[ Nenonen doesn't know what starts it, but one day, there are alarms. Lights. A loud voice that drones over and over,
WARNING. WARNING. WARD BREACH IN SECTION C. REACTOR MELTDOWN. WARNING. PLEASE PROCEED TO THE NEAREST EXIT. WARNING...
It's nonsensical at first. A ward has been breached...? Meltdown? Nen barely has enough time to wonder how before the door to their room opens automatically. Beyond it is chaos: Fatui researchers and scientists running down the halls, guards missing from their posts. Red lights flash in warning as Nenonen steps beyond the threshold of their room; an explosion rocks the building and they're swept up into the crowd of people running before they know it.
The rest is a blur. Somehow, they make it to the surface. For the first time, Nenonen feels sunlight on their skin. Sees the sky.
One of the technicians makes it with them. They travel together for a bit, but at some point it's clear that Nenonen's been left behind. The very first town they happen upon, the technicians claims they need to find one of their "contacts" and...that's the last they see of them. They hear talk of a scuffle with some sort of burglar the next day in town, and wait. And wait. And wait, until it doesn't make sense to anymore.
Nenonen spends a few more days in the town to see if any of the others show up, but after the sun rises on the fifth they decide to eke out on their own. They wander far out beyond the borders of the village and out into rolling hills covered in grass and think,
This is definitely better than the lab. Even if it is weird to be on their lonesome. ]
Kabukimono
WARNING. WARNING. WARD BREACH IN SECTION C. REACTOR MELTDOWN. WARNING. PLEASE PROCEED TO THE NEAREST EXIT. WARNING...
It's nonsensical at first. A ward has been breached...? Meltdown? Nen barely has enough time to wonder how before the door to their room opens automatically. Beyond it is chaos: Fatui researchers and scientists running down the halls, guards missing from their posts. Red lights flash in warning as Nenonen steps beyond the threshold of their room; an explosion rocks the building and they're swept up into the crowd of people running before they know it.
The rest is a blur. Somehow, they make it to the surface. For the first time, Nenonen feels sunlight on their skin. Sees the sky.
One of the technicians makes it with them. They travel together for a bit, but at some point it's clear that Nenonen's been left behind. The very first town they happen upon, the technicians claims they need to find one of their "contacts" and...that's the last they see of them. They hear talk of a scuffle with some sort of burglar the next day in town, and wait. And wait. And wait, until it doesn't make sense to anymore.
Nenonen spends a few more days in the town to see if any of the others show up, but after the sun rises on the fifth they decide to eke out on their own. They wander far out beyond the borders of the village and out into rolling hills covered in grass and think,
This is definitely better than the lab. Even if it is weird to be on their lonesome. ]