Tales From The Basement
"Tommy, think carefully. WHERE is the entrance to the bunker?" you order which seems to make Tommy upset. He collapses on the ground and begins to cry.
"WAHHHHHHH! I don't like this game! No blue anymore! No more bad place!"
"What the hell?"
"Dig too deep! Too deep! Two trees! Scary things! (Sob)"
It's a bit incoherent gibberish, but you begin to wonder if Tommy hasn't given you the clue of where to find the shelter entrance. You look around and notice the blue colored flowers near the medium sized trees in your backyard and you start to wonder.
You leave Tommy to his retard seizure and head over to one of the trees and knock on it. Sounds solid, you knock on the other one and it makes a completely different sound.
"Hah! Hollow!" you say and feel around for a door of some sort, eventually you find one and when you open it up a long ladder leading down is revealed. At the bottom you can see a faint bit of light and hear the hum of a generator.
While you're glad you found the entrance, you still don't know how the hell he's been supposedly changing the entrance. It really doesn't seem possible, unless Moon Shadow and Tommy were initially lying to you.
You descend down the ladder. It takes awhile, but when you get to the bottom you find yourself in a fairly spartan room with a few dim lights and a generator. There's only one corridor leading from the room so you follow it.
"Ben? Are you down here? Don't shoot if you are, it's me Suzy!" you call out, walking down the corridor.
You pass many smaller room, most are empty. Some have things like canned food in them. You marvel at the fact that Ben was able to build something like this within a relatively short period of time. Amazing still that nobody really paid much attention to what he was doing or how he even got the materials down here.
Eventually you come to a spot where the bunker doesn't have the wall siding and just dirt with wooden support beams are being used. You're guessing that Ben's only just started digging here. You also notice that the newly dug pathway is sloping downward and there isn't any lighting in that direction. This was creepy before, but now it's starting to approach the scary realm. You decide you don't really want to go any further.
"BEN?! Are you down there?"
Your call is followed by silence for a moment, then you hear some shuffling, then heavy breathing. Whatever it is that's approaching, it doesn't sound like Ben and when a disgusting figure dripping with ichor steps into the dim light, you know damn well it isn't Ben!
Panic and fear overwhelm you, and you run screaming back to the ladder. The inhuman noises are only getting louder though. You completely freak out when you run into a figure that steps out from one of the side rooms. You're temporarily blinded by the powerful light shining from where the figure's head would be. The figure turns down the light and you can see that it's Ben wearing light mounted helmet.
"Suzy, what the fuck are you doing down here? Get out of the way!" Ben shouts and strides past you with a shotgun when he hears the noises behind you.
You crawl into the room he just came out of and hear him shout "DIE FUCKING MUTANT BASTARD!", followed by a couple of gunshots a hideous cry and a loud thump.
Ben then returns to find you.
"Suzy, you're still here? You've should've kept running, it's not safe down here." Ben asks helping you up.
"W what's going on down here?"
"Oh nothing much except trying to clean out some sort of race of creatures. I dunno what the hell they are, but I call 'em Chulocks. Y'know like a combination of a Morlock and a Chud heh heh."
You have so many questions that you don't know where to begin. Ben touches some sort of panel on the wall with his shotgun and a secret door slides open and motions you inside a nicely furnished room with a large arsenal, computer, books, bed and some food.
"Don't worry about the Chulocks, we're safe in here, though I really need to install a security camera system down here. Just haven't had time. I Look Suzy, I'm sure have a shitload of questions, and I'll try to answer some of them, but you'll have to leave soon. I have to start working on changing the layout of this place again, obviously it isn't hidden enough if you found it. What were doing do here anyway?"
"I I was going to ask you for job advice."
"Job?" Ben starts to laugh. "I don't think I'd have any good advice since I gave up that life long ago. You still living in the basement?"
"Yeah."
"Hmm, you might want to think about moving or at least sleeping with a weapon."
"Why?"
"Well as you can see living underground around here isn't exactly the safest thing. Now I doubt if these things will be crawling into the basement anytime soon, but still it's something to think about. Ironic that I built this place to be safe and it turns out to be almost as dangerous."
"Almost? Why the hell are you still living down here?"
"You might as why as why am I still living in America. Because it's my home and I'm not going to be run off by some underground mutants or ancient race, or whatever the hell those things are. Besides I got a theory they're government made anyway. Probably some sort of experiment that went wrong, or maybe even unleashed on me purposely. It wouldn't surprise me."
You're not sure if that is the case, but given that you saw one of these things, Ben's conspiracy theories might not all be crazy.
"How long have you been fighting these things?"
"Quite awhile. I first ran into them about a year after I started digging this thing. Little did I know something else was digging UP. There were shitloads of them in the past. Nowadays not so much. I dunno if it's because I'm killing them all off or they're finally getting the idea of not to come around here. For awhile I thought I'd killed them all, and I even had Tommy come down here to help me sometimes, but as it turned out they weren't all gone and I sent Tommy back up. He's seen them, and is scared of them, but I know his attention span isn't the greatest."
"So, wait does Moon Shadow know about this? Does anyone else?"
"Moon Shadow, well if you've spoken with her, she'd probably try to make friends with the damn things. So no she doesn't know. Everyone else in the family doesn't know either. They're all too wrapped up in their own dramas and wouldn't believe me if I told them. Well Uncle Ed might, but he's up to his own suspicious dealings and quite frankly I think a Chulock eating him wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing. He's just plain creepy."
This all seems very surreal to you. All you did was want a little job advice to do something with your life and you got wrapped up in something much more.
Question is now, are you going to actively do anything about what you learned?
« Go Back "WAHHHHHHH! I don't like this game! No blue anymore! No more bad place!"
"What the hell?"
"Dig too deep! Too deep! Two trees! Scary things! (Sob)"
It's a bit incoherent gibberish, but you begin to wonder if Tommy hasn't given you the clue of where to find the shelter entrance. You look around and notice the blue colored flowers near the medium sized trees in your backyard and you start to wonder.
You leave Tommy to his retard seizure and head over to one of the trees and knock on it. Sounds solid, you knock on the other one and it makes a completely different sound.
"Hah! Hollow!" you say and feel around for a door of some sort, eventually you find one and when you open it up a long ladder leading down is revealed. At the bottom you can see a faint bit of light and hear the hum of a generator.
While you're glad you found the entrance, you still don't know how the hell he's been supposedly changing the entrance. It really doesn't seem possible, unless Moon Shadow and Tommy were initially lying to you.
You descend down the ladder. It takes awhile, but when you get to the bottom you find yourself in a fairly spartan room with a few dim lights and a generator. There's only one corridor leading from the room so you follow it.
"Ben? Are you down here? Don't shoot if you are, it's me Suzy!" you call out, walking down the corridor.
You pass many smaller room, most are empty. Some have things like canned food in them. You marvel at the fact that Ben was able to build something like this within a relatively short period of time. Amazing still that nobody really paid much attention to what he was doing or how he even got the materials down here.
Eventually you come to a spot where the bunker doesn't have the wall siding and just dirt with wooden support beams are being used. You're guessing that Ben's only just started digging here. You also notice that the newly dug pathway is sloping downward and there isn't any lighting in that direction. This was creepy before, but now it's starting to approach the scary realm. You decide you don't really want to go any further.
"BEN?! Are you down there?"
Your call is followed by silence for a moment, then you hear some shuffling, then heavy breathing. Whatever it is that's approaching, it doesn't sound like Ben and when a disgusting figure dripping with ichor steps into the dim light, you know damn well it isn't Ben!
Panic and fear overwhelm you, and you run screaming back to the ladder. The inhuman noises are only getting louder though. You completely freak out when you run into a figure that steps out from one of the side rooms. You're temporarily blinded by the powerful light shining from where the figure's head would be. The figure turns down the light and you can see that it's Ben wearing light mounted helmet.
"Suzy, what the fuck are you doing down here? Get out of the way!" Ben shouts and strides past you with a shotgun when he hears the noises behind you.
You crawl into the room he just came out of and hear him shout "DIE FUCKING MUTANT BASTARD!", followed by a couple of gunshots a hideous cry and a loud thump.
Ben then returns to find you.
"Suzy, you're still here? You've should've kept running, it's not safe down here." Ben asks helping you up.
"W what's going on down here?"
"Oh nothing much except trying to clean out some sort of race of creatures. I dunno what the hell they are, but I call 'em Chulocks. Y'know like a combination of a Morlock and a Chud heh heh."
You have so many questions that you don't know where to begin. Ben touches some sort of panel on the wall with his shotgun and a secret door slides open and motions you inside a nicely furnished room with a large arsenal, computer, books, bed and some food.
"Don't worry about the Chulocks, we're safe in here, though I really need to install a security camera system down here. Just haven't had time. I Look Suzy, I'm sure have a shitload of questions, and I'll try to answer some of them, but you'll have to leave soon. I have to start working on changing the layout of this place again, obviously it isn't hidden enough if you found it. What were doing do here anyway?"
"I I was going to ask you for job advice."
"Job?" Ben starts to laugh. "I don't think I'd have any good advice since I gave up that life long ago. You still living in the basement?"
"Yeah."
"Hmm, you might want to think about moving or at least sleeping with a weapon."
"Why?"
"Well as you can see living underground around here isn't exactly the safest thing. Now I doubt if these things will be crawling into the basement anytime soon, but still it's something to think about. Ironic that I built this place to be safe and it turns out to be almost as dangerous."
"Almost? Why the hell are you still living down here?"
"You might as why as why am I still living in America. Because it's my home and I'm not going to be run off by some underground mutants or ancient race, or whatever the hell those things are. Besides I got a theory they're government made anyway. Probably some sort of experiment that went wrong, or maybe even unleashed on me purposely. It wouldn't surprise me."
You're not sure if that is the case, but given that you saw one of these things, Ben's conspiracy theories might not all be crazy.
"How long have you been fighting these things?"
"Quite awhile. I first ran into them about a year after I started digging this thing. Little did I know something else was digging UP. There were shitloads of them in the past. Nowadays not so much. I dunno if it's because I'm killing them all off or they're finally getting the idea of not to come around here. For awhile I thought I'd killed them all, and I even had Tommy come down here to help me sometimes, but as it turned out they weren't all gone and I sent Tommy back up. He's seen them, and is scared of them, but I know his attention span isn't the greatest."
"So, wait does Moon Shadow know about this? Does anyone else?"
"Moon Shadow, well if you've spoken with her, she'd probably try to make friends with the damn things. So no she doesn't know. Everyone else in the family doesn't know either. They're all too wrapped up in their own dramas and wouldn't believe me if I told them. Well Uncle Ed might, but he's up to his own suspicious dealings and quite frankly I think a Chulock eating him wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing. He's just plain creepy."
This all seems very surreal to you. All you did was want a little job advice to do something with your life and you got wrapped up in something much more.
Question is now, are you going to actively do anything about what you learned?