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Kill Depth: A Deep-Sea Thriller

severed_press_ — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 01:31:15 +0000

After a sinkhole opens in the Antarctic Ocean just off the Ross Ice Shelf a team is sent to investigate and map the uncharted depths. Unfortunately, the adventure is derailed when the team is forced to fend off monstrous sea-life like giant spider crabs, suicidal octopi and a pod of raging-mad killer whales. The coup de grace, though, is the giant eel-like monster that destroys two of the team’s exploratory submersibles before trying to take a bite out of the hovering underwater complex itself … threatening to sink it to the bottom of the 30,000-foot-deep chasm.

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CURSE OF THE RED PYRAMID: A JACK MADDEN ADVENTURE

severed_press_ — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 20:37:58 +0000

Jack Madden and his team of relic hunters must fight Nile crocs, deadly cobras and swarms of flesh-eating scarabs to uncover the secret burial chamber of an ancient pharaoh laid to rest deep within the Red Pyramid. Using scraps of a papyrus that claims King Sneferu was entombed with a prized possession – a gold scepter tipped with the polished remains of a meteorite that hit Africa two billion years ago – the motley crew of adventurers must uncover lost chambers and avoid the deadly traps hidden throughout the 4,000-year-old monument to the dead king.

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TEMPLE OF THE SPIDER GOD

severed_press_ — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 09:06:34 +0000

A dusty, hand-written journal kicks off a deadly expedition deep into the jungles of Southern Peru. The journal leads the explorers to the site of the ruined village in the shadow of a mountain – a hollow mountain with a colossal ziggurat inside. It is a temple built to honor one of the Moche religion’s chief deities – a building-sized spider known as The Decapitator. Once revered for its strength and protection, this colossal Spider is now a caged monster driven insane by centuries of isolation. The massive beast stalks the group through the cavernous temple, ready to torture and slay the entire academic expedition. The team soon find themselves in a traumatic and bloody fight for survival against a horrifying creature from legend. Can anyone survive The Spider God?

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PROJECT: REAPER

severed_press_ — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 09:46:36 +0000

The entire mission objective is only one line long: Search and Destroy. A team of elite soldiers are sent back in time through a tech-enhanced rift to arrive 100 million years in Earth’s past – the Cretaceous. The time of dinosaurs. Their goal is to hunt down and eradicate a swarm of genetically modified super-predators codenamed Goliath. Unfortunately, they suffer numerous casualties due to an unexpected menace. Project: REAPER. Allied Genetics, a global corporate behemoth, had enjoyed several years of uninterrupted research and development in Ancient Crimea after discovering a time portal buried in the bowels of an abandoned Cold War military facility – Objekt 221. During that time, they performed experiments, surgical enhancements and genetic modification to create more lethal, controllable dinosaurs. After a violent corporate takeover by rival Precision Robotics, Allied had to abandon the facility, the rift and their genetic experiments in Earth’s past. Following the tale so far laid out in “Objekt 221” and “Hell Island,” “Project: REAPER” focuses on the Damon Butcher-led team of Wraith soldiers as they travel back in time to hunt down and slaughter the remaining Goliaths. Unfortunately, they quickly find out that the deadly Goliath wasn’t even the worst experiment Allied Genetics had released into the wild. Enter the bigger, meaner, smarter version of the T-Rex that the corrupt corporation created in a lab. The Reaper. Time travel. Corporate intrigue. Soldiers fighting dinosaurs. “Project: REAPER” is an action adventure you can’t miss!

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HELL ISLAND

severed_press_ — Sat, 05 Sep 2020 09:45:03 +0000

It’s a simple rescue mission with one small wrinkle – the four scientists are trapped 100 million years in Earth’s past.

Four months after the events of “Objekt 221” an alarm sounds in the enormous Crimean research facility. Precision Robotics, now in control of the huge building and the time rift it protects, decides they need to send a rescue party back to the Cretaceous period to recover the scientists – abandoned in the time of dinosaurs.

Once again, they rely on their private army, The Wraiths, to gear up with the most advanced weaponry available to do battle with the vicious inhabitants of this ancient world. While performing a data dump at the research and observation station Facility Four – codenamed “Hell Island” – the rescue team begins to learn the horrifying truth about the four-armed super predator classified in many secret research documents simply as Project: Goliath.

Genetic modification, private military, abandoned facilities, dinosaurs, betrayal … welcome to Hell Island!

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OBJEKT 221

severed_press_ — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 21:06:19 +0000

Ruthless multi-national conglomerate Allied Genetics is under siege from a paramilitary force for hire. Allied calls in reinforcements and fortifies their crown-jewel property – an abandoned Soviet military facility in Crimea known during the Cold War as Objekt 221. Fortunately for the future of their research, O221 straddles a stretch of rocky landscape that hides a rift – a portal through time and space. Through this rift, Allied Genetics can travel, at will, to the Cretaceous – 100 million years into Earth’s past – and bolster their genetic experiments with dinosaur DNA … something their competitors want to stop at all costs.
“Objekt 221” is a story blending numerous science fiction elements such as repurposed military facilities, time travel, rogue corporate armies, dinosaurs and the hint of a super-ancient civilization.

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