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Fii [@<U;["	Road" " [@B0000000Fii"UYou are standing on a decrepit country highway, just barely paved, and even that probably happened twenty years ago. The road is deserted -- it's obviously seldom used, if at all. The crumbling asphalt leads north and south in a distracted, wandering fashion. A cool breeze rustles the grasses here, not that you can feel it in your skysuit.F[ii000Fii"РYou are hovering above a long black snake of road, which stretches sinuously from north to south. Flying east will put you above your original landing site, while other directions offer only more barren land.F[i i 0Fii"]From up here, you can see that the landscape really is just as empty as it looked from the ground. A road meanders nearby to the west, and craggy mountain peaks thrust upwards to the east like skeletal fingers. Otherwise, it's just more bushes, grasses, and rocks, spreading out in all directions. Oh, and Austin, who stands on the ground below you.F@*[ii0000000Fii"СScrub bushes and sparse grasses provide a little ground cover for the otherwise rocky, sandy soil of this area. Other than the jagged mountains looming a few miles to the east, this spot seems entirely barren.F@3@<@E[@0@B@9"Part IU;[[U;["Entry Corridor"glass
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" [@x0000000Fii"\You float near the top of the Hangar, next to a small but sturdy-looking platform. A light blue touchplate is the only feature of the wall adjoining the platform. Light pours in through the open ceiling, illuminating Austin, who stands on the hangar floor below, ignoring you in favor of studying the arrangement of pipes on the mysterious vehicle.F[ii000Fii"нThis is a huge room, thousands of square feet, with its ceiling high enough to be invisible in the darkness -- in other words, a room very much like your parents' lab back home, and pain pierces you at the thought. However, where your parents' lab is occupied by clutter and machinery, this room is rather bare, except for the large device in the center. At least, you suppose it's bare, but the only light in here is what leaks through the archway leading north; shadows rule everywhere else.F[i i 0@f0Fii"ъThis is a short corridor, leading west to the T junction and dead-ending in a blank wall to the east. Despite their somewhat antiseptic appearance, these hallways have a warmth and a slightly pungent smell that reminds you of the zoo on a summer day.F[i i 0@]0U;	[
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lift floor[@”0000000Fii"ЫHere in the guts of the former robot controller, there's barely room for two people to stand up, and even then, they have to be hunched over. The walls are just more reflective polymer, betraying no information about the inner workings of the device. In fact, the only complicated-looking thing in here at all is the floor, which is a small metropolis of gleaming, interlocking metal pieces, with handle-like protrusions rising prominently from each edge. It's hard to find anywhere to put your feet where you won't be crushing something, and the low ceiling gives you no room to hover. The noise and vibration you felt in the outer room are even stronger in here. You can exit through the aperture made by the wrenched-open doors.F[i i 000Fii"«The lights are still ambient and sourceless but much brighter in this room, a cavernous space housing hundreds of security robots. The sound and vibration you felt in other rooms of the fortress is quite a bit stronger here, so much so that you can't hear or feel your own footsteps. At the south end of the room, a ruined robot controller sends plumes of noisome black smoke up to the high ceiling. A tall archway leads north.F[i i 000Fii"ъThis is a short corridor, leading east to the T junction and dead-ending in a blank wall to the west. Despite their somewhat antiseptic appearance, these hallways have a warmth and a slightly pungent smell that reminds you of the zoo on a summer day.F@`[i i 0Fii"<From where you stand, paths lead east, west, and south.F@W[i i 0000000Fii"fThe entry corridor of the fortress looks innocent enough, just a simple passageway leading north, with some mangled iron doors at the south end. At the moment, though, what with the rampaging horde of security robots, maybe it doesn't seem so innocent after all. Down the length of the corridor, alarms shriek and red lights flash in perfect synchronization.F@…@`@i@r@Ћ@—@{[@‚@f@o@]@‹@”@x"Part I and IIU;[[
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Fi i [U;["Deep Corridor South" " [@Г0000000Fii"gYou were last in this corridor on your way to battle Esrrua, and now it is unraveling along with the rest of the fortress. The dissolution has begin with the transport tube, which pretty much disappeared the moment you stepped out of it, and the walls continue to eat themselves with each passing moment! The corridor continues north, at least for the moment.F@Ѕ[i i 0U;	[
Fii [@ЅU;["Above Deep Corridor" " [00@О00000Fii"№Smooth black pipes the diameter of SUV tires hang suspended from the ceiling in this cramped space, running parallel down its length, north and south. You're floating just beneath them.F[ii0Fii"$You are at the bottom of a tall, narrow, north-south niche in the earth, like a slice taken out of the warehouse-like drill room. The slice gets narrower towards the top, though, where thick pipes run along the length of the ceiling. To the east, a reflective black barrier seals the archway.F[i i 0Fii"'A low, teeth-rattling vibration and a deafening hum fill this room, so loud you feel like you've got knitting needles jammed in your ears. The sonic barrage makes it difficult to concentrate on anything else, but the huge apparatus dominating the north half of the room demands your notice. It's a giant, threaded cone, pointed towards the ground and held by a sturdy frame. This big screw stands above an immense hole in the floor, which seems to reach far down into the earth. On the opposite wall, a pile of polished crystals reaches up towards the high ceiling. Between these two monoliths, dozens of small, squarish robots buzz around you constantly, frenetically working at various tasks. A wide archway leads west, and a hole in the distant ceiling provides access to the upper level of the fortress.F[ii000Fii"џYou are hovering above a large area, its salient features spread out beneath you. A huge apparatus dominates the north half of the room, consisting of a threaded, downwards-pointing cone and the supporting structure that frames it. Beneath the cone, a deep hole gapes in the floor, wreathed by dirt and rocks. On the opposite wall a pile of polished crystals reaches up towards the high ceiling. Between these two monoliths, dozens of small, squarish robots roil in various sorts of activity. A painfully loud hum fills the room, assaulting your ears and drowning out all other sound. Above you, there's a hole in the ceiling that used to be the robot fabricator's floor.F@ґ@Ѕ@С@Ж[	@±@О@є@Г"Part IIIU;[[U;["Outside The Lab Door" " [U;	[
Fii [@гU;["Esrrua's Lab" " [0000@й000Fii"ХEven though this room is filled with clutter and equipment, it still has about as much open floor space as half a basketball court. A large window occupies much of its west wall, through which you can see another room, where one of the cat-aliens stands before a broad control panel. Byzantine machinery dominates all the other walls, and at the far north end of both rooms, a teleportation curtain shimmers and pulsates. Just behind you, to the south, the unbreakable polymer sheet once again blocks the exit. A monitor window floats in the air, displaying a view of the dilapidated road that winds just west of this fortress. Several clear chambers, one of which is filled with a swirling green cloud, reach to the ceiling.F[i i 0000000Fii"ЬThis is a small, sterile room, about the size of a walk-in closet. The floor here seems to be made of bare rock. You're facing a doorway blocked by a smooth sheet of grey polymer. Behind you is a transport tube entrance.F@м[@й"Part IVi
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