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A small group splits off to test the tunnels nearer the carriage, which keeps rolling at a steady clip. Samantha and Chimera are fast enough to catch up and avoid falling behind, and it would be useful to see where this sprawling network goes.
Consequences can try to dance through the broken systems and dented cameras of this place, some live and still transmitting. Fox and Amelius and the Augmentics combined have enough signal capacity to detect and utilize the more fritzy bits of electronics still live in the area. Fox stares down at her stolen comms device, taken from some guard, and mutters about kernel flushing and reiteration loops, and spends as much time slapping her hands against the walls, her head, Gallium, the controls, groaning and moaning and muttering in frustration and excited bursts of success, as she does actually seeming to do any work.
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One thing becomes clear, fast.
We are not alone down here.
But REGENT has sent us to an area outside of its realm. A place of pipes, tunnels and darkness. Old stations blur by, little subconnection routes, abandoned intersections that veer off into the deeper darkness. Are we circling? We're probably circling.
There's still clear signs of activity in this place. Abandoned tools, workers wagons, little trolleys and wires and sections where it almost seems as if someone worked recently.
This place might not be so abandoned at all, even if the life that squirms through the tunnels and tries to eat Samantha twice is clear sign things aren't so well managed down here either.
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