Rata Mall - Secret Lab 2 - Phase 8

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The Curse of Rata Mall - Secret Lab

Cindy arrives in the secret lab via the Laundry Chute. She drops and lands on the mattress, kicking the loose monitor as she slides down (There was a monitor here on the floor)

There is a computer laptop here - welded to the desk.
Theres is a machine on the south wall, labelled Time Machine - But its not functioning.
There are 4 cloning vats, one of which is smashed, with water leading to the laundry chute.
There is a Portal system in the North East, and its also not operating.
There is a generator hooked to the cloning vats.

ON the floor, next to the secret entrance is a body: That of Pooky (Casey)

Present

Porochaz

is Xavier Lynch: Male, Early 20s Short, bookish, well groomed, Red Puffer Jacket, skinny. Carrying a Baseball Bat and a petrol cannister. Wet Shoes

Room Deadline

(expired on 2020-09-19 08:00:00)

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No sooner than Cindy arrives in the lab, when there is a massive explosion from the Time Machine. Both Xavier and Cindy are thrown through the air by the explosion. The sound of glass breaking can be heard.

The explosion cracks open the cloning vats, killing an incomplete female clone close to the explosion and releasing Sarsha Rose who had been captured and cloned. Sarsha falls to the ground seemingly unharmed - perhaps protected by the thick glass and water that had her trapped.

The generator appears to be harmed by this explosion.
The portal system was not functional anyway, who know if it was damaged.

Xavier
1D100
1-60 is good
61-100 is bad

Cindy
1D100
1-60 is good
61-100 is bad

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Both Xavier and Cindy get up and survey the room. Its been extensively damaged.

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Sarsha gets up and joins Cindy. She is weak but alive.

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The time machine is ruined. There are traces of an explosive device.

The laser clips nicely into the portal

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Yes. I assume you are referring to the wing wirror from the tesla

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Either or

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There is a metallic crunching sound coming from the laundry chute.

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Nexus stands in shock, quite literally. And drops to the ground, unable to do anything more. The tazer was fully charged, and Nexus (Cindy) was not carrying anything that could defend against it.

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The sister attacks.

Original Roll String: 1d2

1 2-Sided Dice: (1) = 1

Xavier has + 2 to his attack, so cannot lose.

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She is defeated without a fuss, while Nexus lies on the ground.

Its up to you now, you can kill them both - render them unconscious, for the rest of the phase, or rob them of all they are carrying.

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The laundry chute is jammed shut now, and the door to the cafe has the shelving in the way. You are trapped in here - but - hey - the portal machine is going. You can use that to return to the eatery next phase, it will come out behind the Mr Wok if you want to stay out of sight initially.

In the next phase after that, you will return to the lab via the portal, and you can automatically redirect it to any location you want. If you know the location well, you can place your portal in a place that will make you more hidden initially.

You might want to do something about the password code if you weren't the last to set it

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Yeah I thought you were the last to set it, but I was covering my bases just in case

The Taser is charging away. You will automatically recover it when you leave the room, and dont need to ask to collect it.

Pooky's body of course is crispy. (Not that you were asking about that)
Nexus is carrying a diary, a hammer, batteries (probably useless now that theyve been tasered), and of course her glasses.
Her sister is carrying nothing.
There is an unfinished dead clone of the sister too - it was harmed in the explosion. It wont be any good for Frankenation.

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That leaves one body in a glass container left. The male one.

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Nothing on the arms. There nothing but debris. Ill check the cameras shortly

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VIEW BATHROOM CAMERAS
Ariel is in there - but shes walked out of sight into the mens. There is smoke in the air

VIEW BASEMENT CAMERAS
Quiet and empty

VIEW FASHION STORE CAMERAS
Noisy and being destroyed

VIEW CAFE CAMERAS
Quiet and Empty

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And you call me dark lol

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No, not really. It just shows that the sister intended to visit the mall on the day she disappeared. Thats the reason Cindy was here

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I didn't expect much.

So let's turn the portal on. I suppose we need to test it for damage. So Ill send it to the eatery push the clone through it part way and take her back again.

What else? I guess we need to position Nexus and her sister in a way that looks like they exploded in the blast. Considering I changed the PIN and the laundry chute in now blocked it seems unnecessary but just in case.

Im trying to work out if I've been completely exposed now. I assume I have to go back to the eatery regardless? Because 1 option would be to stay here and send Frankie instead. The other is to arrive back early and try to convince them about what happened.

You said the Frankenstein returns here, can I still control what room he goes to even if Im not in the same room? You said each new phase, so does that mean every non-eatery phase or

every

phase? Sigh, I still potentially have 6 people to kill...

-The body has glass in in, and looks as much like it exploded as you can make it
-The portal opens to the Eatery - you can travel there now. The body travels in partially and back again.
-Nexus and Sister are moved just in case.
-The portal comes out behind the Mr Wok area. What this means is when everyone returns the to eatery, you wont be visible. You will become visible once you speak, or do something.
-The Frankenstein will return here - you will be able to return here via the portal and change it to a new location. How that will work - During the Eatery phase PM me to say "Change Portal to Library" (non-existent example) and "Send Frankenstein to Gift Store". I'll enact it as if the portal took you directly to the Library.
-If ANYONE goes behind the Mr Wok area (or anyof them in fact) they will find the portal. That would be bad luck because there shouldnt be any incentive to do so now.

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Examine drain, generator and portal.

-The drain is in case the lab floods. Hasn't happened so far.
-The generator is malfunctioning. Hmmmm.... that's not good. You get out Pooky's geiger counter. THe geiger counter suggests an elevated level of radiation, but it's low enough to not worry about it for now. It's likely leaking radiation under the mall.
-And of course the portal is functional.

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It was keeping the clones (and Sarsha) alive. THe one surviving male clone has enough power.

You dont need to do anything, but I will warn you if you do need to do something (via the geiger counter)

(In reality, there is a way you can be affected by this, but as things have panned out it's really unlikely. Crazy unlikely. I'll deal with it if it somehow happens. It won't)

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THe switch by the door is what activates the app on the laptop to change the security pin.

Lame, I know, Its a left over artifact from a design change I made when I was making the game, that I forgot about

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Regarding Ariel, no, she hasnt returned to view yet. Will let you know.

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If anyone gets in here, they can use the switch to activate the app, and then change the pin. I REALLY wish I'd made that mechanism more sensible now - it's really grating on me

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You can try destroying the switch

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Ariel remains out of view by the way.

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Only if you bold it

Its weird, not malfunctioning.

Anyway, you can hear people through the wall on the east. As you look over to the wall, you remember there is an old door there that you blocked up years ago. They probably can't open it from their side, without tools. Probably...

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Room deadline in 24 hours

(So not much is likely to occur because the people behind the wall are so late in the piece)

When you return the eatery, you will be announced as not in sight.

The wording will be something like

"The first thing you notice: Both Cindy (Nexus) and Xavier (Porochaz) are nowhere to be seen."

Of course, as far as you know, Cindy is the only

missing

person, so if anyone else is missing, I'm not giving that away more just yet. Once you speak or post in thread, people will see you arent missing any more. If they find you in the Mr Wok area they will also know. Or you can just PM me, and have me announce your grand re-entry.

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You can open the door. It opens toward the people. THey dont have door handles or anything on their side.

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You can hear 3 people talking about how to pop hinges, because well, the door opens in the direction that forces the hinges to be on their side ($$&#*&@), they are currently working on said hinges having proven Im a moron.

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You are able to use the portal immediately if you need, however it will remain open.
They are attempting to use tools to force the door now.

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THey knock three times. They do not speak

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The door vaporises - revealing Jia, Johannes and Harry all standing there. Jia had shot her energy gun at the door, and then the ceiling collapses hiding all three from sight. They should have considered the fact that they vaporised support beams. Part of your ceiling collapses too, but your technology is unharmed.

Apart from your generator.

That got vaporised.

Thats a shame, the last surviving clone will die now. Oh well.

Your geiger counter is no longer going off. They disintegrated your radioactive compounds. For the sake of the story, the radioactive compounds are not in the air being breathed in

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They are blocked off now. They saw you briefly, but thats all they saw. They vapourised the wall supports.

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Yes, it wasnt killed so it will return here to the lab just before eatery phase