Frint 2022/04/20(Wed)23:38 No. 1029926 ID: 90fd69
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>>1029849
One of the questions on the list here asks if any of the other people in your apartment building had a tendency to leave their windows open. Do you think they did?
Well it was in the summer, but y’know, Maine. I don’t see any reason they’d open their windows to control the temperature. The heater and AC in the building always worked well.
Alright.

Task as reporter: Continue interview.
Suggest more questions for Callum.

Does his window open?
When did he realize he was in danger?

Frint 2022/04/22(Fri)20:26 No. 1030051 ID: 98888b
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>>1029928
So did your apartment have windows that open?
Yeah, in the bathroom. I always had a shower curtain covering it though, but I never opened it.
When did it become clear that you were in danger?
Some time later. Around 11:15. I heard some noises coming from outside.

Frint 2022/04/22(Fri)20:26 No. 1030052 ID: 98888b
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I looked out of the patio door again and saw someone next to the car, lying still with their arm up against the driver’s side door.
And at that point, I knew something was happening, and I didn’t want anything to do with it.

Frint 2022/04/22(Fri)20:26 No. 1030054 ID: 98888b
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Task as Callum: Get the hell out of dodge.
Looks like running out to the patio is no longer an option. What should Callum do?

Start pounding on doors and shouting about an emergency; see if anybody else is around. Also check the janitor's closet for...I dunno, anything that strikes you as useful. Inspect plants through windows, see if they look off.

>>1030054
Trying to contact anyone left in the building is a good start. Then gathering supplies (gas mask? something to keep the particulates out, like a dustmask or a medical grade mask could work) to protect yourself, and finally... well, fire escape?

>>1030064
Agreed, seems like a solid course of action

Frint 2022/04/25(Mon)18:01 No. 1030359 ID: 98888b
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>>1030059 >>1030064
I just ran.

Frint 2022/04/25(Mon)18:01 No. 1030360 ID: 98888b
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I went down the halls on both floors just bashing on doors really. Yelling about calling the cops or something.
Did anybody answer?
Nah. Not a single door opened.
At some point I looked outside from the window on the second floor.

Frint 2022/04/25(Mon)18:01 No. 1030361 ID: 98888b
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It was bare. Bare as possible.
Through the window the tree had spindly branches that were just sticks. No leaves. It was summer, there was no reason it should’ve been that way that early.
And the branches themselves… their position looked inorganic in a way. Like a 3rd grader was given modeling clay and told to make a tree. Not normal at all.
And do you think it was caused by the material?
Probably. I think the tree was fine and green just a day before. I see no other reason for its sudden loss of leaves.
I think I cleared the entire 2nd floor, knocking on every door and yelling, before just sitting in the middle of the hallway with no clue of what to do.
Nobody! Fucking nobody. The entire building, empty.

Frint 2022/04/25(Mon)18:01 No. 1030362 ID: 98888b
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>>1030059
Then I went to the janitor’s closet, ‘cause it was the only door in the building that I hadn’t tried.
It was unlocked, thank god.

Frint 2022/04/25(Mon)18:01 No. 1030363 ID: 98888b
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There wasn’t much there. Just some gardening and carpentry tools.
What all was there?
Do you expect me to remember all that was in a janitor’s closet after three months?
Uhhh, no, not r-
Well I do, but yeah.
Oh, alright.
There was a hammer, a pair of gardening gloves, a set of screwdrivers on the floor, a roll of wallpaper, some twine, and a broom propped up against the wall. At the time I wasn’t really considering stealing any of them, but I eventually came to the conclusion that it was probably life or death for me there.
Okay, one pocket, two hands.
Fuck these sport pants and their lack of legitimate pockets.
Knew I should’ve borrowed those darn cargo shorts from Raymond.

Which three of the items in the room should Callum take? Not using all of the given space is an option, and might free up some space for quickly storing items later on.

>>1030363
Twine, screwdriver, gloves.
...considering the material seems to dissolve organic material I suspect he's going to wind up wrapping his entire body in clothing.

gloves, twine, and the broom (just the handle if possible)
with that we can tie some food or a houseplant or something to the end of the broom and poke it outside

Hammer, gloves, twine.
And let's wear the gloves so they don't take up space.

Well, you could use the hammer and screwdrivers to bust open some doors, get some better equipment, clothes, etc. It's not polite, but like. Life or death. Also, you could check if somebody is dying in there. Though...I guess there's not a lot you can do. And might die, yourself. ...You don't have another set of pants, yourself? Or clothes in general?

Wallpaper might be useful for wrapping yourself in, to defend from...something. Dunno, though, seems like that might be clunkier and gap-filled than useful. Too bad you didn't find plastic wrap.

Frint 2022/04/30(Sat)00:03 No. 1030826 ID: 98888b
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And the votes are in:
>Hammer: 2
>Gloves: 3
>Screwdrivers: 2
>Wallpaper: 1
>Twine: 3
>Broom: 1
>Gloves, twine, hammer, screwdrivers

>Left hand: Screwdrivers
>Right hand: Hammer
>Pocket: Twine
>Gloves won’t take a slot, sorry for not mentioning that

I took the twine and pocketed it, and held the screwdriver pack with the hammer in my hands.
Wore the gloves, too. They were quite bulky though, and made it hard to grasp things properly.

Frint 2022/04/30(Sat)00:03 No. 1030827 ID: 98888b
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At this point I had a couple options: beating the shit out of some door locks to get into the rooms, testing what the outside’s effects were on things, trying to find a way out that didn’t involve the outside… Really anything.
Uhhhh…
Can you just tell me what you did?
Oh. Right.

As Callum: Make a plan on what to do.
>Simple tasks are completely fine. You don’t have to play the long game if you don’t want to.

Hmm. If you think there's a possibility that there's access to e.g. a sewer or tunnel or something, open all the doors on the lower floor that you can, being careful of possibly toxic rooms.

If you can figure out a fairly quick method of getting them open, I guess you might as well check upstairs rooms, too, until you feel you have enough equipment.

Look for a landline, and a radio, and really any general tools.

Look also for potted plants to sacrifice to Science and Survival, by e.g. setting one near the door, opening it for a split second and running away, and observing what happens, how quickly/if it dies. If you can find another, and some garbage/plastic bags, try putting a plant in a bag and see if that protects it. Probably don't want to try this too many times, though, lest we foul our safe air. Depending on results and resources, when you eventually decide to try to go outside, wrap yourself in garbage bags, wear a towel to HOPEFULLY filter the air, and try not to stay outdoors too long.

>>1030827
(I wonder if it's possible to die? Maybe we'll get a Sands of Time kind of thing where he goes "wait, that's not what happened" and we'll skip back to a safe spot in the story)
First thing's first, bash the door open of the guy you're friends with. Though you may also want to get a bandanna or something to breathe through from your clothes dresser.

Open doors with your tools, and find a bag or something to keep your stuff in.
Start with Eddie's room.

Yeah, let's try forcing our neighbours door open.

Frint 2022/05/05(Thu)22:19 No. 1031355 ID: 98888b
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I bashed the handle off of a door, first of all.

Frint 2022/05/05(Thu)22:19 No. 1031356 ID: 98888b
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It took a little finagling but it was relatively easy.

Frint 2022/05/05(Thu)22:19 No. 1031357 ID: 98888b
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I started with Eddie’s place.

Frint 2022/05/05(Thu)22:19 No. 1031358 ID: 98888b
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I called out a couple more times for Eddie, like that would have done anything after banging loudly on every door in the building.
Since it was his apartment I knew exactly where everything was, so I went around grabbing basically anything I found remotely useful.

Frint 2022/05/05(Thu)22:19 No. 1031359 ID: 98888b
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I had gathered everything I found that was of remote use within a few minutes, including Eddie’s handgun, his baseball bat, a pack of batteries, a digital watch, a couple TV guides and gossip magazines, as well as his trusty, iconic jacket that he never wore.
As well as the screwdriver, hammer, and gloves from before.
I also had one of his potted vegetable plants against the sliding door to the balcony, but it must’ve weighed a metric fuck-ton because I, for the life of me, literally, could not move it without using both of my hands.
I put on the jacket and the watch, which noted that the time was 11:25 AM.
And then I was just sitting in his room for a couple minutes, alone, and not knowing much of what to do.

Frint 2022/05/05(Thu)22:19 No. 1031360 ID: 98888b
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Task as Callum: Is it…
a) Time for science? (1 vote already)
>Use the potted plant and other objects to test what’s going on with the fog.
b) Time to go out and find Eddie?
>Search through other rooms to find where Eddie might have gone.
c) Time to loot other rooms? (3 votes already)
>Make sure that we have enough supplies to continue.
d) Time to find a way to communicate with the outside world? (1 vote already)
>Find a way to send out a broadcast of some sort to warn the government or the public of what’s going on.
…And what items should Callum take?

>Note, you can also inspect available items to come up with uses for them.

for jackets pocket take the gun and the hammer, pockets the screwdriver because tools are for getting into things, and take the baseball pat in your hands.

Search for where Eddie could've gone, and then start looking at the other rooms for anything. I think our primary goal is extra storage, utility tools, and then food.

The ground is being stripped of material and we so one corpse out there dead of an unknown death, it is a good idea to *not* let any fog get into the building in case there's a central HVAC unit.

If we do plan to escape however, we should see about taking the potted plant out of the planter and thrower but after we're finished in this building, so that we can have a better idea of how much time we might have exposed to the fog (I'm assuming the fog itself is dangerous and caustic, and not anything else).

I don't see any reason to take a gun. It's more likely someone innocent will get shot with it than an attacker.

Jacket, hammer, screwdriver, batteries, watch if you don't have one already.

Try opening other rooms to find Eddie.

>>1031366
It's reasonable to leave science until we're about ready to leave (barring plan-changes due to said science) - look for a backpack or something

c) Time to loot other rooms.

Let's keep the screwdriver and the hammer in the jacket pockets, and the batteries in the pant pockets.
I don't really see a use for the magazines, maybe check what's on TV today? Don't keep them, they're a waste of inventory space.
Leave the bat and the gun, there is no point to carrying weapons for now, we checked the building, we are alone. We can always come back for them before leaving. And firing a gun is gonna end with a destroyed window.

Frint 2022/05/13(Fri)09:56 No. 1032096 ID: ac602a
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I decided to take the hammer, screwdriver, and the pack of batteries with me.

Frint 2022/05/13(Fri)09:56 No. 1032097 ID: ac602a
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I rearranged everything under the covers of Eddie’s bed.
I also wasn’t hard-pressed to notice that the room was different from what it was about a week before. Eddie’s ammo crate, the one he made off with from a military surplus store about a year back, wasn’t here anymore. Several other things were off but I couldn’t quite remember what else was in the room.

Frint 2022/05/13(Fri)09:56 No. 1032098 ID: ac602a
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I left his apartment, and that was when I took to opening the other doors in the building.
I just blew the handle off a door when I noticed this specific door was blocked by something.

Frint 2022/05/13(Fri)09:57 No. 1032099 ID: ac602a
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The handle was off, so I looked through the hole, only to just see wood.
I sat there for a couple seconds and heard something behind the door that sounded like muffled speech.

Frint 2022/05/13(Fri)09:57 No. 1032100 ID: ac602a
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I entered the apartment’s kitchen and moved the table that was blocking the door against the wall, and went into the bedroom.

Frint 2022/05/13(Fri)09:57 No. 1032101 ID: ac602a
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The TV was on, tuned to some drama show.
I took a couple minutes to look around for anything, but there wasn’t anything useful, except the nightstand.

Frint 2022/05/13(Fri)09:57 No. 1032102 ID: ac602a
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What about the nightstand?
There was a messenger’s satchel in it. Empty. I put it on.

Frint 2022/05/13(Fri)09:57 No. 1032103 ID: ac602a
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There wasn’t anything else of much use in this apartment. The watch also beeped with an alarm, it was 11:45.

Task as Callum: What now?
a) Continue to look for Eddie.
>Get back to searching immediately.
b) Stay here and flip through TV channels for a bit.
>The search for Eddie will eventually continue, but for now it might be good to get some information if there’s any on the news.
c) Go loot more rooms.
>Gotta be extra sure you clean the hell out of this building.
d) Go back to Eddie’s apartment or the janitorial closet and get a new set of supplies.
>Going back to other rooms to get items is available at any time.
e) Another choice, not listed here.

>There is also the option to inspect, discard, or use any item(s) you have, which will not take a full turn to do.

B. People seem to have left before you, so maybe they were warned of something?

Agreed; see if you can find a news station or something

B for a little while, then C

why don't you flip through dem channels? Look specifically for anything that seems off, and or informative on your current situation.

Frint 2022/05/23(Mon)23:00 No. 1033399 ID: 98888b
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I turned the television on and tuned it to the news station a bit east. More towards Portland but not quite. It’s somewhere between Yarmouth and Portland.
Anyways, it looked like a completely normal news segment. No warnings or anything. Just some normal news report on some heist or whatever.

Frint 2022/05/23(Mon)23:00 No. 1033400 ID: 98888b
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This is the most normal news report I’ve seen in years and the world is crumbling around me.

Frint 2022/05/23(Mon)23:00 No. 1033401 ID: 98888b
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After about two minutes of listening to the news anchor talk about some armoured cars getting robbed, some sort of noise started. Sounded like some sort of machinery.
What exactly did it sound like?
The most god-awful noise I have heard. Not anything like an HVAC system. Just this really low rumble that permeated the air. It almost hurt -

End of disc recording.
Switching to the next disc…

>>1033401
What the hell is that noise
Ok time to push up the itinerary and find Eddie. Or anyone, really.