You arrive in a small room with a blackened skeleton and an open door to open air. There are stairs going down in to three different clouds. There are also several other open doors to the sides.

You make it up without being attacked, but the cloud is close enough to make contact with your body, and be breathed in.
I firmly close my mouth. This stuff might be poisonous, for all I know. I then turn back downstairs, into the room with the generator.
 
I went towards a building and took position.
You walk in to the first open building, but the ceiling collapsed on the stairway up, and the rest are boarded shut or also collapsed.
I aim some leaf blades at their legs from above.
Their legs are cut off and a few spears and a gas canister are thrown at you.
"Um....hello?" I greeted the hologram, unintentionally making it sound more like a question than a statement.
It continues to stare and shows a menu of what is available. It is mostly different varieties of alcohol.
 
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You walk in to the first open building, but the ceiling collapsed on the stairway up, and the rest are boarded shut or also collapsed.

Their legs are cut off and a few spears and a gas canister are thrown at you.

It continues to stare and shows a menu of what is available. It is mostly different varieties of alcohol.
I whack them back down with a blade.
 
I turned into spirit form and jumped to another building.

"Tch, that was a close one........"
You are on a slanted roof with some tyling broken down in to the form of a ramp to a lower level.
"Of course the only people who can't drink alcohol are given the option of alcohol. Unless you have some fermented blood?"
It continues staring at you waiting for you to either buy something or leave.
 
You arrive in a small room with a blackened skeleton and an open door to open air. There are stairs going down in to three different clouds. There are also several other open doors to the sides.

I gently let down the Doctor. "...Any idea on where to go next? I'm sure we should avoid the clouds..."

"Ah... yesh. Yesh, I can confirm dat we should shtay out o' deh cloudsh."

Wincing, I climb to my feet. I'm still sore all over and I doubt I'll be much good if we have to run anywhere, but I can at least walk on my own now.

I move over to the skeleton and crouch down in front of it, giving it a cautious stare.

"Shkeletons. Shpooky."

Well, from here... there's a few ways to move on. Several of them rather clearly lead further into the cloud, though, and that's a non-option. Fortunately, there are several other doors around the place, one of which leads to open air. I gesture towards it.

"Look out dere... ish' clear. Open air. Dere'sh prob'ly shumthin' nashty through all of em', but if we go through dat door we can a' leasht get a look aroun'. Maybe shee shome o' the othersh."

I nod to Legion.

"Ah... I'll let deh robot wit' deh shpace powersh go firsht, though, if yeh don' mind."
 
"Ah... I'll let deh robot wit' deh shpace powersh go firsht, though, if yeh don' mind."
"All right. Open air it is."

Just like Hobo said, there might be something dangerous awaiting us on the other side. So I threw my Geth Turret past the door, deploying at its landing spot. After that, I summoned my Combat Drone, letting it go first. Then, I walked through the open door to open air, Geth Pulse Rifle on hand, making sure that the Doctor was behind me with his gun on hand...
 
"All right. Open air it is."

Just like Hobo said, there might be something dangerous awaiting us on the other side. So I threw my Geth Turret past the door, deploying at its landing spot. After that, I summoned my Combat Drone, letting it go first. Then, I walked through the open door to open air, Geth Pulse Rifle on hand, making sure that the Doctor was behind me with his gun on hand...
There is nothing there except for a wire across the door.
 
"...Ouch. Good thing you didn't go first, Doctor."

It will take some time for the shields to recover, though...
 
It triggers a shotgun that fires directly in to you left side and breaks the kinetic barrier.
"...Ouch. Good thing you didn't go first, Doctor."

It will take some time for the shields to recover, though...


I sigh. Wonderful. Traps.

"Yep, dat'sh why I went shecond..." I murmur, examining the shotgun. I move to take it and get a closer look, if I can. I doubt there's any more rounds - this kind of trap likely needs to be manually reloaded, so there'd be no point leaving extra - but it's worth a check. Maybe if I take it with me I'll find some ammunition stored around the place. If not, well, I still have my Space Gun.

Still, this being set up does imply something...

"...Shomeone shet dish up. Shomeone with dere mind shtill intact. It might mean nothin', but... it might mean dat dere's shomeone elsh here."

Or not. I mean, I had no idea how long this sort of trap could last - it might have been here for years, for all I knew - or it could have been set up by whatever weird force brought us here in the first place. Still, something to keep in mind, just in case.

I looked ahead.

"We besht keep movin'."
 
I start to tap my fingers on the floor as I wait for something to happen, while my mouth begins to hang loose. Black slime pours out of it while I say, "I wonder what the others are dealing with right now? Probably not something this boring..."
 
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