First objective:
Flip the switch.
On the first floor, you can’t stay at one place for too long
a time. Sometimes you’ll have to risk it and explore. The more ground you
cover, the more places you can hide. The school building has two wings and a
staircase at each wing to take you to the levels above. One wing is closed off
and you’ve got to flip a switch to open it. The ogre-matron of the first floor
guards the switch to the staircase. You’ll know her when you see her. Ugly
everything with a side of warts, in a nurse’s uniform; can’t miss her. Even if
she isn’t around, when you flip the switch, make sure you run and hide because
she’ll know and she’ll catch you if you linger. Don’t go to the staircases
immediately. Hide for a while to cover your hide.
Second objective:
Change your clothes.
Change your identity from time to time. Camouflage and
blending in is the key to this level. There are many other scavengers trapped
and living in this level, and in this kind of crowd you don’t want to stand
out. Find your way to the laundry chutes to change your clothes. There are other
matrons guarding this level but they’re stupid, so you can get away by even
dressing up as one of them. But the nurse uniforms are harder to procure.
Disguise yourself as part of the background or just hide in the dark. They do
not like the color yellow.
Next objective: Find
the key to the green house.
The whole Dream was just colors
of steel grey, brown rust and seaweed green.
It’s dark, everything is dusty, decrepit and falling apart little by
little. It reminded me a lot of the abandoned, underwater burial ground that is
Rapture, from the Bioshock game. The scattered piles of junk everywhere and the
architecture of the place looked more like the makeshift hospital from the
game, Return to Ravenhearst. We weren’t
underwater nor in a hospital, but rather a school. And survival was the game.
Unfortunately the Dream ended so suddenly before I could understand the rest of
the instructions. Have to admit this Dream gave me the chills, just running
around, hiding and avoiding everything on sight.
