The only thing the team can do is use Sandy's emergency telephone number and give the code:

This is Global Imports, how may I direct your call?

Green Knight, this is the Lady of the Lake. My horse has thrown a shoe?

Thank you Mr Lake, please remain where you are and one of our account managers will be in touch directly.

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Until now our players have never met anyone from the wider IMF organisation, but rapidly teams of staff in blue uniforms begin to arrive. Security first, then medical, then

scientists with handheld scanners and clipboards. They check over the house, administer First Aid, clear bodies and throw around a lot of techno-babble and strange idioms. Players are scanned, questioned and asked to stay where they are as an Operations Base is being set up in the dining room.

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Gathering everyone together at 1am, the Security Commander lays out in a matter-of-fact way that their initial investigation suggests that Stepanov used ‘a variation on the de Marigney method’ to remove the diamond from the current timestream. Luckily, this

isn’t the first time the IMF have had to deal with ‘dimensional concealment’ and have an expert team who will be arriving in the morning to continue the mission. He asks the current team to please stay overnight so they

can help brief the new team tomorrow and suggest they all now get some sleep.