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Actually, excluding the dimensions of the room, the only difference that you can see is that the manual crank mechanism for the door is still all in one piece. You pull and punt yourself into the room and check it out. After giving it a good greasing and then kissing it with your wrecking torch, you are pleasantly surprised at how quickly and smoothly the door is able to operate. And that is enough to settle it. You are going to try again for the drone. You find a panel near one of the corners that is slightly wider than the others – just wide enough that you can comfortably squeeze through without risk to your suit – and you cut it out.
With the second – actually, arguably the third – snare prepared for the drone, you retrace your path and find the drone more or less where you lost sight of it, back in the first of the larger, dusty hallways. Considering how aggressive it is, baiting it is not difficult at all, though you notice that it seems slower in the hallways than it did in the closer confines of the stripped-down room. All well and good. Well … maybe not <span class="mu-i">all</span> well and good. While you understand that without any way to slave the drone, you are going to have to accept capture methods that get a little rough, in the back of your head, you do have some concerns about you ending up destroying the unit with your snare.
But for now, you have to leave that concern in the back of your head. Your first attempt with this snare is almost certainly going to be your best bet at taking the damned thing. On what you can only hope is going to be the final approach to this room, you maneuver yourself sideways to check to make sure that you have enough of a lead on the drone to work with. When you see that you do, you pivot forward again then swing yourself inside. You just manage to backburn away enough momentum that you can punt yourself to a stop right in front of the manual crank. Then it is only a matter of waiting.
And you end up waiting a good fifteen or so seconds before the drone finally actually makes an appearance, and it once it comes around that last corner it holds position, possibly considering whether or not to continue pursuit. You are wondering if you are going to step out of the room to bait the thing in after all – but thankfully, the drone still seems to know where you are, and before you know it, the drone is outside the doorway, shaking and scything through the clouds and debris as it shifts itself towards you.
By this point though, you have got working knowledge of the drone’s attack patterns and capabilities – and now, the thing has your fucking spear sticking through it. And when you pinch the door closed, you make first contact with the spear, not one of the legs – and the drone clearly does not know what to make of that.
