Ingame
You are inside a classroom of Pridmore Way School, a high school. Every wall has shelves built to the ceiling, every surface a book on it. Both make narrow walking corridors of the classroom floor space. Lamps hung from the ceiling make buzzing noises as they sectionally light the room. Also here is Ross (55HP).
Somebody has written the library has no organizational structure onto the door, to borrow or lend is theft or generosity onto a shelf, and answers are administered to questions irregularly onto the floor. Many are signed as the management, some crossed-out, others not.
- You say, "Why don't they wander about aimlessly?" You wanted to know 'why' but Ross answers with 'how,' which makes you believe the answer can only be mechanistic; it is not sensible to assign purpose to vacant minds; they are simply dead. Someone with an analogy would describe it as water flowing over or sometimes between rocks in a stream to a pool and collecting there, the collection released only when someone disturbs the pool's boundary.
(You nod at Ross' ending question.)
Since your last turn:
- • Ross says "As I said, no survivors around." (1 minute ago)
- • The lights flicker and buzz. (1 minute ago)
- • Ross says "I can tell you they wandered about in the past, and still do, occasionally, when they sense no survivors." (1 minute ago)
- • Ross says "But then they find a place, or walk into one accidentally, and say it's a wall and they lean against it, and don't move for years." (49 seconds ago)
- • Ross says "Or one of their legs gives and they fall, and the way their body is crumpled is the way their body lays for years." (36 seconds ago)
- • Ross says "Or someone who recently died and turned was in the seat of a car, or in a body bag, or wedged between heavy things. And since nothing made them move, they laid that way for years until something bumped against the car, tripped over the body bag, or caused the heavy things to fall over; and then they made their first movement." (20 seconds ago)
- • Ross says "Do you understand?" (5 seconds ago)
Possible actions:
- "How is everyone doing?" "Are you certain Sam is coming back?" "Why is Doug sick?" "What's your opinion on Volker?" "Why are the lights flickering? Who's on the radio?" "Do you know who the other group is?" "What's your opinion on Pridmore?" "What kind of place is Latrobe, exactly?" "How did the world get like this?" "I'm done asking questions."
Inventory:
- You carry a knife; a journal and a notebook; a bloodied radio and a flare gun. You have a shotgun (2), a pistol (12) and three spare magazines inside your vest pouches. You are wearing a tactical vest, blue jeans, a white T-shirt and a pair of shoes.
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User:A Helpful Little Gnome
