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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rybaer" data-source="post: 1733016" data-attributes="member: 118">Thurman Biological Sciences BuildingCC State Campus, Coast CityApr 1723:23Dr. Linderman's lab...Tarentula hears voices coming from within the lab as he approaches...one of which sounds like Granite even though he can't make out the words.  Tarentula drops the body on the floor and climbs to the ceiling, sliding into the room noiselessly.  (Move Silent roll 13+12=25; neither appears to notice him enter)The lab is a disaster, with shelves, books, broken glass, and crushed electronic gear scattered about.  Both windows in the far wall are broken and thick tendrils of fungus are writhing into the room, moving closer to Granite.  Another man stands across the room a short distance from Granite.  He is easily seven feet tall and very powerfully built.  He wears dirty and tattered clothing and his skin has a ropey appearance with a dull gray-green coloration.  His eyes glow bright green."My problem isn't with the computers," the Green Fungus growls at Granite.  "It's with what's missing.  Your presence here can't be a coincidence, so I have to assume you're somehow involved.  If you don't tell me where they are, then I'll have to break your body into gravel...just to make sure you didn't hide it inside."  He gives Granite a maniacal grin and his eyes grow just a little bit brighter.(ooc - Granite, the tendrils spilling in through the windows are starting to get much closer to you, from both directions.  Soon the only clear path from them will be through the door to the hallway.)*****Adjacent rooftop...Jorgi blasts the lock off of the roof access door, startling Andrew and Dr. Linderman.  Linderman looks at Andrew and says, "I'll go find a monitor.  I probably know my way around this building a bit better than you."Andrew nods and continues to watch the fungus moving on the building across the street.Andrew spins around at this.  "Stop it!?  With what?  Maybe if a couple fire trucks loaded with fungicide all just happened to show up I could do something.  As that's not too freakin' likely, I'm not sure just what you want me to try."Andrew finally notices the strange, detached look in Jorgi's crackling eyes.  He sighs, figuring that Jorgi isn't entirely in tune with the situation outside his world of electronics.Jorgi, meanwhile, digs deeper into another of the hidden log files.*****Floating through the building...After dropping off Sue, Fate floats through the building's walls and heads for the stairwell off the lobby.  He figures he might have a better chance of finding Granite if he follows his path.In the lobby, something catches Fate's attention.  It is a popping and cracking sound.  He spots a bit of movement in the wall of fungus that covers what used to be the main entrance.  The tendrils near the floor are writhing slowly, poderously digging into the tile and brickwork of the floor and...the foundation.Fate spins around when he hears popping from the other side of the lobby.  Bits of tile flooring split and burst upward, revealing a bit of fungal tendril as it surfaces momentarily like a sea serpent in Loch Ness.</blockquote>

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