October 9th, 2023
George Smith's POV
12:00 AM
I arrived for my first official shift as the night guard. Last night was a sort-of demo. This is for real!
The place had greatly improved since I last saw it. It was much more decorative, but still not that scary. There were more drawings, a bunch of mascot heads with lamps inside that served as lights, and a bunch of arcade machines that actually worked!
I noticed another sticky note saying LISTEN TO ME!. I saw there was another message in the machine. I hit Play and listened. It was the guy from earlier, whom I will call Phone Dude.
"Hey-Hey! Glad you came back for another night! I promise it'll be a lot more interesting this time.
We found some-some great new relics over the weekend. And we're out tracking down a new lead, right now. So-uh lemme just update real quick, then you can get to work. Like, the attraction opens in like, a week, so we had to make sure everything works, and nothing catches on fire! Uh-when the place opens, people will come in at the opposite end of the building, and work their way towards you, then past you and out the exit.
Uh-yeah. You've officially become a part of the attraction. Uh-You'll be starring as... The security guard! So not only will you be monitoring the people on the cameras as they pass through, y'know, to make sure no one steals anything or makes out in the corner, but you'll also be a part of the show. It'll make it feel really authentic I think. Uh... Now let me tell you about what's new.
We found another set of drawings, always nice, and a Foxy head! Which we think to be authentic... then again it might just be another crappy cosplay, and we found a desk fan, very old school - metal, though, so watch the fingers. Uh-heh... Uh... Right now the place is basically just, you know, flashing lights, spooky props. Uh, I honestly thought we would have more by now, uh, we don't have something really cool by next week, we may have to suit you up in a furry suit, and make you walk around saying, 'Boo'... *hehe*, uh... But, you know, like I said, we're trying to track down a good lead right now. Uh, some guy who helped design one of the buildings says there was, like, an extra room that got boarded up or- uh, something like that. So, we're gonna take a peek and see what we can find.
Uh, for now just get comfortable with the new setup, um... You can check the security cameras over to your right with a click of that blue button. Uh, you can toggle between the Hall CAMs and the Vent CAMs... Uh, then over to your far left, uh, you can flip up your maintenance panel. Y'know, use this to reboot any systems that may go offline. Heh. So, in trying to make the place feel vintage we may have overdone it a bit, hehe... Some of this equipment is barely functional. Yeah, I wasn't joking about the fire. Tha-tha-that's a real risk. Uh, the most important thing you want to watch for is the ventilation. Look, this place will give you the spooks, man, and if you let that ventilation go offline, then you'll start seeing some crazy stuff, man. Keep that air flowin'.
Okay, keep an eye on things, and we'll try to have something new for ya tomorrow night."
I noticed that on the right wall of the office, there was a small tablet attached to it along with a blue button. I pressed it, turning on the surveillance system. There were a total of 15 cameras, counting the Vent CAMs. They all showed different parts of the attraction. CAM 04 showed the Foxy head that Phone Dude referred to. CAMs 06 and 07 showed most of the arcade machines.
On the office desk was another tablet that folded up. It showed all three running systems: the Audio Devices, the Camera System, and the Ventilation. At the bottom of the screen was the text Reboot All. I immediately hit that button. I heard lots of beeps from the device. After about 9 seconds, all three systems rebooted successfully.
6:00 AM
Nothing really interesting happened that night. I just sat in that office for six hours occasionally rebooting the systems. I thought that this would be a very easy job with no problems whatsoever.
Oh boy, was I wrong.