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piper90npcs ([personal profile] piper90npcs) wrote in [community profile] goneawayworld 2021-03-26 07:13 am (UTC)

The nurse's office looks largely unused like no one is actually ever sick there. After all, isn't it just a place to fake a cold so you can skip school for a day for hijinks?

That means that the two of them staying in the room for too long, after hours, does something. The room isn't meant to be used at night - whatever is doing this to the town is therefore not focusing as much attention on the school right now. So the area around them starts to glitch back and forth between black and white and muted color, between the room's lights working and being broken so the nurse's office is only lit by the light of the hallway behind them.

There is a body slumped against the desk during the times the lamp doesn't work, when the room is in dim color, faded green linoleums visible on the floor covered by mold and dust. Finally it stops glitching and they get to see the nightmare underneath the black and white sitcom.

The room looks more modern in this iteration - a manual blood pressure cuff replaced by an electronic one, a digital thermometer on a counter instead of a glass one, the style of the cots and chairs a little updated. The big wooden desk is now a more compact one. The open medicine cabinet looks like it was completely ransacked of medicine and supplies, as do some of the other storage cabinets. The room has been water damaged over time, from the rain coming through a hole in the roof.

There is a huge part of the ceiling and center of the room that's missing, like a sphere scooped out. The body is a skeleton at this point, face down on the desk where they slumped over as they died. It's easy to see how this school nurse died, a section of their body carved out, like the null space passed through them. Their entire right shoulder, part of their rib cage, and part of their leg just carved away, with the same null space carved into the floor, ceiling, and a few of the cots.

Fake flowers were scavenged from somewhere and left on the desk. Scrawled on a wall in front of where the skeleton is slumped are the mostly faded words "RIP Nurse Bitterman." The "i" in "Bitterman" is dotted with a little heart, in the way most adults don't dot their eyes.

There is nothing else to be scavenged in the room. All the records an papers have long since rotted away from the water damage. The room flickers back to the sitcom setup when they eventually exit.

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