>>6146811Compared to where you came from, the factories are far less crowded as you stalk its silent streets–well, far more <span class="mu-i">quiet</span> is a better assessment. Even with the sisters doggedly leading you onwards, you can’t help but feel like you’re being watched all the while… like someone has you in their sights and is just waiting for the right moment to-
Your assessment is put on hold as you nearly trip over Dilah and Vilah–both girls frozen like statues as you smack into them! Before you can ask what the holdup is, you-
Wait, Volka and TT have to stumble into you first.
“Oof! Sor-”
The Skog gets about halfway through the word ‘sorry’ when something soft smacks her face–a rag, maybe? Before you or her can ask, Dilah and Vilah catch your gaze and reach for the ground! Creeping over to you, Dilah presses something cold and powdery against your leg… something you’d recognize anywhere, but still find it out of place especially with how warm it is.
<span class="mu-i">Snow</span>, you whisper, confusion etched on your face!
Nodding at your appraisal of the situation, the sisters take you another way–one that skirts around the direction you were just headed! Pausing every few steps to test the ground, the girls come to the same conclusion you do: the ground is positively <span class="mu-i">powdery!</span>
“<span class="mu-i">Using the crunch to hear intruders…</span>” Hisses Tzah-Tzie as she keeps close to your side, “<span class="mu-i">Explains why there aren’t any guards out here…</span>”
She ain’t wrong–as you examine the perimeter created by the blanket of snow you don’t see or hear anyone milling about. Part of you wants to assume no one’s home, but… well, you know better.
Coming to what sounds like a metal fence, you watch as Dilah and Vilah probe it for holes before electing to climb over. Fortunately while it hindered your advance into the factory, the snow manages to blanket the sound you make clambering over pretty well–especially in Volka’s clangy case. You’re just about to continue when you hear a door creak open far to your right–a pair of cool-hued Chytree eyes emerging from where the sound originated!
“Back in a minute! Just play the hand without me, <span class="mu-i">Hells</span>...”
Well it’s hard to say if he’s an Icer or not, but he <span class="mu-i">has</span> presented you with a means to enter the factory… glancing at Vilah and Dilah tells you that the girls have the same thing in mind. The question is, how do you play this?
>Just slip in!>Take down the Chytree first! >Interrogate the Chytree!>Try to find a better entrance–a doorway is still pretty risky…>Send someone ahead! (Who?)>Write-In! 