The Rat in the Maze (Poofless-esque)

Discord

You search frantically around you and you notice an air vent winding through the dark void above the ceiling. Quietly, carefully, you punch another tile out of the ceiling and jump up to grab the little white metal bar between the two missing tiles. With every molecule of adrenaline in your body, you somehow persuade your muscles to pull you up, and you feel self-satisfied and proud of yourself until you feel the metal bar bending under your weight. Like a cockroach running from the light, you awkwardly scramble over to the next white beam before you reach up toward the metal tubing connecting to the air vent. You feel like a rat burrowing its way through someone's house, avoiding BB guns and deadly snap traps along the way.

Inside the ceiling, you still can't find a way into the vent, but there is enough room to crawl along on it. You resign yourself to your fate and hang like a sloth on the air vent, slowly skittering your way through the gaps in the walls toward the middle of the building, sighing in frustration every time you realize you have taken another wrong turn. Navigating this shit takes a skill set you obviously don't have.

You stop to rest halfway to your destination when you realize how quixotic your mission is. Where the hell are you even going? This shithole is like a maze with scores of rooms and thousands of people hiding in millions of different places. But contacting him might be too dangerous. What if his phone isn't on silent and it gives him away? Would you be able to live with yourself if you were the reason he got killed? Would you ever know?

Should you try contacting Preston to find out where he is?

Calling him is too risky; keep going until you think of another plan - go to Contortionist

It's a necessary risk - you would never find him otherwise - go to Obey