The walk down the stairs to the secret basement is creepy. Seriously creepy. And dark. The house creeps ominously as the dim light of the library fades behind her. There’s a sharp shudder from upstairs as the roof collapses. Still, Lumina descends into the heart of the manor and the secrets held within.

Vincent has left -- presumably in pursuit of the scientist. Or maybe it’s just that he’s got survival instincts and a hatred of creepy mansion basements. Either way, Lumina finds herself alone with the strange, echoing hum of some distant machinery as she enters the basement hallway. To her left is a room of files, and up ahead, there’s an abandoned bedroom. Still, there’s something familiar about this place and about that sound. That hum…

She’s heard it before.

There’s a crash up ahead and the shattering of glass on metal. As she turns the corner, she enters what appears to be a dimly lit laboratory. There are desks cluttered with paperwork and ransacked files. There’s all manner of whirring gears and mysterious switches. Tall glass cylinders line the wall, each filled with a strange efflorescent fluid. A few of these containers have human forms inside of them, suspended unconscious in the goo.

Those sounds. That smell.

In that moment, Lumina remembers. The damp stains on her dress had come from here. The glass shattered on her outfit matches the glass shards on the floor of a busted glass container. She’d been kidnapped when she wasn’t paying attention, grabbed into the shadows, and then she’d woken up here. Her captors hadn’t expected her power, however, and then she’d…

Well, what she did next is still a mystery, but she’s been here before for sure. At the far end of the lab, a woman with red hair (Cissnei) is swinging a metal pipe at one of the glass containers. Another one is half empty and draining with a man sputtering to life inside of it. Across the room is a blonde mercenary who seems to have also only just arrived.

These three souls have found the heart of the manor as well as its captured prey. As the fire rages above them, there isn’t much time left if they hope to escape it with their lives in tow.

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