BPRD: 1946 - Part 1
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scans_dailyWherein the Hellboy prequel explores the formation of the titular group...
The story begins with a woman strapped to a table being slowly drained of blood while she asks where her family is. She breaks free, revealing that she's a vampire, but before she can maul the surrounding scientists, two Nazis in full body armour plated with crosses and armed with electric crucifixes force her to the ground as they resume draining her...
Skip forward to 1946, and British expert in the paranormal, Trevor Bruttenholm (pronounced Broom), has arrived with an associate to investigate the level of involvement the Nazis had with the occult by order of Harry Truman.
They meet up with a colonel and they fill him in on the situation, how as Allied forces have entered areas formerly occupied by the Nazis, they have found a lot of "odd" things that don't have a conventional explanation. Evidence of demonic rituals, hybrid animals locked in abandoned labs, mummies with wires placed in their skulls and attached to listening equipment, that kind of thing.
Trevor and the BPRD have been given the task of cateloguing any data relating to the Nazis' occult research, and to ensure that the Soviets don't get a larger slice of the supernatural pie than their colleagues across the Atlantic. The colonel explains, however, that the majority of the good stuff has already been looted by the Soviets' own occult research team, who are holed up in an old zeppelin hanger on the edge of the city.
Trevor acknowledges than it would probably be best to actually speak to the Soviet team so that they can get a fuller picture of what's going on, and the colonel tells him to try opening up a means of communication through diplomatic channels. Since the work they'll be having to do will consist most of sifting through mountains of paperwork, Trevor asks for some men with experience in with experience in document analysis, but since the army doesn't exactly consider the BPRD to be that high on their agenda, they just assign him a bunch of soldiers (though one did use to be a lawyer, while another was present when Hellboy manifested several years back in England).
Time passes... and Trevor gets permission to visit the head of the Soviet occult research team.
"Beyond that, I'm afraid you're on your own."
Time passes some more, and Trevor has discovered something odd. A transaction report regarding five thousand flasks of liquid nitrogen being delivered to a mental institution. He does some more research, and it seems that the hospital was officially abandoned in 1939 when the patients were all executed as part of Action T4, a euthanasia program the Nazis thought up to rid themselves of "societal burdens" such as the incurably mentally ill etc.
Trevor and his assistant bloke head towards the hospital, finding it abandoned and (unknown to them) VERY, VERY HAUNTED. They find the room in which the vampire was being exsanguinated in, all covered in dried blood and smeared handprints, and they ask themselves what the heck happened here.
Trevor's assistant comments that it seems oddly colder inside the hospital than it is outside as they root around for any documentation explaining the liquid nitrogen delivery. They notice that there's apparently an extra basement that they somehow missed, and descend the stairs as the lights begin to dim and the ghosts of the patients slowly crawl towards them across the walls and ceiling...
Up Next: What the heck is Varvara supposed to be?
The story begins with a woman strapped to a table being slowly drained of blood while she asks where her family is. She breaks free, revealing that she's a vampire, but before she can maul the surrounding scientists, two Nazis in full body armour plated with crosses and armed with electric crucifixes force her to the ground as they resume draining her...
Skip forward to 1946, and British expert in the paranormal, Trevor Bruttenholm (pronounced Broom), has arrived with an associate to investigate the level of involvement the Nazis had with the occult by order of Harry Truman.
They meet up with a colonel and they fill him in on the situation, how as Allied forces have entered areas formerly occupied by the Nazis, they have found a lot of "odd" things that don't have a conventional explanation. Evidence of demonic rituals, hybrid animals locked in abandoned labs, mummies with wires placed in their skulls and attached to listening equipment, that kind of thing.
Trevor and the BPRD have been given the task of cateloguing any data relating to the Nazis' occult research, and to ensure that the Soviets don't get a larger slice of the supernatural pie than their colleagues across the Atlantic. The colonel explains, however, that the majority of the good stuff has already been looted by the Soviets' own occult research team, who are holed up in an old zeppelin hanger on the edge of the city.
Trevor acknowledges than it would probably be best to actually speak to the Soviet team so that they can get a fuller picture of what's going on, and the colonel tells him to try opening up a means of communication through diplomatic channels. Since the work they'll be having to do will consist most of sifting through mountains of paperwork, Trevor asks for some men with experience in with experience in document analysis, but since the army doesn't exactly consider the BPRD to be that high on their agenda, they just assign him a bunch of soldiers (though one did use to be a lawyer, while another was present when Hellboy manifested several years back in England).
Time passes... and Trevor gets permission to visit the head of the Soviet occult research team.
"Beyond that, I'm afraid you're on your own."
Time passes some more, and Trevor has discovered something odd. A transaction report regarding five thousand flasks of liquid nitrogen being delivered to a mental institution. He does some more research, and it seems that the hospital was officially abandoned in 1939 when the patients were all executed as part of Action T4, a euthanasia program the Nazis thought up to rid themselves of "societal burdens" such as the incurably mentally ill etc.
Trevor and his assistant bloke head towards the hospital, finding it abandoned and (unknown to them) VERY, VERY HAUNTED. They find the room in which the vampire was being exsanguinated in, all covered in dried blood and smeared handprints, and they ask themselves what the heck happened here.
Trevor's assistant comments that it seems oddly colder inside the hospital than it is outside as they root around for any documentation explaining the liquid nitrogen delivery. They notice that there's apparently an extra basement that they somehow missed, and descend the stairs as the lights begin to dim and the ghosts of the patients slowly crawl towards them across the walls and ceiling...
Up Next: What the heck is Varvara supposed to be?
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Date: 2014-04-27 09:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-04-27 09:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-04-27 11:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-04-28 11:20 am (UTC)It's also a marked difference in terms of the characters being used, as a lot of the time characters in the BPRD version are essentially superhuman (what with Liz, Abe, Johan and so on) while all these guys are just regular people.
With all the squashy vulnerablity that goes with it.
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Date: 2014-04-28 02:02 am (UTC)Also, I'd like to think once Hellboy caught a chicken, he'd hug it quickly before putting it down and chasing it again.
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Date: 2014-04-28 04:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-04-28 12:51 pm (UTC)Also, just got back from checking the wiki, and I gotta say...hell of a curriculum vitae on this one, doc.
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Date: 2014-04-28 09:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-04-29 04:47 am (UTC)Nice lure on the Action T4, though. Not nice nice, but it's something to think about. The posters for the program look like something out of BioShock Infinite.
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Date: 2014-04-29 05:28 am (UTC)