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The lights above here still seem to be on, same with the ones on the second floor, but they're quickly flickering on and off like they're about to power off at any moment. Best to hurry before they power off as well. <span class="mu-b">The anomalies here will probably breach after you leave.</span> Oh well, J-Corp can handle them.
First stop: TOADHOLE.
The seven of you promptly head into CONTAINMENT CELL D, shields and anti-anomaly rounds loaded in case you need to kill it, until you actually see what's inside of the containment cell.
It's a random toad.
No bells, no whistles, it's a really large (about as tall as Casey, so about five foot something?) but otherwise not out of the ordinary brown toad.
You and your allies balk at how fucking ordinary it looks. Aside from the fact it has survived down here with no food, water, and with stale air for 56ish years? You wouldn't even know that it was an anomaly. The weirdest part about it is that it's not moving. At all.
You shift your head around but its position doesn't change at all. Weird. You would expect that if you turned your head sidewise, the frog would look sideways too but no. Weird perception anomaly but otherwise not super out of the ordinary. No matter where you look, it's always in the same pose: Sitting upright, facing forward, staring at you. No matter how you shift your head or where you stand in the room.
Yet it never 'moves'. It's as if the image of a toad is superimposed over your eyes.
[NICOLE SEEKER] It's not a Toad. It looks like a Toad but it isn't one. What you're looking at is only the illusion of a toad.
[KIARA SEEKER] "Fuck, my processor is going insane just looking at this thing. It's like I'm trying to analyze 150 terabytes worth of data." Kiara has to keep her eyes away from the toad. "A toad shouldn't be doing that."
[HUNTER OF THE CITY] "Isn't there supposed to be a Toad here? Where is it?" Wendy glances at you and Kiara with confusion. "I just see a hole there."
Your other allies are deeply uncomfortable with what they're seeing as well. TOADHOLE isn't doing anything so you decide to slide the CONTAINMENT CUBE over to where you think it should be. It promptly seals shut around it and shrinks back down, containing the anomaly.
>TOADHOLE CONTAINMENT CUBE OBTAINED! (Will be sold after you arrive back home. Worth $600 and a U-CORP + B-CORP FAVOR.)
You quickly pocket it. Even now, the image of a Toad still lingers in your eye. You blink a few times and eventually, it goes away. Okay, wow, you'll try to forget that ever happened. Time to head to the second floor.
Your first stop is MUSHROOM DREAMS. You and your allies promptly put on their gas masks as the seven of you step into the room. The whole containment cell is flush with mushrooms, mold, moss, and a dozen other plants and fungi in every shade of color possible in nature (and even a few unrecognizable colors.) With your harvesting kit, you begin to pluck away at some of the more interesting piles of fungi.
