I stood in the makeshift door way with the weighted door struggling to open, it was still day and I could sacrifice an hour to look for Jules. But as soon as went outside I heard the rattling of a shaky cart, Jules was running up to me with a rickety cart he had found days earlier which had a sewing machine and food along with other things to build with, but the thing that caught my eye was what he was waving around. A gun. This man had found a gun in IKEA. I sighed with relief when I saw him but am still curious about the gun, it has no bullets but I’m wondering if the Staff can sense danger and run away at the sight, if they even can see anything. I put my sketchbook down and looked through the shopping cart, it looked like Jules raided at least 5 cafeterias on his way here, on the bottom part of the cart there was pallets to makes walls with, the thing here is physics is kinda jumpy, if something is attached to something then it’ll stay up, even in mid air, but we can still fall and hurt ourselves here, the Staff have no problem jumping off a shelf in pursuit of someone though. Aside from that everything else was “normal” I started taking stuff out of the cart while Jules shuffled through his backpack for something, “I found this too! It’s a medkit I found on one of the shelves!” I looked at it and shrugged, helpful for when we fall but not when the Staff find you, they get rid of you instantly with a strike to the heart. I know this because I’ve seen it before with the old man, one of his crazed ramblings during the night and he was found and killed, right across from me when I was hiding. It’s brutal and I won’t tell you details but all I can say is they punch through your heart and you collapse to the floor like a doll. No moment of pain, just life then death.

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