BHG Challenge | Ross Midnight | Wendigo

[Ross Midnight]

BHG Challenge | Ross Midnight | Wendigo
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Ross Midnight has entered the competition!

[Ross Midnight]

I should update that thumbnail; that's pretty rough and vague, now that I'm looking at it again.

Here's a further along rough idea of what I'm going for:


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Excerpt from Colonel Law's 123rd bi-weekly field report to Bureau Intelligence

...Our most pressing concern right now, however, is the matter of the Wendigos.

From what information we've been able to gather from our moles, this threat is the product of the recent Wine and Cheese Crisis - which means that the number of Wendigos we can estimate to be at the Foundation's disposal will grow exponentially as the scope of that disaster becomes more clear. It also underlines the importance of establishing and maintaining communications infrastructure with even the most trusted of the regional Chiefs.

As far as historical data is concerned, what documents we've siezed suggest centering studies around the high northern regions of Canada and digging into mid-18th century Cree and Ojibwa mythology. These seem to be the first human beings to have coined the term 'Wendigo', offering a somewhat accurate description of it's dietary habits and birthing process: they claimed that Wendigos were once people, but transformed into ever-hungry cannibalistic monsters after becoming overwhelmed with greed and corruption.

According to our moles, Wendigos are created by a culture of super-parasites introduced to a human host (in the case of the Wine and Cheese Crisis, it is our understanding that the Chiefs acting as guests to the Foundation were infected by parasites concealed in their beverages). The parasites sieze control of the host's nervous system, forcing them to gorge themselves on available sources of fresh proteins (during the Wine and Cheese Crisis, the initial sources came in the form of the Chiefs' bodyguards). Rather than allowing the host's body to simply digest the new material, however, the parasites are somehow capable of manipulating the introduced protein and immediately integrating it into the host's muscle and bone mass.

The new Wendigo continues to consume meat until the parasites have shaped it's teeth and jaws into appropriate structures for the consumption of industrial grade metals - at which point it's diet shifts to include this matter. From this point onward, the organism is in a state of radical and perpetual growth, seeking new sources of protein and metal to make itself larger and capable of consuming even greater amounts of food.

Observing a very conservative timetable, starting from the time that the parasites are first introduced to their host, a Wendigo will likely reach a mass of 500,000 tonnes within a 12 day period.

In terms of their military application, the Wendigo gives the Foundation an asset we previously assumed would be permanently excluded from their arsenal: mobile armor and artillery. After reaching their swift maturity, most of these behemoths forego their legs in favor of wheels or treads, and begin to seek sources of fuel and ordnance material to intake. Armor plating, cannons, rocket pods and other heavy pieces of equipment are sculpted into place by the parasites, as well as internal armor reinforcement and reserves of ammunition.

The doctrines we currently have in place for confrontations with Slabs, Dragons, Asylums and Biteheaps are not adequate for meeting this new threat. Dash Tanks have always had the advantage of their mobility in engagements with larger supernatural threats, while the 16 inch guns on our offshore equipment has been able to defeat any enormous inland target at almost any range with a single broadside.

Wendigos make things very different.

Dash Tanks remain slightly more mobile than their new duelling parters, but not significantly enough that it makes a contribution comparable to the raw strength, staying power and armament of the Wendigo. Kill teams of six tanks, with crews experienced in engaging and defeating multiple Slabs at once, have been torn apart without any contest by a single Wendigo. Their ability to deflect the most powerful weaponry at our disposal was proven a week ago, during an encounter on the Florida coast. Support fire was requested from the U.S.S. McKay, reportedly just 100 metres from it's target. Despite a direct hit from all eighteen of the McKay's guns, loaded with armor-piercing rounds, the Wendigo merely had one of it's arms severed (below an armor-plated shoulder pauldron) and managed to retreat.

If the Wendigo presence is as large as is likely, we need a new set of doctrines to deal with it, as well as ammunition capable of higher velocity and greater penetration. If ever there was to be time I might've had cause to doubt our ability to overcome an enemy, this would have to be that time.

Colonel Law,
The Wolverine Machine Armored Corps

[Kus Umok]

Wow. This is definetly something that Hells Angels would ride.
But seriously I like how its an idea that no one is even close to something like this but I cant really say that I like the chainsaw on the back. I would take that off. I think that the proportion of human to beast is a bit exxesive. Overall a really good idea. It reminds me of the Zerg for some reason. Well good luck mate.