The Ripley Building
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Grigg Heights [7, 50]
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The Ripley Building
Description
A marvel of 21st century design, and now a derelict metal-and-glass building whose facade is beginning to crumble, the Ripley Building was one of Malton's centerpieces of architecture before the outbreaks began. A condominium built for NecroTech employees in Grigg Heights and nearby suburbs of Owsleybank, The Ripley Building was to house those working in the Merson, Woodborne, and adjacent, Challes buildings. The choice of Grigg Heights was the best option for the realty developers who noted the suburbs distinct, peaceful jazz club-culture.
From the outside, The Ripley Building looks like a homogenous crystal spire that would not be out of place in a futuristic science fiction setting. This seemingly kitsch design hides the fact that it has four Olympic-sized swimming pools in floors 15 and 24, two gardens/greenhouses (floors 17 and 21), and five gymnasiums (floors 4 and 44). It also has 3 cybercafes, 7 restaurants (serving Italian, Greek, French, Japanese, Thai, Chinese, and Filipino cuisines), and an "Edge roller coaster" and "Skywalk" attraction (both of which extend from and retract back to the building depending on use).
The amenities and unusual design landed it on the cover of Malton Living, the premiere living magazine, a mere two months before the outbreaks began.
History
May 2005 - Grand opening of The Ripley Building. Grand dinner party in main ballroom. Free copies of Malton Living distributed. Two guests, a man and a woman, who broke off from the main gathering were about to do illicit activities noted a rush of air and buzzing lights coming "from the room beside 42E." Security personnel question the faculties of the two because there is no unit adjacent to 42E.
July 2005 - Outbreak begins, all NecroTech employees ordered to report to their areas of duty, families requested to stay indoors.
August 2005 - Shortage of supplies sends residents outside to scrounge. This coincides with a massive zombie attack.
April 2009 - Building remains derelict for almost four years as noted by several scouts and other survivors who passed by.
May 2009 - A former building employee, now a member of the Malton Exploration Team, visits her former place of work and notes that the building has been returned to its previous condition before the outbreak. Eerily, but expected, there was no one inside the building. After exploring floor after floor, she noted an oddity in the 42nd floor. One of the doors is right where the kitchen of room 42E is supposed to be. Also, she came across the room only by accident, looking at it through her peripheral vision. Direct gaze at the room resulted in her attention being drawn away from it. Approaching it obliquely, she twisted the doorknob and found it locked. A second twist, however, and it yielded.
After entering the door, she noted a huge room with a small console that had various displays, dials, and controls which made more sense for flying aircraft than for building administration. At this point she realized that there was no floor where she was standing on and noted two more doors leading farther from the center of the building.
One led to a hallway filled with more doors, while the other one opened to a library and living room.
At this point she was already more confused as this was already where the Burtoft Arms' 45th floor would have intersected. She failed to notice a rather tall man, seated on a chair enjoying Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections looking at her, who then good-naturedly asked, "Do you like my condo unit?"
Shocked she ran outside and went back to her safehouse but vowed to revisit the building and the mysterious room in the 42nd floor.
Barricade Policy
The building seems to have a mysterious method of adapting to outside environment, capable of barricading itself so that not even the combined hordes of Zambah Khan can ever enter or easily accessible whenever survivors are in need of a place to stay.
Current Status
Attempts to record the current status of The Ripley Building fail as it shifts from derelict to pre-outbreak state to contradict whatever is written down.
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