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The harder you try to figure the best way to lose this drone - through the hallway or through the next room - the less certain you are of either of those options. Both options ultimately put you out in the hallway with the drone.While it is true that you have the schematic to use as a map, and with your boosters, you are a lot faster than it, none of that constitutes a guarantee that you are going to make a clean break from this damned thing. What if you were following the schematic, but you ended up outside another sealed blast door, and the drone ended up cornering you? What if you managed to lose it this time, but on your way back through here with a full load of conduit you ran into it again?
The more you think about it, the more certain you are that there is nothing certain about running away from it. No, if you want to truly put this drone business past you - and you do - then the only way to do that is to bag and tag this drone. To that end, you are going to need someway to lead the drone into tighter quarters. You could use yourself as bait, or try finding more trash to throw around, but that feels ... well, it doesn't feel certain, that is for sure. And with something as unpredictable as a bespoke autonomous drone, you need to be certain. Now steel - or whatever the fuck these struts are made out of - that is certain. If you got this thing stuck on a spike, on a <span class="mu-i">spear</span>, then it should be a relatively straightforward process to getting this thing stuck in a corner somewhere.
So as the drone closes the distance, instead of squeezing your way out, you turn your attention to the struts. You can tell just by looking at them that they are non-critical, and a bunch of them have holes through them where conduit was once run, which will make them even easier to work through. But one of them - coincidentally one of the struts by the hole you just cut out into the hallway - really catches your eye. Not only has it been rather crudely repaired, either they didn't bother fixing all of the damage, or this unlucky strut got beat to Hell and back on two different occasions. You should be able to breeze through this strut - well, relatively speaking, at least. As you bring your torch to bear, you consider using cutting flux here, but ultimately decide against it, as having a rough, splintered and all around irregular end should make the business of sticking this bumbling bale easier. You get to work on the bottom of the strut first, focusing pulling apart the shoddy repair-job. It is kind of funny, actually - if you had to guess, you would say that this strut was salvaged from another wreck. Probably was bundled with a bunch of intact struts, or at the very least, ones that had been repaired better than it had been, and then sold as a lot.
