Fairy Gates

Fairey gates blind with rows and rows of sharp teeth a gaping void from which light does not escape while the creature looks scary and evil as heck its reactions are quite neutral what you see is called a fairy gate it is a subterranean monster that can be found in multiple locations around the world for all of its sharp teeth the monster is more or less stationary it can move but very slowly similar to a slug yet slowly loses its way to a safe spot unlike a slug it extends tendrils to latch onto its surroundings allowing the fairy gate to fully extend itself while these creatures used to be found predominantly in deep caves or underground pathways as human society has evolved they became more common in sewers as a carrion eater this is the perfect habitat they usually eat corpses and waste products because their bodily fluids are highly toxic they are unappealing to most predators the fairy gate feeds by creating a strong vacuum with its open Moor the vacuum is strong enough to suck in small insects dead animals and waste products in this manner it effectively decontaminates the area it resides in to anything larger than a rat it is more or less harmless as they'll just be able to resist the vacuum and walk away sucking prey into its moraz it's only means of attack the tendrils it uses to attach itself to walls aren't powerful enough to latch on to struggling prey and hold them in place long enough to be eaten plus they are vulnerable to physical attack a gun or a knife can easily dispatch the creature though even a sharp stick will do the trick so why is it important why isn't the fairy gate just an interesting but otherwise trivial thing to watch out for the reason for our interest is what happens when you feed it silver when the inside of a fairy gate is exposed to silver it'll have a unique allergic reaction the vacuum will increase in strength and a light will appear inside the gates mouth almost as if a magnesium flare went off inside the light will swirl inside of the fairy gate and it's spasm this is obviously very painful for the creature but what's important is what happens when someone walks inside it when the light is present the fairy gaze will instantly transport the invader to another fairy gate at another location anywhere in the world expelling both them and the silver it seems that all of them are connected so a person could enter a fairy gate in California and emerge in London it was by complete chance that an agent discovered this feature they were in combat with another sewer-dwelling creature when they stumbled upon the fairy gate the ancient silver watch was knocked into the fairy gate when he was tackled by his opponent the teleportation response was triggered and the agent his watch and the attacking creature were all expelled in a cave in Italy while both the agents in the creature were dazed the agent was able to recover faster and tranked his attacker if it wasn't for the disorienting effect of the gate the agent admits that he probably would have died when the information was brought back to the agency suddenly fairy gates had a whole new value they were normally exterminated as a pest creature since they pose a risk of discovery that policy changed when the option of instantaneous global teleportation became available so research and experimentation with the fairy Gates proceeded and we quickly learned a lot of practical information the first thing we learned is that silver is toxic to the creature and to March's fatal an amount the size of a silver coin is sufficient to trigger the teleportation response if too much silver is used the entire creature will burst into bright white flames and burn to ashes the upper limit in terms of mass for a single teleportation is about 1,000 pounds this is true for both organic and inorganic matter it allows for a lot of equipment to be transferred at one time the cooldown for each use of silver is around 12 hours it seems that the teleportation reaction is a last-ditch effort to get rid of something that can poison the creature silver being one of the few things that is toxic to it lastly the destination isn't random as we originally presumed if that were the case it wouldn't be too efficient except as an emergency escape hatch but with time and experimentation we were able to connect the dots and concluded that when silver is introduced to the creature it connects to the fairy gate nearest to where the silver originated from as in the location on earth where it was mined from the theory is that the local fairy gate would have better immunity to silver in its own location and could expel it more easily with that discovery tons of silver was mined in various locations around the world and minted into emblems that could be handed out to all field agents an effective network of fairy gates has been mapped out for uses a mass transit system each with its own unique emblem that is stamped on to its corresponding silver tokens it very much reduces the chances of agency exposur eliminating the need to take planes or trains except where absolutely necessary the agency is spared no expense in marking and securing waypoints in each city around the world as a side note experimentation using other precious metals was placed on hold after a sample of gold caused a test drone to vanish no trace of its GPS tracker authors of other subsequent test drones has ever been found similar bender, like The Lamb or I don’t know , and the Dover Demon