Night 71: Fitness/Wellness Center (Third Floor)

[freewill]

[From here.]

After walking through that door, there was a shift around him, and for a split second Castiel felt as if his body had turned upside down. When the world righted itself, he stumbled forward into an unknown room.

It was not what Castiel would have expected or prepared for. What he saw by the beam of his flashlight was a set of exercise machines. With the way that the machines were shaped, they reminded him of silent monsters, turned to stone, gathered here in this room to collect dust.

As he turned himself around, he realized that what he'd stepped off of as they arrived could only be a teleportation pad. Set up on the floor, it was made of metal and it glowed with a dim purple light. There was wiring coming off of it as well, so it was clearly powered by some kind of energy.

Castiel drew closer, crouching down slightly to look it over. "I take it we'll need to find another one of these." At this point, the only way they could go was through the room's door. Castiel had no idea where it would lead, but they had to find another pad soon. He didn't want this to end up being a waste of time. They needed to get to that archive.

Comments

[ninelivesonce]

[from here, technically before the other two groups]

Behind the door was a room. An empty room. At least in terms of attackers, that was. It was full of machines -- dormant, familiar machines, if a bit backwards. Exercise equipment. The sort that would make perfect sense to allow the patients to use, if they really cared about their welfare. A door led out on the same wall the library door was on, although whether or not they were anywhere near directly above their starting point would require checking.

Oh, and a glowing purple thing. It was humming, softly, with the same tone that everything that used power here did, and looked ready for something, although it didn't have an instruction manual or even a sign.

[overlimit]

Rita merely glowered somewhere behind Taura as the taller woman placed the crystal with ease, and as predicted, the door responded. Rita followed her through, and was met with a familiar disorientating feeling. Did they just teleport?

The room they had entered was full of unfamiliar machines – all of them seemingly inactive. Rita approached one and looked over what appeared to be a control panel, considering what the purpose of the device could be. However, it wasn’t long before a purple glow caught her eye, and she turned back to look at the suspicious panel on the floor, where they came in from.

“Is that the teleportation system…?” she wondered aloud. “Maybe there are others like it around here.”

[ninelivesonce]

The thought of jumping around blindly, hoping the next square would lead them somewhere useful, didn't appeal. She'd mostly missed that, the nights the doors hadn't worked; they'd ended up on Celes' home planet on their first jump. "They might even lead out of here," she said, thinking aloud. Though she'd sooner trust her own two feet.

The regular doors weren't even locked -- she pulled one with ease, and slipped through.

[to here]