[PART 8b: REBEL] / if you chose to help
[If you came to the building, Sentience will be joining you there soon enough, running on short legs and looking around, measuring. Taking stock of everyone here.]
This is good. Better than I expected. Let's go.
[Sentience steps forward and once again blinks a flashing light pattern at the door, which opens for it. It waves everyone to run through with it. This time the building contains only two or three robots, and Sentience ignores them, hurrying through to the elevator.]
[Unlike the one from before and the ones in the shelter, this elevator moves fast -- the moment the doors close it drops abruptly, speeding to the bottom at a pace so unsettling that it's hard to keep on your feet. Sentience appears unaffected by the speed, and warns them]
The supercomputer housing the warden intelligence is located in the building directly underneath the shelter -- in the center of the dome. We have to head straight there, and then it should be similar to before. There aren't as many robots here and Acumen will probably be forced to act through them instead of directly, but they are very powerful.
Thank you all for coming this far.
[The elevator slows only shortly before reaching the bottom. As the doors open, Sentience gathers itself.]
...Run.
((OOC: If your character delayed in getting here or went to explore or just plain doesn't feel like helping, you have no way of getting to the elevator! Sentience needs to open the door. So there are any number of reasons why your character could end up exploring instead of participating in the endgame. Please pick one!))
((Your character can try to network communicate with characters who are exploring, but remember that they're going to be distracted and mid-stressful situation when you tag!))