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damned_institute2010-07-09 08:42 pm
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Night 50: Main Hallway, 1-West
[from here]
It looked like the hallway opened up over here. Guess he couldn't expect to just run around and follow a linear corridor forever, but now he had to figure out which way he wanted to go. Normally, he'd just run down whatever hallway he happened to lay eye on first, but again, he was running a liiittle blind here.
He still wasn't seeing any people anywhere. Maybe everyone was hiding. If everyone knew the staff turned into monsters and tried to eat them, then it'd make sense that they'd try to keep low. Thankfully, he'd be taking care of whatever was wandering around this place, so they wouldn't have to stay hiding for long. Once that was done, they could blast their way out of there and he could find his way back to the others. Couldn't keep everyone waiting on account of him, right?
[running across Rita, The Trickster, and hopefully, a freaking flashlight]
It looked like the hallway opened up over here. Guess he couldn't expect to just run around and follow a linear corridor forever, but now he had to figure out which way he wanted to go. Normally, he'd just run down whatever hallway he happened to lay eye on first, but again, he was running a liiittle blind here.
He still wasn't seeing any people anywhere. Maybe everyone was hiding. If everyone knew the staff turned into monsters and tried to eat them, then it'd make sense that they'd try to keep low. Thankfully, he'd be taking care of whatever was wandering around this place, so they wouldn't have to stay hiding for long. Once that was done, they could blast their way out of there and he could find his way back to the others. Couldn't keep everyone waiting on account of him, right?
[running across Rita, The Trickster, and hopefully, a freaking flashlight]
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But aside from that, he recognized the giant's question as... pretty weird. Actually, both were kind of odd, from the sounds of them. Though it was clear he wasn't somewhere interesting like a secret government base or the Batcave, those particular questions suggested that they shouldn't be here. Y'know, permanent no-negotiation deaths aside.
Slipping the stolen glasses onto his nose, he broke a few vertebrae in order to look the guy in the face. "Is there a reason we shouldn't be?" Though if he was on earth - which was a pretty clear bet, seeing as humans - there could be any number of ghosts or zombies or flesh-eating cannibals or wendigos hiding in the wings waiting to pounce. Now that'd be a good spot of fun right there.
Even demons. He could totally go for some demons right now. That'd boost the ol' mojo tenfold.
"I was just, y'know, wondering aimlessly. Seemed like a good idea considering I'm fresh out of maps and a solid sense of direction."
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Of course, it might also have something to do with her almost dropping that ring of hers on account of him. Snow had heard the guy's announcement before, but there was no way he would ever make a connection between what the announcer guy had been yapping on about and the ring this kid just happened to be carrying. So he just figured it was just a really important piece of jewelry to her. Well, she might be mad, but at least both of them were alright. Didn't look like either of them were anywhere close to the kind of shape Badou had been in.
The guy sounded like he hadn't heard about the stuff going on in here. He was probably one of the survivors who'd just recently been dumped off in here along with Snow. The girl... who knew? She didn't seem very worried.
"Well, tryin' to find an exit for one," he responded, placing his hands on his hips as he looked between the two. Well, he was more looking around for the things everyone was hiding from and then he was going to find an escape route, but same difference. "Place's supposed to be crawling with monsters from the sounds of things but," he smiled at them both so neither of them would panic at this revelation, "it's looking like everyone and everything's laying low tonight. If there's a time to 'wander around aimlessly,' this is it." If it stayed like this, finding a way out would be a piece of cake.
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"If it's an exit you want, I've got it right here," Rita said smugly, holding up her left hand to show off the ring on it. "This is one of those Portal Rings that Head Doctor was blathering about a few minutes ago. If what he said is true, it can transport us away from here."
That had to get their attention. Unless, of course, either of them found 'aimless wandering' to be more attractive than 'instant escape.'
But it wouldn't do any good to have ignorant allies with her, so after a moment's pause, Rita decided she should at least mention some of the drawbacks. "Thing is, I don't know how far or in which direction. All I know is that it would transport us to a lake in the middle of nowhere. From there, we could probably escape through the forest or the mountains." ...Unless one or both paths led straight back to the institute, in which case they would have risked their lives for nothing. Hopefully these guys could put two and two together well enough to understand the risks from what she already said. Rita wasn't interested in giving a long lecture.
"It's a gamble, but you two don't have anything better to do, do you?"
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Riiight. Running with it. (If he was in a building full of hunters, he might just have to kill himself. Again. Going in knowing he was gonna die was kinda like assisted suicide, right? They didn't seem to have the attitude, though... not that he'd met a lot of hunters face-to-face. Easy to imagine they had a swagger, though. Some of 'em did.)
"Hold on a sec," he said, flinging his hands up in front of him. "Can I get a Cliff Notes, here? Head Doctor? Portal rings?" Oh. That thing he'd heard earlier had... probably been important.
His luck.
From his experiences, head doctors plus institutions didn't exactly equal hospitals. He'd been in his share of hospitals; not for the patients, usually, but there were a lot of nice, corrupted staff in 'em. It had the hospital-y feel and the smell of bleach and the white walls, but usually they didn't have mon -
- okay, they usually did have monsters, but that was beside the point -
but they certainly didn't have portal rings, which sounded like an artifact to him. And this guy was just... handing 'em out. And they usually didn't have a bevy of patients vying for escape.
"Lake?"
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Ah haaa. So if they used that thing, they wouldn't have to bother wandering around looking for an exit. It'd just take them all out of there lickity split. Lake or no, it sure sounded a hell of a lot faster than breaking out the old fashioned way.
The guy, however, wasn't sounding all that ecstatic about it. Actually, he still seemed pretty confused about the whole thing for some reason. Not sure why. Snow thought he'd done a pretty good job of explaining the situation just a moment ago: They were in this place and it was full of monsters. Wasn't really much more he needed to know than that. The guy should already know why it was he and everyone else had been left here in the first place. The whole "hospital cover up" thing wasn't important for the people thrown in here and mentioning anything about the staff being l'Cie would... yeah, that wouldn't be helping anything. But if the guy needed a reiteration...
"Short version?" Smile. "We were all dumped off in here and this thing's our way out." Couldn't get much clearer than that. He turned back to the kid with an edge of enthusiasm to his voice. "Wherever it takes us, gettin' outside's sounding a lot better than hanging around this place. We should be able to figure out which way to go once we get there."
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"That's basically right," Rita confirmed, adding to that bare-bones explanation. "By day, they run this place like a mental hospital - and we're the patients. At night, it's like this. I don't know what they're trying to do with us here, but I don't plan on sticking around long enough to find out."
Did Rita want to know why some bastard abducted her from her home and took her to another planet where people treated her like she was crazy? Damn straight, she did. But the full truth couldn't be found while they were confined within the Head Doctor's walls. They had to get to somewhere beyond his control, and then they could do what they needed to. Gathering information from the outside world, launching a counter attack, finding a way home... all of those things would be possible once they were no longer prisoners.
She curled her ring-wearing hand into a fist and held it in front of herself. "Are you in or out?" she asked the smaller man.
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This would've made a good television show.
"Why the hell not?" he said with a shrug; instant gratifying teleportation wasn't a new bone to him, and he was interested to see how a ring was gonna manage to move something like him - plus two other humans. Maybe it didn't discriminate between species or something. "Let's hit it."
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Like the kid, Snow brought his own fist up in front of him, obviously more than ready to go. "Alright! Sounds like a plan. Let's do this!"
Of course, he... didn't really know what it was they were doing or how they were going to do it or what. But they knew it had to do with the ring, right? So...
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"Everybody, stay close," Rita told them as she turned to face the nearest wall. She wasn't sure what the range of effect was with the ring, but she didn't want to end up leaving people behind because of an easily avoided mistake.
So it was back to the lake again. This time, Rita was going to be expecting the jarring transition, so it was likely to go much smoother than before. They'd just have to get their bearings and swim to shore. They had a plan. This was going to be easy.
"Get ready to swim," she warned the two men as she pulled back her arm, preparing herself. Her fist lingered there for a few seconds as she took a deep breath...
...then slammed it into the wall, shattering the jeweled ring.