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Multiple Settings ASTRAY (Horror/Mystery)

Lord Zanicus

Lord Zanicus

Insatiable Warlord
ASTRAY

In the veil of darkness you stirred awake. Your conscious mind first before your body followed suit. Then the distant but constant beep grew louder, ringing at your eardrums almost painfully. However, that wasn't the sound that'd overwhelmed you the most. You started to hear voices in your head. Not one of your own but a mixture of both gender, each in a different tone. All at once they seemed to clamour for answers. Demanding to know what was going on and where on earth you are. How many were there exactly, you couldn't tell.


Interesting, you heard almost all of them say at the same time, while there might be some who only thought about it. No way, some seemed to protest almost instantly.


You blinked open your eyes, ignoring the voices in your head for now. The room you're in was dark lest for the dim green glow on the monitor by the wall above your head. You looked down and noticed you're dress in a light blue patient-gown. Your movement then made you become aware of the tube passing through your nose and into your oesophagus all the way down to your stomach. You looked to your left and saw an empty bed. To your right however, laid a charred skeletal figure with bulging yellow eyes staring back at you. It opened its jaw and a black slithering tongue darted out, tasting the air. Then, it groaned and attempted to reach for you. Inching its own body towards you. Any minute and you know it'll drop off its bed and be right by yours.





Quest is open for everyone to participate! Vote, chat or discuss about the choices, events and the various probable consequences.


Please follow the format below, copy and paste the option of your choosing. For my first post, I need two votes from everyone!


–VOTE–


part I


>girl


>woman


>boy


>man


part II


>get out of the room


>try pinning the charred skeletal with your own body


>wait there and call for doctor/nurse


>Write In (others need to vote for your write in as well)


 
>woman


>wait there and call for doctor/nurse


(Getting out of the room seems like it would be difficult with a tube down your nose, and pinning the burnt skeleton down with your own body seems like it would end with you getting attacked)
 
A few option went across your mind. You turn to look at the door, the thought of running out of this room did briefly cross your thoughts but you reasoned yourself out of it. Worried that the tube might be a hindrance to your attempt at escaping. Your head then returned to the charred skeletal beside you. There was the urge to pin your body atop of it as soon as it would fall. But the fear of being attacked prevented you to do it.


So you tried the only option you thought safest. You opened your mouth to call out for the doctor or nurse but your throat was too dry and no sound came out. You looked about yourself and noticed the nurse-call button by the bedframe. You tried reaching for it. Weakly, your arm trembled as you pressed it. Here's where you realised that you might not have the strength to get up as normal as any person usually would. But you're confident that given the will, you could summon all the strength needed for some action. At least for a short period of time.


The door to the room soon slid opened and there the silhouette of a petite female nurse stood. As she approached you, you noticed how she was dragging her other leg. An arm bent at an odd angle over her chest and her exposed flesh seemed to be rotting. A long but low moan escaped her lipless mouth. Her other hand reaching for you. You watched in terror as she took each seemingly agonising steps towards you. Her jaws widened before the rows of yellow and rotting teeth snapped back shut.


Zombie? You mentally asked yourself.





What would you do?


>Pull out tube from nose and strangle the zombie nurse with it!


>Roll off the bed and crawl under the one closest to door!


>Roll off the bed and crawl under the one with the charred skeletal!


>Write in?


 
>Roll off the bed and crawl under the one closest to the door
 
Reaching up to your nose, you only considered pulling out the tube. But you thought there won't be enough time to do both pulling and rolling out of the bed in time to get away from the threat. An angry snarl came from the rotting nurse as you rolled over and fell with a thud on the cold floor on your side then. It's movement suddenly hasten. The plastic tubing from your nose pulled the fluid stand down with you. It's metallic bar clanked over the floor.


You slid yourself under the bed closer to the door after briefly wondered if you should crawl under your own bed instead. Wincing and gasping at the ache your body now felt as well as at the nerve wrecking situation. Your heart quickened. Adrenaline now coursing through your system. You looked towards the approaching zombified nurse.


It bent over after pushing the fallen stand aside and under your bed. Almost pulling the uncomfortable tubing entirely. And as soon as it approached you, something fell off from its front pocket; a pair of scissors and a bunch of keys. Its hand then grabbed at one of your arm. Immediately, it tugged. All the while snarling and snapping its teeth so close to your face.





> Grab scissors and stab the zombie with it


> Grab bunch of keys and try to break for the door


> Push her face away and attempt strangling it with tube


> Write in?


 
With one arm caught in its surprisingly strong grip, you grabbed the scissors with the other. Turning your head away from the snapping jaws, you began stabbing her with your eyes closed. Warm liquid sprayed over your face and the gown as the weapon pierced through its skin. Yet the zombie still struggled with a snarl. So you stabbed it a second time before the third finally put it down. You panted and opened your eyes. The zombified nurse laying motionless in its thick and black pool of muck.


Now safe from threat, or at least you hoped you were, you started crawling out from under the bed, pulling out and discarding the tube from your nose. Thinking then if you should have strangled it with the tube. The satisfaction you got from killing the zombie somewhat rejuvenate you. You felt all of a sudden strong. You tried getting up to your feet and true enough, you didn't feel like you've been laying down on the bed for as long as you'd first thought you had.


Standing right next to the door, you took a moment to study the room. The only movement you noticed was from the charred skeletal on the bed from earlier. An arm still extended as if to reach for you. It moaned and its long tongue flicked, tasting the air. And right above the bed you were on, hung a clock with both needles pointing to the number four.





> kill creature with scissors, grab keys and leave


> spare creature, hold on to scissors, grab keys and leave


> drop scissors, grab keys and leave


> drop scissors and just leave


> write in


 
>Spare the creature, hold onto scissors, grab keys, and leave. (Grab the nasal hose too, you might need to tie or secure something with it, you can ditch it later if you have to)


Who knows what that creature really is or used to be, but it doesn't seem hostile at the moment, no point in traumatizing ourselves for no reason. Taking both the keys and the scissors, they're lightweight and possibly useful until we find a better weapon or tools.
 
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Inventory: scissors, bunch of keys, 6ft IV tubing


???: 1




Looking down to the scissors in your hand, you decided to hold on to it. Figured you might need to use it again. But hopefully not any time soon. If there's already a couple of those things here in the room, they're bound to be more, right? With that in mind, you decided to spare the creature on the bed and retrieve the bunch of keys before getting yourself out of there. You also retrieve the nasal hose, thinking of using it as a rope to perhaps tie something later.


You took a brief moment to study the keys though. Altogether, there were four keys in total. A car key, an apartment key, a small key with a #2 sticker on it and a staff access key.


Upon exiting the room, you found yourself standing in the corridor. Like your room, it was quite dark lest for the flickering light in a distance. However, it didn't look like it's been through some kind of an apocalypse. Right in front of you, you saw a few location on a directory.





Where do you plan to go to now?


> reception counter


> staff locker room


> restroom


> elevator


> write in


 
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>Staff Locker Room. One of those keys has to be to a locker, right? The sooner we equip ourselves, the better. Assuming that since we are a woman and not a girl, we know how to drive a vehicle, yes?
 
Stickdom said:
>Staff Locker Room. One of those keys has to be to a locker, right? The sooner we equip ourselves, the better. Assuming that since we are a woman and not a girl, we know how to drive a vehicle, yes?
Click to expand...
Probably..


Also, I'd like to just take this opportunity to appreciate all those who'd voted for this! Thank you! Without your votes, we will never know what'll happen to our character!


@budgieboo @Phadia @Sombra Arcana @Zuka @Stickdom
 
> staff locker room


It's the most likely location to hold weapons, I'd rather have our protagonist equip something that keeps her out of arm's reach. Perhaps tie something sharp to a broom handle with the tubing.
 



Inventory: scissors, bunch of keys, 6ft IV tubing


???: 1




THE STAFF LOCKER ROOM!


You heard all the voices in your head clamoured all at once and your body immediately moved in its direction. The corridor was quiet except for the occasional buzzing from the lights above. Nothing seemed to be out of the ordinary. But as you walk passed another patient room and peered through the glass panel, you could see more of those rotting creatures laying on the beds. All of them have their eyes on you and an arm extended as if to either reach for you or beckon for you.


What is going on here? You wondered.


Soon, you came before the staff locker room. Turning the knob, you noticed it's locked. So you went through the bunch in your hand and used the staff access key to open it. Without any difficulty, the door then swung open. You entered and before you were rows of steel cabinets with numbers on the top left corner of the door. To your right, was the staff's restroom. You used the small key with the number on a matched locker. It opened.


Inside you found; a handbag, a folded jacket, toothpaste, toothbrush, a scrub, shampoo, deodorant, body lotion, a pair of shoes, a towel and a free size yellow blouse. Reaching up for the handbag, you opened it and poured out its content. There were; a purse with an identity card and some cash, a lipstick, a tampon, a mobile phone, a small notebook and a pen.





> look closer at ID card


> grab toiletries and take a shower


> change into yellow blouse, put on jacket, grab handbag and mobile then leave


> write in


 
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