Finley Fogging

"So did you distrub some ancient burial ground?" We had moved past the "who are you? How are you going to help us? Why do you look so ravishing?" stage of getting to know each other and straight into the lets figure this crap out phase.

"Nope." The lead worker named Busty (totally not making that up, he's a man named busty) was the defacto leader, the rest of his crew had returned to their positions along walls grumbling about their fate.  I could see they all seemed to be sleeping in the loading area, it was well lit and for the first time in a while I didn't feel the slow ache of tiredness prevalent everywhere else.

"Perhaps you recently found a relic of strange origin?"

"Nope."

"Killed of a group of wandering mystics because they were in your area?" I was running out of ideas of course.

"No, Mr. Lorentino were you sent here to help us or just bother us with your prattle?" I could sense his frustration, it was also my frustration. They had to have done something horrible! Evil Fog doesn't just show up, its completely not the way things are done! I started pacing, even though I was tired (just from having been up all this time).  There had to be a solution here and I just wasn't seeing it. I did learn that the fog had shown up months ago, that it was just a weird weather thing to start and then as days turned to weeks it got worse.  People didn't start dissappearing till a couple months ago, by then the remaining workers knew something was wrong.  Any attempt to leave the island has failed.  In the end the remaining workers had camped out in the factory hoping that someone would come save them.  I could tell from their supplies they had about a week to before they'd all be dead from starvation.  Which meant I had less than a week to fix what was wrong or I'd be dead from starvation. Well in theory I mean I'm sure I could steal the life of survivors long past the food being gone, but killing the people I'm supposed to save is not exactly following orders now is it?

Yes I had to convince myself that I truely did only have a week, I'm a horrible person ok I believe I've covered this!