School

The School is a location that appears in Survarium.

Overview
It is an area based around a school infested by anomalies in the middle of a deserted town.

Around the school there are hills and fortified bases which can be useful to snipers. Part of the school's lower floors and the basement are badly-lit, so players could do with torches, night vision devices, submachine guns and shotguns for combat at close ranges.

There are two anomalies at the school. One is in the top floor and has Spring and Onyx artifacts, another is in the basement and it spawns Lakspur. In order to survive in them, on top of specialised devices the player will need to understand how the anomalies work: The anomaly in the top floor is radioactive, you will not be able to survive for long without protection, and the basement anomaly is triggered by proximity and will cover the central yard in toxic gas.

Background
When the city was dying, a group of refugees took shelter in the upper floor of the school. They barricaded themselves in the hope of protecting themselves against the mutated animals and birds that attacked everything that moved. For a week they were fighting back, doing their best to survive. They even dispatched groups to seek foodstuffs as they had nothing left, and those groups never came back.

One morning they woke up from a terrible rumble. When they looked at the inner school yard, they saw the root system easily cracking concrete slabs and stretching towards the very place they had barricaded. The root system was breaking off chunks from the entire wall of their shelter, only to open a way for all the mutated animals to gain entry. Those refugees perished.

Five years later, scouts discovered the school already densely grown with mutated plants. What they also discovered were the very rare anomalies inside the school. As rumour has it, unique artifacts can be procured from these anomalies. Out of the artifacts, one can practically bring back people from the dead.