"It's been a rough couple of hours, Agents. At about 2300 last night, the power went out across the whole facility. We're still not quite sure how that happened, since the generators are underground and they haven't been tampered with as far as we can tell. That's when we lost communications, which is why you guys were sent out here, I presume. The power outage also caused some experiment failsafes to stop working, and there was a small explosion down in the lab. When we heard the explosion in the guard building, a lot of us went to check it out. We discovered that the object this facility is built to study was missing. No one went in and got it as far as we can tell, since the only way down is through an elevator, and the guards at the top and bottom swear it never opened. We came back outside, and things just started exploding. We've been dealing with the explosions ever since. We think they were planted to keep us from following whoever took the ETC-1 object, but I don't know how we could have followed them anyway. The thing just vanished." As Timm catches you up to speed, the four of you follow him into the building and to the elevator. The guard at the door to the elevator starts to stop you, but when he sees you're with the LC, he lets you by. The elevator ride down is a long one, and when the doors open, more carnage is revealed.
" You're free to look around down here, and you can talk to any of the researchers down here as well. I'll wait for you upstairs." Bruce Timm steps back into the elevator, and the doors shut.
[spoiler] I'm going to run this bit pretty loose, and you all are free to go where ever you want down here, talk to people, snoop around the experiments, (or not snoop around), search for clues, whatever. I'll update the [urlhttp://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=3282.msg117470#msg117470]lab map[/url] to show where people are and what has been destroyed. Something may or may not happen down here while you are down here.....[/spoiler]