A sudden breeze carried away a good portion of the fog that wafted from the opening pod, it's gear and hinges grinding in protest after being still for so many centuries. Excruciatingly slow, the hatch lifted to reveal what lay within. The interior of the pod was as pristine as the outside was ancient and corroded, the walls a sterile, shockingly white color that simply did not exist in the natural world. Panels of what looked like black glass recessed into the interior walls of the pod. Suddenly, they simultaneously flickered alive with with light. Text of some ancient language were displayed upon them. To the eyes of one unaccustomed with the sort of technology the mysterious egg like container was made from, it was as if the writing on a sheet of parchment was<span style="font-style: italic">moving</span>! These seemingly magical tablets of glass were surrounded by more odd symbols that nobody had seen in an age, let alone read.<br/><br/>Situated at the center of the now open pod, which must have been a good ten feet in circumference, was looked like another container. Resembling a tall rectangular funeral casket stood on end, the clearing fog revealed it to be covered in more of the magic tablets, which soon flickered to life as well. Bundles strange hollow tubes fed into this stark white monolith. Some were black, some were wrapped in what looked like fabric made from woven wires thin as a hair! Some were even clear, like glass, but they were flexible. Upon one of the glass tablets affixed to the white box was something a little more recognizable... a symbol resembling a person's body. It was basic, no tail or ears, lacking any features other than the symbols and text placed around it, and at the moment was<a class="postlink" href="http://www.clker.com/cliparts/v/9/o/L/b/m/blue-man-1-md.png">colored blue</a>. This blue person flashed on and off a couple of times, each flash accompanied by a soft<span style="font-style: italic">"beeep! beeep!"</span><br/><br/>This happened twice more before all of the tablets seemed to go wild. The strange text seemed to fly across them, symbols flashed in every color imaginable, red, green, blue, yellow, white... The whole pod seemed to shudder, loose dirt and lichen falling from the outer surface. There was another sound, this one like water or some other liquid being flushed... A clear liquid suddenly sprayed out of the bottom of the pod every which-way, so cold that it burned like fire! This strange substance seemed to boil on contact which the grassy ground, turning into an icy fog which once again obscured the view of the pod. Everything it touched was left in a thin coat of frost. Until this frosty liquid melted away, it may be best to keep a safe distance...