I've always been a toward the wall guy myself since I frequent public and shop restrooms where you don't want the roll unraveling into the toilet if there is a fan blowing, or the end blowing like a banner near pissers with no aiming faculties.
Perhaps Lindwurm was working with the mad scientists at the compound even before the Sh*t hit the fan, and they were assigned the orders from the adventurers' to save the "ranch".