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It's the rest of your party + the dozen or so ETF agents that you decided to follow. You notice how tense all of them are and how they all snap their gazes towards the two of you.
That tenseness fades when they see the now lifeless nesting doll-spider and the mutated old lady standing by you.
"She's the anomaly." You nod your head at her. "She's not really much of a threat anymore. Hell, she's probably going to revert back to one soon enough." LYUBOV doesn't seem to notice your comment. Hell, she doesn't notice much of anything.
"Ah." Phi gestures at her group to keep their firearms holstered for now. "We'll take her in later. Best to keep her someone safe once we're out of her. Can she defend hersel-" Phi has to dodge something being shot right at her: A thick strand of webbing.
Turning to see the source, Lyubov has her left spider arm-leg held up. A small crack at the tip of the leg seems to be where the web came from. "Grandma. Keep safe." As soon as she finishes speaking, she goes numb again.
"Noted. Just keep her in the back."
"There's a situation going on." Ashley cuts through the chatter. They DID come back to get you for a reason. "We didn't want to go further without you two- three."
"LEAD THE WAY." Quentin moves to rejoin the party alongside Lyubov. You stay behind for a moment to reclaim the pendant. Something tells you it's important.
>FORGOTTEN PENDANT obtained. (ODDITY ACCESSORY. When equipped, boosts the two lowest stats of the wearer by 2.)
>ODDITIES are a weird in-between a RELIC and an PARADIGM. They tend to have slightly weirder or more unique effects than normal relics but no true anomalous power.
You follow the ever-growing group towards whatever problem they now found themselves in. You doubt it's an anomaly since they probably would've dealt with it by now. None of them seem to be injured or dead yet at least.
Your group heads down a hallway leading northwest deeper into the facility. You have no idea where you're heading so you lean in to ask your allies.
"The machines down in some research lab here keep blaring some coded message." Alexis fills in on what's been going on. "It seems the anomaly you dealt with was the only one that broke out...for now. That we know of."
[HUNTER OF THE CITY] "The machine has a spook in it. There's an anomaly in there. Blabbering nonsensical codes from a dead world." You only now notice the torn up wires hanging in Wendy's hand. "Didn't even react when I did this!"
"Yeah. Real creepy shit in there." Algiz buds into your group's conversation. "We found two cells nearby; Those anomalies are still inside. We'll deal with those later." Good, good, one more anomaly to deal with. Maybe you can leave after that.
"Oh, right." You lean in to whisper to Algiz and Phi about the works you did with Lyubov and what she responded well to. The two nod, thanking you for the info whenever they do drag her to a containment cell. Soon enough, you arrive at the research lab in question.
