The building had been closed for 15 years but was now being reopened. However, upon inspection, the skeleton staff that had remained never received instructions to leave and had continued working for years, producing regular reports despite there being nobody to read them. As the inspectors explore further, they detect something still living in the building, something that has grown feral after years of isolation.

1. Policy Police
Pretty Vacant Part 1.
2026
Happy New Year

2. The building had been closed for about fifteen years...

3. Funding had dried up at the start
of the Teens. The Lean Years...

4. Now it was to be de-mothballed.

5. It was our job to
confirm vacant
possession...

6. …Damn.

7. The skeleton
staff never
left.

8. Looks like
they were
waiting...
For instructions
that never
came.

10. Kept
producing
reports. Regular as
clockwork.
Nobody to read
them. Nothing
to say.

11. Nice work if
you can get it.

12. Ah...
.

13. ...died
brainstorming.
I wonder which
dried up first. The
ideas or the pens.

14. But... there
should be
something else.

15. From the smell,
I'd say there is
something else.

16. Something
that's not...
...desiccated.

17. ...operating
off-plan.

18. Something
feral.
...living
off the
vermin.

20. To be continued...