The Living Fountainhead: Sally Gomez Surfaces

Joe Kierlskegrienger,
Investigative Journalist

Surreal Engines are powered by Surreality. While this statement may seem obvious, Surreality is hard to come by. Although humans generate Surreality naturally, this low-level ambient radiation - usually called the Surreal Hum - is too weak to power a Surreal Engine.

Sometimes an object has Surreality. This is sufficient for most Surreal Engineering applications, but not enough to power a complete Surreal Engine or Portable Surreal Engine. To power these devices, a fountainhead must be found. A fountainhead is a human being imbued with Surreality. Their body can be used to power Surreal Engines - dead or alive. In the recent Surreal Crisis, a deceased, decades-dead ex-lawyer was exhumed and chopped into pieces to power Portable Surreal Engines.

But, just as there can be a Surreal Fountainhead, so too can there be a Hyper-Mundane Fountainhead. Sally Gomez is one such person.

Sally Gomez, by all accounts, is incredibly boring. In contrast to the vibrant, creative ex-lawyer used as the Surreal Fountainhead in the Surreal Crisis, Ms. Gomez, according to her longtime neighbor, “has no spark of human creativity.” She was excellent at running numbers but terrible at imagining them. During most of her life, she collected stamps and coins as her sole hobby. But now, at fifty-seven, Ms. Gomez has found a new hobby: powering Hyper-Mundane Engines. To this paper's knowledge, she is the first living person to power an Engine of any sort.

Ms. Gomez departed from her life as an accountant two weeks ago. My sources suggest she was contacted by one Howard Johnson, a member of the gang: the Company Men. This gang operates mostly through cyber attacks but also receive massive payments for their ability to infiltrate and destroy organizations from within. The woman known as the Deadly Touch Tarantula, the former shoe-stealer reported on in this paper over a year ago, has recently come into power in the gang. She coats her fingernails with lethal tabun nerve agent.

My source inside the Company Men suggests they are planning something big. I cannot relate any information about my source.

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