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You turned to Plastic mask and said: “We will meet with the ruler, show us the way.”
“Yes yes grey thing, I shall lead” he said in his usual shrill and giddy tone.
Plastic Mask took the team, consisting of your resident pyromaniac, engineer, the machine gunner and two infantryman deeper into the town itself. You moved your gaze towards the town. In certain windows from strings connected to the building across the street, ribbons of red brown and black cloth hung, and as you moved deeper they were numerous enough to start blocking out the over present white lights to create shadows on the ground. Your guide started humming a tune as soon as you were under the shadows.
After a few turns, you eventually reached a street that led directly to a building with an open door wide enough to fit a few people. Through the door, you could see a staircase leading directly upwards. As you got closer, you saw that the building itself was peculiar, as numerous etchings and markings in red covered the entire front side. They seemed to be written in a script unfamiliar to you, but under them written in bold black letters was something you could roughly make out as “SANITATION” from your knowledge of the old-world language.
You went up the stairs about 5 stories before Plastic Mask took you through one of the doors, which lead to a large rectangular room with a few guards inside. They seemed much better equipped than the ones you had seen previously on the city gates, with weapons that looked like a sleeker version of your own lasguns. Although the jet black armour they were wearing had clear missing pieces replaced by subpar material that tried its best to make it seem like the armour set was a full one.
One of the guards moved directly towards your squad, ignoring plastic mask, and simply said: “No weapons there” in a monotone voice while pointing at the door covered with more of the red script behind him. You gestured to Zami to come follow you and gave your weapons to the machine gunner. The two of you made your way towards the room.
