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AIT-UB's Yakutia Study Uncovers Ruse
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| Tarquin Lubsen, Toghril, Firoozeh Parchni, Dan Cardona, Möngke,
Elan Stewart, and the Black Tongue form this year's East Yakutia Study
Unit, which is sponsored by AIT-Ulan Bator. Their multi-faceted mission
has kept them in eastern Yakutia and western Magadan since last autumn.
There, they've deployed a host of native-run geological, meteorological,
zoological, and ethnological teams in hopes of completing a decades-long
analysis of one of the world's most complex and troubled ecosystems. In
the process of putting together their summary, they have stumbled upon
a local controversy similar to the "Weeping Lion" fraud surrounding
the Asiatic Lion Kingdom. It appears that the local Yakutian Ecohunt Adventures
organization, which owns a network of plush "adventure lodges,"
has been attracting its clientele with robotic facsimiles of the legendary
Siberian Tiger. "It's a tawdry saga of gambling, duplicity, mayhem,
and murder," said the Black Tongue. "I don't know where this
will all go. I just hope the local economy can survive this mess."
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