: Wildepad <noreplies>
: Great! I think he needs to get out of the hospital relatively fast,
: but I wasn't sure that would be a natural reaction.
Well... after doing what you described, ie, looking at lots of charts
to see if there's any hints, and maybe looking for working notes somebody
has made about what's going on. But after that, yes, finding a source of
newspapers/internet/whatnot, and/or other folks waking up, means you leave
the hospital fairly quickly. Not "panicked running out into the street",
but fairly quickly.
: I think the web is going to be a problem.
Why is it a problem? You want your protagonist to remain puzzled longer,
presumably, but I'm sure the web will provide plenty of conflicting
speculation, so that any one won't be obviously correct. Seems he'd still
be puzzled. He'll just find out a bit more about the scope, and maybe
a bit about the onset. But the only thing that (it seems to me) would
change is that he might decide to try to stay awake a long time... but
he might reasonably think that just by the evidence in the hospital.
Clearly, lots of people can't be roused once they are asleep; there's
no particular reason to think you are immune (since you were taken to
the hospital). I think "stay awake at least until I learn more" would
be a priority, web or no web.
So... why is it a problem?
Wayne Throop throopw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://sheol.org/throopw
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