Escaping the Technological Contagion

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Restrictions applies see full terms at Fanjool. com slash sports book. Gambling problem call one eight hundred gambler or one eight hundred my reset Hey kiddo Oh no , I'm dead, aren't I? Yes , yes you are . I'm Saint Jerome . I'm in a lot of trouble then Where? East platform . Blind luck mostly. The explosion on North flared out the capsule's engine, but we went in the right direction. Rover spicked us up, brought us in . You're in a medical pod. Doing good. And Mac ? There's no one left and he's gone thank God Oh , it feels like I had an eight margarita night. Oh yeah . You ever had an eight margarita tight? No, but I'm fairly certain it would feel like this . What's the situation ? Well, there's good news for once , transport sub is still here. So where are all the survivors from north? How many? Now, forty, maybe fifty . Father made a personal account of almost twice that. Yet the numbers aren't good, you're right. We're lucky to have that many. Do you know if any of my staff did they? I met a nurse working with survivors Romero, I think . Gail . Gil made it . What about she's the only one I've seen ? Doesn't mean that's all there is . There could be more , maybe maybe on the injured list . I just walked through the staging area once . Lot of injured . Yeah , yeah, there are I need to go help. Let's just let's just take it slow . Humor me You're walking around? Yeah, well I got about a billion inch mangeedical of nanobot s in my system. Right , those What about the transport ? It's pressurizing right now for the return trip to the surface . People I've talked to think we can get everyone on board and evacuate in one trip. Leave it all behind That is the plan until they rebuild it . That's going to be the end result, isn't it? Even after everything that's happened, they'll learn from the design of the base , learn what went wrong with Mac , fix all those problems , and try again . They'll learn all the wrong lessons . None of the right ones . Yeah, there is a precedent, I'd say they should quantum strike this whole place . But it's not my problem . I'm not coming back . On north , you stayed . You didn't have to . We had to deal and I broke it . You do not stay . Thank you. All the options weren't gone . They were still away . We don't quit if they're still away . How long until the transport ? Not long. Enough time for me to make a . Hm , I wonder what that's about . Oh boring stuff . Mission reports . Check in with my retirement advisor. Mm hmm . Take screenshots I'm relieved, I have to say I was worried he'd ever red hair No hair at all anywhere . You'll have to wait a few months to determine the leg end But then I won't likely care . He's beautiful . Is he not? Yes . I've been cross the galaxy, but can I say hello ? Can you say hello to papa? I don't I don't know about this papa thing. Are there other options? No, no, no, no. I went with Joel. You're going with papa . Good news is it'll transition into pops, the older he gets. Yeah, I'm not sure that's good news . It is. Trust me. Ops is very cool. Very hip . Oh no , no . It's just your father. He's not that scary really. He's very nice. When you get to know him, he's less intimidating. Thanks for putting a word in. Wave by papa . Bye . Here let me take him . Thank you . Okay , she can't hear now. How did things go down there? Usual ? No, I get in trouble . You saved me from drowning. Only fair. You saved me once . How's the doctor? Sarah , alive? She'll be fine Another day, another damsel in distress . One was enough for me . Plus, you know, she won't tell me your phob ia . Her what? Long story . I'll tell you later. Seriously, how did things go ? Not great Great . There were a lot of casualties . I contain the situation, but I don't know . Containing seems to be alive or two these d ays . That is what you do . Plug holes in a dam . Also shoot monsters . Yeah, I guess. What's going on with you? You're not telling me everything . It's an unencrypted channel, Val. You and I don't need encryption to talk freely. I can tell there's something . Was there a monster this time? There was and you killed it . It appears thusly . Huh . You don't feel it's done. I don't know . You've lived a long time trusting your instincts. If you feel it's not finished, then it's finished . You don't do well when you leave things unfinished. It's finished . It's finished. Sweetheart . I met a man once . I was lucky to meet him . He was tasked to find me . Thank God , everyone else thought I was dead . Everyone else stopped looking. Except him . He came and he found me . He saved me at the last second because trust his instincts . Then I married him. Victim savor complex, obviously. Obviously , you have a lot more to live for now what I'm getting at . You have always been enough for that . I'm just saying it may affect your judgment. Your Seagull , getting back here , whole bunch of paternity leave . Have you ever had more to come back to ? As is usual , you may be onto something . Just be sure, that's all. You don't do well when you leave things unfinished . This is the only thing I do well . And every day I question it, whether it's worth the risks, whether I really make a difference . And you saved how many people today ? I mean, overall , I mean big picture kind of stuff. I mean What if I didn't do it anymore? What if I found something else? Like what? Selling insurance? No , you would implode, like expose I truly am imploded . Well, maybe it's not about me . Maybe it shouldn't be . Now more than ever . Hm . You said it yourself just now . Big picture kind of stuff . Where else can you do as much? Or where else do you have the potential to do as much . Look, if you don't want to do it anymore, then fine . Don't do it . But don't make it about us . If it's not about you then you won't be happy and you're only good to us happy. I love you, you know that . I love you You know that . And I see him one more time? Oh my god, it's like you're obsessed with him. Next you'll be bringing him gifts and things. I was thinking a toy gun. No , no guns . He's going to be an artist , a brooding creative type. He's going to break Val . Valerie No what? No , nuts . Hey there , you are in a tight spot . That's one way of putting it. The water's still rising in there . Yep , dear it is. What's happening? The bulkhead reaches all over the place . I'd say the subloor and there's ruptured . But that's what the pressure doors are for. Sure, a great system . Unless you end up on the wrong side of it I have an ide a, but But you're not gonna like it . You know, I'm pretty tolerant generally when it comes to not dying . We wait until the junction fills up with water all the way. You are right, I don't like it. Because of the pressure, it's the only way you have a chance at getting blown out the right door when I override the law. Chance ? Yeah . Pretty good one though . You are agent Blaine, right? Yeah . Well , you've been in worse situations, I bet . Where is the water level now? About to my chest. Yeah, pretty cold, isn't it? Yes, it is Invigorating. I take a swim in the airlock every day, freezing water, thermogenesis boosts your metabolism, improves immune system function, even increases cytokine production. Helps with anxiety stress , because wonders . That's fantastic. You know, that's up to my gym now. Okay, big golf of bear, and I'll see you in a second. Why is pastard ? I can't still hear you That looked intense . Yeah . Yeah, I'm kind of getting used to it actually . Chief Reese, college security. Oh, what's left of it? Good thanks for the rescue chief What happened? What's going on? The Something hit us, but I couldn't tell you what. What I can tell you is the whole platform took a blow like a sledgehammer to a beer can. We're lucky we're still here . And to do damage control now, you won't come? Yeah, sure . Your head of security, you think we met when we arrived. I am and we did, agent. How much your team has left? Four out of eleven. Yeah, I'm sorry to hear that. Yeah, me too. If we're good kids . The rest of it doing whatever's needed is stuff we weren't trained for, but one thing you can count on down here is nothing goes to plan. Chief, you there ? Yeah, Fritz, go ahead. We lost it. What? The transport sub . It's gone. It ripped off the docking bay and crashed into the seabed. It's gone case in point I finished a five K in ninety fourth place . Right after a man wearing jeans , they still gave me a medal. I don't want a reward for doing, I want a reward for dominating . Like Daily Prize Metric, I'm Bet three hundred and sixty five. I play for free and win real rewards, like up to five thousand dollars in cash weekly. Unlike that Joker in Denim , Beth three hundred and sixty five winning is everything . Gambling problem call one hundred gambler. twenty one plus only must be physically present in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, T and C . I finished a five K in ninety fourth place right after a man wearing jeans, they still gave me a med al. I don't want a reward for doing, I want a reward for dominating . Like Daily Prize Metro, I'm Beth three hundred and sixty five. I play for free and win real rewards, like up to five thousand dollars in cash weekly . Unlike that joker and denim , that three hundred and sixty five. Winning is everything. Gambling problem call one hundred gambler. twenty one plus only must be physically present in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, Teas and See And I'll take a sew where you can sorry for the mess. The whole platform's a mess . Yeah, all pretty much looked that way before Alvarez are you there ? Is there a new casualty count? Not yet, but we're working on that. We definitely lost more people. There's no way we didn't. Half of the capsules we still had, including the cold storage or cr ushed . Most of the damage was from the artemis crashing through the docking bay, broke loose from its tether. The thing getting us back to the surface, in other words? It was getting us back to the surface. Boss. You there? Yeah . Go ahead, Alaris. Ready here when you are Flip it . What's he doing? He's repeated the computers. Circuits get tripped into a hull breach and we don't want to fry the processors at the hub gets war irregular deactivation detected stipulate boot mode , normal or safe mode normal We saw power at least for now . Generators are working, but we only have so much fuel . How long till they're out? Thirty six, forty hours, that's it. Then we're dead in the water literally . Platform data processing systems online . All operations with in established parameters. Computer damage report alert . The ES platform has sustained major structural damage, hull breaches detected, intermittent losses of power detected , atmosphere generation failure detected, mechanical and information system s failures detected. What was the cause of the damage ? Warning . Sustained damage was caused by a sudden volatile displacement of seawater surrounding the eastern platform. Another tide surge. Alert . No tide surge events have been detected. Then what caused the displacement? Unknown. No tide surge out there could have caused this kind of damage , pulled the Artemis right off a magnetic airlock and almost ripped the platform supports out of the seabed. What could cause it? I have no idea, but something happened outside, something big. What do we do? That's a good question. The artist wasn't scheduled for a return trip for five days, so she won't be missed for that long at least. And how do we contact the surface? No clue . Surface cbsum are severed . We're on generator power . We could try a message in a bottle. Well, we better think of something because we're not going to make it five days down here once we lose power. Hey chief . Yeah, go ahead, Fritz . Something came across activity logs, so you'd want to know What's that? A new comm ub went online. A new hub. There are no new hubs. Sorry, what I mean is an old hub went back online Yeah, France, what the hell are you doing? South sir. The southern platform powered up. Powered up, when How old is that report? Almost two hours . Sorry, Chief, I didn't see come in. It's just me and Alvarez. And it came online? No, just says the Southern platform is taken off maintenance mode and the X Corps reactivated . Who reactivated? Logs don't have a name, just an employee ID number. ID right now? Yes, sir. What is this? What's going on? You said before when we were in the supply tram airlock, you said that Joe and someone else were working together on the Western platform. Yes . Eva . It sounded like Eva. doctor Grath . She was an a demis outside the platform. She was helping to shut down the Eortxp before it went critical . Dr. Graf . Wait, you think Eva powered the Southern platform ? Two hours ago. Why? Why would she do that? Probably just survive . If she was on the western platform, she had two choices Go to north or go to south . The south would be less of a walk in a dimus . Once she got there, she'd have to restore power for life support . And one thing South has that no other platform does , its own XCOR. Wait a second . What? Computer . The water displacement we just experienced . it tra Dvelid in a specific direction ? The displacement of water traveled directly westward from this location at a speed of eight hundred kilometers an hour. eight hundred . What is it, Sarah? The volt. What about it? I think I think the vault's been opened. How did you know that? The water displacement. I don't get it . What if it was empty? The vault, empty if see what I mean ? So when it opened the ocean would rush in to fill the void. You're saying opening that thing up outside could do all this circumference of the vault door is huge, which implies the space underneath it is massive. If it was empty , talking thousands of tons of water suddenly jerked to life all around us . Yeah, I get it. Chief , we ran that EID. You're not gonna believe this, but it's yeah , actually . No one had more motivation for opening the vault than she did. No one would have more of an idea how to do it either. Well, it does make some kind of sense . If South is powered, that means the vault relay is powered too, and there's a direct connection. It's Fathom's original platform and the whole point of the rel ay is to open the ball, right? If the relay is powered, couldn't we reorient it and use it to contact the surface? It's a full fledged long wait com system, and you could contact Mars if you wanted to. Sounds like we need to get to that relay. Chief I hate to ask, but can you spare anybody? Yeah , I can spare me, plus one or two others. I assume you want to depart ASAP. Yeah , thank you, Chief. All right, Prince, meet me in the armory. Sarah, I think you should get to the dry storage, see if you can help. They'll be injured. Well, you and your new sidekick go to South like head. Doctor, the vault is open blame. We don't actually know that. If it is , you have no idea what you're going to find . Well, you two definitely have them machismal covered, wouldn't it be prudent to bring someone smart along too? Yeah, she's got a point there You're in awful lot of trouble, doctor We established that already I finished a five K in ninety fourth place . Right after a man wearing jeans , they still gave me a medal. I don't want a reward for doing , I want a reward for dominating. Like Daily Prize Metro, I'm Beth three hundred and sixty five. I play for free and win real rewards, like up to five thousand dollars in cash weekly. Unlike that Joker in Denim . Bet three hundred and sixty five. Winning is everything. Gambling problem call one hundred gambler twenty one plus only must be physically present in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, TV supply Albarez, what's the verdict? Airlock one has been all to hell. A two looks okay though. Computer shows green. And the crane. Good to go too, bus . Take a seat then boys and girls and get wet I hate these things . Submarinophobia. That's not even a real phobia and you're not even in the ballpark Warning sub birth airlock crane active ensure no personnel are within the operation area . How do we get into the relay? Does it have an airlock? No airlock . No pressurization at all . All systems are designed to work submerged . That's why we're taking the Demus's doctor, Fritz . He's got it loaded up with the weapons packages. They're weaponized The Demis really is just a CPS eleven combat armor that fight for deep sea environments . MD makes an augmentation package that returns some of its weaponry. Fathom got four of those packages. Why? In case we had to go to Wall Airlock cranes this situation, doctor Confirm opening of suburbir athirlock . Confirmed. Opening of subbirth airlock Hey , you okay? Yeah , it's nothing . I'm just out of that experience with a crane. Don't ask Here we go Go ahead , take us out nice and slow . Yep Clear chance . Okay, let's follow the Southwest Condo in line for now. Got it Geez , look at the damage. Look at the yarks coming off control , you better keep everyone clear from there. Last I heard they were routing controls to the rover berth, then they were going to shut the capsule down. This place is dying What are we gonna do ? Call for help , get another sub , evacuate . So optimistic. Come to VN to the conduit line boss. Okay , is that two hundred seventy one ? two hundred and seventy one, confirmed . How long did the relay? Not long full speed about forty minutes . Zero visibility in Dark always freaks me out . It's like looking into nothing . You know, it feels like it's looking back . You don't need to see it to know where you are . The constant optimism must be draining . Wreak me when we have visual on the relay . You're seriously taking a nap right now ? I am . Everyone else should too. It was the last time any of you slept . Sometimes I really envy you Ryan Reynolds here from Mint Mobile with a message for everyone paying Big Wireless way too much. Please, for the love of everything good in this world, stop. With Mint, you can get premium wireless for just fifteen dollars a month. Of course, if you enjoy overpay ing, no judgments, but that's weird . Okay, one judgment . Anyway, give it a try at mint mobile dot com slash switch. Upront payment of forty five dollars for three months plan equivalent to fifteen dollars per month required , intro rate first months only then full price plan options available. Taxes and fees extra. See full terms at MintMobil. com Lane, wake up. There's something strange . Can you be more specific? The radiation that the vault emoltits, it's not there . I'm sorry I'm not following. We're not picking up any rats . We should have perimeter alarms for the radiation fields at least, but nothing. And the detectors are working. My ID and RPM bolts show no spikes just ambient rads and it's all low level. My guess is it has to do with the vault stall mechanism . Now that it's offline, the rads are gone too . Offline . You want to tell him or should I? We think that the vault is open . What? Holy shit . If that thing is open, then whatever was inside it is loose out there Don't frick me. Are you kidding me? You brought us out here and did it tell us. Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't realize I needed to run my decisions by you for approval . And we don't know anything was inside. It' its not we can't see anything . We're blind here. It's pitch black outside. We wouldn't know if there's anything out there. Calm down . Stop jumping to conclusions. Everything's a hypothetical right now. We need to find out what's really what ? Do we have a visual? And now with the lighting grid out , we'd have to get a lot closer. Like how? Yay friends. I've had enough of it. You aren't in a position to say no to anything and you do what I say like always the both of you . Listen, I can guarantee you one thing. I'm a lot worse than anything on the other side of that door . And I'm here right now. Are we clear? Are we clear? Yeah or clear . Alfarez . Clear boss . Thank you That's wonderful . Now set two hundred forty four and shut the hell up . I really do not like this. Just close enough to get a visual. I don't want to float over it or anything. Thank you for that at least. Are we what's our angle to it? Pretty much right on. Okay , set two fifty four and let's keep it more parallel . TPS says the vault edge is a hundred yard s off the port bow . I don't see anything . eighty yards , just black . Seventy seventy , sixty . Damon Alvarez hit the lights. Yeah, let it know where you're Look at all that mug . That ain't murder. fifty odds. What is it? I don't know, but it's thick , thick and black, like forty yards or blood. Fritz . You're about to be swimming in it. thirty. thirty yards and we can't see it . twenty . You got to be kidding me. That thing's the size of an orbital station. We can't hold down Feel the pressure valve . Hey, you have me a pressure valve. Albarez, turn offed the cam . Oh boy. Dude, that took some years off of my life. Where was that? It came out of nowhere. The door . The door to the vaults . It's open . Standing straight up in the water, we almost motored right into it. Pretty much did . Head on the port side of Frisk. We a damn very mother of God. Is that Yeah , the vault open . I've never seen anything either . It's a massive container . I mean I can't even see the bottom. It looks like it goes down forever . I reallyd r don'ather like this . But there's nothing inside. I mean nothing It's clearer on the inside , less of that substance . How can there be nothing ? I don't know. I do because it left whatever was inside. Fritz Wow, you're starting to get on my nerves now . Is that enough? Can we move away ? Yeah , yeah, let's pull away from it, chief. Yeah, that sounds like a good idea . Fritz , said two six hundred andty four . There it goes . I'm not sure what it's worse seeing it in the dark . Or not seeing it . You want it to come . You insisted. I take it back . What are we going to do? Turn around. If you ask me, I mean , right? Tell me what I'm asking you, Fritz , you just sit there and be stoic . Can I talk to you, please? Okay I get that she's scared. I'm scared too, and she might be right . How so ? The vault is open, Blaine . We have no idea what that means . And we can't even see what's around us, not to mention that substance in the water. We don't have biodetectors . I can't tell you that it's not toxic or parasitic, and I'm guessing the only way to work the relay is to get out of the sub, which means getting in the water. Yeah, see your point . I just don't know what other choice we have. We go back to east and do what? There's no way to contact this surface there. The generators will lose fuel eventually and then we'll be in the dark just like we are here . The relay is the only way to get help that I see . Am I missing something ? No , I'm not second guessing you. I'm just asking asking what ? You saw your son today . That would make anyone more risk prone and I, know firsthand what it 's like to give in to emotion . In this situation , there's no move that doesn't involve risks , mortal ones . The only option we have for weighing them is which one potentially saves the most people . Condo the real Age is the only one that does that This is not emotional . Okay , I just I have to ask . Chief , straight on to the relay . Understood . Now why don't we just turn off the lights for now ? Hm . Alvarez. Back into the dark . He never left it. He just pushed it away . That's all we've ever done here I don't get why Elvis can't go instead of me. Well, that's because we need all your tech skills, Fritz . We also take comfort in your charming personality and relax. I've done it a million times . Cigar. Hard pass. You going to smoke a cigar . Inside the Demis? That's a great thing about a demis , her medically sealed environment, complete atmosphere filtration, the best smoke you'll ever have. What do you do about the ashes? I welded a little ash tray in here, right under the keyboard. No one ever asked for that. Yeah, sure . I tell him it's a slap in my whiskey plaster . Well, this is gonna be fun . How do you feel ? Peachy . You? Grammatically shouldn't it be peach like? I've always wondered. What's weird is I've never wondered about that . I could come with you, you know . There's one more demis . I'd rather have you monitoring this thing from here. You can see all the camera feeds at the op station . Okay . Good luck out there. Thanks, Doc. Agent assuming you've done some combat drops in your time . Here and there. It's same process. System lowers us into the tubes, then drops us into the water . We're about twenty feet from the sea bed, there will be a little freakfall . Got it . Alvarez, at your pleasure . Watch your heads . Pressuriz ing . All right , deployment in five four three two one Okay , everybody check in . Green here, boss . I'm good too, chief . Hit your lights . A lot of good that did . LTS , Calm check. Do you read ? Got you, chief . That blackish substance is here. A lot of it . Computer says visibility is about eleven feet . Can you describe it? What's to describe ? Is it uniform ? All in mass, same thickness ? No, it's not uniform at all. Yeah, it's thicker in some parts, clumps together, and then thicker parts. Swirl Swirl ? He's right. The clumps, they swirl in the water like pinwheels and then dissipate . And they what? Well , it seems to move independent of the water flow around it. Blaine, that could imply organic cohesion. What does that mean? You could be alive, Fritz. Are your biodetectors giving off any warnings . And nope, just low level radiation, that's about it. Does this sub have the ability to sterilize those suits coming back on board? Odd chambers have sterilization, yeah. Okay, I'm gonna look into that. If it's just an isopropanol blend, we may have to rethink how you're getting back on board. Why? Because this stuff we're walking around in could be a contaminant . Who knows what the hell it is ? Better and better . Alvarez, put a nav point in our hut for the relay . Looks like about thirty yards thirty yards . We can't see it at all Start moving and you will . Hey, how do we get inside the relay ? There's an entry point on the south side automated, assuming the relay is actually powered. It is. I can see the naval lights ahead. You guys? Not yet . Just give it a few more steps . There it is. I see it That is huge . Yeah , like we said, full on long wave coms dish . As far as I know, it's the only one ever built under water . You're seeing light s? Yeah, lots all over it. Flashing red . I can see the white indicators for the access door. Yeah, I see 'em too now . Yeah, we'll follow you, Fritz . Hey chief, I'm just curious . I saw the weapons canisters on the exterior of the Demus . There's nothing in my hud to indicate they're there . If we get to that point, I'll activate them . You'll see it in the hud then. Use the thumb triggers on your head actuators for fire control . What do I have? sixteen MM auto cannon with ten thousand rounds. Shells are tuned for water or atmosphere, but in the drink you get a range of about one thousand feet. More like two thousand five hundred in atmosphere, but you should know the slugs are not low impact. They will breach bulkheads and anything else they hit Noted . You also got a plasma thrower, works underwater out of it, and a GSU eighteen guided grenades launcher, in sendiary fragmentation rounds each six of these . What the hell guys? What is it you think you're gonna fight down there? You remember the combat mech? Sappoint . You fought a combat mech . And an HK . Well, two HKs on North Mac let 'em loose. Hell, that must have been something. If you guys want to put it back in your pants, I'm at the door . You want me to open it? Yeah , do it . Bosh, fact we'd circle around the outside of the relay. Scan the exterior. That okay with you? Knock yourself out That is a door After you, Agent Blaine . Thanks Where's the rest of it ? This is just the lift of the main level . For it ? Yeah, yeah Alvarez, how's our connection here? Alvarez, you're reading us . Alvarez, what's your stick ? Albertz, we really break it up. Stand by until we get to control over . Not as surprise. It's a calm center. Probably EM shielded . Yeah, I suppose I feel like we've had calms in the lip before Fritz ? Oh, it's my fault, that's the assumption. There's no gas pedal on this thing. It's just a button labeled please check it . It's not too much of an imposition What the hell sounded like I don't know bending metal metal sounded like something god damn moving up there to me. I don't see anything . The light doesn't go up that far . I just see a door in the shaft, that what we're headed for? Yeah . We could get up there with a jets, but then how do we open ? Okay Gotta be kidding I guess the structure took damage from the displacement too. Well, it's right on the edge of the vault . You just identified the part that worries me . Let's get this over with and get out of here . Fear it switch way . Right . Left goes to the power connections , straight goes to the dish access chute , at least as far as I remember . Clayton, go ahead, this is Blaine. Okay, yeah, we should have a signal up here, for sure . That is odd . Blaine can you read me ? Blank get out of here. I can't raid you. There's some penetrant . Oh man, come on . It's just It's just damage from the water displacement . The structure is disable. Is that supposed to be a more comforting option than something else ? How about those weapons, boss? France , the last thing I would ever entertain would be giving you an autocannon . Is it odd? There's no lights in here . Yeah , it actually ceiling lights are sealed . Work underwater . Oh, look at that . Lights are burst There was some kind of pulse . Thor's dead boss. Is that the door to control ? Yeah . Is it possible that the controls on the other side are dead too We won't know until we're in, but the relay has power. It was lit up . We might have to re route or shunt. I can cut through the door's lock with the torch, then we can pry it . Yeah , do it . How long will this take? Two minutesbe, May. Blank here in me Clayton. Blank Clay . Can you boost the signal? The exterior of the relay is completely gone. Clay can't read you like this . Can you boost the signal? Almost got it , don't burn it out. Yeah, Clayton, that's better. What's your situation ? It's your situation . What? We drifted around the relay all the way around to the north side. The entire exterior is enveloped with some kind of substance. Say again , say again, doctor There is a substance covering the exterior wall of the northern side of the ray . It's on right now. What do you mean a substance? It's covering the entire thing. You got it. Again on left side. Clay , what do you mean a substance? Excluding a control capsule or some kind of synthetic biological mask. I don't know, I can't tell from here. But you need to get away from the northern end of that section. Just catch you Greece now. Wait for it pictures , go hurry used to be French. Go . Wait, those left ? No help it'll take too long. Just go away. Get under the chute. It's open Weapons Confirm Weapons platform Activation four Demus X three hundred twenty . Weapons platforms fourteen X three two I will know he had to shirt. You should just out here Because it's coming up . All of it Warning, plasma grower active. Use caution when deploying this button exclusive Jesus Dinner did the plasma st op it ? Alvarez we escaped through the top of the relay . We're back outside now . Do you read? What was it ? What the hell? I don't know , I've never seen anything like it was like was like metal like fluid metal. I've all I saw was a black , a black mass that exploded out the door . Then it just spread everywhere . It spread all over Her and it grabbed her, it breached her suit when it touched her and it was like she just she dissolved Everything that was her right in front of me or cut her face right in front of me and it dissolved into that same black Spin in the hall . Sput everywhere after it . Dook Frits , floor , walls, a ceiling it spread after us . Like it sensed us like it . Like it was alive Clayton . Clayton, this is blind to you really . No , damn it. No , it's got Alvarez . It's got that stuff all over it. Clayton Clayon,t do you read ? Oh no God it crashed . They're gone . We don't know that yet. What happened to Fritz? What happened to Fritz ? What happened to her? That was chief. We got to get this up. They may still be able to we should never come out here. We should never have got out here Shef I want you to breathe. You're in shock, you're taken into my to e. I want you Sarah was right Be sick enough here stop it now We are in a lot of trouble. You need to start thinking. I've seen your file. You're better than this. Start thinking or we are gone . Okay Okay yeah okay I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry . And just lay there a second to get your oxygen levels back to normal. All we gotta breathe is what's in our suits. Clayton, this is Blaine, do you read ? Alvarez , Blaine . Clayton if you can hear me. Blaine. What ? My suit leg My demis left leg Uh nuts . That stuff That black stuff looks like it's cheap , but it's that's not spreading. It isn't shit shit, man, it just it just grew . Shit it screwed. We have to get to south, get your suit off before it breaks through the se als. It is definitely spreading slower than that stuff on Fritz, which is good. All right, how far away south from here Reese , how far In Ard demos maybe twenty minute walk . Is it that way ? Yeah , yeah, due south pretty much . Go ahead. The sub went down, we can find the wreck on the way. You have one other problem you're not aware of. Clayton is hate you . What's your situation We are into electrical energy. Radiation , cytroleum bleed, pretty much anything electronic. Who's on this channel? It feeds off it . The extra heat and current from that suit when it starts moving will make it spread faster and faster. Are you on calms with someone? You can't hear . I isolated your channel so he wouldn't hear. He seems pammed enough already. Who is this ? Oh, we met on the North platform . Talked while looking at the vault when it was still closed . And then you told me to go home I really wish I'd listened . doctor Graf . Agent Blaine . In spite of present circumstances , it's really good to hear your voice . Maybe there's still a chance . Chance for what? What the hell's going on? That thing out there spreading like some kind of technological contagion . We either stop it here or we watch the world burn . And we have about two hours to do it Welcome to Father South Fathom is the first season of the podcast derelict by Night Rocket Productions . It is created, written, directed, and edited by J. Barton Mitchell and produced by Elizabeth Laidlaw, Kirsten Rudberg and Thomas Barker . Episode seven Into the Dark stars Michael Mau as Blaine , Danny Payne as Sarah Clayton , Brian Gray as Reese , Nina Gannett as Fritz , Jonathan Olivirus as Alvarez , Michelle Campbell as Valerie Blaine , and Elizabeth Laidlaw as Eva Graff . The podcast features original music by Ryan Talbert, Luka Tin cio , Makeup Invanity Set , and Chris Coleman , as well as additional sound design by Music Radio Creative . The producers wish to thank Flashpoint Chicago, a campus of Columbia College, Hollywood, especially John Petrowski, and Bill Bacon for their invaluable support in the creation of this podcast . 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