Ashgate #1 - Game Thread

Investigate the cushions maybe theres something useful underneath

 

You decide to take a step into the room. It seems safe enough, so you decide to take a look at the cushioned seats on the far wall. You find large clumps of dust and lint until you reach the last chair. You smiled as you felt something smooth and circular underneath the cushion, and quickly pocketed it.

Inventory: Bandage x2, LVL1 Keycard, Pocket Lint, Spare Change.
Current Map

 

"Umbra, how many others have you met?" I asked, curious if we'd be running into many other people here.

 

Examine the desk with the magazines

 

You searched each stack of magazines on each table. While you did this, you asked Umbra about who else she had met.

"Met? Don't you mean avoided?" she snarks back at you. "I may be what I am, but I'm not looking to get myself killed." she ran a finger down my spine. "You seem harmless enough, though. I'm sure I could handle things if you.... turn on me." she said, giggling at her own joke.

There was nothing of real use amongst the magazines. There was only the usual stuff - celeb gossip, news, diet fads and all sorts of other nonsense. The one thing that was interesting about each and every one was someone had gone to great lengths to redact the dates on each magazine. Where any dates could have been, there was a black mark erasing it instead.

Inventory: Bandage x2, LVL1 Keycard, Pocket Lint, Spare Change.
Current Map

 

Read the magazines to figure out in which country we are

 

You wondered for a moment if you could find out the location of Ashford. Unfortunately, even the bar-codes and prices where blacked out. To your knowledge, every single magazine was in English, so you figured you at least had to be in an English speaking country. Probably.

Inventory: Bandage x2, LVL1 Keycard, Pocket Lint, Spare Change.
Current Map

 

(Not that. News and Celeb gossip indicates where it's from. For example a British Celeb gossip magazine will include British People)

 

Concern suddenly hit you, as you heard your stomach roar in malcontent. "Umbra... What do we eat here? Does someone bring us food, or are we to just... Get it?"

 

Time to Examine the Desk Next to us

 

You turned, looking around for a desk. You swore you saw one as you came in here. You remembered that it had to be behind you - where Umbra was standing. You slowly took a few steps backward, and asked Umbra about the food.

"Huh? What do you mean? You're one of us right? I don't have to eat any more. Maybe it's different for each Unknown? I'm in the corridor now, by the way."

You turned slowly, apprehensive about trusting Umbra so much. Indeed, she appeared to have left the room and was ... floating? In the corridor? You shake your head in disbelief. You walked around behind the desk to see if there was anything of use. There was a small personal computer, some stationary and a bunch of papers. The computer wouldn't power on, as hard as you tried. You smack the monitor, venting your frustration.

What do you do now?

Inventory: Bandage x2, LVL1 Keycard, Pocket Lint, Spare Change.
Current Map

(I've gone ahead and highlighted some things that you can chose to investigate that will offer up more information. Let me know if this is something you would like to see more often? I wont be doing it for things that you need to progress, you still need to find those yourself.)

 

Ask Umbra what an unknown is while looking through the papers

 

"Eh...? Did you hit your.. oh right. We Unknown are basically... the Unknown. That's what the humans call us, at least. They don't really understand us or know what we are, so they hunt us down from the outside world and imprison us in here. They watch and they experiment."

The papers you looked through seemed to indicate that you were on one of the residential floors. This floor was a space for staff to stay and live in while they worked. The person who worked at this desk was apparently here as a timekeeper. If people were expected to come and go from here so often, it must mean that the dark corridor from earlier lead into the staff dormitories.

Inventory: Bandage x2, LVL1 Keycard, Pocket Lint, Spare Change.
Current Map

 

"Fondly" regard imprisonment and investigate the mangled table in the room.