Nick and Walta in Partyland
+ Show First Post
Total: 937
Posts Per Page:
Permalink

Zahn opens the door, revealing an enormous hexagonal room. Four of the walls have hallways off of them while the opposite has a door like the one they came out of. The floor has a pattern with six nested spirals on it and in the center is a circular ramp that looks to lead down to lower floors. The ceiling is an enormous skylight that give a view of the overcast sky above. "Well, this looks to be a pretty big place. Any preferences on where we go first? One of the hallways, the opposite door or down the ramp?"

Permalink

"Hm, clockwise quick investigations of the halls, I think."

Permalink

Alice nods and takes the lead while Zahn hold the door. The first hallway has doors to six bedrooms. Each bedroom has a King size bed, a large desk, a dresser and a wardrobe. "Well this place continues to be ridiculously luxurious, each of these has to be more than twice the size of my dorm room."

Permalink

"Not that student dorms are that luxurious."

Permalink

"If this really is a frat house, bedrooms are kind of expected. But nobody's here, they don't look occupied. Next hall, bet it's the same."

Permalink

"No bet." Alice continues to lead the way, and true to Nick's prediction the next hall has slightly different furniture but it is otherwise identical.

Permalink

What about the other side's strange door?

Permalink

Alice opens the door to reveal a huge bathroom, with a large deficit in privacy dividers. Mercifully the six stalls off to the right had stalls surrounding them but the sinks further on, the showers in the middle of the room, the jacuzi-style tubs off to the left and the laundry machines mounted in the back wall all lacked any kind of affordances for privacy. "Well, whoever designed this place didn't design it with mixed-gender residents in mind."

Permalink

"Or they just don't have the same sort of nudity taboos we have."

Permalink

"...Army barracks tend to be arranged like this from what my cousin tells me. Except no tubs and barely any showers. And the laundry machines, that's just weird."

Permalink

"Laundry rooms are often near bathrooms in single family homes. Not generally in a place you need to walk past showers to get to but it has some similarity."

Permalink

"But still, who the hell built this place?"

Permalink

"At this point, a part of me is starting to come back around to the idea of aliens, but that might be my inner sci-fi fan talking."

Permalink

"Hmmmm. Let's just check if the other halls are bedrooms and then see what's downstairs."

Permalink

Nick is looking more nervous and scared than irritated, now.

Permalink

The other two hallways mirror the ones they've already visited. If they travel down the ramp they'll have the option to stop at the next floor down or proceed further. "What do you think? Should we see what's at the bottom first or work our way down one floor at a time?"

Permalink

"I think I'd rather check each floor as we go."

Permalink

"Agreed. And we stick together."

Permalink

The door directly opposite the ramp entrance reveals a medium greenhouse-type room lit by daylight bulbs. Right by the entrance there are a number of bins which when opened prove to be filled with fruits and vegetables. Walking through the rows they'll find familiar plants like potatoes, asparagus and tomatoes, and lettuce along with less familiar plants like the one with the orange berries or this other one with the large blue leaves. "Well this looks to be a renewable source of food, if we can figure out how to harvest and replant it."

Permalink

"I wonder who or what filled those bins, something has to have been tending this garden before we arrived. I wonder if whatever it is will continue to do so."

Permalink

"I have some concerns about the berries. Weird berries are frequently poisonous in the wild."

Permalink

Nick has a hunch and peers around for evidence of robots. Strange boxes in out of the way locations? Wires and such? A small door somewhere?

Permalink

There are in fact several large circles etched into the floor that on closer inspection might be hatches. If Nick thinks back he might remember similar etchings in other areas they've already explored, mostly on various walls. "What are you looking for Nick?"

Permalink

"Does that look like it opens, to you?"

Permalink

Zahn kneels down to look where he's pointing. "Maybe, not from this side, but if it's robots or something tending the garden I'd assume that it's opened by an automated mechanism."

Total: 937
Posts Per Page: