Episode 1: New Employee Orientation

## Main section

Episode 1 opens with what sounds to be a training video playing. The video assigns the worker listening the name Jasmine Control. It continues on explaining to Jasmine some more information about her work, including that she’s on the 26th floor, before the video cuts off and an alarm starts going off.

Jasmine tries to ask if the alarm is a drill and if there’s anyone nearby but no one responds. She gets up to look around the now dark office, she can hear a distant scream. Jasmine has a map and gets it and a flashlight out to try and follow it. As she starts walking she trips over something she first assume to be a rug but soon realizes it’s not a rug, it’s a body. A watch the body is wearing goes off and a new voice can be heard. They’re frantically asking the person to respond and that they need assistance. Jasmine decides to respond to the person. They cut her off quickly asking Jasmine to get the weapon from the body’s belt. Jasmine at first refuses, confusing the person. They ask who she is and Jasmine almost gives her real name before they cut her off. The person gives up on explaining and just tells Jasmine to get the Jaunt from the body’s belt, Jasmine explains there’s no weapon there. The person gets frustrated with Jasmine and just tells her to get to the stairs. They sign off from the call, revealing their assigned name to be Scarlet Jaunt. Jasmine takes the commutator watch and heads for the stairs.

She successfully makes it to the stairs, but finds that they only go down one level. She radio's Scarlet, who explains that the building can move and that it’s currently in a state called asymmetry. The building isn’t in a lock down, it’s a lock in, it’s going to do everything it can to prevent people from leaving. The stairs aren’t going to be in the same place on each floor, and they might not be there at all. Scarlet reveals she’s on floor 18 and will also be trying to get out. She gives Jasmine advice to try her best to escape each floor, and that she might be able to make it out. Scarlet tells Jasmine to radio her if she needs any help before telling her to keep moving.

Jasmine makes her way down to floor 25, but starts hearing something odd. A sound like music or chirps that she strains her ears to hear. In the song she could see colors in the air swirling around. She was mesmerized by the colors, but realized she had to keep moving. The colors disappear as she starts her way into floor 25. A fallen picture frame alerts the thing that killed the person on the floor above and Jasmine can hear the creature moving closer. She gets into what she assumes to be a conference room and knocks a cabinet over to block the door. She gets under a table and waits. The creature moves down the path she was just on, and Jasmine can hear the light from the creature. She catches a glimpse of the creature through the curtains, a humanoid figure that’s 7 maybe 8 feet tall. The creature starts talking, but it’s sentences do not make much sense. The thing moves away but Jasmine is suddenly on the porch of her childhood home. She knew she was probably 10 or 12 at that time. Jasmine thought in the memory of that time, but a slam against the door snapped her out of it. The colors were there again pouring from the creatures forehead, but the creature went deeper into the office, out of view of Jasmine.

She quickly radios Scarlet in a panicked whisper. Scarlet explains the creature to be something called a Lark. She tells Jasmine to not listen to it, or she might become one herself. Scarlet says that the Larks are a reason the don’t use their real names there, and that she didn’t realize there were any Larks around. Because of Jasmine radioing Scarlet, the Lark’s attention was drawn to Scarlet. As Scarlet starts an explanation of how it’s possible but gets distracted, going on a rant caused by the Lark. She sounds similar to the Lark, talking in a poetic but confusing way that doesn’t make much sense. Jasmine cuts her off but Scarlet continues, only snapping out of it when she realizes that they need to move. She almost continues but catches herself, starting to sing to block out the noise. Scarlet centers her mind so she can think again, she explains that Jasmine might be able to make it out of the building, but that she has to go for now.

## Second section

After the theme music plays a new character starts talking. She refers to Jasmine using her real name, Olivia, and it’s obvious that this is jumping back to when Jasmine was being interviewed. The interviewer starts asking about Jasmine’s resume, but then starts asking some more odd questions. She asks if Jasmine believes in any supernatural phenomena or if she’s experienced supernatural, Jasmine answers no to both. She continues with questions, asking if Jasmine is religious, which she answers not specifically. The interviewer asks about deja vu and astrology which both Jasmine thinks are fun but that they have no real meaning. She asks a more specific questions about what Jasmine would do in certain situations, the situations getting progressively more odd. Jasmine responds to each one, getting more confused. Then the interviewer starts asking about things that seem to be memories as Jasmine fills in the gaps. Jasmine doesn’t respond concerned by these odd questions, answering them calmly. The interviewer asked if Jasmine is familiar with Lewis Carroll, Jasmine responds yes. She’s then asked how a raven is like a writing desk, and answers that both have bare legs.

# **WARNING: Spoilers Ahead!!**

* The person Jasmine was talking to at the end is Yellow Access