Outside
Outside is deadly around the silos, but living grass, insects, birds, and clear skies survive beyond the surrounding dome of dust.
Story so far
The silos’ outside views showed lifeless brown hills under gray skies. Holston saw greenery and a blue sky through his helmet, but outside its display lay brown grass and gray skies, and toxins were killing him. Juliette described cleaners’ bodies on the hillside and found more barren ground beyond it, where circular hollows and hills repeated across the landscape. Fifty evenly spaced silo depressions extended toward the horizon.
The destruction was not necessarily worldwide. Erskine claimed the world was being reset to erase humanity and its experiments, while a drone later revealed vivid green land beyond the last silo hills. Tiny airborne machines had consumed the old convention’s structures. Charlotte subsequently reported that the world beyond the silos’ damaged region still existed.
Beyond the dust, living grasses, insects, birds, and white clouds are now visible. Vegetation dies at the foot of the barrier, whose dark clouds form a giant dome centered on the silos. A forest lies beyond an isolated ringed hill. One group emerging from the dust carries a body in a limp suit, so reaching the living landscape has not meant an unscathed passage for everyone.
Appearance
A dusty, barren region of hills and circular silo depressions lies under a dome of dark clouds. Beyond its edge are living grasses, insects, birds, white clouds, and a forest; plants die along the barrier’s base.
Role
The hazardous surface surrounding the silos and the living landscape beyond its localized dust barrier.
Relationships
Sources — 23 recorded facts, by chapter
- The outside view shows lifeless hills.
- The displayed outside landscape has low brown hills beneath a dull gray sky.
- Through his helmet, Holston sees a blue sky, white clouds, and living things flying above green ground.
- Outside the helmet’s display, the landscape has brown grass and gray skies.
- Toxins outside are killing Holston.
- Juliette describes two cleaners’ bodies lying together in a hollow of a hill.
- Juliette says roughly a dozen other cleaners’ remains are visible in various stages of decay.
- Beyond the hill lies a barren landscape of dust, dry earth, and wind flurries.
- The landscape contains a repeating pattern of circular hollows separated by hills.
- Juliette tells Solo that the outside remains unsafe.
- Fierce winds carry dust across a landscape of jagged rocks and gray clouds.
- Fifty evenly spaced silo depressions extend toward the horizon.
- The landscape visible from the cafeteria is scorched and covered in decaying debris.
- Erskine claims the outside world is being reset to remove humanity’s experiments as well as humans.
- Strong winds outside carry grit that strikes Donald’s helmet and exposed hand.
- Tiny machines in the air have consumed the convention’s tents, fairgrounds, and stages.
- The drone’s flight reveals a vivid green landscape beyond the last silo hills.
- Charlotte reports that the world beyond the silos’ damaged region still exists.
- Living grasses, insects, birds, and white clouds exist beyond the dusty region around the silos.
- Vegetation dies along the base of the dust barrier.
- The dark clouds form a giant dome centered on the silos.
- A forest lies beyond the isolated ringed hill.
- One group emerges from the dust carrying a body in a limp suit.