[FFRP] The Black City...

[Brnin8r]

Nora smiled, "Nooora." she hummed and nodded. "I remember a red robot...and I was taken. I fell into a...dark..." as she paused, it sounded like the processor was whirring to pull information and put it into a speakable form "...hole." she seemed confused, "I protect the perimeter. Then Jack." she said lifting her hand to his face.

***

The bank was surprisingly unlocked. If she didn't know it, the city would have looked like a perfectly fine urban area, just the sun wasn't out. But the eerie silence and the observant cameras at each building corner disenchanted the human feeling to it now. The door opened to reveal the bank lobby. A few chairs, empty, observed the empty room and the velvet rope that lined off a queue to the separate teller booths. No other signs of interest are of note at the moment.

[Harri-chan]

The figure slipped inside the door, the long red cloak reaching down almost to her ankles, and swished around as she moved. Pulling a handgun from her hip, she aimed it out infront of her as she crossed the silent lobby, and ducked below the velvet rope, and headed for the door that led into the staff area behind the glass. She couched down, slowly and quietly twisting the handle before slipping, her gun first of course, aiming it around the room...

[Knight Errant]

He smiles a bit. "Didnt expect to find a friend here. And yeah I met that red robot... piece of junk ruined my car."

"So... anything else you remember? About this place... about yourself?"

[Brnin8r]

Nora smiled in reflection of Jack's, "I have been here for 2448.37 hours as North 31; perimeter guardian. Processing mnemonic: Witchblade." she tried to think a little harder, "Sun...Sky...Father...Buick...Maximillian." as she mentioned the last one, a twinge of fear streaked across her eyes.

***

As the staff door opened, the stench of death wafted into the lobby room. Three people, two men one woman laid in coagulated blood. Deep gunshot wounds eased the questions of how they were killed. One detail of note was that every person's eyesockets were empty. Not by a gun, but as if they were pulled from their respective skulls.

[Harri-chan]

Remaining in a crouch, the figure held out her free hand, shining the light from it towards the three bodies, combining it with the light from her goggles, pausing to study their eyes... or rather, the lack of eyes. Her nose twitched, but she rose and stepped over the bodies, the red cloak sweeping majestically behind her as she headed toward the vault, the lights upon her bodysuit fading out with a small lowering pitch tone, but the ones on her goggles remained, a second pistol being pulled out, aimed in different directions as she got closer to the vault...

[muffinstud]

Jack and Nora can hear a low and distant rumbling, the shuffling of debris from a faraway building. It passes quickly, leaving them to their conversation.

As the figure delves deeper into the bank, some of the lights turn on, and eerie music filters through the air from the speakers in the ceiling.

[Knight Errant]

Jack glances around as the rumbling occurs. Then he looks back to Nora. "Well..." He sits down and begins checking his gun, going to fix the jam. "I'm not really sure where to go from here. This place is beyond what I expected. I should probably leave and come back better equipped."

[Zoey]

Caine nodded. "Will we meet others, or are you solo in all this?" asked Caine looking foward at the road ahead.

[Brnin8r]

The vault came into view as the eerie music began to play. It was locked like any normal vault, but the locking mechanism didn't matter much as there were two clean holes seemingly drilled into the vault door, about three feet spaced apart. Without the woman's lights, the room would be pitch black.

***

Nora looked up to Jack with fear in her eyes, "Jack can't leave! Critical danger! Remain with North...Nora."

***

Damian groaned, "I wasn't solo...but now I am." as he said that he turned sharply onto another road. As he came out of the turn he checked his side mirror for the corner cameras. "All right...brace yourself Caine..and..." as he said that, Caine would see an open garage to an automotive repair shop. "now." Damian said sharply as he careened headlong into the blackened garage without slowing. As they sped into the garage, Damian pressed a button which released the chain holding the garage open, causing the garage door to slam down with a loud mettalic *BLAM*. And at the speed they were going, they quickly crashed into the back which had been padded with abandoned mattresses. Damian was flung forward into the deploying airbag. Caine's deployed as well.

[Zoey]

Caine gasped for breath as he fought his way out of the airbag. He turned towards Damian and said: "What the hell?!"

[Harri-chan]

She approached the vault, looking over the door with the holes drilled into it, and then pressed herself to the wall beside it, and hooked her foot beneath the handle, and pushed it back to swing the door open, waiting for a second or two before she spun around to end up standing in the doorway, the red cloak swirling around her, and the twin pistol both aimed into the vault as the lights on her suit came back on....

[muffinstud]

The eerie music stops. A plywood desk smashes into the wall where the woman just was, showering her in cheap bits of wood. Across the lobby, a menacing red robot hovers in the air, slowly approaching her. It scoops up an office chair with one arm and holds it straight out to the side.

[Knight Errant]

Jack takes out a small repair kit, taking his gun apart and cleaning it. Occasionally beating the metal back into place where the heat warped it out of shape.

Without looking up. "I got in here easily enough. Stands to reason it wouldnt be that difficult getting out. Unless you know something I dont, Nora."

[Harri-chan]

Her red cloak had not even stopped swishing and swirling around her black leather bodysuit when the sound of movement caused her to turn again, aiming her pistols back across the office when the desk shattered against the wall. For a moment, she just stared at the robot, arms out-stretched infront of herself. The lights on the back of her hands faded, but the headlight-like glow of her goggles remained, along with the lights on her feet as she began to run forward at the robot and started to fire at the area connecting it's legs to it's torso!

[muffinstud]

The robot float silently, staring at the woman as the bullets ricochet harmlessly off its lower appendages. Slowly, calculating, the machine raises the arm holding the office chair and flings it straight at her!