>>5827800>>5827691>>5827693>>5827706>Morfran sets fire to the arcology gardens>Cadet Cassidy genuine breakup, career distress, NOT agent provocateur / inciting agent etc.forfeit asset opportunity: (Prosperity) 17 Seductress
In the quickening of a few heartbeats, Cadet Cassidy Carmen comes to regret her blasphemy upon the Holy Grid, her profane utterance calling for retributive conflagrations; long has Morfran been imbruted by solitude and treacherous longings - with a few quick gestures, he turns the reflectors of the aeroponic grow-lights, fans the ventilation to the highest; chokes the wetness of the nutrient mist, by snapping the release lever in two; until all that is needed is for a few stray sparks to ignite dry parched dust and the roar of the great column of helical fans to whirl them towards the growing towers. An explosion, and a rain of hot flame ignites across the green and reaching vines.
Cadet Carmen gasps in horror. The arcology begins to automatically seal the entrance to this section, as a great burden of intumescent barriers and compartment closures slowly descends, accompanied by the scream and throb of many wailing alarms and sirens. The garden has filled with choking black smoke and a whirlwind of burning embers.
Morfran watches the terror on Cadet Carmen's face - in her panic, she turns and runs the wrong way - it is easy to get lost and disorientated amidst the maze of burning vertical farm grow-towers - runs straight into a dead-end sealed biosensor monitoring chamber.
Cadet Carmen screams as a huge beam warps and collapses, aflame, blocking her only exit. Amidst the tangle of jutting girders, dense smoke strangles her surroundings in billowing blackness.
>Cackle maniacally, waving a burning uprooted branch: the Trees! The Trees shall outlive Men! AHAHahaHaaarghhh...(coughing, choking smoke) >Run for the fire barrier door before it descends. There is still time - if you run and dive under it, without stopping>Leap through the fire heroically, and boldly proclaim: Come with me if you want to live! I mean come! Not that sort of come... I- I guess? (But if you try to save her... won't the fire barrier have already descended, sealing you both in...?) Attempt to carry out the barely conscious Space Cadet Cassidy Carmen, as sweat stings your eyes and flames blister your skin>Scrabble frantically at the wet nutrient mist release lever - why did you have to break it? Is it too late now? (QM: in the far future, the advanced technology of water sprinklers has been forgotten)>(As Congregant-Director Sevastian Lir) sigh contentedly, as you eat a delectable chocolate truffle - you must swallow it slowly, for the melting taste of the ganache, the sweetness of the confection (muted alert warning spasms unnoticed in distant background, next to ARCOLOGY EMERGENCY FIRE SUPPRESSION red button)>Something else...? 