Infirmary
"ANYONE FOUND FAKING ILLNESS WILL BE DOCKED A FULL WEEK'S WAGES. NOT SICK. NOT PAID." |
The Infirmary is a location within the ink realm. It represents the area where employees could heal up when they were feeling sick or had been harmed.
Background
The Infirmary is accessed through a staircase. The room has ink all over the floor, due to the area previously being flooded.
The waiting area has multiple wooden chairs, a trash can, two tables, a gramophone, a Searcher puddle, and a sign with a black cross that displays the words "WAIT HERE".
Past a wooden beam and down two steps is the main area of the Infirmary. The main part of it is a bed made out of a regular bed frame, multiple wooden boards and a pillow. A book is on top of the bed as well. There are a couple stools around the area, along with a coat hanger and cutout. Next to the bed is an eye chart, and next to that eye chart is a cutout, a switch for Sewer access, and pipes. The latter is missing a valve.
Down another flight of stairs, there's a small area that contains another cutout and a crate. A few pipes are also seen in this area. This place does not have ink on the floor or stairs. To the left, there's a metal fence that blocks off a sewer area. A barrel and the shadow of Sammy are seen in the ink-flooded corridor. To the right, there's a metal door that leads to the sewer and boiler room.
Points of interest
- The Infirmary is flooded, so the ink pressure has to be lessened through another valve in Sammy's Sanctuary.
- The lever allows access to the boiler room and sewer area.
- The missing valve in the Infirmary has to be obtained down there.
- Sammy's shadow can be seen in the lower part of the Infirmary.
- It will vanish after the valve is obtained.
Apocryphal information
Buddy Lewek investigates this area while looking for the odd moaning sound, walking down the stairs and into the foyer of the Infirmary. The appearance is roughly the same as its seen in the ink realm, except that it apparently had a desk covered with charts against a wall. Buddy notices a cartoon called Bedpans and Bedlam on the wall, displaying Bendy as a doctor and Alice as a nurse, with Boris lying on a stretcher. Buddy then hears a crash from upstairs and continued looking for the source of the odd noises.
Buddy later says that the creature is "The thing from the Infirmary", when encountering the Ink Demon again, despite it not exactly being from there.
Behind the scenes
The Infirmary is a location in Chapter 2: The Old Song of Bendy and the Ink Machine.
Development
While it has technically been in the game the whole time, it was originally blocked off, and the actual Infirmary area didn't exist, with only the entrance being visible. After Chapter 3's DLC release, the area was added, but it was extremely bare, only containing a couple tables along with the pipe, already having the valve attached. The lower area of the Infirmary was blocked off by boards and it was simply labelled with "INFIRMARY". It was given a proper redesign after Chapter 4: Colossal Wonders's DLC release.
Other Information
Unlike most objects, the book and pillow on the bed actually have physics and will fall onto the ground when the bed's boards are broken.
Prior to the DLC release of Chapter 4, the staircase had Sinny at the bottom.
Gallery
References
- ↑ Bendy and the Ink Machine. Chapter 2: The Old Song. Developed and published by Joey Drew Studios Inc on February 10, 2017.