>>6126187It was not detected earlier due to… poor surveillance coverage of its route,” the tall nipponese woman tells you. “It has only now entered visual range, and now it could cut you off from your normal extraction route if you tried to run.”
Fuck, fuck, fuck. Your heart starts to pick up a rapid pace. Your body wanting to move, but where? What do you do? How can you-
You've seen the footage.
It spoke poetry as it slaughtered eight agents, caught on a shaky bodycam.
In a flight of adrenaline, but a lack of good ways to direct it, you flip your cam back on. You need to do <span class="mu-i">something.</span>
“Don’t panic,” she pressures you, just as anyone would when they aren’t being targeted by a fifteen foot tall mountain of mutated teratoma tumor clad monstrosity. “If you want to leave, you will have to leave from the east corridor exit, and head south a section. It's unsecured territory, but Lorppo won't see you.”
Tahti leans in. “Miss? What’s wrong?”
As you try and figure out the route in your head so you can make the maddest dash away from here, Sumika spends some time calculating the various unseen variables. Then, before you begin to run, she speaks up.
“My recommendation?”
“<span class="mu-i">Stay.</span>”
“Lorppo will honor the pact.”
<span class="mu-b">Choose a max of two.</span>
>Book it straight back to your planned extract.>Flee through unknown territory>Breathe a lungful of unfiltered natural air, steel yourself, and stay in the Lehto as instructed.