We have a great deal of work ahead of us. With Ivan and Bernice’s help the task came into focus. Who would have imagined that demons employed passive aggressive language? When I expressed my disbelief, Bernice said “bless your heart,” and told me it makes her feel right at home. There’s also a linguist to help interpret the texts, Bernice, an Alabaman with absolutely the sweetest accent and the keenest eye for the dark logic employed by the forces of darkness.

He tells me he studied and taught ancient languages at a university in Kiev, stumbled on something he’s only muttered about as “the impossible realities,” and they fired him for gibbering too much during lectures. Good news, though! Ivan, a twitchy Russian ex-pat with an eye-patch, has been the most useful in that regard. As it so happens, however, I cannot read cuneiform. The Fimbulvetr archives have hundreds of original clay tablets recovered (read: stolen or plundered) from archaeological sites across the Levant. Turns out the ancient Assyrians were super into the nether realm. The job is simple–as simple as engineering a possibly world-ending device is concerned that is–build a device to create a stable planar gateway to the nether realm to allow the creatures of the dark beyond access to the mortal plane of existence. Good devils below, there’s an entire team of assistants at my beck and call. I’ve been here a day and have access to the development lab of my dreams. I couldn’t imagine a better place to undergo hours of trite human resources on boarding nonsense.Īt least they have a slogan: Building a Better End of Days, Today.įimbulvetr is not screwing around. And everything is so clean! It’s the platonic form of Nordic design. I confess that I saw their job posting and sent my resume to them on a lark–who would have thought that the premiere apocalyptic science and engineering conglomerate would want me? But they did, so here I am walking the austere gunmetal hallways, seeing the laboratories where the cutting edge of apocalyptic science is conducted.

Finally, a place where my desire to dream beyond the bounds of what a rational engineer may dream, to build that which ought never be built, to be the mad engineer that breaks down barriers, and possibly ends the world,–Fimbulvetr Industries.

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