Wildepad <noreplies> writes:
> So, using you as fresh blood:
>
> You go to bed as usual.
>
> You wake up on a gurney. There are no IVs, electrodes, or anything
> else attached to you. If you wear earplugs, a blindfold, or a t-shirt,
> they've been removed. If you wear a pajama shirt, it's open. Otherwise
> you are just as you were when you went to sleep, and you feel fine.
>
> Sitting up, you find you're in a room with a CT scanner, and there are
> half a dozen other people asleep on gurneys.
> A clock on the wall (with day/date/time) shows that you've 'overslept'
> about twenty six hours.
>
> No matter how much you call out, no one comes.
>
> Throughout the hospital, you find people asleep in beds, on chairs,
> curled up in corners, etc. and you can't rouse them.
>
> It is noticeable that no one seemingly 'dropped in their tracks' --
> that is, everyone is in a reasonably comfortable place, with nobody
> sprawled on the floor as if someone conked them from behind.
>
> Through the windows, you see no one outside and no traffic.
>
> The telephones work, and you can reach answering machines, but no
> person ever picks up.
>
> Every chart you can find, except for those people who were already in
> the hospital, shows only something like: "brought in asleep, unable to
> rouse" along with normal vitals and, in a few cases, dosages of
> medications which were tried, unsuccessfully, to awaken the patient.
>
>
> 1) What are your first thoughts about what happened?
WEIRD! Gotta get out of here! Fast! Where's my wife? My mother? My
sister?
> 2) What is the first thing you'd do? The second?
Getting clothes, since I sleep in the nude. Since my wife's apparently
not at home or not answering my home, I'll try to access the hospital
computers. Afterwards, I'll walk back home. (I assume that I am in
one of the hospital of our town, which are all within walking
distance.
Depending on where I am and whom I encounter I would try to check news
or the web.
> 3) What precautions might you think about to prevent it from
> happening again?
None, I think. I would, however, try to wake up people and stock up on
food, gas, water, etc.
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