https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzYk9huKjMw - ALARM SYSTEM TRIGGERED Before you can get into the elevator and fuck off to the warm safety of your facility, a violently chaotic 'song' blares across the cityscape. Air sirens quickly follow along with a robotic voice, not dissimilar to S-4M's.
<span class="mu-s">"ATTENTION, ALL CITIZENS IN DISTRICT 16! AN INCREDIBLY UNSTABLE AND VOLATILE ANOMALY HAS BEEN DETECTED IN YOUR DISTRICT! RETREAT TO YOUR NEAREST EMERGENCY SHELTERS! IF THAT IS NOT POSSIBLE, STAY INSIDE AND DO NOT LEAVE."</span>
<span class="mu-s">"ALL ETFS NOT CURRENTLY TASKED WITH ANOMALY EXTRACTION TASKS, REPORT IMMEDIATELY TO YOUR NEAREST UNIONSHOP FOR SUPPRESSION!"</span>
[BOUND BY DUTY] "God damnit!" ETF-Kaun smashes her fist onto the coffee table. ETF-Wunjo and Lambda are sweating bullets at the alarm and what's being asked of them. Lambda mutters to herself, "Hey, hey, calm down-"
[BOUND BY DUTY] "Do we got a Zeta or Chi on this fucking team?" Kaun waves her hands wildly in the air. Long, messy red hair flows down her back. "If not, we're FUCKED!"
[BOUND BY DUTY] "N-no, sorry. You know how hard those are to get." Wunjo rubs the back of his neck. "B-but, hey, it won't just be us!" The pencil pusher looking agent nervously laughs.
You shake your head out of your weird trance. Shit, if it's an anomaly they have to warn the District about...you remember what Salt said about "City wide emergency" stuff. The flow of tar is only getting stronger as you begin to panic.
[HOPELESS WRECK] ELEVATOR NOW GO FUCK MAN MOVE MOVE MOVE MOVE
Your legs automatically rush into the elevator before you even have time to react. Your fingers quickly push the buttons to get the elevator to chug back down to safety. Thank the Father you managed to keep a hold onto the bags of junk you bought.
You try to process everything. First, apparently there's an incredibly dangerous anomaly <span class="mu-i">not</span> in an abandoned district. And not just that, it's in YOUR District. Then there was the weird cryptic shit that Graverobber was talking about...The Lack, huh?
A drop of tar falls onto the elevator floor. It sizzles. You're filled with this garbage and yet, you somehow haven't melted into literal sludge by now. Is this what it means by...Lack?
[HOPELESS WRECK] YOU KNOW, WE CAN USE THIS AS A WEAPON IF WE TRAIN OURSELVES PROPERLY. SPIT SOME IN THE EYES-
A disease in the heart? No more beliefs? You're not sure how true it is, your employees have beliefs...don't they? They seem happy enough! Aside from a few meltdowns and panic attacks and close calls, it's been really swell!
And of course YOU believe in something, c'mon! You...you...
You look at the piece of colorful cloth. You shake your head, trying to get that funk out of your head. Without really thinking about it, you wrap the cloth around your wrist.
You step out onto the first floor. And almost immediately get slipped by a banana peel. A blur of green and white is all you can register before hitting the ground.
