You get robbed.The local crime syndicate has heard about the ZOO
and wants in on the acrion.Wlile you were admiring the costumes
12 masked men burst into the shop and roughed up the old man
(this is a SRU franchise)The old guy dissappeared with a pop and
the goons started loading up everything in three lorries
parked in front of the store.Across the whole complex teams of
masked men have seized control and are testing out the various tf
methods.In a month or so the Order plans to send bandits transformed
into dragons,werewolves,bears on crime sprees around the world.
They chose THIS day cuz President Bradley was going to open the
bird exhibit at the zoo.Theres already a team of armed men racing
towards the log cabin where the President and his family are staying.
Just to complicate things ,there are gunfights all over the complex
between the security staff and the invaders.That quickly comes to an
end when one of the bad guys dons one of the dragon suits,and after
the change stomps off to flame the good guys.
The masked men in the shop find you hiding behind a rack of costumes.
After taking your wallet they bind your hands and feet and carry
you down to the furnace room in the basement.It's dark and smoky and
damp in that huge room.After tossing you beside the old coal fired
furnace,they quickly leave.You lie there for hours,which the fire
in the firebox dying and coming back blazing everytime the feeder
feeds coal to the firebox.Above you you can here the intruders
talking thru a air shaft.They've loaded everything into the
trucks and B orders two of his men to clean up
the problem in the basement.As you hear the klik of
slides being drawn back you get worried.You need a
place to hide.The room is empty,but there is a iron grate
beside the boiler,a cover over a chute which leads down
into the sewers below the complex.In the old days the ashes
were shoveled down that chute.You barely wiggle under the grate,
but then your're free and you go sliding down the chute with a yell
BUMP
You are at the bottom and you scare away the rats.And you've bumped
into something.Its not a costume,it's a old dragon float,like the
chinese used to use in their parades.This one is old
and wormy and as you examine it you can see patches of fur and metal and plastic from old discarded costumes that were used to patch up
the float till it was finally discarded down in the tunnel.
One slight problem.The Orders forces used the tunnel to move to
targets and you can hear many voices,both normal,whinny and
gruff coming towards you.
You roll under the old float and try to be very inconspicuois.