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It's roughly the middle of the month, so time to put out another modified H-space Bestiary story.

This was originally the Latexian Scylla story.  As with the others, I've beefed up the background a little.

I've also beefed up the epilogue and added a little extra...

I felt it was time one of my minor recurring characters made their presence a little more felt.  He's been around for a while, although I suspect most might not have picked up on it.

I hope you enjoy it.  Let me know your thoughts (and criticisms) below.

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CrimsonCrown

Thank you! The post-pov character ending is good and gives it a little more bite than some of the other H-space epilogues. This one is more plot than “Bad Ending” so to speak. As a reader it makes me wonder why the high-ups are so keen on killing and retrieving the remains of this particular “hindig” (if this takes place after the fall of Operation Base Helmouth sic are they now particularly focused on finding out more about smoke producing H-space creatures?).

manyeyedhydra

Probably before the fall of Helmuth, but after the people in charge have noticed the 'natives' are a little unusual and dangerous. Even though the stories are out of sequence, I'll need to go through and get the timelines straight at some point. As for Inky Ilsa/Vampuum (and other Latexian Scyllas), there is likely abuses of Need-to-Know going on. The people at the top know they're attacking patrols and carrying off men. LT Wright would not have been told about the carrying off men part. The grunts would have been told nothing. Cederlund's squad would have been given generic 'protect this scientist' orders. He figured out what was going on from the bodies, let the scientist brag to confirm it 100%, then took a very strong "Not In My Army" stance.

CrimsonCrown

Got it, for some reason I took the hat-tip with the jelly-fish girls being. . . misused by some recruits to suggest they had been there quite a while. Also my bad, I automatically and wrongly assumed Prescott was the same dodgy “end justifies the means” doctor from Vernon the Volunteer.

manyeyedhydra

It nearly was, and then I remembered I had other plans for that character. Pendleton (from Vernon the Volunteer) is less of a sociopath. I still need to get my timelines completely straight, but I think Vernon is after the humans lost Helmuth. They still have other FOBs, but they're far more aware of the threat posed by the lust demons. Pendleton is reluctantly doing something horrible in the hope it will save the other men (and is being influenced by Vampyrotiea, who has an agenda of her own). Prescott is a straight sociopath and more of a junior scientist. He's a bit of a throwaway in this, but I might use him again for a story set earlier in the timeline.