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Rats

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Rats are various medium sized, long-tailed rodents of the superfamily Muroidea.

Graffiti

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"Graffiti is the name for images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property. Graffiti is sometimes regarded as a form of art and other times regarded as unsightly damage or unwanted."

Power station

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"At the center of nearly all power stations is a generator, a rotating machine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy by creating relative motion between a magnetic field and a conductor. The energy source harnessed to turn the generator varies widely. It depends chiefly on which fuels are easily available and on the types of technology that the power company has access to."

Thunder Dome Rat
(The Story)

Among the city buildings of San Francisco is an abandoned PG&E power plant where no living human flesh has dared to enter. Rumors of ghosts and unnatural life forms roam deep inside the building. No ghosts, but definitely unnatural life forms. In the early 1950s, there was a young man spray painting signs inside the power plant near electrical energy vaults. He was not aware that the chemicals from the arousal in the cans could cause a nuclear blast when it comes in contact with electrical energy. Oh it wasn’t just any kind of nuclear blast because it didn’t kill anyone. Instead it made everyone in the building go mentally insane. They all began to hallucinate and the entire building was immediately evacuated. During the evacuation, rats were exposed to the nuclear power and were transformed into an unknown life form. Before any of these newly born creatures we able to travel to the surface of the building, the entire building was boarded up and there was no escape. Those that saw these creatures during the evacuation believe that they are ghosts or beasts from hell. Till this very day these rats were given a name called the Thunder Dome Rats. They wonder the floors, ceilings, and walls of the forgotten building. They thrive on their new ability to paint. But not just any paint, they spray painted on the floors, walls, and ceilings of the building with their bodies. Once they run out of paint, their bodies wither and disintegrate while other rats feast on their flesh to regain more energy and more paint to continue their life as a Thunder Dome Rat.

(Photo by Stephen Freskos)