Monsters Outside

Put on long pants and boots, tuck pants into boots to prevent any accidents

You don't have any boots but you are able to tuck the ends of your pants into your shoes. Good thinking!

>Pick a shirt in your clothes chest and use it as a improvised glove.

You grab some extra shirts from your clothes-box in the bedroom. You wrap those shirts around your arms, and voila! Makeshift gloves! You should have done this earlier.

Avoid touching the monster, but try to politely ask them through the door if they can wait a second because you dropped your knife and having a knife on the floor is a big safety hazard that needs to be addressed before anything else!

You try talking to the monster.

“Hey, I dropped my knife. That's unsafe, you know? Could you pull your arm back, please? I need to get the knife.”

The monster gurgles, and answers back with the voice of an old lady.

“Can...dy”

It wants candy?

Okay.

You open your fridge. Fortunately, you were hoarding dozens of candy bars. 48. in fact. You put one near the monster's hand. You got 47 candy bars now.





The monster's gone, satisfied with your offering. The monsters outside are weird, unpredictable and unsettling. You don't know what you're going to do in the long term. You're gonna last a month at the most.

You retrieve your kitchen knife and place it on top of your microwave. Should be safe there.


Your laptop dings. A new email. It's from the government. You read it.

“From: Ministry of Internal Affairs
To: You (Costovo Elmada)

Subject: Stay in your home

Do not leave your home. The monsters have been tearing off pieces of themselves and placing them on the ground and on top of roofs. You could accidentally step on a piece or have one fall on you, and that would be it. You'll be one of them.

We are going to clean out the country. Your hometown included. Street by street, house by house, door by door. We got tanks, planes, hazmat suits. We were caught off-guard but now we know we can win. Hang tight. Stay in your home until further notice. We know you're the only civilian left in this city, but we will not stop until we can reach you. Good luck.”

As if on cue, you can hear an explosion outside. Must be the army obliterating a building nearby. You hope they can reach you soon.

Then you hear something coming from the toilet.

Another monster?

Oh. It's just sewage. Lots and lots of sewage.



Great, the toilet's overflowing. That explosion must have ruined the sewers or something. As if being cooped up here wasn't bad enough, now you have to deal with this awful smell.

Amidst the sewage, you find a hand grenade. How did that get there?



You take it, and look at it closely. Government markings. Some soldier must have dropped this somehow. This stinky grenade could save your life, so you keep it.

Night comes. You can hear a monster moving around in the hallway outside, sounding like a wet sponge being slapped around. You stay quiet.

Then it starts slamming against the wall next to your door. Cracks begin to form on the thin wall.



This is one strong monster! You grab your knife and try calling out to it.

“Hey, go away!”

It shouts back like a madman.

“DIE DIE DIE DIE!”

Desperate, you take a long shot.

“I uh, I have candy!”

It screeches back.

“NO NO NO NO! DIE DIE DIE DIE!”

You gotta act fast.

You can use the grenade and blow it up from behind the wall... but that's gonna leave a big-ass hole.

You could try pushing your cupboard in front of it, though you're not sure how much that's going to help.

You can try stabbing it through the cracks in the wall. There's just enough space for you to push the blade through.

Another option would be to retreat into your bathroom. The smell of sewage could repel it, though there's no guarantee that's going to work.

>_