UNIT HQ - London, England
7:00 AM- Friday, September 6, 1985
The auditorium was packed with hundreds of people, everyone in UNIT who had been selected to participate in the impending raid on Dunwich. They had all assembled after a hasty breakfast. Brigadier Charles Cricthon walked up to the podium where a microphone and a glass of water rested, carrying a long stick in his hand. An overhead projector was on a small table beside it with a transparency on top of it, and it was pointed at a large white screen hanging behind him. "Good morning, ladies and gentlemen," he said into the microphone. "You're all here because you've been chosen to participate in Operation Deep Six." He nodded to an aide, who dimmed the lights and turned on the projector. A map of Great Britain appeared on the screen, and the Brigadier pointed at a spot on the east coast of England, some distance northeast of London. "This is Dunwich. Once, in medieval times, it was a major English city and center of commerce, but the sea has gradually swallowed most of it up. Now it is a village with a population of approximately two hundred, little more than a tourist attraction. Dunwich has been secretly taken over by amphibious creatures known as the Sea Devils some forty years ago. They are not extraterrestrials, but rather from Earth. They are intent on taking over this planet from mankind, and Dunwich is their beachhead. They are genetically compatible with humans and capable of producing children with them - children that begin to transform into Sea Devils in adulthood. If the Sea Devils are not stopped here, they will eventually infiltrate further. It may take a long time, but one day humanity will be no more if they succeed. That must not be allowed to happen!
"Operation Deep Six will begin this evening. UNIT will take delivery of two Royal Navy vessels that are on their way to London. One is the destroyer HMS Brighton, which will be commanded by Captain Hart, who has previously encountered the Sea Devils. The other is the submersible Intrepid, skippered by Commander Nelson, a descendant of that Nelson. We will also have a large convoy of armoured transport vehicles that will carry our ground forces to Dunwich. The journey will proceed under cover of darkness, over both sea and land, with both groups due to arrive around 0200 hours. At that time, our ground forces will surround and cordon off Dunwich to make sure that none of the Sea Devils or their hybrid spawn escape by land. The Royal Navy will be prepared to intecept any attempting to flee by sea. The official cover story is that this is a medical quarantine.
"Once the cordon is in place, our first order of business is to secure the Ship Inn, the only inn in Dunwich. It is here that the tourists will be staying, and their safety is a high priority. The Ship Inn will also make a suitable field headquarters. Once that is established, our forces will be divided among multiple objectives. One objective is the Lake family manor. They have formed an alliance with the Sea Devils, and all of the currently living members of that family are their offspring. I will personally command the team that takes the mansion. The other main objective is a series of caves below the cliffs south of Dunwich that the Sea Devils use for unknown purposes. There are two entrances to these caves that were discovered by a team we sent into Dunwich yesterday, and our troops will attack through both entrances simultaneously. One is in the ruins of Greyfriars on the cliffs above, a secret entrance that goes down a stairwell. Sergeant Ecarg will command the squad that uses this route. The other is an undersea tunnel at the base of the cliffs. It is normally submerged, but at low tide it will be possible to wade into it, so that is when we will make our move. Sergeant Hale will command the squad that will enter via the tunnel.
"Of the investigators that went to Dunwich and discovered the threat we face, one was killed in action: Raymond MacIntyre, our Technical Advisor. As of this moment, Tobias Maddox is UNIT UK's new Technical Advisor, in an acting capacity until this promotion can be made permanent. He was part of the team that infiltrated Dunwich yesterday, and while he was wounded, he is healthy enough to assist with our operation. Elliot Webb, one of our operatives, is still listed as missing in action. He called into UNIT HQ late last night, stating that he was at the Cliff House Inn a few miles south of Dunwich. We sent a couple of soldiers in a vehicle to pick him up, but he was gone when they arrived early this morning. The receptionist told them that three constables had come into the lobby and tried to apprehend Mr. Webb, a scuffle had broken out, and Mr. Webb had fled with two of them in pursuit. His fate is still unknown, but we have had no further contact with him.
"Does anyone have any questions at this point?"
