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[PyroDesu]

((Yeah, just trying to figure out what to do with this curveball (I would have done things differently if I knew he was in the room next to me) in what time I have to. Don't expect an action from me until later this afternoon, I'm only able to post this with a smidgen of free time in class.))

[piecewise]

((Yeah, just trying to figure out what to do with this curveball (I would have done things differently if I knew he was in the room next to me) in what time I have to. Don't expect an action from me until later this afternoon, I'm only able to post this with a smidgen of free time in class.))

Alright. I never did say it was the one next to you, but then again I never did say it wasn't. I just said it was a door in the hall. Unclear, on my part. Sorry about that.

[Xantalos]

((Ah, sorry.))

Thanks, man. Just call me if you need anything.

Hang up, mentally evaluate apartment in regard to security and how I could improve it.

[PyroDesu]

((To be honest, I really can't think of what to do. Not only have some of the actions I took been contrary to the character if I had the correct information (which the character presumably would have had), and some GM-derived actions also been contrary, but I can't see a decent way out of this. Flight's as good as blocked, and fight's looking like a terrible, terrible option.))

[Kriellya]

(( I see a decent number of actions, and I don't think your previous response is out of character at all. I'll agree that there are things you might have done different knowing it was the next door, but I disagree that it was entirely out of character for you to go back in your room and that you have no options

He's climbing through a hole in a wall the size of a manhole. This is not fast, hit him with something.
Similarly, along the 'climbing through a manhole in a wall is not fast' front, by safety regulations, you can't lock yourself into a hospital room. So you can easily run out of the room and into the hallway. ))

[piecewise]

((To be honest, I really can't think of what to do. Not only have some of the actions I took been contrary to the character if I had the correct information (which the character presumably would have had), and some GM-derived actions also been contrary, but I can't see a decent way out of this. Flight's as good as blocked, and fight's looking like a terrible, terrible option.))

You could just run for it right now. Guy's crawling through a hole in the wall, he's not exactly in a good position to give chase if you move now. Or if you smash him in the head with something. Really, this guy isn't that dangerous as he is. He's no more dangerous then a normal person with a metal pole. A normal person with a metal pole stuck halfway in a wall. I'd give you freebie on running.

[PyroDesu]

((According to PW, the door is deadbolted. Though whether it's a double-cylinder (that is, if you use the key for both sides) or not, I don't know (I'm operating on the assumption it is), if it isn't, there's an opportunity. However, it also leaves me wide open for a strike at my back.

Hitting him with something would be a great idea, if I could pull off a hit that actually did more than annoy (remember, the mad doctor is.... mad. He's already demonstrated at least some abnormal strength (getting through the wall), and it likely won't be the only attribute he displays).

And climbing through a manhole-sized hole is actually quite fast, especially if you don't care about being careful.

You could just run for it right now. Guy's crawling through a hole in the wall, he's not exactly in a good position to give chase if you move now. Or if you smash him in the head with something. Really, this guy isn't that dangerous as he is. He's no more dangerous then a normal person with a metal pole. A normal person with a metal pole stuck halfway in a wall. I'd give you freebie on running.

If you say so. My compunction with running was a locked door slowing me down too much, like I said above. Should post tomorrow morning, otherwise it'll have to be in the late afternoon.))

[Kriellya]

(( Locked doors in hospitals, and any public building, are one-way things, at least in the US. Any door lock in a public building *must* unlock from the interior side without a key, in case of an emergency. If the door needs to be secure from the outside, as is the case in hospitals, then what is usually installed is a door lock with a heavy deadbolt, where the handle on the interior side of the door will actually unlatch the deadbolt just by trying to open the door, while the handle on the exterior side cannot do so and requires the key. Honestly, these locks are sometimes kind of magic to me but I do not doubt that they will open for me if I need to get out of a building
(incidentally, if you've ever seen a door that says 'Do Not Lock During Business Hours', the same law is responsible. This is usually an exterior door that *doesn't* unlatch without a key if locked, and as such legally cannot be locked if 'the public' is in the building, for the same reason.)

So unless the hospital has been very lax in their saftey policies, walking out that door should be as simple as opening it. Yay US health and safety law! It is often way too anal, but this is a good one XD ))

(Technically, this law can also be extended to private residences, but the circumstances required to get penalized over it are... odd. And essentially boil down to 'someone did a stupid and got stuck somewhere they shouldn't have been' considering that we're talking about a *private* residence. Cases related to this have always confused the fuck out of me XD )

[PyroDesu]

Seeing the man, now clearly acting in a way no sane man would, had made Samuel start in panic for a moment. It didn't last, however, and Sam quickly fled the room, slamming, but not bothering to lock the door behind him since it would open from inside anyways, if the man even bothered using it.

He went to the reception desk and got Linda to call security again on his behalf, and to say the doctor had turned violent, while Sam kept watching back the way he'd come.

[piecewise]

A man, very sleepy but still important looking jogs in as they leave and starts talking to the nurse. After a few minutes of conversation you can't make out, the Nurse leaves the important looking man and walks over to you.

"We can't disturb the scene as it is, so we're going to have to put you someplace else until they can come interview you and clean up the crime scene."

Why do you have the uncanny feeling you're about to be stored in a closet?

"Well, in that case, mind letting me wait in the cafeteria or something? Or the visitors lounge? Anywhere that isn't some damp hallway really, I'm still in my pajamas for Christ sake."

Be escorted to wherever. Again check surroundings for possible weapons, exits, etc.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Inventory:
Patient's uniform

In pockets:
Nothing

Location:
Asylum, near nurse's station

Time: 6:00 AM Dec 1st.

Christine doesn't appear to be listening as she directs the orderly to follow her. Much to your relief the room they dump you in, at least temporarily, is the game room. It's a large room lined with windows and filled with games which the staff has deemed safe to play with. There's a cabinet of boardgames off to one side and a rows of bolted down tables with attached benches. There's a tv on a stand in one corner and a painted, childish mural covering most of the walls.

The orderly and Christine bring you into the room and then leave you there as they walk back out.

"Just stay here and behave yourself. Someone will be in to talk to you shortly." Christine says, before closing the door. You can hear it lock behind her.

You look around as soon as they leave. There's nothing thats obviously a weapon sitting around, and all the doors are locked. The windows are locked as well, and the glass is shot through with metal reinforcements.

Odd.  What could this be?


Dig deeper.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Home Inventory:
Enough Food and water for two weeks

Inventory:
T-shirt and jeans
Hoster with Sig P226, unloaded
In pockets:
Car Keys
Bottle of Anti-anxiety pills
Empty wallet with driver's liscense
Three magazines for sig p226 (10 rounds hollow point each)
Box of 70 hollow point rounds

Location:
Home

Time:12:10 am Dec 1st

You dig deeper, cracking into the forum's software and digging until you find personal information for the poster. He's a doctor of internal medicine, specializing in the circulatory system. He lives in Washington, has two children and a wife, his second. You find his Facebook. No updates since last night. You look up personal information, breaking into employee records on the hospital server. No history of mental illness, no strikes on his record, model employee. Except for the fact that you find his records sitting buried in the computer's memory, having having already been deleted and just not overridden yet. Strange.

You lean back in your chair for a moment and think. Then you search something else. Other things similar to his own cryptic message. Other posts or even audio recordings of rambling on youtube. It's very disconcerting.

 

(( Watch me try and justify leaving myself in the middle of this mess. ))

I could try and wander through the labs... they might know something, but I won't have a reason to be there...
The morgue I can reason my way into, but there's nothing there but whatever madness is possessing this place...
...
I should leave. Levwits is the start, not the end. Whatever he's done... This place is coming apart at the seams. I can feel it... but the seams are where the answers lie... if answers there are to find.
...
I need to try and help. Somehow... Maybe go where security isn't, see what I can do... What I can see.

Take a look at the map again, look for Surgery, ER, and if there's a pharmacy. Also study the map for exit paths, then start walking towards Surgery.


(( I suddenly feel like me and Pyro got the short end of the random number stick here, as we were both most compelled to go to the place that is falling to insanity *first* XD
Though I suppose this depends on what you decide as bad. It certainly got us into the action quicker. And RC definitely managed to find an even shorter end, considering he couldn't even leave before madness descended on him

Oh, and I love the 'foreshadowing' you're dropping into Xan and Toaster's posts that indicates that we are going to be well and truly fucked over here in a few hours. Shame I can't act on that ))

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Inventory:
Somewhat fancy Suit
Watch
Rubber band holding hair back

In pockets:
Wallet with Driver's license and $200
Car Keys
Bottle of stimulants

Location:
Redfalls general first floor, near surgery

Time:6:45 am Dec 1st

You study the map. The Surgery and ER are both on this first floor, near to the back of the building, with the ambulance drop off. The pharmacy is all the way upstairs on the floor you just left. Hmm.

You follow the map's directions toward surgery but find your way block by a locked pair of double doors that has a card reader next to it. Admittedly, people probably shouldn't be allowed to just wander into the surgical area of the hospital. Might lead to organ bandits or hungry raccoon problems...

((Ah, sorry.))

Thanks, man. Just call me if you need anything.

Hang up, mentally evaluate apartment in regard to security and how I could improve it.

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House inventory:
Gallon of milk
Loaf of bread
Variety of fruits
19 bottles of water
Granola bars (box of 19)
Box of "Mr.Health" brand cereal.

Inventory:
Pajamas

In pockets:
Nothing

Location:
Home

Time: 11:50 AM Dec 1st.

You hang up and look around. Hmm.

It definitely needs something. Supplies and protection should be key...You're having a hard time thinking this through for some reason. Ok. Well, you're pretty high up in this apartment, so that's some degree of safety right there. But your door isn't exactly impregnable, and the walls out to the hall and connecting apartments are just insulated drywall over metal supports. If someone really wanted to get in, it wouldn't be terrible difficult.

Seeing the man, now clearly acting in a way no sane man would, had made Samuel start in panic for a moment. It didn't last, however, and Sam quickly fled the room, slamming, but not bothering to lock the door behind him since it would open from inside anyways, if the man even bothered using it.

He went to the reception desk and got Linda to call security again on his behalf, and to say the doctor had turned violent, while Sam kept watching back the way he'd come.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Inventory:
Khaki Pants
Crimson Shirt and gray tie
Black socks and shoes
Lab coat with ID-tag

In pockets:
Cell phone
Watch
Wallet
Car keys

Location:
Redfalls General (Exam Room hall )

Time:6:51 am Dec 1st

You jump off the table and sprint out the door, slamming it behind you and running as best you can down the hall, trying to overcome your limp. When you're about halfway down the hall, two security guards round the corner coming the other way. You shout for them and point down the hall, back toward your exam room.
"He's in there! He's got an IV Stand, be careful!"

The two guards nod at you and draw tasers as they jog past. You look over your shoulder and slow down a bit as they enter the room. You can hear them shouting for the man to stop. You're not sure if you should keep going or stay and watch...

[Toaster]

You follow the map's directions toward surgery but find your way block by a locked pair of double doors that has a card reader next to it. Admittedly, people probably shouldn't be allowed to just wander into the surgical area of the hospital. Might lead to organ bandits or hungry raccoon problems...

((You'd be surprised.  My hospital:
Doc parking area:  Card readers
Wiring closets:  Card readers
Sleep center: Card reader
Doc lounge: Card reader
Main OR:  Go right on in))




Was this it, then?  Something related to doctors going crazy?  Did a drug screw up or something?  Hardly world ending, though... and that doesn't explain the message on the wall.  Maybe the audio logs would have something?

Look further into the audio.

[Execute/Dumbo.exe]

(Jesus, at this rate you could make all of the sentences 3rd person, and separate the characters actions into chapters and you have made a book!)

[Toaster]

((Robo-Piecewise has to pay for his upgrades somehow.))

[Radio Controlled]

"Oh, bloody brilliant. I survive that crazy Doc, and what do they do? Stuff me in the damn game room.

Well, at least I won't bore myself to death."


Take closer stock of my surroundings (be sure to check what can be seen from the window), then either whip out a game to kill time or, if tired, try to get some rest.

[PyroDesu]

Samuel keeps going - he'll wait in the reception area for Security's return.

((Now's your chance, Kri, since I don't think a 5 or 6 minute difference would keep our timelines separate if you head to reception, since it'll take you as long to get there.. Want to lock our times together?))