Forced stop
Lance: Feather... Feather, are you h...? Le...go. How ... ? I’m in... the ha...y. I’ve got... Hurry up, will y...
Task: Go through the unknown room in cache mode.
You have the most unpleasant awakening among the soil, flowers and ceramic crocks with a splitting headache. Could it be that you’ve really seen a devil? Perhaps it was simply a vase that has fallen on you from the table, while you were trying to tidy up the room, and the vision is simply your mind playing games on you after the concussion?
Your hair is wet — you were hit on your head with a vase after all. But what are these rods doing here on the floor? Did the criminal drop them, trying to get away In a hurry? Ah, why did it all have to happen during your shift? You need to find Lance the runner, before he’s gotten into trouble.
Here he is. The young man is standing on the stairs at a loss. His left foot is standing on one stair, his right — on a lower one. He’s clinging a walkie-talkie tightly in his hand. So tightly that his fist has turned white. Looks like you’re too late and Lance has caught up with troubles.
Lance: Thank you for coming. This idea with handmade walkie-talkies was great, r-right?
Great. I only wish I didn’t have to guess every next word because of the disturbance, act in hope of luck and try to catch up with my partner. Oops, did you say it out loud? Bad, Lance is nervous enough as it is.
Lance: Sorry I’ve run from you. I’ll think three times before doing it next t-time. But I’ve almost caught up with the cat. If it wasn’t for that stair… I’ve only just stepped on it when I heard something clicking. I don’t think that’s a good sign.
You notice a self-made mechanism resembling a pedal under Lance’s pedal. A stretched string runs from it to the ceiling. There are shards of Christmas balls on the stairs. Lance runs a hand through his hair, moving the forelock to the side a little, and you see a cut underneath it.
You completed the task and received some points of freedom and some tokens.
Lance: A trap. I tried to g-get off. I’m lucky that pedals are r-running smoothly.
