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James T. Kirk ([personal profile] doneinthree) wrote in [community profile] damned_institute2011-10-24 06:43 pm

Night 59: Main Hallway, 1-West

[from here]

Kirk ran into the main hallway and found nothing there except more pink light coating everything. His gut feeling said that if something was happening, it should've happened already, but he was a loss to explain what was going on. The system (if he could call it that, vague as it was to describe the whole Landel's torture/experimentation assembly line) had broken down at least once already, on that night when I.R.I.S. had first(?) appeared, and the whole of the building flickered like a malfunctioning hologram. Was that what the glowing cover was for? To prevent... he didn't know. Something. Something bad enough to warrant a Code Red.

(What had killed that creature?)

Waiting around here was already bad enough on normal nights, what with it being an open space with high traffic, but he'd picked it because it was the quickest and most obvious meeting place for all of them. Now with the whole area lit up like the inside of a strip club, Kirk was starting to feel like a lone piece of meat wrapped in a gold ribbon and tossed out for the wolves. He made a face for a second as he considered the unfortunate implication of mixing those similes, then decided that the dumb thoughts which crossed his mind ranked considerably lower in priority than, you know, paying attention to his surroundings and not getting himself killed.

Kirk swung the lead pipe in his hand once, just to focus, and shook his head as pain rippled out from the still-healing gunshot wound on his right arm. Take it easy, Jim, he admonished himself silently. It was still early in the night. Someone would be along shortly. And if not... he was giving his crew one minute. One minute, and then screw it, he was tracking down everyone himself.

[KIRK TO ENTERPRISE]
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[personal profile] kings_thief 2011-10-27 06:03 am (UTC)(link)
[From Here]

When Locke entered the hall, his eyes landed on a few of the people in it as well, but he didn't let them linger, instead he searched for where the nearest set of stairs should be. Right across from them, right? If it weren't so dark...

"The stairs should be just there, right? Let's go ahead and go. Doesn't look too exciting here." He smirked in an attempt to keep the mood light. Although, if he listened he could've sworn there were inhuman sounds coming from the darkness.
Edited 2011-10-27 06:04 (UTC)

[identity profile] age-of-kings.livejournal.com 2011-10-27 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
At least this hallway wasn't like the one before it. And the presence of other people helped a great deal. As did the fact they'd yet to encounter any human bodies. Tolten knew full well that people died here. He thanked whatever god was watching over him these days that he at least had some exposure to this manner of thing. A year ago and he wouldn't have been able to handle this at all. He would have been weeping in his cell on his bed, unable to do a damned thing for himself without Gongora to hold his hand.

At least those days were over.

"Just here," Tolten agreed, checking the map and written directions once more. "And then it isn't too far to the upstairs kitchen... No one said anything about it being locked, either. I wonder if all the doors are unlocked...I'm afraid despite counting a master thief as my best friend, I've no skill at conquering locks or privacy traps."

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