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Question 0

Here, here!

Answer 0

ANNIE DALTON
The report continues in this vein for about three pages. We’ll skip to the findings.

Question 1

MORALES
“Official Report from Mayor Arnsen’s Ad Hoc Commission of Inquiry.”

Answer 1

ANNIE DALTON
In response to public demands, Mayor Richard Arnsen appointed an ad hoc
commission to investigate the disaster. This is Hector Morales, chairman of the commission. Other members included Gerald Davies…

Michael Cornelius…

And William Lloyd.

Their words come from the official commission report.

Question 2

MORALES

Here, here!

Answer 2

WILLA MAE JESPER In other words, nobody knew jackshit.

Question 3

JAMES SUMNER

Willa Mae Jesper, tavern owner.

Answer 3

WILLA MAE JESPER
I certainly didn’t know anything till about 1:45, at the earliest. And that’s 1:45 bar
time. Which’d be around 1:20 in the real world. We set the clock 20 minutes ahead so we can point at the clock and tell the drunks it’s last call. You need a cushion in case they linger.
And they were all lingering. Something odd in the air. Usually you can count on Janet Carson to have settled on her conquest for the night by around midnight or so. But even she was still hanging around. And I don’t mean shaking it over at the jukebox. I mean, huddled with some of the regulars around a table, whispering about “rumors” and “I heard” and such and such and so on.
So I went right up to them. “What have you heard?” I says to them. And one of the latecomers says he heard there’s reanimated corpses wandering over near the cemetery. Says he heard that from Johnny O’Dell on the radio. And I thought right there he was full of crap, because Johnny O’Dell’s on in the mornings.

Question 4

MAX DAVIS
I assumed it was a radio prank, along the lines of the War of the Worlds.

Answer 4

ANNIE DALTON

Max Davis, network administrator.

Question 5

MAX DAVIS

We now return you to Mötley Crüe.” Hilarious.

Answer 5

DORA JOHANNSON
I drove right by a bunch of them, only I didn’t know it.

Question 6

CONNOR MARX

Rancher Dora Johannson.

Answer 6

DORA JOHANNSON
I was headed into Willa Mae’s, seeing as how it was a Friday, and I come across a
group of, oh, I’d say about six to eight of them. This was over near the community college. I figured they were burning someone in effigy. Those college kids are always protesting something.