Message:Instrument (21): Bugout – The active call sign granting authorization for immediate response to your position by a PT Ambulance Boat. May have diminished capacity underground, but the land itself is rather well crisscrossed by rivers. They’ll get to you and render critical care. Mystic Heal
Instrument (22): Call Forwarding – Radio telephone connection to the basement at the Charles F. Murphy construction site in DC where the future FBI Headquarters is located. The agent answering will be quickly cut-off while saying “The Truth is Out There.” Mystic Fortune
Instrument (23): Catholic Rosary – This one seems lost by a French missionary; what may not be clear is that missionary dropped the artifact in the seventeen hundreds. If you are playing this in conjunction with other Demon Hunter games as Time Travel, you probably knew the cleric (or are him). Mystic Heal
Instrument (24): Dead Reporter’s Recorder – A replay of the thoughts of a tragic correspondent. His personal diary while embedded in an anti-demonic unit is insightful and impactful. Claim these memoirs at mission’s end and retire with a bestseller (if you survive MJ-12 retaliation). Mystic Guidance
Instrument (25): Field Guide to Butterflies – The cover conceals a set of instructions for torture techniques used by the forces of evil upon their victims; presumably, this manual in Quoc-ngu has been used by other nefarious human agents on political dissidents since the Portuguese created that modified alphabet in the sixteen hundreds. Mystic Fury
Instrument (26): Fieser BBQ – An active call sign requesting air support with authority for a Napalm drop. Warning, sticks to kids. The petroleum fumes smell like victory. Mystic Ward Smell
Instrument (27): Flogger – Codeword authority for Soviet MiG stealth fighter intercept and ground strike. Use with caution as some believe that after the ousting of Khrushchev in 1964, Kosygin was a corrupted agent of the netherlings. Say it isn’t so, Jolting Joe. Mystic Fortune
Instrument (28): Ho Chi Min Trail Mix – A blend of seven herbs and poppy laced spices that would leave the Colonel begging for more gum. Comes with a code word written on the bag that might allow safe passage through NVA militia and regulars. Ref decides. Mystic Ward Taste
Instrument (29): Jolly Green Giant – A gunship as well as a large helicopter transport, this call sign and authorization is đi đi mau via dustoff back to a MASH. Yes, they were there. One unit during a nine-month period, recorded over a thousand surgical cases performed at a 60-bed facility. Mystic Heal
Instrument (30): Katana – Left over from the occupation by Imperial Japan, this one surely has dragon blood in the etching. The sword was forged around 700 BC, yet has English words “No one lives forever” barely legible under the demon’s blood. Mystic Fury
Instrument (31): Ktav Ashuri – An Uzi inscribed with sacred symbols of protection. The lettering glows, very cool huh? Mystic Fury
Instrument (32): LBJ’s Bugspray – A Flit of Agent Orange, just the right amount to cause grief to receiver which often is a friendly. Healthy nerve endings are for wussies. Mystic Ward Touch
Instrument (33): Leary Pharmacology – Is he dead or outside looking in? If you need to ask what this is, you did not live through the sixties. Go ask your momma, Alice. Mystic Ward Sight
Instrument (34): Montagnards’ Crossbow – The weapon of choice of an indigenous tribe of elder origin; those aboriginal people have been fighting demons since the first age of man. Mystic Catbird
Instrument (35): Peacenik DL – Direct line contact with hippy provocateurs and anarchists who will arrange for your firefight to receive the full frontal force of a propaganda leaflet drop. Damn, those things are great at causing normal soldiers and evil alike to halt and mutter WTF?!? Mystic Catbird
Instrument (36): Redlegs – The call sign and authorization for Artillery strike. These barrages tend to be accurately aimed and devastating but only in the moment before further validation is requested. It’s a one and done from the Marine Howitzers. If only all the forces in country could be made to believe and brought to bear. If only? Mystic Fortune
Instrument (37): Roger, Wilco – Vintage WW2 rusted Walkie-Talkie issuing static, until it suddenly has phantom messages or jumbled word salad. Spooky. Mystic Ward Sound
Instrument (38): Roswell Codex – Brief access to the alien satellites orbiting geosynchronous with relay to covert moon base alpha. Also deciphers NESTOR, TSEC, KW, U.S. Navy fleet broadcasts…Duh. Mystic Catbird
Instrument (39): Sgt Rock Comic – This one was contracted by the US Military as a set of instructions to new draftees on what to expect in the Army MEPS. In downtime, laugh about the lies you were told by your military recruiters; in battle get mean. Mystic Fury
Instrument (40): Summer of Love Beads – Groovy. Mystic Guidance
Yours,
IronRed
29-Jun-2021