Escape Line 1 · incoming

Incoming call

999

Mobile · no location · ringing

Sound on. She is whispering.

Maraon the line · 00:00

  1. 00:00

    Hello…? Is someone there?

  2. 00:04

    Oh— oh you're real, you're really real—

  3. 00:07

    Someone took me, I don't know where I am—

  4. 00:12

    It's dark in here, I can't see anything

  5. 00:15

    Please don't hang up, please don't go—

Take the call

Two of you, or one.

Two phones.
One way out.

An escape room you play out loud. One of you takes the call and hears every word she says. The other has his laptop — his mail, his accounts, everything he left open — and hears none of it.

Everything you work out, you work out by saying it to each other. On your own? Play solo — the call and the laptop side by side on one screen.

Take the call Two of you, or one. You choose when the case opens.

Two seats.
Half each.

The call · the laptop

The call. One of you holds the phone and hears every word. She can hear you too — so when she talks, the room goes quiet, and when you talk over her, she frays.
The laptop. The other has everything he left open — his mail, his accounts, his voicemail — and none of what she says. What you find, you read out. What she sees, you ask for.

Neither screen has the whole of it.

Solo puts both on one screen

The recordings

Ten calls · ten voices · first words as they were said

  1. Kidnapped

    the 999 call

    Someone took her, and she can only be talked out. One of you takes the call; the other has everything he left online.

    Mara12 min · start here

  2. Carousel

    the baggage hall

    An agency cleaner made a joke at the wrong three men. The shutter's down, and the container on the dolly is knocking.

    Wes30 min

  3. Glasshouse

    the end bay

    A grower walked into the one house that was off her round. The doors locked at eleven, and the dosing is on a timer.

    Nell30 min

  4. The Long Drop

    the cave

    A caver at the bottom of a pitch, sure his partner pulled the rope and left him. The water is coming either way.

    Ryan30 min

  5. Low Tide

    the causeway

    A warden chases a trespasser across the marsh in the fog. The causeway closes whether or not she is right about him.

    Bryony30 min

  6. Night Shift

    the cold room

    A guard shut in a freezer, with her manager's login on the wall. One of you holds the call; the other holds his inbox.

    Priya30 min

  7. Signal Box

    the relay room

    A technician chained into a lineside relay room during a night possession. Everything he knows is procedure, and tonight the procedure was written for someone else.

    Mateo30 min

  8. Static

    the transmitter room

    A late-night radio host hears her own show start again after she's locked up. She thinks the caller she cut off is outside.

    Josie30 min

  9. Undertow

    the last tide

    A surveyor shut in the hold of a trawler nobody knows she boarded. Everyone thinks it is still tied up.

    Nadia30 min

  10. Ward Nine

    the closed wing

    A locum nurse, lost on his first night, shut in a ward that closed years ago. Four hundred people asleep below him, and a drug round at two.

    Tomas30 min

After the call

Every call ends
in a report.

How long she had left. Whether the units came as she walked out or while she was still inside. Every wrong thing you sent her, every time he heard her because you were talking. Commended, clean, rough — or by a thread.

Then the case is still on your desk, and you can take the call again.

She's still on the line.

Take the call