Ryan was sleeping until the whirling and beeping started. He immediately put on his helmet and mask. He buckled himself in and braced for impact. He looked at the monitors and noticed what got hit and was preemptively thinking about what the repairs would be. Little did he know, two minutes later he'd be laying passed out face shoved into the dirt.
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Ryan woke up face buried in dirt and a smell of feces and decaying flesh in his nostrils. He immediately realized he was in an animal's den, or at least near one. He began to look up around and saw the thing that smelt so badly. It looked a lot like the pre-war deer, except for it's massive size and larger then usual antlers. The creature had to have been almost six foot at the shoulder and it's antler's span was nearly as wide. Ryan also noticed several sets of bones. He pulled out his pistol and opened his bag. He grabbed a few of the skulls for examining later, a canine skull, a skull of a smaller animal, although it was still rather large, and an ursine (read bear) shaped skull. They would help him determine the effects of the radiation on life forms here.

He then pulled out a small device, hoping it still worked. It whirled to life and he sighed. He pressed some buttons on the screen and his jaw dropped. He was seeing results he could never imagine. The air was clean…. Really clean. The entire planet seemed to have adapted to suck up any toxicity. The oxygen content in the air was a bit higher as well. That made sense though, since more plant life would’ve more easily survived radiation and pumped more oxygen out that the animals here could use up.
He took off his gas mask and looked around a bit more. He stepped on a something making a loud snapping sound. Then he heard a low growl and looked towards the entrance of the den. What he saw scared the living out of him and he immediately pulled his pistol and took behind cover. The large wolf-like creature lunged at him and he quickly dodged out of the way. He pulled the gun up and fired a burst of bullets into the animal’s chest. It didn’t seem to notice. It kept coming at him. Another six bullets wasn’t going to slow it down. After an entire clip (18) and a minor gash from the creature’s claw, the creature dropped. He wanted to examine the creature more closely but felt that more may come because of the noise so he dropped a beacon nearby and left. He patched himself up and ran towards the beach.