That's right, plants are at the top of the food chain here. And those will be our topic next week. We will continue to broadcast on this frequency every Thursday night at 10 PM as long as we can. This is the voice of Harper's Ford signing off."
Thirteenth Transmission Recorded June 11, 2009
"This is the voice of Harper’s Ford, WKHF 104.9. Dave Dolan on the air. We're still here. If there is one thing mankind does well, it is making up names for new stuff we come across. This has not changed inside the barrier. Chainsaw Grass, Saber Ferns, Razor Holly, Succubus Tulips, <Unintelligible> Hedge, Rotsweet Barbthorns, Zombie Mushrooms, Anaconda Vines and Red Blueberries - oh yeah, and two step heather - are just a few of the new names we had to come up with in Harper's Ford. If nothing else, being trapped inside the barrier has forced me to rethink our relationship with plants before the barrier existed. And I can't help but wonder if I missed the screams when I bit into a juicy apple or cut my lawn.
Many of the plants here are anything but passive - hell, a lot of them are downright nasty and aggressive. Some can trap you, some can reach out and grab you, some can pull up roots and move around. I'm told some of them sting. The Havener's insist that all of them possess <Unintelligible> abilities. Outside it was an animal world, in here, that's debatable.
Taryn's told me that the fiercest animals here are plants. On the other hand, again, our own plants aren't being overrun. In fact, Dante's story led me to believe that our plants are changing to match the environment. The vegtables in our garden are now two times the size we normally expect them to be. Taryn says Dante's singing is awakening them. Let's just hope they don't hold grudges. I'd hate to be taken out by a gang of polebeans.
Trees are an entirely different subject. That's something we'll cover at a later time. We will continue to broadcast on this frequency every Thursday night at 10 PM as long as we can. This is the voice of Harper's Ford signing off."
Fourteenth Transmission Recorded June 18, 2009
"This is the voice of Harper’s Ford, WKHF 104.9. Dave Dolan on the air. We are still here. Trees. No offence to Mr. Tolkien, but we're not talking about gentle giants who speak slowly in deep voices about their philosophies and <unintelligible>. Our first impression that they were mindless and destructive brutes was just as mistaken. All we really know for certain was that the trees moved at night, and that you didn't want to be there when they did. Last week, Taryn brought the Soother she'd spoken about to meet Dante. His name is Polanar <?> and he's one hell of a nice guy. He and Dante have spent a lot of time together in our vegtable garden, and in the woods around us. Taryn tells me that Dante's story of his survival out in the <unintelligible> caused a lot of excitement in the Haven Soother community. Polanar has told us that Dante's talent is… considerable. He's taken it upon himself to help Dante understand and use this talent.
Last night, Taryn and Polanar offered to show us the trees at night. Eddie wanted absolutely nothing to do with that. Dante and I accepted the offer. They took us to an overlook that gave us a complete view of a huge open field. Taryn told us that if the trees detected us, Polanar could calm them for long enough for us to get away. I was definitely not prepared for what I saw.
They move a lot faster than you'd imagine. I expected chaos and destruction. What I saw was order, and lots of it. Thousands of trees flowed out of the forest. Then they formed up in lines and groups. The only thing I can compare it with is a military regiment, forming up. It didn't strike me as mindless instinct. There had to be some form of intelligence involved. Taryn told me that Haven agrees with that assessment.
As expected, there came a moment when Polanar told us that they were aware of us. Several groups of trees moved rapidly towards us, and I felt threatened. Just as suddenly the trees stopped about fifty feet away from us. They swayed for a moment, turned around and lumbered away.
Both Taryn and Polanar seemed agitated by all this. When I asked, they said trees never do that. Polanar said he hadn't had any time to soothe them. They both stared at Dante for a long time. He insisted he had done nothing. I'm not sure exactly what happened, but our Havener friends now treat our young intern with a kind of deference. When I ask questions about the experience, they avoided answering me.
This morning Taryn and crew transplanted a rose of <unintelligible>bush outside the entrance to our building. Dante says they brought his old friend here. Taryn told me we no longer need protection from the squad. Eddie says he can't shake the feeling that the bush is watching his every move. I'm going to have to have to side with <unintelligible> on this one, because I've seen Eddie butcher many an herb in the time I've known him.
One of these days I fully expect Rod Serling and Elvis to show up for a god-damn interview on this show. Tonight, Eddie and I plan to smoke some Bourbon, and smoke some of our lawn after this broadcast. We will continue to broadcast on this frequency every Thursday night at 10 PM as long as we can. This is the voice of Harper's Ford signing off."
Fifteenth Transmission Recorded June 25, 2009
"This is the voice of Harper’s Ford, WKHF 104.9. Dave Dolan on the air. We are still here. Polanar has been here every day since the first time he met Dante. That's given us some information we didn't have before. He brought some equipment to measure whatever it is that makes the kid a Soother, and Eddie got a chance to examine some of that gear, underneath the hood. Eddie tells me that the Haveners use some kind of crystal based technology to power their equipment. Apparently their technology has given them an infinite source of free power. Eddie says that's mind blowing, and Eddie would certaintly know mind blowing. He's also told me that a lot of their circuitry is organic in nature. Eddie thinks this is wonderful. I've been a sci-fi fan for years, so I'm not so sure I'm thrileld about that.
To his credit, Polanar doesn't seem to try and hide any information from us. He laid a big package in our laps today. He told us that Dante's abilities are too extensive for his equipment to measure. In fact, he is not sure that Dante is just a powerful Soother. He told us that this fits the prophecy that Haveners have alluded to since I first met them. He told me today that he's gonig to inform his superiors that Dante may very well be The Gatherer mentioned in the prophecy. And even though I like the guy, if he bows and calls me The Archivist one more time without filling me in, I may have to pop him one.
All this is interesting, and certaintly adds weight to anything Dante may tell us about plants here. For that reason I have a message for our countrymen outside the Barrier. From Dante: The plant world inside here, particularly trees, have a lot of anger. A lot more anger than the Haveners have ever seen in them. Dante says that anger is not all originating in Harper's Ford. Most of that anger is coming from outside the barrier. I'll repeat that - most of the plant anger and hostility inside the barrier is origniating outside the barrier. Here's a chance to help us out. Dante says you may be able to let us know someone hears us out there. The long and the short of it is this: you need to change your relationship with plants out there. If the anger coming through the barrier lessens, the kid tells me he will know it. And we will know someone hears us. We're counting on you, as we always have. We will continue to broadcast on this frequency every Thursday night at 10 PM as long as we can. This is the voice of Harper's Ford signing off."
Sixteenth Transmission Recorded July 2, 2009
"This is the voice of Harper’s Ford, WKHF 104.9. Dave Dolan on the air. We are still here. Well, most of us knew it would eventually happen. Anyone in Harper's Ford with half a brain could tell you that the Home Guard's xenophobia and intolerance would start trouble. It was just a matter of time. You've heard me talk about Lil's place down at the old ford. Lil is a great lady, and her stew transcends all cultural boundaries. The Haveners sought out a great meal there from almost the very beginning of our being trapped in here. About five years ago, Lil and a Haven Soother named Jayroo (?) fell in love. Eddie and I both attended their wedding. We were all shocked and saddend when Jayroo was killed during a Lizzie stampede.
Lil gave birth to Geoffery not long after that. Those of us who weren't under the Guard's thumb have adopted Lil and Geoffery. The kid's bright as a new penny, and I am kinda proud that he has called me 'Uncle Radio' since he was a year old. As I understand it, last Tuesday a squad of Home Guard wandered into the old ford. The Haveners there did their dissapearing act and the Guardsmen set about bullying everyone they met around the community. Apparently the bastards wound up at Lil's place, demanding a free meal, and threatening to take a lot more from Lil, if you know what I mean. Of course, the kid tried to defend his mum, and it doesn't take much to see that his dad was a Havener. I'm told they were about to mutilate the kid.
Taryn has since told me a Havener operative named Laryth had been assigned to keep an eye on Lil and Geoffery. Well, here's the current score - we've got eight more dead Guardsmen. That's Haven sixteen, and the Home Guard zero, for those of you who are keeping score. I certaintly am. Laryth did a decent job there, personally I'd have hurt them a lot more before I butchered them, but I never claimed to be a nice guy. There are now bounties of for both Lil and Geoffery, and anyone who helps them.
Colonel Jackass has turned his twisted eye towards the old ford. Laryth took Lil and Geoffery to Haven. There are now humans, from Harper's Ford, living in Haven. But that's not the real scoop. Taryn has told me that this incident has changed things. The Haven military has altered the rules of engagement for the Home Guard. I'm thinking the kid gloves are off now. Emperor Jack-off, I have some advice for you. Bend over and spread your cheeks. There's a whole barrel full of kickass coming your way. We will continue to broadcast on this frequency every Thursday night at 10 PM as long as we can. This is the voice of Harper's Ford signing off."
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Seventeenth Broadcast Transmission Recorded July 9, 2009
This is the Voice of Harper's Ford
WKHF 104.9 Dave Dolan On The Air.
We Are Still Here.
Eddie wanted me to Pass On a Phrase
to those of you on the Outside trying to
Figure the Barrier Out.
He says Its Part of His Theory.
It's Just One Phrase Because Everything
Else He Said Sounded like Pig Latin to Me.
The Barrier As A Cosmic String.
Whatever the Hell That Means.
Please Haul Out your Cosmic Yo-Yos
and Go to Work.
We Received a Note from Granny Treibel
about Three Days Ago. In It,
She says that the Voice of Harper's Ford
Deserves to have some Information we Previously
Didn't Have. She Indicated She would Like to Meet
with Me Sunday Morning at the Lighthouse.
I have No Reason to Mistrust Granny
so I'm Hoping to Make that Meeting.
I'm Also Hoping she Has Some of Her
Renowned Brownies on Hand when I Meet Her.
But Here's a Kicker:
In the Note she Says and I Quote-
Have you Ever Wondered Why the Perologists
Chose This Area as A Place to Live?
I'm Hooked and I'm Biting.
I Dug Out my Old Backpack
and Eddie Donated some Additional Gear
for my Trip. I've Got a Bolt-Action Rifle
w/ a Scope,a German Luger, a Combat Knife
and a 22 Inch Machete- with some Army
Issued Camo Fatigues and a Bandana I Could
Give Rambo a Run for His Money.
I Intended to Make the Trip Alone.
No Sense Risking Anymore Than We Have To.
Eddie is the Brain Trust Here so We can't Risk Him
and Dante's Just a Kid. Me? I'm Expendable.
I'm Sure Another Loudmouth Could Be Obtained
to Replace Me Fairly Quickly.
It Turns Out I'm Not Going to Have to Travel
Solo. Taryn Showed Up this Morning - She No Longer
Has to Babysit Us so She's been Given Some Time Off.
Apparently, She Likes Our Company and Decided to Pay Us
A Social Visit.
When I Told Her About My Plans for the Trip
She Offered to Go Along with Me. I Got the Distinct
Impression She Was Sure I'd Be Eaten by a Petunia
Before I Got 100 Yards From Here. She's Got One of Those
Awesome Haven Katanas and what She Calls a Sporting Rifle.
The Rifle Intrigued Eddie. After Examining It
He tells me its a Gauss Weapon. I Am Really
Looking Forward to this Trip. It's Been Quite Some
Time Since I Got Out To Look Around and See
What's really Going On.
Having Taryn Along Adds an Air of Security for Me.
She Seems a Lot more Relaxed Off Duty. It's Kinda…Nice
to Hear her Call Me Dave Instead of Mr. Dolan. I'm
Thinking I Might Learn A Lot More about Haven and
other Things in a Social Situation Like This. Besides
She's Wearing Civilian Clothes and the Lady Looks Hot.
I'm Hoping We'll Be back in Time for the Broadcast
Next Thursday but There's Is No Guarantee of That.
We Will Continue to Broadcast on This Frequency
Every Thursday Night at 10pm as Long as We Can.
This is the Voice of harpers Ford. Signing Off.
Eighteenth Broadcast Transmission Recorded July 16, 2009
This is the Voice of Harper's Ford
WKHF 104.9 Dave Dolan On The Air.
We Are Still Here.
There's Lots to Tell You.
Our Trip to Meet Granny Treibel
at Our Old Lighthouse was an Adventure
to Say the Least but That will Be
Another Broadcast. This Broadcast Is About
the Information Granny Had for Me.
Granny and her Coven. Yes, I Said Coven-
As In Witches. Were Very Gracious and Charming
to Taryn and I for Our Entire Visit. And Yes,
Granny Does Seem to Have some Kind Of Mystical
or Magical Skills that Totally Blew us Both Away.
She Told Me Her Powers Have Increased from the
Moment We All Became Trapped Inside the Barrier.
I've Seen Her in Action and I Am Convinced.
Like Most Everyone In Harper's Ford- I Had
Little Knowledge about the Perologists. Sure,
They Were the Folks Who Originally Founded
Harper's Ford but All I Knew Was- That They Were
Some Kinda Cult and the Silly Fluff about Them
in the Town Histories. It makes Me Wish the Home Guard
Wasn't Using the Library for their Headquarters Now.
Granny Told Me that the Last Practicing Perologist
in the Area was her Great Great Grandmother. The Old Girl
Lived to be a Ripe Old Age of 105. Granny Insists She Herself
is Not a Perologist. I Believe Her. I Really See No
Reason or Gain from Misleading Me. Besides,
She Is Still A Sweet Old Lady and She Makes a Mean Sheet of
Oatmeal Cookies. Granny Told Me Her Great Times Two Grandma
Told Her about the Cult When She Was a Youngster. She
Didn't have a Lot of Specifics but She Informed Me
that the Perologists Knew Something was Going to Happen
in This Area Long before it was even Settled.
In Fact- They had an Ancient Propechy About It.
About a Power or Deity They Worshipped.
After we Had some Tea and Cookies Granny Took Us
to the Cliffs Overlooking the Ocean.
By the Way- the Barrier Intersects the Ocean
About a Mile Offshore. We Slung Some Ropes About
100 Feet Down to a Cave. It was Full of Cobwebs
and looked like Some Kind of a Shrine.
On an Altar in the Back there was a Stone Slab.
Granny Translated the Writing Carved in the Slab.
And Here is That Translation Exactly
As I Wrote It Down:
After All Is Forgotten He Will Come to Test
the Way of Things - He Will COme to Contend
with the Way of All Things - He Is the Oldest
Circumstance That Precedes All Others - He Is
Unreason - The Unraveller - The Beginning
and the End of All Things
Granny Told Us That the Perologists Worshipped
Chaos and Randomness in the Universe. I Wish we
Had an Active Perologist to Help Explain All This
and I can Only Hope the Test will be Graded
on a Curve. I Hope we can Find Out More about
This Prophecy.
I got to Know Taryn Fairly well
During Our Adventure on the Way There. Um….
Extremely Well If You Know What I Mean. She Was
Visibly Shocked by the Words on the Slab. When I
Questioned Her About It She Told Me She Couldn't
Tell Me Anything About It Without Talking to Her
Superiors. She Left for Haven This Morning.
I Will Tell You What She Has to Say When She Returns.
It Seems There is More to Our Situation than Meets
the Eye.
We will Continue to Broadcast on this Frequency
Every Thursday Night at 10 PM as Long as we Can.
This is the Voice of Harper's Ford. Signing Off.
Nineteenth Broadcast Transmission Recorded July 23, 2009
This is the Voice of Harper's Ford
WKHF 104.9 Dave Dolan On The Air.
We Are Still Here.
Someone Once Told Me That the First Documented Case
of Smallpox in Native Americans Occured in 1493.
I Don't Know the Historical Accuracy of That but
it Sounds Logical to Me. Seems History Might be
Repeating Itself Inside the Barrier.
When Taryn Returned to Haven Last Week her Superiors
Wouldn't Allow Her and her Squad to Return to the City.
There Had Been an Outbreak of Illnesses Inside Haven that
was Rapidly Blossoming Into an Epidemic. From the Reports
We've Heard they have Everything Going On Inside from the
Common Cold and Measles to Influenza. It's An Easy Stretch
to Guess That We Folks From Harper's Ford Have Something to
Do with This Problem and it's Understandable That the Haveners
Have No Experience with Diseases that We Hardly Concern Ourselves
With. The Powers That Be in Haven Seemed at First to Want to
Declare a Total Quarantine. No One In No One Out.
But Eddie and I took Taryn to See Old Doc Bosswick
Down at the Old Ford. It Turns Out that Doc Has Quite A Stockpile
of Medicines, both Prescription and Over the Counter.
Doc Also Had More Than a Few Volunteers Willing to Help Out.
Some had Been Nurses, Orderlys, or Volunteer Ambulance Corps Folk.
Once Doc Had a Chance to Tell Them What We Humans
Can Do About Sickness the Doors to Haven Opened Up to
Them. It's a Nice Feeling to Know That We Can Help Haven
With This. It's Nice to Pay Them Back a Little for All
the Kindness They've Shown Us Since We Arrived Here and
I'm Glad We Can Help with a Problem We May Have Caused Ourselves.
They're Still Not Allowing Haveners to Return Into the City.
But I Saw Doc a few Days Ago and he Says They're making Headway
on the Problem. He Also Said They Lost a Lot of People
in There Before He Got a Handle on It.
Taryn and her Crew Are Living with Us Now.
While the Reason Makes Me Feel a Bit Guilty I Am
Glad for This On Two Levels. Living in Close Proxitmity
Allows Us to Learn More about Haven and It's People.
And Yes, Damnit, Taryn and I Are Officially an Item.
If Eddie and Dante Giggle At Me One More Time
I'm Going to Put Red Glueberries in Their Bunks.
Tonight Our Information Gathering Begins with
an American Custom. We're Going to Introduce
the Haveners to Bourbon.
We Will Continue to Broadcast on This Frequency
Every Thursday Night at 10pm as Long as We Can.
This is the Voice of harpers Ford. Signing Off.
Twentieth Broadcast Transmission Recorded July 30, 2009
This Is The Voice of Harper's Ford
WKHF 104.9 Dave Dolan On The Air.
We Are Still Here.
The Bourbon Went Well.
Our Havener Friends Have Loosened Up
On a Few of the Cats They Have in the Bag.
Parts of Their Prophecy that They are Withholding
Require that We Make our Own Decisions. Apparently,
Cheat Sheets Aren't Allowed for This.
The Woman I Am Dating is Older Than I Am. No,
She Isn't 65 To My 56 not Even 165 to My 56.
We'd Already Guessed the Haveners Have Long Lives
but We Had No Clue. This Test that the Perologists
Were Interested In Isn't the First Test. This Isn't the
First Time Humans Have Been Trapped Inside a Barrier.
Taryn Has Told Me This is the Third Time It's Happened.
The Two Previous Occassions Involved Citizens of Civilizations
from Long Before Us. The Chosen Were Here Long Before Those
Two Tests Occured. Yeah- You Heard Me Right.
The Chosen Were Here A Long Time Before
We Lived In Trees and Were throwing Feces at
One Another.
Mankind Has Failed the Test Two Times Before.
Let's Hope That Three Times is The Charm.
Taryn and the Chosen Were here for Both
Occassions. It was a Shock at First but I'm
Getting Used to It. Something is Coming Here.
And Soon. We Have a Trial to Face in Harper's Ford.
Taryn says We Will Have a Situation That Will
Threaten Our Very Existence Inside the Barrier.
The Haven Prophecy Says that
We Have All We Need to Succeed and Everyone in Here
Has a Role to Play. Taryn Is Telling Me that a Prophecy That
Existed Before the Chosen Came Here Predicted Dante,
Eddie, and Others Here for a Confrontation Between the
Present Order of Things and an Older Chaos.
By the Way- Calling Them the Chosen Is a Misnomer.
They Volunteered. They Chose to Stay Here for a Time
Longer Than ANy Of Us Could Imagine to Help Us.
Taryn Says Her Peoples Future is Linked to the Result
of Our Decisions. But Our Situation Is Only a Small
Part of All That. We Will Do Our Best to Carry Our
End of It. The Real Test Is Out There With All of You.
I Can Only Hope You're All Up For This.
What We Think We Know Is True- Failing the Test
Is Not an Option We Would Want to Think About.
We Will Continue to Broadcast on this Frequency
Every Thursday Night at 10pm as Long as We Can.
This is the Voice of Harper's Ford. Signing Off.
Twenty First Broadcast Transmission Recorded August 8, 2009
This Is The Voice of Harper's Ford
WKHF 104.9 Dave Dolan On The Air.
We Are Still Here.
I Got a chance to Talk to Doc Bosswick a Few days Ago
and that's yielded Some More Information about Haven
and How the Chosen Live. Doc is No Engineer but He Is
A Really Bright Guy Who Keeps his Eyes Open.
Taryn is trying to Arrange an Invitation for Us to
Visit the City. I'm Hoping Eddie can Put His Eyes to
Some Use in There. Doc Says Haven is the Size of a
Medium U.S City with Most of It's Bulk Underground.
He Almost Sounded Like a Poet When He Told Me
About His First Impressions. He Says the Architecture
is Orderly in a Timeless Way. And That The Whole City is
is Visually Beautiful. There is Beauty, Art, and Music
Everywhere and It is a Part of Every Citizens Daily
Life. Their Lifestyle is Based on Curiosity, Tolerance,
Order, and Balance. At the Heart of It All- All Haveners
Strive to Tune Themselves to the Universe Around Them
and Hope to Achieve a Balance with It. Doc Says That They
are the Most Spiritually Advanced People He Has Ever Met.
He Also Says That Barring a Few Slight Differences the Chosen
are Physically the Same as Humans.
He Wasn't Restricted from Going Anywhere in the City.
And More Often than Not the haveners Answered Any Questions
he Had about Any Subject. I'd Initially Thought the Chosen Were
Hundreds of Years More Advanced Than We Are. Again- I Was Mistaken.
Eddie Says That Docs Observations Confirmed
that They are hundreds of Thousands of Years Ahead of Us
in Science and Technology. Doc Says the Entire Citys Power
Comes From a Device the Size of a Beer Can. When He Asked How That
Works He was Told That the Device Siphons Its Power from
the Scaffolding on Which the Universe was Formed.
Eddie Says That This is the Current Human Description
of Something Our Physics Brainiacs Call Darkmatter.
Doc Entered haven with Human Medicines and Medical Books.
But He Says He Will Be Leaving with Medicines that Evolve
and Adapt According to the Illness They Encounter.
The Epidemic in Haven Is Over and can Never Happen Again.
All This is a Bit Spacy for An Old Dog Like Me and
We All Know that My Eyes Tend to Glaze Over When the
Technobabble Starts Flying. The Haveners Have a Deep
Curiosity about Us. They Have an Utter Almost
Childlike Fascination for All Things Involving Humankind.
Doc Was Told that They Volunteered to be Here and to
Help Us Before Taryn Told Me. So He Asked Everyone: Why?
Generally He Got Two Answers-
One Went Like This: We Fight the Good Fight Because
It is the Right Thing to Do and Because We Can.
Having Met My Share of the Chosen I Believe this to Be
Heartfelt and True.
The Other Answer was Vague: It was About a Reward They'd
Been Promised .
At First, Taryn Didn't Want to Tell Me What the Reward Is
but She's Finally Come Out with It. The Chosen have Been
Promised the one Thing They Envy that Humans Have.
They Believe It Is the Reason We Have a Great
Potential for Both Order and Chaos. the Chosen have
Existed Inside Barriers for Eons in the Hope that
Their Reward Will Be Mortality.
We Will Continue to Broadcast on This Frequency
Every Thursday Night at 10pm as Long as We Can.
This is the Voice of Harper's Ford. Signing Off.
Twenty Second Broadcast Transmission Recorded August 31, 2009
"Are You Ok Out There Eddie?
(muffled Response Noises?)
Can You Hear Me?
A Little
(muffled Response Noises?)
Oh. Ok. You Think
This Is Gonna Work?
It Better Work
I, I Was Getting Feedback
Of Everything I'm Saying
Right Back Through The Earphones
But It Seems To Have Stopped Now
Be Careful
and Keep an Eye Out for
Moving Trees Man
(silence)
Testing Testing Testing
This is the Voice of Harpers Ford
WKHF 104.9
How Was That?
I'm Not Getting Any Echo This Time
(silence)
Oh. Ok. Stretching.
Welcome to Waynar? Prayer?
Radio o hohohoho
On the Airwaves
and On the Fly
Geez Man
Relax
This Is a Long Shot
at Best
(angry sounding muffled Response Noises)
Oh.Ok.
(silence)
Drop Your Load
at the Giant Toad
Try Our
Bourbon and RumpRoast
Specials See Our
Boy Bob In the Back
(muffled)
Stettler Sucks!
(silence)
Huh?
(muffled Response Noises)
Oh. Ok.
(silence)
I'll Tell You What
the Goddamn National Guard
Better Have Lots of Beer?
Rolling? Papers When I Break Us
Out of Here
We Are Running Seriously Low
(muffled)
(silence)
Hey What Would Happen If I
Turned Up the Gain? All the Way
(buzzing) (muffled Response Noises)
(silence)"
Twenty Third Broadcast Transmission Recorded September 24, 2009
Date sent: 28 Oct 2009, 00:25 -0-500
This Is The Voice of Harper's Ford
WKHF 104.9 Dave Dolan On The Air.
We Are Still Here.
Doc Bosswick? Also Did a Favour
For Me and Lots of Folks
at the Old Ford
We Asked Him to Check In
On Lil and Geoffery
We're All Still A Bit Ticked
that the Havens Ran Off
with the Source of the
Finest Stew this Side of
the Old Ford
Lil Has Been Given Her Own Kitchen
in the City and Taryn Says That All
of Haven Often Finds Its Way
to Lils Table For a Meal
She and Geoffery Love Living in Haven
According to Doc
Geofferys Situation Points Out
A New Discovery About Haven
Doc Says That the Haveners Have Told Him
that Geoffery Has a Tremendous Amount of
Potential Psychic Power
The Chosen Have Had a Long Long Time
to Investigate Psionics
Now Contrary to What our Science Always Said
Outside the Barrier
Psionics are a Scientific Fact
Taryn Tells Me
That They've Discovered
That All Sentient Beings
Have a Capacity for Psionics
and That this Power Varies from
Individual to Individual
They Had the Science Available to
Quantify an Individuals Potential
and Apparently Little Geoffery is
Chock Full of Power
Taryn Can Move Coins Around a Bit
I've Seen Her Do It
Me? I Can Barely Make Up My Mind
Let Alone Do Things with It
Doc Visited Geofferys Training Sessions
and It Sounds Quite Impressive
The Kids Were Lifting Weights
Tying Knots In Things
Talking Without Speaking
Setting Things on Fire and Generally
Doing Mental Push Ups
Doc Was Told that Geoffery Has a
Talent in All Psionic Disciplines
A very Very Powerful Talent
But The Haveners are Most Excited
About Geofferys Precognitive Skills
They Say the Little Guy Has a
Tremendous Potential to
See Into the Future
All Possible Futures
Haven Has Found That This Particular
Skill Is the Rarest Psi Talent
Little Geoffery Has the Highest Rating
In That Talent That the Haveners
Have Ever Seen
As Doc Was Leaving Geoffery Noticed Him
Gave Him a Hug and Then gave Him a Drawing
I Have It Right Here
It's a 4
Surrounded By a Circle
of 8's
It Looks Like the Little Guy
Used Every Crayon In the Box
to make The Multicolor Four
and the Eights Are All Different Colors
I Have No Idea What That Means
To Us All But the Chosen Think
The Kids Got Powers
And I'm Running It By Everyone
Just In Case
Taryn Says Precognitives
Often See Confusing Visions
You Never Really Know
Even If You Happen to Be
Little Geoffery
We Will Continue To Broadcast on
This Frequency Every Thursday Night at 10pm
As Long As We Can
This Is The Voice of Harpers Ford
Signing Off
Twenty Fourth Broadcast Transmission Recorded October 1, 2009
Subject: TRANSMISSION 24
Date sent: 28 Oct 2009, 22:04 -0-500
This Is The Voice of Harper's Ford.
WKHF 104.9 Dave Dolan On The Air.
We Are Still Here.
For A Change I Have Some
Excellent News
This Morning Dante Informed Me
That the Levels of Plant Hostility
Coming In Through the Barrier
Has Dropped Significantly
For Those Of Us In Here
That Can Only Mean One Thing
You Heard Us
YaHoo!
Good Job Out There
Whoever You Are
We Appreciate Everything
You're Doing On Our Behalf
On A Personal Note
Someone Please Contact
My Brother Randy
His House Should Be
About 40 Feet Outside the Barrier
on Donner Street
Andy Says Please Contact
His Mom in Seattle
Granny Treibel Asks
If Someone Could Tell Her Uncle
Ralph Treibel in Santa Fe
That She Said
Has Mig Non Aben Coben
I Hope Her Uncle
Knows What To Make of That
We're All Looking Forward to
Taking This Barrier Down
So We Can ReJoin the World
And We Miss You All
Noone Has Come For Supplies
For Four Weeks
Two Days Ago the Music Stopped
Blaring In the Swamp
We're Not Really Sure
What to Make of That
Those Who Have Dared to Wander Close
Report What May Be Shouting and Screaming
The Last Time we Tried to
Contact the Commune Directly
We Lost 16 Men to Plants with
Peace Signs Painted On Them
So Everyone Hesitates To Go Anywhere
Near the Swamp
Taryn is Going to Get Authorization
To Send In a Havener Special Ops Team
to Check That Out
Im Not Sure If Theres
Anything Else We Can
Do About This For Now
We Will Continue To Broadcast on
This Frequency Every Thursday Night at 10pm
As Long As We Can
This Is The Voice of Harpers Ford
Signing Off
Twenty-fifth Broadcast Transmission recorded October 15, 2009
"This Is The Voice of Harper's Ford. WKHF 104.9 Dave Dolan On The Air. We Are Still Here.
I Have An Update on the Situation in LaGrange Swamp
Haven Sent in a Squad of 8 Special Ops Troops 2 Days Ago
We're Talking abt. Professional Soldiers with All the Best Tech Equipment that Haven Has to Offer
Taryn Told Me they Reported that They were Being Attacked and the Transmission Ended Abruptly. Needless to Say Haven was Alarmed. They Sent a Heavy Weapons Platoon to Investigate Immediatly.
These Troops were Also Attacked Mostly with Energy Weapons Fire.
They Sustained Heavy Losses but Came Back with Some Video of Whats Going On In The Swamp Including Some Taken by the Special Ops Squad BeforeThey Were Attacked.
In the Video we Can See13 Members of the Commune that Apparently are the Only Survivorsout of about 100 People who Lived in that Commune
Those 13 are Dressed in Yellow Robes and seem to Be Chanting Incantations Around a Large Glowing Ball
Taryn Tells Me that Haven Suspects this Glowing Ball is Some Sort of Transdimensional Portal
The Symbols on the Ball and The Yellow Robes Seemed Familiar to Me
I Checked with Granny Tribal and She Has Verified That the Symbols Are Those Used by Perologists in Ritual Magics
It Seems that the Perologists have had Agents Inside the Commune for the Last 20 Years
Who Would've Figured?
The Creatures Coming Through this Portal Look Like Someone Began Building human Beings without a Blueprint
They're Ugly They're Misshapen and Angry as a Hornets Nest
Frankly, If I Looked That Ugly I'd be Permanantly Pissed Off Too
They Wore Armour Had a Shield Technology and Attacked the Havener Troops with Energy Weapons
Haven Says Their Technology Seems Equal to Their Own
It's Obvious From the Videos That they Killed All the Hippies Except For their Agents
As Well As All the Animals and Plants at the Commune
We've Heard Rumors of These Creatures Moving to Attack Outlaying Farms
Frank Osman Says They've Been Lining Him up for an Attack for Days
Other Sources have Confirmed That the Home Guard has Suffered A Major Defeat in that Same Area
Taryn Says that These Others are Spoken of in Their Prophecy
So Far Haven Thinks They've Brought Several Thousand Troops Through the Portal
She Says Their Objective is Nothing Less than the Destruction of All Life Within the Barrier Excepting Their Own
This Is Part of Our Test
Haven Also Believes this May Foreshadow Another Faction Becoming Involved and they Havent Been Forthcoming in Naming that Faction
For Those of You Who Are Keeping Score
We've Got No Way Out
We're Soon to Be Outnumbered
We Have an Extinction Global Event
and If we fail the Whole Universe is Screwed
Eddy and I Are Drinking Heavily For Now
We Will Continue to Broadcast on this Frequency Every Thursday Night at 10pm as Long as We Can
This is the Voice of Harper's Ford Signing Off"
Twenty-sixth Broadcast Transmission Recorded October 22, 2009
"This Is The Voice of Harper's Ford
WKHF 104.9 Dave Dolan On The Air.
We Are Still Here.
Haven Contacted Frank Osmun Through Us
And Asked if He Would Accept Help From Them
To Repel This Threat Coming From the Swamp
His Answer Was Simple:
Damn Skippy!
Haven Has Sent a
Whole Battalion of Troops
to the Osmun Farm
According to the Authorities at Haven
Franks Farm is a Place Where you Can
Chooke the Enemies Access to
the Rest of Harpers Ford
Frank Says They've Moved In
And Are Already Helping
to Fortify the Farm
They Intend to Move In
Heavy Artillery
and Those Big Guns
are Capable of Reaching
the Edge of LaGrange Swamp
Frank has sent
All the Women and Children
From the Farm to Haven
Except Mrs.Osmun
He Says He Never Argues
with the Best Shot in the Family
Haven Troops Have Been Sent
to Collect the Other Farmers Out There
Frank is Asking that Any Farmers Out There
Head to the Osmun Farm with
any Tractors and Barbwire they Can Scrounge
Taryn Says The Chosen
are Very Impressed with Human Skills
at Preparing Nasty Receptions for Invaders
Haven Has Come Up With
A Coating
That Can Be Painted Onto Our Bullets
This Allows our Less Advanced Weapons
to Penetrate Force Shields
The Old Ford Looks Like
Something Out Of A World War 2 Movie
As it Has Become the Staging Area
for All Of Havens Troops Out In The Field
Here at the Station
We've Been Taking in Refugees
that Don't Want to Go to Haven
There Aren't A Lot Of Them
We Have a Couple of Families
Bunking with Us
Dante Is the Head Cook
Eddie is the Landlord
and I Am the Court Jester
We've Got a Company of Troops
Setting Up Our Defenses Here
If All Else Fails I Can Attempt
To Talk the Enemy to Death
Yeah-
I Know
It's a Terribly Cruel Thing to
Even Consider Doing
The Downtown Area
is Going to Be a Problem
The Home Guard Controls Harpers Ford
and We All Know Stettlers Feelings
about the Chosen
Taryn Says That the Haven Troops
Will Try to Defend the Town
but Being Shot at From Two Directions
Won't Help One Bit
They've Asked Me
To Try to Talk Some Sense
into Stettler on the CB
but I Doubt That will Pan Out
We're Doing the Best We Can
to Plan and Prepare
All we Can Do Now
is Finish our Preparations
and Wait
If Anyone Out There
Has A Prayer
They Can Spare
I Think We Could Use One
We Will Continue to Broadcast
on This Frequency
Every Thursday Night at 10pm
As Long As We Can
This Is The Voice of Harpers Ford.
Signing Off."
Twenty-seventh Broadcast Transmission
This Is The Voice of Harper's Ford
WKHF 104.9 Dave Dolan On The Air.
We Are Still Here.
We've Been Working On a Way to Gather Intelligence
about What's been Going On Inside the Swamp. We Lost
8 More Special Ops People in Order to Place Spotters
Within Range to watch What They're Doing In There.
The Chosen are Giving Us a Lesson In Civic Responsibility
These Days. We Have two Spotters In Place and They've
Got us Some Good Information.
The Commune has become a Military Beachhead and They've
Fortified the Crap Out of It. They have brought Approximatly
25 Hundred Troops In Through the Portal. They Have Some Vehicles.
Thankfully, They Don't have Anything Resembling Tanks
or Aircrafts So Far. We'll Take Any Silver Lining We Can Get.
We Lost Two Snipers Who Took Out a Few of the Perologists.
The Reasoning Was That Maybe That Might Halt Them from
Bringing In Any More Near-Men. That Didn't Work but We Had to Try.
Near-Men just Put on the Robes and the Process Continued.
We Can't Damage the Portal Because there is No Mechanism
to Damage. And yes- We Are Calling the Creatures Coming Through
the Portal Near-Men. We've Also Learned They Can Only
Use the Portal Once a Day At High Noon and they Can Only Bring Through
100 Troops at a Time. We're Hoping to Come Up with Ways to Disrupt
That Schedule.
We Have Confirmed Information that the Home Guard
has had Their Asses Kicked by the Near-Men on 4 Occassions.
This Has Led to a Debate In Our Alliance. It's been Suggested that
We Give the Projectile Coding that negates Force Shields to the Guard.
The Problem with That Is the Coding Also Negates Havener Shields.
It's been a Crazy Debate Because haven Is the Strongest Voice
Supporting This and Humans are the Most Vehemently Against it.
I'm Torn On this One It's Common Knowledge That I Am Not a Fan
of Colonel Jackass and the Guard or It's Intentions.
I Do Understand That Something That Sets the Near-Men Back
Helps Us. It Is Technically havens Gift to Give. I'm Glad
I Don't Have to Make this Decision.
I'll Let You Know What hat Decision Is
When It's Been Made.
Dante has been Out with Taryns Squad for Several Days
Now We Are Hoping His Skills with the Plants May Provide Us
with Additional Intellegence We Can Use. Dante Sent a Messenger
Back That Arrived Tonight. All SHe Said Was That They Found
Something That Dante Thinks I Need to See Right Away.
So I may Be Off On A Field Trip for a Few Days. Again-
We'll Fill You In On This As Soon As We Know Anything.
We Will Continue to Broadcast on This Frequency
Every Thursday Night at 10pm as Long as We Can.
This is the Voice of harpers Ford. Signing Off.
Twenty-eighth Broadcast Transmission
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This Is The Voice of Harper's Ford
WKHF 104.9 Dave Dolan On The Air.
We Are Still Here.
The Decision Has Been Made.
Two Days Ago the Home Guard
Found a Skit of the Haven Projectile Coding
at the End of Main Street Along with a Letter
Explaining What It Does
Home Guard Chatter On the CB Indicates
They Will Be Using It
Let's Just Hope That Fucks Up the Near-Mens Plans
Right After Last Weeks Broadcast I Left With
One of Taryns Squadmates to Hook Up with Dante and
Taryn and Take a Look at What They Wanted Me to See
We Took a Left Off the Main Road to Town
Onto Green Tree Road. Green tree Road Goes Out Past
Four or Five Houses Then Turns Into A Dirt Road About
a Half a Mile Past the Old Mott Farm.
After Another Mile the Road Ends at a Turnaround
I Always Thought That Was It
Trayn and Dante Met Me at the Turnaround
We Walked About Three Miles North from There
on a Deer Trail and came Upon Another Paved Road
That Again Ended in What Looked Like a Deer Trail
Five Miles Later We Came To A US Government
No Tresspassing Sign On a Fence
It Seemed To Be a Military Installation
and I Don't Think Anyone In the Area Knew About It
We Found a Skeleton in Fatigues
in the Guard Shack At the Gate
I'd Say the Soldier Died a Few Years Ago
We Were Glad To Have Dante With Us
Because That Facility Had the Worst
Infestation of Anaconda Vines and Two-Step Heather
That Any of Us Had Ever Seen
During the Course of Looking Around
We Found Around 80 Bodies
The Fence Sign Said US Government On It
There Were No Name Tags On Any of the Fatigues
I Didn't Recognize the Insignias
On Their Shoulders Or On The Buildings
All I Can Tell You Is the Letters CF Are In It
The Buildings Were Made With What Appear to Be
Plastic and Ceramics
None of Us Have Ever Seen Buildings Like These
Bullets Won't Dent the Windows
I Know Because I Tried
There Are About 20 of What Appear
To Be Computer Terminals in the Main Building
The Sidearms on the 80 Bodies Were Energy Weapons
There Were Also About 100 Energy Rifles and
Power Packs and Appears To Be What Was an Armory
Taryns People Tell Me This Technology
in This Installation Seems Comparable to
Haven Or Near-Men Technology
But Some of It Seems More Advanced
Than Either of Those
Outside the Main Offices Someone Spent a Good Deal
of Time Burning Documents
A Building In the Back Contained
a Hatch In the Ground
It's About 200 Feet in Diameter
We Found an Elevator That Took Us Down
There Is a Security Door Down There That
We Can't Open So Far
The Small Window In That Door Allowed Us To See
A Room Beyond
The Large Viewscreen in That Room Provided the
Biggest Shock Of All
It's A Missle Silo
While I Am No Expert It Looks Like
A Fully Functional ICBM In There
We Are Not Pleased.
Haven Is Going To Send Some of Their Technicians
To See If They Can Find Anything Out
I'm Sending Eddie There
To Provide a Human Geek Perspective
Whoever These CF Fuckers Are
They Left Us A Stinking Pile of Crap to Deal With
We Will Continue to Broadcast on this Frequency
Every Thursday Night at 10pm as Long as We Can.
This is the Voice of Harper's Ford. Signing Off.
Twenty-nineth Broadcast Transmission Recorded November 12, 2009
This Is The Voice of Harper's Ford
WKHF 104.9 Dave Dolan On The Air.
We Are Still Here.
Well We Had One of Those
Out of the Mouths of Babes Moments
and It Worked Out Very Well for Us
We've Never Been Able to Approach
the Swamp from the West
There's a Large Open Field thats Always
Full of Herds of Lizzies so
We've Avoided That Like the Plague
Dante and the Kids Staying with Mrs.McDun at
the High School Came Up with a Plan
They Even Provided Us with Fireworks They'd
Been Saving for the Fourth of July
We Use the Fireworks to Stampede the Lizzies
Directly Towards the Swamp
Couldn't Have Worked Out Any Better
if We Had Scripted It
About 2500 Lizzies Took Off at 20mph
On a Beeline for the Center of the Swamp
The Near-Men are Relative Newbies to
the World Inside the Barrier
so They Paused When They Saw A Dust Cloud
Headed Towards Them
By the Time
They Realized What Was Coming
It Was Already Too Late
At Range the Near-Men Tried Headshots
We Know from Doc Bosswick and Mrs McDunner
That the Lizzies Don't Have a Brain In Their Heads
Literally
And Only One Shot From Any Hand Weapon
will Do Nothing but Further Enrage Them.
To Their Credit
the Near-Men Don't Retreat
But That Worked In Our Favor
The Lizzies Whipped Through the Camp
Like a Herd of Cats In a Tuna Factory
Our Spotters Estimate
the Near-Men Casualties
at Around 28%
They Estimate the Damage to
Fortifications and Buildings to Around 40%
We Timed the Stampede for
a Few Moments Before Noon
and the New Troops Coming Through the Portal
Were Almost a Total Loss
Our Spotters Also Report
that the Near-Men Killed Their
Seriously Wounded Without Pause
Nice Folks
If They Have a Timetable
I Think This Operation Put a Crimp In It
It's Even Possible They Aren't Even
Aware That We Caused This
Eddie Sent His Last Bag of Gummie Bears
Over To the High School and
I Couldn't Agree with Him More
We Will Continue to Broadcast on This Frequency
Every Thursday Night at 10pm as Long as We Can.
This is the Voice of Harpers Ford. Signing Off.
Thirtieth Broadcast Transmission Recorded November 19, 2009
"This is the voice of Harper’s Ford WKHF 104.9. Dave Dolan on the air - we are still here. On Tuesday morning, we received a frantic, almost hysterical message from Mrs. McDunna at the high school. Taren and her squad, Eddie, and I went there immediately to find out what was going on. After we got Helen calmed down, she told us that the school had been taken over in the early morning hours by fifteen armed men in masks. We haven’t kept guards at the school, because it overlaps into the area controlled by the home guard. The men took the place easily and herded everyone into the gym. As it turns out, they were only interested in one of the kids, Kevin Sharp. Eddie knows the kid; Kevin is one of Eddie’s teenage, geeky computer kids. His dad, Glen, was in Tacoma for a technology expo when the barrier went up. Taren sent out her squad to see if we could pick up a trail. They found the trail, and we headed out following them. Not log after, we got a message that the Haven techs at the nuke site had been overrun. Several techs had been killed, and the main building had been taken. It became obvious that the same group that had grabbed the kid had done this. We were closest, so we hurried there. When we arrived, they were demanding to speak to someone in authority. Taren offered to speak, as an officer in the Haven military. The man who came out was not wearing a mask, and introduced himself as Foundation Agent Driscoll. I know just about everyone in the Harper’s Ford area, and I’ve never seen this guy before. He demanded that we vacate the facility immediately. He wouldn’t answer any questions about this “Foundation.” When it became apparent we weren’t going anywhere, he invoked something he called “Security Protocol 866.” To shorten the tirade, it pretty much gives him the right to do just about anything he wants in order – to establish order. When Taren asked him about the boy, he had him brought out. Kevin looked like someone had done a boot dance on his face, and we saw cigarette burns on his hands and arms. Driscoll then told us to be gone in 15 minutes, or he would kill the boy. In all my dealings with Haven and the Chosen, I’ve never seen a Havener get angry. I’ve come to know Taren as a sweetheart, with a deep and abiding respect for life of any kind. But as we returned to cover, her face took on a kind of terrible beauty. She told her squad to open fire on the building in 8 minutes. She then took off her body armor, took a sidearm and a longblade from her gear, and disappeared into the shadows. Four minutes after the suppressing fire began, two men came running out of the front door of the building. I don’t pretend to understand what happens when the Chosen go into that stuttered, image-acceleration thing they do, and I certainly don’t have words to describe what happened to those men. Their blood was spattered on the ground and everything around them before they got three steps outside the door. I put my arms around Taren as she collapsed and began to sob. Taren can kick ass with the best of them, but she still believes in the sanctity of all life. We found what was left of 12 men inside that building. There was no sign of Driscoll, and we haven’t found a trail leading away from there. Young Kevin was unconscious, but alive. We’re hoping to find out why Driscoll snagged him, for what purpose, when he comes around. I recognized a few of the men, and their uniforms and gear were Home Guard. Haven has sent troops to protect the facility. I don’t know about this “Foundation,” but the last people we want with a nuke would be Stettler and the Guard. I don’t like the smell of this, and I’m really looking forward to a long conversation with Kevin. We’ll continue to broadcast on this frequency every Thursday night at 10 P.M. as long as we can. This is the voice of Harper’s Ford, signing off."
Thirty-first Broadcast Transmission Recorded November 26, 2009
Has not been transcribed yet.