[Delta Green] Operas and Avatars: Tapeworm

[Committed Hero]

OOC: Who says you can't scare someone in a PBP. Nice one, Gomez.

Agreed.

"I'll feel better when you're out of that pool." Turning to the SWAT leader, he wonders aloud, "You wouldn't be able to get the utility company on the phone and shut off the main to this compound, would you?"

 

[Gomez]

The SWAT leaders says. "I could try. Let me make a call." He pulls out a cell phone.

 

[Committed Hero]

Well, when the team is ready lets go down those stairs.

 

[Gomez]

The Swat guys give a thumbs up and one goes down the stairs with his C-15 at the ready. Another follows about 15 feet behind. After about a minute, the Swat leader says. "It's all clear but there is something down there that you should look at Doc."

The stairs go down about 30 feet to a 25-foot by 25-foot room. There are half-burnt candles all along sides of the room on shelves and in the middle of the room is a medical examination table. It has foot stirrups with leather straps and a belt strap for the waist. It looks like a gynecological examination table except it is designed to hold someone down on their belly. A metal shoot runs from the open drainpipe in the ceiling to the end of the table with the foot stirrups. The shoot has a trail of brown liquid on it.

 

[Hrothgar]

OOC: Before I have Jonathan make a response, is the ceiling level above or below the level of the bottom of the pool? That is, is the liquid in the pool drain higher in elevation than this ceiling?

 

[Gomez]

OOC: Before I have Jonathan make a response, is the ceiling level above or below the level of the bottom of the pool? That is, is the liquid in the pool drain higher in elevation than this ceiling?

OOC: The room appears to be under the pool.

 

[Hrothgar]

Jonathan nervously rubs hand hand over his face and then through his unkempt hair. "Marcus. Lt. Rubin. Have you ever seen anything like this before? Dr. Hardiman suggested the parasite was introduced into her through human intervention. This place...looks like some sort of ritual chamber. This is way out of my league, gentlemen."

Jonathan peers up at the drain. If this room is beneath the pool and the parasites are hold up in some sort of reservoir between the two rooms...how can this drain in the ceiling be open without everything falling out. "Any of you officers have a flashlight? Mind shining it up that drain - or I will if you let me borrow it."

Jonathan shudders suddenly. "You know...I just had a really nasty thought. I was thinking there might be a reservoir between the pool and the drain above. What if, and this is unsubstantiated, what if the parasites are using the entire network of old plumbing in this building? Not just a single pool?" Jonathan looks around at the men in the room. "I would suggest we all watch where we step," Jonathan peers up, "and what we stand under."

 

[Committed Hero]

"There has to be a downward limit to the size of the smallest pipe they could use, though. Right? "

 

[Hrothgar]

"I would suspect the smaller pipes are the means of egress from the larger plumbing in this structure. Still, most parasites lay eggs in their victims or transmitt the eggs through their victim's bodily orifices to the surrounding environment. How these parasites have concentrated themselves here, enough to even be used in ritualistic infections...I am at a loss."

 

[Gomez]

The SWAT commander stops and listens to his ear piece and then says. "We found someone in the main building."