Scene 2 - Seizure Day

You carefully, quietly, follow Rose as she makes her way out into the corridor.

The light of your torches and lantern reflects off the metallic walls you are walking past - sometimes making it seem like there is something moving towards you, as the light waves and flickers. But no. Just a reflection.

The smell is dry and musty. Although, despite what you've been told by Baby D about how long the sanatorium experienced the catastrophe that killed many and turned the remaining to undead - despite that, the floors and surfaces are clean of dust.

Some of the doors you move past have a window in them. Against a few of these, there seems to be resting something, some kind of additional humanoid shape that looms up against the glass. And sometimes these seem to be moving - but, again, it turns out that this is just a trick of the light and reflection.

You walk past a few abandoned gurneys - stripped of any bedding or other additions, just the metal frame and the wheels. A couple of these are neatly lined up against the walls, a couple are skewed across the corridor and are more dented and damaged than the others.

One door you pass has a pile of chairs and heavy-looking technical equipment jammed up against it. Above this pile is written in hurried marker-pen "DEAD INSIDE".

Eventually you come to an alcove with a set of eight elevator doors - four in one wall, four facing them directly in the opposite wall. And at the end of the alcove a door with a window in it, with symbols on it representing up and down staircases behind it.

Oscar pulls the door open carefully. It moves smoothly on its hinges, swinging open with hardly a sound.

Your torchlight illuminates a metallic wall opposite the door, with a flat platform directly in front of the door. To the right, a staircase goes upwards, to the left downwards. You can see that after several steps the upward staircase turns to the left, the downwards staircase to the right - so the stairs appear to be circling around a central pillar.

The air is slightly warmer through this door, in the staircase in general, and you can feel air currents moving here that you didn't notice as you moved along Sub-Level 3 to get to the staircase.

The way down to the next level is clear. To reach it you rotate one full turn around the central pilar, so that you are standing directly below the platform on which you entered the stairwell.

There is a sign above this door, indicating "Sub-Level 4". As Oscar peers out through the window, all he sees is another alcove containing doors to eight elevators.

The air currents - not hot, just noticeably warmer than the air in Sub-Level 3 - are dry. And they smell strongly of sulphur.

Oscar pushes open the door, with Bertie at his heals, and moves into the space between the elevator doors. His torch, as before, throws a flickering light against the surfaces of the space around them - again, metallic walls and ceiling, some kind of linoleum-like surface on the floor.

As the others come to join Oscar, Rose's boot hits an unexpectedly slippery spot. Rose is so concentrated on moving quietly, her senses so switched on to the noises and what she is looking at in front of her, that she is caught completely unawares. She slips, and falls, and tumbles to the floor, hitting also against the walls with the barrel of her shotgun.

The sound doesn't echo through the corridors - but it is loud, and just a moment after the fall, you all notice a change in background sounds of the corridor. There are new hums you can hear, very faintly, in the background. Several small points of orange light turn on - some near the elevator doors, a couple on the ceiling. This reminds Rose and Oscar of what it feels like when a computer starts to boot itself up.

From the plan, Rose expects the storage room to be perhaps a hundred yards down the corridor to the left, when they leave the elevator alcove.