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You thought Clover didn't hear you but when you feel his hand grip tightly on your wrist, you're relieved to see he's still all there. "Shit. Shit, I nearly lost my mind there."
"I-it's good. What's going on?"
"I dunno but I think I recognize it. The air feels sticky and staticky now..."
"Wait! Does thou remember thine journey through P-Company?"
>45! PASS!
Wait. This place has been abandoned for a while. With two anomalies and only a few decades there's no way for it to naturally cause the greenhouse effect you saw with that ancient facility, though.
Clover, shockingly, is the first to pick up on what Casey's putting down. "Ya think the energy's messing with the darkness? Making it even worse?"
"I think so! Our questionable silver damsel in distress is clearly under the influence of an anomalous mind altering effect. I believe from whatever the Piano is."
"And the stronger darkness pushed her mind over the edge..." Clover murmurs. It's hard to tell through the blackened haze but his posture (what you can glimpse of it) is all sorts of tensed up now. As if he's fighting between the two options he sees with the spook.
For now, though, it's good to note for later.
SUPPRESSING HAZE UPDATED!
-This status will be far stronger when an Anomaly is around. When an anomaly is nearby an area with SUPPRESSING HAZE, you have a -3 stat penalty to WILLPOWER and RESTRAINT stat checks when resisting anomalous influences.
-SUPPRESSING HAZE also has a higher chance of dealing passive RESTRAINT damage when anomalies are around!
A lack of sleep, worrying about her own survival, and a stronger than usual haze? No wonder she fucking snapped.
You're worried how Benjamin, Max and Kiara are holding up then but you have the spook to worry about.
The haze lifts enough to get a better look inside the breakroom. The spook seems to have collected some minor amount of control over herself. She's shambling over to her shotgun now. <span class="mu-s">"Wasted enough time. Have to move."</span>
"...We have to restraint her."
"About time." "It is the only righteous action!"
The three of you charge into the breakroom; Casey trails behind a bit in order to light up her lantern so she can...see. No point bothering to do this stealthy if you're going to just use PUPPETEER on her anyways.
The SPOOK snaps her head to see who's trying to apprehend her. A sickening noise like a balloon violently deflating rasps out of her tattered throat. <span class="mu-s">"JUST MY LUCK! JUST MY LUCK!"</span> Her whole body begins to rapidly vibrate in such a way as to blur away her body; A trick you've seen before.
It's enough to throw Casey off balance when she tries to blindly lunge at the Spook to hold her down. The oil lantern is luckily durable enough to not crack when it slams into the ground.
The SPOOK tries to take this oppurnity to grab her gun but with lightning speeds, Clover loads a regular bullet into the empty chamber of his gun and fires!
