Mission objective: Locate a missing team, Trent Bullock, Dr Andrew Gibson, Rebecca Ellen Kelsey who are investigating biology in Afghanistan on Earth 2. Local Earth 1 contact is lance corporal Riggs. Team were given coordinates to the broken room in a cave near Kokcha river in Badakshan province, Afghanistan.

While travelling to the room in an armoured transport the team experienced a bright flash and passed out. They regained conscious lying on a salt plain with no sign of the armoured transport. They report having a bad feeling from a forest in the distance and chose to walk away from forest. After several hours of walking they saw a beach and sea in the distance. As they approached large piles of debris could be seen on the shoreline. Everything from trains to iPads. Some looked random, some looked deliberately arranged. Gunfire was heard in the distance and something large and dark seen. The team laid low until it moved away.

The team met an Afgan child called Sensi who knew Jack who said they were on the reef. [This with the description would confirm somehow they had appeared on Earth 13] Sensi said the reef was the beginning and the end where peoples dreams become reality and he was an exile from a previous convergence. [Interesting. Does this imply previous divergence events with a subsequent convergence? A mission to find and question this Sensi further would be prudent. Note also the implication that this variant of Sensi knew Jack so has been to Earth 1] He also said a malevolent would detect them soon and the team must have experienced a life threatening event on Earth 1 to get here. He said everyone would need to give up a memory as a price to use a nearby broken room to leave. The room was on a train carriage on the top of the reef. [Description has been added to database for further investigation] Jaroslaw used his opener meridian ability to ease the friction slightly for the group.

The room cycled and the group appeared in a dark cave but were badly affected by the friction travelling up to Earth 2. They climbed to the surface. The area was suffering regular earth tremors. Jack found tracks leading away from the cave which they followed. The tracks were actually left by 2 tigers who attacked when the group came across them. Both were killed but Brian was injured. They returned to cave where Brian found another trail which eventually lead to a camp in a clearing. Three dogs that were scavenging had to be killed to secure the area.

Some spent rifle cases, blood and a scorched tear gas canister were found. There was also signs of several bodies having been dragged from the camp. The trail was followed to some vehicle tracks which in turn lead to a raging river. A rickety wooden bridge crossed the river which looked unsafe to pedestrians let alone a vehicle. Brian tried crossing the bridge but was chased back by bats.

The group went upriver for half an hour and found rapids where it was possible to cross using the rocks. They were attacked by salmon which tried to knock them into the river but managed to cross without a major incident.

They then returned back downstream to the bridge and found the vehicle tracks continuing which lead eventually to a road. Following the road led to a gas station. One figure was sitting outside in a van and lights were on inside. Jack detected a monarch wireless network signal nearby. Jack covered as the other two crept up.

Brian opened the back door. There was two men and a woman. He aimed his crossbow at them and shouted nobody move. That just caused them to reach for weapons. After a brief gunfight the woman was dead and the two men surrendered. Jack had also killed the individual in the van. The van was searched and there was evidence three people had been tied up in the van. The survivors refused to talk until Jack killed one. The other then confessed they had captured the missing team and shipped them to Earth 11 for indoctrination. He also admitted to being a member of monarch and said a convergence was due in 2015. His name was Felix Crawford from Earth 2. There was a broken room somewhere round the petrol station which was due to cycle in 6 days. The group narrowly escaped a pack of wolves attracted by the gunfire and fled in the van.

While heading back to the cave they rescued a pregnant woman who had been abandoned by a caravan. She was given the van once they reached the cave. A bear had moved in and had to be killed before the room was used. Felix was brought back to Earth 1. After many hours hiking they returned to the point where the original incident with the armoured transport had occurred. It had been hit with an IED and there were half a dozen bodies scattered around. Anything useful had been removed from the scene.

While attempting to hike back to civilisation they were captured by insurgents. Felix had collapsed and was left for dead. They were taken and left tied up and blindfolded in a cave, though they all managed to free themselves quickly from their bindings. Jaroslaw crept up and killed the guard outside the cave as they had failed to find his pistol when the group had been searched. Two more insurgents were killed in the escape from the caves. They also rescued an American aid worker called Gideon who the insurgents had captured and were torturing.

Outside two more of the insurgents were killed in the process of stealing a truck. Two trucks gave chase but Jack shot both drivers causing them to crash. On arriving back at the base they reported in. Several menders had to be flown in to patch them up. Gideon was found to be a nearsider with the mending ability and was recruited to help on the mission. A broken room direct to Earth 11 was traced locally. The room was in mid air and a parachute jump was required to use it. A cave was found to sleep overnight. During the night several ghosts appeared in the cave which Gideon found particularly disturbing.

In the morning a car was flagged down and a lift to the nearby town was offered. On approaching the town the car was stopped at a checkpoint. Jack and Brian ended up fighting the guards. Jack killed one and the other was left tied up in their hut. The old lady providing the lift was tied up in the boot. The gas station at the location of the one on Earth 2 was found. Conversations with the attendant revealed several individuals matching the description of the missing team had been taken to the peacekeepers at the local church. He kept praising 'the lord' instead of 'the one. [This would suggest he was not a native of Earth 11 and therefore a monarch operative] There was a service in progress at the church. Brian caused a diversion by accusing one of the worshippers of blasphemy and Jaroslaw broke into one of the special confessionals near the altar. A quick search revealed the chair in the centre of the room could lower into the floor at the push of a button. Below was another room and there was a voice saying 'prepare for another'.

Two individuals in lab coats were quickly overpowered and knocked unconscious. Wearing some of the lab coats the team advanced down a corridor to a door at the end beyond which was a laboratory. Gibson was strapped to a chair and drugged. There were four more technicians in the lab who mostly ignored the team. Jaroslaw and Gideon crossed the lab to a door marked checkpoint. Beyond was a corridor with two guards by a door at the far end. They shot the guards but not before one opened fire wounding Gideon. Bullock and Kelsey were drugged in the room beyond. A siren started sounding and a radio on one of the guards started beeping. Gideon spoke to someone over the radio and convinced them it was a false alarm.

Everyone was taken to a loading bay where there was an ambulance. A guard was in a kiosk by the exit. When Brian tried to creep up on him he sounded an alarm and a barrier started to descend. Brian tried to stop it descending but just got his foot caught underneath. Jaroslaw killed the guard then released the barrier. The team then made their escape in the ambulance.

They searched and found a room to Earth 1. Unfortunately it was a locker in a burned out school big enough for one traveller and cycled every 17 days. Jaroslaw was unsuccessful in enlarging the room and the attempts caused it to collapse completely. Another room to Earth 1 was found about 100km away across the desert. It was an APC which had been destroyed by a drone strike. There were ghosts around it. Brian started acting strangely and dug some graves. Each grave caused a ghost to disappear when a body was put into it. The room was due to cycle in ten hours but Jaroslaw reduced it to 5. Back on Earth 1 Jack called in and a chopper was sent to recover the team.