>>5807735THEN, IN THE WARRENS
These marks on the walls...
They remind you of the weapons used by Street Sweeper teams on the Urban layer. This division of the H&S is equipped with their signature harpoons and conventional firearms, alongside the traditional Department's obstacle-removers like the sledgehammer, the shovels, the water pressure jets, and on and on. <span class="mu-b">Some of these marks are not from their weapons, deeper, more feral...</span>
The Department is full of tenacious bastards. Not just in the sense of being hard to kill. You've learned that antagonizing one branch of Health and Sanitation means <span class="mu-i">antagonizing the entire City. How foolish you were then and so young, when you did not yet know how to love the City you live in...</span>
You get a weird feeling all of a sudden.
Something is very wrong. You find yourself asking again, uselessly, why is a Surface team all the way down here?
LATER, IN THE CAVERNS
The spear bastard from earlier is dead. His brains are coming out of his ears and his guts spilling out onto his lap, but those hands of his are still clenched in a death grip. If it weren't for those mortal wounds, you might think he is just resting, only for this moment, about to stand up once more and continue the vicious hustle for his homeland. The spearman must have hurled his harpoon and in that single hit, rent that hideous heart with all of his inhuman hate. It is clear that this Greytider went down fighting as a <span class="mu-i">man.</span> You kick stone dust over his body out of highest respect... then spit on the corpse for him being a rude motherfucker.
Hah.
Now this thing... It doesn't seem to be augmented with any bionics and it is much, much larger than the man-sized wall-phaser. <span class="mu-b">This devil from the Deep is another entity, separate from the broken cyborg which first attacked you. Until you find its body or put a bullet into its head, you can "safely" assume the phaser freak is very much alive and active.</span>
Hmmm. Everything is coming together. The Survey team must have been lost down here and were constantly assaulted during their Mission. Their terrified retreat and the light they bring down with them must have chummed the waters, brought the entire 5th strata crashing down upon them, and this Grey hunting team followed, fought, died.
<span class="mu-g">There is still that one survivor out of this whole mess.</span>
<span class="mu-b">The harpoon feels heavier in your hands...</span>
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[PROGRESS: 55/100]
