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"can do!" i'd reach behind my back and pull out a couple sticks of dynamite

"Wonderful. Now..."

"Let's get the hell outta here."

They stick the dynamite in a few gaps in the pile, lighting them with a spark from scraping their shields against the rocks. You both sprint around the corner as it explodes, then Escc is rushing into the vent.

"Come on!"

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Sooooo can we break through that or...

"Hhhhhhhhhh I mean yeah probably. But it doesn't MATTER much, because then we'll still need to kill Zero Five to leave, and it'll just... follow... us."

"Actually, maybe we should clear this up. Can you summon up explosives? Ya got guns from somewhere before."

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mmm’kay

After a while of walking, you get back to the vent you came in through. Or what's left of it, anyway. It's blocked off by the partially collapsed wall above it. Escc sighs. "Of course."

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i could do either

"I said it the way I did because I'd rather find it first, but honestly it'll probably get the drop on us."

They duck into a vent and move back towards the entrance.

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MHMHMHMMMMmmm ᶠᵁᶜᴷ

"Alright. Guess we're either gonna hunt this bitch down or wait for it to decide to come fuckin' murder us and kill it then."

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mmhmhm cant wait until that monster shows up again aha

"I can. Hey, how about we backtrack, leave the area, and find another way out of here?"

They turn, and then you hear a loud crack, then a few more, then a crash and clatter of stone. A few moments pass, then you hear a loud chittering.

"...Or we could not do that."

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following behind yet again

You move through the area. Any notes you find from then on are torn up or covered in webs.

...

The whole time, you get the feeling you're being watched.

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haha woah thats dark as always

"I guess that's when all the Experiments got out..."

Something about that 'bad guy' line feels familiar. More than they'd like.

"...But it doesn't answer what exactly happened to Ester. Or how we kill Zero Five. I wonder if she made it out..."

Eh. They'll figure it out when it comes down to it... Escc walks out and continues down the hall.

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bodacious, lets give it a listen

Sure. Escc hits play.

"Personal Log 72. Heh. Heh heh heh hahahaha... Sorry, I'm a little bit loopy, haven't slept in a fuckin' while. This is gonna work. I know it is. We just gotta find a way to direct where ol' Zero Five goes, and then I can finally kill this scaly fucker. I don't give a single flying FUCK if I have to be responsible for the extinction of a species. I'll be the bad guy in this story. I don't care. Heh heh heh heh heh heh. I'm gonna make a few tweaks to the next batch, and then we're good-"

You hear an explosion through the recorder. "Huh??"

Soon after, you hear clicking, stomping, hissing, growling, and shrieking. "Shitshitshit nonono not now why NOW son of a BITCH-" the recording cuts off there.

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id read the notes

'...The subject has had very few negative side effects from the serum, the most major being blindness. This is mostly fine, however, given its improved hearing, and the fact that it can sense vibrations through its webs.'

Another note states:

'E-05 is mostly non-hostile, and seems to only attack when provoked or when something touches its webs, and on occasion it will become aggressive due to noise, though that only seems to happen when it is hungry.'

Escc walks over, and you fill them in on what you read.

"Nice. I found the recorder."

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“lol wtf was that”

"Oh, just a weird cat- what the fuck do you think it was?!?!" they snap.

They rifle through the filing cabinet some more. They find some notes and pass them to you, then start looking through the rest of them.

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okie dokie.

One arm stops glowing, and they go to the filing cabinets. They slowly, quietly, carefully open each one...

Then their arm gets stuck to a web. They quickly cut it out and press up against the wall. You follow suit, and the beast scuttles into the room, screeching madly, and punches a leg clean through the filing cabinet, then pauses, confused. After a moment, it turns and leaves.

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still followin’ behind

They're taking deep, slow breaths as they enter the next room, the red accents of their cloak starting to glow. They're fully prepared to stab the Experiment if it pops up again.

"Gods I was NOT kidding when I said I'd rather throw myself into acid I fucking hate this so much..."

The room has a desk with several drawers, along with a few filing cabinets. "Look for the recorder, but look over the written notes too. I wanna find out all I can about this bastard."

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(idk what to write again)

Escc looks cautiously in a few rooms, jumping at every last sound that isn't one of you.

Suddenly, a grate next to Escc is thrown from its vent with a loud bang of metal, forcing them to throw a shield up to protect themself with a surprised gasp, followed by quiet chittering and a scurrying sound. The grate bounces the hardened cloak with a clang.

They snarl and continue down the hall, shaking and trying (and audibly failing) to get their breathing under control.

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ahaaha.. ok then

"Piece of shit... I'd honestly rather throw myself into a vat of acid than fight that fucker head on. It's blind. That's all I can remember about it."

Escc jumps at the sound of a distant screech. "Shit-"

They walk off down the hall, looking for another recorder.

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MMMMMMFUCKKKK

Escc slowly calms down and sits up.

"Fucking HELL..."

They stand up, and start to say something else, then a loud CLANG comes from the vent you both came from. Escc leaps away, screaming, then you see something in the vent silently skitter away, followed by more chittering.

"You mother FUCKER!!!" Escc yells after it. "Ugh. It's just fucking with us. Let's look around."

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oh god oh fuck oh dick fuck god ass shit what the fuck is happening

"Just about the WORST FUCKING THING!" Escc hisses. A faint chitter sounds from the vent entrance, almost like... laughing. Eventually you pop out in a different section of the area, though it looks just about the same as the last.

Escc immediately drops to the floor and curls up, throwing their cloak over their face and taking quick, shallow breaths, quivering.

"Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck-"

You still hear the chittering/laughing.

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