A tram rolls into the station of the Avean facility.

  Avean Tram
NOW ARRIVING AT: RESEARCH PLATFORM SEVEN


Sunny exits the tram with a small battery of Avean support workers.

  Avean Scientist
You hear? Squarck's big presentation is today.

  Avean Engineer
Ugh, waste of my pluckin' time. Can't believe they're forcing everyone to go.

Sunny
* I reckon it's enrichment for the top brass.
* Better to indulge the sad bastards, before they start feeling underappreciated and go stickin' their beaks in our process.

Jiro is skulking on the roof of the tram, crouched behind an antenna on the top.

  Avean Engineer
Helix, these trams are such clunkers.
I swear this one had something nesting in the roof. I could hear it scuttering around up there.

  Avean Scientist
Oh, yeah, I heard that too! I wonder what it--

Sunny
* --So!!
* Tell me more about this big event Squarck is fuckarounding with, why're we all moaning about it?

  Avean Engineer
Because it's boring and awful. No idea why she bothers with these.

  Avean Scientist
Maybe we've hit a milestone of some kind?
I know she's pretty big on her "positive reinforcement" theory of workplace productivity.

Sunny
* Righto, picture's gettin' painted for me now.
* Morale exercise designed by a fuckin' homunculus, tale as old as time.

Jiro scurries across the tram and hops up to an opening in an overhanging vent shaft. As he hoists himself in Sunny glances up to him, makes sure everything's going to plan.

Sunny
* Ah well. Least it gets us outta the labs...





—MISSION ???—

RESEARCH PLATFORM SEVEN



Jiro crawls through the vent. It's not very spacious in there, and the inner lining is cold and hard. Little dividers, where the sections of vent were welded together, bump against his knees and elbows while he pulls himself over them.



OBJECTIVE:



Splitscreen: Jiro grits his teeth and pushes onward. Meanwhile, Sunny walks ahead to see whatever Squarck's presentation is about..



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