Of course, the mummies got loose in Antarctica. They wandered through the portal and now it's anybody's guess.

Well, ok, it's MY guess, I suppose, since thankfully I put AirTags on the alphas, and with the satellite sim cards the school gave us I can track them. They mostly travel in flocks. And are naturally resistant to the cold.

To a point, that is. They have a very low freezing temperature, but once you reach it, they freeze right up. Regular mummies freeze when water does, but animated mummies are a lot more resistant. These guys won't freeze up for months.

I could just wait it out, but these rascally mummies have a nose for trouble. I don't expect them to start some mummy civilization out on the ice, building ice pyramids or whatever. More likely they'll end up harassing the station, trying to drum up acolytes. So I'm working with the station scientists to track them and see what we can do.

When I sent away for them from the back of the comic book I certainly didn't mean for it to come to this.

I've tried to get the mummies to come back, but they are proving to be highly resistant.

Naturally I first tried the Eye of the Jackal (signing up for the monthly mummy subscription definitely paid off) but that just made them more unruly. They also felt the torches were quite rude.

Strangely, I've found myself in negotiation with the head mummy, or "Hip Priest" as he refers to himself as, annoyingly, in third person, continually.

They're still figuring out what they want. But in the meantime have agreed to let anyone they run into in the tunnels pass freely. Just ignore their hissing and whispering.

I’m sending some mummies through the ice tunnels to check on how things are going at Donner Dorm. My RA says that they ate each other there one winter.

The mummies are supposed to be completely noiseless, and sure that's true when they're frozen. But now they're all thawed out and make the usual "swish swish" sound when they walk down the sidewalk and the fabric rubs between their legs and sometimes between their arms and their torsos.

Trying to get them to take an interest in the turkeys. Stand up to the turkeys for us. Run 'em out of town! Go mummies go!

The mummies got returned to me in the mail. They returned-to-sendered my return-to-sender. They're completely thawed out now and frankly gross you do NOT want to open their insulated sarcophagi. I gotta figure out something to do with them.

Most extraterrestrials really need to worry about germs A LOT unless their physiology is so incompatible then it just doesn't matter.

Got the mummies in the mail and they were frozen but turned out to be too much so I had to send them back.