“What’s wrong with you!?” Fire yelled. “If you didn’t fire at those slime-whatevers you wouldn’t have drawn their attention! Then we wouldn’t have lost another four people.”
“I’m sorry.” Samantha apologizes. “I thought one of them had already seen us! If I didn’t kill it it would have told its friends and they would have attacked us.”
“Guns are loud!” Fire yells back at Samantha. “Your shot just alerted our presence to all of them, maybe even some inside this tower.”
“Knock it off, Fire.” Lizette intervenes. “She’s a civilian, not a soldier. You can’t expect military discipline from her.”
In the meantime, Alice tries to brush as much of the slime off her as she can. As she does her clothing falls apart with it.
“Are you alright?” Nicole asks Alice.
“I’m fine. The slime seems dead.” Alice replies. “It did mess up my clothes and my rifle, though.”
Alice holds up her slime covered sniper rifle. Whatever the slime did, it destroyed enough of it for the weapon to become useless as a firearm. At best it still makes for a good blunt weapon.
“Guess I’ll have to switch from long range to melee combat, now.” Alice jokes.
“Girls,” Eve says as she gets in between Fire and Lizette. “We won’t get anywhere arguing like this. What’s done is done. Besides, there’s a good chance other towerlings inside the tower heard our gunfight. They may very well be heading towards us right now. We’ll need to move.”
“I get that.” Frost says. “But don’t we need a leader first?”
“Yeah, who takes over Kirie’s place.” Clarissa asks.
“After the captain is gone, the next person in line should be a lieutenant.” Frost explains. “And amongst us lieutenants, black ops takes seniority. Which means …”
“Oh, hell no!” Fire interrupts her sister. “I am NOT going to take orders from Lizette!”
“Be reasonable, Fire.” Frost says, hoping she can cool down Fire.
“I would rather go off on my own then take orders from her!” Fire yells at her twin.
“Please don’t tell me we’re going to split up.” Alice says. “Have you seen this place? It looks like something straight from a horror movie. First rule of a horror movie, never split up the team.”
“Look, the towerlings are going to get here any minute. I’m in fact surprised they’re not here already.” Eve says agitated. “We need to do something fast.”
Fire crosses her arms in front of her chest and looks away, then grudgingly says, “Fine, I’ll follow Lizette.”
“I see a passage leading up, another leading down and a third going deeper into the tower.” Eve says. “Which direction do we go, Lizette?”
TEAM STATUS
Eveline Union: Fine, Ripped Shirt
Arms: Assault Rifle, Pistol
Lizette: Fine
Arms: Shotgun, Assault Rifle
Frost: Normal
Arms: Shotgun
Fire: Angry
Arms: Submachine Gun
Alice: Fine, naked
Arms: Broken sniper rifle
Clarissa: Worried, naked
Arms: Assault Rifle
Nicole: Normal
Arms: Assault Rifle
Gabriella: Frightened
Arms: Pistol
Samantha: Motivated (Lizette stuck up for her)
Arms: Assault Rifle
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