D2 -LA - Starport Recon

[Thomas Moreno]

If nothing was found Thomas would attempt the handle, might as well proceed if nothing prevented it.

[Comstar]

Nothing was there out of place, no signs of activity.

When he pushed the handle, a wheezing alarm began to sound, giving strangely out of tune whoops, an emergency alert, but one that had been pitch shifted downward until it sounded like it was submerged in water.

A handful of emergency lights flickered on, casting the room and stairway in baleful shadow. The stairs seemed to be intact, the columns not exposed to the weather.

[Karlotta Roth]

"More likely a function of the building. Strange, though, usually you can take the emergency stairs as only stairs if they are the only ones in a building. Those were some really sedentary people."
She frowns.
"Stay alert. Anyone in this building knows we are here now."

[Dr. Reinhardt]

"Not only that, emergency exits aren't normally alarmed from the exiting side. Those doors should be designed to funnel people toward this room, not away from it, in an emergency, unless there is a second exit from the stairwell."

[Jan Novak]

Jan was not too perceptive. Still, he looked around in a casual data-seeking exercise to have something to work with, largely unphased by the alarm, whatever it portended. Hello, damage to the anterior cingulate cortex and corpus callosum.

[Comstar]

The building did not answer - there were some emergency exit doors as well, but the stairway itself was... not very pretty. Perhaps they just wanted people to use the elevators so they didn't have to install fancy stairs?

Hard to say now that the architect had been dead for at least 300 years.

The alarm continued to blare in that strange, low pitched alert.

[Felicity]

Outside the building Felicity used her Comm Kit to message the foot team.

"You all okay in there? Any findings?"

[Karlotta Roth]

"Yeah. We found out which floors were used for what and triggered an old building system." She answers on her communication kit.

"Maybe it is sounding an alarm on every floor, assuming people would only using the stairs on an emergency."

[Dr. Reinhardt]

"Well shall we start with floor two then?" The doctor patiently waits for security to clear the stairs before using them.

[Felicity]

"Copy. We're outside and keeping watch."

Felicity switched to the frequency the mechs were using to update them. The alarm was nothing to worry about. Probably.