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Consumables

Food, drink and medicine, the only things that refill the body’s bars. There is little, it is scattered and the labels come torn.

Testimony

“Anything to eat or drink comes with the text cut off, and no brand at all.”

Consumables are the only things that refill the body’s bars: hunger, thirst, health and sanity. Everything you see here has been tested by wanderers with their own stomachs.

Effects table

Each item adds to one or several bars. An empty cell means it doesn’t touch that bar.

ItemHungerThirstHealthSanity
Apple17.57.5
Cooked meat45
Energy bar27.5
Large can57.512.5
Small can357.5
Water bottle45
Antibiotics55
Almond Water2060835

How to read the table

  • The large can is the best loose food and the water bottle the best plain drink.
  • Almond Water is the only item that touches sanity, and the only one that covers all four bars at once.
  • Antibiotics are pure health and give no food or drink.
  • With hunger below 20, your pace drops to seven tenths of its rate. The first sign you are short of food is that running takes more effort, and it is the only movement penalty for a need.

Where they are found

Cans and bottles are on shelves and vending machines. Antibiotics are in wall first-aid cabinets, and Almond Water turns up as a rarity in infrequent rooms. Some wanderers pull them out of surprise boxes, not knowing what is inside.

The scarcity is one of rationing. There is little and it is scattered, in loose items you take apart to get at what they carry, rather than in heaps, and anyone who goes down expecting to find everything starves in Level 0.

An office desk: the remains of an office life fit here
An office desk: the remains of an office life fit here

Labels

Packaging carries cut-off or worn text and never a brand name. The same goes for the texts of Level 0, where what you read is half gone.

Entries by item

What is said

  • I heard from a woman that, in the shelters, Almond Water is shared as a common good. Nobody has seen it used as currency.

Sub-entries

O-001 · ObjectsAlmond WaterThe only flask that restores sanity. It removes hunger, thirst and wounds, but it only turns up in rooms almost nobody sets foot in.O-002 · ObjectsAntibioticsThey restore 55 health and nothing else. They hide in wall first-aid cabinets, in corridors others have already searched.O-013 · ObjectsCans, Food and BottlesSix things to eat or drink, with how much hunger and thirst each removes. What is on the shelves, when there is anything.

Mentioned in

O-014 · ObjectsHand-Crank FlashlightThe only light that never fully runs out, because you can always stop and wind it. But lit, it gives you away at almost forty meters.O-024 · ObjectsBandages and WoundsThe bandage doesn’t heal. It closes the wound on an arm, and the strip of cloth is the only sign that you did it right.O-005 · ObjectsSurprise BoxesSealed cardboard boxes that promise something and may be empty. If another wanderer got there first, they will already have been opened.O-006 · ObjectsBeds and SheltersA nook with a bed, tape and a can. Sleeping in it sets where you wake when you die, and building it is the closest thing to a home.O-009 · ObjectsWater DispenserAn office dispenser that seems to promise water. It is dry, and its silhouette beside a pillar is the most human thing in the room.O-012 · ObjectsThe Survivor’s InventoryWhat you carry is your body, your clothes and their weight, not an endless list. Every pocket comes from your clothing.