I stood in front of the portal and remembered that the last time I was here I had died after Jovial had launched his attack. The attack was not random; it had been triggered by the location. Jovial would not have been given an access code, he was a singular talent with biological charms using one to hack the access was just a theoretically impossible as the rest of his work. I was guessing that there was a key to the portal somewhere around the location that looked like an entirely natural part of the local flora and fauna. The problem was that there were no actually natural creatures or plants here in the shitpots. If they were when they strayed into the drains by accident staying here warped them after a short while and a couple of generation rendered, then something completely new. I wa
