Guild Wars 2: River of Memories
Chapter 4: Down
By: AVM516
-10 Minutes ago-
On schedule, so far….
As he looked around the collection of pipes and troops scattered, he figured it would be less than hour before everything was set.
Though he couldn’t help but narrow his eyes. This seemed too easy and disappointing. This facility, or if you could call it one, just didn’t seem like anything compared to the ones 10 years ago, at least to records. There were at least automated defenses, traps, and even hallucinogenic gas used in deterring intruders in all facilities related to Scarlet.
There was NONE of that here.
Just one big hole stuffed and surrounded by these enormous pipes of white, glowing liquid. Sure, there was that teleporter that could take them deeper (if they could access it). But even so, if you got this far, you’d think there would be at least SOME type of automated defense to—
“Lieutenant!”
“What is it sergeant?” The Lieutenant asked, facing the soldier who suddenly approached.
“You have to see this…” he said, thumbing behind him.
The Lieutenant followed the trooper to the outer edge of the cave wall. After a moment, he saw what the trooper was informing him of:
A small hatch in the ground…
It was both inconspicuously hidden between two massive pipes and camouflaged by the rock surface of the cave with its rusted doors.
The Lieutenant looked surprised. “That wasn’t in the Pact’s report…”
“I don’t think they knew, sir.” The Sergeant replied. “It was actually luck and good eyesight that one of my squad members noticed it.”
“Did any of you take a look inside? Does it lead deeper into the facility?”
“Uh, we did take a look sir… It’s not an entrance to go deeper.. But…” The sergeant seemed to gaze away.
At that same time, the Lieutenant noticed the other members of the squad give similar gazes of unsettlement.
“What’s wrong? What’s inside Sergeant?”
The human sergeant gave a long depressive sigh and motioned one of his squad members. One of them removed a torch from her side, lit it, and offered it to the Lieutenant. He took it, though still giving a look of concern to the Sergeant.
“Sir… You REALLY need to see it for yourself. It’s difficult to describe with words.”
Immediately, one of the troops undid the lock on the hatch and swung it open. The lieutenant just gave one more curious stare at the Sergeant and approached the hatch.
As he looked down with the torch, he saw that a ladder was attached at the base leading down to pitch black darkness below. Turning around he descended down the ladder, while cautiously holding the torch with one hand.
After a few seconds of descending, his paws finally reached the bottom. ..
…And it was then that he noticed that there was something wrong with the ground.
It was uneven. TOO uneven. As if the entire ground was made up of short sticks that shifting loosely upon his impact. After finally getting both this paws flat on the ground, he swung the torch to see what exactly what he was stepping into…
And his eyes widened in horror.