Hi, hey, and hello Internet. We're back with the Broken Lords.
It is I Jordan. We have our wonderful cast Lydia as Mitch jaber Jabrinska
Socks as Bitsake, Turbo Snideley as rend Bray, and our lovely editor zob
As ice Picked Prescott, whom we last left our intrepid protagonists, Mitch Jaber
Jabrinka found herself in a precarious situation as the blandest police officer of all time
finally tracked her down definitely not shadyban shop with Fritz Nobunaga, and if I
was a nice guy, we'd start with that. But I want Lydia to
simmer in your situation for a little bit, so thanks love it. We
find ourselves in the main tower of Exotic Transports with Bitsnake, ice Pick and
Wren. They currently are traversing up to the seventeenth floor, where effectively the
shopping mall of this place is. They found some blueprints that pointed to an
access way there that could get them where they wanted to go with minimum detection.
Through the events you were taking the stairs. We'll fast forward a little
bit. You guys made it to at the very least the floor that you
need to go. You're at the doors leading to let's call like a side
access hallway that you'd find in them mall. Sometimes that would go either a
bathroom or security terminal or some shit like that. Yeah, but that's where
you find yourself. So you're not necessarily in the building yet, but you're
you're at the precipice. Okay, cool, no present threats in mind?
Or how would you want to check? Put your ear to the or yeah,
I'd imagine we're all professionals here, so I'd imagine we'd stack up like
a swat team or something like that, and one of us puts the ear
to the door, so to speak. You don't hear the sound of people
moving and shuffling. There is that warning claxon. This one's a little bit
different because this is not in the corporate headquarters. So this is more of
a evacuation move to higher floors, evacuation alarm move to higher floors, and
that pings on the alarm system every like thirty forty five seconds, and the
claxon is muted. It's not muted, no, no, I mean it's
different than the one that you heard downstairs. If that was direct from exotic
transports, because this place is more or less than their direct control. This
is more where civilians would normally be and not direct employees. So a first
class custom tailored claxon for the upper class, something like that, something like
that. Okay, who we kid, it's open source. They found this
shit on YouTube. The baby's sleeping socks. The baby is sleeping socks.
I don't each being that loud. Well, I will look at the rest
of my compatriots, and it sounds clear aside from the alarm, if there's
nothing stopping us, we continue moving towards the elevator. Times like a plan
works to me. Okay, So you go through the entrance from the stairs.
All the lights are off. It's in sept with like the red emergency
lights. It's kind of looking inside of a submarine in here. In some
ways, hours out here. They don't spend money on the back of generators
for the general public shopping mall. Yeah, no, why wouldn't they not
necessarily good lighting, you know, besides the warning bell or the alarm system.
And it's kind of eerily still and fairly quiet. I don't like this.
It reminds me of a submarine, and I don't like being in a
submarine. Pressurize death. That's what this is. Once you get out of
the hallways, you get into like the mall proper, and it's multi level.
There's at least three floors in this. It's opens out a lot more.
However, all the windows are shuttered and feel shuttering is kind of like
locked everything in, so it is still pretty. There'd be the enva veneer
of outside normally that you do not have here, if that makes any sense.
So like artificial terrarium, so to speak, kind of. But now
all that veneer's gone away, and it's just you know, steel glass and
like red mood lighting effectively. Oh geez, that doesn't sound like a slasher
film set at all. I don't know what you're talking about. I don't
know. Problems. There's a nice little chandelier up here. There was you
know those like fountains, you know, waterworks, things that you find in
old walls once upon a time. The power's out, so instead of anything
like that, it's like sad trickles of water still jutting from the like whatever
ox system they still use. Auxiliary system they still used, but there's a
big section in the entrance that you walked down, and that's kind of just
sad and a little wet. There is debris everywhere, though you could tell
that there were a lot of people here and they all had to fucking beat
feet in a hurry. What I will say, based on the schematics that
a socks you spent resources on last a session, you know that the entrance
to the vent system that you spotted that'd be able to get you to the
C suite levels is gonna be on the third floor of this lall structure.
All right, Well, onwards the stairs. Then I suppose, all right,
okay, I'm gonna assess the situation while we're going. That's fair enough,
But roll me and assess role and I will break out my book because
it's been a minute inside. Well, it is part of the plan.
So do I get to add a plus one forward to it? Since we
are trying to get to the objective without being hindered by said enemies, I
will not give you the assesses part of the plan for free, okay,
I would reserve that for actions. Okay, no problem, I'm sorry,
more direct actions, you know what I mean? Yep? All right,
what we got here? We got a eight okay, moderate success in the
region the list All right, zoo, What potential complication do I need to
be wary of? What do I notice in just to conceal it? That
was blank vulnerable to me? How can I avoid trouble or hide here?
What is that best way in, the best way out, best way past?
Where can I gain the most advantage? Who or what is my biggest
threat in the situation? Who are what is in control? Here? Complication?
The first one as you pass the fountain area and you're on your way
to the stairs to get to the floor too, hm, and this is
an annoying ass They built it to keep people inside type mall, so like
the stairs to floor three are clear on the other fucking side of the wall.
Once you get up these dirty casino tricks, yep, dirty casino tricks.
You glance your eyes to like hallway near you, you see an elevator
at the end of it, and here just a slight thing thing thing and
you at least hear movement on that elevator coming. Now it sounds like we're
not the only ones going shopping tonight, or look at the others. Then
we hurry, they're coming from where we're going Oh Special thanks to Toys and
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