North Landels: Cafeteria, Kitchen, & Courtyard
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Cafeteria & Kitchen
Cafeteria: This is where residents of Landel’s share their morning and afternoon meals together, and, according to many of the nurses, is the perfect place for patients to mingle and engage in both healthy discussions and diets that will aid in their recovery. Food served here is high quality, and the menus are carefully constructed to meet any nutritional needs patients may have. The walls are painted a soothing green to help ease antsy patients’ nerves, and the plastic chairs that line the long tables are contoured for comfortable seating. The tables themselves are arranged into neat rows that span across the whole room. Patients get their meals from the metal-plated counter located in the north part of the room, where food is kept warm beneath heating lamps, and they're free to dish up however much is deemed healthy by the staff. Cafeteria workers are positioned behind the counter to assist the patients in anyway they can. At night, however, the cafeteria isn’t nearly as lively or pleasant. In fact, the emptiness and silence is rather eerie, and those who venture inside this unlit room should hope nothing unsavory corners them there.
Kitchen: Whoever maintains the kitchen does a remarkable job, considering how spotless it always seems, even right after a meal’s been served. White drawers and cabinets line the cream-tiled walls, and patients rummaging around will be more likely to find items like spatulas, egg beaters, cake cutters, cookie sheets, ladles, stirring spoons (made of wood or metal), small and large-sized pots and pans, can openers, forks, butter knives, regular spoons, bowls, plates, plastic cups, and measuring cups. The floor is made up of a simple white tile. In the daytime, the kitchen is brightly lit, but at night, it can be difficult to navigate through without a flashlight. Unfortunately, the person who keeps the kitchen so clean also had the foresight not to leave their sharper knives lying around for disturbed patients to find.
Pantry 1 and 2: A pantry contains a set of ten shelves that span around all of the walls, along with a ladder (that rolls along tracks in the ground) to reach some of the higher items. Food found in here consists of things like canned vegetables (green beans, spinach, carrots, broccoli, tomatoes, corn, black-eyed peas, green peas), dried fruits (apples, peaches, pears, oranges, pineapple), canned pie filling (of the cherry, apple, pumpkin, and peach varieties), bags of flour, spices (nutmeg, cinnamon, basil, chili powder , garlic, ginger), large boxes of cereal (corn flakes, rice crispies, raisin bran, banana nut crunch, cinnamon grahams), cans of soup (tomato, chicken noodle, alphabet, vegetable, cream of potato, clam chowder, cream of mushroom), chips, crackers, ketchup, syrup, mayonnaise, mustard, large containers of juice (apple, orange, tomato, cranberry, grape), cookies (chocolate chip, Oreos, snickerdoodle, peanut butter), baskets of fruit (bananas, apples, pears, oranges, mangos) and vegetables (onions, tomatoes, beans) and bags of sugar. A single light fixture hangs from the ceiling, but patients who sneak around here at night will need their flashlights to fully navigate this dark area. Be warned, though - some unsavory critters like to feed around here once the sun sets, most notably rats and cockroaches.
Walk-In Refrigerator: Kept at a constant temperature of 40 °F, anyone who ventures into the refrigerator located in the north part of the kitchen should be prepared for a bit of a chill. Multiple, white-colored shelves line the walls in this room, with a moveable ladder to reach the higher items. Food items requiring storage at lower temperatures are kept here, including sliced meats (turkey, chicken, ham, roast beef), vegetables (carrots, celery, lettuce, corn, tomatoes, corn on the cob, broccoli), milk (chocolate and 2 percent), cheese ( cheddar, American ), cartons of juice (apple, orange, cranberry, grape), open containers of mustard, ketchup, and mayonnaise, half and half, and eggs. There is also a compartment kept at 0 °F for frozen foods, including ice cream, larger cuts of meat. The tile on the floor is off white, but there is one discolored, loose tile located in the northeastern part of the room that, when pried open, reveals a passageway to the basement.
Courtyard
Courtyard: For those who prefer to spend their outdoor time in the simple company of mother nature, the courtyard is a great place to relax beneath a shady tree or on a bench overlooking the flowers and pond. A simple dirt path, its edges lined with flower beds containing a variety of imported shrubbery, leads a relatively easy-to-walk path past the pond and through the courtyard. The rest of this area consists of a lush lawn, which is perfect for patients to lounge on. Surrounding the courtyard is a seven foot brick wall, where thick vines (that could be suitable for climbing, if patients weren't so well supervised during the day) stretch across its rough surface. At night, the dark shadows cast by the trees, coupled with the eerie stillness of the courtyard as a whole, can create an oppressive air. But for some, the breath of fresh oxygen the courtyard gives is enough to make up for this fact.
Gardener’s Shed: Located in the northwestern corner of the courtyard, the gardener’s shed is a bit smaller than the activities shed in the recreational field. It's made of a strong cedar wood and contains tools used to keep the courtyard looking nice. These include items such as gloves, hoses, watering cans, rakes, weeding claws, fertilizer, trimmers, shovels, a Weedeater, a lawn mower, and a wheelbarrow.
Pond: Situated in the courtyard, the pond exists for purely decorative purposes. Though its clear waters can be almost therapeutic to look at while on a daytime stroll through the courtyard, at night it takes on a much murkier color. Some say beautiful, mermaid-like creatures will appear in its waters on rare nights, but their siren songs and sharp teeth do not bode well for anyone unlucky enough to come across one. For patients who are curious enough to wonder where the water flow goes and comes from, the pond seems to continue on through grates on either side of the cafeteria, and from the faint sound of rushing water, seems to head underground. Strangely, the pond never seems to get drained from it.