Thursday, February 08, 2018

Frigid Revenge: Day 7

Word Count: 42,230

Summary of Events:
Oakley had a pre-breakfast meeting with Charlie's coach Nigel and her fellow students Trey and Rylan — as Trey had wanted to talk to him the day before, but been unable to — during which they plotted ways to try and get out, or at least get a group together to stand up to their captor. Charlie, Chrissa, and Orelia watched a bit more news coverage, which already seemed boring because there were no new developments, so they moved on to watch a hockey game instead.

Excerpt of the Day:
""But, the thing is, we do need to get out of here, and we need to find a way to do it without being blown up," Trey said.
"If we rally enough of us and jump him we can get the gun away and make him diffuse at least one bomb so we can get out," Oakley said.
"You make it sound so simple," Trey said.
"It is, for the most part," Oakley said.
"The thing is," Nigel said. "Will he actually diffuse the bomb? Or will he just make it go off and blow everything up?"
"Well if he doesn't want to die he'll diffuse it," Oakley said.
"What if he wants to die?" Nigel asked. "I mean, he's just as trapped in here as the rest of us are if opening the doors is what causes the bomb to go off."
"You mean, like, he'd never intend to release us, ever?" Rylan asked.
"I mean, you just think about it: if we can't get out, he can't get out, Nigel said.
"But he also doesn't let us into the staff areas," Oakley said. "There've got to be doors in those areas. Who says they're armed?"
"That's true," Nigel conceded.
"But he's totally not cooking all that food by himself," Trey said. "I'm positive he's got the kitchen staff as hostages too."
"Well, he told us not to look for the hotel staff," Oakley said. "That does imply that he killed them and we'd just find corpses, but, yet, too, it could mean they're just hostage in other parts of the building, such as those staff areas where there might be exit doors."
"And brings us back round to my point," Nigel said.
"So then if he's trapped in here with the rest of us," Oakley said. "You figure he might just make a door-bomb go off to trigger the elevator and level the whole place to kill us all instead of being handed over to the police?"
"Yes, I would say so," Nigel replied. "To me it's really quite evident that his end goal is victory in truth or victory in defeat."
"Victory in truth?" Rylan asked.
"Yes," Nigel replied. "He either has victory in the sense that he wants, which is having his demands met in their whole without being negotiated down, or he has victory in bringing us all down with him."
"Okay, I get it," Rylan said.
"I feel like you guys have a plan though," Oakley said.
"Well, I've noticed there's more security cameras in the hallways," Trey said.
"I noticed that last night too," Oakley said. "They're the kind people put on their garage eaves. He installed them. Makes me wonder how many hours he was here before the fire alarms woke us up."
"That's how he knew Siggy was out of his room, which he punished him for," Trey said. "And the doctor too. So I think, to start with, we need to find a way to take all the security cameras down.""

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