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A condescending grin forms on your face as you watch your teammates scuttle for cover like cockroaches in your apartment’s kitchen. It’s <span class="mu-i">cute</span>... very cute… especially how Syb and Art ‘<span class="mu-i">accidentally</span>’ end up in the same nook together, but as far as you’re concerned this shit is <span class="mu-i">child’s play!</span>
While Talbot struggles to stuff himself <span class="mu-i">under</span> one of the generators with a very concerned Lil’ Stanley in tow, you leap like a grasshopper up to one of the nearby <span class="mu-g">CEILING POWER THINGIES</span> and cling to it like a raccoon on a tree limb!
Precarious though it may be, your hiding spot pays off–you scarcely have time to wrap your legs around a few alien tubes before the source of the stomping makes itself known! Lumbering around the corner with a heavy gait comes a collection of impeccably smooth metal shapes plodding along in a humanoid form! Kept separate by night-imperceptible clouds of what can only be <span class="mu-g">MAGICAL ENERGY,</span> the sentry resembles <span class="mu-b">KELLY,</span> that <span class="mu-b">VIRTUAL INTELLIGENCE</span> you chatted with earlier, albeit more realistic and worn down by what must be <span class="mu-i">years</span> of activity!
“<span class="mu-s">UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS DETECTED. DO NOT BE ALARMED. REMAIN WHERE YOU ARE.</span>”
“Not one fer’ words, is he?” Ly remarks as the metal minion systematically searches the whole row of generators! Dipping what appears to be its head, you watch with childlike interest as a circular divot opens up in the automaton’s head releasing a cone-shaped arc of light! As it proceeds to scan each and every possible hiding spot, your eyes lock with Talbot’s and Lil’ Stanleys as they both shoot you worried glances–the former barely fitting underneath some sort of monitoring console, the latter debating whether to stick with Talbot or risk drowning and swim to a better hiding place!
“<span class="mu-s">UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS DETECTED. DO NOT BE ALARMED. REMAIN WHERE YOU ARE.</span>”
There he goes again! You’re not sure what’s gonna happen when he spots the others, but it’s probably not good, right? It works for the <span class="mu-r">SEA WITCH!</span>
… unless you’re in a <span class="mu-r">COMPLETELY DIFFERENT LAB BELONGING TO SOMEONE ELSE!</span> Oh <span class="mu-s">NO!</span> Sending a panicked glance in Syb’s direction, your heart sinks even further into your chest–oh <span class="mu-s">NO!</span> She and Art are <span class="mu-r">FRENCHING!</span>
You’ve gotta do something quick–this whole situation is going bananas!
>TACKLE AND STEALTH-KILL THIS THING!
>DISTRACTION! USE YOUR DOPPELGANGER THING OR AN ITEM AND DRAW IT AWAY!
>GET THE AUTOMATON’S ATTENTION! WHAT DOES IT WANT?
>TRUST IN YOUR DUMBASS FRIENDS AND STAY STILL–MAYBE IT’LL GO AWAY!
>SEE IF LY CAN POSSESS IT!
>WRITE-IN!
