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15 Aug 2007, 10:07 pm

"Virgil! Can't you answer me?"

Sydney slumped over the control panel. The pain in his head was getting worse, and the drums were getting closer, and louder....


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15 Aug 2007, 10:15 pm

((I'm off for a while. I'm slumped unconscious over the comm controls. Just take me into the sick bay. But no-one knows about the drums.))


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15 Aug 2007, 10:16 pm

" I can hear you, Sydney. What the hell is wrong now?" Virgil barked into the headset as he started to pick up the corpse. "Sure redefines, Man's best friend don't it?". Dragging the dogs coprse with the Colonel back into Syndeys lab he checked the comm center and found Syndey knocked out. "Ahh f**k, we gotta carry him to the med lab."


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15 Aug 2007, 10:24 pm

Saldana continued, carrying the carcass with Virgil, down the stairs and through the open outer blast door, and then lowered it onto the entrance chamber floor. "Right, we both know the drill." He pulled out a crude aerosol canister of decontamination liquid, and sprayed it all over his armour, even the soles of his boots. He checked with the Geiger counter to ensure that the spray had done the job, which it did, and did the same for the remains of the canine beast. "We'd better get a body bag for this thing, it'll cause a royal stink otherwise. You get one, and I'll stay here."

EDIT:Ok, some of that doesn't fit. Can you edit it so that it was just you who went down to the lab to get a body bag, please?

Anyway, I'm going to bed. Till I come back, you can speak for Saldana, say that he's given medical support, and gone to rest in his quarters.


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16 Aug 2007, 8:30 am

OOC: Sorry for not saying yesterday that I was going to bed, I'll be sure to do it from then on.

Alan started to walk right behind Virgil and Saldana. "Hey wait up!" Alan then started to run and barely got to the outer blast doors before they closed. "Man, no telling how many diseases that thing has." Alan also pulled out a decontamination canister and sprayed the contents of the can on the suit and took it off.

"Oh and don't worry about Sydney, I'll take him to the medlab." Alan stopped walking with Virgil and Saldana as he said this and walked into the comm room. He got a hold of Sydney and started to carry him to the medlab.

Alan tried carrying him but that didn't work since he wasn't very strong so after a bit of thinking he put Sydney on a blanket and dragged his unconcious body to the medlab and put it on one of the beds. He's going to have a headache when he wakes up I bet, Alan thought to himself, the floor of this bunker is really hard. I'll just put a few painpills and some water for when he wakes up. So Alan did just that and walked out.


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16 Aug 2007, 8:59 am

Saldana reach the CAC(command and communications) room, and sat down on a chair across the map table, where Virgil was sitting on the other side. "We're going to need some external defences as well as the sensors. Should be simple enough to put into place, we have 3 automated turrets in storage on sublevel five. We can lift those up using the elevator, and the cameras, temperature, and radiation sensors should be easy to put in place. We'll then reinforce all of it with sandbags and then hook it up to the external power. That heavy military hardware will be handy after all, it must have gathered quite alot of dust though." He looked at the map of North Dakota, and put his first right finger on the town of Highmore, which was fifty miles southeast of the bunker.


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16 Aug 2007, 9:40 am

Just as Saldana finished speaking Alan entered the CAC. "Sydney is in the medlab," said Alan, "and also the visual equipment and sensors won't be able to be used for the next few days. I've been trying to fix the computer that collects the data and displays the video and my progress has been set back a few days. However the computer should be fixed within the next few days."

Alan then left the room to continue his work on the computer. Once he got there, he saw that in his absence, it had turned off. He spent a few minutes shouting a few expletives and hit the computer a few times. And much to his surprise hitting it turned it on. He then started to get to work on it and fix it so it could be used shortly.


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16 Aug 2007, 5:33 pm

DUN DUN DUN DUN.....DUN DUN DUN DUN

Sydney woke up in the medical area. He saw the water and the pills, and so used them.

"Grgh."

He started to get up. The drums were still sounding, but quieter. He then made the mistake of looking through an observation window into the operating room/mortuary.


"ARGGGGGGGGGHHHH! !! !! !!"


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16 Aug 2007, 6:30 pm

"Sorry to burst your bubble colonel but our food supplies are running low, we have at the most six months of supplies left. And that's if we budget it carefully." Running his fingers over the map and coughing a little at the dust coming up from it. "This place was never meant to be a permanent residence, it was a bunker to hold out in until the radiation died down and no more." Virgil pulled a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and offered one to the colonel. "Don't need to worry about smoking now, the bunker is circulating with the outside now." Lighting his smoke he breathed in and coughed a little. "Though I do agree we need to check out the military base - we have lots of guns but we need more medical supplies and AP rounds. And besides, what would be more imposing then having a pimped out tank?" Getting up from his chair Virgil stretched his arms and legs a little and started towards the medlab. "Going to check on our Aussie friend, hope that dog didn't scare him too bad."


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16 Aug 2007, 6:37 pm

"I agree. We should take one of the vehicles up there, and get the supplies. We could do with some heavy hardware too. We do have plenty of fresh air though, with the garden." Saldana declined the offer of a cigarette, "no thanks, I don't smoke."

Saldana stood up after Alan had spoken. "I'll go check on Sydney, and explain things to him. As for the equipment, well that's unfortunate," he stood up, and walked through the grey double doors of the control room. The wide sublevel 3 corridors were, like all of the bunker's corridors, thick grey concrete, with boxy metal ventilation piping, and light strips on the ceiling. At the end of the long corridor, there was a codelocked blast door, which led to the main stairwell and elevator A. The command/comms room was situated at the far east end of the corridor, sectioned from the tech room by glass double doors. The medical facility was down a second corridor, to the north, junctioned halfway along the main corridor. Opposite to the medical facility, there was a medical supplies room, and adjacent to that was the bio lab, not to be confused with the surgical room.

Further along the corridor, there was the "garden", a large room with plants and small trees. It helped to provide oxygen, and some food.

Saldana walked through the secure double doors to the medical ward, to see Sydney staring from one of the four beds through the observation window, at the beastly carcass inside.


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16 Aug 2007, 6:42 pm

"ARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH! !! !!"

While the more animal part of his brain was screaming in absolute terror, another, more rational part of him receded back into the memory palace with a mnemonic photograph of the horror that was on the slab.

Definitely a caninid, but the mutation. Radiation could cause mutation, of course, but to have caused that, there had to be an additional factor. A third eye so perfectly formed was not the result of radiation-based mutation. So it may have been something biological. A mutated virus, warped by radiation that warped flesh into a perversion. Of course, it may have only affected certain animals if it was a virus. Viruses, surprisingly enough, are very picky about what they infect. Many flu viruses only infected birds, while the Ebola strain found in Reston infected both humans and primates, but didn't so much as give the humans a cold, while the primates died.

The Colonel ((sorry Anubis)) strode in, and Sydney switched back to 'babble' mode....

"Waddafugwaddafugwaddafugwaddafug... what the fugging hell is that?"


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16 Aug 2007, 6:49 pm

Popping in just behind the colonel Virgil chirped out the answer, taking obvious pleasure in Syndey's disgust. "It's our new pet dog Lassie! The Colonel found the bastard on the outside and had to shot the s**t outta him to keep him from killing him." Looking at the corpse himself he was curious to what had happened on the inside, his knowledge of biology was far inferior to Syndey's but he still knew whatever caused that dog to go Terminator was some nasty s**t. "I cannot wait to see you cut the thing open. I'm betting the brain explodes on you."


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16 Aug 2007, 6:52 pm

"You're awake, then." Saldana glanced at the monstrosity, and felt a cold shiver. "That beast attacked me almost right after I went outside, it had a lot of fight in it. It seems to be some sort of mutant Black Labrador. Bloody freaky, if you ask me." He walked over to help Sydney to his feet.

Virgil spoke as the colonel reached Sydney's bed, catching Saldana totally by surprise. "Jeez, I hate it when you creep up on people like that!"


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16 Aug 2007, 6:55 pm

"Yagedda yagedda yagedda..." babbled Sydney incoherently. He'd need to use his hazard suit, no telling what sort of stuff would be in there.

He then glared at the Colonel and Virgil.

"You could have warned me about Lovecraft's Dog in there. Like leaving a note saying, 'hey Sydney, just don't look in the observation window until you are prepared to see the most horrific dog ever.' Rather discourteous..."


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16 Aug 2007, 7:01 pm

Saldana burst into mild laughter, amused at Sydney's apprehended look. "Should have closed the curtains, at least," he sniggered again. "Must have had the shock of your life, waking up to that freakshow!"


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16 Aug 2007, 7:03 pm

"Sod off." muttered Sydney as he went to go and fetch his hazard suit. And autopsy kit. If it weren't for Virgil and Alan, the Colonel would be on the slab, and not the creature. ((Sydney didn't see what happened, so he assumes this))


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