[color=f7941d]"I heard they dismantled anyone who doesn't agree with them. Then throw the head into the shredder."[/color] Burner2137 replied. Though it sounded rather unsure about that since what they heard was mostly hearsay.

[color=f7941d]"I don't like how loud the shredder is."[/color]

The elf had regained some of her composure after the stumble and crawled her way towards her beaked gas mask. She glanced between Leif and Burner2137 reluctantly, before she finally decided to tell them.

[color=bc8dbf]"I-It's actually m-mine. I-I-I dropped the golem core a feww days ago here. S-sort o-of... I-I need it for my t-task, b-b-but I'm running out of time..."[/color] The elf girl stuttered through her explanation, even almost bite her own tongue at one point. She dusted her gas mask as Leif showed her the poster.

[color=bc8dbf]"T-transcend the... programme?

Attain… F-freedom?"[/color] She squinted as she tried to make sense of the poster.

[color=bc8dbf]"O-or something like that. S-sorry my analog isn't good."[/color]

[color=f7941d]"Huh,"[/color]

[color=92278f]"The time is nigh."[/color] Finally donning the gas mask, the figure in front of Leif felt noticeably different than the nervous elf from before. The masked figure stood tall and confident. When she speaks, the distorted voice was firm and commanding. It's like she's a different person with and without the mask.

[color=92278f]"Held within the disc is a mysterious otherworldly blight that my master entrusted me to retrieve. Begone, human. Do not linger. Spare yourself from the suffering that would likely befall this accursed place."[/color]

[@Scrove]

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Digging through the surrounding junk pile, Zetmit would quickly realize that the stuff here somehow has less rust than the ones near the entrance. Without having to worry too much about getting stabbed by rusty nails, the goblin managed to dig into the bottom of one of the piles. There, drenched in a small pool of blue liquid on the ground, was a palm-sized thick round device with a glass-like blue orb in the middle! Just like the gnome described. The liquid was cold to the touch when Zetmit retrieved the disc, and it immediately cleaned all the rust that was accumulating in his hand from the previous digging.

With what might be the main objective in his hand, the path for the biggest rewards was open for him. Yet it might also draw attention from the other scavengers, be it the ones with good intention or bad intention.

[@Starleaper]