Nomadic:Sessions:20180519

Marcus suggests phoning Adam Nicholson, the agent whose failure to report in had brought the group here. Vincente gets a recording and leaves a message, "This is regarding Enigma. Call me back." We decide to evaluate the new situation.

Valerie walks toward her hypercycle and gets a flashback to when she touched the capstone on Malachi Johnson's grave marker. Time swirls around her, seconds tick by, and she gains Absolute Timing. She senses the power of the ghosts still. There's a capstone in the Navigator.

Vincente finds that we had checked in to a hotel on Sunday afternoon for five days. He finds that Adam had stayed there but had checked out. Rick says there is "massive spiritual energy" in Bodie that he didn't pick up yesterday. Lynwood White, listed as a consultant/troubleshooter for Veritas' CEO, is presently in Bodie. The CEO is named Jamison Rudolph Dean, who in the "other" timeline had been head of operations.

We drive to the riverbank where we had discovered Adam's corpse. The area is now a public park, with Adam's burial spot under a monument at the very center. Vincente casts Sense Spirit and gets massive feedback, with thousands of spirits, including Adam's, streaming toward Bodie. Marcus suggests asking the ghosts about Bodie. Vincente approaches a young couple, Elton and Betsy Brice, who tell him they died in a traffic accident. "Why aren't you in Bodie?" Some force is pulling them towards Bodie, but "we can't leave until we know our child is okay." This park is a "transit point" on the way to Bodie. "Should we resist? Will something bad happen?" Betsy's mother, Tamith Hairson, who lives in Albany NY, is having trouble coming up with the money to fly to California. Vincente phones her and transfers her ample funds to come pick up the Brices' child from CPS.

Vincente notes that the statue of Nathaniel Barber (a politician who died fifty years ago) is "wavering" with movement-aspected magic, as is the spot where he had found the tiki torches.