Disaster Report Diaries (Raw Danger!) Part Nine

This is my exploration of the Disaster Report series where I will chronicle my playthrough like a text-based Let’s Play. Now let’s continue Raw Danger!...

Amber Brazil had escaped jail and recapture, both times thanks to the ongoing disaster striking Del Ray city…

It was now 24th December at 18:30 (four hours since Mayor Goldstein’s reception), and I was close to the Downtown Station Area. The evacuation buses were so close, but the stress and exhaustion had me running on fumes…

Someone in a blue suit came running up to me and helped me reach the top of the stairs. It was Mayor Goldstein’s aide, who had a nervous bladder, and had flooded the men’s room before the flood had… flooded… Once we were out of the water (but still in the rain), he noticed the handcuffs on my wrist and I told him that I wasn’t a criminal. He then realised that the water was still rising, so he decided to trust me and led me to higher ground after I promised to tell him all about my circumstances later.

We hurried up some stairs and escalators, reaching the top where police were waiting nearby. The man told me to head across the street to an underground arcade while he distracted the police, also by the way his name was Aidan Chase. When I told him my name, he was shocked to discover that I was the fugitive from the news, revealing that he was not a very smart person.

He ran off to distract the closest police officer while I warmed up at a Survival Point. My body temperature had been getting dangerously low… Afterwards, I picked up some Knit Gloves from behind a pillar, then went up some stairs to a bridge crossing the street. Aidan followed me up and then went down the next set of stairs to distract another officer. We both hurried down into the shopping arcade and rested for a bit.

Aidan wanted to know what happened, so I explained how I found my dead brother. David had worked for a company called NorCal Pharmaceutical, and someone from there had called me, telling me to go to see my brother at home. I also told him about the man in black, the running bath, the police arriving very quickly, and my fingerprints on the murder weapon which was in the courtyard. Aidan said that based on the evidence I was clearly the murderer, though he trusted that I was telling the truth. I told him that I was going to prove my innocence, and he told me that I should check David’s apartment for clues.

After Aidan brushed off possible police surveillance of the building and a minor tremor which killed the lights, we set off. A broken shop window let me grab a Baseball Cap from a mannequin and equip it, and I found a Heating Pad nearby. A bookstore was still open, so I went inside in case there was something useful there, but there wasn’t, only a throughway to get around a closed shutter.

We went down some stairs and warmed up at a coffee cart which had a lit burner. On the opposite side of the staircase, I found a Backpack which I put on, then we had to find a way to cross the flooded underground area. A metro train was floating and I immediately knew that it wouldn’t stay there, even as Aidan volunteered to cross over first. He said that it was safe, and I hopped on, cautiously walking across to the ladder where Aidan waited to help me up. I was more than a little surprised that it went perfectly safely.

Following a hallway, we went up some stairs to the ground floor level, as badly damaged as it was, and I found a Fruitcake Compass next to a Christmas Cake stand. We exited the shopping arcade onto a street and made our way to the Hudson Tunnel Area.

It was now 24th December at 20:48 (six hours since Mayor Goldstein’s reception), and Detective Trapp had caught up to us, almost running us down in his squad car! Two vehicles blocked the way which meant that he had to jump out and follow us on foot, and at the end of a destroyed road, he finally captured us and approached with a weapon aimed at me. A sudden tremor dislodged the dirt at his feet, causing a mudslide which took him down into the torrent of river water at the bottom. I couldn’t help but laugh in surprise, saying that he deserved it.

We made our way past a collapsed building and to the bridge, where two workmen told a blonde with a bad accent that they couldn’t cross to get some document. They said that it was more important than their life and raced past the pair. Following on behind, I was foiled by a tremor splitting the bridge and leaving a gap too large to jump across.

However, there was a building off to the left side which I could jump the gap to. It had stairs leading down, giving better pedestrian access on and off the bridge, but for my purposes, it had a Survival Point which I used to warm up. Inside, I found a First Aid Kit, and back outside I found a Diver Compass (but that meant warming up again). While I figured that they somehow connected to some stairs that I had seen before reaching the bridge, I went downstairs to check out the route and potentially stay drier. This was an ongoing flood, so everywhere had the potential to be underwater…

A big tremor hit when we got downstairs, but things remained dry. I found a set of Party Glasses and handed them to Aidan to put on, which he did. So now instead of his prescription glasses, he was wearing a set with an included fake nose and moustache — hilarious.

With the other set of stairs heading up opposite us, there was also a wide open area to the side. It was an aquarium, with a glass ceiling! Nothing could ever go wrong there! I would have been hesitant to go anywhere near it, if not for the Survival Point (which meant relative safety), and an unconscious individual in a white lab coat. I tried to talk to him, but couldn’t rouse him, so Aidan suggested he carry them. I had a quick explore of the area, finding a Heating Pad near the Survival Point, and a Piglet Compass on the far end. As I rounded a fish tank, a tremor caused the glass to implode, as well as several fissures to appear in other tanks, and the ceiling.

There was an Emergency Pack on the floor, but it had less space inside than my Backpack, so I didn’t equip it. Since the tremor had knocked me down, we warmed up at the Survival Point, then retreated to the surface. I was a little lost as to what to do for a moment and explored (and warmed up twice) before I decided to speak to the workmen on the bridge. They told us to follow them (after figuring the blonde from before was likely dead), but after they ran off I lost sight of them and had no idea where they went. I did find some Wading Pants though, and equipped them.

After going to a food truck to warm up again, I spotted Jasper next to some bins! I took the Yellow Umbrella from him and put it up, then found a Heating Pad, before heading back into the aquarium again to warm up, as I really had no idea where to go. In the shattered fish tank, I noticed that there was a door in the rear, and went inside. I found some Wire Cutters and nabbed them, and realised that the other exit was blocked by wire, so went to cut our way out.

A massive tremor struck, worsening the fissures, so I didn’t hang around to see if the floor water was rising, I just cut our way out and legged it! I kept the Wire Cutters, as I had the space. Another tremor knocked me off of my feet and rushing upstairs I was almost hit by a new fissure, but we managed to get out before the tunnel collapsed.

Someone in an orange jumpsuit and white helmet called out to us, saying that we couldn’t be there, so Aidan told me to hide (I was sure the two had seen me), while he handed over the unconscious lab coat wearer. When they left, I apologised to Aidan and he told me not to worry before urging me to continue on to my brother’s apartment…