Use the lamp

You snatch up the lamp and smash it over the intruder’s head. She spills to the ground with a cry, landing on the knife. You flick on the lights and jump on her, turning her over. Professor Austen cries out in pain.

The knife went into her leg. Not very deep or dangerously, but enough to hurt like hell.

You yank it out and throw it away, holding her down. She stares up at you in shock, blinking her eyes dazedly. You got her good with the lamp, which is now in pieces.

“Professor,” you say. “Welcome to CCL House.”

“Ooh,” she groans, reaching for her head. You shake her and raise your fist in a threatening way.

“Hey! What did you do to Sissy? Where is she?” you demand.

“Oh. God. Ow,” she moans.

Down the hall, music starts to play in Karen’s room.

You smack Professor Austen across the face, hard. That knocks her out of her daze.

“You better answer me, or I’ll do you like a CGH pledge,” you warn her. “You’ll wish for jail when I get done with you in the dungeon, you bitch.”

“Listen,” she gasps. You’re crushing the breath from her, sitting on her chest. You let her have a little air. “She has a gun.”

“What?” What is she talking about? “Who has a gun?”

Before she can answer, you see something and look up.

A figure comes in to view up the hall, having just walked up the main steps in the foyer. It’s a woman, holding a long shape like… a rifle or something.

The shadowy figure turns toward you and Professor Austen.

If that’s a person with a gun, you are about to get shot.

There’s a bathroom right next to you.

Or you could try to get back to the corner… it’s only ten feet away.

You can’t just sit here.