>>5503920 >>5504569Well, the bookshelf is definitely fixed in place but... couldn't you shove more in front of it? Get it really wedged in there? It'd make it a pain to use the front door, for better or worse, and might clog up the entryway, but you think the good outweighs the bad here. But, uh, what would be best here? Something you can move, something that's heavy... uh... you saw a couple of solid-looking end tables in the living room? You guess those would work. Or the dry goods that are presumably in the pantry. If they buy in bulk you can't think of much better than 10 or 20 pounds of rice to keep something out.
You poke your head into the pantry first, going over everything with your flashlight to find any good candidates. Much to your pleasant surprise you do find a large bag of rice, a large bag of pasta, and a cardboard box filled with canned food and such that you can shove in front of the door. You put the bags down first, and then put the end tables over them. You decide to put the box of food on top in order to weigh everything down, even though it already, well, does that by itself.
Just as you're admiring your handiwork, you get a bad feeling. You were a bit numb to those earlier, but now that death is not so clearly staring you in the face you have some energy to put towards that. Why would you be having a bad feeling? Anxiety? A premonition? Your subconscious trying to remind you of something? The monster is behind you? Er- not the last one. You guess in an overabundance of caution, you'll assume it's two or three.
Now, what could go wrong right now. You guess you could have another wound and be bleeding out right now, but given that you feel fine that seems unlikely. Oh, or the thing could be inside, but you'd have to have left something unlocked for that to happen.
...Oh, you didn't check the locks. Well, you checked some trying to get in, but not all of the ones on the ground floor. You should get to that.
Much to your relief there is no obvious reason to panic. Everything was locked all along and there is, to your knowledge, no way for anything to sneakily enter the house. Unless your pursuer can climb walls and enter in through the second floor, but that would give you a whole new host of problems, none of which you think are likely.
With your search done, you notice that it has been some time since you entered the house. You feel much safer, but at the same time, you no longer have any idea where your opponent is. In the time that has elapsed they could have gotten, well, basically anywhere. Including outside the house.
>Bunker down and choose a room to take a rest and wait in. You'll stay quiet unless something else makes a noise. [Specify which room]>Do your best to be quiet as you comb the house for supplies. You're not 100% sure what you need right now, but, well, you'll know it when you see it.>Try to survey the surrounding area via the windows. Hopefully you can figure out where that thing went.>Write-in 