Characters: Helen Magnus, Jay Merrick, Tim Wright, Lancer
Location Sports Shed (Lot 29)
Date: Day 006, Night
Summary: Four (mostly) strangers get locked in a storage shed. Discomfort is expected.
Warnings: TBD (will update as necessary)

"I hope no one minds sharing for the night."

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There's a horrific metallic screech, with a video displaying only the floor of the elementary school for a few moments. Then, it rises, showing a much more intact school than the current travelers would be used to.. Two unknown people are speaking, both women.

"Are you seeing that?"

"No I--wait, yes. What are those?"

"Get it on video, quick."

The display jerks down another hallway. None of the lights are on; the only point of light is the distant illumination of the other end of the hallway, where the lights still work. Shadows seem to shift and twitch--no, shadows are shifting and twitching. Darker than the gloomy surroundings, humanoid shadows can be seen. They're twitching and wandering aimlessly in the middle of the hallway.

Once the camera really focuses on them, though, their heads all turn at once to face it. And, with torn apart voices, they begin to scream.

The video ends.

[Forgive him, the piano is not quite in tune but Demyx has been holed up in the same place since the end of Day 003 simply because there is a piano here. Instead of speaking at first, he begins to play a simple sonata, nothing terribly complicated in its composition but unique all the same. It's taken him awhile to figure out which note is which and complicated chords are a bit beyond him, but face it - it's not his instrument and the basics are all people are going to get.]

It's really too bad I can't stay here for awhile longer, but I'm going to need food or supplies soon. All there is in this house is shelter and a piano.

[He sounds a little regretful, but he'll play the piano for a long time unless people complain otherwise. Consider it the gift of background music for the afternoon/evening. Expect a few mistakes here and there, he's just not nearly as skilled on it as he would be on his sitar.]

[The voice that starts speaking sounds alert, but every once in a while he makes a slightly pained noise as he speaks.]

Say a guy was groping around in the dark-- wasn't paying attention to what he was doing. Say he cut himself open without meaning to and keeps reopening the cut on his hand.

If a situation like that happened, would anyone have happened to have found medical supplies?

[So she's found another house and she's started making note of a peculiar event she's noticed in a couple of the buildings she's been in. And she wants to know if anyone else has bothered to look. Or at the very least people can put their heads together and try to deduce what it could mean. Maybe.]

So I have to say, in the buildings I've found, I have begun to make note of the state of their breaker panels. All of the electrical wiring and so forth within the boxes have been expertly removed. For what reason? And by whom? It seems rather curious why someone would remove electricity from this place in such a way.

Has anyone else found anything similar to this? I had hopes of attempting to repair whatever state the system was in, but it is completely non-existent.

[She has hopes of finding parts somewhere along the way that she can start fusing something together, but that may be a while down the line. But Helena is nothing if not persistent.]