Yara retrieves her knife and attempts to slice into the rusted grate. She succeeds only in producing an earsplitting
screech of metal on metal, doing more damage to knife than the grate. Returning the blade to her pocket she turns to plan two: striking the corner of the grate with the stock of her rifle. It takes several blows, but at last the ancient joinings give in. The grate falls outwards and clatters to the ground.
The spiders aren't moving anymore. Packed together on the dusty ground and broken furniture sit thousands of tiny eyes, shining in the light of Yara's headlamp and pointed directly at the vent.
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Dominic plugs his wire back into the entry port.
Emergency personnel interface detected. Rebooting...
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Emergency generators intact, powered down.
Entry doors damaged, unpowered.
Lighting systems damaged, unpowered.
Floor4 Security System online, unpowered.
Nothing new there. Dominic attempts to search for a map of the facility.
Request facility blueprints.Request acknowledged. Emergency override status recognized.
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Blueprints not found. Central databank damaged. Floor outline provided.
Facility name: Q37 Manned Vehicle Repair Station
Surface level: Warehouse
Level B1: Parking/Workshop
Level B2: Offices, site administration
Level B3: On-site living quartersThe lock is far too tough to bash open, and Dominic soon stops trying.
Turbo: 5/10
Turbo sprints and leaps into the elevator shaft, hitting the far wall and pushing off again to jump towards the open door beneath. With not quite enough speed to make the jump, Turbo nonetheless manages to catch the ledge with both hands. They are left dangling there, twenty feet above some sharp-looking broken pipes.
Dominic, noting that his length of string is not nearly thick enough to save him should he fall, turns around and slowly but carefully climbs down into the shaft. The shaft lining is marred with deep cracks, providing easy handholds for his short trip downwards. Taking hold of a protruding horizontal bar he swings downwards, into the open set of doors. He notes Turbo's fingers clinging to the edge of the floor on which he now stands.
This room is about the same size as the last, but filled with broken furniture and clinging dust rather than workshops and oil. His flashlight shows a staircase on the near wall leading downwards - no doubt to the next floor. To the right are a series of tables, most of which either lurch on broken legs or sit flat on the ground. On the wall behind the tables is some sort of map. To Dominic's left, a great number of broken pieces of wood, stone, and metal are loosely piled together in some form of ring or nest. Inside the ring lie two great masses of pink flesh and gray fur - beasts of some kind, both larger than a man. Their flanks rise and fall rhythmically in the deep throes of sleep.
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Healthy
Modifications:
Embedded Hotwire
Inventory:
Fragmentation Grenade x2
Incendiary Grenade x2
Flashbang Grenade x2
High Explosive Grenade x2
Backpack
60 Platinum chips(Currency)
Flashlight
Headlamp
Hunting knife(95% Accuracy within melee range)
Tissue Repair Injections x5
Roll of bandages
Day's worth of travelling rations x7
Aluminum Can x3
Roll of string
Tube of Adhesive
Healthy
Modifications:
Arasti Monocle(+5% Accuracy)
Inventory:
Semi-Auto Rifle(90%/M-Range)
Flashlight
Headlamp
Backpack
60 Platinum chips(Currency)
Hunting knife
Tissue Repair Injections x5
Roll of bandages
Day's worth of travelling rations x7
Rifle Cartridges x58
Healthy
Modifications:
Gray Walker's Eye
Inventory:
Flechette Rifle(95%/M-Range)
Backpack
60 Platinum chips(Currency)
Flashlight
Headlamp
Hunting knife
Tissue Repair Injections x4
Roll of bandages
Day's worth of travelling rations x7
Flechettes x47
Healthy
Modifications:
Prosthetic Leg
Inventory:
Double-barrel Shotgun(90%/S-Range)
Backpack
60 Platinum chips(Currency)
Flashlight
Headlamp
Hunting knife
Tissue Repair Injections x5
Roll of bandages
Day's worth of travelling rations x7
Shotgun Shells x59
Spark Plug
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