Welcome to Gaia! ::

Kurtis groaned and complied with Joe's "advice."

Hm. Panic... Alaric noted, clearly forgetting to keep up his ruse as a simple technician. Something was wrong, he could feel it. His intuition had kept him alive up to this point, he wouldn't ignore it now.

An empty hallway proved to be his sanctuary. Things were relatively quiet here, which seemed odd to him. His instinct told him to leave the hall, but another part of him told him he was close, so very close to his goal.

He would trust his curiosity.

He knelt down, shoving the toolkit off to the side, since it had nothing of any value anyway. After he shrugged his backpack from his shoulder to the floor, opening it with great haste, pulling out various parts and assembling them. Within moments, he had a fully functional handgun with two clips of ammunition. He rolled up his sleeves and unzipped his jumpsuit a little, putting the handgun in the concealed holster under his shoulder.

It was time to follow the lead that would likely bring him to his death. He proceeded down the hall, bringing the toolbox and backpack with him, having a feeling that he would need them. A door became present to him on his left side as he drew closer with a cautious walk. Clearly the entrance to a security station. If he gained access to this room, he would have camera control.

The entrance panel was easy enough to hack. An outdated security model that he became familiar with back in his days in the military. It was basically useless against his skill. He entered the room after to find two security guards, both frantically watching the cameras, as if looking for something...

There was no time to ask. Alaric quickly knocked the two unconscious with the toolbox, first the one sitting down, then the one standing next to him. After the deal was done, he pushed the man off the chair, helping himself to the camera control...

It was time to see what he could find.

What the hell is going on? People were running about like headless chickens. No one apparently knew what was going on. Brushing her bangs behind her ear, Madeline headed straight for the closest security station. Maybe I'll be able to understand better what's going on.

Upon entering the room, she found out she wasn't the only who had the same idea. "Who are you? Do you have clearance to be in this part of the building?" The man said nothing, but upon further inspection, she realized he was a technician. She looked past him and saw that the cameras marked Connor's Offices were down. "I suppose you're trying to fix the faulty cameras? While you check to see if the equipment is faulty here, I'll go ahead down there. I hope that the problem is in this piece of machinery, though. Ah well. Good luck to you," she waved. It wasn't all too unusual to see a technician pass by - things broke all the time.

She didn't really need to go down there, but maybe the reason why everyone seemed to be so frantic was at Connor's Offices. "I can only hope that whatever's going on will soon be fixed."

"Hm? Sure I can lead you to the offices. It's a pretty big place, isn't it?" She gave him a half smile, and started to walk in the direction of the offices. "Seems like everybody's going crazy. You have any idea why?" He might have heard something from the people passing by. And she wanted to make conversation with him as they leisurely walked to their destination. "Or are you as clueless as I am?"

She came to realize that he never showed her his clearance pass. Now would be a good time for someone to sneak in here. But this guy doesn't seem so bad. She maintained her easygoing aura. I hope we don't run into any trouble. She liked to believe the best in people. She hoped it wouldn't lead her astray.

She tilted her head in his direction. "Hm? Oh, uh, I tend to tune out everything that goes on when I work. I'm a bit of a workaholic," she chuckled nervously. There a few times where she would forget about sleeping and eating in order to work on/prove her theories (and thankfully, they proved sound) to the science committee. She stretched her arms out in front of her to relax her muscles.

Now she knew about the mysterious substance and how it was here. But she never got a close enough look at it, to her eternal disappointment. If only I could have a few hours to work with it! It would be such a fascinating study... She turned to grin at him. "And what about you? What did you do before transferring here?"

By this point, they had finally reached the offices. "Oh! Well, I guess we won't be able to finish our conversation, will we?"

Kurtis learned the secrets of time and space.

"What?" the now omnipotent Kurtis asked as he finished assembling his device.