"Faw needs to eat more fiber," Uberbob said to no one in particular as we waited for the green ferret or whatever he was to come back. I leaned against the wall, just to the side of the circular passageway in the floor that L33tz4n had just opened. Looking down it I saw a ladder leading into a dark, dank tunnel several feet below.
At long last, Fawriel returned. "Had to go that bad, huh?" Uberbob inquired.
"Had to save," Fawriel replied angrily.
"There's no shame in having bowel irrugularities, Faw," Uberbob said in a strangely sincere tone. This whole stupid conversation seemed oddly familiar to me. Uberbob spat out some more phrases from laxitive ad campaignes, until Fawriel shoved past him and went down the ladder in front of me. Uberbob shrugged, winked at Araches for some reason, then followed behind Faw.
Araches glanced over at me and smiled. "Ladies first, hon."
To the East was the large hole in the wall that Fawriel and L33tz4n had knocked open during their battle the previous night. It led into the hallway. The room I was in was a secret room the Birdclaw Brothers had used to activate locks and traps set throughout the mansion, which were controlled by a computer disguised as a painting. L33tz4n had used it to disarm the traps and open a passage that allegedly led to some other part of the mansion we couldn't reach before, so I guess that's where we were going.
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