>>5765872You’ve had your share of bad smells tonight, but the banquet you’re treated to in the spillway is… <span class="mu-i">unique</span>, that’s for sure. Alien gore is caked along the sides of the crawlspace like the skin on the top of a pudding cup, and as you wade through the middle you feel all manners of unpleasant objects bobbing against your ankles from beneath the muck…
“Well,” sighs Pepper from up ahead, “Looks like we made a getaway… but I wouldn’t call it clean…”
“We’ve stirred up the hive for long enough,” Adds Chuck as he uses his hat to waft the smell away from his face, “Time to take down the queen.”
Sounds great, you groan, grimacing as you step on a particularly grody chunk of… <span class="mu-i">stuff</span>, but how exactly are you supposed to get in? Her lab’s <span class="mu-i">got</span> to be locked down, right? There’s no way she’s gonna let you in with a friendly knock…
“Let’s just see where this goes first!” Shrugs Raj from behind you clearly unaffected by the surrounding filth, “Maybe it’ll be a <span class="mu-i">shortcut</span> or something!”
Your unorthodox path proves to not be a ‘<span class="mu-i">shortcut</span>’, per se, but a chance split in the road takes you upwards… and when your gang of misfits reaches another grate you find yourself overlooking the entrance to the bunker–the one just past the <span class="mu-s">SECURITY CHECKPOINT</span> where you left your burning vehicle! Peering down at the corridor, you find it devoid of any slashers for the moment, but there’s no telling what the entrance to the <span class="mu-s">MATTER DISPLACEMENT LAB</span> looks like!
Being the sneakiest in the crew, Pepper pops open the grate and delicately lowers herself to the floor before scampering down the hall towards your destination! Peering around the corner like a voyeur, she takes a moment before rushing back over to your haunt!
“Big catwalk, chief… suspended over another one of those endless-looking pits that have <span class="mu-i">gotta</span> be an <span class="mu-s">OSHA VIOLATION.</span> I dunno if there’s a connection through the walls, but…”
But it might be worth a shot, you interrupt. There <span class="mu-i">is</span> some more vent to traverse–maybe you’ll get lucky?
Then again, every moment you take is just more prep time for Rivka…
Where to?
>THE DIRECT APPROACH: YOU’LL BLOW THE LAB OPEN IF YOU HAVE TO!>THE SORTA-DIRECT APPROACH: IF THERE’S AN ALTERNATE ENTRANCE, IT’LL BE CLOSER TO THE LAB!>THE NOT-SO-DIRECT APPROACH: KEEP ROOTING THROUGH THE VENTS!>WRITE-IN! 