Chapter 01 · Ward 04
What is on the ward
Ward 04 closed to admissions at 22:40. Past the fire doors the building is on the emergency circuit. Everything you need to get out is written down somewhere on the ward — and something else is walking it.
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The lantern
Your only light, and it is not free. Turn it up and the ward hears you.
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Eight documents
A handover, a triage log, a run sheet, a note folded small. They only make sense against each other.
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Three locks
A card reader on the lockdown circuit, a four-figure keypad, and a cylinder that is not on the ward supply.
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It hears you
Running is quick and loud. Every room has a curtain, a locker or a bed to get under.
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Emergency power
Half the fittings are dead. The ones that are not do not stay on.
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One way out
Find a way off Ward 04. There is exactly one, and it is not the way you came in.
Controls
- WASD
- walk
- Shift
- run — briefly, and loudly
- CtrlC
- crouch
- E
- the thing you are looking at
- F
- lantern
- Tab
- evidence
- Esc
- pause
On a phone the on-screen controls appear the moment you touch the screen. Headphones recommended either way.