The weapon fires- and startled by the recoil, it jumps from Reece's hand and clatters to the floor. As he looks up, he sees that he's fired the right end. The horrid stench of cooking meat fills the Reception as the man falls to the ground, screaming a wordless cry of pain and fury. You can see a nasty looking burn through the man's left shoulder. Your stomach turns just looking at it and the hot blood pumping out of his wound and pooling upon the floor. As you stare in horror, you realize the blood is not pumping at all- the beam seemed to have caused a deep burn, cauterizing the wound and amounting to that horrid smell.
You turn at a noise.
The auditorium doors have swung open and instead of sympathetic fellow teenagers, two granite faced adults run towards the fallen Mary and young man.
"Get them!" The man howls, clutching his ruined shoulder. "Take them!"
His hand indicates Damien, Brit, Reece and swings towards the bathroom. His finger tips drip with his own blood.
The two adults- one a tall, lean blond man and the other a stocky, dark skinned one- race towards you. You dodge their outstretched hands as they chase you into the girl's bath room, where the girl and a woman stare at you. You lock the door shut and put down the kick stand, but you can hear them throwing their full weight at it. The door is inching open.
What would happen if they thought to get that weapon? It would cut through this door like butter- and whoever was standing behind it.
Looking for a way out, all you can find is the window which slides up easily. They jostle for position underneath the window to boost the shorter members out first. The tallest of the group, Damien, has difficulty fitting through the window to join the others. He watches the group who has escaped stare back at him fearfully- the unknown girl, Reece, Torrence, Brit, Autumn... where was Kasey?
As he struggled to fit, the bathroom door clatters open. The angry adults shove the door open and head towards the lone woman (Alice) who remains in the building. Damien's shoulder suddenly squeezes through and he tumbles out of the window and out into the cool dusk with the others.
As Damien rights himself, Alice crashes down beside him. Arms reach out for you, but the adults have no better luck fitting through the window than Damien did initially.
They had a head start- but where should they go? What was going on? What were those weapons, the odd name that Alice had texted Kasey - and what was the Pool?
