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Raj, you bark, start tearing down those animal heads! Find us something helpful!
“On it!” He nods before going to town on the wall!
With Pepper on the floor doing her magic to the desk, you rush over to the bookshelves and get to work pulling out every book you can get your hands on! Letting the mundane ones drop to the floor, it isn’t long before your activities attract the attention of something outside. Filling the already chaotic air with a baleful roar, the thing outside begins body slamming the door to the office!
As you add even more books to the growing pile on the ground, your growing panic nearly makes you miss something in the back of the shelf! Closer inspection reveals it to be some sort of rectangular bump… almost as if it was housing something inside!
“BINGO!”
Amidst the increasingly-violent slams against the door and windows, Pepper adds to the noise by kicking the bottom of the desk! Before you or Raj can ask what she’s doing, your answer comes in the form of splintering wood and a triumphant “Ah-HAH!”
Emerging from below the desk with a <span class="mu-s">DUSTY DUFFELBAG,</span> the journalist pulls out a <span class="mu-s">BOX OF 6 SHOTGUN SHELLS</span>, a <span class="mu-s">SEALED DOCUMENT ENVELOPE, AN UNMARKED KEYCARD,</span> and, most importantly, a <span class="mu-s">SAWN-OFF DOUBLE-BARREL SHOTGUN</span> that could easily fit in one hand provided the recoil doesn’t break it!
Shoving it into your hand before you can ask, Pepper gives you a brief smile before seeing what you’re fiddling with.
“So <span class="mu-i">that’s</span> what that triggers…”
The <span class="mu-i">hell</span> does that mean!? Scurrying back under the desk, the girl ushers you over as Raj continues to tear heads off the wall!
“Check it out, chief!” She announces as she points to a <span class="mu-s">SMALL BUTTON</span> painted the same color as the mahogany around it, “Bet it connects to whatever’s behind that bookcase…”
Giving the button a press, the two of you groan as nothing in the room changes… must’ve required power to function–pretty stupid for an evil escape route!
“Maybe not…” Making her way over to the shelf, she takes a wide stance before tugging on it! Sure enough, the shelf moves a bit, but the minute the girl stops it settles back to where it was before!
“BINGO!”
Not to be outdone, Raj emerges from a mountain of animal heads with a <span class="mu-s">STICK-IT NOTE</span> in his hands! “‘<span class="mu-i">Behind the Bookcase’</span>! Bros! I-”
Finally noticing the destroyed desk and the <span class="mu-s">DUFFEL BAG,</span> the skater deflates a bit.
No time, you shout as you motion for him to join you, just help me pull this open! Rushing over to your side, the two of you count to three and pull with all your might!
Though the unseen mechanisms within the bookshelf fight against you, your combined might wrenches the door open revealing a dark, cobwebbed hatch with a ladder leading into the very innards of the house!
>CONTD.
