Like the majority of businesses,
Reason’s was outfitted with dozens upon dozens of speakers wired into the
ceiling to broadcast their music and in-store advertising. Rather than have one
loud speaker, you have dozens of small speakers so that the music levels are
even throughout the store. It is through this system that Kim broadcasts her
iPod and gets us music.
This also gives us access to the store’s
intercom system. Wired up in every department is a phone that two “lines.”
There is a red line and a green line. If you are on one phone and hit the green
line, someone else on another phone can hit the green line and you can talk
with one another.
There is also a button to activate the
store’s intercom. You ding this button on the receiver and everything you say
goes out over the intercom. This is how Kim broadcasts the music. She just
dings the receiver button and lodges it with a folded up piece of paper so that
it stays on. She then puts the phone next to the computer speakers and we have
quality tunes to go about our work day.
We all agreed that the intercom is
the best way to inform everyone if there is a breach in security or if we need
to go “all stop, quick quiet” because there are zoms milling around outside.
The whole goal if zoms start creeping is to make like a whole in the world…
until the snipers can get into position.
And then there is the “Alamo” call.
No one wants to issue the Alamo call. That is if we have been breached beyond
any hope. If the Produce roll up door was ripped off its hinges, no way of
getting us back into a state of lock down, then the call for Alamo would go
out. Everyone knows the ultimate fallback is to get to the ice cream freezers.
From the ice cream freezers, you can get to the roof and the roof offers us the
best chance at sanctuary.
Then we just have to hope we have
enough supplies to outlast the zombies that might pour in. We then go into
severe quiet mode. We hope that they lose enough interest that they move on or
dwindle in number enough that we could re-secure the breach, mop up any more
that are still inside and retake the store.
Sealing the breach is the most
critical part of that plan though. Without a breach being fixed, you could kill
a thousand zoms and more and more could still come through. We are not sure if
the Intercom system will still work in the event of power failure. I doubt that
was given priority status.
I just pray to God no one ever has to
make that call.
