ClubFloyd Transcript:
Divis Mortis by Lynnea Dally
As played on ifMUD on February 12, 2011

The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each week at a pre-arranged time, a group of people meet online to cooperatively play a game of interactive fiction.

Below is a transcript of Divis Mortis, written by Lynnea Dally. Divis Mortis was originally released as part of the 2010 Interactive Fiction Competition, where it took eleventh place. You can learn more about the game, including how to download it, by visiting the ifWiki.

WARNING! Below you will find a transcript of people playing this game, and it goes without saying that the transcript is full of spoilers. So, if you've never played this game, and think you might like to at some point, I do not recommend reading any further. Instead, you might want to return to the interactive fiction page.

Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You let out a deep and painful moan as you slowly realize you are
Floyd | awake on a cold, tiled surface.  Judging by the ache in your head and
Floyd | bones, you've been hit with a lead pipe and left to rot.  You grope at
Floyd | your head, but you can't feel anything, not through the thick rubber
Floyd | gloves you're wearing at any rate.  You flop over and moan again at
Floyd | the bright lights coming from the ceiling.  Your arm half-heartedly
Floyd | gropes around for something, and finds the metal railing of a vinyl
Floyd | bed.  You use it to steady your balance as you pull yourself up.  You
Floyd | close your eyes to help yourself adjust.
Floyd |
Floyd |  As your vision clears and your nausea subsides you are gifted with a
Floyd | very acute headache.  Feeling less groggy, a sudden realization of a
Floyd | deep, debilitating hunger nearly doubles you over in pain.  You can't
Floyd | remember how on earth this happened to you, but then retrograde
Floyd | amnesia is rather common in head trauma victims.  You take time to
Floyd | recover your senses, then assess the situation.
Floyd |
Floyd | Divis Mortis: an interactive survival game.
Floyd |
Floyd |  by lynnea dally
Floyd |
Floyd | Radiation Chamber
Floyd | You instantly recognize the special room of the hospital you are in;
Floyd | after all you've been working here for years.  You can see the
Floyd | delicate instruments of radiation treatment neatly positioned, ready
Floyd | to use. There is a worn green vinyl bed underneath the delicate
Floyd | machinery.  A quick glance around also finds you a smashed glass
Floyd | paperweight on the ground, which you suspect is the cause of your
Floyd | massive headache.  Your hunger is probably just from being knocked out
Floyd | for so long.  You also notice an airtight, electronic sealed door with
Floyd | a large button next to it.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go south to the Control Room.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You see the shattered remnants of what formerly appeared to be a
Floyd | glass paperweight. Small chunks of glass lie in a heap upon the floor
Floyd | None of them are large enough to cut anything.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You look at yourself and find that you're wearing a large-pocketed,
Floyd | long lab coat, with thick rubber gloves and white boots to match.
Floyd |

Floyd | >Deep white pockets, useful for carrying things.  Inside you can see
Floyd | nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | Searching more closely, you actually find your small good-luck compass
Floyd | in one of the pockets!  It will certainly prevent you from getting
Floyd | lost.
Floyd |

Floyd | >A small bauble. As far as navigation goes, it's not too terribly
Floyd | accurate but it can give you a general idea.
Floyd |

Floyd | >A semi-comfortable human-sized block of padding with a head pillow.
Floyd | The padding is covered in vinyl for easy sanitation.
Floyd |

Floyd | >Slightly thicker vinyl plush extending from the radiation bed in a
Floyd | predictable rectangle shape. The radiation equipment seems to be
Floyd | focusing on this spot.
Floyd |

Floyd | >A marvel of modern machinery and medicine, they offer hope to those
Floyd | who have little. This device will kill off cancer in rather precise
Floyd | locations with exposure to large amounts of radiation. Unfortunately,
Floyd | it kills many others things in the process. It appears to be targeting
Floyd | the head pillow of the radiation bed. Perhaps the last user had a
Floyd | brain tumor. It looks functional.
Floyd |

Floyd | >A large, round, inviting button. You just know it does something.
Floyd | Probably something with the door it is right next to.
Floyd |

Floyd | >There is nothing on the radiation bed.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |

Floyd | >An electronic door, sealed tightly to keep out radiation. There is a
Floyd | large exit button clearly labeled next to the door. You can only
Floyd | assume this is in case a patient panics and tries to run out.  The
Floyd | airtight door is closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | You feel weak from hunger.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You look at yourself and find that you're wearing a large-pocketed,
Floyd | long lab coat, with thick rubber gloves and white boots to match.
Floyd |

Floyd | >A large, round, inviting button. You just know it does something.
Floyd | Probably something with the door it is right next to.
Floyd |

Floyd | >The airtight door slides open.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | Radiation Controls
Floyd | As expected, you see a computer control system. What you did not
Floyd | expect is to see are two dead bodies. The first is a woman slumped in
Floyd | the northeast corner with her head blown out. The other, a desiccated
Floyd | and decaying male with a coat and badge lies frozen in a crawling
Floyd | motion.  Your neck hair prickles, your stomach churns and your mind
Floyd | reels.  "Zombie," your mind whispers, but you are having trouble
Floyd | believing it.  The stench of the dead fills the room.
Floyd |
Floyd |  To your dismay, you see another locked door, this time with a
Floyd | cardswipe next to it.  Why can't doors just be always open?  After
Floyd | reflecting on it for a moment, you are quite glad that these doors are
Floyd | here; the barrier probably saved you from... whatever is going on
Floyd | outside.  You probably owe your lives to these annoying doors.
Floyd |
Floyd |  You can go north to the Radiation Chamber or south to the First Floor
Floyd | Hall.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You fight back waves of nausea. You feel as though you've seen many
Floyd | dead bodies in your life, but this one will give you nightmares, if
Floyd | you're ever able to sleep again. You gently remove the security badge
Floyd | from his blue lab coat as if the slightest touch might wake him. His
Floyd | mottled and rotting skin does not stir.
Floyd |
Floyd | A sharp pain from your temples almost make you cry aloud.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by four points.]
Floyd |

Floyd | >A series of buttons and sliders that adjust the strength and location
Floyd | of the machine.  There is a large, conveniently labeled "start"
Floyd | button.  You can also make out instruments adjusting the angle and
Floyd | intensity, but you don't want to mess with the direction or intensity
Floyd | buttons.  There is an emergency seal button in the very top corner.
Floyd |

Floyd | >She is a middle aged, slightly heavy woman. The name tag on her shirt
Floyd | identifies her as Madelyn Grea, a senior technician. She has been shot
Floyd | through the jaw, and there is a vast quantity of blood staining her
Floyd | shirt and pooled on the ground around her. There is a handgun in her
Floyd | right hand and cartridges surrounding her. With your amateur detective
Floyd | skills, you deduce that she killed the attacking man and then took her
Floyd | own life.
Floyd |

Floyd | >The dead woman's fingers are gripping the gun tightly. With a shudder
Floyd | of distaste, you realize you'll have to open her hand first.
Floyd |

Floyd | >The gun clatters from her nerveless fingers to the floor.
Floyd |

Floyd | >Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | A nice slab of steak sounds perfect right now.
Floyd |
Floyd | You pause a moment, as your pain makes it difficult to concentrate.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You don't want spent bullets.
Floyd |

Floyd | >A standard 9mm handgun, as far as you can tell.  The etchings
Floyd | indicate that it is a Glock 17, but you're not sure what that means.
Floyd | The chamber is empty.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You wouldn't impersonate her that well.
Floyd |

Floyd | >The most disgusting corpse you believe you have ever seen. The flesh
Floyd | is withered and seems to have been preserved while in the midst of
Floyd | rotting. Judging by the holes in the clothes, he appears to have been
Floyd | shot in the torso and head several times, but there is a distinct lack
Floyd | of blood. Judging by the crooked angle of his legs, at least one had
Floyd | been broken. His fingernails are peeled back, and his left arm is
Floyd | outstretched towards the dead woman: grasping the floor as if he had
Floyd | been crawling towards her with an intense amount of effort. Upon
Floyd | closer inspection, you discover that the man is not "missing" a head,
Floyd | per se, there blasted apart pieces of skull littering the room. All of
Floyd | the bone fragments are covered with coagulated blood and rotting meat.
Floyd |
Floyd | You realize that you are looking at an actual zombie. Your heart and
Floyd | breath quicken. If a person wearing a staff uniform has been infected,
Floyd | then who knows the extent of the plague, and how it spreads? You are
Floyd | not sure you can rely on the standard movie bite as the only mode of
Floyd | transmission.  It might be spread by more casual contact, or even
Floyd | airborne. You resolve to survive.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You really want to get rid of this headache.
Floyd |

Floyd | >That's disgusting. You don't want to interfere with a future police
Floyd | investigation and you certainly don't want to expose yourself to
Floyd | whatever disease he's got, even with protective gloves. You leave him
Floyd | put.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |

Floyd | >Nothing but more blood.
Floyd |

Floyd | >Nothing here but internal organs.
Floyd |

Floyd | >The door whooshes open with the wave of your plastic.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | First Floor Hall
Floyd | You walk into a central hub of nondescript, pristinely sterile
Floyd | hospital hallway. The lights flicker with the dim light of the
Floyd | emergency power generator. The lack of noise sends a chill down your
Floyd | spine. Where there should be doctors rushing, nurses chatting, and
Floyd | patients complaining, you hear absolutely nothing. You wonder if this
Floyd | building has been quarantined off or if the infection has spread
Floyd | beyond it. You are thankful that there are no more signs of trouble:
Floyd | no blood on the walls, no corpses on the ground. Then again, this does
Floyd | make your situation more uncertain.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go north to the Radiation Controls, south to the Elevator,
Floyd | east to the Hospital Entry, or west to the Cafeteria.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | Cafeteria
Floyd | Where sterile halls and clean, empty rooms have dominated nearly all
Floyd | of the hospital, the Cafeteria's vile stench precedes it a full
Floyd | hallway in advance. The Cafeteria has been thoroughly raided.
Floyd | Overturned bins of food, broken jugs of milk and other liquids have
Floyd | all swirled together into a rotting pool of sludge.  There are
Floyd | still-sealed bottles of water that have managed to escape the ooze.
Floyd |
Floyd | A stove had been serving as a barricade to the kitchen, but it has
Floyd | been shoved aside and overturned.  You also note some blood and bloody
Floyd | blunt objects.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go north to the Kitchen or east to the First Floor Hall.
Floyd |

Floyd | >A disgusting mix of undecipherable food, liquids and now mold.
Floyd | Looking around at the pooled filth you wonder why all this food was
Floyd | wasted.
Floyd |

Floyd | >(sealed bottles)
Floyd | Bottles of water that are still sealed and not covered in goo.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your stomach rumbles in hunger.
Floyd |

Floyd | >(the water bottle)
Floyd | Water will always come in handy, and you are certain that with the
Floyd | seal it is safe to drink, providing you are very careful where you put
Floyd | your lips.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by four points.]
Floyd |

Floyd | >Bloody trays, a skillet, a chair leg and even cooking utensils are
Floyd | strewn about the room.  They might have been marginally useful against
Floyd | invading hordes, but now most of them are shattered or bent or plain
Floyd | unwieldy from over-use.  The skillet looks like it is in the best
Floyd | condition.
Floyd |
Floyd |  Judging by the way the blood has dried, they were used against
Floyd | humans, not zombies.
Floyd |
Floyd | You feel weak from hunger.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd |  The perfect thing for fighting off the undead and frying up some
Floyd | eggs.  You are certain it will come in handy for one of those things.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by three points.]
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd | You now realize where all the bodies are - in the kitchen.  You see
Floyd | rows upon rows of neatly stacked and cleaned dead bodies, ranging from
Floyd | cafeteria workers to janitors to patients and doctors, all forming a
Floyd | macabre scene.
Floyd |
Floyd |  Tearing your eyes away from the gruesome pile, you look around and
Floyd | notice a chaos of canned food.  That is probably what the survivors
Floyd | were fighting over - the promise of eating something that is
Floyd | untainted.  There is also a huge stainless steel walk-in freezer, not
Floyd | to mention rows of promising cabinets.  In the far corner you can see
Floyd | a tin trash container and a plastic blue recycling bin.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go south to the Cafeteria.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You rifle through the various cans of food and grab the nice-looking
Floyd | can of chickpeas.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You open the cabinets, revealing a microwave.
Floyd |
Floyd | A nice slab of steak sounds perfect right now.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You see dozens more bodies stacked up in a neat row; with corpses
Floyd | piled several layers high.  They are stacked higher towards the end,
Floyd | forming a slope.  While the power had been on, you were sure that the
Floyd | cold had helped keep these bodies hidden and preserved.  The power has
Floyd | apparently been off for some time now, as many of the bodies have
Floyd | started to melt into one another.
Floyd |
Floyd | The stench, which had been sealed off, is now overwhelming and more
Floyd | repulsive than you can even imagine.  Barely suppressing the urge to
Floyd | vomit, faint or do both, you close the freezer and back away.  As you
Floyd | back away from the freezer, you stumble over one of the dead bodies,
Floyd | knocking it out of line.  You really hope that someone is not going to
Floyd | care about that because you are too disgusted to fix it.
Floyd |

Floyd | >The plastic blue recycling bin is empty.
Floyd |

Floyd | >The tin trash container is empty.
Floyd |

Floyd | >Someone has neatly arranged bodies into a row, with the shortest
Floyd | person in the middle and taller people on either sides.  They all show
Floyd | signs of a bloody struggle with serious injuries - some have had their
Floyd | heads bashed in, some are missing body parts or have obvious amounts
Floyd | of strong internal bleeding.  They have all been cleaned up as much as
Floyd | possible, closed their eyes and even pushed their cheeks into a smile.
Floyd | Someone put a lot of time into doing this.
Floyd |
Floyd | You survey them one by one.  You see nobody you recognize, but perhaps
Floyd | that is only because you don't remember them.  It appears as though
Floyd | only a few of them had actually turned; the rest seem to lack bite
Floyd | marks and only have wounds from fighting.  Whoever lined them up also
Floyd | seems to have taken everything useful from them - they lack food,
Floyd | weapons, keys, and don't even have their wallets or ID cards.
Floyd |

Floyd | >A boxy device used to heat up things.  It looks like it's a decade
Floyd | old at least, and the useless power cable has been ripped out from the
Floyd | back of the machine.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You open the microwave but the light don't come on.  In fact, none of
Floyd | the lights are on.  The machine is quite broken.
Floyd |

Floyd | >It's a useless hunk of metal.  It wouldn't even be wieldy enough to
Floyd | use to bludgeon.
Floyd |

Floyd | >(the can of chickpeas with skillet)
Floyd | Violence is never the answer, except when it comes to survival.  Well,
Floyd | even now, it's not really going to help.
Floyd |

Floyd | >(the can of chickpeas (unclean))
Floyd | A metal can containing chickpeas.  Happily for you, it is the kind you
Floyd | can open without a can opener.
Floyd |

Floyd | >(the can of chickpeas)
Floyd | You achieve nothing by this.
Floyd |
Floyd | A collective moan arises from the rest of the city.  It echoes and is
Floyd | joined by more moans until a distance or origin point is simply
Floyd | indeterminable.  The voice of the despairing dead slowly peter out,
Floyd | but their message for you remains.  They are determined, and they do
Floyd | not sleep, and they are always hungry, always desperate.  You better
Floyd | prepare your defenses.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You open the water bottle.
Floyd | You take a small sip.
Floyd |
Floyd | To protect the water as best as you can, you close it tight again.
Floyd |

Floyd | >That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |

Floyd | >(the can of chickpeas (unclean))
Floyd | Putting things on the can of chickpeas (unclean) would achieve
Floyd | nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your stomach rumbles in hunger.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | Cafeteria
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | First Floor Hall
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | Radiation Controls
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | Radiation Chamber
Floyd |

Floyd | >You put the can of chickpeas (unclean) on the pillow of the radiation
Floyd | bed.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | Radiation Controls
Floyd |

Floyd | >A beeping emanates from the door frame as the airtight door slides
Floyd | itself closed.  The machine hums.  You hum along with it.  The machine
Floyd | stops humming.  You have just completely sanitized a can of chickpeas.
Floyd | The airtight door slides itself open.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |  You hear the faint sound of breathing and shuffling feet. You close
Floyd | your eyes and hope you are mistaken.  But the noise only gets louder.
Floyd | In horror, you slowly turn around and are greeted by a young man
Floyd | wearing a wearing a ripped, knee-length black skirt, ripped hose and a
Floyd | garishly large green jacket, darkened in spots with blood.  The makeup
Floyd | on his face is smudged, and it's hard to tell where the lipstick ends
Floyd | and the blood begins.  As he stumbles towards you, you realize that he
Floyd | probably didn't come from inside the hospital.  The zombie's eyes seem
Floyd | to fix on their newest target, and a gaping mouth opens ever-wider as
Floyd | the stumbling intensifies.
Floyd |
Floyd | You stand your ground and prepare of battle.  You have only a moment
Floyd | before blood-stained jaws clamp down upon you.
Floyd |

Floyd | >(zombie crossdresser with skillet)
Floyd | Wielding your best weapon (the skillet) you charge and scream as you
Floyd | run towards the crossdresser, putting all your force into a
Floyd | beautifully-arched swing.  The metal makes contact with the skull, and
Floyd | you hear the crackling of bone as blood spurts of blood fly around
Floyd | you.   As the body of the former person falls to the ground, the blood
Floyd | around the skull wound and splattered onto the frying pan clots almost
Floyd | instantly.  The handle to the skillet breaks and is torn from your
Floyd | hand by the force.  You duck your head away to minimize contact with
Floyd | flying debris.
Floyd |
Floyd |  The now broken skillet clatters to the ground.  You'd better find a
Floyd | real weapon.  Despite the racket, no more zombies come, and you can
Floyd | only assume you were lucky enough that they simply didn't hear.  You
Floyd | slump in a corner, and quiver for minutes before being able to so much
Floyd | as stand again.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | Radiation Chamber
Floyd | On the head pillow is a can of chickpeas (closed).
Floyd |

Floyd | >Taken.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You remove the lid, salivating at the prospect of food.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You scarf the vegetables down, eager to have something to eat at
Floyd | last.  You hardly feel satisfied at all, and even a little queasy.
Floyd | You recall hearing about the difficulties people have eating after
Floyd | long bouts of starvation.  Or maybe you just never liked chickpeas.
Floyd | You feel an unusual craving for some meatloaf, but at least your
Floyd | hunger pains are satiated.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by four points.]
Floyd |

Floyd | >Enter saved game to store: Ok.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | Radiation Controls
Floyd |

Floyd | >Divis Mortis is now in its "verbose" mode, which always gives long
Floyd | descriptions of locations (even if you've been there before).
Floyd |

Floyd | >He was a sort of crossdresser, and a darned good one at that too.  If
Floyd | it wasn't for his (now bloody) adam's apple and lanky walk, you'd have
Floyd | mistaken him for a woman.  His skirt, already short, is ripped.  One
Floyd | of his shoes fell off, and his bright green jacket has been covered in
Floyd | blood.  His makeup was nice, but his face has been completely
Floyd | destroyed.
Floyd |

Floyd | >I'm not sure what "him" refers to.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | First Floor Hall
Floyd | A central hub of nondescript, pristinely sterile hospital hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go north to the Radiation Controls, south to the Elevator,
Floyd | east to the Hospital Entry, or west to the Cafeteria.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | Entry Hall
Floyd | The grand entrance to the Calypso Hospital, dead bodies hang from
Floyd | ropes tied to the previously majestic arches and pillars.  There is a
Floyd | series of abandoned check-in counters. There are various benches along
Floyd | the hallway, as well as couches and a small table littered with
Floyd | magazines. The large glass sliding door to the outside displays a
Floyd | thick, ominous fog. You think you see figures moving in the fog, but
Floyd | then again, you might just be playing tricks on yourself.
Floyd |
Floyd |  You can go north to the Gift Shop, south to the Pharmacy, east to the
Floyd | Hospital Exterior, west to the First Floor Hallway and northwest to
Floyd | the Physical Therapy room.
Floyd |

Floyd | >Impressively large sheets of glass with great visibility.  There is a
Floyd | thick fog outside.  You think you can see figures moving outside, but
Floyd | you're not quite sure.  You worry about invaders coming.
Floyd |

Floyd | >What do you want to lock the sliding glass doors with?
Floyd |

Floyd | >A series of desks where employees check in patients, as the name
Floyd | suggests. Everyone has abandoned them; you don't even see hints of
Floyd | blood or struggle. They are just empty. Aside from that, you see
Floyd | nothing spectacular about them.
Floyd |

Floyd | >A lightweight but sturdy flat surface used to hold the typical
Floyd | variety of tattered hospital magazines. The coffee table is basically
Floyd | made up of a flat wooden rectangular plank attached to a thin
Floyd | supporting column with a weighted metal base.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |

Floyd | >Violence is never the answer, except when it comes to survival.
Floyd | Well, even now, it's not really going to help.
Floyd |

Floyd | >The coffee table, while moveable, is hardly portable. You would have
Floyd | a difficult time trying to take it anywhere past a few feet without
Floyd | thoroughly exhausting yourself.
Floyd |

Floyd | >The coffee table is pretty big to just be pushing it around willy
Floyd | nilly.  You could manage to push it to the doors, if you wanted.
Floyd |

Floyd | >While the coffee table does have a nice flat surface perfect for
Floyd | blocking the visibility of the glass doors, the coffee table itself
Floyd | isn't stable enough to stand up by itself.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by four points.]
Floyd |

Floyd | >They are too heavy for you to push, but a good idea.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |

Floyd | >Entry Hall
Floyd | The grand entrance to the Calypso Hospital, dead bodies hang from
Floyd | ropes tied to the arches.  There is a series of abandoned check-in
Floyd | counters. There are various benches along the hallway, as well as
Floyd | couches and a small table littered with magazines. The large glass
Floyd | sliding door to the outside displays a thick, ominous fog. You think
Floyd | you see figures moving in the fog, but then again, you might just be
Floyd | playing tricks on yourself.
Floyd |
Floyd |  You can go north to the Gift Shop, south to the Pharmacy, east to the
Floyd | Hospital Exterior, west to the First Floor Hallway and northwest to
Floyd | the Physical Therapy room.
Floyd |

Floyd | >Impressively large sheets of glass with great visibility.  There is a
Floyd | thick fog outside.  You think you can see figures moving outside, but
Floyd | you're not quite sure.  You worry about invaders coming.
Floyd |

Floyd | >Enter saved game to store: Ok.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You gather your strength and with a grunt heave the huge bench in
Floyd | front of the great glass sliding doors, the legs of the bench
Floyd | screeching horribly as they drag across the stone floor.  You tip it
Floyd | over so that the top is pressing against the glass doors.  The doors
Floyd | try to swing open inward, but they make it only a few inches before
Floyd | being effectively stopped.
Floyd |
Floyd |  Unfortunately, the loud noise so close to the entrance has attracted
Floyd | a lot of attention; the undead press in against the entry,
Floyd | lethargically banging at the glass doors.  More keep coming.  Some
Floyd | attempt to climb through, and fail.  It would be difficult for any
Floyd | zombies to get in, but you feel uneasy.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by four points.]
Floyd |

Floyd | >You finalize the front door barricade with the large wooden table.
Floyd | Now you can't see out the doors, and zombies can't see in.  Many of
Floyd | the zombies outside lose interest and shamble away.  After a bit, the
Floyd | front door sensors decide that the bench and table are stationary, and
Floyd | stop trying to open against them.
Floyd |  You feel much safer.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | Physical Therapy Room
Floyd | Full of various exercising equipment, this place is designed to start
Floyd | people on the path to getting stronger, but you are certain that there
Floyd | is a larger place off-facility for when people are able to leave the
Floyd | hospital.  You see exercise balls, stretchy rubber ropes, stationary
Floyd | bicycles, massage tables, stair stepping blocks and doctor chairs.
Floyd | This place is still bright and cheery looking - no blood, no bodies,
Floyd | just orange walls and brightly colored equipment.  All of the free
Floyd | weights and weight bars you remember being here have been stolen.
Floyd | There goes your shot at a sweet bludgeoning weapon from here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go southeast to the Entry Hall.
Floyd |

Floyd | >Bouncy, large rubber balls for doing yoga and various other kinds of
Floyd | exercise.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You fiddle with it for a few minutes then put it in your pocket for
Floyd | later.
Floyd |

Floyd | >A chair with no back and five sets of wheely legs.
Floyd |

Floyd | >Stackable blocks used to do aerobics on.  You can combine the blocks
Floyd | to form all sorts of stairs.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You see nothing unexpected.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | Entry Hall
Floyd | The grand entrance to the Calypso Hospital, dead bodies hang from
Floyd | ropes tied to the previously majestic arches and pillars.  There is a
Floyd | series of abandoned check-in counters.  There are various benches
Floyd | along the hallway, as well as couches and magazines.  You can't see
Floyd | anything out of the sliding glass doors, thanks to the coffee table
Floyd | and bench barricade.
Floyd |
Floyd |  You can go north to the Gift Shop, south to the Pharmacy, east to the
Floyd | Hospital Exterior, west to the First Floor Hallway and northwest to
Floyd | the Physical Therapy room.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | Gift Shop
Floyd | An assortment of gifts and necessities, designed to milk more money
Floyd | out of patients and their visiting families. The place is quiet and
Floyd | poorly lit, lending to a dystopian atmosphere. There are rows and rows
Floyd | of low shelves containing gift cards, knick-knacks, flowers and
Floyd | balloons.  There is a section containing flashlights, lamps and
Floyd | batteries especially catches your eye.
Floyd |
Floyd |  You glance around the store.  Not seeing any figures past the shelves
Floyd | is somewhat comforting, but you can't shake the image of a fallen
Floyd | zombie hidden somewhere beneath one of the shelves, just waiting for
Floyd | someone to wander close enough.  You shudder.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go south to the the Entry Hall.
Floyd |

Floyd | >Looking at the wall of assorted batteries, you decide that you should
Floyd | stock up on all sizes and shapes. You grab a package of everything
Floyd | from AAA to DD, and even a few tiny circle ones to be sure. You never
Floyd | know what size battery you might need.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You're unsure what a flashlight is doing in a hospital gift store, as
Floyd | you are sure that it won't make anyone feel any better.  The
Floyd | flashlight is wrapped in a plastic container. You get one.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by two points.]
Floyd |

Floyd | >(the flashlight (wrapped))
Floyd | You rip at the plastic crap, but you never could do it with your bare
Floyd | hands.  You need a sharp object.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You are carrying:
Floyd |   a flashlight (wrapped)
Floyd |   some batteries
Floyd |   a stretchy rubber rope
Floyd |   empty can
Floyd |   a water bottle
Floyd |   a handgun (empty)
Floyd |   a security badge
Floyd |   a compass
Floyd |   a lab coat (being worn)
Floyd |   thick rubber gloves (being worn)
Floyd |   white boots (being worn)
Floyd |

Floyd | >Name magnetic license plates, curio windmills, figurines, glasses and
Floyd | all sorts of other assorted bits of junk manufactured by starving
Floyd | people in China for the passing amusement and inevitable disposal.
Floyd | There is nothing that looks even remotely useful here.  Tourist-trap
Floyd | grade junk.
Floyd |

Floyd | >There sure are a lot of shelves.  They are all uninteresting, except
Floyd | for the various for-sale cards, balloons, batteries, flashlights and
Floyd | lamps.
Floyd |

Floyd | >Something native to all hospital gift stores, the assortment of
Floyd | crinkly aluminum get-well balloons. They have everything from teddy
Floyd | bears to cute kittens to just plain "Get well soon".
Floyd |

Floyd | >You seriously doubt that you will ever have need for balloons with
Floyd | get-well inscriptions. Perhaps you can give it to the next zombie you
Floyd | see, and it will be touched at your heart-felt intentions enough not
Floyd | to eat you alive.  Nevertheless, taken.
Floyd |

Floyd | >A completely emptied tin can, complete with the pull-off top.
Floyd |

Floyd | >(the flashlight with empty can)
Floyd | That doesn't seem to be something you can unlock.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |

Floyd | >(the happy birthday card)
Floyd | "Your special day, today it's like the world is made just for you!"
Floyd |

Floyd | >(the flashlight with empty can)
Floyd | That doesn't seem to be something you can unlock.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |

Floyd | >A shelf with a few electric lamps.  Neat.
Floyd |

Floyd | >Thick, with a killer sole.  They're actually completely inappropriate
Floyd | for a real hospital worker to be wearing, it was probably just the
Floyd | shoes you wore on your way to work when it was raining.  Still, they
Floyd | look pretty badass.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | Entry Hall
Floyd | The grand entrance to the Calypso Hospital, dead bodies hang from
Floyd | ropes tied to the previously majestic arches and pillars.  There is a
Floyd | series of abandoned check-in counters.  There are various benches
Floyd | along the hallway, as well as couches and magazines.  You can't see
Floyd | anything out of the sliding glass doors, thanks to the coffee table
Floyd | and bench barricade.
Floyd |
Floyd |  You can go north to the Gift Shop, south to the Pharmacy, east to the
Floyd | Hospital Exterior, west to the First Floor Hallway and northwest to
Floyd | the Physical Therapy room.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | First Floor Hall
Floyd | A central hub of nondescript, pristinely sterile hospital hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go north to the Radiation Controls, south to the Elevator,
Floyd | east to the Hospital Entry, or west to the Cafeteria.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | First Floor Elevator
Floyd | You stand outside of the elevator.  Looking at the elevator lights
Floyd | above the elevator door, you notice that there are two floors, plus
Floyd | probably a basement.  The great steel elevator doors are closed.  To
Floyd | the west you see a staircase.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go north to the First Floor Hall, or west to the First Floor
Floyd | Staircase.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |

Floyd | >Tall, steel and firmly shut.  Without electricity running to it, you
Floyd | worry that you probably won't be able to open it at all.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | First Floor Staircase
Floyd | On the walls, you can see a broken fire extinguisher box, and an
Floyd | emergency escape map.
Floyd |
Floyd | The staircase leading up is blocked halfway by piles upon piles of
Floyd | furniture.  You can see a small passage in the top of the barricade.
Floyd | As for the stairway down, a large chunk of concrete staircase has gone
Floyd | missing.  You think you could navigate down, but he darkness of the
Floyd | basement worries you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go east to the First Floor Elevator, northeast to the First
Floyd | Floor Hall, up to the Second Floor Staircase or down to the Basement.
Floyd |

Floyd | >Someone has yanked off the box's little complimentary glass breaker
Floyd | and smashed the glass, taking the fire extinguisher.  Aside from glass
Floyd | shards, the only thing you see is a guide on which types of
Floyd | extinguishers to use on which types of fires.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You decide to ditch the idea of pocketing the cut hazard; even the
Floyd | tiniest nick creates a huge vector for infection.  There must be less
Floyd | dangerous ways to cut things open.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You need something sharp to cut that with.
Floyd |

Floyd | >I only understood you as far as wanting to cut plastic flashlight
Floyd | wrapping.
Floyd |

Floyd | >I only understood you as far as wanting to cut plastic flashlight
Floyd | wrapping.
Floyd |

Floyd | >I only understood you as far as wanting to cut plastic flashlight
Floyd | wrapping.
Floyd |

Floyd | >I only understood you as far as wanting to cut plastic flashlight
Floyd | wrapping.
Floyd |

Floyd | >A painstakingly erected barricade made of piled up furniture.  There
Floyd | is a small hole at the top that seems stable enough for you to climb
Floyd | through if it wasn't just out of your reach
Floyd |

Floyd | >You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | First Floor Hall
Floyd | A central hub of nondescript, pristinely sterile hospital hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go north to the Radiation Controls, south to the Elevator,
Floyd | east to the Hospital Entry, west to the Cafeteria or southwest to the
Floyd | First Floor Staircase.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | Entry Hall
Floyd | The grand entrance to the Calypso Hospital, dead bodies hang from
Floyd | ropes tied to the previously majestic arches and pillars.  There is a
Floyd | series of abandoned check-in counters.  There are various benches
Floyd | along the hallway, as well as couches and magazines.  You can't see
Floyd | anything out of the sliding glass doors, thanks to the coffee table
Floyd | and bench barricade.
Floyd |
Floyd |  You can go north to the Gift Shop, south to the Pharmacy, east to the
Floyd | Hospital Exterior, west to the First Floor Hallway and northwest to
Floyd | the Physical Therapy room.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | Physical Therapy Room
Floyd | Full of various exercising equipment, this place is designed to start
Floyd | people on the path to getting stronger, but you are certain that there
Floyd | is a larger place off-facility for when people are able to leave the
Floyd | hospital.  You see exercise balls, stationary bicycles, massage
Floyd | tables, stair stepping blocks and doctor chairs.  This place is still
Floyd | bright and cheery looking - no blood, no bodies, just orange walls and
Floyd | brightly colored equipment.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go southeast to the Entry Hall.
Floyd |

Floyd | >They look a little too bulky to carry, but you feel as though you
Floyd | could push them around if you wanted.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | You lug the the stair stepping blocks southeast to the Entry Hall.
Floyd |
Floyd | Entry Hall
Floyd | The grand entrance to the Calypso Hospital, dead bodies hang from
Floyd | ropes tied to the previously majestic arches and pillars.  There is a
Floyd | series of abandoned check-in counters.  There are various benches
Floyd | along the hallway, as well as couches and magazines.  You can't see
Floyd | anything out of the sliding glass doors, thanks to the coffee table
Floyd | and bench barricade.
Floyd |
Floyd |  You can go north to the Gift Shop, south to the Pharmacy, east to the
Floyd | Hospital Exterior, west to the First Floor Hallway and northwest to
Floyd | the Physical Therapy room.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | You lug the the stair stepping blocks west to the First Floor Hall.
Floyd |
Floyd | First Floor Hall
Floyd | A central hub of nondescript, pristinely sterile hospital hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go north to the Radiation Controls, south to the Elevator,
Floyd | east to the Hospital Entry, west to the Cafeteria or southwest to the
Floyd | First Floor Staircase.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | You lug the the stair stepping blocks southwest to the First Floor
Floyd | Staircase.
Floyd | You arrange the stair-stepping blocks to give you easy access to the
Floyd | floors up above.
Floyd |
Floyd | First Floor Staircase
Floyd | On the walls, you can see a broken fire extinguisher box, and an
Floyd | emergency escape map.
Floyd |
Floyd | The staircase leading up is blocked halfway by piles upon piles of
Floyd | furniture.  You can see a small passage in the top of the barricade.
Floyd | As for the stairway down, a large chunk of concrete staircase has gone
Floyd | missing.  You think you could navigate down, but he darkness of the
Floyd | basement worries you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go east to the First Floor Elevator, northeast to the First
Floyd | Floor Hall, up to the Second Floor Staircase or down to the Basement.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You climb on up the stair stepping blocks and make it to the second
Floyd | floor staircase.
Floyd |
Floyd | Second Floor Staircase
Floyd | The second floor of the Calypso Hospital.  The hospital you remember
Floyd | growing up with had seven stories, it always seemed small to you in
Floyd | that respect.  You briefly wonder what has happened to your other
Floyd | family members, then push the thought way down.  Survival first.  The
Floyd | majority of this floor is offices; they don't want to make sick people
Floyd | have to worry about stairs or elevators, you suppose.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see the ripped out hinges and a darkened rectangular wall halo
Floyd | the exact shape and size of a fire extinguisher box.  An emergency map
Floyd | is helpfully plastered to the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go east to the Second Floor Elevator, northeast to the Second
Floyd | Floor Hall, or down to the First Floor Staircase.
Floyd |

Floyd | >It's mounted to the wall.
Floyd |

Floyd | >Basically, it is telling you to go down the stairs and out the exits
Floyd | of which you are already aware.  Not actually very helpful.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | First Floor Staircase
Floyd | On the walls, you can see a broken fire extinguisher box, and an
Floyd | emergency escape map.
Floyd |
Floyd | The staircase leading up is blocked halfway by piles upon piles of
Floyd | furniture.  You can see a small passage in the top of the barricade
Floyd | which is now easily accessible thanks to the stair stepping blocks.
Floyd | As for the stairway down, a large chunk of concrete staircase has gone
Floyd | missing.  You think you could navigate down, but he darkness of the
Floyd | basement worries you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go east to the First Floor Elevator, northeast to the First
Floyd | Floor Hall, up to the Second Floor Staircase or down to the Basement.
Floyd |
Floyd | The stair stepping blocks have been pushed into this room.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You leave it; what if someone needs to know this information at some
Floyd | point in the future?
Floyd |

Floyd | >Water extinguishers are good for wood fires, CO2 extinguishers are
Floyd | good for electrical but bad for water, BC are multi-purpose
Floyd | extinguishers good for gas and electrical fires, and ABC extinguishers
Floyd | are multi-purpose extinguishers good for wood, gas and electrical.
Floyd | You feel enlightened.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You climb on up the stair stepping blocks and make it to the second
Floyd | floor staircase.
Floyd |
Floyd | Second Floor Staircase
Floyd | The majority of this floor is offices.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see the ripped out hinges and a darkened rectangular wall halo
Floyd | the exact shape and size of a fire extinguisher box.  An emergency map
Floyd | is helpfully plastered to the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go east to the Second Floor Elevator, northeast to the Second
Floyd | Floor Hall, or down to the First Floor Staircase.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | Second Floor Elevator
Floyd | The stainless steel doors here are jammed open, exposing a gap wide
Floyd | enough to enter the elevator cab.  The previously pristine steel doors
Floyd | have been covered with blood.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go north to the Second Floor Hall, west to the Second Floor
Floyd | Staircase or east to the Elevator Cab.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | Elevator Cab
Floyd | An elevator with padded walls, used to protect the metal against dings
Floyd | when they take gurneys up and down.  You can see the things typical of
Floyd | a elevator: the buttons, the lights and the emergency call box.  With
Floyd | the lack of power, this elevator has been deemed non-essential and is
Floyd | not working; none of the lights are on.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go west to the Second Floor Elevator.
Floyd |

Floyd | >This thing has a phone inside of it that alerts an emergency response
Floyd | team.  It is supposed to work in the event of a power failure.
Floyd |

Floyd | >Inside the box is an emergency phone.  It seems to be functional.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You pick up the phone and hear a dial tone.  Amazingly enough,
Floyd | someone is at the other end!  You nearly cry with relief at hearing
Floyd | another human voice.  You learn that a rescue operation was using the
Floyd | emergency call center as a base of operations.  You tell them that you
Floyd | are alive and trapped inside the hospital.
Floyd |
Floyd |  They assure you that a rescue team will be deployed quickly, and that
Floyd | there are other survivors who have barricaded themselves in the
Floyd | basement and are similarly waiting for help.  The rescuer advises that
Floyd | you join with them, as a strength in numbers approach is often best.
Floyd | They stress avoiding contact with possible sources of contamination.
Floyd |
Floyd |  You savor the human contact, but the man on the other line apologizes
Floyd | and lets you know he has to return to organizing rescues for other
Floyd | survivors.  He does strongly assure you that a rescue team will make
Floyd | it to the hospital as soon as it can clear a path.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by seven points.]
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | Second Floor Elevator
Floyd | The stainless steel doors here are jammed open, exposing a gap wide
Floyd | enough to enter the elevator cab.  The previously pristine steel doors
Floyd | have been covered with blood.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go north to the Second Floor Hall, west to the Second Floor
Floyd | Staircase or east to the Elevator Cab.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | Second Floor Hall
Floyd | Pristine and sterile, silent hallway, with no noises or anything in
Floyd | sight.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go north to the Medical Records, east to the Restrooms,
Floyd | northwest to the Security Station or southwest to the Second Floor
Floyd | Staircase.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | Security Station
Floyd | A small, cramped room with a single swivel chair, a huge monitor
Floyd | display and an ammo box.  There is no evidence of a barricade at all
Floyd | here, it appears as if the security guards on staff bravely went out
Floyd | and tried to fight the problem.  Perhaps they were the first ones who
Floyd | got turned by trying to detain the zombies instead of fighting them.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Second Floor Hall is to the southeast.
Floyd |

Floyd | >A sturdy black box.  There is nothing inside the ammo box.  You can
Floyd | see something glinting behind the ammunition box, though.
Floyd |

Floyd | >The glint behind the gun ammo box turns out to be a magazine of ammo.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |

Floyd | >(the gun ammo)
Floyd | You grab the ammo, ready to lock and load.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by four points.]
Floyd |

Floyd | >You need to be holding the ammunition box before you can put it into
Floyd | something else.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |

Floyd | >After fiddling around with the gun, you finally figure out how to
Floyd | shove the ammo into the gun, and hear a satisfying click.  You feel
Floyd | safe enough to venture outside.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by three points.]
Floyd |

Floyd | >A standard 9mm handgun, as far as you can tell.  The etchings
Floyd | indicate that it is a Glock 17, but you're not sure what that means.
Floyd | It has 6 clips left.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You had thought that security would have had some kind of power
Floyd | priority in the event of an emergency, but it appears that security
Floyd | monitors are not considered important in a life-support system.  All
Floyd | of the monitors are black.  But it does look rather impressive,
Floyd | nonetheless.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | Second Floor Hall
Floyd | Pristine and sterile, silent hallway, with no noises or anything in
Floyd | sight.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go north to the Medical Records, east to the Restrooms,
Floyd | northwest to the Security Station or southwest to the Second Floor
Floyd | Staircase.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | Medical Records
Floyd | Files and records and other such boring stuff dating back for months.
Floyd | The records over a year old are moved to the basement for storage.
Floyd | There are several documents from a bright orange folder that are
Floyd | scattered over a central table.  You can see a nearby administrator's
Floyd | office is open.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go northeast to the Office or south to the Second Floor Hall.
Floyd |

Floyd | >They look like regular patient files, except for the orange folder.
Floyd | In this hospital, that color is reserved for emergency cases -
Floyd | potential plagues, new diseases, resistant strains, or diseases of
Floyd | undeterminable transmission vector.  You are guessing that this is the
Floyd | original zombie victim's files.  First flipping casually through the
Floyd | files, you notice that there are several copies of the same documents.
Floyd | Several people were going over these files.
Floyd |
Floyd | The files talk about a John Doe victim who was bitten in the leg,
Floyd | punctured a major vessel, lost consciousness, and whose heart had
Floyd | stopped for 2 minutes.  The heart resumed function, and then the man
Floyd | jumped out of his stretcher and attacked several doctors with his
Floyd | teeth.  He had to be restrained, but not after biting several
Floyd | orderlies and other staff.
Floyd |
Floyd | Whenever he noticed anyone in the vicinity, he would mindlessly and
Floyd | completely devote himself to attacking and eating that person.  There
Floyd | is a note about his disease definitely being transmitted by bite - you
Floyd | guess this means the staff turned as well, but you suppose their
Floyd | records would be kept confidentially separate from this John Doe.  You
Floyd | suppose that they somehow passed the disease on themselves.
Floyd |
Floyd | This isn't really anything that you wouldn't have guessed yourself,
Floyd | except for a little addendum at the end: There are notes that several
Floyd | of the cancer patients did not get infected, even after they got
Floyd | bitten.  This knowledge will certainly come in handy fighting this
Floyd | disease.  You resolve to share it with the appropriate medical
Floyd | personnel.  If you ever survive, that is.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | Office
Floyd | A typical administrator's office, this is the only one you could find
Floyd | that is unlocked.  It is the office of administrator Richard Michaels,
Floyd | but that doesn't mean anything.  You can see a typical desk, a
Floyd | painting on the wall, medical cabinets, and an office chair.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go southwest to the Medical Records.
Floyd |

Floyd | >A sturdy wooden desk, there is a single piece of paper on the top:
Floyd | the fiscal report.  The desk has three large drawers on its left side.
Floyd | You also see a pen jar, a stapler and a telephone.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |

Floyd | >A bunch of graphs and charts.  Boring in regular life and especially
Floyd | so in the middle of an invasion.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You open the drawers and rifle through to see a pair of scissors and
Floyd | junk.
Floyd |

Floyd | >Just don't run with them.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by three points.]
Floyd |

Floyd | >I only understood you as far as wanting to run.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You cut that annoying plastic crap off the flashlight.  You flick it
Floyd | on, then off.  Looks like it came with batteries.  Huh.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by three points.]
Floyd |

Floyd | >You pick up the receiver and attempt to make a call, but there's no
Floyd | dial tone.  "Of course the phone wouldn't be working in an emergency,"
Floyd | you sigh.
Floyd |

Floyd | >A heavy metal stapler.
Floyd |

Floyd | >I believe that belongs to someone else.
Floyd |

Floyd | >Modern, abstract splatter art of green in a sort of... foliage
Floyd | pattern.  Rather pretty and calming.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You lift up the painting to reveal nothing but wall.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You see plenty of doctor's routine supplies.  Cotton balls, cotton
Floyd | swabs, face masks, wooden sticks, a reflex mallet, paper towels and
Floyd | latex gloves.
Floyd |

Floyd | >There is absolutely no way this thing would be useful as a weapon, or
Floyd | anything else.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You stash it in your lab coat.
Floyd |

Floyd | >Your tongue is depressed enough.
Floyd |

Floyd | >Stylish!
Floyd |

Floyd | >(thick rubber gloves)
Floyd | You already have that.
Floyd |

Floyd | >There is absolutely no situation where these would come in handy.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | Medical Records
Floyd | Files and records and other such boring stuff dating back for months.
Floyd | There are several documents from a bright orange folder that are
Floyd | scattered over a central table.  You can see a nearby administrator's
Floyd | office is open.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go northeast to the Office or south to the Second Floor Hall.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | Second Floor Hall
Floyd | Pristine and sterile, silent hallway, with no noises or anything in
Floyd | sight.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go north to the Medical Records, east to the Restrooms,
Floyd | northwest to the Security Station or southwest to the Second Floor
Floyd | Staircase.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | Second Floor Elevator
Floyd | The stainless steel doors here are jammed open, exposing a gap wide
Floyd | enough to enter the elevator cab.  The previously pristine steel doors
Floyd | have been covered with blood.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go north to the Second Floor Hall, west to the Second Floor
Floyd | Staircase or east to the Elevator Cab.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | Elevator Cab
Floyd | An elevator with padded walls, used to protect the metal against dings
Floyd | when they take gurneys up and down.  You can see the things typical of
Floyd | a elevator: the buttons, the lights and the emergency call box.  With
Floyd | the lack of power, this elevator has been deemed non-essential and is
Floyd | not working; none of the lights are on.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go west to the Second Floor Elevator.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You have already called, help is on the way!  Barricade yourself,
Floyd | head to the basement and wait for the calvary.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | Second Floor Elevator
Floyd | The stainless steel doors here are jammed open, exposing a gap wide
Floyd | enough to enter the elevator cab.  The previously pristine steel doors
Floyd | have been covered with blood.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go north to the Second Floor Hall, west to the Second Floor
Floyd | Staircase or east to the Elevator Cab.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | Second Floor Hall
Floyd | Pristine and sterile, silent hallway, with no noises or anything in
Floyd | sight.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go north to the Medical Records, east to the Restrooms,
Floyd | northwest to the Security Station or southwest to the Second Floor
Floyd | Staircase.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | Restrooms
Floyd | You go into the unisex restroom.  You see toilets, urinals and sinks.
Floyd | The mirror is broken, however.  It appears as though the plumbing has
Floyd | stopped working at some point, but the human need to relieve
Floyd | themselves didn't.  Most disturbing, you see is a severely injured
Floyd | zombie sitting in the far corner, casually chewing on human remains.
Floyd | He doesn't seem to notice you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go west to the Second Floor Hall.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | Second Floor Hall
Floyd | Pristine and sterile, silent hallway, with no noises or anything in
Floyd | sight.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go north to the Medical Records, east to the Restrooms,
Floyd | northwest to the Security Station or southwest to the Second Floor
Floyd | Staircase.
Floyd |

Floyd | >Enter saved game to store: Ok.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | Restrooms
Floyd | You see toilets, urinals and sinks.  The mirror is broken, however.
Floyd | It appears as though the plumbing has stopped working at some point,
Floyd | but the human need to relieve themselves didn't.  Most disturbing, you
Floyd | see is a severely injured zombie sitting in the far corner, casually
Floyd | chewing on human remains.  He doesn't seem to notice you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go west to the Second Floor Hall.
Floyd |

Floyd | >Deciding to take the zombie out of its misery, you stand back at a
Floyd | safe distance, level your gun and calmly shoot at his head and pull
Floyd | the trigger.  You end up hitting the left side of his neck instead.
Floyd | Blood spurts out, and quickly clots down his neck.
Floyd |
Floyd |  Enraged, he drops his hunk of flesh, and stumbles to his feet.  He
Floyd | bellows and flails his arms wildly, knocking you back.  Backing up, he
Floyd | prepares himself to blindly charge.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You roll over onto your shoulder and raise your gun at the
Floyd | staggering, bellowing abomination.  In your terror, you fire too
Floyd | early, missing the head and instead shooting him right in the stomach.
Floyd | You actually did hit the stomach organ; acidic bile in a slurry of
Floyd | digested meat spray from his wound for a moment before the injury
Floyd | clots.  His rage increases and he slams head-first into the wall,
Floyd | completely smashing his skull.  He immediately slumps down under the
Floyd | sinks.  One less horror in the world.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by five points.]
Floyd |

Floyd | >A formerly stout fellow, this mutilated corpse slumped against the
Floyd | corner.  His head is completely destroyed, with chunks of skull and
Floyd | brain sprinkled across his corpulent lap.  His blood has sprayed and
Floyd | is clotted on the tiled walls.  He's been rendered quite harmless.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |

Floyd | >Restrooms
Floyd | You see toilets, urinals and sinks.  The mirror is broken, however.
Floyd | It appears as though the plumbing has stopped working at some point,
Floyd | but the human need to relieve themselves didn't  The carcass of a dead
Floyd | zombie lies slumped under the sinks.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go west to the Second Floor Hall.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You find nothing but your own feeling of revulsion.
Floyd |

Floyd | >Someone really had it out for reflective surfaces; every mirror is
Floyd | completely shattered and ground into a coarse dust.  You are
Floyd | disappointed that you can't check yourself out.
Floyd |

Floyd | >Porcelain and steel, someone has had the foresight to know that the
Floyd | water would be turned off, so they stuffed the sink drains and let the
Floyd | taps run to fill the sinks with water.  All of the sinks are empty
Floyd | now.
Floyd |

Floyd | >Eco-friendly flushless urinals.  Maybe they still work without the
Floyd | water working?
Floyd |

Floyd | >The toilets had been kept clean and sanitized by regular hospital
Floyd | staff; regular cleaning is important to keeping hospital grade
Floyd | infections.  Of course, since probably water pumping facilities have
Floyd | been evacuated and the water has shut off.  The people have been using
Floyd | the toilets even after the water has been shut off - biology doesn't
Floyd | stop.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | Second Floor Hall
Floyd | Pristine and sterile, silent hallway, with no noises or anything in
Floyd | sight.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go north to the Medical Records, east to the Restrooms,
Floyd | northwest to the Security Station or southwest to the Second Floor
Floyd | Staircase.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | Second Floor Staircase
Floyd | The majority of this floor is offices.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see the ripped out hinges and a darkened rectangular wall halo
Floyd | the exact shape and size of a fire extinguisher box.  An emergency map
Floyd | is helpfully plastered to the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go east to the Second Floor Elevator, northeast to the Second
Floyd | Floor Hall, or down to the First Floor Staircase.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | First Floor Staircase
Floyd | On the walls, you can see a broken fire extinguisher box, and an
Floyd | emergency escape map.
Floyd |
Floyd | The staircase leading up is blocked halfway by piles upon piles of
Floyd | furniture.  You can see a small passage in the top of the barricade
Floyd | which is now easily accessible thanks to the stair stepping blocks.
Floyd | As for the stairway down, a large chunk of concrete staircase has gone
Floyd | missing.  You think you could navigate down, but he darkness of the
Floyd | basement worries you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go east to the First Floor Elevator, northeast to the First
Floyd | Floor Hall, up to the Second Floor Staircase or down to the Basement.
Floyd |
Floyd | The stair stepping blocks have been pushed into this room.
Floyd |

Floyd | >It emits a strong beam of light.
Floyd |

Floyd | >First of all, you can't see the unfamiliar broken staircase well
Floyd | enough to climb it in the dark since you'd have to carry a flashlight
Floyd | with the hands to need to help you climb.  Second of all - and this is
Floyd | the biggie - if there were any zombies down there, the awkwardness of
Floyd | climbing down would leave you susceptible to an attack.  It's too
Floyd | dangerous without a light source already illuminating the basement.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You drop the flashlight. You hope you remember where you put it.
Floyd |

Floyd | >First of all, you can't see the unfamiliar broken staircase well
Floyd | enough to climb it in the dark since you'd have to carry a flashlight
Floyd | with the hands to need to help you climb.  Second of all - and this is
Floyd | the biggie - if there were any zombies down there, the awkwardness of
Floyd | climbing down would leave you susceptible to an attack.  It's too
Floyd | dangerous without a light source already illuminating the basement.
Floyd |

Floyd | >Taken.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You can't see any such thing.

Floyd |

Floyd | >You gently lower it, then raise it again.  Nothing happens.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You would achieve nothing by this.
Floyd |

Floyd | >Not a bad idea.  Sadly, there's not a sturdy handle that you could
Floyd | tie the rope to, and a flashlight-on-a-rope would be too jiggly to do
Floyd | anything useful.
Floyd |

Floyd | >Someone has yanked off the box's little complimentary glass breaker
Floyd | and smashed the glass, taking the fire extinguisher.  Aside from glass
Floyd | shards, the only thing you see is a guide on which types of
Floyd | extinguishers to use on which types of fires.
Floyd |
Floyd | >First Floor Staircase
Floyd | On the walls, you can see a broken fire extinguisher box, and an
Floyd | emergency escape map.
Floyd |
Floyd | The staircase leading up is blocked halfway by piles upon piles of
Floyd | furniture.  You can see a small passage in the top of the barricade
Floyd | which is now easily accessible thanks to the stair stepping blocks.
Floyd | As for the stairway down, a large chunk of concrete staircase has gone
Floyd | missing.  You think you could navigate down, but he darkness of the
Floyd | basement worries you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go east to the First Floor Elevator, northeast to the First
Floyd | Floor Hall, up to the Second Floor Staircase or down to the Basement.
Floyd |
Floyd | The stair stepping blocks have been pushed into this room.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | First Floor Hall
Floyd | A central hub of nondescript, pristinely sterile hospital hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go north to the Radiation Controls, south to the Elevator,
Floyd | east to the Hospital Entry, west to the Cafeteria or southwest to the
Floyd | First Floor Staircase.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | Entry Hall
Floyd | The grand entrance to the Calypso Hospital, dead bodies hang from
Floyd | ropes tied to the previously majestic arches and pillars.  There is a
Floyd | series of abandoned check-in counters.  There are various benches
Floyd | along the hallway, as well as couches and magazines.  You can't see
Floyd | anything out of the sliding glass doors, thanks to the coffee table
Floyd | and bench barricade.
Floyd |
Floyd |  You can go north to the Gift Shop, south to the Pharmacy, east to the
Floyd | Hospital Exterior, west to the First Floor Hallway and northwest to
Floyd | the Physical Therapy room.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You turn off the flashlight.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | Pharmacy
Floyd | You see shelves upon shelves of unprotected drugs. If you were
Floyd | unscrupulous you could steal and sell them all... if there was anyone
Floyd | left to sell them to that is.  Some people have already had that idea,
Floyd | many of the medical supplies seem depleted.  You quickly assess all of
Floyd | the rows.  You spot a tempting bottle of over-the-counter pain pills.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go north to The Entry Hall.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You grab a bottle.  Pills here.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You pop the recommended dosage of pills into your mouth.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You gulp down the water.
Floyd |
Floyd | You feel so relieved as your headache starts to recede, and you thank
Floyd | modern medicine.
Floyd | You feel much better.   Satisfied with the state of your body, you
Floyd | start to wonder what other sorts of things might be important in a
Floyd | survival situation.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by seven points.]
Floyd |

Floyd | >Pharmacy
Floyd | You see shelves upon shelves of unprotected drugs. If you were
Floyd | unscrupulous you could steal and sell them all... if there was anyone
Floyd | left to sell them to that is.  Some people have already had that idea,
Floyd | many of the medical supplies seem depleted.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go north to The Entry Hall.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | Entry Hall
Floyd | The grand entrance to the Calypso Hospital, dead bodies hang from
Floyd | ropes tied to the previously majestic arches and pillars.  There is a
Floyd | series of abandoned check-in counters.  There are various benches
Floyd | along the hallway, as well as couches and magazines.  You can't see
Floyd | anything out of the sliding glass doors, thanks to the coffee table
Floyd | and bench barricade.
Floyd |
Floyd |  You can go north to the Gift Shop, south to the Pharmacy, east to the
Floyd | Hospital Exterior, west to the First Floor Hallway and northwest to
Floyd | the Physical Therapy room.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | Physical Therapy Room
Floyd | Full of various exercising equipment, this place is designed to start
Floyd | people on the path to getting stronger, but you are certain that there
Floyd | is a larger place off-facility for when people are able to leave the
Floyd | hospital.  You see exercise balls, stationary bicycles, massage tables
Floyd | and doctor chairs.  This place is still bright and cheery looking - no
Floyd | blood, no bodies, just orange walls and brightly colored equipment.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go southeast to the Entry Hall.
Floyd |

Floyd | >A chair with no back and five sets of wheely legs.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You would achieve nothing by this.
Floyd |

Floyd | >A metal ancient monstrosity, not even electric.  The difficulty of
Floyd | the bike is adjusted by a strap on the front wheel.
Floyd |

Floyd | >The doctor chair cannot be pushed from place to place.
Floyd |

Floyd | >The thick strap can be pulled or let out with a buckle to change the
Floyd | difficulty of the bicycle.  The machine hardly looks safe, but it must
Floyd | have passed numerous safety inspections to still be around.
Floyd |

Floyd | >It's part of the bike.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You would achieve nothing by this.
Floyd |

Floyd | >There's no reason to deface the hospital's property; they'll have
Floyd | enough to fix.
Floyd |

Floyd | >The stationary bicycle cannot be pushed from place to place.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You would achieve nothing by this.
Floyd |

Floyd | >That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |

Floyd | >A medical massage table, slightly different from massage tables for
Floyd | fun.  There is heating and cooling packs and machinery.
Floyd |

Floyd | >That's not something you can open.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |

Floyd | >Bouncy, large rubber balls for doing yoga and various other kinds of
Floyd | exercise.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You would achieve nothing by this.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You are carrying:
Floyd |   some pain pills
Floyd |   a flashlight
Floyd |   a face mask (being worn)
Floyd |   plastic light crap
Floyd |   a pair of scissors
Floyd |   a balloon
Floyd |   some batteries
Floyd |   a stretchy rubber rope
Floyd |   empty can
Floyd |   a water bottle
Floyd |   a handgun (loaded)
Floyd |   a security badge
Floyd |   a compass
Floyd |   a lab coat (being worn)
Floyd |   thick rubber gloves (being worn)
Floyd |   white boots (being worn)
Floyd |

Floyd | >After sitting in the Gift Shop for so long, it's lost a lot of helium
Floyd | and is only barely afloat.  It doesn't need to be anchored, and it
Floyd | definitely won't fly away with something, or even cause something else
Floyd | to fall slowly, so tying it to anything would be useless.
Floyd |

Floyd | >There are none at all available!
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | Entry Hall
Floyd | The grand entrance to the Calypso Hospital, dead bodies hang from
Floyd | ropes tied to the previously majestic arches and pillars.  There is a
Floyd | series of abandoned check-in counters.  There are various benches
Floyd | along the hallway, as well as couches and magazines.  You can't see
Floyd | anything out of the sliding glass doors, thanks to the coffee table
Floyd | and bench barricade.
Floyd |
Floyd |  You can go north to the Gift Shop, south to the Pharmacy, east to the
Floyd | Hospital Exterior, west to the First Floor Hallway and northwest to
Floyd | the Physical Therapy room.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | First Floor Hall
Floyd | A central hub of nondescript, pristinely sterile hospital hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go north to the Radiation Controls, south to the Elevator,
Floyd | east to the Hospital Entry, west to the Cafeteria or southwest to the
Floyd | First Floor Staircase.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | First Floor Staircase
Floyd | On the walls, you can see a broken fire extinguisher box, and an
Floyd | emergency escape map.
Floyd |
Floyd | The staircase leading up is blocked halfway by piles upon piles of
Floyd | furniture.  You can see a small passage in the top of the barricade
Floyd | which is now easily accessible thanks to the stair stepping blocks.
Floyd | As for the stairway down, a large chunk of concrete staircase has gone
Floyd | missing.  You think you could navigate down, but he darkness of the
Floyd | basement worries you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go east to the First Floor Elevator, northeast to the First
Floyd | Floor Hall, up to the Second Floor Staircase or down to the Basement.
Floyd |
Floyd | The stair stepping blocks have been pushed into this room.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You would achieve nothing by this.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You would achieve nothing by this.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You push them around the room.  You could probably push them out of
Floyd | the room as well.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You would achieve nothing by this.
Floyd |

Floyd | >(the broken staircase)
Floyd | Concrete stairs with parts missing.  It looks easily climbable, but
Floyd | only with light.
Floyd |

Floyd | >Not that way you can't.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You are carrying:
Floyd |   some pain pills
Floyd |   a flashlight
Floyd |   a face mask (being worn)
Floyd |   plastic light crap
Floyd |   a pair of scissors
Floyd |   a balloon
Floyd |   some batteries
Floyd |   a stretchy rubber rope
Floyd |   empty can
Floyd |   a water bottle
Floyd |   a handgun (loaded)
Floyd |   a security badge
Floyd |   a compass
Floyd |   a lab coat (being worn)
Floyd |   thick rubber gloves (being worn)
Floyd |   white boots (being worn)
Floyd |

Floyd | >A handheld light-spewing device, perfect for illuminating the
Floyd | darkness of night or basements..  Luckily enough, it came with
Floyd | batteries already inside.
Floyd |
Floyd | The flashlight is off.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You would achieve nothing by this.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You would achieve nothing by this.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You put the flashlight into the lab coat.
Floyd |

Floyd | >First of all, you can't see the unfamiliar broken staircase well
Floyd | enough to climb it in the dark since you'd have to carry a flashlight
Floyd | with the hands to need to help you climb.  Second of all - and this is
Floyd | the biggie - if there were any zombies down there, the awkwardness of
Floyd | climbing down would leave you susceptible to an attack.  It's too
Floyd | dangerous without a light source already illuminating the basement.
Floyd |

Floyd | >It emits a strong beam of light.
Floyd |

Floyd | >First of all, you can't see the unfamiliar broken staircase well
Floyd | enough to climb it in the dark since you'd have to carry a flashlight
Floyd | with the hands to need to help you climb.  Second of all - and this is
Floyd | the biggie - if there were any zombies down there, the awkwardness of
Floyd | climbing down would leave you susceptible to an attack.  It's too
Floyd | dangerous without a light source already illuminating the basement.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You turn off the flashlight.
Floyd |

Floyd | >(the broken staircase)
Floyd | Concrete stairs with parts missing.  It looks easily climbable, but
Floyd | only with light.
Floyd |

Floyd | >(the broken staircase)
Floyd | The rope isn't strong enough to hold your weight if that's what you
Floyd | were thinking, and anyway the rope's too short to be tied to the
Floyd | stairs AND reach down into the basement.  Your best bet would be to
Floyd | simply tie the rope to whatever you want to lower into the basement
Floyd | and then manually lower it.
Floyd |

Floyd | >There no way to lower something you aren't holding.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |

Floyd | >What do you want to tie the flashlight to?
Floyd |

Floyd | >You would achieve nothing by this.
Floyd |

Floyd | >Not a bad idea.  Sadly, there's not a sturdy handle that you could
Floyd | tie the rope to, and a flashlight-on-a-rope would be too jiggly to do
Floyd | anything useful.
Floyd |

Floyd | >Taken.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You gently lower it, then raise it again.  Nothing happens.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You already have that.
Floyd |

Floyd | >It emits a strong beam of light.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | First Floor Hall
Floyd | A central hub of nondescript, pristinely sterile hospital hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go north to the Radiation Controls, south to the Elevator,
Floyd | east to the Hospital Entry, west to the Cafeteria or southwest to the
Floyd | First Floor Staircase.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | Entry Hall
Floyd | The grand entrance to the Calypso Hospital, dead bodies hang from
Floyd | ropes tied to the previously majestic arches and pillars.  There is a
Floyd | series of abandoned check-in counters.  There are various benches
Floyd | along the hallway, as well as couches and magazines.  You can't see
Floyd | anything out of the sliding glass doors, thanks to the coffee table
Floyd | and bench barricade.
Floyd |
Floyd |  You can go north to the Gift Shop, south to the Pharmacy, east to the
Floyd | Hospital Exterior, west to the First Floor Hallway and northwest to
Floyd | the Physical Therapy room.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | Gift Shop
Floyd | An assortment of gifts and necessities, designed to milk more money
Floyd | out of patients and their visiting families. The place is quiet and
Floyd | poorly lit, lending to a dystopian atmosphere. There are rows and rows
Floyd | of low shelves containing gift cards, knick-knacks, flowers and
Floyd | balloons.  The section containing flashlights, lamps and batteries.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go south to the the Entry Hall.
Floyd |

Floyd | >A shelf with a few electric lamps.  Neat.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You stow one of the lamps away.  It's wrapped in that annoyingly
Floyd | tough plastic wrapping.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by two points.]
Floyd |

Floyd | >You cut that annoying plastic crap off the lamp.  You flick it on,
Floyd | then off.  Looks like it came with batteries.  Huh.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by three points.]
Floyd |

Floyd | >You are carrying:
Floyd |   plastic lamp crap
Floyd |   an electric lamp
Floyd |   a flashlight (providing light)
Floyd |   some pain pills
Floyd |   a face mask (being worn)
Floyd |   plastic light crap
Floyd |   a pair of scissors
Floyd |   a balloon
Floyd |   some batteries
Floyd |   a stretchy rubber rope
Floyd |   empty can
Floyd |   a water bottle
Floyd |   a handgun (loaded)
Floyd |   a security badge
Floyd |   a compass
Floyd |   a lab coat (being worn)
Floyd |   thick rubber gloves (being worn)
Floyd |   white boots (being worn)
Floyd |

Floyd | >(the electric lamp)
Floyd | A modern version of the hand-held, swinging lamp with a handle.
Floyd | Luckily enough, it came with batteries already inside.
Floyd |
Floyd | The electric lamp is off.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You secure the stretchy rubber rope to the sturdy handle of the lamp.
Floyd |

Floyd | >(the flashlight)
Floyd | You would achieve nothing by this.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | Entry Hall
Floyd | The grand entrance to the Calypso Hospital, dead bodies hang from
Floyd | ropes tied to the previously majestic arches and pillars.  There is a
Floyd | series of abandoned check-in counters.  There are various benches
Floyd | along the hallway, as well as couches and magazines.  You can't see
Floyd | anything out of the sliding glass doors, thanks to the coffee table
Floyd | and bench barricade.
Floyd |
Floyd |  You can go north to the Gift Shop, south to the Pharmacy, east to the
Floyd | Hospital Exterior, west to the First Floor Hallway and northwest to
Floyd | the Physical Therapy room.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | First Floor Hall
Floyd | A central hub of nondescript, pristinely sterile hospital hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go north to the Radiation Controls, south to the Elevator,
Floyd | east to the Hospital Entry, west to the Cafeteria or southwest to the
Floyd | First Floor Staircase.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | First Floor Staircase
Floyd | On the walls, you can see a broken fire extinguisher box, and an
Floyd | emergency escape map.
Floyd |
Floyd | The staircase leading up is blocked halfway by piles upon piles of
Floyd | furniture.  You can see a small passage in the top of the barricade
Floyd | which is now easily accessible thanks to the stair stepping blocks.
Floyd | As for the stairway down, a large chunk of concrete staircase has gone
Floyd | missing.  You think you could navigate down, but he darkness of the
Floyd | basement worries you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go east to the First Floor Elevator, northeast to the First
Floyd | Floor Hall, up to the Second Floor Staircase or down to the Basement.
Floyd |
Floyd | The stair stepping blocks have been pushed into this room.
Floyd |

Floyd | >(the electric lamp (tied))
Floyd | The lamp radiates a low level of light in all directions.
Floyd |

Floyd | >(the electric lamp (tied))
Floyd | You slowly lower the lamp down, peering into the basement.  The lamp
Floyd | illuminates the room; you can see that there are three rooms extending
Floyd | out from the basement.  Even with the stretch of the rope, the lamp
Floyd | doesn't make it all the way down.  Since it's only about half a foot
Floyd | from the ground, you let the lamp fall.  It lightly clatters, and
Floyd | nothing happens.  It must be safe to go down.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by three points.]
Floyd |

Floyd | >It emits a strong beam of light.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | The Basement
Floyd | From what little light there is, you can tell that the lightbulbs have
Floyd | all been smashed.  Perhaps there used to be power here, but someone
Floyd | has made sure that this place would be dark.  There are monstrous file
Floyd | cabinets that have been piled up in front of the door, leaving only a
Floyd | small opening to the furnace room.  There are deep scuff marks leading
Floyd | from the Room of Records to the barricade.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go north to the Janitor Closet, south to the Furnace Room,
Floyd | northeast to the Room of Records, or up to the First Floor Staircase.
Floyd |

Floyd | >Enter saved game to store: Ok.
Floyd |

Floyd | >Stacks of rusted, ancient metal cabinets block the southern exit to
Floyd | the furnace room.  They've been hauled out from the room of records
Floyd | that have been hauled up upon one another into a crude pyramid.  There
Floyd | is a small opening at the top of the file cabinet barricade.
Floyd |

Floyd | >They're locked, and full of boring records anyway.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | Janitor Closet
Floyd | Hospitals have to be sanitary, and that means plenty of janitors
Floyd | constantly cleaning and disinfecting.  Not properly a closet, this
Floyd | thing is a full room.  There is an arsenal of brooms, mops, cleaning
Floyd | supplies, and a floor waxer.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go south to the Basement.
Floyd |

Floyd | >A beast of a machine, this baby looks like it could haul.
Floyd |

Floyd | >The stereotypical heavy-duty industrial grade mop.  It reeks of
Floyd | cleaning solutions, even after several days of drying and airing out.
Floyd |

Floyd | >A wide, fuzzy industrial-grade broom.  This thing is pushed along
Floyd | corridors, and is quite different from the classic straw job you
Floyd | imagine you have at your home.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You can see jugs of bleach, jugs of ammonia, standard glass, wood and
Floyd | stainless steel cleaners.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You can't bring it out; the thing runs on electricity and has lost
Floyd | its charge.  There's no way to charge it either, with all of the
Floyd | electrical sockets down here not working.
Floyd |

Floyd | >A huge jug of bleach with an easy-to-grasp-handle.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You grab the jug of bleach by its handle and toss it in your pockets.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by two points.]
Floyd |

Floyd | >A huge jug of ammonia with an easy-to-grasp handle..
Floyd |

Floyd | >You grab the jug by the handle and toss the ammonia in your pockets.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by two points.]
Floyd |

Floyd | >You completely remove the cap of the bleach.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You completely remove the cap of the ammonia.
Floyd |

Floyd | >Enter saved game to store: Ok.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | The Basement
Floyd | From what little light there is, you can tell that the lightbulbs have
Floyd | all been smashed.  Perhaps there used to be power here, but someone
Floyd | has made sure that this place would be dark.  There are monstrous file
Floyd | cabinets that have been piled up in front of the door, leaving only a
Floyd | small opening to the furnace room.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go north to the Janitor Closet, south to the Furnace Room,
Floyd | northeast to the Room of Records, or up to the First Floor Staircase.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | Room of Records
Floyd | A massive room that was filled with shelves and file cabinets.  It is
Floyd | evident that a large number of old file cabinets are simply not here
Floyd | any more; there is way too much space near the entrance of the room
Floyd | and you can see the indents on the floor where the file cabinets used
Floyd | to be.  There are also huge scuff marks leading from various empty
Floyd | spaces and converging on the exit.  You marvel at the amount of effort
Floyd | this must have taken.  At the back of the room is an electrical panel.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go southwest to the Basement.
Floyd |

Floyd | >A standard grey electrical panel.  It is securely screwed shut, for
Floyd | safety you'd imagine.  You remember that you have a toolbox in the
Floyd | trunk of your car; that should come in handy.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | The Basement
Floyd | From what little light there is, you can tell that the lightbulbs have
Floyd | all been smashed.  Perhaps there used to be power here, but someone
Floyd | has made sure that this place would be dark.  There are monstrous file
Floyd | cabinets that have been piled up in front of the door, leaving only a
Floyd | small opening to the furnace room.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go north to the Janitor Closet, south to the Furnace Room,
Floyd | northeast to the Room of Records, or up to the First Floor Staircase.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You cautiously climb the file cabinets towards the small opening at
Floyd | the top - making an awful racket of it.  You are greeted with a cool
Floyd | and collected male disembodied voice, "Back away, or I'll shoot you."
Floyd |
Floyd |  You hear a muffled cry coming from deep behind the opening; but you
Floyd | can't risk going in there.  You carefully back away from the small
Floyd | opening, not getting a glimpse at the clearly crazed survivor.
Floyd |

Floyd | >All you get is curses.  He is quite determined to keep you out.  You
Floyd | could always try asking him about something, but it doesn't

Floyd | >"Get out of here with your crazy talk."
Floyd |

Floyd | >"Get out of here with your crazy talk."
Floyd |

Floyd | >"They're all going to be turned, into the darkness, into the
Floyd | abomination.  Zombie.  Ha!  That word doesn't even begin to scratch
Floyd | the surface of the deep-seated evil of these creatures.  Not to
Floyd | mention their ferocity.  They never sleep, never rest, always come and
Floyd | are always hungry.  They'll keep coming, nothing can stop them.  Only
Floyd | people.  Burn before the forest fire.  You're already one.  They are
Floyd | all already one.  Go burn."
Floyd |

Floyd | >He's safely on the other side of that barricade making most
Floyd | interactions a bit tricky.  The only way through is that small hole.
Floyd | Maybe if you had some knockout gas, you could actually get in there.
Floyd |

Floyd | >That thing probably won't hold the ammonia too well, and consider the
Floyd | fact that the ammonia is already in a nice portable, throwable
Floyd | container.
Floyd |

Floyd | >That thing probably won't hold the bleach too well, and consider the
Floyd | fact that the bleach is already in a nice portable, throwable
Floyd | container.
Floyd |

Floyd | >That thing probably won't hold the ammonia too well, and consider the
Floyd | fact that the ammonia is already in a nice portable, throwable
Floyd | container.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You lob the bleach at the opening, and hear a bloink and splish as
Floyd | the liquid spills out.  You hear a string of curses from the other
Floyd | side as the liquid glubs out of the jug.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by two points.]
Floyd |

Floyd | >You lob the ammonia at the opening, and hear a bloink and splish as
Floyd | the liquid spills out.  You hear a string of curses from the other
Floyd | side as the liquid glubs out of the jug.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Fitful coughing and curses comes from the Furnace Room, followed a
Floyd | sharp thud and then silence.  You expected to hear a hissing reaction
Floyd | or even smell something off, but there was no special noise, and no
Floyd | special smell from the toxic combination of the two cleaning liquids.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by two points.]
Floyd |

Floyd | >Well, you dispatched of the loon, but if you're not careful, you'll
Floyd | hoist yourself by your own petard.  You're not going in there with
Floyd | that toxic gas, find a way to get rid of it.
Floyd |

Floyd | >Which do you mean, the barricade or the file cabinets?
Floyd |

Floyd | >It is fixed in place.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You drop the balloon. You hope you remember where you put it.
Floyd |

Floyd | >The Basement
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |

Floyd | >You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You don't want to lose your stuff if you can't get rid of that gas.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You're already wearing that!
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | First Floor Staircase
Floyd | On the walls, you can see a broken fire extinguisher box, and an
Floyd | emergency escape map.
Floyd |
Floyd | The staircase leading up is blocked halfway by piles upon piles of
Floyd | furniture.  You can see a small passage in the top of the barricade
Floyd | which is now easily accessible thanks to the stair stepping blocks.
Floyd | As for the stairway down, a large chunk of concrete staircase has gone
Floyd | missing.  You think you could navigate down, but he darkness of the
Floyd | basement worries you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go east to the First Floor Elevator, northeast to the First
Floyd | Floor Hall, up to the Second Floor Staircase or down to the Basement.
Floyd |
Floyd | The stair stepping blocks have been pushed into this room.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | First Floor Hall
Floyd | A central hub of nondescript, pristinely sterile hospital hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go north to the Radiation Controls, south to the Elevator,
Floyd | east to the Hospital Entry, west to the Cafeteria or southwest to the
Floyd | First Floor Staircase.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | Entry Hall
Floyd | The grand entrance to the Calypso Hospital, dead bodies hang from
Floyd | ropes tied to the previously majestic arches and pillars.  There is a
Floyd | series of abandoned check-in counters.  There are various benches
Floyd | along the hallway, as well as couches and magazines.  You can't see
Floyd | anything out of the sliding glass doors, thanks to the coffee table
Floyd | and bench barricade.
Floyd |
Floyd |  You can go north to the Gift Shop, south to the Pharmacy, east to the
Floyd | Hospital Exterior, west to the First Floor Hallway and northwest to
Floyd | the Physical Therapy room.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You've put a lot of effort into barricading up the outside doors;
Floyd | you'd have to move the bench and the coffee table back before being
Floyd | able to go outside.
Floyd |

Floyd | >You remove the barricade, returning both the coffee table and the
Floyd | bench to the original spots.  The coast looks clear enough outside.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | The Hospital Exterior
Floyd | You are outside again, for the first time in.... well, you are not
Floyd | sure how long.  You wish you could feel the sun, but the thick fog
Floyd | carpets everything; you can barely tell that it is indeed daytime
Floyd | outside. You are now certain that you see shapes moving in the
Floyd | distance and feel hesitant to move much further from the safety of the
Floyd | hospital.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go south to the Parking Lot or west to the Entry Hall.
Floyd |
Floyd | There seems to be an unusually large amount of stumbling towards you.
Floyd | Moans all around you fill the air.  With panic, you realize they must
Floyd | be drawn to your light.  You whimper as the increased shuffling of
Floyd | feet and moaning all point to them being attracted to you.
Floyd |

Floyd | >Entry Hall
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |

Floyd | >You turn off the flashlight.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Floyd | The Hospital Exterior
Floyd | You are outside again, for the first time in.... well, you are not
Floyd | sure how long.  You wish you could feel the sun, but the thick fog
Floyd | carpets everything; you can barely tell that it is indeed daytime
Floyd | outside. You are now certain that you see shapes moving in the
Floyd | distance and feel hesitant to move much further from the safety of the
Floyd | hospital.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go south to the Parking Lot or west to the Entry Hall.
Floyd |