The door slammed shut, and your heart sank a little. But you thought about it a little. This was a better option- at least, next to blindly wandering through whatever those ‘catacombs’ are…
You steeled your heart to the soft sound of bubbling chemicals and crackling electricity. Despite the menacing, rusty implements which would seem more at home in the hands of an OR surgeon, there was an odd sort of peace to be found there. As it so happens, you got curious, skimming the overcrowded cabinets, the cluttered countertops…
The door behind you slammed against the adjacent wall! faster than you could turn to see it- faster than you could scream, this blur of…something lunged at you. Faster than you could dodge, A jagged mess of bone sank into your neck.
You choked a wet gasp. Snarling, the creature tore off a thick chunk, gnashing a mouthful of sausage casing arteries.
Down your chest, soaking your pants, you felt this warmth all over. Just as your limbs slowed, then slowed more, then stopped, you were overwhelmed by this sensation of coldness- like the air rushing through the gnarled hole that was your esophagus.
“Ah!” Bolting through the doorway, Ygor scrambled after. Lab glass shattered on the ground in the slippery haste as he rounded a lab table. “Nononono-!”
Blood collected in the filthy grooves of the tile floor. And the traveler laid there too.