He snorts a laugh, and drains his drink. "That's where it starts to get strange... Eventually I found my way to the Lambda reactor complex on the south end of the facility. As it turns out, they'd been sending scientists out to Xen to pick up samples for years. Samples like the very rock that caused the resonance cascade."

"I found out there that it wasn't just a wild rip in spacetime we were dealing with; something had found out about it, and was holding the portal open and sending troops through. Someone had to go in there again, only this time, to find it and kill it."

"...The thing's name was Nihilanth. And I hope to god no one has to see anything like it again."