"Tasu, I think I might be okay to stand on my own." Delilah shakes her head, clearing the cobwebs of what she can tell now was a mild concussion.  She slides off of Tasu's shoulders and stands upright, if a little wobbly.  "Besides, you might be laying that egg any day now.  You don't want to strain yourself too hard."<br/><br/>Something about the way she says that brings up the tiniest flash of a memory, Delilah in a lab coat looking down.  "You'll have to forgive the sedatives, you don't want to strain yourself too hard."  He could see the scales on her hands, but she was free in the memory...  Working with the doctors.  Something that seems to support this strange Feign's claims.<br/><br/>"Ah, I found A button.  Err, stand back a bit, I on't know what kind of mechanism this thing has." Feign is looking at the table where the bottle of liquor was sitting, it had been concealing a button recessed into the surface.<br/><br/>---<br/><br/>As could be expected, there isn't any response to Serene's talking, though after a moment of wandering, she gets to an intersection in the maze.  As she approaches, there is a noise from down the left hand path, sounding distinctively like Lex's voice, though muffled by something.  The muffled screams sound a bit panicked, though there isn't the telltale slurping of the slime in any direction.  It seems that they are safe from that at least for now.<br/><br/>---<br/><br/>lance has to wander for a little while on the outside of the maze before finding an access doorway to the main facility, thankfully, not long enough for the illusion to fade.  Unfortunately, there is another one of the hand scanning locks next to the door just like the one in the airlock.<br/><br/>Just beyond the sealed door, however is something strange.  It looks like part of the maze intersected with the outside wall while it was altered.  the stone seems to have been pushed aside in big chunks, revealing the white wall of the main corridor.  The wall itself seems to be healing slowly like the maze, but is still thin enough that it could be broken through with a good hit with something solid.<br/><br/>---<br/><br/>The elevator shaft has some spinning red lights inside, pretty obviously showing that whatever security system there was in this shaft had already been tripped.  Even though the alarm lights are a little disorientating, they effectively light what looks like the entire way up the shaft, and from them it's pretty clear that there aren't any guns or other active defenses to face on the way up.  As for climbing, there isn't a ladder, though one of the cable bundles close to the wall is easily large enough to grip, and with a little testing, proves to also be able to hold Wil's full weight.  From the looks of it, the cable goes all the way to the top of the shaft.  Not an easy climb, but definitely possible.<br/><br/>---<br/><br/>Kine chuckles a little at Mac's question, as if it's obvious.  "Where'd I get these...  How should I say dis.  Not a lotta people linein' up for a job where ya never see the sun, yanno?  but it sure does appeal ta me."  he heads off down the hall with the fairy over his shoulder.  "I'm a fifth generation of the Brujah clan, though I'm sure that means nothin to ya.  You'd do best to forget you know that too, once you see the surface again."<br/><br/>He seems a little too busy talking to notice Thistle lazily open her eyes, looking up pitifully at Mac from her position.  Even though she's awake, it looks like she's nowhere near able to move her body yet.  "Yeah, all you gotta know down here's that the Project keeps me well fed, and I don't ask questions."