How to tell stories through Settings? Prisons

Carried to the Prison

• How are you conduced to the Prison?
• In which type of Vehicle?
• How is it guarded?
• By how many people?
• What weapons do they have?
• Do they look like officers?
• Could they be bribed?
• Could they be threatened?
• Could they be killed?

• How long is the ride?
• At which distance were you arrested?
• Can you hijack the transportation?
• Is it animal-driven?
• Do you know how the motor functions?

• How does the Prison looks like from the outside?
• Which color is it?
• How is the atmosphere?

Cell

• What does the typical Cell looks like?
• How are the accommodations?
• How are the beds?
• Are there individual Toilets?

• How are the Walls?
• How Thick are they?
• Do they look worn?
• Are there marks on them?

• How is the Door?
• How Thick is it?
• Is it directly guarded?
• How many locks are there?

• Are there different types of cells?
• Are there cells with showers?
• Are there cells with fancier beds?
• Books?
• Other forms of luxuries?

Guards

• What does the typical Guard looks like?
• What type of Uniform do they wear?
• Do they wear Armors?
• Do they bear Weapons?
• Do they have certain Expressions or sayings?
• Could you copy them?

• What’s their typical day like?
• What are their Routines?
• Can you ask them easily?
• Could they be bribed?
• Could they be threatened?
• Could they be killed?

• Hierarchy
• Who is a Soldier?
• What does an Officer look like?
• How different are they from the Soldiers/Guards?
• Who is the Warden?
• Why is this person the Warden?

• Keys
• Which Technology do they use?
• Are these Electronic keys?
• Are they Mechanical?
• Are they Physical/Material?
• Where are they stored?
• In the control room?
• In the Guard’s body?

Team

• Are you separated?
• Are all your team members incarcerated in the same Prison?
• Are all your team members incarcerated on the same Level?

• If you are planning an evasion you will need a certain level of coordination.
• Who is responsible for which part of it?
• Were you put in prison voluntarily?

• What’s your goal?
• Is there an object in the prison you need to steal?
• Is there a person in the prison you need to escape with?

Multiple Levels

• Does the prison have multiple Levels?
• Are there Isolation chambers?
• Are there Larger/Collective cells?

• Is there a segregation system between the cells/levels?
• Are certain cells/levels reserved for a certain sex?
• Are certain cells/levels forbidden to certain species?

• How do you navigate between levels?
• Through Elevators?
• Through Stairs?
• Through Ladders?

Guards Barracks

• What are the Guards life condition?
• Can the prisoners create some relatability with the guards?
• Based on the place they live in?
• Based on the way they are treated by their superiors?
• Do they have personal items in?

• How are the Barracks?
• Are they well kept?
• Are they saturated?
• Are there multiple barracks?
• Are they interconnected?
• Do they give access to other rooms?
• Like the control room?

Officers Quarters

• What are the Officers life condition?
• Can the prisoners create some relatability with them?
• What privileges do they possess over the regular Guards?
• Do they lack something?
• Something you could grant them?

• How are the Quarters?
• Are they individualized?
• Do they have personal items in?
• Are they Protected?
• Are they under higher surveillance than the Barracks?
• Are they interconnected?
• Do they give access to other rooms?
• Like the control room?
• Are they opened on the outside?

Warden’s Office

• How is the Office?
• How is it arranged?
• Are there trophies?
• Are there distinctions?
• Are there references to the Warden’s past?
• A military past?
• A dead family?

• Who is the Warden?
• Why has this person be chosen?
• Who chosen this person?
• What was their goal?
• Was this person placed here?

• Why would you be called in the Office?
• Are you called to be interrogated?
• About which event?
• For causing a crisis?
• For an incident you were part of?
• For an incident you were the testimony of?

Cafeteria

• Facility
• What Installations are there?
• How many tables?
• How many chairs/benches?
• How big is the room?
• How much light is there?

• Schedule
• Does the cafeteria have Limited access?
• Is it only open at night?
• Is it open during the day?
• Are some part reserved to certain prisoners?
  • Why these ones?
  • Do they go through particular labors?

• Sustenance
• Does the prison offer 3 Meals a day?
• How is the Food supplied?
• How is the Food processed?
• How is the Food cooked?
• Is it Made by prisoners?
• Why is the food stock accessible to some prisoners?
• How are they chosen?
• Is it part of the forced labor?

• What Drinks are available?
• Only water?
• Milk?
• Fruit Juice?
• Are there Recreational drinks like Soda?
• Is Alcohol authorized on certain occasions?

Showers

• Are there Individual cabins?
• Is everyone in the Same Room?
• Are there showers in cells?

• Surveillance
• How many guards are there?
• Are they Armed?
• Do they bear Electrical weapons?

Forced Labor

• In the Prison
• Is the labor conduced indoors?
• In the Courtyard?
• What type of labor is it?
• Are the prisoners surveilled differently?
• Are there supervisors?
• Prisoner Supervisors?

• Out of the Prison
• Is it conducted in the Prison’s vicinity?
• What type of labor is it?
• How many guards accompany the prisoners?
• How are the guards equipped?
• Are there officers?
• Are there supervisors?
• Prisoner Supervisors?

Sewers

• What’s the Sewers architecture?
• What’s the map like?
• Which member of your team is in charge of knowing about it?

• How many guards descend in the sewers?
• Do they use the same type of weapon?
• Is there a special section in charge of the sewers?
• Where do they live?
• Why are they here?

• Are there special activities in the sewers?
• Any smuggling?
• Any experiences?

• Are the sewers inhabited?
• Are there animals in the sewers?
• Are they illnesses known to develop down there?

Escape

• How is the Surveillance?
• Which Rooms are the most patrolled?
• What’s the Technology?

• What’s the Guards Schedule?
• What’s the Enforced schedule?
• Do they have Personal Routines?

• What do you know about the Maintenance system?
• Who can Access it?
• What Personnel?
• What do they do when in it?

• Do you escape In front of guards?
• Do you wear a Disguise?
• How does it look like?
• Will you take a Hostage?
• Who’s the hostage?
• Will you provoke a Riot?
• In Collaboration with the guards?

• Are you Dissimulated?
• Will you go through the Maintenance system?
• Will you go through the Sewers?
  • Are you aware of what’s inside?
• Will you use a Carriage?
• Will you go through the Ceiling?
  • Will you go through the Walls?