BRUTAL: Nemesis

"The nexus to all this, all this insanity, was always up for debate. No one truly knew where the entities came from, for those that could have known are long gone, likely now a part of this ongoing attempt at mimicry."
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"Rumors suggested the Reactor 4 explosion at Chernobyl was the event that tore the fabric between dimensions, allowing the entity to seep through and corrupt our universe. These rumors made sense, the entity and it's corrupting influence emanated from that area, the first monolith sighting was in that area. The first mimic was in that area."
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"Another rumor made even less sense, but was no less plausible. An underground research facility under the Chernobyl Power Plant housed something, imprisoned something. fully one fourth of the power plants power went to this facility, Reactor 4 was its supplier. But the captive broke loose. I went looking for this facility, what I found was the beginning"
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"I found myself face to face with the source, unleashed, unshackled, unstoppable. The power fields used to keep its growth in check long burnt out, likely by the entities design. No one survived the breakout, no bodies can be found either, instead the entity absorbed them, began to learn from them.
The entity resides here, sending out its corrupting influence across the planet, learning from us and creating facsimiles of those it absorbs for reasons none can fathom. Those it first absorbed surround an opening, a darkness which no light can illuminate, a portal."
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"I can feel the entity inside me now, it speaks in riddles and asks broken questions that make no sense. I have attached these recordings to my drone and sent it back out the way I came in hope that someone will find them and... I am not sure, what can we do?
I take my final steps now, I must know what's inside and what it wants.
I step into the dark void, into the yawning maw of our demise. Into Nemesis."
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The continuation of my BRUTAL project influenced by my love of Brutalism and creepy, moody horror themes akin to the works of Giger and Zdzisław Beksiński. This piece in particular was also inspired by the fantastic game Returnal, whos soundtrack I listened to on repeat whilst working on this :)