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You are gingerly stepping between the conductor rail, the power rail supported by ceramic insulator brackets carrying 750 to 1000 volts DC to the mass transit locomotives... but Erica and Marcus appear to be unfazed, and are gambolling along carefree, torch beams arcing casually in the dim light. Marcus is saying:
You can relax! There is no voltage on the rails. The rioters are using this abandoned passage to move around the city undetected all the time! It is really quite convenient for us too, all the police and security are being distracted by the protests and looting... there is no-one to catch us trespassing! We can get so much footage, enough content for a month's worth of editing, all in a single night!
Erica suddenly pauses and whispers -
B-but... what about the dragon? The Basilisk? The Great Wyrm? I heard it turns people into stone...
Marcus replies dismissively,
That is just an urban legend the authorities spread around to keep content creators like us out of the cool abandoned derelict areas! The MAGUS does not have an actual dragon! They just do not like us prowling around! You know if the transit authorities would just hire us, sponsor some photography and give us some funding, we could provide them with much better promotional materials...
Ahead of you there is a ear-blistering groan of tortured metal, like a dislocated wheel being ground against steel rails. It sounds like mechanical scraping, but it is not loud enough to be an approaching locomotive.
Tell your followers to advance and shine a torch towards the tortured metal grinding sound:
>Erica
>Marcus
>Both of them together
>Advance towards the grinding metal sound yourself in the darkness, whilst Erica and Marcus behind shine their torch beams ahead of you
>Stop where you are, motion for your followers to remain still and silent, listen in the darkness to see what you can discern as the grinding approaches
>Retreat towards a more open and better illuminated junction area in the abandoned subway, away from this narrow dark tunnel. Perhaps the source of the metal grinding will pass by you, towards another tunnel instead?
>Something else...? (e.g. you can blindfire without warning a gunshot into the darkness etc)
