Armed Forces

Myriad Reality

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Unless they don’t want to be disturbed or found.

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What?

@Galvanize

Mm. Lost and afraid.

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Did you just break whatever that was!?

@Webmaster

*Pushes the door fully open, revealing a very small room with an uncannily solid color scheme on either side of it, one side black and the other white split perfectly down the middle, also lit by a single blinking, moderately dim yellow light*

Myriad Reality

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*Twists my mouth concernedly*
Doooooo you need any help over there?

@Webmaster

*A mechanism behind the wall creaks and snaps after a moment with a massive metallic twang, and the door starts to move to my push slowly*
Not just yet…

Myriad Reality

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Do you have any idea who they could be?

@Webmaster

I have-
*Stops talking while I strain to pull this door open, having much more trouble than before, then speaks with strain*
A hunch or two.

Myriad Reality

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Maybe so, but we weren't even at a low level, and she was trailing me!

@Webmaster

It at least seemed that way.
*Reaches out and plants my hands in the door like before*

Myriad Reality

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I think they've got to be following us. What are the odds that we just stumble into their heist? That would be a crazy coincidence!

@Webmaster

Depends how long it takes to steal what they’re after. Assuming it is a heist at all.

Myriad Reality

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No where else to go?

@Galvanize

Typically, people like that would be less hostile.

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It all kinda reeks, doesn't it? I smell conspiracy.

@Webmaster

What are you thinking?

Myriad Reality

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Are there other paths?

@Webmaster

I have no way of knowing. I’m not sure if building plans even exist for this place.

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*floats down to your level*
That would make sense if they have been here awhile. Or are able to slip through cracks.

@Galvanize

That leaves the question of why they’d be hanging around so long, lurking in the shadows down here.

Myriad Reality

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*Wags my finger*
You, mister, you are quick on your feet.
*Follows your route*

@Webmaster

I try.
*Stows away my flashlight and stops gliding down the rail at the level of next door*
I wonder if that person has access to other floors through other paths.

Myriad Reality

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That is the nicest thing—
*Wipes a fake tear with the hand I held onto the string with, and catches the ladder above you with the other hand*
Anyone's ever said to me. This is a moment for the history books.

@Webmaster

Anyone’s ever said to you so far.
*Looks down into the darkness below us, watching as the alternating lights just barely do enough to light our immediate area, and quickly leaving the distant shaft to appear as a jet black abyss*

Myriad Reality

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*A few seconds later, a purple balloon rises to eye level with me holding the string below*
I learned today that I am not athletic.

@Webmaster

You’ve got enough to make up for it, at least.
*Starts to climb down the ladder*