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SHAFT 00 · SURFACE · HEADFRAME

HIGGSBOSON

$HIGGSBOSON — mine the particle that gives everything mass.

Move to bend the field. Click to strike.

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STRATUM 01

FIELD REPORT

−120 m

entry 001Deep beneath the Large Hadron Collider runs a vein nobody admits exists.

entry 002Raw Higgs Ore. The literal stuff mass is made of.

entry 003We cracked it open. Bottled the God particle.

entry 004Put a ticker on gravity itself.

entry 005Hold $HIGGSBOSON. Hold the reason anything weighs anything at all.

— The Prospector, shift log. Struck mass.

Specimen
Higgs Ore, raw
Found
Under the ring. Way under.
Glow
From the inside. Always.
Handling
Heavy. Then heavier.
Ticker
$HIGGSBOSON
STRATUM 02

THE DIG

−480 m

The wall is live. Swing at the glow, crack the ore loose, let Cart-9 catch it. Every unit you haul makes this page heavier. Hold to keep swinging.

CART-9 //Standing by. Wall is warm. Swing when ready.
YOUR HAUL0.0units

Your haul lives in this tab only. It is a dig, not a balance.

STRATUM 03

WEIGH STATION

−910 m
—Higgs units

CART-9: Scale zeroed. Feed it something.

STRATUM 04

CREW MANIFEST

−1400 m
The Prospector, a cartoon miner in a cracked hazmat suit holding a crackling pickaxe

PERSONNEL FILE · 001

THE PROSPECTOR

  • RoleMiner. Physicist. Mostly miner.
  • SuitHazmat, cracked. Still counts.
  • ToolPickaxe. Crackles with static.
  • LightHeadlamp, pointed at the veins.

"Ore's hot. Hold tight."

Cart-9, a rusty minecart heaped with glowing violet and gold ore

PERSONNEL FILE · 009

CART-9

  • RoleHauler. Announcer. Scale.
  • BodyRust, rivets, one good wheel.
  • LoadGlowing Higgs Ore, heaped.
  • SpeechNumbers. Fast. Deadpan.

"Clean strike. Purity: alarming."

STRATUM 05

ASSAY SLIP

−2200 m

NameHiggs Boson

Ticker$HIGGSBOSON

CA

Signed at the bottom of the shaft. Struck mass.

The Prospector raising a fist beside Cart-9, ore chips flying off a gold burst
Strike the ore. Bottle the God. Hold the weight.