The door yawns open with Ace boldly strolling after it, overly alert and at the ready. "If we didn't want to get involved," he repies on-channel, "Then why did we come here in the first place?" Beyond the door you see a foyer: The floor is done in a tasteful white-and-grey tile with those raised-nonslip-discs like you see in elevators and in Emergency Departments. The outer area, where it isn't bullet-proof glass, is done in tall steel columns, their angles winking the emergency lights beyond back at you in weird slants and divergences - very pretty all in all. The back wall is finished in a dark, oak-like wooden shelving, all down-lit and still functioning. Just in front of the back wall there is the standard "foyer-long desk", presenting an artificial barrier between the visitors and those work-drones that slog through the day out here, dealing with the public. This also arrives in a quick overlay of video images, apparently on different wavelengths, slugged from Ace's comms. "Head's up. Keep wary."
"Something set off their anti-mag defenses." says Block, over comms. "I'll bet you a Benja-Yen that all of the nomag defenses are also active." He then sidesteps the door and performs a lean-in, casually covering the left side of the opening as Ace has stepped through.
As it is, it's getting kind of dark, so the interior lighting systems are coming active, some here, some there, and some fitfully where they've apparently been shot (at?). It's almost a surreal experience, because - for this second, anyway - the area seems clear and quiet.
Somewhere, deeper in the office block, you hear noises, something like maybe a group of cooking racks being dragged sideways across a large concrete piano, only not as regular-sounding. It staggers a bit, but after a few seconds, it buggers the silence again. Then goes quiet. Again. It doesn't sound like people, or monsters, just some *thing*, perhaps trapped back in the office space, somewhere.
Somehow X is standing immediately to Ace's right rear, with his rifle readied at port arms, undeniably in overwatch for Ace. It would appear that the team has made its entry. |
