Part 3: Scenario Two: Moon Part 1

Scenario Two: Moon-part one

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Oh my God... Nothing has changed in this place. This was the first thing I saw 30 years ago. I've dreamt of this place so many times... Why...?

And so we start our next portion of the game, now in control of another survivor of the orphanage fire, Moon. Though we start in the same spot as we did with Ben, we now have zero inventory. Also, Ben has already ransacked the place, so we have nothing to pick up for ourselves at the moment.
One small detail I haven't mentioned yet because SA's code doesn't normally allow for it, each character's speech/text is a different color. Ben is blue, Karen is violet, Moon is red, and the mysterious voice is black. As an aside, the programmers didn't give Moon as much new flavor dialogue as I had hoped, and a little less to do, so you'll excuse me for smaller updates. That said, there's literally nothing new for Moon in the office, so let's just go straight on.

Someone already took the stuff you need, go look him up.

Actually this dialogue pops up in the office if you go there first instead of the hallway, but that's the only difference. In case you didn't pick it up, the Voice is telling us to go find Ben, as he already has all the inventory. We'll get there in a couple minutes. As the game isn't nearly as good at railroading as it wants to be, I think we should take a chance to sightsee along the way.



As you can see, very little gets changed from character to character in the building, but nonetheless, there are plenty of moments of different dialogue and history depending on who's the one asking. Sometimes it's something small, like the locked cabinet I overlooked with Ben,

I wonder what's inside

And sometimes it's something a bit more meaty, like say, the big ominous dining table in the center of the room.

I remember carving the table with a knife and gave some other girl the blame. I think her name was Lydia.

And what about that painting of the nurse that Ben noticed on his trip?

Someone I never have to meet again.

obviously Moon was a bit more of a rebel with a chip on her shoulder than Ben was. Moving on, we can go into the kitchen, but the only thing worth noting in there is that Moon notices the mess we were cooking on the stove. You can open and close the oven door if you want, but there's really no point. Anyways, we could go upstairs and explore the dorms, and even the otherworld already if we wanted to--As I said, the game is really bad at railroading, but I'll be nice and go meet Ben. I'm really interested to see how they work two characters in a first person game. I'm sure we'll be quite the team by the end.



Oh.

What the...

Moon... Meet Ben...

Who's there?! Did you do this?!

You need to open those wrists Moon. Do it for me once more...

But... How did you know...?

I left something for you in the cabinet in my world. It should do the trick...

Who are you?!



It's the corpse of Ben. He's cold.

Death Count: 10

So Ben is dead (murdered? The cancer?), and Moon is apparently suicidal, and we're blithely being lead around by someone encouraging this. This is such a happy game. Well, I suppose now we can get our inventory back...

There are a few things in this backpack I might need.

We end up taking the map, the compass, the lighter, the gun, and of course the bullets and first aid kit. Heading upstairs, let's skip over the bathroom for just a moment, as we'll certainly be there shortly, following the voice's invitation to their world.



I was nice enough to go back and give you a view of the shoes this time that I forgot to snap with Ben.

The shoelaces are tied together. I remember this prank of tying the shoelaces together. Sometimes the knots were so complicated we had to cut them apart so to put our shoes on.

We still can't pick them up. Oh well. Do you have anything to say about the boys beds, Moon?

I don't remember who slept in here. This is where three children died that night. I don't want to touch the place where they died.

Fair enough. Let's just move on to your bedroom and see if we can't find anything more interesting?



There's something under the bed.[/img]

We find an old piece of homework:


According to Google the Latin translates to "And he that was dead sat up, and began to talk, and Jesus gave him to his mother". If we look at the bed again, we actually pay attention to it

Clara and Tilda slept here.

Across the room, meanwhile,

I slept in the lower bed... Most nights... Not that night...

Of course you didn't. Otherwise you wouldn't be here now. Well, alright now, let's go ahead and get on into the Otherworld through the bathroom, just like before. There's nothing new in the regular bathroom, for the record, and we can't communicate with Karen anymore.



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THREE years old?!