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- Something moved ahead of him, and he saw a squat, thickset shape roll out
- from a shadowed alcove. It was an ornate machine, plated with steel
- and sheathed with ceramic detailing—an elegant hotel service robot modeled
- on some arcane, pre-twentieth-century artistic ideal of what an
- automaton should be. It moved on fat gray tires, turning like a tall tank. A
- speaker grille presented itself to Saxon and spoke in Russian, then
- Farsi and finally English. "This area is off-limits to guests," it declared.
- "Proceed no farther."
- [...]
- Saxon's free hand closed around a cylindrical object on his gear vest and he
- tugged it free with a jerk of the wrist. By feel alone, he found the
- primer tab and pulled it. The weapon buzzed in response and Saxon threw it
- hard, diving for cover behind a damaged door.
- The Type 4 Frag-k grenade clanked off the casing of the robot and bounced
- to the carpet beneath it; a moment later the explosive core
- detonated, blasting the machine off its supports and into a smoking heap.
- - Deus Ex: Icarus Effect, Chapter 4 pgs. 118-119
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