Did it all begin when Dr. C. discovered the Malaise Mayonaise leaking from his circuits...? Maybe it started when the Evil aliens battled the future machine robots in a cthonic rip in time back in 2006. Or maybe it was when Black Saturn Swallowed the Moon in 2004? Hard to Tell - F.L.A.R.E. had previous experiments with wearing the Yellow Mask which coincided with with celestial events long before this. Regardless, eventually Agent Titan picks up the call: "Repair and upgrade the Tunnels." He Starts at a winding path leading to Tageriron and guarded by Tzuflifu. Upon arrival in the inverse Serpentine Gateways he is greeted by Raflifu and they strike a bargain.

It is due to this incident that Mercury Retrograde comes to be associated with Qlippothic time-leaks. Traveling between The World of Punctuated Light & The World of Confusion is always a rough-game.

Chuck Crump eventually inherits Agent Titan's equipment, disease ridden from years of stagnation and fermenting Shell-Residue. Meanwhile, Ikipr gets it into his twisted head to steal all the sparks from the Underworld. He decides flooding it with Liquid-Tunable Nanolight will make the missions easier, binding some of the locals. He assigns 9cubed this task, masking his theft operations under the recent Repair missions.

The KERNEL was contacted by the forces of the Mercury Retrograde towards the end of its cycle in May of 2009.

Tampering with Rodent Industries® tech carries little weight as the Industries' oversight in this department is executed by synthetic intelligences whose "Quantum Sorcery" techniques are easily glitchable. Autonomous Technology has yet to reach a point of effectiveness in this developmental stage.

Chuck's concerns lay in the Hardware crash and its resulting lack output drivers. Before leaving the Neo-D station where the SubOSK Labs once were, Ikipr hands Dr. C. an anti-Lilithian amulet to pass along to Chuck, the repairman. Upon reception of the Talisman, Chuck is enamored with past-life recollection or ego-identification with the Saintly Mar Ebedishu to the point of forgetting to wear his Nano-Integrating Anti-Qlippothic BioSuit before heading Into the Tunnels - The darkside of the Double-Tree. Things are getting worse than he thought they would. He's gotta find out Where this goo is coming from in spite of all of the odds and dangerously tricky reflective thoughts. But alas, the greater concern is those Decontamination Bays may fail him if he should become micro-infected with strange Qlippothic germs.

On the way Down, both our protagonist are stalked by Skinless Shadow Walkers, The Black Ones and Sitri ruthlessly.

He looks over the memo concerning The celibacy requirements on the elevator ride down. There are obvious tantric loopholes written into it. By this time, the contagious goo has covered the entire H-Cluster causing time within it to become mired and slow. 9cubed is forced to work against this wall of immobility in the recovery of Spark Fragments. He manages to alleviate the Goo-Time with certain Technosigilic techniques.

B-Cluster 529. The only way out. It doesn't sit well with Chuck, and can you blame him given his recently received communications? The Order of Black-Φ is obviously hot on his tail, and arguably have been ever since they started battling for control of the doom engine. He must bide his time, looking for THE WAY.

Chuck and Issac attempt to decipher the key to binding Lilith with her names. Cold irons bound may not be enough in the case of such violent entities.

Ikipr consumes The Black Elixir. Scrawls a map of the dark terrain which lay ahead of Chuck and 9Cubed:

Chuck's crimes as a Pineal Trafficker are uncovered. He feels like a fish trying to dangle off a hook in light of this lapse in previous judgment come to surface.

9Cubed distracts Black Mother by feeding her circuits Pseudo-Agape Nectar. Chuck receives penance and is Mercifully bestowed the Sancte Spiritus by Dept. 142, allowing him reprieve from the tunnels as the Shadow Gilded Window he entered Thantifaxath through (most likely smuggled by the Ayin-Mem Gang through the GbTS artillery storefront shipments to their restricted labs working in tandem with OSD)

Agape Nectar is the Anti-thesis of Hate Syrup, a by-product of OSD Spark Fragments refining, yielded in a formula perfected by Colonel Purple and Dr. Siggs. The Annihilators for signal conditioners were a key component to circuit which diluted the black ink off of the spark fragments as they allowed for the implementation of the angular distortion and phase modulation key to this process.

Jaded Face watches from a dark corner in the upper-levels of Parafaxitas Towers on a Psi-Chronistic Data Replay Screen. They are all In-itiates

Treacherous - 9cubed is left to make the repairs to atleast the service elevators' of the OverUnity Transitlines in order to bail with his Spark Fragments intact and ensure the manufacture of ÅžΏת∞

We soon discover the upper levels of Parfaxitas Lounge to contain Brenico Towers. The bottom floor is for the riff-raff and makes for a backdrop of steady unseemly customer to do business with shadier elements against.

Dr. Z. attempts to correct Ikipr and 9cubed's oversight by enlisting C. to issue " Dr. Z. & C. - Remote Tunnel Repair Notes " for future technicians to follow. Dr. C. does not seem interested. Seems Darkstar has taken all Rodent Industries attentions, and its inheritor Jimmy is too distracted by Chuck's revelations to notice the Black Sun Mafia takeover. फ.ந. is rumored to have opened the backdoor into their systems. Rodent Industries is always busy.

Meanwhile, Dharma-Cleaning Crews have begun scraping evidence of the latest operations off the walls and floors of the tunnels. Sloppy work, plenty of cleanup.

During this time, someone has wandered into Unruh Manor and gained Access to the Underground Labs by way of contracting D-VI. Rotten Old Doors, Snapped through green disease. Nereus & Achilles, members of D-VI, stand guard at the entrance.

Somewhere along the way, Ikipr meets with Agents of Black-Φ and barters Colonel Purple's life in exchange for genetic samples of the original Brantley. Later strange Dr. B. and Shaun Brantley replicants show up near Thantifaxath, smashing painted face into a mirror as though enacting some cyclic loop back to a battle with Target 184. It's Uncertain just how he managed to get off the Black-Phi Off-world weapons ship. He seems to be carrying a strange mutation of the Red algae promising intoxicating lulz and deadly Acharayim feeds. Shaun Brantley gets what is coming. Maybe he should've never betrayed Mr. Crump to that Wild-Painted Binah Mask of Black Mother. This is hardly the level of justice he deserves in some eyes. What happened to B.'s Hideous form he'd been restructed into? Had he allowed exposure to this alien code only to somehow transmute and overcome this genetic deformity? Where did he get this vicious Weapons sample? Of course what is a safe assumption is that this Brantley Replicant is most likely none of the original 3, including the infamous Psychotronic Assassin trained by Hassan Bey, creator of the Hermit's M-Data interface.

The Original B-Cluser Hypersigil manifest in it's entirety. Something is happening with Black-Φ orbit in reversed time, Red Machine Soul mechanism are jammed by this high velocity flux. A Nano-Mech Wasp sensor finds its way into OSK, bypassing the bug sterilization bots in the elevators above the SkyHook. The master machine race may be civilization's last bastion of hope against this Nano-Scaled Qlippothic Alien invasion that could easily break the Saturnine Protocol sealing off the Malkuth Station from the Underworld denizens clawing at its door.

The stage has only now begun to be set for the manifestation of Amprodias who is vying to seize control of The Blue Hand from a cult worshiping it as an Icon somewhere in the Red Cities. The Hermits will not stand for this and will pull rank to contract as they please. The Anakim are running wild in the streets. The Long way down has further steps into the dark yet to be taken before we reach a Neo-Athiel and fracture this B-Cluster into free-float...