Quiet Hill (Part 2)
After a bunch of stuff that really isn't worth talking about, Harry made his way to the hospital. It was an old place with lime green paint on the walls. He walked around the lobby for a little bit, when the sound of a gunshot suddenly echoed from a nearby room. Cautiously, he opened the door. One of the winged demons lie dead on the floor, and a well dressed man holding a gun sat in a chair.
Harry: Cybil was wrong. There are mobsters in this town.
The well dressed man rose from his chair and fired at Harry.
Harry: Wait don't shoot. I'm Harry Mason. I'm here on vacation.
Man: I hate tourists.
The man fired again, coming within six inches of Harry's head.
Harry: I'm just looking for my daughter, Cheryl. Have you seen her?
Man: She's out there? Then she's probably dead. Yeah, I bet one of those monsters had itself an early Thanksgiving when it got hold of her.
Harry: What?
Man: Oh, sorry. I can be a real insensitive jerk at times. I'm Michael Kaufmann.
Harry: What's happening in this town?
Kaufmann: I don't know. I was out partying late last night and didn't get much sleep. I was in my office taking a nap when this happened. Those creatures. Have you ever seen such things?
Harry: Actually, one time I was...
Kaufman looked at his watch.
Kaufmann: Oh, look at the time. I've gotta go. Places to go, people to see, drugs to push.
Harry: Yeah, I know how it is.
Kaufmann walked out the door, and Harry decided to explore the hospital. He came across a strange red liquid, which he mistook for Kool-Aid, and took a taste.
Harry: Oh, man. That is horrible. I think they forgot to add the sugar.
He put some in a plastic jug and continued. Further down the hall, he came across a vending machine. Remembering his appetite again, Harry fished in his pocket for some change. He soon found a few coins and put them into the machine, but the machine was jammed and would not vend. Harry began to kick and scream at the machine.
Harry: You son-of-a-bitch, give me back my twenty five cents!
The machine toppled over, and Harry ducked into the nearby elevator before anybody could come out and yell. He pushed one of the buttons, and the elevator began to move.
When the doors opened, Harry found himself in a small sitting room. He tried the doors on his left, but they were locked. He took the elevator up to the next floor, but the same thing happened.
Upon returning to the elevator, Harry pressed the final button. Now most people would have been freaked out by the fact that a fourth button had just appeared out of nowhere on the panel, but seeing as how Harry wasn't all that great with numbers it made no difference to him.
Harry: Yes, someplace I haven't been yet. Wait, it looks like the school did. That's not good.
With nowhere else to go, Harry opened the doors and began walking down the misty hall. As he continued on, the doors he walked through mysteriously locked from the other side. This poses the problem of how the person who locked the first one got over to the second one. It must have been more than one of them. I could just picture a bunch of monsters using two way radios.
Doctor: Okay, he's walking your way. Get ready to lock him in.
Nurse: Why are we doing this again?
Doctor: So he can't go back the way he came.
Nurse: What's the difference? The elevator isn't working now.
Doctor: Good point. Okay, let's just do it to freak him out.
Nurse: Cool.
Harry walked down a couple flights of stairs and entered the door to the second floor. Inside, he found a hunched over nurse holding a knife and muttering to herself.
Harry: Excuse me, but have you seen a little girl. Short black hair, just turned seven.
The evil nurse came at him with the knife and Harry screamed like a little girl. He ran into a nearby room to escape, and found a video tape inside.
Harry: Cool. I hope it's Spaceballs.
He put the tape in the VCR that was in the same room and began to play it. Nothing could be seen but static, and the sound was barely audible.
Harry: Don't these people realize that a VCR can't record scrambled porn?
He kept the tape and left the room. He looked around the hospital a bit more and found a large sledge hammer.
Harry: Yes, now I can break things. Breaking things is fun.
After a few minutes he managed to reach the first floor. Things were beginning to look familiar at this point. Harry remembered which door he had come through when he had first entered the hospital and decided to try it again.
Inside, Harry saw the same book shelves that were there the first time. He walked to the door on the other side of the room and tried to open it, but it was locked. On the other side of the door something made a sound like footsteps.
Harry: Hey, is somebody there? Could you do me a favor and open the door? Unless you're one of those weird monsters, in which case don't open it. If you do, I'm gonna shoot you.
Oh yeah, like he could really hit something. Harry thought about it, and decided that he might have better luck using the sledge hammer. The door unlocked and Harry walked inside. Inside the examination room he shined his light on everything.
Suddenly, a figure crawled out from under a table and grabbed on to Harry. Without realizing that this person was a human, he began to swing the hammer at it.
Girl: Stop, I'm a human.
Harry: That's what they all say.
Girl: No they don't. They say shfihretfijgvfirhuhfun.
Harry: Oh yeah. Do you work here?
Girl: Does this look like the kind of place that someone like me would work in!?! I'm Lisa Garland. Who are you?
Harry: Harry Mason.
Lisa: Perry Mason? Can I have your autograph for my mom? She loves your show.
Harry: No, I'm Harry, not Perry.
Lisa: Oh, sorry.
Harry: Hey Lisa, do have any idea what that weird stuff in the basement is?
Lisa: What weird stuff?
Harry: Well there really isn't anything down there that's that different from the weird stuff in the rest of the hospital. It's really more of a plot device to get you to go down there.
Lisa: Oh, I see.
As Lisa spoke, the siren noises started up again. Either something strange was about to happen, or all the blows to the head that Harry had suffered were finally getting to him. When he opened his eyes he found himself back in the normal hospital.
Harry: Was I dreaming?
The door opened and closed, and Dahlia Galespie entered.
Dahlia: You were too late.
Harry: Too late? How the hell could I be too late? I bypassed more than half the stuff you really have to do in the game.
Dahlia: Never mind that. You must stop the town from being devoured by the darkness.
Harry: You want me to stop the sun from setting?
Dahlia: No, you fool. It is the mark of Samael. You must not let it be completed.
Harry: Huh?
Dahlia: You must go to the other church.
Harry: What other church?
Dahlia: Well, actually it not really a church so much as it's a table with some evil worship tools on it. But you must get to it.
Dahlia pulled something from her pocket that looked like a piece of broccoli and placed it on the table, then left the room.
Harry: That woman is freaky.
Harry picked up the item she had left, and learned that it was the key to an antique shop. He found it on the map and began to make his way there. Along the way he met up with many more enemies that he was unable to hit, and just ended up wasting more bullets. When he arrived at the antique shop, Harry used the key and entered. It was a real dive, and hadn't been dusted since Nixon was in office. To tell the truth, it wasn't all that great of a store. It had an old grandfather clock, and a couch. That was all. Either they had just conducted a really big clearance sale or it was just a poor excuse for an antique store.
Harry walked over to the wall opposite of where he had entered, decided to rest against it. As he leaned on it he dozed off and began to slide down the wall. On the way down he hit the cabinet that sat against the wall and knocked it out of the way. Hidden behind the cabinet was a large hole in the wall, which lead to a small cave. As Harry inspected the cave, the door opened and closed.
Cybil: Harry.
Harry: Cybil.
Cybil threw her arms around Harry, and Harry coped a feel. Or is it felt a cop? Anyways, the two began to talk.
Cybil: Did you find a way out?
Harry: Yep, the sky. Nothings stooping us from leaving that way.
Cybil: Harry, be serious.
Harry: I am serious. All we have to do is get to the roof and signal Brad in the helicopter to come pick us up. Then we fight the Tyrant and...
Cybil: Wrong game, Harry.
Harry: Oh, sorry. With everything that was scary gone from the story, for a minute I thought we we're in a survival horror game.
Cybil: Understandable.
Harry: So, did you se Cheryl?
Cybil: Yes, I did. She was heading south on Bachman road. But...
Harry: But what?
Cybil: The road had been destroyed. There was nowhere to go.
Harry: That means Cheryl's learned how to fly. Just like in Dragon Ball Z. If I can learn how to do a destructo disk, that would really help me out.
Cybil then noticed the hole in the wall.
Cybil: What's this?
Harry: It's a hole, Cybil. Jeez, and they say I'm dumb.
Cybil: I mean what's inside?
Harry: I don't know. I'll go and check.
Cybil: I should go first. I'm a cop.
Harry: You're not going to find a donut shop through here Cybil. Besides, finders keepers. It's mine, so I go first.
Cybil: Fine.
Harry: Hey, have you ever heard of a woman named Dahlia Galespie? She says that the town is being devoured by darkness.
Cybil: Probably on drugs.
Harry: Okay. One more thing. Have you been experiencing something weird? It's like another world.
Cybil: Harry, are you on drugs, too?
Harry: No, no.
Cybil: Harry, you're tired, and you're cranky. You need a nap.
Harry: I don't wanna. You can't make me. Nooooooo.....
With that, Harry ran into the cave and hid. Inside, he found the alter that Dahlia had told him about. There was a golden chalice sitting on it, and a picture that looked like something you'd see on an Ozzy CD. Harry didn't see anything that would help him find his daughter, so he turned to leave. On his way out, a fireball suddenly formed in the chalice and shot in Harry's direction. Like the dumbass that he was, Harry stood still and let the thing nail him in the face.
Cybil: Harry, if you come out I'll give you an ice cream cone. Harry? Now where did that idiot go?