Day 43: Sun Room, Second Shift

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When the shift changed, HK stayed put. Even after a long night of zombie killing, he had no interest in meatbag fuel, especially after all the discussion of chocolate with that rather strange meatbag. It was just making him crave the stuff even more than he had previously, if that was possible

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There hadn't been any signs of items to pick up so far, disappointingly. Also, whenever Scott had tried to wander away from his nurse to check for openable doors, she dutifully took him gently by the wrist and steered him back on track. Lame! Why even make this part playable if it's just a linear path with nothing to do? There aren't even tutorial windows around! Scott thought with an annoyed pout on his face.

His spirits were lifted, however, when they reached what was apparently the Sun Room. The place was crawling with other grey-uniformed patients, and he heard his nurse encouraging him to make friends. That was as good a way as any to say, "Talk to everybody and find your first objective!"

The patients seemed to come in all shapes, sizes, and hair colours. Some he could even swore he recognized (developer in-jokes, maybe?). Picking a patient at random - a very short boy -he made his approach. Soon, he was standing right in front of the boy. In his mind, he pressed a confirmation button to begin a dialogue, not realizing that he was not actually pressing anything. "Hey. I'm Scott," he said with a grin, guessing from the opening exposition that the name the nurse had given him wasn't real. If the goal of the game was indeed to beat the Head Doctor, no way would the identity given to him by the nurse be real. Well, not unless there was a really good twist, but what came later would come later. "I just woke up here, and I don't think I was supposed to. What is this place?" he asked in-character, waiting expectantly for the NPC's dialogue to kick in.  

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Raz turned around. A man was grinning at him, introducing himself as 'Scott' and asking a bunch of questions that, frankly, Raz didn't really know the answer to. "I think it's called Landel's," he replied. "I just woke up here too not too long ago, so I don't really know a whole lot about this place." Raz leaned in a little bit closer and stood on his toes to try to whisper in the man's ear: "Also, there's supposed to be monsters around here."

[vsyourface]

If there had ever been any doubt in Scott's mind that this was either a dream or a game, the existence of monsters in the building was enough to erase nearly all trace of it. "All right, this is getting more interesting!" he exclaimed with one fist clenched in excitement, forgetting that the NPCs could "hear" everything he said. "So, mental hospital that's not what it appears to be, and there are monsters," he summarized to himself. "Got it. Thanks, dude!" he said to the little character, turning away to check the next NPC without saying more.

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[razmaspaz]

After discovering pretty much everything worth discovering in the Sun Room, Raz kinda ran out of things to do. He sat himself down and put his head down on the table, scheming on what to do next. Obviously he needed to escape somehow, but from what he read on the bulletin board, that's what everyone's been trying to do for the past month or so. How the hell was he going to get out if, out of all the patients, no one has been able to do so?

Raz heard footsteps approaching and lifted his head up to see who it was. A nurse looked down upon him with a sweet-yet-concerned smile. "Are you bored?" She asked. He nodded, even though 'feeling helpless' was probably more accurate. The nurse continued, "How about I take you to a different room?" He shrugged, and hopped off his seat. The nurse took his hand and lead him out of the Sun Room, hopefully to somewhere useful.

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