Suzy’s Strange Saga
Maybe this isn’t a good idea, but considering Jack did save your life a couple times, it seems like a pretty shitty thing to do if you just left him.
With bat in hand, you head towards back to the corridor and call out to Jack.
“Hey Jack! Are you upstairs?” you say.
“Suzy? Yeah! I’m up here! Be careful though, there’s still a bunch of weird shit going on.”
Not terribly descriptive or encouraging. Weird shit could literally be anything, and in this case probably is.
You head towards the stairs and go up for the first time. As you going up, you have this fear that you’re going to start sinking into them, that doesn’t happen and when you arrive to the top, you find yourself exiting into a corridor that’s laid out very much the same way as the first floor, the only difference is you’re across from another set of stairs on the opposite side.
You look to your right and hear some noise causing you to ready your bat, though you soon see Jack exiting room of the side rooms.
“Suzy! I’ve been looking all over for you.” He says approaching with an axe in hand.
“Hey! Keep your distance!” You shout and raise your bat
“What?” Jack asks as he stops in his tracks.
“Sorry, it’s just, well there has been as you put it, a lot of weird shit going on and for all I know you’re some horrible monster. Not to mention you’re coming at me with an axe in hand, though I suppose given the shit I’ve already encountered, you probably wouldn’t have bothered to even stop.” You reply lowing the bat.
“Well, you probably were best to err on the side of caution. I’ve just spent what I believe to be an hour or two looking for you.” Jack says.
“I was in your living room downstairs asleep on your couch. Right where you left me last night.” You reply.
“Yeah, and you weren’t there when I checked on you later this morning. I called out and looked in every room on the first floor. I heard your voice coming from the second floor so I went up there and that’s when things started getting weird. (Sigh) and I thought this place was done with all that…should have known better I suppose…”
Jack trails off, but at this point you’re demanding an answer.
“Jack, you’ve saved my life twice, but if I’m going to hang out with you, you better start explaining what the hell’s going on with this place. I’m not sure what weirdness you’ve experienced up here, but what I just experienced downstairs was beyond weird, it was fucking terrifying.” You exclaim.
“I know. I know. I should have told you about this place yesterday. Well let’s head into this room and talk about it.”
Jack heads into a room down the corridor and to the left. You follow and find that it’s another living area furnished in a similar manner as the one downstairs. Jack was really like consistency. The pair of you sit and after you tell Jack what happened with you downstairs, Jack apologizes that you had to go through it and then tells you a little about what he knows of this place.
Jack goes on about how he bought this Gray Building years ago for cheap and figured it would also be good to store all his stuff along with being a place he could live and thus no longer living in his mom’s basement.
He then mentions he went to check out the place after he bought it and right away he experienced weirdness. He said the first time he opened up the door to the place there was a jungle village inside. He mentions that upon entering the building seemed to whisk him away to this place and his surroundings completely changed.
“Curiosity got the better of me I guess. However it wasn’t just a jungle. I found out later when cannibals were chasing me, that I was on an island made of Styrofoam and held together by hemp rope. Barely escaped.” Jack says.
“What?! That’s…incredibly random.” You say.
“That was just the beginning. Of course any right thinking person, would have just written this place off, but I couldn’t help but find it fascinating. Of course I found it less fascinating the second time I went in, when I was attacked by these shadow wolf things. Barely survived that too.”
“Why the hell did you keep coming back here?”
“Well I actually stayed away after the second time. Though after a few months, I felt drawn to the place again. I can’t explain it, but as it turned out third time was the charm, well maybe not entirely, but the place started to become more accommodating. In time, I started to encounter less dangerous shit and the place became more normal, well as normal as it could ever be I suppose. Still, I was never quite willing to go all in and actually live in this place until recently and that’s only because of some positive weirdness that I experienced when in this building a few months ago.”
“What happened?”
“Well I saw a glimpse of the future and in few days I believe this world as we know it is going to start resembling Road Warrior. Of course even without seeing the future I was listening in on some pretty scary radio broadcasts before the Ground Zero corporation started cracking down and scrambling the airwaves.”
“Wait, you say you saw the future, like how exactly? In your head or what?”
“No, it was a portal or rather a small window that opened up on the third floor. Happened rather suddenly while I was up there deciding on where I should put more of my stuff a few weeks ago. I saw Security City get nuked. The town looks like it survived, but I saw that overrun by mad people, like rabid or something. Given how the people in town have been acting and the world situation lately, I’d say what I saw was on the mark. It was then, I decide that I might actually be safer in here.”
“Doesn’t seem like it, by the look of things.” You say.
“No, apparently I was wrong about that. (Sigh) I dunno, I’m sorry I got you involved in all this.”
“Well it’s done now and it seems like I was fucked no matter what this week. So, is there anything we can do? I mean we can’t really stay here I think you’d agree, but if the world is doomed like you’re saying, where could we go?”
“Know where there is a fallout shelter?” Jack asks.
“Yes and no. My older brother made one a long time ago back home, unfortunately its entrance is a bit of a mystery now since he’s dead.”
“That would mean going back to town anyway and with the National Guard and the rabid there I imagine it’s going to resemble a warzone.”
“Well there has to be somewhere we can…is that snow?” you say noticing the hallway.
At this point Jack stands up and you do too, both with your weapons ready as you approach the hallway where white flakes are falling from the ceiling and snow is starting to fill up the hallway. Jack looks to the left and right and then speaks.
“Well I don’t see anything else out of the ordinary except the snow, but I think we better get the hell out of here and take our chances with the outside world, whatever might happen to it.” Jack exclaims.
“Don’t need to tell me twice.” You say and the pair of you run as quickly as you can back down to the first floor.
When you get to the first floor, you and Jack make your turn towards the large front room and that’s when reality starts warping and you’re getting disoriented again.
“Shit…” Jack says tripping over. You go to help Jack up and that’s when you see them again. Those tentacle things coming at you down the hallway, which is once again increasingly being enveloped in darkness. There’s no magical bald guy around this time to save you either.
‘Oh fuck, we need to move!” You say and start running towards the front room. Jack follows along.
When you get the front room the lights flicker. Junk is still scattered all over the place and there is also no front door now, but TWO open doors.
“What the fuck?” Jack exclaims and then the lighting gets even dimmer and soon you’ll be left completely in the dark save for the illumination coming from the open doors.
At glance, one door is leading to what looks to be a tropical area since you’re seeing vines, trees and such. The other door is leading to a snowy area and you can even feel the cold air whipping in from that one.
And those creatures are still in pursuit behind you with darkness ever encroaching. You’re starting to hear them now in your head, howling, chattering, gibbering. It’s madness and you need to leave now.
“Shit, my head…” Jack says staggering.
“Come on! This way!” you say and start heading towards the jungle.
“Wait! That’s a fucking jungle, and I know nothing ever good comes from entering one! Remember my first trip here?” Jack says.
“Well, it’s either that or the fucking artic and we’re not exactly dressed for that!” you say.
“I’d rather take my chances with snow than a jungle.”
“It’s pointlessss….death…isssss everywhere…embrace madnessss and ssssave yourself… embrace usssssss…” a voice in your head suddenly interjects this is followed by hideous mocking laughter.
Maybe you’re getting resilient or something because you manage to keep it together. Jack isn’t looking as great though which is odd since you figured he’d be used to something like this. He’s having a hard time standing up and you’re having a hard time keeping him from falling.
Either way, you’re making the decision on which way to go.
With bat in hand, you head towards back to the corridor and call out to Jack.
“Hey Jack! Are you upstairs?” you say.
“Suzy? Yeah! I’m up here! Be careful though, there’s still a bunch of weird shit going on.”
Not terribly descriptive or encouraging. Weird shit could literally be anything, and in this case probably is.
You head towards the stairs and go up for the first time. As you going up, you have this fear that you’re going to start sinking into them, that doesn’t happen and when you arrive to the top, you find yourself exiting into a corridor that’s laid out very much the same way as the first floor, the only difference is you’re across from another set of stairs on the opposite side.
You look to your right and hear some noise causing you to ready your bat, though you soon see Jack exiting room of the side rooms.
“Suzy! I’ve been looking all over for you.” He says approaching with an axe in hand.
“Hey! Keep your distance!” You shout and raise your bat
“What?” Jack asks as he stops in his tracks.
“Sorry, it’s just, well there has been as you put it, a lot of weird shit going on and for all I know you’re some horrible monster. Not to mention you’re coming at me with an axe in hand, though I suppose given the shit I’ve already encountered, you probably wouldn’t have bothered to even stop.” You reply lowing the bat.
“Well, you probably were best to err on the side of caution. I’ve just spent what I believe to be an hour or two looking for you.” Jack says.
“I was in your living room downstairs asleep on your couch. Right where you left me last night.” You reply.
“Yeah, and you weren’t there when I checked on you later this morning. I called out and looked in every room on the first floor. I heard your voice coming from the second floor so I went up there and that’s when things started getting weird. (Sigh) and I thought this place was done with all that…should have known better I suppose…”
Jack trails off, but at this point you’re demanding an answer.
“Jack, you’ve saved my life twice, but if I’m going to hang out with you, you better start explaining what the hell’s going on with this place. I’m not sure what weirdness you’ve experienced up here, but what I just experienced downstairs was beyond weird, it was fucking terrifying.” You exclaim.
“I know. I know. I should have told you about this place yesterday. Well let’s head into this room and talk about it.”
Jack heads into a room down the corridor and to the left. You follow and find that it’s another living area furnished in a similar manner as the one downstairs. Jack was really like consistency. The pair of you sit and after you tell Jack what happened with you downstairs, Jack apologizes that you had to go through it and then tells you a little about what he knows of this place.
Jack goes on about how he bought this Gray Building years ago for cheap and figured it would also be good to store all his stuff along with being a place he could live and thus no longer living in his mom’s basement.
He then mentions he went to check out the place after he bought it and right away he experienced weirdness. He said the first time he opened up the door to the place there was a jungle village inside. He mentions that upon entering the building seemed to whisk him away to this place and his surroundings completely changed.
“Curiosity got the better of me I guess. However it wasn’t just a jungle. I found out later when cannibals were chasing me, that I was on an island made of Styrofoam and held together by hemp rope. Barely escaped.” Jack says.
“What?! That’s…incredibly random.” You say.
“That was just the beginning. Of course any right thinking person, would have just written this place off, but I couldn’t help but find it fascinating. Of course I found it less fascinating the second time I went in, when I was attacked by these shadow wolf things. Barely survived that too.”
“Why the hell did you keep coming back here?”
“Well I actually stayed away after the second time. Though after a few months, I felt drawn to the place again. I can’t explain it, but as it turned out third time was the charm, well maybe not entirely, but the place started to become more accommodating. In time, I started to encounter less dangerous shit and the place became more normal, well as normal as it could ever be I suppose. Still, I was never quite willing to go all in and actually live in this place until recently and that’s only because of some positive weirdness that I experienced when in this building a few months ago.”
“What happened?”
“Well I saw a glimpse of the future and in few days I believe this world as we know it is going to start resembling Road Warrior. Of course even without seeing the future I was listening in on some pretty scary radio broadcasts before the Ground Zero corporation started cracking down and scrambling the airwaves.”
“Wait, you say you saw the future, like how exactly? In your head or what?”
“No, it was a portal or rather a small window that opened up on the third floor. Happened rather suddenly while I was up there deciding on where I should put more of my stuff a few weeks ago. I saw Security City get nuked. The town looks like it survived, but I saw that overrun by mad people, like rabid or something. Given how the people in town have been acting and the world situation lately, I’d say what I saw was on the mark. It was then, I decide that I might actually be safer in here.”
“Doesn’t seem like it, by the look of things.” You say.
“No, apparently I was wrong about that. (Sigh) I dunno, I’m sorry I got you involved in all this.”
“Well it’s done now and it seems like I was fucked no matter what this week. So, is there anything we can do? I mean we can’t really stay here I think you’d agree, but if the world is doomed like you’re saying, where could we go?”
“Know where there is a fallout shelter?” Jack asks.
“Yes and no. My older brother made one a long time ago back home, unfortunately its entrance is a bit of a mystery now since he’s dead.”
“That would mean going back to town anyway and with the National Guard and the rabid there I imagine it’s going to resemble a warzone.”
“Well there has to be somewhere we can…is that snow?” you say noticing the hallway.
At this point Jack stands up and you do too, both with your weapons ready as you approach the hallway where white flakes are falling from the ceiling and snow is starting to fill up the hallway. Jack looks to the left and right and then speaks.
“Well I don’t see anything else out of the ordinary except the snow, but I think we better get the hell out of here and take our chances with the outside world, whatever might happen to it.” Jack exclaims.
“Don’t need to tell me twice.” You say and the pair of you run as quickly as you can back down to the first floor.
When you get to the first floor, you and Jack make your turn towards the large front room and that’s when reality starts warping and you’re getting disoriented again.
“Shit…” Jack says tripping over. You go to help Jack up and that’s when you see them again. Those tentacle things coming at you down the hallway, which is once again increasingly being enveloped in darkness. There’s no magical bald guy around this time to save you either.
‘Oh fuck, we need to move!” You say and start running towards the front room. Jack follows along.
When you get the front room the lights flicker. Junk is still scattered all over the place and there is also no front door now, but TWO open doors.
“What the fuck?” Jack exclaims and then the lighting gets even dimmer and soon you’ll be left completely in the dark save for the illumination coming from the open doors.
At glance, one door is leading to what looks to be a tropical area since you’re seeing vines, trees and such. The other door is leading to a snowy area and you can even feel the cold air whipping in from that one.
And those creatures are still in pursuit behind you with darkness ever encroaching. You’re starting to hear them now in your head, howling, chattering, gibbering. It’s madness and you need to leave now.
“Shit, my head…” Jack says staggering.
“Come on! This way!” you say and start heading towards the jungle.
“Wait! That’s a fucking jungle, and I know nothing ever good comes from entering one! Remember my first trip here?” Jack says.
“Well, it’s either that or the fucking artic and we’re not exactly dressed for that!” you say.
“I’d rather take my chances with snow than a jungle.”
“It’s pointlessss….death…isssss everywhere…embrace madnessss and ssssave yourself… embrace usssssss…” a voice in your head suddenly interjects this is followed by hideous mocking laughter.
Maybe you’re getting resilient or something because you manage to keep it together. Jack isn’t looking as great though which is odd since you figured he’d be used to something like this. He’s having a hard time standing up and you’re having a hard time keeping him from falling.
Either way, you’re making the decision on which way to go.