![]() The mattresses were the type you find in hunting cabins in the mountains, a canvas-like cover with a zipper along the side to get to the actual mattress inside. I followed Claudia and Jo to the bunk beds. “I crushed one form of packaged food, I can crush another,” they said. “I’ll go help with mattresses,” I said, looking at Neven. “I think we’re going to have to open up the mattresses, and that’s going to be a lot of work.” “One of you can help with the MREs, but we could use the other,” Claudia said. “There’s probably not another clue in the cans, so Neven and I can help out with the other areas,” I said. The excitement of the discovery of our first clue was spreading through the group. “Maybe there’s one in the MREs or in the beds somehow,” Claudia said. “The question is, how do we get it out? This can is sealed tight. ![]() “There’s something inside this can,” Neven said. “A clue!” I said, so excited I was almost yelling.Įveryone else in the room heard me and came over to see. “This one is way lighter.” They shook it, and something metallic rattled inside. “Whoa,” they said almost immediately after picking up the new can. Neven laughed, putting down their can and grabbing another one. Our bond is tempered in the fires of baked bean can sorting.” I put my hand on their shoulder and smiled. “I’m hoping that maybe we can be friends,” they said, staring down at a can. Events like this are always exciting and terrifying, because maybe I’ll make a friend, but more likely I’ll deal with someone else’s insecurities and prejudices.” They paused. This isn’t exactly the easiest place to be enby, but I also can’t go back to living a lie. I wanted to meet some people who are into the same things I am.” I’m used to disappointment,” they replied. “This is going to sound super lame…” I started. “So what’s your deal?” Neven asked while shaking a can of beans next to his ear. “Go to the No Escape Room, sort cans of baked beans.” “So this is boring,” Neven said, laughing softly. Can after can, the labels were identical, when you shook them they sounded like they were filled with baked beans, nothing was suspicious. Every can was baked beans, some store brand I had never heard of. There were cases and cases of cans, and Neven and I started taking them out to see if anything looked unusual. “Who wants what?”Īfter a brief discussion, I found myself with Neven, examining the cans, while Jo and Claudia got to work on the beds and Sarah Beth looked over the MREs. “Leaves three things to look at,” Jo mumbled, so quietly I had to take an extra second thinking about it before I could process what she said. “Nothing on the floor, either,” Neven added. “There's nothing on the walls, they’re just plain cement blocks,” I said. “Let’s start looking for clues,” Claudia said. “I.yeah, that’s fair,” I said lamely, not wanting to put my foot in my mouth any further. “I’ll be pissed if I want to be pissed,” Sarah Beth said. Maybe we shouldn’t start a fight until we’re out of here.” “He is the one who saves us if there is an emergency. “I just meant…” I started, before trying a different approach. “I think the rat comment was just to be spooky.” “This room looks pretty clean, no rat turds or anything,” Neven said. It looked like a Cold War-era bomb shelter.īefore closing and locking the door, the Game Master had told us to watch out for the rats.Īfter the door locked and I heard the Game Master laughing from the other side, I did a quick look around for rats. There were metal bunk beds along the walls, stacks of canned food, and a bunch of MREs. ![]() ![]() We’d climbed down a rusting ladder into what looked like a pump room, before moving into the first room of No Escape Room. Or, more accurately, below an abandoned warehouse. We were in the No Escape Room, a multi-stage escape room set up in an abandoned warehouse. Simple as that, the Game Master had led us to the beginning of what was swiftly becoming the most terrifying night of my life. Are you ready to enter the No Escape Room?”
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