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The howl grows louder as you look around for the source of the noise before you turn your gaze back upon the artifact once more. As you squint at it, you can make out something in the middle of the artifact's hole, and you have your suit's camera zoom in on it; it looks like a tear of some sort…and something sticks its shadowy tendrils through the tear and forces it wide open.

"Oh, shit…" You stare at the…you think it's a Fiend, but this one is tall, like a twenty-foot tall Shadow, and it utters the same wolfish howl that you heard earlier. You swear again as you look up at it; when did real life suddenly become a monster movie, you think to yourself as you frantically message Morgan.

Despite your frantic messages to Morgan, she doesn't answer them; you hear some rather labored breathing coming from her end of the radio, and as the Fiend stretches its limbs and utters another loud howl, you call out to her again, your voice soft as you say, "Are you there, Morgan?"

Eventually, you think you hear her say, "No…there's something over here, too—" Her words are cut short by several loud snarls and her radio is cut off as well; you hear nothing but static. "Morgan?" you call out to her again. "MORGAN!!!"

But there's no time for you to find out what's going on; right now, you've got a giant Fiend on the loose.

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