Former Commander of the Elite Unit Making Headlines Speaks Part 2
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INT: Before America was a thing?
CAIN: Oh yeah. Look, the world is teaming, like chock full of wild awful shit that walks on two legs. We worked pretty close with Native American tribes, translating their stuff looking for clues, that kind of thing. They were great; hooked up us with a lot of stuff. A lot of good knowledge that keeps us one step ahead.
INT: Like what?
CAIN: When a man is Wendigo? They had some roots and things they could feed them, keep them the monster at bay. So we took those notes to the Army Research Lab at Aberdeen [Proving Ground] and let them sort it out. A lot of what we know comes from Native Americans scientists, testing old knowledge and finding the application. Whatever's clever, you know?
INT: Wait? Sort it out?
CAIN: Well, mostly with volunteers, whenever possible. Through Johns Hopkins, that kind of thing.
INT: So...what kind of awful thing happened from that?
CAIN: Excuse me?
INT: Well, you admitted to lying before...
CAIN: I fucking told you why, too.
INT: I'm sorry; could you tell me what happened?
CAIN: Well, you know werewolves right?
INT: They're real?
CAIN: Oh yeah. But thanks to Blackfoot science, we were able to make a serum that prevents them from changing. They all live in Maryland now where the QRF can get to them quickly. They get their doses through the VA and never have to worry about changing anymore. We figured that out around...1995, I think.
INT: Before that?
CAIN: Shit before that we load them all on a bus and take them to a sectioned-off area of Fort Indian Town Gap and let them go to town on some penned-in deer.
INT: Was it lunar?
CAIN: No, but it was monthly. We figured out that every 25 days they would change. Some of them tried all kinds of stuff, vegan diets, and such. Didn't work; in fact when they would change? They would eat even more meat.
INT: The deer wouldn't be enough?
CAIN: No, they would kill other were-persons.
INT: Holy shit.
CAIN: Right?! And they don't know. They are just trying to do the moral thing but then have to eat flesh in the state or they just die.
INT: Is "in the state" what you call it? Is there a way to..study them on a neurological level? After they transform?
CAIN: Yeah, if someone does some sort of change, we called that "in the state," and if they weren't contained the alert "in the state, in the sector,"
INT: And that meant...
CAIN: On the loose.
INT: And studying them?
CAIN: Last I heard it was a little difficult to get a hungry wolf person into an MRI...
INT: I guess so. Can you tell me what else is real?
CAIN: Well, since the footage leaked, you know zombies are a thing.
INT: Yeah, I watched the video. So..we have a vaccine?
CAIN: Well, we even have treatment up to a certain point. The ones you saw in the video were captured in stage seven, there isn't a way to get them back. Well, okay, the treatment still works on them, but the chance of them coming back from it is slim. Once they lose pain receptors at the end of stage five, they start breaking things, cutting themselves by accident, they get sepsis, etc. If the treatment works they are in the hospital for the rest of their lives and those lives are short.
INT: How short?
CAIN: The longest-lived was six months...
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INT: Before America was a thing?
CAIN: Oh yeah. Look, the world is teaming, like chock full of wild awful shit that walks on two legs. We worked pretty close with Native American tribes, translating their stuff looking for clues, that kind of thing. They were great; hooked up us with a lot of stuff. A lot of good knowledge that keeps us one step ahead.
INT: Like what?
CAIN: When a man is Wendigo? They had some roots and things they could feed them, keep them the monster at bay. So we took those notes to the Army Research Lab at Aberdeen [Proving Ground] and let them sort it out. A lot of what we know comes from Native Americans scientists, testing old knowledge and finding the application. Whatever's clever, you know?
INT: Wait? Sort it out?
CAIN: Well, mostly with volunteers, whenever possible. Through Johns Hopkins, that kind of thing.
INT: So...what kind of awful thing happened from that?
CAIN: Excuse me?
INT: Well, you admitted to lying before...
CAIN: I fucking told you why, too.
INT: I'm sorry; could you tell me what happened?
CAIN: Well, you know werewolves right?
INT: They're real?
CAIN: Oh yeah. But thanks to Blackfoot science, we were able to make a serum that prevents them from changing. They all live in Maryland now where the QRF can get to them quickly. They get their doses through the VA and never have to worry about changing anymore. We figured that out around...1995, I think.
INT: Before that?
CAIN: Shit before that we load them all on a bus and take them to a sectioned-off area of Fort Indian Town Gap and let them go to town on some penned-in deer.
INT: Was it lunar?
CAIN: No, but it was monthly. We figured out that every 25 days they would change. Some of them tried all kinds of stuff, vegan diets, and such. Didn't work; in fact when they would change? They would eat even more meat.
INT: The deer wouldn't be enough?
CAIN: No, they would kill other were-persons.
INT: Holy shit.
CAIN: Right?! And they don't know. They are just trying to do the moral thing but then have to eat flesh in the state or they just die.
INT: Is "in the state" what you call it? Is there a way to..study them on a neurological level? After they transform?
CAIN: Yeah, if someone does some sort of change, we called that "in the state," and if they weren't contained the alert "in the state, in the sector,"
INT: And that meant...
CAIN: On the loose.
INT: And studying them?
CAIN: Last I heard it was a little difficult to get a hungry wolf person into an MRI...
INT: I guess so. Can you tell me what else is real?
CAIN: Well, since the footage leaked, you know zombies are a thing.
INT: Yeah, I watched the video. So..we have a vaccine?
CAIN: Well, we even have treatment up to a certain point. The ones you saw in the video were captured in stage seven, there isn't a way to get them back. Well, okay, the treatment still works on them, but the chance of them coming back from it is slim. Once they lose pain receptors at the end of stage five, they start breaking things, cutting themselves by accident, they get sepsis, etc. If the treatment works they are in the hospital for the rest of their lives and those lives are short.
INT: How short?
CAIN: The longest-lived was six months...
Continue to Part 3...
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