That Room 2018-04-02

[lake_wrangler]

Well, if they can't tell conclusively that there's danger in that room, it must be safe to go in and/or near it, right?

Dare I say it?

What's the worse that can happen, right? After all, whatever happened only left scorch marks...

[jeffepp]

"Hold my iced coffee."

Well, they'er not old enough for beer.

[Dave]

"Now we could do it with conventional weapons, but that could take years and cost millions of lives. No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part!" (Otter, "Animal House")

Actually, going to the room below the basement room in question (WTH would a middle school have a sub-basement?) makes a great deal of sense and saves trouble. No need to pick the locks, cut the chains, and desecrate the Elder Sign on the door of the room where Daylla-2 vanished, that were placed there by the concerned investigators who decided "We have no idea what happened here, we don't know if it's still dangerous, we can't rule out the possibility that this same effect could kill other of our students, so let's do due diligence and keep the kids away from here until we do figure out which monster is under this bed."

[Opus the Poet]

Now, what could that flosh have been.. Let's go see!

[Alkarii]

Castela didn't use her plasma beam thingies anywhere near the school, right? That would rule out her accidentally blasting through to another universe.

Though it doesn't rule out the possibility that the Castela from the other universe did it, and managed to get out of the room before anyone entered the room after the incident.

[oldmanmickey]

I am thinking that this is the start of a great adventure, the quest for Daylla-2

[eee]

The kid's got guts and brains. I hope he manages to keep them.

And that there's no body suggests his version of Daylla MAY still be alive. I suspect that's what's driving him. That little sliver of hope.

[GlytchMeister]

I’ve never been in a school with a basement, and I’ve seen a fair few... much less a school with a SUB-basement.

[JSStryker]

Well, if they can't tell conclusively that there's danger in that room, it must be safe to go in and/or near it, right?

Dare I say it?

What's the worse that can happen, right? After all, whatever happened only left scorch marks...

"If you are leaving scorch marks you need a bigger gun" Maxim 34

[Dave]

I’ve never been in a school with a basement, and I’ve seen a fair few... much less a school with a SUB-basement.

Well, I have, sorta. The high school I went to had a whole basement level, with some classrooms, locker rooms, and storage. There were actually some maintenance access tunnels down below the basement level.

Being the enterprising and exploring sorts that we were, I and several of my cororts on the stage crew eventually figured that it was possible to go

• Into the school from the back parking lot, through a pavement-level access door and ladder that led down to the boiler room area,
• through a door into the maintenance tunnels and up a ladder to a big basement-level storage room directly under the auditorium,
• up a conveniently placed extension ladder into an air shaft access at the back of the storage room,
• up the air shaft to where it opened into the inside of the auditorium balcony structure,
• through a hole in the wall where someone had conveniently removed a few bricks,
• up a section of hollow wall to the attic area at the third-floor level above the auditorium,
• up into the crawlway area above the third floor, and
• out an access door onto the roof of the school.

There were rumors that some of the maintenance tunnels actually led off of the school property, but we never found any like that.

None of this, of course, was done with the knowledge or approval of the school officials. Bloody miracle that none of us were ever injured or expelled. Ditto about the couple of times that I and others went exploring little-used parts of the city subway system, sneaking along the tracks and visiting old stations that had been partially or completely closed down.

So, I don't find Dustin's behavior at all unbelievable. I was being just about as reckless, at that age.

[TazManiac]

I’ve never been in a school with a basement, and I’ve seen a fair few... much less a school with a SUB-basement.

Dude! 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer!, Duuuuh!


Actually, I thought that was funny, but what I really meant to post was this:

[FreeFlier]

I’ve never been in a school with a basement, and I’ve seen a fair few... much less a school with a SUB-basement.

Well, I have, sorta. The high school I went to had a whole basement level, with some classrooms, locker rooms, and storage. There were actually some maintenance access tunnels down below the basement level. . . .

My junior high, which had been the high school until the high school outgrew it, had a similar setup.

Even the administration didn't know about part of the subbasement . . . they got some surprises when they demolished the building!

And I've seen two other different school buildings that had sub-basements . . . in one, the boiler room was three stories high . . . the ceiling was the underside of the second floor, and they dug the entire foundation to the depth of the boiler room, then used the subbasement for storage and support.

--FreeFlier

[Atomic]

I forget it if was Charlie Chaplin or Harold Lloyd, but there was a silent film with a great scene with man and woman trying to meet up at the fancy hotel, all the time missing each other -- barely -- due to the lobby revolving door. This went on for several hilarious minutes while each alternately bounced back and forth between the taxi stand, the concierge, the doorman, and the lobby desk to find out they just left a moment ago...

And of course, other people started to "help"... Could have been Marx Brothers...

I think we're about to see that sort of thing.

[Aleister Crow]

It's a trap! He couldn't convince her that she was the ghost, so now he's heading off "alone" to the place where "other Daylla disappeared", knowing that the real Daylla will follow. Stop being so trusting!

Or maybe I'm just overly paranoid, I don't know.

[Opus the Poet]

I’ve never been in a school with a basement, and I’ve seen a fair few... much less a school with a SUB-basement.

My elementary school for 3rd and 4th grades had a basement that housed the furnace and water heaters, and because the furnace was originally coal-fired there was a level below that for coal storage. Now this was built around the turn of the XX century so YMMV. This was the original Roosevelt Elementary in Bellingham WA on Alabama Ave.

[eee]

It's a trap! He couldn't convince her that she was the ghost, so now he's heading off "alone" to the place where "other Daylla disappeared", knowing that the real Daylla will follow. Stop being so trusting!

Or maybe I'm just overly paranoid, I don't know.

It depends. If the guy is setting her up, if there's no 'other Daylla' and this is all a trick to get Daylla to willingly go into that room, then he's devised an elaborate scheme involving a complicated fictional narrative, and acted his part to perfection, based entirely on his observations of her and her character. If she's a coward, or overly cautious, or not interested enough in him to take the bait, then he's failed and he probably won't get a second chance. That's a lot of if, and a tremendous amount of effort. He may not be telling her ALL he knows, but I suspect what he's told her is true. If not, he's a master con artist and Daylla's only hope is that she's better than whatever trap he's got set up.

[Warrl]

This was the original Roosevelt Elementary in Bellingham WA on Alabama Ave.

EEK! It's a Bellinghamster!

(I lived in Bellingham, about 2 blocks from the library, the last half of my senior year of high school - but continued to go to school in Deming, mostly, plus a course at the college. Back before it was a university.)

[Opus the Poet]

I lived there during the Vietnam war, my Dad was stationed at a Naval Communications Station in the middle of the Lummi reservation that was in just the right spot to eavesdrop on the VC chatter on the Ho Chi Min trail to alert when they planned an offensive.