"We'll read the intel paper on our scouting run throughout the first floor. I need you five to get into formation."
"Casey, Wendy, you'll be at the back. Watch out for anyone trying to ambush us and warn us. Quentin, Clover, and I will be on the front line. Nicole and Kiara will be in the middle. You two will scan around for anything we can't notice while you're protected from both sides."
Huh. Not a bad plan, actually. You'd argue Kiara is better as a frontline due to her durability as a robot but otherwise it's not bad enough to nitpick over. You nod in agreement before realizing you have those two scarves in your inventory. For now, you hand them over to Naomi and Casey due to their squishy natures.
>-2 NOUVEAU SCARVES TEMPORARILY!>NAOMI AND CASEY ARE A BIT MORE PROTECTED!Your group falls into position as per Naomi's command before exiting the breakroom to do some basic scouting around the facility you're in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz0HvEVCziY - ANCIENT BREACH
The first thing that hits you is the scent of rot and decay flooding. The second thing that hits you is despite this smell, there's no corpses anywhere within your party's line of sight. A few of your party members seem to notice this real quick.
[MILITARY EXPERIENCE] "Rot takes days or weeks to fully disappear even after a clean up crew arrives. Back in X-Corp, we would clean out places beforehand so there's no biohazard risks." Naomi pulls out her SERVICE PISTOL, keeping her finger away from the trigger guard. She's keeping her gun pointed at the ground. "But for a smell this strong? Had to be fresh corpses."
[CORPORATE NIGHTMARE] "Reeks of K-Corp. Too clean. Too fucking clean. Think they can get away with it because they're underground." Wendy tightens the grip on the rusted metal pipe in her hand. "Might be here to recover any anomalies left down here. To extract any resources from them. <span class="mu-b">Maybe the anomalies were too powerful if they didn't clean up.</span>"
[ANALYZER MODEL] Kiara's LEDs eyes shift in the dim light. "I detect small traces of Perfecta Amotio on the walls and floors. Too low concentration for a body clean up. If they were dissolving bodies, it wasn't on this floor." So that implies either they moved the bodies manually or that were removed some other way.
You're standing in a crossroad between two hallways just like it showed on the map. The steel floors and walls are coated in thick layers of orange and blue paint that was clearly painted on many years ago to try offering some comfort to the people working here: After all, better than staring at featureless grey steel walls all day.
Just like in the breakroom, everything is drenched in a bright red haze from the emergency red lightbulbs hanging from the ceiling. Though this time, most of them have been shattered outright, leaving massive patches of darkness in between what few light bulbs remain. Good thing you and Kiara have nightvision. Time to put on your googles.
