Light Quest: a CK2 Style Quest in an 8-Bit Dystopia

"...The security wing. I still feel we'll find something useful in there." Light said. "Be careful not to touch the bodies, Roll. We don't know if they'll wake up and attack us or not."

Roll nodded her head. The two moved down the hallway, Light taking the front and Roll hanging back, her pistol readied. As the two went further down the hallway the fighting seemed to get worse, finding more and more of the moss covered bodies sprawled on the floor, bullet holes and needle spines embedded into the walls and even the body armor of a few of the corpses. One of them seemed like they were even shot in the back, possibly by accident.

Eventually, they made it to the security wing. Inside was a similar massacre. There was a pile of bodies in front of the barrier to the armory, as if they were trying to get inside and were fought off by the surviving security personnel. From what Light could see, they were able to fend them off successfully, as there was no breach in the door or the reinforced glass beyond a few cracks. He peered down inside the opening and found more bodies- this time of the security officers. The vents behind them were open, with one of the bodies hanging out of it. Pink moss covered the walls near the vents, as well as the bodies inside.

…The creatures came through the vents, then. Whatever they were attacked them while they were distracted. That would mean whatever ordered them around was pretty clever, enough to plan this out at least. It likely they even turned out the lights first and then attacked security, leaving the facility at whatever mercy it had in store for the survivors. They'd have to check the maintenance room to confirm that theory, though.

Light didn't see a way into the armory beyond the door and the slots in the front. It was also powered off. They could probably break through the door with Donner Wels, but the noise or at least the vibrations or whatever it was that they were triggered by would certainly wake the monsters. At least, the ones that weren't assuredly dead. He wasn't going to stop to count, since all of them were reading dead to his sensors.

Outside of the armory, there was a door to the locker rooms that were also covered with bodies, likely forced out by whomever wasn't lucky enough to make it into the armory area. The rest of the room was in disarray. There were tables and chairs thrown about, damaged vending machines and what looked like another room that read 'Security Feed' that was almost glowing pink from all the built up moss and some kind of growth was expanding from the doorframe. They weren't getting anything out of that. It looked like it was about to explode if something touched it.

Light hummed. The locker room or the armory. He turned to Roll.

"What do you think we should do? It doesn't look like we can get into the armory since everything is powered off, but if we do that we're almost certainly going to wake something up." He asked.

Roll seemed to think about it. "We'd likely have to fight either way. If I were locked in that locker room and monsters were trying to get in, I'd block the door using some lockers. But those monsters likely found another way through the vents, so I doubt there's any survivors. I could probably force it open, but the monsters inside could wake up." she said.

"I'm a little frustrated, though." she huffed. "If this was a testing facility like we presume it was, there should be a backup generator, especially for something as important as the security wing. Why isn't that running?"

"I doubt it would be any easier, Roll. We'd still need a keycard or something to get through. We don't know how long this facility has been down here, either. The backup could be all tapped out. Or the backup could have been tampered with. Whatever controlled these drones seems pretty clever." Light explained.

"Hrm." She pouted, before sighing. "Well, anyway. Most of these guys were shot dead. There probably won't be that many waking up if we do make some noise. We might not be able to close the entryway into the wing but as long as we don't use a gun we might not draw any more attention."

Light hummed and looked at the opening slots of the armory. It was large enough for people to fire through and still be protected by the hardened glass. It seemed large enough for Roll to slip through, but that would mean having to ditch the bulky Driller suit she wore and he didn't know how dangerous that would be. They would certainly have a security key in there and probably more weapons… but Light didn't like the risk.

But then again, staying in this facility too long was a risk as well, wasn't it?

[ ] Head to the Locker Rooms.
[ ] Break through the Armory Doors with Donner Wels
[ ] Have Roll slip through the opening slots of the Armory

[ ] Head somewhere else?
- [ ] Personnel Wing, Front Desk, Containment and Processing, Maintenance, Stairway, or Leave the Facility.

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Surprise post! I managed to take some time and get it out immediately. I know we've just started and these are also going to be short since we're going from room to room but I'm wondering what you all think of them so far. Too slow? Anything to improve? I kind of like the slow-paced dungeon crawler vibe and it also goes well with the exploration/mystery deal that comes from what I see as the pipeworks part of the setting (mystery and exploration), but there's some part of me thinks interludes should be nice and snappy and laid out more like a traditional Mega Man or arcade style mission type deals.

Anyway, Moratorium is in 30 minutes and voting ends in about 12 hours.