Chapter Four: I Make A Game Plan.

[olympicswimmer]

[ Today, the doors to the high school gym are closed, with a sloppily written Secret basketball strategy meeting note taped to them. Inside, there are no drones, just school-aged kids. ]

Okay, today I want to figure out some basic stuff. First, what have people tried to get out of here? Second, what's the most dangerous stuff that happens here?

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Comments

[perfektsymmetry]

Personally, I'm not sure what plans people have had to get out, since they never seem to get far, I'm afraid. As for dangerous... Westport was pretty bad, a-as well as the Soviet town...

[olympicswimmer]

What sort of dangerous? Brainwashing dangerous or Godzilla dangerous?

[perfektsymmetry]

The latter, I'm afraid. There was a-a lot of death, people getting severely injured... when did you arrive here? Where you here when the man from the Soviet town was on the loose in Mayfield...?

[olympicswimmer]

That's a good thing. Monsters are easier to take down than magic.

[perfektsymmetry]

N-No, Mayfield's versions of monsters... you can't. The hazmat men... they were in Westport, and then they showed up here. I think the Smith girl had something to do with it. She let them loose here, they ran all over town for days burning down houses a-and killing people in order to find the runaway man...

[He shudders a little, trying not to show it. He was still having nightmares.]

[olympicswimmer]

You have to tell the whole story if you want it to make sense.

[perfektsymmetry]

[He takes a deep breath.] It's a long one

[olympicswimmer]

You're dead?

[perfektsymmetry]

Ah... no one told you? If you die in Mayfield, you come back the next day as if nothing happened. I... I've been killed here three times so far.

[olympicswimmer]

Like monsters.

[perfektsymmetry]

I always thought it was rather like a video game, myself. Still, i-it's not easy.

[olympicswimmer]

Yeah. The land of the dead isn't a great place to crash for a night.

[perfektsymmetry]

Well, i-it's not like I remember anything while dead. I remember up until what happened, then waking up the next morning. It's disorienting.

[olympicswimmer]

Does it make people braver?

[perfektsymmetry]

I suppose it depends on the person. It certainly does change a lot of things, but Mayfield knows that there's things they can do instead of just killing us.

Personally, I'm not looking to make it a habit, if I can help it.

[olympicswimmer]

Got it.

If you hit a hazmat guy with a stick, what happens?