The Blank Wall Intro
By Richard Otter
Written for the V5 Intro Competition 2012
[During the game you can type ABOUT for general information and HINTS for help/advice]
When all the others had given up, you carried on. Everyone told you to call it a day; your boss, your colleagues, your family, your friends. Everyone said the same, he had escaped. But, you didn't listen to any of them. What did they know or care?
The media just loved the whole thing of course - ritual murders, pagan practices, satanic sacrifices; it all sounded so sensational. It was nothing more than murder, rape and torture; to you he was just an evil minded monster.
So, through many long hours and even longer days you watched and waited. The weather started to turn colder with that early winter chill, but it was not as cold as the feelings in your heart.
And then your dedication finally paid off. Just after 8.00pm on a Saturday evening, at the end of a very long shift, you spotted something moving inside and almost immediately someone appeared at the front door. Not sure at first, was it him? You look carefully, oh so carefully, you must be sure. It is him!
He must have had a hiding place somewhere in the building and has been waiting for the right opportunity to run. You have anticipated this moment for such a long time, but you have no reason to rush. He looks furtively around and then slips out of the building. So, you follow. You are not sure but it looks like he is holding a small bag but in this light it is not easy to tell. He really must believe he has got away with it as he is so easy to shadow.
He doesn't go very far, only a few miles to an abandoned railway station. Standing at the old ticket hall entrance he pauses for a moment and looks around. He glances in your direction and you imagine he might have seen you. He swings around and quickly enters the derelict station.
You have him now!
The Front of the Station
You are at the front of the derelict Coltby railway station, now overgrown with weeds and long grass. All the stations that belonged to this company where built of local stone in a sort of mock Georgian style. Even when this place was open it always looked run down and neglected. Now after a decade of closure the weather and vandalism have made it a very sad place. An old discarded trash can lies forgotten to your left and some large metal thing is laying flat against the ground in front of you. The entrance to the old ticket hall is north and the road leading away from the station is south.
The railway tracks were removed years ago but the station building was left behind to decay. Many ideas have been put forward over the years for the building, everything from a fancy restaurant to a visitor centre. But, no-one has ever been that interested and nothing has ever happened. The building now sits alone and seems to be waiting. Out of the corner of your eye you notice something sliding from the roof, whatever it was fell into the long grass somewhere.