Pete's third shadowrun adventure:Welcome to Fortune

[HereComesPete]

Someone press the flashing button on the screen...

[Dog Pants]

There was a button?

[HereComesPete]

Well, technically it's a flashing message about initiating the process and it's a touch screen so there's no button. But if you push it then things will happen.

[Dog Pants]

I'll push it then.

[HereComesPete]

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...Purge commencing; do not attempt to override door controls at this time...

The console shows a graphic of a hexagonal room with corridors leading away, one corridor is clearly bigger than the rest. Two green progress bars advance along the other smaller corridors, the one correlating to the corridor you came up eventually shows the final part of one of the bars as red. Everything else is green lit.

The heat rises in the room as one by one the green bars change to red, the noise of multiple rooms being flamed grows louder as the bars show the purge moving toward the central room. Eventually the console flashes up as containment procedure complete and opens all the doors including the oversized one. The lights come on and the strobes stop flashing. The sounds of more industrial processes are evident once the large blast door opens.

The faint stench of scorched meat is carried on the gentle breeze that flows down the corridor you entered the facility through.

Ingress5's dragonfly has been patiently waiting near the bundle of clothing watching the breach, it reports no changes.

[Dog Pants]

Hope our girl wasn't in one of those ovens.

[deject]

I'll head through the now open blast doors then, katana at the ready.

[Pnut]

I'll cover deej

[fabyak]

Damn, that makes me hungry for bacon

Jon will pull out his handgun and stalk along with Deject

[Joose]

I thought we had already pressed the flashing button. Ah well.

I will keep a 'fly watching our ass as well as one keeping up front of us.

[Roman Totale]

Smith will follow at a respectable distance.

[Pnut]

So......

[Roman Totale]

Paedro!

[fabyak]

Pierre!

[fabyak]

[fabyak]

Pete?

[fabyak]

Hmmmmm, how best to put this...


PETE!

[HereComesPete]

I will update at length (pfft) on the weekend.

[HereComesPete]

Okay, Ingress5's drone continues to flit ahead of the group as it moves up the larger corridor. The gurgle and clank of machinery noise continues to flow over you, gradually getting louder as you progress. The corridor has other open doors leading down small corridors to multi sided rooms with computers and drones, a quick bit of mental arithmetic (especially for Ingress) and you figure that if this complex is just one level then based on the number of creatures seen in cells so far and if that set up is emulated at each of the consoles you pass you're looking at thousands of the creatures.

Eventually the drone arrives at another huge blast door, it's open. Beyond is a cavernous warehouse, ringed with closed walkways, it extends both above and below your level and through the windows of the walkway the drone is showing images of massive dock sized machinery, some clearly designed for moving ISO containers, others for unknown purposes. It's all moving, containers are being picked up and moved round from the floor of the warehouse and being deposited in other positions.

[Pnut]

Can we tell if we're getting closer to Aysun?