Finally, the guy saving our progress gets a chapter! XD
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NOAH
11:40 A.M.
THIRD BASEMENT SAVE ROOM
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"Are you finished yet?"
"Almost…" I finish typing my last sentence. "There. An ode to how much I hate Izzy right now."
"Aww… how sweet?" …Only Izzy would be touched.
"Now come on now!" Leshawna groans. "I found a key, if y'all haven't been payin' attention to a word I've been sayin'." She holds up said key. "I bet it opens one of them doors out there."
I roll my eyes. "Well then check."
"I ain't checkin' alone, smart ass, now get a move on now!"
"Alright, alright!" I get up from the chair and follow her to the door, Izzy in tow.
(The door opens slowly, creaking softly.)
"So, which door do you think it is?" Leshawna asks, and I groan at her sudden lack of logic.
"I don't know, maybe that's why we check." She doesn't take this very well.
"You want a piece of me, turkey?"
"Just give me the damn key." Reluctantly, she hands it to me, and I start checking the doors. The first door, the one on the left from where we are standing, doesn't open. So I go to the one on our right.
The key fits.
"Ah, so you were right." I cynically comment, earning an "ooooooooooooooh" from Leshawna.
(The door opens slowly, creaking softly.)
Ah, a study. Quite a beautiful room, really. Bookcases, rocking chairs, coffee tables…
A shame this one had to go to waste. Cobwebs and dirt covering such beautiful reading material. Pity.
I walk over to the bookshelf, as the others search the rest of the room for any clues on how to get through door number three in the hallway. Something tells us that's our ultimate destination.
I look through the books, curious as to why such an evil and dangerous place would have such lovely reading material. Some of these look like they've never been read.
Maybe I should take some home with me.
One book, though, caught my eye.
See, all these books were rather old, from the '70s or '80s or, hell, even the early '90s. But this one…
"Breaking Dawn?" I pull it out, examine it… and panic. "Oh, dear God!" I toss it to the floor, and am now supporting myself against the bookshelf, freaking out. "Oh, God… Ew… Ew… I touched it… Ew…"
…Wait…
Breaking Dawn was published in 2008.
…
This was placed here.
By an intern.
I examine the space that the book once occupied.
…
There's a key back here.
I grab it. "Gotcha, you little motherfucker!" I shout triumphantly. "And all it took was a near-traumatizing event."
"Oh, you found the key?" Leshawna asks, and I nod. "Great! Maybe you're not so bad after all, turkey." Grr… "I'm-a kiddin' ya. Now come on. Let's get out of here."
I frown, looking back at the bookshelf. "Do I have to?"
I have to be dragged out of the room.
(The door opens slowly, creaking softly.)
Alright, door number three, you better be the door we need to go through, or I'm going to be infuriated. I mean, I touched a fucking Twilight book for you.
I slip the key into the keyhole. It fits.
I turn it. It unlocks.
YES! YES! Play those bagpipes, M. Bison, 'cause we've passed this fucking…
(The door opens and shuts quickly.)
…test…
…No! No! No! NO!
A fucking T-section! Are you kidding me?!
AUGH!
I massage my forehead. Two choices: either we continue down the hallway, or we take a right down the side hallway.
…Ugh… It looks like I have no choice…
"Leshawna, looks like we'll have to split up. Izzy, follow one of us."
"A'ight, I'll head down the right," Leshawna volunteers, and she leaves the party.
"…Well, Izzy? Who are you with?"
"I'll stick with you."
"…Great…" As you can imagine, I'm not thrilled about this.
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11:53 A.M.
THIRD BASEMENT "T-SECTION" HALLWAY
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This hallway is rather peculiar. No doorways, just a hallway. And it seemed to circle around the area we were in earlier, as we had already taken two left turns along the way.
Though one question remains: I can't help but ponder where Leshawna's path went…
BANG!
What the?!
BANG!
Izzy and I have stopped in our tracks. The shots were in the distance, but not far.
We continue to stand in silence, until…
"Why did we stop? Izzy wants in on the actiony action!"
"Shut up, Iz—!"
BANG!
Another shot? What the hell is going on here?
"Oh, screw this! I'm checking this out!" Izzy runs down the hall, unarmed and stupid.
"UGH!" I groan, and I run after her, readying my gun. "Why didn't I go with Cody and Gwen?"
Please switch to Disk Two.
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Technically, still not "Disk Two" yet since this takes place before the… um… "disk changing."
Obviously, if you've been paying attention, you know what the shots were about, and have a semi-good idea on where Noah and Izzy are in relation to Cody and Chef Hatchet. Long story short, the cafeteria was the area where all four paths ultimately intertwined, and the kitchen was the holding place for the briefcase. Yeah, doesn't seem like much, but keep in mind Courtney had gone through this whole area (assumedly through hallway three, as there were no known puzzles throughout the hallway), so there probably were some puzzles that Courtney solved before we got to see them. …That is, if you want to believe that. Truth is, I suck at coming up with puzzles.
But there's still more to this facility, and Chris probably had planned the groups to pass the kitchen (possibly thinking that it would be "way too easy") and go through more of the facility than what was needed, and there are some extra puzzles in those areas. Or, perhaps the key to the kitchen was hidden somewhere in the later areas of the facility and Courtney had managed to find it in very little time. Either way, there is more facility to explore. And hopefully I can even come up with more puzzles along the way. Hopefully.
But if not, we still have the story, which is certainly not over yet. After all, they still have a little over an hour before the lockdown lets up… Plus, there are TWO—count 'em—TWO major bombshells in the plot heading your way, one of which was planned since the beginning, the other having just been planned… about a week ago to make things a little more… interesting… And by the way, the roads leading to both bombshells have already been started, so there's no going back now…