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Ralph & Chris: Say Hello to Strangetown
Who: Ralph and Open
When: Evening of January 14, 2008
Where: Medical Pavilion
What: Ralph wakes up in strangetown.

Memories were problematic things when fantasy and reality dissolved together. Seeing as they were doing just that for Ralph, he had a problem coming on. Madness dwelt in his head for years, but the delirium became stronger as the food supply steadily became lower. He imagined death was something like this madness, the slow withering of a body eating itself alive because it wasn’t receiving nutrition any other way. Cannibalism had been a good option. Even the basest cells in the body were cannibals eating each other alive to save the colony in an effort of survival. As Ralph stared at the dead bodies in hunger, his stomach churned in disgust because he saw them rotting inside out in spite of the freshness from their recent deaths. Dead bodies were good for a lot of things but a meal wasn’t one of them.

Ralph opened his eyes but shut them, covered them using his bandaged hands. The last memory he recollected before waking up below a white light was falling down to the ground as he fainted mid-walk. The bright light around him meant an impending explosion. Facing explosions became a common occurrence on the outside.

“Duck!” shouted Ralph. “Take cover!”

His body rolled in effort to take cover but collided against rails. Ralph looked out as his hands gripped bed railing. He stared at a neat wall and counters covered in cotton swabs, sterile bandages, and alcohol bottles. The last of his group, a Bulgarian woman possessing a limp arm and missing three teeth, died a few days ago and left him alone in the unreal terrain. How did he forget? Starvation was a funny thing. The mind was playing tricks on him.

Where am I? thought Ralph.