SEND IN THE CLONES

The Hygiene officer loses his footing and slides off of the narrow walkway and into the stream of the canal. The odor is nauseating and the current is surprising. Will-O-WSP begins to tumble downstream in the thick fluid.

After taking a few tumbles in the sludge and traveling about 100 ft downstream, Will-O-WSP is able to get back to his feet despite the strength of the current. There is no drain in site as the canal appears to continue for some distance.

You feel something large brush past your legs below the surface of the fluid.

Brett-R-WYD attempts to capture the hygiene officer's slip into a river of sludge. the camera is zoomed in enough to create a nicely composed medium shot. When Brett looks through the viewer however, he can't immediately find Will-O-WSP and with nothing to focus on, the multicordor continuously zooms in and out of focus. By the time Brett has a good sense of where his fellow troubleshooter is, Will is already too far into the darkness to capture.

Will-O-WSP fights against the current towards the light of the 2nd Gen Multicorder as Brett carefully inches along the walkway towards him. As Brett approaches he hears the sound like a rusty tire on a warehouse cartbot passing by his feet. In his peripheral vision he can see tiny shadows scattering away from him. Several more squeaks issue from the shadows.

Will does not detect any further evidence of the large thing that brushed past him only a moment ago.

WILL - You hear the echo of treasonous music coming from further down the tunnel. Many of the tube lights along the corridor are broken, those that remain buzz and flicker. You are up to your thighs in sludge. The smell is repugnant.

Further downstream, away from your teammate you see a long dark shape protruding from the sludge. At first it looks like it is floating downstream.

Then, it changes direction and begins moving upstream. The large object seems to propel itself by twisting back and forth like a series of S's.

Again, I cannot stress this enough. The smell is TERRIBLE.

Brett- you adjust the brightness and point the multicorder towards one of the shadows. Through the screen you see a pair of beady red eyes and a mouth full of fangs. It makes an aggressive screeching noise at you