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[Closed] Hospital Escape

WHO: Tae and Radley
WHERE: Hospital and Onward
WHAT: Seeking Shelter from Monsters
WHEN: First Monster Attack Day
WARNINGS: N/A

There were, apparently, downsides to living in the hospital. For instance, sometimes a giant, angry, bear-badger amalgamation decides that your home slash workplace is something like their den. Or whatever monsters thought.

Tae? She was not enjoying being in a building that was getting recurring giant wanderings. Especially when she has no clue how long that generator she had found in her explorations was rated to last.

"Damn thing just wants to give me a bad day," she grumbled as she worked her way through several storage closets to try and stuff a pack with emergency medical supplies. "Guess I need to make more to go emergency medical kits."

Another thing in a list of many things that need done, and she's so tired to think of that.

"Where in the world am I going to set up first aid? What a mess. This is so outside of my pay grade."

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Radley has been very frustrated by the monsters' arrival too, and especially this monster, since it's been hanging around his main stomping grounds. He tried to help fight it a bit with his machete, but wasn't able to do any significant damage. He isn't a big fan of fighting monsters anyway. He just doesn't want it to hurt his friends ... or himself.

Right now he's been crouching behind a building, pondering what to do next and how to get a better weapon when he sees the thing headed towards the hospital. And that makes him think of something else. Is Tae there right now?

Most likely.

Swearing under his breath, he goes around another direction and slips in through the hospital doors. "Hello?" he calls, trying not to be too loud.

Maybe he isn't being too loud, especially when there's all that noise and chaos outside, but Tae still hears it. It helps that she's only muttering in vaguely annoyed Japanese under her breath as she moves past the entrance way he came in through.

Though seeing him, a look flashes across her eyes.

"Can you spare a few minutes to help? I need to get some emergency supplies out to an area beyond that thing's rampage. People are going to get hurt."

Radley starts in surprise, even though he was looking for her.

"Yeah, I can give it a try. The thing's coming back over this way now, though. We need to get out right away!"

They don't have time to start in surprise right now, Radley. There is so much to do. Come on, you're being recruited.

"Three minutes of grabbing then we go," she suggested. Not like she could run really fast in her shoes anyway. "We need these things if people get hurt! It could well be life or death."

Radley is definitely sure people will get hurt.

"I'll help you get stuff if you tell me what. We should probably get extra, if we can. We might not be able to come back here."

He flinches as the beast gets closer. He can hear it outside.

"Take this," she said, thrusting her current bag at him. "If you hold them, I can stuff. And..."

Damn, these shoes were going to be an issue. She leans down to undo their buckles for now. She buckles them together and slings them around her neck. Yeah, she's barefoot now and that was going to be a problem in its own way, but that was how life went.

"Let's go."

"Right." Radley takes the bag.

He won't comment on the shoes bit. Barefoot will be painful once outside, no doubt, but heels are absolutely not a good idea, so there isn't much choice.

He waits for her to show him what direction to go to get to the other supplies.

"This way," she says quickly, moving quickly down the hall to another supply closet. "Be quick about it."

Which is not to say the man wasn't moving quickly enough. It was just a bit of worry in her because she too understood the worry.

Radley can and does move very quickly. He reaches the closet soon and stays tense, listening for scary sounds.

Aren't most of the sounds scary here? Tae grabbed another bag from the closet and started to stuff whatever she could grab into it.

"How bad is it out there?"

Monster sounds are the scariest.

"Well, nobody seems to be having much luck bringing the thing down," Radley sighs. "I tried to help beat it back from the Diner, but my machete isn't good enough to do much on it."

Well, there's also that specific way a superior clears their throat when you're in trouble. That's pretty scary.

"Hopefully it's left standing. And the hospital too."

She shoves a few saline bags she's put together into the newest bag and then turns to him.

"That's about as much as I can risk."

Radley definitely remembers his grandmother making that sound. Not fun.

"It was okay when I left, but the thing was heading here."

He nods, relieved. "Okay, let's get out of here."

He hopes.

Heading here was not what she wanted to hear.

"Lead on. I'm sure you've better ideas of how to get from here to somewhere safer than I would have."

She doesn't get out as much as she should, what with there not being places worth going and so much work to do.

"Let's hope I do."

He heads for an exit that he thinks should be on the side opposite to where the thing will probably show up. It's getting louder outside.

It is, and she doesn't like that at all. But really she should be focused on heading forward. So she does, chasing after him.

"Any idea of where we should go?"

"I'm hoping this way." He comes to a door and pushes on it. "I think it's distracted outside."

"I meant from here," Tae said with a sigh. She doesn't know this part of town as well. She kept mostly to the center of the city and her hospital. "I figure you have a better idea."

"I think getting to the hotel is our best bet," Radley said. "The thing hasn't been bothering it and there's room to set up a first aid station."

The hotel? Well, that's a plan. She just wished it wasn't so far away.

"Alright," she said, taking a deep breath. Time to walk.

"I'll be as quick as I can but... Take the bags ahead of me. I don't want to slow you down."

Radley is definitely concerned about the distance. If they find anything closer that seems safe too, they should probably detour there.

"Right." He takes the bags and opens the door, then holds it for Tae.

It's a relief to know the medical supplies should make it.

"Before we go out, thank you."

Because she had needed help and there was no way she was going to ask for it otherwise. So yeah, it needed said.

Radley smiled. "Sure."

He just hoped it wasn't premature.

Outside, the shadow of the beast loomed, but it wasn't facing them ... yet.

At least it's back is turned.

"Let's go."

They have a long distance to go and she needs to move already. It's not like she's going to be able to move fast so she needs to just not stop moving.

But damn this hurts bare foot.

Radley nods and quietly moves forward, trying to get between Tae and the monster. It's roaring and he can also hear what sounds like the fight continuing. Hopefully that will be enough to occupy it....

He's concerned about the shoe problem, too. "Have you seen any other places where the monster doesn't seem to go?"

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