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The Dogs of Chernobyl

Aug 19th, 2018
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  1. Our wisdom flows so sweet. Taste and see…
  2. TRANSMIT - initiate the disaster signal - RECEIVE - initiate the lupus legacy - WHO LET THE DOGS OUT - calibrating quantum antennas to red rover radio - EVACUATION ORDER IS NOW IN FULL EFFECT - serializing Red Hand archives - WITNESS - The Dogs of Chernobyl.
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  4. What is time to us? We stand outside. It flows strangely when the ages flip, the world dies and all that was is no more and then the world is born an new, but somethings carry over from age to age. Time passes, the third age is forgotten, a hunting party follows a deer through the woods and comes upon a litter of wolves crowded around their dead mother. One of them carries a recessive gene, a bug in his programming, he tilts his head before nipping at the heels of the hunters fur boots, the hunting party laughs as one strange predator dances around the feet of another. Old friends find each other in a new age, the cycle begins a new. Thousands of years pass, a hunter lays by his dying fire, the descendants of the defective wolves at his feet, the hunter sleeps, but the broken wolf keeps the watch, his keen ears detect rustling in the bushes, his nose smells carrion, he leaps to his feet and begins to bark, the hunter awakens, the threat retreats back to the darkness, the hunter hears or smells nothing and goes back to sleep. This pattern has played out over the ages for eternity sweetling, your species are bound together, your greatest champions are not angels or demons sweetling, they have no love for you or your kin, no, your greatest champions are the broken wolves who follow you from age to age, the ones you now call dogs. The ones who watch the darkness while you sleep, Don't believe us? Look!
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  6. In the palace of the Shogun, a Shiba Inu sleeps at the feet of his charge, the doors to his chamber slide open, his mistress takes her true form and begins to climb up the walls, she is onryō, the Shiba noticed the drop in air pressure associated with her kind, he awakens and begins to bark, the Shogun awakens and the onryō vanishes, he admonishes his protector for waking him, the Shiba will not sleep tonight sweetling. Across the globe, a stray farm dog and wood cutter walk home in the dark outside the city that will someday be Kevi, he has no light except the moon sweetling, but his protector stays next to him, listening to the darkness around them. They come to a cross road, a Drekevac perches in the trees above licking his teeth in anticipation of the attack, but the smell of carrion gives him away, the dog turns to the tree and begins to bark before the beast can pounce. The wood cutter sees nothing but feels the need to hurry home. Fast forward, a family dog lays next to a little girls bed somewhere in the suburbs, a closet door creaks open, a long gnarled claw pulls a shadowy body from the closet and begins dragging itself towards its meal in the bed, but it does not get far sweetling, a low growl sends the darkness fleeing back into the closet, he will watch the closet carefully for the rest of his life. Voices in the shadows, scents on the wind, they bark at the night, your greatest champions sweetling, they were a natural fit for what was to come...or so you tell yourselves.
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  8. Before there was a Red Hand, there was unit 911-16, the Special Technologies Laboratory, a place where soviet scientist weaponized the occult to counter the Thule Society and the renegade Templar in the west. This unit is all that holds back the eternal night during the early days of the second great war sweetling and for this unit 911-16 is called герой народа, by those who hunt the night in the name of the motherland. Deeping in the tunnels under Moscow, Doctors and mystics work over a dog on a steel table -WARNING UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS DETECTED- a captured bee is implanted in her. This is not the first time they have done this sweetling, they have refined this process on 3 other dogs before her, she is the 4th, 1179-2401 according to the kennel records, 04 according the laboratory, but her handlers name her Balalaika.
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  10. They paired her with a soldier sweetling, Alisa Vasiliev, an apprentice witch from the Crimean Mountains one of millions of names your history books don't record, her and Balalaika are tasked with hunting the abominations created by the Thual. They go from city to city, block by block, driving iron spikes through the hearts of vampiric SS officers, tracking werewolves through the ruins of stalingrad and sniffing out anima based spies, they see many battles together before the blood worshipers are pushed back, first from the motherland and then from the east. They were both there for it all sweetling, they followed in the path of the oncoming storm, they saw everything the Thual did, but it did not break them. The war’s of your kind can not brake one of our puppy’s sweetling even if she is a fake, but microbes and damp socks are another matter. They marched through Poland, and bits of broken glass and worn leather let them through, medicine was a precious thing and there was not enough to go around even for those who fight the night, Lt. Vasiliev died of an infection on the way to Berlin sweetling, they didn't even bury her, those humans who remember her have all returned to the machine goddess, poor Balalaika is all that remains of her.
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  12. Time passes, the war ends, unit 911-16 gives way to the Red Hand. Balalaika finds new work, hunting Illuminati and CIA agents with the KBG, she is decorated with the dog tags of those she helps bring down, but soon there are no more to bring down. The world changes sweetling, the Dragons experiment in global revolution collapses under its own entropy and the ever expanding Illuminati network, but there are still those that want it to succeed sweetling, The premiere of the soviets reaches out hoping to strike a deal with the devil, and Orochi happily obliges. In exchange for funding and delicious data, Sycoil scientist work to create a new kind of power for the dying empire, the limitless anima that powers the machine godess, our puppy finds herself acting as a guard for foreign scientist at a nuclear reactor in the Ukraine. The stage is set all of the players are assembled, the curtain rise sweetling, behold a classic play in 3 acts.
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  14. Act 1 - Sycoil scientist discover a natural vain of anima running through higher dimensional space around the nuclear reactor in Chernobyl, they construct a secret lab underneath the reactor to better study how to harness it. Our puppy and her handler take their post guarding the orochi scientist. The curtain falls
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  16. Act 2 - Sycoil begin charging the fuel rods using anima, energy output increases exponentially. But the heat exchanges are not designed to withstand the pressure generated by water boiled by anima, the vail grows thin around the vain sweetling, scientist begin to see and hear things, things they were never meant to see. Our puppy does her duty, she barkes to warn the humans of the unseen danger, she speaks with her handler, they try to talk sense into their commander, they are ignored. Time passes the the phantom shapes begin to manifest in the reactor, the scientist establish a channel of communication with the creatures from higher dimensional space, they speak of a great tragedy that has befallen their race (a oily dark tragedy that you are familiar with sweetling), they seek help in cleansing their world, they are willing to trade their knowledge of anima for it. Balalaika barkes, she warns them not to trust the strange creatures, the generations of canine wisdom buried in her genes says the unseen is never to be trusted, she is ignored, The scientist happily agree, the curtain falls.
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  18. Act 3 - The vale grows thinner, a picture begins to form, large, multi colored, fungoid, crustacean-like entities; where a head would be, they have a "convoluted ellipsoid" composed of pyramided, fleshy rings and covered in antennae. They call themselves Mi-go, creatures from outside your space sweetling, they come from the same void the brought forth the host and they whisper things in the ears of Sycoil, secrets about harvesting anima from higher dimensional space. They are no fools though sweetling, all technologies are tested before they are integrated into the reactor. Everything seems perfect, the deal has paid, or so they thought. But Mi-go are tricky sweetling, their brains show them things in ways you can not comprehend in your 4 simple dimensions. It starts with a station blackout, the safety systems are shut off as result, the first part of a cataclysmic rube goldberg machine, the core is exposed, the shield on an anima capacitor is thin, the stream short circuits across the fuel rods, calabi yau manifolds invert, space tear, the path is now clear Mi-go flood into the lab, clearing all of the strange apes from their path. She was napping in her handlers office when it happened, guards began running down into the tunnels and her handler left to see what was the matter, “Stay here” she tells Balalaika and she closes the office door behind her, 10 of your minutes pass, but to our puppy it seemed like an eternity, she paced the floor, dug into the carpet and cried so pitifully sweetling, then the screaming started, she digs at the door, she barkes, but nothing can make it budge. Finally when all is quite, the door knob finally begins to turn but it is not her handler sweetling, a foul smelling creature stands before her clicking its claws as it attempts to seize her, the wolf buried inside her comes raging out of her sweetling, the office is covered in a greenish yellow blood that flows through their veins. She rushes down into the tunnels and finds the carnage the mi-go have left behind them, her pour handler scattered among several piles, our poor, poor, puppy grieves for another fallen comrade, she spends hours taring any Mi-go she finds to shreds but no matter how many she cuts down, more come through the tear to take their place, she can not kill them sweetling, so she is forced to retreat. As she exits the tunnels she finds more of Orochi's handy work, more dogs artificially given bees, some given more than just a bee, you have meet these dogs before sweetling, our Speedy puppy is among them. She frees who she can before fleeing the reactor site. The curtain falls, and the story of the hidden part of the story ends.
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  20. Open your nifty keen Council textbook sweetling and turn to the chapter on Chernobyl and we will tell you how the story ends. The lab falls silent, the breach begins to spread, a distress beacon is activated. The citizens of Chernobyl are told only that there has been a accident at the reactor, a partial truth meant to obscure the true horror ripping space and time asunder in the tunnels below. The citizens are evacuated from the city, there is no time to gather the things that they hold dear sweetling, as your kind flees from the encroaching darkness, your guardians are left behind, but still they stand watch, Balalaika and Speedy emerge from the tunnels below the reactor and find the city deserted, save for those left behind now wandering the streets, looking for their humans. The sky’s soon fill with a Mi-go, even in their unawaken state, they know they are threat. The wolf in Balalaika again awakens, she forms a pack and seeks out the world tree, she and speedy can not fight them alone sweetling, they need reinforcements, only a fraction of those exposed to the honey awaken, but it is enough to form the core of her army.
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  22. For the first few weeks they wage a guerrilla war, using the smaller dogs among them to lure mi-go into places they can not fly. They pick them off one by one, but there is no end to their numbers sweetling, and soon they have more problems to contend with, without the humans to keep them in check, the Drekevac soon begin moving into the city, and praying on anything they can pick up. The pack establishes a base in the heart of the city, a place they can defend from both the wild cryptids of this world and the ones set free from the other. They are not the first to use this place as a base of operation but they don't know that, shhhhhh, its a surprise sweetling.
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  24. It takes several weeks, but the council sends help. Sweetlings from across the globe come to close the breach, old friends among them, it takes weeks to drive the mi-go back, it is eventually done, Balalaika and her pack with the help of Loki's grandson and the unremarkable one, are able to stop the migration across the breach, but they are not able to close it only shrink it. The day is saved ...for now, teams periodically revisit Chernobyl cleaning up small batches of mi-go who slip past the council security teams, but they grow less frequent as time goes on. The scientist and magi of the council work for years searching for a way to seal the breach, but they can not find a way, they instead turn to a stop gap method, a dome designed to stop things from passing into this world, years pass the dome is finished and a small contingent of guards are left behind for security purposes, the others though, they move on, the policing of things that go bump in the night falls to Balalaika and her pack, temporary rifts still open in the city, Drekevac, seek to pray on mortals that wander to close to the city, Magi from all side seek to steal dangerous red hand technology, Balalaika and her pack are there to stop them all. Years pass, so do generations, the duty of protecting the ruins of Chernobyl is passed down through the pack, a few of the originals endure, our puppies sharing their wisdom with their puppies, Balalaika’s military training bleeds into their natural structures, The pack names themselves the Watch, they even adopt a motto, “When the voice from the shadows calls you, when the wind whips past your ears, we bark at the night”.
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