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[det_goofball]

What the... dammit, am I actually getting this thing working? [Sounds like someone's banging the cell with the palm of his hand in frustration.] I'm useless with - oh! Anyone listening to this? Hello? Fuck's sake... Hey, uh, anyone out there, d'you mind saying hi? It's not that I didn't appreciate the potato chips'n'all, but I'm missing some, er,

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[maraihi]

Hi. I assume you woke up here, too?

[det_goofball]

Yeah, I... um. I don't remember what I was doing, and then I was just suddenly here.

[maraihi]

That's happening to everyone.

Don't go outside. It can turn night at any time now. It's not good to be caught in the dark here.
Last night the hotel was safe. We don't know if anywhere else is safe yet, or even if the hotel will be safe again tonight.

[det_goofball]

You mean I gotta stay in here? For how long?! I'm not staying in this crappy hotel forever.

[maraihi]

Someone said there's an exit through the cemetery. You're free to take a look.
I can't go yet because we have a sick man here.

[det_goofball]

...To the... outside? Hm. What happened to the guy?

[maraihi]

One of the people who woke up here has a rare disease and needs a lot of medication. He wouldn't be able to survive alone.

[det_goofball]

A disease? The hell?! It's not catching, is it?

[maraihi]

No, it's one of those inherited ones.

[det_goofball]

Oh, right. That's fine. Well, not fine, but better than it being contagious or whatever. Found medication yet?

[maraihi]

We raided the hospital but none of them were the ones he needed. They were mostly for mental conditions.

So if it was a mental hospital there's probably another place around here that handled injured and sick people.

[det_goofball]

...An asylum in a creepy, foggy town filled with monsters. Oh, that's original. You gonna go looking out again then?

[maraihi]

I will tomorrow morning. Last time I got stuck out at night we almost got eaten by a bunch of dogs and ended up rowing across the lake. I'm not interested in repeating that experience.

[det_goofball]

Hey, er... Well. I know I've just turned up, and whether you want some new guy tagging along is up to you, but I wouldn't mind taking a look out there myself...

[maraihi]

As long as you can take care of yourself. The first time I went out we didn't know there were any monsters, and I practically ended up dragging the sick guy with me as we ran.

[det_goofball]

Poor you. Don't worry, I can look after myself, you won't need to drag me anywhere. I'd make a useless cop otherwise.