[ChicletPrime]

9. Rising Curtains

• a laser sight while we're dancing? everybody is being so rude lately.
  
• nice, they think we're going to fall into their trap by leaking the location of the aether core. oh. yeah. i read that story just yesterday -- will this trap hold the weight of a starship, is the real question.
  
• eight evol bombs, fifteen Hightower guns... yeah, i think they have it in for you, Mr Leader of Onychinus Who Is On Technically Shaky Ground
  
• and the lights start to dim. hey, still dancing here!
  
• "Don't worry, you won't die that easily." what the hell is that supposed to mean? hey. if i have a whole core and not just part of a core, do i get to form and reform like Sylus? or is that something else again unique to him?
  
• great, they set off at least one of the bombs and collateral damage is something they can spell but have insurance for.
  
• he crushes something and throws it in the debris? red herring?
  
• the detonator. wow. THIS GUY.  "they were taking too long and i was getting impatient."
  
• Wanderers ahoy!
  
• hey, this gun is not outdated! this is straight from the Hunters Association, and it work FINE.
  
• and this gun is supposed to be superior? i would scoff, but i'm busy right now making sure your fine coat doesn't get shredded.
  
• we've been reduced to threatening henchmen with guns. Sylus really brings out my basest instincts, doesn't he?
  

10. Abandoned Memory

• i've been fooled before on the chapter titles, but this looks promising.
  
• wow, is that the Deepspace Tunnel? that's terrifying.
  
• unclear if we're still at the Solon Hotel. I'm going to guess not? one elevator ride later, we're at the remnants of an abandoned medical facility at the top of something, open to the sky.  yup, EVER's discarded things. was this where they did terrible things to me? and Caleb?
  
• how could they be involved in the N109 zone?  WE ARE SO NAIVE.
  
• before the Chronorift Catastrophe, N109 was the tech hub. i think i knew that.  did whatever EVER was doing here call down/open the Deepspace Tunnel and shattered the place?  because that rift is RIGHT OVERHEAD.
  
• and Sylus outright calls me naive. thank you. i'm glad we are in agreement on this at least.
  
• good point. it was only an actual catastrophe here.
  
• i did not realize the tunnel was so close in the atmosphere. the original cinematic, it looked it had opened really far away from the planet.
  
• hey, another one of those plinths. a Flux Nexus thingie.
  
• TIME TO RESONATE. don't fail me now, heart.
  
• oh shit.
  
• whatever it was, its coming through the vortex!
  
• eeek!
  

okay, notes say the abandoned research facility was on the top of the hotel. was the hotel like, a front? seems a weird place otherwise.