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Are there any ventilation ducts?
There is a large grate in the floor in a corner of the room. There's also two small tubes in either side of the ceiling with small protrusions through which comes air.
The floor grate looks sturdy. You're not sure you could smash it. But it and the tunnels beyond it are pretty wide, you could easily run through them. The tunnel leads towards the wall behind your display case, away from any entrance.
The ceiling tubes look flimsy. You could easily break one if you managed to reach it. But they are narrow. Crawling through them would be slow but not impossible. They seem to follow the layout of the rooms; you can see they continue in the room the bipeds are running towards.
Nah, fighting these things is bad news, gotta scram and find easier prey in places not infested with giants.
Let's start with the exit with a green light. The annoying big things are running that way, so maybe it leads to a way out of here.
You run after the fleeing bipeds, which causes them to emit more cries of alarm and run with renewed vigour. But even when running they aren't very fast. With some effort you manage to catch up to them.
You reach them just as they reach the next room. It is then that you notice a pink-skinned biped that differs from the others. One way it differs is that it is dressed in all purple, rather than wearing colorful outfits like the others. Another way it differs is that instead of running or hiding, it's standing behind a display case, looking straight towards your. The third way it differs is that it holds a tube-shaped thing, one end larger than the other.
It raises the tube-shaped thing and points the larger end at you. For a moment there's a buzzing. Then a ball of blue lightning forms inside it and flies towards you at incredible speed. But the creature makes the mistake of aiming towards where you are, rather than where you will be.
Instead of hitting you the ball instead hits one of the bipeds next to you on one of its legs. The ball breaks apart into sparks that spread to cover the creature's entire body before disappearing a moment later. The creature cries out and then falls to the floor, convulsing. The one that shot the ball emits a different sort of cry and starts fiddling with the spark-tube.