There was a plaque by the door declaring the name of this building, but it's illegible now, half-ruined and half-veiled by greenery. Inside, you find what used to be a wide lobby with high ceilings. There are stands dotted across the floor, some of them still mostly intact; it looks like they might have once held artifacts on display, but every glass case atop of them has been shattered and whatever was inside taken. A visitor's desk is half crushed beneath rubble from the floor above. In some places, there are craters in the floors or gaping holes in the wall that looks like something smashed through with brute force; in other places, there are char marks and ash as if there were fires and explosions. All throughout, sprouting from cracks in the construction and holes from the destruction alike to overtake every available surface are vines, weeds, flowers, shrubbery, even a tree grown so tall it threatens to push through the ceiling to the floor above.
The door to the stairwell has been ripped off its hinges, but the stairs inside look usably intact. There are only stairs going up, even though the empty elevator shaft nearby clearly goes down. ]
[ inside, one of the walls of the shaft as well as the elevator carriage itself are all smashed up. it has incidentally left a pile of wreckage that eventually slopes down to a floor below. there are some jagged metal bits involved that you wouldn't want to fall on, but you could probably find decent enough footholds to climb down pretty safely if you wanted. ]
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INSTITUTE LOBBY
There was a plaque by the door declaring the name of this building, but it's illegible now, half-ruined and half-veiled by greenery. Inside, you find what used to be a wide lobby with high ceilings. There are stands dotted across the floor, some of them still mostly intact; it looks like they might have once held artifacts on display, but every glass case atop of them has been shattered and whatever was inside taken. A visitor's desk is half crushed beneath rubble from the floor above. In some places, there are craters in the floors or gaping holes in the wall that looks like something smashed through with brute force; in other places, there are char marks and ash as if there were fires and explosions. All throughout, sprouting from cracks in the construction and holes from the destruction alike to overtake every available surface are vines, weeds, flowers, shrubbery, even a tree grown so tall it threatens to push through the ceiling to the floor above.
The door to the stairwell has been ripped off its hinges, but the stairs inside look usably intact. There are only stairs going up, even though the empty elevator shaft nearby clearly goes down. ]
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. . . She goes to the elevator shaft and peeks down to see if there's anything visible from where she's at or if there's a way down from here.
Though maybe she should go up? That man...Solomon, he's staying here? ]
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. . . She is supposed to find a walker though. For now... she will take the stairs, and will consider this bit later.
She can't imagine that man climbing down here after all.
So to the stairs. ]
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as she goes through the lobby her fingers trace over anything she passes, as if just... trying. to get anything from the broken objects.
she takes her time, but eventually she comes to the elevator shaft.
Time to just jump right down it. ]
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