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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rybaer" data-source="post: 1996396" data-attributes="member: 118">Pumping Station #6, Coast CityApr 1800:43Fate, pulling Granite with one hand and Jorgi with the other, floats intangibly through the grimy metal door and into the large chamber beyond.  The room is over a hundred feet wide and about eighty across.  The ceiling is some twenty-five high, and the group is floating closer to the ceiling than the floor.  What might have once been a metal landing and stairway from the access hallway into this room is now a tangled heap in the center of the chamber.Along the far wall, several enormous pipes run the length of the room and terminate in a squat building-shaped structure in the far, right-hand corner of the room.  A few scattered doors lead out of the room, though all are closed.  Under the pipes is a recessed area filled with foul, stagnant water.The room is poorly lit by a half dozen undersized and dust covered service lights.  Dozens of fungal tendrils, each easily the diameter of a mature tree, writhe about the floor and walls, throwing about chaotic shadows.  Near the center of the room, not far from the tangled mass of metal, stands the fungal man - tall, powerful, and blazing green eyes staring right at the group.Underneath them, they spot Lawrence making a mad dash toward the doorway.  As he runs, his body crumbles into a swarm of spiders that easily makes the fifteen foot climb up the wall to the partially open doorway."More of you now?" the fungal man says, his voice rumbling through the concrete and rusted iron chamber.  "Come to play?  Let's start with catch."The fungal man stands motionless, but half a dozen tendrils wrap themselves around the former staircase and hurl it with the force of a speeding SUV at the doorway.  It passes harmlessly through the intagible group and Lawrence is able to crawl through the doorway into the relative safety of the hall beyond before it crashes into the wall and door.</blockquote>

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