[b]November:[/b]

[b]Waffle:[/b]

The shield opens.

[b]Strawberry:[/b]

The penny drops.

[b]Flood:[/b]

The axe falls. 

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A lot of things are about to happen very quickly. This was not meant to happen, do you understand? This is not how this was meant to go. 

We agree, though: [i]This was not meant to happen[/i]. 

Chase Black have split into three teams of two. The first is going through the emergency shaft of the rail lines, a rocket sled and a handheld blastshield acting like a cowcatcher for any mass of liquid they plow through. The second has modified their cyberware like diving bells and gone for the prime to get you in a pincer movement through the sheer bulk of the catastrophe. The final team have a VTOL raining thermal charges to core through the reinforced walls of Erebus like a match licking through cardboard. They work with a bit more hurry and a bit less finesse than your cutting did - they don't care about collateral damage now. There's no way out through the pipe you cut - One direction goes through the machinery of the Cloud, and the other will just lead directly to the second team. 

You don't have to slow all of them down. Just the ones in the direction you're running in.