"Er...hey there?"
The receptionist turns their foxy head and looks at you, but you can't tell if its the latex fox she's becoming or the poor trapped soul within. You take a gamble and address the person they were since the muffled noises they made suggest they were still struggling.
"I'm looking for a crazy scientist lady with a horde of latex slime beasts in tow. I'm sorry but I've no way to save you now, but if you can help me out, once I've beaten her I can come back and rescue you?"
There is a long pause before the half transformed fox points a paw towards a drawer.
"Mmpf mb quib" they mumble, before going back to trying to pull the slime off themselves with renewed vigour. Guess you've given them some hope.
You open the indicated drawer to find a swipe card on a lanyard, which you snatch up and race to the double doors leading deeper into the building.
With your little slime buddy alongside you you step through to find a corridor, with doors either side each labelled with bizare experiments that go on inside. The crazy scientist must be in one of these!