The Odyssey: Alien Dodecahedron

Two Ivy-pals journey to Egypt to investigate paranormal alien reports and may uncover a 'chess' drawn 'human dream' about Earth-world distances.

A fantasy-tale of archaeological odyssey in Cairo-lore and for youthful humility inspired loosely by Gods of Egypt (Alex Proyas). Enjoy, 

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Amlan/Raki had graduated from Dartmouth and headed to Cairo to investigate a strange report about an alien female presence inside one of the great pyramids and learned about the strange magic of downtown Egypt at night and wondered if this rich archaeological adventure would yield real fruit.

AMLAN: Psyched to be on the EgyptAir flight from JFK (New York) to CIA (Cairo International Airport) in this Qatar Cup year.

RAKI: Yeah, there's an aura of anti-terrorism fervor now in this post-9/11 era, which should make this foreign-travel safer.

Aboard their Ivy-financed first-class trip (Alumni-Net) on EgyptAir, Amlan/Raki too in the air of excellence in Egyptian air-transit and hospitality and hoped their archaeological micro-adventure would yield something truly gifted.

AMLAN: I wonder what Egyptians of this new era make of Facebook-IQ, pal.

RAKI: It's a photo-rich social-media world now, pal, and maybe this archaeology-IQ may yield 'cool' magazine stories.

When they got to Cairo, they decided to be drawn into a hypnotizing film-poster of the inventive civilization-engineering themed sci-fi horror film Alien: Covenant, which immediately stirred in them strange daydreams about wrought sci-archaeological ideations of institutional/historical Earth links between Egyptian architecture/design and alien-consciousness or 'Martian' darkness!

SCHEHERAZADE: I'll be your Cairo guide Ivy-gentlemen, and perhaps we'll arrive at a 'shared' discovery for the University, no?

Their gorgeous assigned Cairo-guide, Scheherazade, showed them some recent intriguing highlight-reports/study concerning some archaeological/design links between Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece and perhaps how modern geometry-driven social-media figures/toys such as the iconic Rubik's Cube paralleled strange curiosity about ancient-empire similarities between Egyptian wall-art and Greek avatar-shapings.

AMLAN: I'd like to put Scheherazade in one of these pyramid-tombs, pal.

RAKI: Stay focused; it seems these wall-engravings belie some 'dark' secret about an alien-visitation/intelligence, no?

AMLAN: Something beautiful, pal.

DIARY-ENTRY (Amlan): I wonder if the modern comics rendition of hairy-deity Medusa parallels the ancient avatar of hypnosis!

Inside one of the pyramids, the Dartmouth-pals (Amlan/Raki) found evidence of some strange 'event' concerning a dimensions-portal called Stargate through which an alien 'monarch' visited Ancient Egypt to set-up some intricate design-shapings and math-IQ inquiries regarding the 'games' of civilization engineering. Were these clues to the reports of the sightings of a 'female alien' presence inside one of these great pyramid structures?

AMLAN: What the hell is that shadowy silhouette in the distance, down that pyramid-hall, pal?
RAKI: I dunno, but we're all alone in here right now, and maybe that's one of these 'aliens' we conjectured from wall-marks!

AMLAN: It's approaching us, Raki.

RAKI: It looks like man-sized insect-dragon creature; look --- it's praying!

ALIEN: Greetings, gentlemen of Earth --- I'm an adversarial prince of Mars, here to challenge you to a stalemate-chess dare.

Amlak/Raki were persuaded to play a game of chess with the mysterious but 'friendly' insect-dragon alien they encountered called Red-Xenomorph and were sincerely dared to draw some kind/form of stalemate-condition against him to warrant a 'praise' of human intelligence against alien. The two Ivy-buddies used a swift rook-bishop double-line offense-balance to create a position-edge against the wily dragon-alien's use of queen-knight combos, drawing that darn stalemate-condition the 'adversarial' alien demanded! He congratulated the two 'scientists' and awarded them both with a 'vision' of that very-same female alien 'presence' haunting the pyramids, which they traveled all this way to uncode. The two were in awe at her strange and eerie beauty!

DARTMOUTH INTERVIEW: So, what did you two Warriors discover?
AMLAN/RAKI: Egyptians of ancient Earth boasted their own designs/shapes and remained 'alien' and secretive!
DARTMOUTH INTERVIEW: Were there visiting/guiding aliens in Egypt?
AMLAN/RAKI: If there were, they'd either sought invasion-thought or chess-dares to weight the wisdom of exile or contact.
DARTMOUTH INTERVIEW: What about that female alien presence which hovered in Cairo street-lore?
AMLAN/RAKI: We 'discovered' that such a 'sighting' would only be truly be an award from an alien-game dare triumph.
DARTMOUTH INTERVIEW: Did you achieve such a triumph?
AMLAN/RAKI: Let's just say we learned of the message of human humility and the beauty in our own modern magazine-IQ.

Amlan/Raki headed to the New Jersey (United States) Wingate hotel to greet their awaiting model-girlfriends and kept their sworn-secret about that daring stalemate-chess achievement with the Red-Xenomorph alien-dragon who'd shown them the hypnotic 'Medusa' like female alien presence inside the pyramids haunting modern Cairo and felt once-more grateful being afforded the 'human retreat' into human civilization, perhaps simply hoping now that the alien's promise to remain in abyss-exile as non-contacting (or invading!) species would couple with a newfound human 'revelation' about everyday world comforts, the joy of living.

AMLAN: What if that alien tricked us, pal?
RAKI: Nah...he just wanted to showcase his female 'Medusa' en-route to his private-exile and our discovered 'human' distance.

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