by Narrator » Fri Aug 23, 2019 4:01 pm
The two make their way to the door, towering above them with it's jumbled up letters on the window. It feels a little daunting to slip underneath what's basically a gigantic slab of wood suspended above them, but they make it through just fine. On the other side the hallway stretches off into the distance on both sides. What used to be decorative elements in the wood-paneled walls are suddenly cliffs and ridges on the side of a mountain, the potted plant far off in the corner a veritable forest. But what really draws their attention is one of the decorative suits of armor standing against the wall. Somebody has rearranged it, exchanging gloves and boots and arms and helmet into a jumbled combination, like a kid rearranging the limbs on an action figure.
Except it's not a kid. Numerous little robots are crawling over the suit of armor, stopping to point a scanning cone of light at parts before moving on. Dozens of them, slightly larger than Chase and Basil themselves if they had to guess. After a moment they seem satisfied with whatever it is they're doing and they begin climbing down to the ground and gathering together in a huddle. Some silent exchange of information seems to happen and after a moment they back away to form a circle, leaving one of them in the center. The isolated robot adjusts it's position, pushing itself a little further off the ground and then it's underside opens up, spilling a strange bubbling glow of particles that slide across the floor until the robots in the circle pick them up. And everything time do there's a small flash of light and they shrink down until the circle of robots has turned into a little speck of seemingly liquid metal.
Meanwhile the one dispensing the odd bubbling light shudders and incrementally grows with each bit of light that drops from it until it is almost a foot high.