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You instruct CAIN to turn on the Variac Drive to shift you into null-space and to re-engage the Drive as soon as you have finished inputting the navigational co-ordinates for the Timehole on Earth in the Jurassic age. Your scalp tingles slightly as the Time Machine moves out of phase, and everything around you seems grey and insubstantial. You know that should you turn on the outside camera the screen would remain blank, not even blackness exists in null-space. You cast your thoughts into the void and, using your Psychic Awareness, locate the Timehole on Earth. When you have translated this location into co-ordinates for CAIN, the Variac Drive engages once more. The process of re-emerging in real time is immediate, but seems to take about an hour for you. You may spend this time in the Autodoc, if you wish and gain up to 12 Endurance points.

You activate the camera which shows that you have landed in a tropical rain forest, full of giant ferns and primitive fir trees, weighed down with cones. Falcon's Wing settles gently into soft ooze and the holo-projector casts the image of a clump of ferns around the Time Machine. A great swampy lake stretches into the distance ahead. You cannot see any visual evidence of Speke but if his machine is disguised like yours, you realise that the only way of finding it, if it is here, is to take the holo-detector outside. Do you: