The rescue comes in the form of a loop of wire. It then lowers a heavier wire, which the tiny robot tells you to untie it. This lowers a third wire, a heavier chain, with a number of cloth loops on it. The three of you step over, tie yourselves into each loop, and grab onto each other.
You're slowly elevated up the loops, darkness dancing just beyond your glowlights.
It's a long way. You can see numerous scuffs on the stone, from the great flying dragon which fell down a couple weeks ago. With a surreal moment, you pass out of the odd darkness into.. well, normal cave, where you can see a long way down the ravine, odd reflections from surfaces in the distance. The scuffs continue. Perhaps the robots followed the damage from Trence falling?
There are one or two small cracks into nowhere before you need to switch elevators. There's a platform, sunk into the wall, manned by a ranged robot, with the bottom end of another elevator in it, this time consisting of machinery sunk into the cliff, sometimes stuck in, sometimes held away from the wall.
The robot greets you, waving around a bright light built into a third arm. The other two arms hold some sort of compact crossbow, armed with strange needles not normal bolts. "Welcome to Point Zero!" it says.
You load up onto the next elevator, attaching to large hooks coming out of the next chain. Below, you can see the crossbow bot staring at the wire which dragged you up. He's still staring as you climb out of sight, chains creaking as they drag slowly across the cliffside..
To Be Continued.
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