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Always eager to pull triggers the CITYDEF guys all step forward before the commander picks two from the lot; they look like caricatures of the old vidslug hero Sylvester Rambow.
“This is “Killer”Stymes and that” he indicates to the shorter of the two “is Big Pete. They’ll cover you. I’ll take the rest and enforce curfew.” With that the rest move out and both Cribb and Etrodia go into the vent.
The Vent shaft is about 5 meters across and windy. Huge sub level fans pull the soiled air into Undercity pipes. Your filtration systems kick in and you helmets short range Infra Reds light up the darkness. The Beta –C was right, there are faint heat trails, naked hand and foot prints on the rungs of the service ladders…prints left by human hands. And they lead down to a maintenance gantry that is a patch of darkness on your infra red. Its motors glow a soft amber indicating some use, but a patch of pale blue moves and catches your eyes. It’s a human….and it’s just above room temperature…..
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