Compass

Front Desk

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The front desk area is a very narrow room with a glass topped halfway seperating it from the lobby. There is a slim, built-in shelf lining it that may have once served as a desk of sorts, papers spread haphazardly across its surface. The couple chairs that had once been in there were pushed aside, seeming to make room for the dead woman sprawled on the floor beneath the window. The gun beside her and the bullet hole in her head suggest that she may have taken her own life, just as the blood splatter on the wall beside the door to the main office points to where she had been standing when she pulled the trigger. The smell in the room is almost over powering in its stench.

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Silera dropped down in a crouch behind the desk and glanced around the room to make sure she was alone before approaching the body. The stench was overpowering and she gagged as the disgusting air filled her lungs. She bent and grabbed the gun, allowing a small smirk of,satisfaction to spread on her lips as she ran her hands through the corpse's clothes in search of ammunition. She then turned and started going through the papers as she looked for information.

The stench got stronger as Marcus got closer to the front desk area and he had to surpress the urge not to gag. He was cautious heading in that direction hearing someone shuffling papers around, if it wasn't his friend from the greenhouse then he needed to be prepared. He peeped over the desk and saw her and the corpse, "Wow, she's been here a while and what a mess I found some clothes and I think they'll fit you just fine. And by the way I never did catch your name." he said holding out the scrubs to her.

Though Silera did not find any extra ammunition and the gun itself was empty as well, she did find a small cellphone with a quarter of the battery left. The papers were mostly promotional pamphlets and brochures for a pharmaceutical company. There was what appeared to be a sign in sheet and visitor roster.

Being alone with a corpse was unnerving and when a voice suddenly spoke behind her Silera almost had a heart attack. She whirled around and hissed, barring her fangs while the feathers at the nape of neck flared, in the same movement she brought up the gun and aimed it at Daichi's head and pulled the trigger. It was fortunate for him that the gun was empty and Silera paused as she realized who it was and then looked down at the weapon in disgust. She had neglected to check the actual gun for bullets and while she supposed it was a good thing the gun was empty she would've much preferred it to be loaded, even if this person was a fatality. "Silera." She answered his question as she took the scrubs from him and her feathers settled down.

"So, I hope bringing you these will make us a little friendlier, I also got a couple improvised things to use in case we need weapons unless you found ammo for that. Also, the conference room and surgical prep area look like a blood bath so something or someone got out of hand in here." Marcus took a look at the sign in sheet and visitor log, anything that might have a ID number like the one he found in the conference room. "Well, Silera I take it the doors are either locked or sealed so we should look for another way out of here." he said dropping the papers on the desk. He decided not to bring up the subject of her feathers or the fact she had fangs, best to wait until they could just go their seperate ways if need be.


"There isn't any ammo.Silera answered and even managed to sound disappointed. She started peeling off the wet pajamas, she didn't care that he was watching as she dropped the wet clothes to the floor and slipped into the scrubs. "The doors are chained shut. We need to get out..." She almost moaned as her stomach grumbled. That corpse was looking more and more appealing. On the plus hand Marcus seemed to have nerves of steal considering he hadn't reacted to her pointing a gun at his head. She stood watching him and smoothed down the clothes he'd brought. "Maybe a window or something... We can break through."

"Capital idea, I haven't seen any except where we woke up and these out here but the brochures say this is part of a pharmaceutical company. It might have a loading dock or at least a fire door somewhere or we try breaking out through the conservatory." Marcus said. From the looks of whatever ripped through this place somewhere there needed to be a very big hole or it was still around. "Other than the gun did you find anything else on our friend here, perhaps an ID or keys?"

"She is useless." Silera said a grimace of disgust as she kicked the body hard enough to shift it a few inches forward. "We shouldn't stay here any longer than we have to. I don't think we were released by chance." She said as she swung herself up and over the desk and landing lightly on her feet on the other side. "That pathetic creature killed herself a while back." She said as she held on to the gun. They might find some ammunition somewhere and if not it could still be a decent bluff. "I want to check in here first." She said as she padded towards
Lab 218: Main Office

Marcus nodded in agreement, "If someone thinks it's loaded then we have some wiggle room at least for a little while anyway." Her decision was a sound one and he stood up and followed Silera into Lab 218: Main Office.


The body was still in place and the stench was still as rancid as ever, causing Silera to wrinkle her nose in disgust as she approached the corpse. "Ugh. What a waste of meat." She groaned as her belly rumbled and then bent over to grab on to the woman's arms and started to pull the body with her.

While Silera was pulling on the body, then head seemed to move of its own accord, the mouth opening up as a soft, barely audible sound escaped it. Then, when tugged again, it fully opened and a large, multi-mouthed rat came out, hissing angrily at Silera through it two fanged holes whiles it's freakishly long legs tried to carry it away from her.

"Oh fuck, oh fuck, oh FUCKING FUCK!!!!" Silera almost screeched, actually she did, loudly and sounded like a complete girl as she dropped the body and sprang back. That had been disturbing and disgusting and grotesque and she was fighting the urge to jump up and down. Thankfully the feeling didn't last to long when it occurred to her the creature was alive... meaning meat. Her belly grumbled irritably and she suddenly pounced, slashing at the creature, hopefully before it got to far.

Silera's minor freak out lost her her meal. When she slashed it was already burrowing into a hole at the base of the wall that seemed much too small for the thing to fit through and all she ended up doing was severing its long, worm like tail that squirted a foul brown discharge and continued to wriggle on the floor as if alive.

Well... Silera was officially glad she'd missed that little rodent mutant thing or whatever it was had escaped. She was still feeling a bit queasy about having watching the bastard climb out of the woman's throat and the brown, foul smelling blood made her stomach churn. She turned back to the woman and wiped her talons on the corpse's clothing before grabbing on and dragging it back out to Lab 218: Lobby

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Laboratory #218

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