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Miskatonic U's
ex nihilo lab and its gates.
Tar was the first to press the firing stud on the handle of
his tripper. With a pop and a bluish-white flash, a cloud formed
within the tube. "There's something I'd like to show you," he
said, and sucked the vapor through a semipermeable membrane in one
end of the tube.
Karen, Drew, and Madge emulated Tar's example. The massive
L+ doses hit some before others. They waited and the shared
environment formed; cold and dreary, and suggesting ancient
enmity.
Madge promised a short walk and all set off. Concealed
within the thick fog which surrounded them, giant arthropod
monsters waited. Vaguely insectiod (or occasionally aracnid,
crustacean, and myriapod), they had eviscerating hooks,
decapitating pincers, barbed impaling stalks, bad breath, and bug
eyes. And that was the males. The females also had armor-
piercing ovipositors not unlike scorpion tails.
Arriving at the gate area, Karen and Drew assumed a
defensive parameter while Madge and Tar worked at dilating the
gate.
Originally armed with vorpal swords, Karen and Drew were
prepared to face the Jabberwock itself. However, when the
rattling chitin and pungent presence encircled them, they
reconsidered. Karen conjured a full-auto, belt-fed shotgun
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