Episode 3 When We Went Knocking

On the weekend before Christmas, we started the construction of EMF cages, we later called Bubbles, to hold at least one of them. By this time, we had already figured that we can manipulate the smaller ones with EMFs. On the day before Christmas Eve, we kept a trap to capture at least one of the Dwellers. We used a specially designed ERPD (Emitter Receiver Photosensor Diode) setup, which basically worked when anything that is in one light spectrum but not present in any other light spectrums is detected in the camera set up the trap will go off.

On Christmas Day, we four went out for celebrating Christmas. It has been 1 year and 6 months now since we had a proper vacation. We really did enjoy the week-long holiday. We traveled, drank, danced, sang, played in the snow, and a lot more. What we did not know at that time was that that was the last time we will ever enjoy something fun ever again. To be honest the result we got was not what we wanted.

We went back to our lab after the week of fun. What we saw was nothing we never have seen before. The “thing” inside the cage was a fist-sized white blob with an appendage or a tail similar to a tadpole. Before that, all we saw was small gray balls the size of a cuticle.

We took the bubble out and set it on a table inside the house with the help of some mechanical hands set up inside the house. This time we all went into the house. We already had a setup similar to a VR headset with the Void Device rigged onto the front of it. As we went in we were greeted by a very foul smell that felt similar to the smell of rotting flesh and ammonia. We were curious about what caused this smell if the chamber was closed off from to the outside world. This led us toward the table with the Bubble. Why? What inside the Bubble is causing the smell? As we got closer we saw it. The beginning of everything. The Dweller inside the Bubble was much more visible to

us than the other Dwellers we have been familiar with.

We used Matt's phone to see the stream from the ERDP sensor that we set up. What we saw was… was very creepy. The images saw multiple Dwellers being trapped in the Bubble. Then one of the smaller Dwellers

gradually became whiter and whiter every time it hit the Bubble walls and finally stopped at a bright white stage. It also seemed to have formed a mouth. Then it went ballistic and started to consume all the other Dwellers. When we

first saw the bigger Dwellers consume the smaller ones it wasn’t as violent as what we saw in the display now. This was horrible. The new Dweller attacked the other ones including the few larger ones, throwing pieces of the others in the confines of the bubble. It shook the ones it had in its mouth and threw bits of the smaller ones everywhere. As it consumed all the other Dwellers in the cage, it became bigger and bigger. Now we understood what the cause of the smell was, Dead Dwellers. Or so we thought.

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