Nan says hello, but there is no response of any kind.
She says Anna's name, but still, there is no response.
The elevator passes the SECOND FLOOR without incident, and chimes once.
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Nan says hello, but there is no response of any kind.
She says Anna's name, but still, there is no response.
The elevator passes the SECOND FLOOR without incident, and chimes once.
Nan waits until the elevator reaches the ground floor. It chimes once.
The doors open.
The lights appear to be on out in the hall.
The marking is dark, its texture aged and mottled.
On closer inspection, it almost seems to be a mottled burn mark.
Nan reaches forward and tries to chip off a piece of the dark mark on the wall.
Something doesn't feel quite right.
Below is a dirty, old elevator shaft. The elevator car sits at the bottom. But given the proportions, it doesn't feel like the same elevator.
Nan walks over and asks Anna what she's doing, but Anna is too busy with her work to respond.
A voice comes from below, distant and echoing. The source cannot be seen. The voice asks Anna if she's done yet.
Anna replies that she is almost done. She calls the voice "Mr. Bowerman".
Anna drops her SCREWDRIVER, and it tumbles down the elevator shaft below. She curses quietly, reaching out for it in vain. After a moment she sighs, rummaging through her toolbox.
Unable to find whatever she was looking for, Anna mutters that should be fine anyway.
Nan offers Anna the SCREWDRIVER. But as it does not seem to catch her attention, she places it in Anna's TOOLBOX.
Anna rummages past it, then picks it up, commenting that it appears she did have a spare, after all.
She goes back to work.
Anna finishes her work a minute later, muttering that's as tight as it's going to get.
She packs up her tools and goes to the ladder, descending carefully.
She calls out that she's coming back down now.
Nan follows after Anna, heading towards the ladder.
Nan is suddenly
somewhere else.
Nan is back in the HOTEL ELEVATOR.
Nan exits the elevator and steps onto the MAIN LANDING at the ground floor.
The lights are still on, for now.
Nan examines the SEASIDE PAINTING.
It depicts some sort of very primitive looking building made of stone, or perhaps clay, standing on a cliff by the seaside. A strange tower, perhaps some kind of lighthouse, stands beside it with a great bonfire burning atop it.
The majority of the painting is dominated by a very bleak and very gray sea.
Nan opens the janitor's closet door.
It appears to be more than just a closet.
It opens to a steep, narrow stairway. Somewhere at the other end of the darkness below is a faint, shimmering light.
Nan descends into the dim stairwell.
Nan has entered the JANITOR'S CLOSET.
Nan squints against the hazy darkness and shines her flashlight up into the thick smoke that lingers overhead. The weak beam of light barely fights back the choking black fog, but it's enough to see past the soot-caked water tanks and into the mess of criss-crossed pipes up above. Nan's eyes follow the electrical wire from the chandelier outside. It strings across the wall, high up, and comes down on the opposite wall, entering an electrical box near the furnace.
Nan inspects the laid out supplies.
Several tins of CANNED FOOD and some BOTTLED WATER are here. Looks like someone's stash.
Also present are a few CIGARETTES.
Nan shines her flashlight behind the tanks, and a familiar voice calls out in return as Henry steps into the light.
"Oh thank god, it IS you!" he says with a sigh of relief.
Henry wipes his brow, covered in sweat. He has a few minor injuries.
He says he can't believe Nan's still all right. He says was worried it was that skeleton-faced thing coming back.
Nan decides to hold off on Henry, even if she is relieved to see him. Now is not the time or place.
Nan recovers some food and water from the supply stash, and also takes some unopened packs of CIGARETTES.
Henry explains what's been going on:
He says when he woke up in the room, Pablo and Anna were already gone. He heard screams out in the hall, so he tried to wake Nan, but she was having some kind of nightmare. She tossed and turned, muttering something, and he couldn't wake her up, so he ran out to see for himself. Out in the hall, he found Anna, freshly killed, and tried to approach, when the skeleton-faced creature attacked him. He ran down the stairs to escape and came here, where the others had said there was food and water, to try and take hide here and wait out the danger. It was locked, so he smashed the door open with his CHAIR LEG CLUB and took shelter.
He hid when he heard someone coming in, thinking it might be that skull-faced thing, and now here we are.
\Nan asks how long ago this was. Henry says he's not sure, less than an hour probably?
Nan asks how Henry took the stairs, if there are no stairs on the first floor. Henry says of course there are.
Henry says he has no idea if there are any hidden passages or secrets around here.
>"Help".
>"Help. Help me!"
Nan investigates the voice coming from the smoldering furnace.
>"Help me! Nan, get me out! I'm still alive! For the love of god, get me out!"
Kim is in the furnace.