...rain begins to fall...
A flash of lightening rips through the sky, followed momentarily by an ear-splitting crack of thunder. The patter of the rain seems to fade for the thunder's rumbling death, then picks back up when the sky goes silent. The rain falls harder and harder, eventually turning into a torrent; the only sound that can be heard is the steady, bassy drumming of water hitting ground in all directions.
Reet's Retreat stands tall in the rain. Despite the power of the storm, the nightclub seems to turn it's nose up at the weather, announcing to the world of Rubi-Ka that it still stands, ready for anything.
...anything indeed.
Inside the club, the rain can hardly be heard. The hallways are silent, with the occasional echoed thump and moan from the vent shafts in their constant straining to keep the air currents of the giant building regulated.
Each hallway connects to at least two others, a veritable maze that, inevitably, leads to a final destination.
The GSP Lounge. Glass dance floor. The room itself is enormous, but carries little more echoed noises than the hallways leading in.
The lights are dimmed. The room is empty. Travelling from the bottom dance floor to the top seems like traversing the rampway into an unused aircraft hangar. Devoid of life. Too large to be so empty. Eerily...
Quiet?
A slight click is heard in the back section of the top floor. There, amongst the social tables opposite the glass-floor bar. A single man sits looking at something:
A small device the size of his palm, resembling two miniature turntables purely for appearance, but also containing a large sequence of command buttons and sensor pads. The man pulls off the thick-covered headphones and places them on the table, then clicks once on one of the buttons on the small hand device.
The HUD display in his viewer lights up with one more sensor reading amongst the mess of bioscanners in his NCU. It's a small digital readout, across the bottom of his vision, and stands out in stark contrast to the rest of the dimmed nightclub.
TIMER STARTING FROM: 1:00 PM EDT
TIME OF LTK DEVIANT FRIDAY NIGHT: 8:00 PM EDT
TIME REMAINING: 6 HRS 55 MINS. . . .
A Night of A Thousand Dances...
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