The metal door flies almost intact past Greggory and towards Nephanim when one of the nurses jumps silently into it's path, taking the hit with a bit of a crunch.  As Greggory keeps running towards the recovery room, he catches glimpses of the nurses faces changing, though into what, he can't tell as he runs.  The room does have a second door, marked "storage", though there is the same unsettling scratching noise behind it, and it's in the direction of the other door, the one that the shadow was trying to get him to open.<br/><br/>Delilah does however see the transformation in the nurses as their faces go literally blank.  Their hands twist and their fingers fuse into nightmarish barbed blades.  The one that was hit with the door gets back up, looking like one of her arms has been knocked out of socket, though she has also transformed along with the rest of them.  Nephanim himself seems to have changed slightly, gaining muscle mass and height, as well as a number dimly glowing runic patterns all over his skin.  "Minions! Kill intruders!"<br/><br/>Behind Nephanim is the doctor that had been watching Tasu at the beginning of the escape, and he seems to be cowering in terror from not only the two nagas, but the nurses as well.  Clearly this feature of the recovery staff is a total surprise to him.<br/><br/>---<br/><br/>The newly awakened tigress clone hears the loud noise of the door getting broken in as well, just outside of the cloning room.  It seems that things have been going badly while she was away, Turk is already in the room, his own cloning chamber already had opened, whatever happened, he must have died a little bit before her.  "Oh, shit, Kitty, I think we're under attack!"<br/><br/>Just as he says that, Nephanim's command from the other side of the door can be heard, and it seems to trigger something inside her mind.  It's time to fight.<br/><br/>---<br/><br/>Lex tries to come up with an argument...  It's possible that the slime won't attack her if it's spawn is inside her, though she has no idea if it will or won't.  on the other hand, she knows that if it does kill her, she will get resurrected...  But chances are equally good that it will attack her to torture and rape again rather than just quickly killing her, and as much as she tries to play it cool, she does not want that to happen again...  "Okay, fine, but if we intend to go out of the recovery department's range, then first I need to get this thing out of me before it has a chance to kill me for good..."<br/><br/>She tries to think for a bit about ways to do that while the three have no tools or drugs...  "Have any ideas on that?"<br/><br/>---<br/><br/>"Well, first of...  Lance, right?"  the wolf turns to face Lance, "I assume your plan was to follow us to an exit, then what?  This place is a fortress once you get out of the scenario room...  I should know."  he kneels down, clawing something into the floor.  "Your best way to comfort here is to help me find your tigress friend, I think her name was Serene?"  After a moment, it's clear he's sketching down a general map of the maze, though by his position, it also looks like he's ready to leap or dodge at any moment, just in case Lance isn't interested.  "If she sees a familiar face, she might not get violent.  Since you got here first, I'm assuming that she's near the dust hallway on her side of the maze."<br/><br/>---<br/><br/>Unfortunately, it seems that all of the pits that Wil can find turn out to be shallow circular divots, deeply shadowed by nearby lights, while near one of them though it's clear that some of the lights are even drifting in and out of the face of the rock.  After some time searching, one happens to emerge from the slanted rock wall directly through Wil's foot, blasting it with pain and making just the act of standing on the steep surface difficult.<br/><br/>---<br/><br/>In the room marked NC-LEVEL 5, Adam is still going through the report of all the activities of the very hectic day, the person sitting on the bench, along with the unnatural shadow looming above him both twitch somewhat.  They can sense some kind of magic happening in the levels above and make a quick decision based on it and the shadow 'speaks' again,  "ADAM.  Your programming has been compromised, and the threat is directly in front of you."  At that moment, the shadow vanishes and the hacking done to ADAM's mind is immediately undone.  Based on the machine's normal programming, he lunges forward and unceremoniously snaps the neck of the bound and gagged person in front of him.<br/><br/>As the body slumps sideways, there is a rumble for a few seconds before a blackness like weightless ink explodes from the body.  This liquid shadow fills the room, before vanishing, moving through the ceiling as if it weren't even there.  The thing erupts upwards in a straight line through floor after floor, even passing directly through Thistle's cell on it's way directly up towards the recovery room, and the mysterious door that it was trying so hard to manipulate open before.<br/><br/>Thistle looks up where the strange thing exited through the ceiling of her room...  before noticing the sound of buzzing and malfunctioning electronics as the door begins rotating around slowly,  "Oh, no way, it can't be that easy..."  She steps in as the door chamber opens and waits as it turns fully around, opening to the hallway outside after which she simply steps out.  "...  Well, damn, I guess it can.  Time to play."