Scene 1: What are you waiting for?

Your party makes its way quietly into the elevator, and one of you presses the button to send it down to the floor below, to Sub-Level 1.

There is a frustrating, nerve-wracking difference between your attempts to move stealthily, speak quietly, and the jarringly-loud clanking of the elevator as its door closes, and takes you down to the next level.

The door opens into the vehicle unloading and cargo bay - one of the larger open spaces in the colony. The sub-levels of the colony are always dark and smelly. In this space the smell is grease and chemicals and damp fabric and a hint of mould. The ceiling here is high, to enable work on top of the biggest vehicles run at the base - Hannah's tractor is one of them.

There is one other tractor in here, of a similar model to Hannah's - but you can see that its motor has been removed from it. The motor lies in several pieces on the floor nearby.

The lighting down here isn't working well - several of the overheads are burnt out, and others are flickering irregularly, causing shadows to come and go.

Emerging from the elevator, in the same wall is a doorway that leads to a corridor towards the mass housing and the main storerooms - which is where the recorded repeating message was telling you to assemble for safety.

In the far left corner of the room, as you emerge from the elevator, is a large door that leads towards the vehicle bay and the ramp that leads to the main vehicle entrance.

Apart from a dripping sound, and a flapping tarp, you hear nothing but the sounds of your own breathing, and your hearts...

You make your way down the corridor towards the entrance to the mass housing and storage section. As you get closer you can hear the air purification system running much faster than usual, and you can smell smoke coming from ahead of you. You can also smell... chaos...? Death...? A smell of bodily fluids, growing stronger as you approach - but mixed also with an acrid smell that dominates in your mouths, noses, eyes, and throats over the smell of smoke.

As you come up to the door, you can see that it's partially closed - but not completely. A leg is protruding out into the corridor, and seems to have stopped the door from closing completely.

And in the corridor ahead of you - if you were to keep moving straight ahead and past this door, there are crimson drag marks, and many speckles and some thick lines of what looks like blood leading down the passage.

As Singleton comes to the door, she can see through into the space beyond.

And what she sees is even worse than she might have imagined. She sees mayhem and chaos and slaughter and blood. So much blood. Everywhere.

The room has been destroyed. The door she sees ahead of her has been torn apart. Ceiling and floor and air vents have been shredded. Some mutilated bodies - some torn-off-seeming body parts - can be seen strewn around the room. And more - many more - drag marks - up walls, across the floor. In the floor, there are several sections that seem to have melted. Still fizzing with some kind of liquid - an acid? - around the edges. She can also see smoke from several smouldering fires.