Chapter 6 - Mission Impossible

There is currently no sunlight illuminating this area. Stars are visible , though far too weak and distant to illuminate the lunar landscape. As far as your torchlight reaches, the landscape is a uniform, sterile white.

The surface is spotted with low hills and pockmarked by what you assume are impact craters. Lang points out tire track marks leading down from your position out onto the lunar surface. Riley writes : PREVIOUS ORE SHIPMENTS BY THE ALIENS

Following these tracks has you winding between the hills and impact craters and it takes you around 20 minutes to reach your destinations. Due to the dark environment, the city's wall is upon you before you realize it. One moment you are walking then you are face to face with a massive artificial structure that is awe-inspiring, to say the least.

Riley and Lang pause and raise their flashlights; the beams illuminate a curved wall, 150 feet high, composed of large blocks of stone. the wall curves left and right as far as your flashlights can reach and is covered in groups of dots formed in strange, geometric designs. Circular apertures of various sizes line the wall,. each leading to a deep darkness beyond.

Directly below the area where Riley and Lang pause is a circular tunnel, mi-go tire tracks continue here and after waving you forward, they enter another tunnel. Inside, flashlights reveal more stone-worked designs decorating the tunnel walls, while the tunnel continues straight for thirty-feet, passing by other junctions and leading deeper into the city.

Dr. Mallard looks up.from scribbling to join his companions. He follows the gesture, and writes. a "?" on his board

The pair gesture you to continue and you follow down the main tunnel, arriving at a star-shaped room, paved with tiles and with no ceiling. The area is similar to the bottom of a well, the well terminates fifty-feet above, with random arches dotting its surface. Another archway on the opposite side provides the way out. Entering the tunnel for another thirty-feet before ending at a large, circular plateau. At the tunnel mouth, a dozen old and dented mining carts stand, each bearing thick, rubber-coated wheels. Small lumps of metallic-looking green-black ore litter the ground and more in the carts.

Riley indicates for everyone to crouch behind the carts and once concealed, he points to what lis ahead. The plateau is roughly five-hundred feet in circumference. Once part of the sprawling ancient city, it has been cleared of structures - their remnants somewhat visible in the piles of debris around the space's outer edge. Mounds of the ore are piled nearby this wreckage. The whole scene is illuminated by he sinister shape of a gigantic spirder.

The massive machine, resembling a forty-foot tall ten-legged spider-thing, slowly moves around the plateau in a sideways motion. Formed from reddish metal plates, the machine's 'abdomen' glows from within - transparent circular plates issueing a fiery yellow glow.

Positioned to the northeast of where you hide, the spider-machine follows a circuit around the perimeter, its ever-long progress having formed a huge circular ditch in the ground. At the northern end of the circle, the half-finished Mi-Go Dimensional Gate can be spied. Intricate indeed, even from a distance it resembles some half-organic, snake-like structure standing over two-hundred feet tall and covered in twisting tubes and strange symbols, which make one queasy by just focusing on them,