Hammer tells you they were saying something about needing more bio power.
Dr. Matsuhara says they must mean they need more biological tissue to power their device, whatever it is. There's only one place they can get that: The Biological Experimentation Lab.
You head out, with Dr. Nuna and Dr. Matsuhara leading the way.
Then you see the trail left behind. Security lay on the ground as you go. One thing you notice is that they all seem to have been taken down with non-lethal means, primarily sleeping gas or tangler grenades, though a few guards twitch from the effects of stun guns. Some of their weapons have been taken from them.
When you reach the entrance, it is locked. Dr. Matsuhara takes you to the observation room, where you look down at the sight below.
The Biological Experimentation Lab is a large, round room about 100 feet in diameter. The observation room looks down through one way glass onto the room. The center of the room is where the experiments are performed. Ringing the room are a number of cylinders containing various types of biological samples, as well as numerous containers and metal carts that would provide decent cover.
That is, until Dr. Nuna gasps and says, "If any of those samples are broken, they could lead to a biological contamination that could kill everyone in the facility, maybe even cause a plague that would sweep the planet."
In the center of the room, a table with straps sits with the Sphere on top. The slab is usually used to hold down experimental lab creatures, but now it holds the Sphere and two large metallic jars with wires coming out of them. The robot is setting up the wires to attach to the Sphere and the device Teliko was working with earlier.
Her bodyguards have been engaged in using a welding torch to seal the entrance closed.
Teliko now has two military issue rifles in her hands. In a chair next to her, a Vrusk is tied up on the ground.
"That's Dr. Velkyss," Dr. Matsuhara says. "He runs the biological experiments in the lab."
Teliko pauses and then looks up with her goggled eyes at the place in the observation deck where you spy down at her.
"I see you up there," she calls to you. "These are not fashion accessories. Do not come down or in any way attempt to interfere. I have run out of non-lethal weaponry, so from here on out, it's serious business. Leave us be, and we will be gone before you even knew we were here."
The robot continues to connect the two metal jars.
Dr. Velkyss, weakened and distraught, says, "You mustn't disturb the samples. This is a quarantined area."
"Yes," Teliko says as she lifts a device from Dr. Velkyss' robe. "Quarantine. Exactly what I want." She hits a button, and alarms suddenly blaze. A deep computerized voice says:
QUARANTINE INITIATED. ALL PERSONNEL RESTRICTED. CONTAINMENT FIELDS INITIATED.
Your room seems to darken a bit, and you realize it is because quarantine walls are lowering just outside, locking you in.
GEOMETRY OF THE ROOM:
For planning purposes, here is what you are looking at:
Think of two concentric circles.
The lab room is about 20 feet tall, with two observation decks, one on either side. Each observation deck has a 20 foot long one way observation window. The floor of each observation deck is about 10 feet off the ground. Stairs lead down from both observation decks to an entry into the lab, and then back up again to the next observation deck. Both these doors have been barred and sealed by Teliko's men.
Teliko has her human bodyguard, her alien bodyguard, and the robot.
Dr. Velkyss is tied up about 5 feet from the table in the center of the room. The center area is about 20 feet in diameter (the clear area). The rest of the room contains concentric circles of the experiments in cylinders, metal carts, and other containment systems that do not rise more than about 8 feet off the ground. You could weave in and out of the samples or hide behind them, but you don't know which ones are contaminents and which ones are not. (Percentages will be rolled for the effect of each exposed sample.)