"Hey. I agreed to go here for a reason. No need to worry." With everyone's help, the trap door is pried open.
All it takes is one good look to realize this goes DEEP underground.
"AAAAAA IT'S THE P-CORP FACILITY ALL OVER AGAIN! FUCK!"
"C'mon, Clover." Kiara pats him on the back. "It's not going to be THAT bad."
Seath decides to speed things up by being the first one down the hatch. By that, you meant to say he fucking JUMPS down the hole. Doesn't bother grabbing onto the ladder, he just jumps right on down.
This promptly lights a fire under everyone to make sure this jackass didn't break his legs. Everyone immediately scrambles down the old rickety ladder. It's only when your group does this that you realize, oh wait no, it wasn't that deep after all.
The darkness flooding every inch of the air made it look a lot deeper than it was. Your group is probably only about 20 feet underground if you had to guess? Still pretty deep but not like 'P-Corp facility' deep. Seath seems uninjured by the fall even though that realistically, he's probably just hiding how much pain that stunt put him in.
https://youtu.be/2yZywLEZFIg - HIDDEN LAB
The actual lab itself is actually pretty tame for something hidden under the house. It's a cramped one room lab that clearly hadn't seen much use even before the place got abandoned.
The floor is flooded with old robotics schematics and dust-caked electrical wiring. Old leaky pipes on the ceiling are dribbling down brown-tinted water onto the floor even after all of these years. A series of five screens, obviously powered off, hang at the back of the room.
A table with an old computer monitor, which has a VHS (a VHS player of all things? In this era?) connected to it, sits in the middle of the room. It's somehow still powered on and is tuned to static right now.
Boxes of old engineering and robotics equipment are scattered all throughout the room. Old tape with nearly unreadable writing is taped one ach one. Might take eons to find anything useful in them.
The walls are lined with old bookcases that are filled with technical manuals, more robotic scrap, VHS tapes and even a few other old antique books. The weirdest thing you see in this room is a pair of six or eight odd jars on top of the bookcases. They're filled with brightly colored ichor that stands out like a sore thumb in the otherwise drab grey lab.
An old photograph lays by the powered on computer monitor. You pick it up and the image you see on it is kinda cute, even if you're not a fan of biomods that alter someone's body THAT much.
There's three figures in the frame, each of which are humanoids who have fox-like arms, faces, and tails. You've seen Kanna (one of Clover's friends) with these biomods. Some sort of family thing. There's a young girl with brown fur and a scarf around her neck, an older man with blueish fur and a pair of glasses, and a older woman with light yellow fur and a bright red bow tied to her hair.
