"The way out of the hotel is just over there." Elsinta whispered to Rithler as the crouched behind some boxes. "Well? Why don't we just walk out?"Rithler asked is a manner that made his impatience very clear. They had already had to fight their way through dozens of splicers so far and he was getting sick of it. "You want to die by just running out there? Go ahead be guest!" Elsinta said in an irritated voice. "Ok so what do you think we should do?" Rithler asked now a little calmed down. "We need to clear the upper floors so no splicer shoots us from above and then we should be good to leave" she said all the while looking for an easier way up besides the staircase across the wide open lobby. After finding no alternative route Elsinta turned to Rithler "You must go to staircase across the lobby and clear upstairs alone." Is she God damn crazy! There's no way in hell that I'm running across a lobby with no cover then clearing three floors of splicers by myself. "Listen lady there ain't no way in hell you can get me to go up there alone!" "Then we must find you means of protection or other way around" Elsinta said starting to back track. Rithler took one last look at the lobby. Damn dame's going to get me killed.

"Here's a good spot" Elsinta said after almost two hours of searching. She was pointing to a hole in the floor above. "And how am I supposed to get up there?" Rithler asked "ughh do I have to point everything out for you? Push that dresser under the hole and jump up" Elsinta said actually indicating a cabinet. Rithler walked over and started to push the cabinet "you know…you got…a funny way… of dealing…with things..!Ah there we go" He climbed on top of the furniture piece and offered his hand down to Elsinta. "Or maybe" she said as she was being pulled up "you are not looking at things the right way." They both climbed through the hole and found themselves in one of the residential rooms of the hotel. Rithler went to check the bedroom while Elsinta went into the kitchen.

Jesus this place gives me the creeps…not that any place in Rapture now a days is a dream but this place just has an eerie silence to it. Just at the moment "James! JAMES!" Rithler rushed through the door and around the corner where the kitchen was to see a Splicer pinning Elsinta down with a pipe trying to crush her neck. "HEY!" Rithler thrust kicked the splicer right in the jaw which sent him a few feet away and dazed. Elsinta got up quickly and stood right next to Rithler reloading her Thompson. While the splicer was still on the ground Rithler took out his sawn-off and took a shot at the splicer. It hit him straight in the chest but only served to sober him up at that moment his disappeared in a blood red cloud of smoke. "Shit, are you alright!?" Rithler asked while looking around the corner to see where the splicer had gone. "Yes, I am thinking so" Elsinta said to distraught to worry about using functional English. "We need to find that son of a bitch before he gets the drop on us again." Rithler said still looking for the splicer throughout the room. Rithler turned to say something Elsinta but she quickly pointed behind him "There!" Rithler turned around just in time to see the crimson cloud condense. The Splicer appeared and tackled Rithler against the wall. Kneeling over him, the veins in the splicer's hands began to glow red which soon spread to the rest of his hands as they erupted in to flames. Rither could feel the heat coming from them as the splicer when to grab his face, but just as his face and the splicer's hands were about to touch the splicer was knocked of him by the stock of Elsinta's Thompson. While the splicer was getting up Elsinta took aim and shot him up with a few dozen rounds.

"Damn, little lady," Rithler said as he was getting up while Elsinta was standing over the now dead splicer "you sure do pack a punch." "Well, I do have the Sport Boost," Elsinta said, now facing Rithler and in an obvious tone. "I think it is time for you to get plasmid as well…"