>>5754813So instead you respond with a neutral shrug. Then we’ll check in with the others, you reply in an even tone. See if they found anyth-
Your voice trails off as you spot a silhouette in the fog–one you mistook for an excavator! But as it comes closer you realize not only that it’s <span class="mu-i">multiple</span> shadows, but that they’re all boasting a familiar <span class="mu-s">YELLOW EYE SLIT</span>!
You instinctively pick Pepper up and slog as quickly as you can through the muck sending a shrill whistle into the air! <span class="mu-s">SHIT!</span>
The mud tugs at your legs as you retrace your steps and rack your brain for any ideas–where else could the entrance be!?
Rounding the corner towards where you left your ride, you barely duck under a metallic dodgeball as it whizzes past your head! Regrouping with its three other pals ahead of you, a now-familiar hologram fizzes to life above you!
“So close… and yet so <span class="mu-i">FAR!</span>” Cackles Rivka’s disembodied voice! “I even indulged in your little… <span class="mu-i">distraction</span>... for far longer than I should have, and yet here you are STILL sniffing around in the wrong place!”
Still trudging through the mud with Pepper in tow, you can hear the slashers gaining behind you!
“Oh well!” The scientist shrugs, “At least there’s a hole already dug to throw your corpses into… how remarkably convenient you’ve made this for me!”
Chucking a nearby wrench at the hologram projectors, you see Rivka’s smug grin droop a bit while Pepper’s is refreshed!
“Oh look, the ape is using <span class="mu-i">tools</span>. How <span class="mu-i">droll</span>...”
>ROLL ME 3d100 TO GET BACK TO THE APC! BEST OF 3! BONUSES:>DIESEL+0 (+5 SPEED BONUS, +2 GETTING ANGRY, -2 MUDDY, -3 STORMY, -2 CARRYING PEPPER)>RAJ+0 (+5 COOL CUSTOMER, -2 MUDDY, -3 STORMY)>CHUCK+1 (+5 MILITARY TRAINING, -1 USED TO MUD, -3 STORMY) 