Shut it down.
Barging forwards towards the access door, leaving bloody footprints behind yourself you quickly punch in the access code and the door swings open before you. Your hair fries off in an instant leaving you bald and largely blind as you stumble forwards into the blinding light of a miniature sun. For just a second you think you see something moving behind you but you continue to charge across the rubberized walk-way. Somehow, through sheer luck more than anything you reach the controls to shut down the reactor though it's hard to see what is what, and you seem to think that your skin is attempting to crawl away.
A few minutes later as you are desperately fiddling with the controls, you feel a strange throb and then the room goes impossibly dark. You are lifted from your feet for a few seconds before you realize that the reactor's fusion ball just collapsed into a miniature anomaly into which you are sucked. The crushing sensation is extremely brief as your very existence is reduced to a fraction of it's original size before the very atoms are crushed together into entirely new elements.
-You are extremely dead.
I know enough about nuclear physics that if this place is going up, there is no rescue. I'm out of here, and you all are welcome to come with me. I should still have a storage unit on the other side of the city. It was my out in case anything went wrong. Never got to use it... Anyhow, stay come, whichever, but make up your mind fast.
John then walks briskly for the exit.
You go to leave through the exit as a strange creature scuttles into the doorway. It appears to be a man-like being with additional joints in both arms and legs that allows it to scuttle around on all fours incredibly fast. You notice that it seems to have rusted butchers blades taped to it's forearms as it crouches down into a ball and hisses at you. Just as you start to back up the creature notices some blood on the floor in the shape of a foot-print at which it likes with a long forked tongue. One of it's eye-balls rotates to glare at you as the creature scurries away after the bloody trail in a horrific flailing motion like a ball of gelatin rolling down the stairs.
You turn to talk to the others in the group about this event as you realize that none of them were looking towards the exit, and so to avoid making yourself seem incredibly crazy you simply ignore it and lead the way out of the facility, carefully taking the opposite way that the creature went.
It doesn't take long for you and the others to find your way back out as it was a relatively small research lab in the first place and soon you've reached the door-way to the outside world:For continuation please see group information at bottom of turn.
-20 mental stability:Slightly cracked
"Hey, wait for me!" Ox grabs up Carl the rat and follows the others.
With the proffer of bread, that the rat doesn't seem to have ever even seen before it is exceptionally easy to pick it up and carry it with you. As you carry the creature you notice that it seems to have thumbs which allows it to hold the sandwich like a normal person as it eats happily, and after a few seconds a secondary set of arms come out from underneath the fur under it's forearms arm-pits. It uses these arms to pick apart the sandwich before inspecting each piece as it chews on the bread, and after watching it for a few moments you start to get the rather strange feeling that it's a lot smarter than an average rat.
Following along after the man who claims to be a 'collector' you and the others soon find their way out of the facility:see rest of info at group turn info on bottom:
"Mind if I take a look at that canteen?"
"Sure, it has a foul odor coming from it anyways." she says as she hands it to him.
I know enough about nuclear physics that if this place is going up, there is no rescue. I'm out of here, and you all are welcome to come with me. I should still have a storage unit on the other side of the city. It was my out in case anything went wrong. Never got to use it... Anyhow, stay come, whichever, but make up your mind fast.
John then walks briskly for the exit.
John is right, it would be suicidal to even attempt to stop it at this stage, best to get away and find suitable shelter from the blast. Annis thinks to herself before noticing john walking away. "I'm coming!" rushing after john.
You rush after John but manage to notice something as Ox picks up the rat that he is referring to as Carl, Carl seems to have a small metal band on it's left hind-leg that bears the company logo that your parents used to work for and it seems to be rather new as the metal shows little wear or rust. Regardless of this fact you hurry after John and soon arrive outside the facility:see group turn at bottom:
Gar follows. If he has a chance, he examines the canteens contents.
((Ah, kilakan, for things like apartments/storage units/whatnot, do you want to determine everything or do you want us to talk to you and tell you the sorts of things that would be in them?))
You follow along sniffing at the contents of the canteen and manage to deduce that it appears to be 175 year old rum, approximately a litre of it. The very smell makes your mouth water involuntarily regardless of if you personally like rum though you realize that extremely high proof liquor would also make excellent antiseptic and is probably flammable at this point as well. Regardless you tie the canteen to your belt as now is neither the time to light things on fire, nor the time to get drunk. Within a few minutes you and the rest of the group have arrived at the exit to the facility :see rest of group turn at bottom:
Group turnThe front doors of the facility are heavy and rusted, though they swing open as you put your combined strength against them. The light sheers through the open doorway, blinding you momentarily as everyone staggers out blinking and shielding their eyes. Finally you manage to look up to see far more green than would be normal in a dense city center:
Buildings are crumbling around you, and birds of species you have never seen before fly between collapsing ruins. The very plant-life itself is highly abnormal and you even notice small creatures made of fungus and vine crawling around in the shadows. As you are all taking in the sights you feel a sudden throb pass through you, and the birds nearby take flight. Within a few moments the facility behind you begins to collapse in on itself as you hurry to get away. Though just as quickly as it started it stops, leaving what appears to be a large black orb floating above a crater that was once the cyro-labs, small bits of steel and stone float around the orb in lazy orbits and you can feel an ever-so-slight shift in gravity towards the abyssal mass. Fortunately it appears to be stable as it is neither growing in size nor collapsing it simply sits there spinning hypnotically.
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Topic: From The Ashes-Episode 1:Chap 5:In the Dark (Read 11538 times)