It was a rather long day at school. I was kind of grateful that we ended half an hour earlier than our usual dismissal time. I heard there was some leaving examinations the seniors were taking. Some classmates asked me study with them at the nearby Starbucks or library, I declined. It was an early dismissal and I want to get back home. The homework kept piling up despite the fact that the End of Year examinations were going to start next Monday. Shouldn't they let us study instead of giving homework? Anyway, I'm glad I survived the day. Then again, I'm dreading the next. I felt so lethargic and the weather was so hot! Opening the front door, I walked into my house, slipping off my school shoes.
"I'm home~" I called out.
"Welcome back~" my brother greeted from his spot on the couch, eyes glued onto the computer. I climbed up the stairs and went into my room, throwing my school bag onto the bed. Mother and father wasn't back from work yet. I didn't bother changing out of my uniform.
Homework can wait. I switched on my laptop and went onto Iwakuroleplay. I've been frequenting the website since the beginning of this year. It was like an escape for me and also a practice for writing. Glancing at the Alerts icon, there wasn't a red sign except for the Inbox icon. It was rare for me to receive messages from anyone. Opening the message, it was from a user named 'Akibahara', inviting me to join a murder rp. Of course, I decided to join since it's been awhile that I roleplayed. Most of the groups I joined kind of died.
A few hours later
I got up my seat in front of the laptop. I had to finish my homework before my parents got back. As I turned around to retrieve my school bag, darkness came over me. The last thing I saw was two pair of red goggles looking at me.
I don't know how long later
My eyes shot open, a gas mask over my mouth. I could hear my heart pounding, my eyes drifted everywhere as I sat up, "Where am I...? Am I still in Singapore?"
The first thing I did was to check my body parts, in case I was bleeding somewhere. Luckily, I wasn't. My thoughts somehow drifted to my younger brother. I wonder if he realized I'm gone... No, for all you know, this might be a dream!! I looked down at the outfit I was wearing. Ew... I'm still in uniform. I made a disgusted look, looking down at the polka dotted uniform. My tie wasn't knotted to the top and I broke some school rules by altering my skirt.
Suddenly, a TV set started buzzing in the dim room. My attention quickly turned to the TV as a guy with a leather jacket and gloves appeared on the screen. There were no features on his face except the two long vertical cuts on the place where the eyes were supposed to be and a long cut that's supposed to form a smile. His overall appearance creeped me out as I moved further back into the bed, my back almost touching the wall. He spoke;
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Hello everyone. Welcome to your first night of rebirth. For the past few months, perhaps years of your life, you've enjoyed living a fantasy. This 'roleplaying': Your illusion, your escape, your DRUG, from such a cold, cruel outside world. [A pause] There are 24 of you. Most, if not all, of you are interconnected in a way you'll soon discover. For the next seven days, you'll experience REAL roleplaying: A real Murder Game. If you win, you return home with $500,000 via anonymous electronic payment – if you lose, you go home empty handed.
Catch the traitor.
There is one amongst you.
Listen to me, and your chance of survival increases: The door will open, head out into the hospital lobby. The Director has presents.
[Beep!]
[The screen dies out.]
This is just a dream, right? I pinched my left arm. I winced slightly,
This can 't be true... Wait... there's more here?! And a traitor...? This was starting to get confusing. What the hell did I get myself into. I started searching the room around me, noticing 23 more beds. All of a sudden, I heard a buzz coming from the door that led into the hallway. I walked down the long hallway, shivering slightly at my surroundings. I've seen this kind of setting in games and in movies, I didn't expect to be in one!
Congratulations! You've reached The Hospital Lobby.
You walk through the shabby Hospital floors, there's broken shelves, furniture scattered everywhere, with lights flickering on and off. Looking out a shattered window, you realize it's still night time. No rain. You could see little shadowy figures walk to and fro outside. Mm, you hope you don't run into them... but who knows, you may.
The Hospital Lobby was just as dirty and rotting away like any part of the Hospital units. White paint was peeled away, graffiti littered the walls, a half-moth eaten couch lay there, overturned, but something caught your attention – weapons, food, water and earpieces – a large marble table, possibly worth thousands of dollars, sat there with a lamppost shining overhead.
There was 24 earpieces, each shaped in different sizes, individually crafted to fit your earlobe. Beneath each earpiece was a name: 'Adam', 'Laura', 'Nate', etc. It looked like a bluetooth. Whoever 'The Director' is, wants you to wear them.
Unfortunately, you counted five weapons: A stainless steel machete, a fire ax, a metal baseball bat, flashlight, and a 9mm Beretta (x12 rounds). Everyone else was forced to scavenge off the dead or hide behind. I'd suggest some brave motherfuckers take the weapons first.
Oh, and obviously, food... mostly Gatorade bottles and pre-cooked TV Dinners sat there.
Somehow, I ended up in what seems to be a lobby. A hospital lobby, in fact. The whole lobby just screamed eerie to me. Since I left the room, I could feel my heart pounding and I also felt as though I was being watched. Crying wasn't an option, nor was shouting for mother and father. They won't come. I was alone. And, there's others around me too but they seemed preoccupied with themselves, I decided to leave them alone.
As I paced around the lobby, since I didn't know what to do, a table caught my eye. There were weapons, food, water and earpieces. Wait, earpieces?! What were they for? Apparently, there were names beneath each earpiece. Most of the names she saw seemed so familiar though she couldn't recognize where she saw them from.
They're like those keychains with the names you see in the store. Batrisyia. It's an uncommon name, hard to pronounce, easy to misspell. I used to get upset whenever I couldn't find my names on one of those keychains. I searched for my name. A few seconds later, I saw my name beneath an earpiece. I picked it up, and placed it in my right ear. I didn't picked up any weapons, I wasn't that confident in those kind of things.
The group before me left, I wasn't sure where they went but they seemed close. A guy asked if anyone wanted to be his teammate or something. I should look for someone to be with, being alone wasn't good for someone in a place like this. I looked around, noticing that the ones left were mostly guys. Biting the inside of my cheek, my gaze fell to the ground.
Why oh why did I go to an all girl school... I grabbed two bottles of water and some food, before looking for a door out of this place. I walked down the dark hallways, occasionally saying
"HELLO?!" aloud. Fear overtook me as I glanced around my dark surroundings.
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