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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rybaer" data-source="post: 1728436" data-attributes="member: 118">Thurman Biological Sciences BuildingCC State Campus, Coast CityApr 1723:23Dr. Linderman's lab...Granite charges through the darkness, glass crunching underfoot, and aims a side kick at the glowing green eyes.  The Green Fungus sees it coming and rolls aside, just narrowly avoiding the blow.  (Attack roll 4+7=11, miss)The eyes disappear, but Granite can hear the larger man stand and shuffle back a few steps.  "You just don't give up, do you?" he says.Two sets of windows in the room simultaneously implode, sending glass tinkling across the tile floor.  Streams of street light begin to filter in through the gaps between the thick fungal tendrils...which are now writhing and extending into the room on either side of Granite.The Green Fungus' green eyes again meet Granite's.  In the dim light, Granite can see him standing erect - powerful and confident - and bearing no sign of injury or exhaustion from the fight."Now, would you like to tell me just what happened to the hard drives?"*****Twelfth floor lab...Fate's calming, authoritative voice seems to finally get through to Sue.  She takes his hand and doesn't react too badly to being turned insubstantial.  Fate grips her firmly and then floats through the wall and down to street level as quickly as possible.  There he leaves her in the company of the others that he escorted down.Lawrence, meanwhile, transforms back into the spider swarm and then into the single large form.  It is just as taxing to perform as the first time, but he's becoming slightly more comfortable with the shape.He picks up the fallen man in his jaws and tries to carry him toward the stairs.  It's an awkward arrangement and the man's arms and legs bounce along on the floor, but Tarentula manages it okay.Just moments after reaching the stairwell, he heads a loud crash echo from somewhere below...but it doesn't sound as if it's in the stairwell itself.  He hurries down a couple floors and hears another crash, this time of breaking glass.  It sounds like it's coming from the somewhere a level down - the seventh level, where Linderman's office is.Tarentula pushes through the door and into the seventh floor hall.  He rounds the corner and sees the remains of the lab's door lying on the hallway floor.*****Adjacent rooftop..."Whoa, look at that!" Andrew says from his perch overlooking the Biological Sciences building.Professor Linderman trots over and Jorgi hears him say, "Oh dear, I think that might be my lab.""Uh, Jorgi?" Linderman says.  "You might want to take a look at this.  Something appears to be happening next door."If Jorgi is so inclined to break away from his electronics work for a minute, he'll see that the thick tendrils of fungus that encase the building across the street are now writhing fluidly about halfway between the ground and the roof.  Several dozen tendrils are sliding in, presumably through the windows."Yeah," Linderman says, "I'm pretty certain that's my lab."</blockquote>

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