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The dormant gas beneath Gateway’s cesspool was never meant to be disturbed, but when a septic crew unknowingly unleashed it, the air twisted minds and bodies alike. Some escaped with rashes and strange mutations, but none were the same. Rkyard J. Edmund suffered most, his humanity dissolving into something new — the Harvester. Taking control of Gateway, he turned the facility into the core of his vision, assigning roles to the altered crew and building a front company, Harvest Kleanzed Inc., to lure outsiders under the guise of cleanup work. Those who joined were taken captive and forced into his growing horde, discovering too late what he had been building in the shadows.

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The Harvester’s reach spread across the island as his followers raided labs, stealing resources from Plum Island to refine the gas into a liquid he named BKR-79. His doctors injected it directly into victims’ brains, forging sharper, more violent transformations. The unwanted were cast into a gated yard, left as fodder to test the strength of new subjects, while chosen ones were torn apart and rebuilt with grafted flesh. Deep inside Gateway, the Harvester himself became a grotesque mass of living parts, ruling from a nest of bodies. His superiors are no longer men but engineered monstrosities — and one day, he intends for his creations to step out of secrecy and claim the world in his image.

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