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"Clarify?" You try to get him to stop panicking so much. His mind is too much of a mess to mind read. "Look, look, we need to know what we're dealing with."
"Okay, okay." Adam takes a few deep breaths in an attempt to center himself. "Three men came in about ten minutes ago. All of them are wearing big thick jackets and they were covered in scars; they've seen some stuff. One of them even flashed his gun at me when he saw I was watching. They had a briefcase too."
"I heard them blabbering about 'doing a trade' and 'hunting down a signal'. Then another group came in, three girls. They were watching you until you were talking to talk to him." He points back to the gunman. You notice a swarm of young women who with similar wild eyes to the druggie woman next to him.
<span class="mu-b">All of them have the same artificial, glossy skin</span> that rubs you the wrong way. It technically looks like flesh but they clearly aren't regular humans.
"I think those three are in a different group to the men. Last one I saw was a really shady man in a trench coat and fedora.<span class="mu-r">He had a fucking assault rifle, I know I saw it with my own eyes.</span>" What the fuck? You only got one from an abandoned P-Corp facility, how did a rando have one. "This is a corporate battlefield ready to happen. I think I saw, like a flaming gear on his coat?"
Alexis seems to hear Adam's rambling over your ear piece. "That's H-Corp." Shit. No wonder why he has one if he's a corpo.
You, Frank, and the Handler all share looks with each other. Shit. News has spread REAL fucking fast, hasn't it?
Benedict is the next to join your group. There's a single minded focus in his eyes that tells you he figured one thing and one thing only. Yet you can tell this one factoid is important. "ANOTHER onE of my KIND is here. Not ANOMALY, more HALF FORMED. MorE like Me and MARUYAMA."
[ANOMALOUS ABILITIES] A SHIFTer, then. That complicates things even more.
"He is. Above." He points to a small staircase that has a "EMPLOYEE'S ONLY" sign hammered next to it. A bodyguard is standing by it as well. "He is. The BIG CHEESE." <span class="mu-b">So the owner himself has anomalous abilities.</span>
"Air is WEIRD. Lights too BRIGHT. Eyes too GLOSSY. He BENEFITS from their ABSENTMINDNESS. <span class="mu-r">And from THE BLOOD that will be SPILLED.</span>"
You take a sniff of the air. It's faintly sickly sweet underneath the scent of vomit, piss, cigarette smoke, and all of the other foul smells. A-Energy. There's no anomalies here but it's being produced somehow anyways. Perhaps from all of the absentminded, hollow husks and the raw emotions being created here.
[ANOMALOUS ABILITIES] Probably the best place to make it without an anomaly. Lust, anger, fear, loneliness, excitement.
Maruyama and Alexis quickly join back with your group after their chat with the three men in suits.
"Look. I overhear from her ear piece." Maruyama has a hand on the hilt of his sword. "Everyone here seems to have the same goal as us. That damn briefcase."
