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treave

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You turn and flee, running from the shade – if you stay here any longer, you will die. There is an enraged shriek behind you, a terrible scream that you shove to the back of your mind as you focus solely upon your escape. Step by step, you force your weary legs to carry you across the bridge. You do not even dare to turn your head, in fear that such an action would slow you down enough for the woman to catch up to you. It is not until you have made it across, and when your calves are seizing up in painful cramps, that you have the agonizing luxury of turning to see whether death has caught up to you.

The corridor is empty.

You wonder if you are safe.

Maybe. Maybe not.

The world is no longer grainy and devoid of colour, however, so perhaps the woman is gone for now. You try to comfort yourself with that thought.

Suddenly, your heart throbs excruciatingly. As you clutch your chest, a wave of nausea comes over you, accompanied by a burning sensation rising up your throat. Without so much as an apology, you heave out the contents of your stomach – empty, nothing but gastric juice, you note with clinical detachment – onto the once-clean hospital floor. Your head begins to feel heavy. As the world spins around you, you fall, into the puddle of your own vomit, and black out.

***

Consciousness returns far more slowly than it had left you. Every inch of your body is hurting; your legs more than anything else, of course. You open your eyes blearily. Everything looks terrible, like shit, you think for a second, before realizing that your spectacles had become crooked and smeared with vomit when you fainted. I need to clean myself up. Groggily, you drag yourself up with heavy effort, looking around for the sign to the washroom. Thankfully, it is not far away.

The sensation of cool, clean water revives your flagging spirits slightly. Though your shirt is ruined from the burning charm and the vomit, there is nothing else you can wear at the moment, and you are not about to go around topless. After you have cleaned up your spectacles, you stagger back into the hallway. That little spot of unconsciousness has left you feeling somewhat refreshed, but you are now aware of the growing hunger in your belly.

How long has it been since I last ate?

You take out the phone to look at the time: the clocks on the wall are as useless as ever, their hands frozen into position. The message is still there… ‘what is most important?’. Damned if I know, you think irritably. Something strange has happened; it looks like many hours have passed since you last checked the time. Were you out for that long, or…

Turning off the screen, you pocket the phone again and look around you. The power here seems to be working just fine – though this place is as deserted as when you first woke up, there is at least enough light to see by. It is silent, but you feel that the silence is somehow different from the atmosphere in the other buildings; where it was oppressive there, here the quietness is almost peaceful.

You cast your gaze down, examining the lines painted onto the walls and floor. Every now and then there are words written within: Advanced Laboratories. Research Laboratories. Imaging Department. Auditorium. Administrative Offices. These lines must serve as guides. If you follow them, you can probably get to their respective areas.

Opposite you there is a board, upon which office memos as well as notices for parties and events have been pinned.

Ikei Medical University Hospital cordially invites all staff to participate in the hospital’s annual All Hallow’s Eve celebration on October 31st for the children in the paediatrics ward!

All Hallow’s Eve is an European tradition where people dress up in various costumes to collect candy and celebrated primarily by kids. Staff are encouraged to cosplay imaginatively, but please do not go overboard with your designs!

We look forward to having fun together! Trick or Treat!

Ikei Medical University Hospital Reminder:

Global Life, Health and Medicine Convention

In conjunction with the event above, our hospital will play host to many renowned speakers. The speaker list is as follows:
  • Dr. Kinoshita Takuya (Ikei Medical University) – Psychosomatic Responses and Flashbacks: Symptoms & Management.
  • Dr. Sawamura Mieko (University of Tokyo) – Robotics in Surgery: An Overview for the Future.
  • Dr. Bryan Cooper (IAE Corporation) & Taketatsu Shinichi (Epicsoft Inc.) – Digitizing the Soul: Can Software Observe the Mind?
  • Prof. Frederic Gersthoff (Tϋbingen University) – Ghosts in the Machine: Phantom Illnesses.
  • Dr. Xu Xiaocao (Ikei Medical University) – The Placebo Effect: Facts and Myths of Acupuncture and Traditional Medicine.
The attendance fee for all staff has been waived. We hope you will make good use of this chance to advance your knowledge.

Thank you.

Your stomach rumbles. You will have to find food soon… perhaps you can assault one of the vending machines lying around.

***

15:46

A. You try to shake out the food politely. You remember seeing people do this on TV. It should work if you tilt it just right.

B. You smash the vending machine open. No time for pleasantries, and no one is around to get mad at you anyway.

C. You try to mess with the electronics that control the vending machine. You know what you are doing… you think.

D. You try to mess with the electronics that control the vending machine. You don’t know what you are doing, but there is no harm in trying, right?

***

That aside, you will also need to decide what to do next. You are not feeling at your best, but does that mean you should lounge around and rest?

***

A. You turn around and go back through the corridor, to the physiotherapy building. The ghost does not seem to be around anymore, and you might be able to search for the rest of your companions without being harassed by it. They may be in need of your help.

B. You decide to investigate the research building while you are here. Since so much time has inexplicably passed, you are quite certain they would have moved on too. If you did not trust them to be able to take care of themselves, you would not have split up.
1. You search the Advanced Laboratories.
2. You search the Research Laboratories.
3. You search the Imaging Department.
4. You search the Auditorium.
5. You search the Administrative Offices.

C. You feel like taking a well-deserved break in a more comfortable location. You seek out the nearest lounge and rest your feet in there. You think it is probably best if you don’t push yourself too hard: you don’t know when you will be able to escape, after all.
 

Azira

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Yeah, let's unlock more memories. I'm aiming for an achievement here. ;)


Also, since there was supposed to be a conference, why not check the auditorium?
 

Akkudakku

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C B4. I want to go to the conference.

Also treave is dropping a bone towards the VR thing I sugested, how cewl +M

But then again it might be true :p
 

oscar

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I don't think we can just take every skill that's offered to us. We should choose them carefully.
 

treave

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All Hallow's Eve Party Notice

***

Ikei Medical University Hospital cordially invites all staff to participate in the hospital’s annual All Hallow’s Eve celebration on October 31st for the children in the paediatrics ward!

All Hallow’s Eve is an European tradition where people dress up in various costumes to collect candy and celebrated primarily by kids. Staff are encouraged to cosplay imaginatively, but please do not go overboard with your designs!

We look forward to having fun together! Trick or Treat!


***

There are cutesy devils and witches decorating the notice. A date is stamped on the notice: 20th October 2014
 
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treave

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Conference Speaker Notice

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Ikei Medical University Hospital Reminder:

Global Life, Health and Medicine Convention

In conjunction with the event above, our hospital will play host to many renowned speakers. The speaker list is as follows:
  • Dr. Kinoshita Takuya (Ikei Medical University) – Psychosomatic Responses and Flashbacks: Symptoms & Management.
  • Dr. Sawamura Mieko (University of Tokyo) – Robotics in Surgery: An Overview for the Future.
  • Dr. Bryan Cooper (IAE Corporation) & Taketatsu Shinichi (Epicsoft Inc.) – Digitizing the Soul: Can Software Observe the Mind?
  • Prof. Frederic Gersthoff (Tϋbingen University) – Ghosts in the Machine: Phantom Illnesses.
  • Dr. Xu Xiaocao (Ikei Medical University) – The Placebo Effect: Facts and Myths of Acupuncture and Traditional Medicine.
The attendance fee for all staff has been waived. We hope you will make good use of this chance to advance your knowledge.

Thank you.

***

Pictures of the speakers accompany their names on the list. The notice is dated 18th October 2014.
 
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Akkudakku

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We can take all skills if we are real TNO, with countless groundhog days we could have learned everything there is to learn.
 

treave

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Current tally:

A - 2
B - 5
C - 6

A - 4
B2 - 1
B3 - 1
B4 - 4
B5 - 1
C - 2
 
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treave

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You are concerned about Mitsuki and Amanozaki. Though you can no longer be sure that they are still where you left them – or that they are even alive – you cannot leave them to fend for themselves. They had not been your acquaintances for long, but you still feel, strangely enough, a certain responsibility for their predicament. You do not understand why, but it pushes you forward nonetheless.

You advance bravely back down the corridor, snacking on the chips you stole from the vending machine. A tweak here, a crossed wire there, and the treasures of the machine were free to be plundered. At the same time, it leaves you wondering about your past. Having a skill for any situation appears to be handy, but on the other hand, the convenience leaves you feeling uneasy…

Has the corridor always been this long?

It almost seems like you have not been making any progress in the past few minutes; the exit seems just as far away as it ever was… and turning back, the entrance is the same distance away. A restless disquiet nestles in your heart as you quicken your footsteps. Yes, perhaps you were just imagining things again – this time, you make progress towards the exit, as it draws steadily closer. Your feet leave the carpeted walkway and touch down on the smooth tiles of the hospital proper. Finally, you are back… yet something seems wrong.

This is not the physiotherapy building, is it?

There are doors leading to wards.

There is a nurse station.

The place is familiar to you: this is not the physiotherapy building – you have returned to the main hospital building, where you started off. According to the layout of the hospital as you understand it, this should be impossible. The corridor between the physiotherapy building and the research facilities could not lead anywhere else… but here you are. The peaceful quiet in the research building has faded away entirely; it has been swallowed up by a dark, heavy silence, broken only by intermittent rumbles of thunder in some far off place as the rain splashes itself against the windows. The weather had been clear when you crossed the bridge with its glass canopy… the rain seems to have started falling out of nowhere.

Your fingers involuntarily tighten around the pack of chips, crumpling it.

What do I do now?

***

23:00

A. Turn around again and head back down the corridor. Perhaps you might end up where you want to be this time, or back in the research building, or even somewhere unexpected... perhaps there is a bit of petulance and defiance influencing this decision… but you will take that risk.

B. Descend to the main lobby. If there is any place at all you can find people gathered, that is the most likely location. It is probable that Mitsuki and Amanozaki returned here if they left the locker room, too. You need to figure out what is going on, and for that, it is better if you find the others first.
 
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oscar

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B. Little reason to go back right now.

Having a skill for any situation appears to be handy, but on the other hand, the convenience leaves you feeling uneasy

You bet your ass we're paying a hidden cost for new skills.
 

a cut of domestic sheep prime

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If we can stay alive a bit longer, it will mean this is the first whole day we've survived. I rather wonder if the one's controlling all this brought us back to the main building for that reason. I rather wonder if they will let us survive into the next night.

B - let's find out.
 

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