Oddity in .hack//Liminality vol 2
Azure Kite
meets the woman (Asaba?) who tells her she works "up on the second floor",
but after the two go through a few doors and a crawlspace and finally force
an elevator open.Heres how it is described
Tokuoka and Mai are on their way to meet with Yuki (known to The World as
Yukichin), who is in Yokohama. Tokuoka gets stuck in traffic, and Mai goes
to the library in Tokyo to attempt to look up information. During this time,
she hears the sound. Meanwhile, Yuki is watching a movie when suddenly THE
WORLD flashes on the screen, the power goes out, and the employees attempt
to evacuate the building. Yuki runs into an unnamed woman (in the episode;
the credits list her name as Asaba) who works at the building, and the two
try to find their way out while the crowd gets stuck on the broken
escalators. The two eventually resort to climbing through a ventilation
shaft to a hallway with an elevator. After an air conditioner malfunctions
and starts sending out carbon dioxide, the woman rips off her shirt sleeves
and makes mittens for both of them to slide down the elevator cables. At the
same time, Tokuoka is finding his way to the meeting point without his car,
as it's still trapped in gridlock, and Mai is using an old offline newspaper
reel to look up information. She comes across Harald Hoerwick (the creator
of The World), and the Epitaph of Twilight. Later, she contacts Kyo, and
finds out that fires have broken out all over Yokohama, and that there is no
cell phone service there either. Yuki and the woman find themselves at the
bottom of the shaft, and it seems that the woman has twisted her ankle.
If the woman worked "up on the second floor", why did they have to slide
*down* multiple floors in the elevator shaft to get back out?Werent they on
the ground floor to begin with?