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Oddtober #14: A final press

Added 2021-10-27 17:58:20 +0000 UTC

"Everything we know about the invaders is on this." Director Maddin produced a small, spherical data-core from a pocket inside her lab coat. "I took this from our mainframe before we fled into the tunnels. I'm the only one here who has studied these creatures."

First Lieutenant Blyse thought for a moment. "Is there any way out of here? Any way we can get a signal to my ship?"

"The rift won't let any signals escape the facility," Maddin answered. "The beacon is on the surface, but there's no way we could reach it. We'd have to fight our way through too many of them. There is a planetary escape pod. Just one. The others were never finished. It would only get one person into orbit, and they wouldn't have long to live once they were there."

Blyse smirked. "Orbit is all we need. My ship will detect the pod and rescue the occupant. We'll send for support to rescue any survivors, and then a team of expurgators will come to cleanse this place with fire." He thought for a moment, pacing, then turned to his enforcers. "Getting Director Maddin to that pod is our highest priority."

"The path to the escape pod is occupied by those things that used to be our technicians," one of the researchers protested. "And... something else. Something large. We heard it when we escaped through the maintenance tunnels."

"Then we fight our way through," said Blyse. "Getting that core out of the facility is our only hope." He stormed out of the armory, and the others followed, their weapons readied. In the halls beyond, a shuffling crowd of the afflicted were gathering to meet their advance....

This is the 14th entry for our "Oddtober" event. Every odd day (up through Halloween), we'll be releasing some models following a sci-fi horror theme (all following a light narrative), adding them to the $5+ reward folder as we go. Today's models (two more meat puppets with various weapons) will require supports when printing.