Skyscrapers & ... Groundscrapers? (OOC)

Works for me!

I think it is more important to get the characters together so we can play the game together than it is to worry about the bit of time it takes to get together. The Montage covers everything needed to get us to the state we aimed for.

I did consider ticking the clock as the price for the 6-, but I worry that that will cause 'problems later' and would rather have 'problems now' from this action.

You are together, but you need to start picking up the pace, there is a growing sense of urgency that is more than just the Cloud of Woe (or is that 'Cloud of Whoa!' for Herman?). I will hint at this urgency as we proceed.

We don't know that yet, no one checked. Herman would have to investigate.
We want your actions to be achievable, so the exact position of the elevator can be one of the conditions of your roll. You think it is where you want it to be (hard to tell in the dark with a flashlight) but may be wrong and will only find out when you get there, for instance.

or the elevator is in the basement already and the world is my oyster, nothing up my sleeves, Hocus Pocus.

This OOC (Out of Character) thread is for discussing out options and plans. Rolls are part of the roleplay, but need to come after you said what your character is doing and established the scene and the risks for the roll. See Don't placeholder (and possibly the rest of that Help! thread:).

Show us, in the RP, what your character is doing, what actions they take, and what their plans are, then roll if needed. We can keep this roll (once you roll we are all committed and there is no going back), so narrate your character's actions when they find the elevator shaft appears clear as far as they can see and perform their magic successfully. Show us what that is like for you.

Describe what happens. What is looks like if anyone can see it, and what it feels like.

• What energies are you channeling through your body and mind as you do this? Describe them.

It's your show. Dazzle us. :)

Moving around is as hard as it was to get from the doors to the elevators. The floor is at 45°, this one might be carpeted in places.

Correct. Might be 'mostly open-plan', I don't know.
Some of the cubicles and such a probably caught on the top side of the elevator shaft, and some may be hanging down the side if that helps you. Feel free to take the details I give you and add to them, like above.
From where you are, hanging out the 'bottom' of the elevator doors, it looks like just office stuff (dividers, computers, printers, copiers, etc) down on the unbroken windows.
You will need to get closer before you can tell much more.
You can only see the half of the building on your side of the elevators. You will need to climb down and out to see more.

You are looking down (I assume the elevator doors faced the entrance, which was 'down'), you can see the light from the windows coming past, but you can't see the 'top side' windows from inside the elevator shaft.

I don't know. It does not matter till it matters.

If you want to define such details, go for it.

Oopsie, I was ignoring the whole half of the building above us!! Art, Fiona you wanna use your fancy gloves move to where you can look skyward? There might be some corner or outer offices you could see in that direction.

Haha "Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe" ! A classic Three Stooges reference. Are the rest form the stooges too?

Catherine Costa Malot is a real French attorney. Dewey Cheatham I got from NPR's Car Talk — I didn't know about the Stooges callback! Yu Am Fook is my own.

I imagine them as a tax advisory law firm, commercial litigators, and white collar criminal defense.

I guess there also could be Nguyen Bigg, a personal injury firm …

Oh I love Car Talk! I miss it…

And I can’t believe that lawyer name is real. I love it!

From up here, Herman can not tell that there are caves, but Arthur and Fiona have both been down in them so they can guess. All any of your characters know for sure is that there are rocks and stuff —similar to those that were seen in the caves— in the building.

The players know that there are caves like before so they can narrate their characters engaging with the landscape without needing to wait.

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They are rocks. You can scramble down on them without climbing gear. It may get dangerous later, but for now you can manage with a little effort.

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For clarity and ease of reading it is better to use punctuation and full sentences, just like in a book. So something like:
'"Oooh rad! Something weird to check out." Herman says sarcastically.'
And, of course that sarcasm is purely for illustrative purposes. :)

Your scanner suggested it did not have the range to find the core from where you were. It was not below, so it must be above.

Ah yes, that makes sense. Thank you.

You rolled a 9, so we can say Fiona works out, correctly, what happened...
• What is the worst possible answer (from the character's point of view), that truth can be the price?