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Message: <blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 4963113" data-attributes="member: 3285">Owlshead Mountain: Prologue"The Weston Logging Consortium and the Samson Valley Ski Company had taken an interest in Owlshead Mountain, logging old growth under state contract for years. There were plans to employ them in the removal of virgin timber from the upper slopes of Owlshead Mountain on a portion of territory they purchased from the state for an exorbitant sum. On June 4, James Bartlett and Drew Frost, two surveyors in the employ of MacArthur Surveying of Samson, California, set off to mark regions on the northwest upper slope of Owlshead Mountain.  When they did not return by 5 a.m. the following morning, the local police were alerted. A search by two-hundred men began on June 5 and last until the 8th, when it was called off. On June 12, a search party led by Majestic Agent Irving set off hoping to locate the men.  Near the crest of the mountain, Cell I was confronted by some sort of alien creature. Of the thirty-man team who went up the mountain, only seventeen came back alive. Irving, the leader of Cell I, several Majestic friendlies, and local searchers perished on the mountain during an intense firefight."Sprague downloaded the case file into the agents' cistrons.  “The thing wandering the mountain was described by the surviving agents as tripedal, with various maws and mouths set around it like knots in a tree-trunk. Its grey and green body is topped by a series of long, thin, prehensile tentacles that it uses as grasping limbs.  It is nearly silent and very swift in the woods, and is difficult to spot when it holds still in the tree line.  We believe it’s drawn to sound and motion, as those that frozen on the mountain were spared during the attack.”Pictures appeared on their cistrons of some of the bodies recovered from the incident, and several grainy black-and-white photos of huge cloven footprints found in the mud surrounding them. The photographs of the bodies were horrific. The bite marks on them resembled those left by a shark attack.“We had a plaster cast made of on the of the hoof marks of the beast,” said Sprague. “It’s three feet long by two and a half feet wide.""The thing we dropped off at Zymvotek did that?" asked Hammer. "Looks like our escaped baby is all grown up," said Jim-Bean."I want you to look over Harold Gall's car again.  Warner's team is obsessed with tracking the thing down, but I think your time will be better served investigating. Get to it, I don't want Warner to beat us on this."Their cistrons winked out.Jim-Bean blinked.  "Did Sprague just compliment us?"</blockquote>

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