GRUMP

Days are for work

• Search everything. Lockers, desks, bins, crates. Fuel and parts live in the boiler room and storage.
• Feed the generator. Fuel keeps it burning, parts keep it from stalling. It powers every light in the school.
• Clean up. Every mess still on the floor at nightfall makes the generator drink faster.
• Carry the little ones home. Toddlers left out in the building do not survive the night.
• Eat. Your tummy empties every day. Cafeterias, kitchens and lunchboxes are where the food is.
• Some of the little ones are hurt. A red cross over their head means a scrape. Carry them to the nurse's office and put a plaster on (a quick minigame) before they can stay safe in your classroom.
• Get lunch from Meredith. She is at the cafeteria counter all day. Keep the beat in her lunch line and your tray gets fuller. One tray a day.
• If Jerry the gym teacher comes running, do the class. Laps, dumbbells or jump rope. Pass and you stay fit (slower stamina drain) for a while.
• Do Mrs. Honeywell's list. Your teacher is at the board in your classroom every morning. Every job you finish leaves a reward in the crib. She is gone before dark.

Nights are for hiding

• The nights are Bob's. For the first three, he is the one who will actually hurt you.
• Light is safety. Bob will not touch you in a lit room. Grump will not enter one — for now.
• Bob patrols every night. He hums. He sweeps a torch. He switches lights off behind him, and he gets faster every night. Hide in a locker and hold still.
• Grump only watches to begin with. Every night he is a little bigger.
• Noise carries. Sprinting is loud. Crawling is quiet. A crying baby is the loudest thing in the building.

Grump

• He will ask you things. Answering costs you. So does walking away.
• There is no right answer. Work out how little you can spend.
• Cleaning up his school is the only thing that ever calms him down.
• On day 4 he stops asking — and then he hunts you in daylight too. Push him hard enough and it happens sooner.

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