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, "What kinds of people stayed here?" You feel as though only certain people could stay in places like Pridmore for long. With safety and survival, and trying to keep safe and trying to survive, made into one unmoving unit, what more would there be to do than to feed the body for purpose only of feeding the body?
Since your last turn:
- • Ross says "Anyone, really." (2 minutes ago)
- • Ross says "I've stayed in a safehouse like this once before, St. Theodore's Church. It wasn't very long." (2 minutes ago)
- • Ross says "It wasn't as large as Pridmore nor as established. Nonetheless everyone had developed a singular habit." (2 minutes ago)
- • Ross says "There was a long hall paralleling one side of the building, and most of the time, if people weren't sleeping or doing something that otherwise required them to stay still, they would pace from one end to the other. They often had headphones over their ears, with the cords dangling and not plugged into anything." (1 minute ago)
- • Ross says "While they paced they never spoke, never looked at you, but always were aware of your presence yet never reacted to it except to avoid collision. They weren't really there with you to a greater degree than the physical fact that they were there with you." (1 minute ago)
- • Ross says "They simply paced." (1 minute ago)
- • Ross says "It seemed to be the thing to do. I stood by the side, and sometimes gave it a try." (45 seconds ago)
- • Ross says "I suppose the function was to alleviate boredom, or for exercise; or it was just the only available response for the need to do something. They had to have something to go towards, not for the end result—'the something'—but the proceeding to the something. For them it was getting to the end of the hall, turning around, getting to the other end; but now that other end they came from was back there, they must then go down the hall again so as to reach it. But again they left behind the other end of the hall, which they just came from..." (10 seconds ago)
Possible actions:
- "Would you stay long in Pridmore, or somewhere like it, if you could?"
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
