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Tesladyne: Every Day's an Adventure!
The door that opens is a free standing frame on a small plywood dais at the focus of a tremendous amount of cabling and particle emitters. The whole area smells of ozone.
Tesladyne's high energy physics department (Advanced Topology Division) is marked by a school of design that thinks things should be able to be cleaned with a pressure washer - painted cinder block, tiles floors, scorch resistant counters, wire reinforced glass and plenty of drains. Decorations lean towards lolcats, and mock safety signs saying 'Do not look at laser with remaining eye'.
There's a calendar open to December 2010 and a clock that says it's about 10.
"Right it's still morning," says Robo, "Watch your step, it was easier to raise the door three inches than to cut down all the equipment by that much."
Tesladyne's high energy physics department (Advanced Topology Division) is marked by a school of design that thinks things should be able to be cleaned with a pressure washer - painted cinder block, tiles floors, scorch resistant counters, wire reinforced glass and plenty of drains. Decorations lean towards lolcats, and mock safety signs saying 'Do not look at laser with remaining eye'.
There's a calendar open to December 2010 and a clock that says it's about 10.
"Right it's still morning," says Robo, "Watch your step, it was easier to raise the door three inches than to cut down all the equipment by that much."
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Now comes the part where Tyler keeps thinking on his feet, as he's not going through the pipe maze. Playground gymnastics come mightily into play as Tyler makes use of small size and the many pipes, the tentacle tries to strike at him more than once, but clever use of the pipes as a quick get away and defense prove most useful. He's not making that good of a time though, the screaming mimis often throw him off balance, leaving him to swing holding onto the pipe to make another pass.
"...I woulda thought of that." Hammond mutters for a moment.
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The zombies, being proper slow stumbling examples of the type, aren't an issue on the pipe maze. They are, however, in the pipe maze. Which makes this the highest concentration of tracers for the shoggoths to home in on.
"He's outsi-" Ah. The one with the baseball cap has had it stuffed in his mouth.
"Shut it Jake. Nobody needs you or your internet habits out here."
Well that's some aggression that won't make it to Tyler.
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"BLRRGLLLRRRAAAUR!!"
"FUCK! SHOGGOTHS!" One of the zombies promptly declares as one of the shoggoths takes a lunge and misses. They forgot about the shoggoths didn't they?
Tyler's almost out of the pipe maze now folks.
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"GROWMPF!"
"Faster Jimmy!"
Or not. The question now: Did Tyler out think three panicked men in face paint and a quartet of pseudo-abominations out of Lovecraft, or did they get lucky and end up at the right exit to the pipe maze?
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However as soon as he realizes he's out of the maze and where he wants to be...he's also noticing the zombies and their shoggoth entourage.
NOW is the time to sprint for the ball pit and dodge every zombie on his tail.
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Also a tentacle from above. Phil isn't even trying to be subtle, that sucker is out and swinging back and forth. If Tyler can time it right it's literally just a hop, skip and a jump and he's out.
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Zombie number one, Zombie number two?
-ponk!- -ponk!-
Headshots for both of you!
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"GROOOWMFP!"
Right that's the zombies delayed, consumed, whichever, but there's still the advancing blobs. How that timing looking now Tyler?
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See, there's a reason he didn't put the last double shoggoth egg in the ball pit.
Physics time: What happens when something of a denser mass enters a body of something lighter?
It sinks.
So the three shoggoths who have fed sink down into the depths of the ball pit, leaving Tyler with just two foes to face.
Shoggoth #4 is creeping it's way across the ball pit slowly now... And he hasn't forgotten about his friend the tentacle.
Jump, dive, flatten! Jump, flatten, two stones left... Phil is really getting his game on now.
Hokay...and..Jump, dive and roll...
"Made it!" One ten-year-old bouncing around at making it to the finish zone.
Uh, Tyler don't celebrate too soon cause Phil-
"WAUGH!"
...hasn't shut down the tentacle yet.
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"You can let him go now Phil."
"Aaaww. Nuts."
"You good Tyler?"
"That is why you need to go back to training," says Robo, "And why you don't stop trying."
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...Guard you shins after this Phil. The tentacle drops Tyler down into a nice landing in the ballpit after a second and goes slack.
He's also a.. ahem. A little pinker all over for having come out of this tentacle.
"I'm good, nothin' broken, but I'd like a shower and a big old snack."
...
"Oh and did anyone wet their pants the first run? I have a bet with Phil to settle."
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"I threw up, but that's manly."
"Shut up Clarkson."
"Right, turn the rest of the boots in and everyone clean up."
Robo has private showers, away from the regular workers.
"The odds were thirteen to one in my favor," says Phil who is back out of the tire-blind, "Heck of a run you had there."
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He's just going to shut down all the putty eggs for now, to conserve their energy, and to take the Gameboy of Mad Science with him.
"Don't tell the guys how the shoggoths followed em, we wanna keep em guessing."
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"You want to clean up here, or back... you know?" asks Robo, "Your choice - I've got guest rooms around here and everything."
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Granted it's as close to normal as he gets but really...
And you know. Two more runs to plan out.
"I've got an idea for the next run I wanna throw at you too... It's called 'toy soldiers'."