>>5611421When the Set-Mobile finally shudders to a halt, you immediately crack open the panel door and step outside, desperate for an opportunity to stretch your legs after two days of being cramped inside of the van.
For the sake of safety, Jack had parked the van off-road and a fair distance away from the site proper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtPk22NWB5YYour first impression from a distance is that the place is more than a little underwhelming.
If had been awoken from a stupor with no clue as to where you were, the first assumption would’ve been that it was some kind of junkyard.
Still, you’ve come all this way; might as well see it through to its end. Not quite sure what possessed you to head here in the first place, but at least you’ll get to enjoy the fresh air and the outdoors for a while.
After some quick stretching to get the blood flowing, you ensure that your cold-weather kit is snug. Once those checks are done with, you and the rest of your pals begin the trek towards the dig site. It’s bitterly cold, even through your protective gear.
You welcome the challenge; the vacation has had the side effect of making you feel a little soft as of late, and this place will definitely beat it out of you quickly.
The approach to the site doesn’t reveal any overt signs of a human presence, which is a blessing. Something tells you they don’t get a lot of tourists up this way, and you’d rather avoid having to humor the locals.
In terms of landmarks, you’re able to clock a few points of interest.
- A tall, rusting, tower-like building positioned neatly in the middle of the dig site. There’s gotta be some kind of purpose to it, but you can’t quite identify it from a distance.
- A small, half-collapsed barracks located near the edge of the site, likely where a token military force was garrisoned as security. Poor bastards, imagine how badly you would've had to have fucked up to be assigned here full-time.
- A caved-in complex with signs labelling it as one of many research outposts. Can't imagine what kind of research would be worth all this trouble, but governments are known for throwing money in figurative holes anyhow; why not a literal one as well?
- Some kind of brutalist office building, probably where the local paperpushers were headquartered. It says a lot about Soviet sensibilities that it’s much more impressive than any of its counterparts.
- A ramshackle building positioned near the decaying tower. You’d bet money that it’s the workers quarters, given its size and general disrepair even when compared to the site as a whole.
