Walking through the mansion door, still quite grumpy after her last encounter with the stuck-up, glorified janitor that was Catherine, Adrianne would eventually come to notice how remarkably empty the whole place was.

Aside from the occasional bullet hole or tilted vase, the corridors and hallways in the mansion were empty. The lights on the occasional pict sensor attached to the roof were powered down, and the only sound she could hear seemed to emanate from outside of the mansion in the form of the hover engines of the valkyrie circling the mansion. 

Otherwise, she had walked for a good seventy feet through the various ornately decorated hallways without noticing anyone else.

[i]"I guess the party is already over."[/i]

Adrianne thought to herself as she continued walking, staff in hand when she suddenly heard the distant running of feet and a man shouting.

"Quickly, get into the tunnels! We'll close the gate soon!" 

Noticing this, Adrianne would walk out onto the higher level of a larger hall, gazing down from behind one of the pillars to look down at the main floor. There she could see a row of bookshelves, one of which had been turned around to reveal a secret stairway behind it. Two house guards were ushering half a dozen well-dressed guests through, motioning for them to hurry as they stood on each side of the staircase.

Moving back behind the pillar and out of sight, Adrianne would activate her comm to Zhevon and whisper.

"Uh, this is Adrianne. I think some of the guests are vacating to some tunnels beneath the mansion. Some kind of hidden entrance or something. Should I investigate?"