Daycare Tour

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Seth was right about how extensive and overwhelming the tour would be. Your head was spinning from the amount of information you had tried to absorb by the time you reached the daycare. You could vaguely remember there was the main lobby entrance near a gift shop. An elevator from there took you to a stage and a ton of little restaurants and other attractions on the second and third floors. Unfortunately, there were so many different maintenance tunnels that you were sure to get lost.

There were a couple shower areas, a few large kitchens, and a laundry room. In addition, there were security rooms scattered throughout the building and recharge stations all over for the animatronics.

"As I stated at the beginning, our last stop is the daycare. Then I'll show you the way to the nearest employee entrance. Try to remember that specific path at the very least," Seth interrupted your scattered thoughts.

You snapped your head up and nodded. You were overwhelmed, and it was obvious. Seth took note and spoke gently, "we don't need to meet the daycare animatronic today. He can be really hyper, and I don't think it would be good for you at this exact moment," he gestured to your anxiety-filled face. "I understand being overwhelmed by the sheer amount of information tossed on you. Hopefully, a good night's rest will help you process everything better."

He smiled gently and led the way back to the first floor. He turned towards a large sign painted on the wall that read Superstar Daycare Pick Up. The entryway had metal lines around it, suggesting that shutters would fall after closing. You had noticed many of these shutters around the Pizza Plex, presumably a security measure against intruders.

You followed Seth through the entrance into a large waiting area. There were bathrooms on the right-hand wall and vending machines on the left. The room suddenly became a large open space with fountains with built-in seats along the edge decorating the area. The fountains had palm trees towards the center of each, and you couldn't tell if they were real or fake.

There was an ad painted onto the wall for Sunnydrop and Moondrop candy and another charging station for any animatronics that happened to be there. You assumed the characters painted on the wall were supposed to be a cartoon rendition of the daycare animatronics' forms.

Another entryway surrounded by the metal of what would hold shutters after close led you both into an area that was more colorful and childlike than the one before. While the fountain area had felt like the center of a mall, this area felt more like a kindergarten classroom. There were animatronic-themed tables with numbers on them and a couch for parents to wait on. In the middle of the room, there was a giant golden statue. It was the same characters from the ad before, but it was both of their entire bodies, not just their faces.

On the far-left wall were screens advertising pizza, and on the far right, there were a bunch of cubbies for kids to put their items in. Next to the cubbies were two podium standing desks where employees gave parents paperwork. The parents would take the paperwork to the waiting area and begin filling it out. The children would sit at the themed tables and color or talk while waiting patiently on their parents. You saw one parent stand up, presumably done with the form, and make their way to the podium on the left. The employee standing there took the documents from them and scanned the papers with the printer behind them.

You noted the faint glow from the podium, indicating some form of a device on it. The employee turned back to the stand and began to type away on the device before it printed out two wristbands. One was given to the parent and another to the child. The parent thanked the employee and walked away as the employee brought the child over to a slide near the podiums. You only knew it was a slide because it read "slide into fun" above it. The child got into position and squealed as they went down.

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