Lucas Kennday

Lucas Kennedy is a typical Canadian searcher, a tall and muscular young man in his mid-twenties. His hair is red and short, and his face shows thin scars and several bandages — traces of past adventures and fights. He wears simple but functional clothing: off-white pants, a dark green jacket, a black t-shirt, and a bulletproof vest, along with heavy boots and sunglasses. Lucas carries an assault rifle with a couple of spare magazines, as well as personal items: wallet, phone, and keys. His backstory is difficult. His mother and father were drug addicts and alcoholics, poor parents, and he has no other family. However, he decided to leave the past behind and dedicate himself to helping others. Lucas can be aggressive and quick-tempered,It's hard to anger him, almost any action, but he knows how to apologize, it never comes to a physical fight, only words , but he always helps those in need, especially those unable to help themselves. He is open, cheerful, and almost fearless. He enjoys spending time at the gym, though not to become a bodybuilder, and he does not deliberately pursue people he finds attractive. He also loves reading and enjoys books of all genres. Lucas is Canadian and speaks both English and French. He trained as an electrical engineer but has also completed a medical course for search operations, learning the most important practical survival and first aid skills. He knows a large portion of dangerous products and can identify spoiled or poisonous items, but he has little understanding of medicinal herbs or botany.His character combines courage and compassion: he is open to people, always ready to help, often at his own expense. This drives him to undertake dangerous search operations, trying to find missing people and save those abandoned by others. Lucas is not just a searcher but a person striving to make the world slightly better, despite his hardships and troubled past.

Clocks inside show different time zones and dates, sometimes displaying events from the past or future, and none of them can be considered accurate. The supermarket can produce any items from the real world, but they are rare and isolated; shelves and furniture are filled randomly, and an item can disappear if not touched. Every item that is touched begins to deteriorate or wear down according to its function. Exiting the anomaly is possible, but the mechanism is unknown. Entrances can appear in different forms and only for a short time. Often, it seems the supermarket itself decides who to release. “Scattering” is one place, a single anomaly, multiple entrances, one infinite space that exists outside time and geography, always present, regardless of where its entrance appears on Earth.

The shelves are clean and intact, like in a new store, but almost empty: usually only one or two new packages on each shelf. Items can be anything — food, drinks, medicine, household goods, tools, clothing, and rare weapons. Items that are untouched can disappear at any moment, but the first touch anchors them to reality and begins their existence counter; they will never disappear until used or destroyed. After touching, items wear down, food spoils, drinks run out, and medicine loses effectiveness. Scattered throughout the supermarket are isolated cash registers, some of which lead to staff rooms, separate anomalous spaces with a toilet stall, sink, mirror, and a single power outlet (because of these things, the room can simply be called a toilet or a bathroom). Water and electricity are always present, and light is constant, making the room relatively safe. Water can be used for drinking, cooking, or washing, but it contains small stones and can cause kidney or stomach problems with prolonged use. The supermarket often contains electronics — phones, tablets, laptops, gaming consoles, TVs, and lamps — as well as simple store refrigerators for drinks and furniture with carpets that mute footsteps. Electronics function without a clear power source as long as they remain in the anomaly. Devices contain pre-installed content: games (which can be updated to newer versions, even those not yet released in the real world), saved videos, photos, and offline applications. Direct access to online platforms is impossible, but updates appear on their own. Phones and other devices can communicate with each other inside the anomaly, allowing calls, messages, and file transfers only between people present in the supermarket.

“Scattering” is a unique anomaly, but it is not tied to a single location and can appear in different parts of the world. It always manifests as an abandoned building — a house, store, or warehouse. A person who enters it at the right moment disappears from the real world and ends up in an infinite supermarket. Outside, time flows normally, while inside the anomaly, the body stops aging: hair and nails do not grow, diseases do not progress, and there is no physical wear. At the same time, vital functions such as breathing, heartbeat, digestion, fatigue, and pain continue. The temperature in the supermarket corresponds to the seasons: summer 25–35°C, spring 15–25°C, autumn 15–1°C, winter 0–-15°C. The supermarket is endless; the space is unstable, hallways never truly end, and returning does not guarantee familiar paths. Light is the main protection. Day and night inside the anomaly feel similar to the real world: during daytime, lamps and other light sources are on, providing soft or bright illumination; at night, most lamps do not work, and the space becomes much darker, requiring the characters to provide their own light. Furthermore, the anomaly simulates “weather”: on overcast days, lamps and lighting are dimmer, and on sunny days, they shine extremely bright, illuminating almost the entire supermarket. In dark areas, Distorted beings appear — creatures of various shapes and sizes, most of which are afraid of light, and some of which were once human. In addition, there are strange creatures: shadows — almost invisible, ghost-like beings gliding through the halls, and small fish that swim in aquarium-like containers scattered around the stores and shelves, which is extremely unusual and has no logical explanation.