Re: Act 5.5.3 - The Grand Hotel
Relative local time: About 20 minutes before the meeting
Location: Grand Hotel Lobby
Before Dohr can respond the pair feel the floor beneath them tremble. It's only a slight tremor to begin with but it's soon followed by another, much stronger tremor, then another, and then the floor itself is wrenched violently under their feet, tilted at a surreal angle.
The sound of roaring explosions and shattering transparisteel windows continue above them, screams echo around them and from above there is a horrible groaning sound that echoes through the lobby for a few awful seconds before the roof starts caving in and debris rains down.
The woman behind the counter is crushed to death by a piece of falling building.
Location: Café Starcreds
Kyvarr is sitting patiently at the café waiting for her friend when the ground rocks. Every one of her senses is alight as the ground rocks again, and then again, before the windows several storeys up blow out. Those windows are transparisteel; blaster bolts bounce off them. Further up the building more windows blow out, and up and up again, the whole edifice leaning dangerously to one side.
There is a horrible moment, a quiet pause, and then with a series of booming cracks the hotel building begins to crumble, collapsing against a nearby skyscraper and falling in massive chunks of plascrete and durasteel that rain down bloody death onto the streets below.
Location: Local Traffic
CC9 and Sheila are sitting in their taxi. It's a modern droid-taxi - a vehicle with a custom-programmed droid brain controlling it - and with the slightest of jolts the two can tell when it disconnects from the automated speeder flight paths and starts heading toward the hotel's 128th floor.
They see the hotel out the window when the blasts rip it apart, the entire structure crumbling, and the taxi immediately swerves away. The taxi's droid 'driver' shrieks through the speaker grille, "Evasive manoeuvres! EVASIVE MANOEUVRES!" In seconds the taxi is darting about the sky as best it can - but the machine is built for efficiency and economy, not agility. A heavy impact across one side sends it spinning, the repulsorlifts firing wildly to try and stabilise the vehicle.
Even so, looking out the window the pair can see that an explosion has gone off every six floors or so, tearing the building to pieces even as it continues to fall.
Devon, Heigren and Flash are just coming up alongside the hotel when the explosions start and, from that unenviable position, are in a prime position to watch.
This message was last edited by the GM at 05:00, Thu 19 Dec 2013.