The Wooded Unexplored Area, the Preserve, and Elsewhere on the Island, Wednesday Morning
In the wooded area in the western part of the island, work on Hyperion's site was continuing much like it had yesterday. If anything, they were working harder, and more urgently. Getting a little more tense and a little less likely to tolerate attempted intrusions or disturbances without use of force. Orders from above were getting impatient, see. Jack wanted this thing uncovered, and he wanted it uncovered yesterday.
And still there was someone late for his shift at the site. But, he was a resourceful man. He knew he couldn't come through the portals they had set up in the back rooms of the restaurants, because that would get him yelled at and/or killed. No, it was much better to pay for a portal of his own and use that to hop through into the preserve, half an island away from where other Hyperion personnel were hard at work at the dig site, and then hurry out to where they were before anyone noticed he wasn't where he was supposed to be.
So, he hopped through the portal and he hurried away, not checking to see whether it closed properly.
Which it did not. Not immediately, anyway. First came -- well, the first thing to come through the portal after the engineer was a small flying hunk of a glowing purple substance, which embedded itself into the ground where a teal deer came over to sniff at it. Then, then came the dog-like things, several packs' worth of them curious about the smells of the teal deer. And then came the big lumbering beasts. Probably looking for more fun things to throw. That hunk of eridium had just been the start.
And then came the men, bearing long rusty blades and wearing old tires as armor, whooping and gibbering as they emerged from the portal.
"It's time for my pound of flesh!"
"Garters for guts!"
"My mommy's gonna be so mad!"
The animals scattered around into the woods, but the men - if you could call them that - ran out of the preserve. Their natural instinct was to go where there were people to terrorize and yell nonsensical things at. After them, another thing or two slipped through the portal, and then the portal finally closed after them.
Goddammit, Baker, you could try coming to work on time and not causing catastrophies like this.
[And we have achieved psychos and new wildlife! The full BDE map is now in effect!]
And still there was someone late for his shift at the site. But, he was a resourceful man. He knew he couldn't come through the portals they had set up in the back rooms of the restaurants, because that would get him yelled at and/or killed. No, it was much better to pay for a portal of his own and use that to hop through into the preserve, half an island away from where other Hyperion personnel were hard at work at the dig site, and then hurry out to where they were before anyone noticed he wasn't where he was supposed to be.
So, he hopped through the portal and he hurried away, not checking to see whether it closed properly.
Which it did not. Not immediately, anyway. First came -- well, the first thing to come through the portal after the engineer was a small flying hunk of a glowing purple substance, which embedded itself into the ground where a teal deer came over to sniff at it. Then, then came the dog-like things, several packs' worth of them curious about the smells of the teal deer. And then came the big lumbering beasts. Probably looking for more fun things to throw. That hunk of eridium had just been the start.
And then came the men, bearing long rusty blades and wearing old tires as armor, whooping and gibbering as they emerged from the portal.
"It's time for my pound of flesh!"
"Garters for guts!"
"My mommy's gonna be so mad!"
The animals scattered around into the woods, but the men - if you could call them that - ran out of the preserve. Their natural instinct was to go where there were people to terrorize and yell nonsensical things at. After them, another thing or two slipped through the portal, and then the portal finally closed after them.
Goddammit, Baker, you could try coming to work on time and not causing catastrophies like this.
[And we have achieved psychos and new wildlife! The full BDE map is now in effect!]
