Sixth Stripe; Audio

[sandpaperbreath]

It's gotten louder.

Did anyone do anything?

[Torn's out now, investigating on his own. Nothing on deck 11, what about a deck up?]

Comments

[shadesofeco]

Carnival checked out earlier.

Something must have happened.

[sandpaperbreath]

Yeah, must of.

Dunno fer sure yet, but I'm leaning towards that bein' a good thing. Not a fan of Carni myself.

[Stuck his head in once. Didn't like it too much.]

Heard it's coming from nine--what's there, y'think?

[shadesofeco]

Nine?

[Jak frowns and thinks.]

Sergei's, the library. Doesn't sound like a place someone would be crying for help from.

[sandpaperbreath]

That's not all that's there. Couple'a places on nine y'don't hear much about people visiting. Ner-Veina place. Whatever it's called.

An' somethin' else. Big doors, end'a the hall.

[He's blanking on the name; it's caught his interest a couple times but he's never checked it out.]

[betterthanleo]

It's coming from Deck 09.

[sandpaperbreath]

I'm assumin' you're already there.

I'm going through Deck ten before I start up there. It's pretty damn loud here, too.

[Hell, you can probably hear it in the background of this reply.]

[teethofneedles]

Uh, Zeke and I sorta broke into that Spectacular, Spectacular place. He got killed by fallin' machinery after we ran into a little girl who was askin' for help. Whole place started comin' apart, so I had to hightail it. Kid is dead, though.

[sandpaperbreath]

Y'don't say.

I hear it likes doin' that; falling apart and pickin' off group members.

What'd y'learn? The girl say anythin' substantial?

[teethofneedles]

Yeeeah. Somethin' about the man at Nirvana promising her help or something. Was thinking about going over and fucking that guy up 'til he talks.

[sandpaperbreath]

Yeah; y'go do that.

Don't take kindly t'assholes who go breakin' promises to little girls. Specially when it leads to this much noise.

[heavyweaponsbot]

... Went looking. We searched.

[It had to be a female. It just had to be a female. He's not... holding up as well as he tries to act.]

[sandpaperbreath]

Yer one of the 'bots, ain'tcha? Ironhide?

Falling ceilin's give your kind much grief?

[heavyweaponsbot]

Yeah. See I have a reputation.

... My name is Ironhide for a reason. [So, no. Not really.]

[sandpaperbreath]

Didn't think so.

[There's a smirk in his voice.]

Wanna save a lil' girl, Ironhide? Might get her t'shut up for a minute.