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“In room 1280 of Heracles Hospital, something evil is keeping a man alive, a man with gruesome burns all over his body and an iron will to live.” |
The Man in Room 1280 is the third story in Fazbear Frights 5: Bunny Call and chronologically the Fazbear Frights series' 15th story. It was written by Andrea Waggener.
Characters[]
Humans[]
- Arthur Blythe
- William Afton
- Fremont Family
- Mia Fremont
- Mr. Fremont
- Lucas
- Ackerman Family
- Thomas Family
- Nurse Beatrice Thomas
- Beatrice's Niece
- Nurse Colton
- Peggy
- Dr. Henner
- Peter "Pete" Fredericks
- Andrew
- Mr. Nolan
- Carolyn Benning Graves
- Ms. Weber
- Mia's Boyfriend
- Unnamed Employee
- Unnamed Bystanders
Locations[]
Plot[]
Three nurses watch from the window of room 1280 as Arthur Blythe, a priest, approaches Heracles Hospital. He’s called to the hospital to visit a patient in room 1280 who is in a dire state. As a priest, Arthur is very religious and believes faith and hope can always be found even in the darkest of days and places. When he reaches the entrance he comes across a new nurse named Mia, who is rather nervous about starting her new job. She asks Arthur what the symbolism behind the Cerberus statue on the portico’s ceiling is, and he himself is unsure. Although he questions if the hospital is a place of good or evil, he still carries on with his job. Arthur gives the dying their last rites, and he explains to Mia that instead of letting fear take people away, he steps in and gives them peace before they die, which he views as a transition.
Once inside, Arthur is led down a wide and long hall by the head nurse, Nurse Ackerman. She explains that the patient was taken off life support years ago but is somehow still alive, and whenever Arthur tries to ask questions or be hopeful he is yelled at and mocked. Arthur enters the room to find a horrifically burnt man with cracked translucent skin, visible functioning organs, no face, and working veins that soak the bed in blood. Nurse Ackerman explains that he is having horrible nightmares, which Arthur notices makes her smile. She briefly leaves, and in that time Arthur takes in the sight of the man and suddenly feels ice cold on his back. Nurse Ackerman returns and reveals that she, Nurse Thomas, and Nurse Colton are certain there is evil inside the man. She explains that there are two distinct electromagnetic signals in his brain, which the nurses believe means there are two souls inside him fighting for control. Despite all this, Arthur tries to see the good in the man.
Later, the nurses test Mia by talking about the man and Arthur while she’s eating lunch. Having already disliked Nurse Ackerman and Nurse Thomas, she eavesdrops on them instead of joining the conversation and the nurses decide to leave her out of it. Over the next three hours, Arthur assures himself that there is good keeping the man alive instead of evil, and eventually realizes the man can hear him as the monitors beep in response to his words. After a silent prayer, Arthur watches as the man’s hand moves to spell out letters. He sees this as an incredible breakthrough, but Nurse Ackerman is disgusted. When Nurse Ackerman returns with Nurse Thomas and Nurse Colton, the man has spelled out “FAZBENTERDISCENTER.” Arthur decodes that he wants to go to a distribution center, and Nurse Thomas accidentally reveals the rest to be Fazbear Entertainment. Using the monitor beeps, Arthur learns that the man wants to go there. The nurses refuse to let the man leave, and when they say he’s going to hell the monitors go crazy.
Arthur continues praying with the man for the next three hours, and spends another hour trying to speak to the administration to learn more about the man and why he may want to go to Fazbear Entertainment Distribution Center before he dies. They find nothing and he is repeatedly told that he will never get permission to take the man there, but he is certain he’ll find a way. As Arthur’s leaving, he comes across Mia again. She tells him about her day and then asks if he believes in evil, if there’s evil in the hospital, and if he spent the day with a man in the hospice wing. Arthur is confused and answers yes to all of them, but before Mia can explain why she’s asking her boyfriend arrives. As Arthur mentally prepares himself for the battle ahead, he hopes he’s on the right side of it.
The next day, Mia spots a shadow go into a storage room, but when she goes to investigate she overhears her fellow nurses inside planning to kill the patient. Mia steps away and sees a little boy with curly black hair and rosy cheeks wearing an alligator mask and flashing a devilish grin. She had seen him the day before and felt equally scared by him both times. The boy runs away and when Mia looks back he’s gone. Two days later, Nurse Ackerman acquires a large amount of morphine and tries to inject enough in the man to kill him, but the little boy interrupts her, and when he runs away she’s reminded of the day her son died. She tries to go back to injecting the morphine, but a child-sized shadow flashes by and all of the vials are thrown off the bed, shattering. All of the nurses admit to seeing the little boy, and the next day more people report seeing him. Nurse Thomas decides to suffocate the man with a pillow. The pillow fills with blood and a sticky green fluid, but a shadow tears it away from her and ruptures it, sending the contents flying all over the room and her.
Multiple sightings of the little boy results in the police being called to find him, but every time they go to look it’s gone. Mia suggests that Arthur should take the chaos to his advantage and bug the staff. Meanwhile, the nurses come to the conclusion that the shadow is an extension of whatever is inside the man, and the next day Nurse Colton approaches room 1280 with a plan. She sets down candles around the room and uses it to keep the shadow away as she tries to give the man an air embolism. It fails, however, and a shadow sweeps Nurse Colton’s syringe out her hand before launching it into her throat. She quickly pulls it out but it’s snatched away again and she surrenders. The syringe falls to the floor and a gust of wind blows the candles out. Nurse Colton hears a giggle and runs into Mia, who points in the direction the little boy ran. She decides to show Mia the man. Upon seeing him, Mia thinks back to the conversations she heard about evil and extermination, and she begins to understand her fellow nurses.
Mia’s plan works, and despite how awful it made Arthur feel he gets permission to take the man to Fazbear Entertainment Distribution Center if he signed a ton of paperwork absolving the hospital from any responsibility for whatever might happen from the trip. As he’s heading towards the hospital, he spots a little boy peeking his head out from behind the Cerberus statue. While speaking to the hospital’s head attorney, Arthur worries about something going wrong, but uses his faith to convince himself that he and the man are being watched over. Mia pulls Arthur aside and attempts to talk him out of taking the man. Arthur tells Mia that he should be pessimistic due to the horrors and evil he has seen, but he chooses not to let the past color his present. Knowing he isn’t changing his mind, Mia and Arthur hug and say goodbye.
The man is put into a wheelchair and Arthur drives him to Fazbear Entertainment Distribution Center. Arthur begins to doubt bringing the man, but he still pushes on and takes him inside of the building. Once he does, however, the man starts to violently convulse. Blood and tissue begins to spew and the man collapses. Arthur tries to pray but the man begins barfing, and then he explodes, spraying black blood and a tar-like substance. Whatever is left of the man falls out of the wheelchair and Arthur hears something running towards the shelving area. Arthur finds a trail of small footprints engraved in the man's blood and fluids. A man comes in asking if everything is okay. Arthur, for the first time in his life, believes it is not.
Trivia[]
- This is the first story of the Fazbear Frights series where no animatronic is included as the main antagonist.
- Instead of having an animatronic antagonist, a ghost of a child (who is revealed to be Andrew from the epilogues) plays a minor antagonistic role.
- Andrew in this story is described as to having curly black hair, similar to the corpse of a child Devon saw as his arm was stuck in Fredbear's jaw at the end of The New Kid.
- Strangely, the nurses had no clue what the man's name was, due to his DNA not matching any other sample in their database. There also weren't any records of his family.
- This story is a first of two direct prequels to Stitchwraith Stingers, the second one is The Real Jake.
- This is the sixth story connected to Stitchwraith Stingers, the others being To Be Beautiful, Out of Stock, The Real Jake, 1:35 A.M. and Fetch.
- In the #4 epilogue, Andrew says that he was responsible for the patients seamless immortality and that he was the one who made him explode at the end of the story. Andrew also possesses The Stitchwraith along Jake.
- In the #6 epilogue, the patient's ghost returns and is revealed to be William Afton. It's revealed that until this point, Afton's soul was hiding inside The Stitchwraith and was responsible for the deadly shocks. Andrew also escapes from The Stitchwraith animatronic.
- In the #10 epilogue, Detective Larson sees The Patient in one of his hallucinations, where it's implied that Eleanor was actually the one who kept the man from dying.
- The #10 epilogue also hints that Eleanor was the second entity within Afton's brain. This would also explain the "evil" that's been mentioned in the story's description and by the three nurses in said story.
- It's also implied that she was feeding on Afton's and Andrew's agony.
- Andrew wears an alligator mask and could be connected to the child in the "Happiest Day" minigame where one of the children had a mask that resembles an alligator.