Some time has passed since everyone awoke in the warehouse. Since then, some explored, some panicked, some united with a friend, but ultimately, there was nothing left to do apart from accepting the situation and becoming somewhat settled within the confines of the musty facility. Silently, some must be wondering if any of them would soon kill another, or if everyone will use their strength in number to find another way out. There’s nothing forcing them to kill, after all. There is nothing yet worth killing over.
The speakers across the facility sprang to life with static. Then, a voice spoke through, the same voice that welcomed everyone on the first day. “Hello, everyone, again! It’s been a few days. How are you? I hope good, but you’re going to be better than good very soon. I decided to get a present for everyone. Does everyone know where the hospital is? You should. It’s very big. If you enter the hospital and look to the counter in the window, everyone will find a stack of electronic… tablets! There’s twenty of them, and twenty of you; one for each of you! Don’t take two. Taking two is unfair.”
“I decided that… it would be nice if everyone had the layout of the place with them. There’s a map uploaded to each tablet, and a list of everyone here. Like a roster. It can tell you the time, too. Technology is really amazing; I’m excited to see everyone’s reaction to these tablets.”
“Oh. Let me tell you about the best feature. There’s a feature called ‘feed’. Feed, live video feed. If you toggle through it, I think you’ll eventually find a feed from a place that’s really familiar. Or of really familiar people. It was hard setting up cameras in all these places, but not that hard. Some of these people are really important to you, right? You don’t want to see them get hurt, right? We can watch them live life for a while, then we can watch them die. It’s fair, I think. If no one can kill anyone this week, you can watch these people die instead,” the tone was casual, unfitting of the heavy threat it had announced.
“Hmm,” the voice paused for a brief moment, as though to collect its thoughts, “and also… I can hear things from here. I can hear and see everything. Yui! Yui, Yui mentioned weapons, I heard it. Something big to commit murder. Knives, or something big like an axe to kill people more easily. There’s already some knives in the kitchen, but I was nice. I got an axe. It’s not really large, but it’s an axe, and it’s next to the tablets on the counter in the hospital lobby. Have fun with the axe, or look forward to watching the massacre at the end of the week.”
Finally, after another very brief moment of static, the speakers silenced with a clack.
[[ On the counter in the hospital’s lobby are the tablets, one for each character. They all possess the same features: time, roster, map, and video feed of family/friends. Then, of course, there is one axe on the counter next to the tablets. It’s a fireman’s axe, one that you usually find behind glass in case of fire.]]
