Play@YSDC

The first door on the left leads to an L-Shaped room. There is a naked lightbulb and a pull string in the middle of the room. The walls are lined with shelving containing many film reels. At the very end is a poster, very aged, with the words: "Life is swell!" over the picture of a half-naked cartoon lady on a beach. Something glints in the light from the other room, something hidden partially behind one of the film reels. It's a key, old, dusty and large, that appears to have been left here by mistake rather than truly hidden.

Mark picks up the key. It's heavier than it looks. "This thing looks like an antique." he thinks as he places it in his bag. Mark listens at the door as he prepares to go out. Hearing nothing he quietly slips back out into the hall.


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The corridor is empty. The lights flicker a little.

Mark makes his way over tothe stairwell, and slowly climbs the stairs.

The stairwell leads to a pair of offices, a small lounge and three projector rooms, judging from the plaques on the doors.

Mark turns the handle to the office, and to his suprise it is unlocked. He creeps in slowly, and searches the room for a safe, or a deposit bag.

There is, unfortunately, no safe. The money is probably kept in the till, largely, and then taken to the bank. There would be a safe somewhere, of course, to carry the float (change kept for the cashier to give to people) but it's apparently not here.

The large desk does contain an expensive computer, beside which is a laptop, upon both of the screens dance screen savers. The drawers contain staplers, rulers, the usual. There is a hat rack with a heavy trench coat that would keep him warmer - at least, if he went outside it would, as the threatre is warm but the outside world freezing - then what he was currently wearing. There is also a bowler hat sitting on the top and a suitcase at the bottom of the rack.

OOC: How long do you spend searching?

Mark closes the laptop, and unhooks it. He places it, and the power supply in his bag, and walks over to the Briefcase. It pops open easily with a little help from Mark's lockpicks.

Inside is a lunch box containing two sandwhiches and a juice box, a folio of photographs of the hospital across the road and some of the staff taken with a high-powered camera and a few proposals for renovations to the theatre.

He barely glances at the photos, and looks closer at the plans for the rennovations. He listens to make sure noone is coming.

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It seems pretty quiet.

The renovations talk mostly about aesthetic changes, extentions to the cellar - that seem far too large already, and an underground Valuables Storage Facility. There is no mention of how to reach that place, however.

Mark folds the plans up neatly, and takes the sack lunch. He places them both in his backpack, and sneaks back out into the hallway.

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He can hear a door opening somewhere on the floor below and people enter.

He heads for the door marked Projection, and has a little trouble with the lock.

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He gets the chilling sensation that there is someone behind him, watching him, someone familiar. Who shouldn't be there.

Mark turns the handle, and again he hasn't hit all of the tumblers. Mark glances over his shoulder. He feels invisible eyes burning through him. He doesn't notice anything, and returns his attention to the stubborn lock.

"Maaaaark..." A whisper, cold and tingling, hits his ear and runs down his neck and spine. It's his name, spoken in a voice that is contorted so that it almost sounds like a mechanical hiss.

Mark quickly spins back around, and looks for whatever had said his name. He doesn't see anythign , and quickly gets back to work on the lock as a chill runs down his spine. The lock clicks open, and Mark slips through, shutting the door quietly behind him.

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The room is cramped and covered in aged movie posters. The projector and chair sit near the transparent glass in the middle of the far end of the small room. There is also a locked metal closet, a coffee table which contains a large box of popcorn and a soda, and a cupboard.

Mark locks the door behind him, and walks to the cupboard. He Listens for anyone out in the hall, and opens the doors.

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The cupboard is empty but for a thick film of dust and a few dead flies.

Mark shuts the cupboard, and makes his way to the metal closet. He get's out his handy dandy lockpicks again. He probes at the lock, but has no success. He stops for a minute to listen for anyone coming.


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He can hear people moving downstairs but they don't seem to be on their way up.

Mark get's back to work on the locker...


http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?id=1208376 (Yikes)

Mark snaps his lockpick.

Mark throws down the broken pick, and reaches into his bag for his spare. He zips the bag back up, and turns back to the cabinet. He pops the lock, and listens to make sure noone is coming still. He opens the locker door, and searches it's contents.

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The locker contains several dead flies, a load of dust and a stack of movie magazines that reach halfway up his chest.

Mark moves over to the window, and looks out into the theatre.

(Is the projector running? I actually used to be a projectionist, and I know a little secret about projectors.)

This projector is running Shaun of the Dead. Shaun is yelling at his fat friend outside a pub. He suddenly goes quiet and peers over his shoulder. The zombies have formed a semi-circle around them, merely watching and not yet moving.

Mark walks back to the locker, and grabs one of the magazines. He moves over to the glass seperating him from the theatre, Presses the paper over it, and busts out the window.

(Can you describe the area under the window... straight drop down, or a " l___l " shaped outcrop for the theatre doors under the projection window, or none of the above.)

There is a straight-down drop about eight feet to where the top row of chairs sit in the sloped theatre.

Mark clears away the broken glass, and covers Sticks his head out of the theatre window to have a better look. He listens for any sign of life, or unlife. (If he doesn't see, or hear anything Mark will attempt to climb down into the theatre quietly)


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(Wow what a crazy set of rolls)

Seeing no one and hearing no noises, Mark climbs out of the window with cloth wrapped around his hands. He hangs from the window for a few moments, then drops lithely but heavily to the chair with a dull thunk. As he does so, a man appears around the corner of the corridor that links theatre to lobby, carrying a gun.

OOC: You may attempt to Hide.

Mark quickly ducks down in the row of seats, and waits for the man to pass.

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"Bloody hell," says the gunman, looking around for a few moments and then heading back. "I think that Mark broke a window. No idea why."

Mark waits until the man is gone, and tries to sneak over to the door.

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Mark reaches the door. There are a few people in the lobby, including Lionel.

Mark opens the door, and walks out into the lobby.

Rejoin main Cinemaplex thread.