Hallway #3

You walk down the hallway, it is littered with papers and broken beakers and lab supplies. There are offices and labs on either side of the hallway. You can hear cursing and muttering down the hall, so you walk over to investigate. You see a scientist in a white lab coat hunched over a computer terminal. 

He turns and looks at you and says, "Whew! I thought you were one of the abnormalities! Wait, are you from security or a technician?" The scientists looked agitated and nervous. "I am neither one of those." you said. The nervous scientist suddenly exclaimed, "Are you one of H.W's cronies? I don't know where the boss is! He went to the tool room a week ago and I haven't seen him since! Everybody is either dead or they fled or they turned into one of those things! It's just me here, and I have to fix this before it's too late." The scientist was frantically typing on the computer jumping from screen to screen. The scientist stopped typing on the computer and looked at you and said frantically, "Ok, It doesn't matter who you are, but you're going to help me. I can't be in two places at once. You need to go to the dimensional gate and flip the manual override switch and I need to be at this monitor to make adjustments when you flip the switch." He turned and started back working on his computer, then he suddenly stopped typing and turn right around and looked at you with a smile and said, "But first, we must have cake." He walked over to a table by the wall and calmly handed you a plate. There was a very large cake on a large serving platter that said, "Happy Retirement Betty" written with icing. The scientist cut a large slice of cake for you and himself and placed a slice of cake onto your plate. "I've been eating this for a week, there is nothing else." About half the cake was missing. He poured a cup of coffee for you and himself handed you a cup. He rolled an extra office chair beside his and had a seat and started eating the cake. You sat down beside him and also started eating cake. You both were sitting calmly eating cake and slurping week old coffee, when the scientist decided to start talking while eating cake. " You know, this is all Betty's fault. We've been trying to open a dimensional gate for 30 years at this location. We found this dimensional gate long ago and built a research lab around it to try and open it. We finally succeeded last week. We opened it. Everyone was so excited, all those years of hard work was finally going to pay off. The endless possibilities that could happen with a dimensional portal. All those long endless hours were not in vain. We were all congratulating each other, patting each other on the back, and shaking each others hands, when a sudden announcement came over the loudspeakers. "Drop everything you're doing and come to the lunchroom for my retirement party.. NOW!" Betty was putting on her own retirement party exactly at that moment and everyone HAD to go. Betty was a dominating aggressive woman that wouldn't take no for an answer. Everyone was afraid of her, and no one would dare fire her, for fear of reprisals. They just let her be, and avoided her as much as possible. She had no real title or position of authority, she was a clerk, that did data entry and answered the phone. When it was time for the ribbon cutting on the official opening day of the research lab around 30 years ago, only a month after she was hired, she brought the scissor for the ribbon cutting ceremony, she stood alongside the research lab president H.W. Panic, and the town mayor for the official photo, even though she wasn't supposed to, and to the dismay of everyone around, she cut the ribbon. Everyone just clapped and smiled like it was supposed to happen. That was Betty.

The scientist took another slurp of his coffee and continued with his story, "With everyone in the lunchroom eating cake, no one was monitoring the dimensional gate we just cracked open. And then it happened, some kind of energy burst flung the gate wide open, it sounded like an explosion, the lightning and thunder and the clouds rolled in. This new dimension was trying to mesh into our reality causing this massive disturbance. We all knew something was wrong but we were all just standing around with our mouths open full of cake. Which was actually kind of dry now that I think about it. But anyways, in a panic, most fled the facility. Others came in contact with a green fog that turned people into the hideous creatures you have seen around the area. I ran back to try and close the gate but it has been hopeless, it is now a two person job. One at the gate to switch the override and me here to adjust the dampers on the computer." The scientist moves his hand in a gesture and accidently knocks over his week old coffee all over his keyboard. "OH NO!" He lifts up his keyboard and tilts it and coffee starts to drain out onto his desk. "Oh Geezz! not again!"  You look up and see a company bulletin notice on the wall that clearly states, "Absolutely no food or drink at your workstations". As the remaining coffee was dripping off his keyboard the scientist suddenly was back to his nervous and panicky state of mind and proclaimed, "Look, you got to get to the dimensional gate room as fast as you can before it's TOO LATE!" He was looking at you but you were still eating cake. "GO NOW!...take your cake with you." he exclaimed. You ran out of the room down the hall to find the dimensional gate room.

Press the button below to go to the dimensional gate room.