[Rabbit nods and stands, exchanging a few words with Mother who, in turn, offers a perfunctory nod. They step over corpses, shell casings, and weapons as they make their way down to the first floor, to where the door to the basement is located behind a staircase.
It's a door like any you'd see in any tenement in the city at this point - slightly splintered, paint slightly peeling, a rusty old doorknob that looks like it needs more than a few cans of WD40...that is, before you take another look and see the thick padlock and chain that's reinforcing the deadbolt.
Rabbit swings the bolt-cutters over his back and puts the teeth on the padlock. As soon as Lindianne gives him an affirmative signal, he breaks it, letting the lock clatter to the floor. The door slowly swings open, seemingly of its own accord, like it's releasing a breath it's been holding for months. Then...silence.
In front of Lindianne is a long stairwell down. Her NODs struggle to amplify the ambient light down there, because there is none to amplify. And - the smell...that sickly sweet smell...]
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It's a door like any you'd see in any tenement in the city at this point - slightly splintered, paint slightly peeling, a rusty old doorknob that looks like it needs more than a few cans of WD40...that is, before you take another look and see the thick padlock and chain that's reinforcing the deadbolt.
Rabbit swings the bolt-cutters over his back and puts the teeth on the padlock. As soon as Lindianne gives him an affirmative signal, he breaks it, letting the lock clatter to the floor. The door slowly swings open, seemingly of its own accord, like it's releasing a breath it's been holding for months. Then...silence.
In front of Lindianne is a long stairwell down. Her NODs struggle to amplify the ambient light down there, because there is none to amplify. And - the smell...that sickly sweet smell...]