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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Calinon" data-source="post: 1436539" data-attributes="member: 13737">Beneath the FreewayAs a group, you head to the ramp and race downwards, lead by Loki's lights.  The earthen ramp comes to a smooth entrance into the MCNY waste reclamation system.  Rather than a smelling cesspool, the huge tube you are now in has only ankle deep, mucky water rolling through the bottom of it.  You can plainly see the trucks went to the right, from the dirt tire marks leading into the water.  The smell of exhaust fumes is in the air. Weak solar conducting strips line the walls and ceiling, providing very weak light.  Down the tunnel in the distance, you see tail lights for a moment, then the sound of squeeling tires and the lights vanish.  The trucks must have gone around a corner!  A small breeze blows in your face, from the direction the trucks went. JohanEveryone runs ahead as you spend time duplicating.  You then recover a few weapons.  Two of your doubles have hand blasters (4L), one has a sniper rifle (6L, +1 to hit, 20 bullet clip) and you have a shotgun (5L, 10 rounds).  By the time you make it to the ramp, you have to feel your way around to find it.  Once you are below the illusion, nobody is in sight.   You make your way down the ramp and determine the truck went to your right.  Faint light is in the tunnel provided by solar conducting strips.  You see nobody, hear nothing but the trickling of water and smell nothing but the faint sewage odor, a faint breeze coming from the direction the trucks appear to have gone. EveryoneSanjay bursts down the hall after the vans at sprint speed.  Straightjacket shrinks slightly to move freely and dashes after him, Raisa splashing along beside.  Kevin quickly touches Loki and copies his powers, both sprinting down the hall after Sanjay.  Tara buzzes along with Sanjay and Anna blasts off, rockets blaring in the sewer.  Michelle zips along above them.  You hit the turn.  It's a nearly complete right angle, and you all come around it to see the truck tail lights winking in the distance.  You hear the sound of their engines as well.  The breeze isn't present in this tunnel. Rebound is struggling to keep up.  His bouncing is utterly useless in here and he's not in the best of shape for this.  Nobody notices really, as you are all focussed on the trucks. This is what everyone other than Johan, Raisa and Michelle sees. RaisaYou find yourself lagging slightly behind (about 10 feet) of everyone else.  When you come to the corner, something gives you pause.  Everything looks right, but the breeze that is present in the tunnel is coming right out of the wall of the sewer.  There is no vent or fan present.  Rebound comes up behind you, gasping for breath. "What... you stopping... for, Raisa," he wheezes out.  "Damn, that breeze... feels good... hey... what the... that's a solid wall," he says, standing upright again. MichelleAs you fly around the corner, you notice several, slightly smaller tunnels in the distance.  You could swear you saw the flash of a silver cape around the second one.  Tara pokes you and gives a little nod of her head left, a big smile on her face and starts to drop back slightly, behind everyone.</blockquote>

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