Part 57: Blackwell Deception - Update 16
Update 16Yesterday, Rosa spoke with Seb, Jamie's ex-boyfriend, who mentioned that Jamie was a drug addict who flew off the rails. The next step is to get Jamie's side of the story, but first, we'll need to get Joey to put her in the mood to talk.



First thing's first, though. That "In The Club" track was getting on my nerves yesterday, so Rosa hits up the jukebox. In Jamie's apartment there was a band poster for Epileptic Fish, so we try looking them up - and find a much catchier piece of dance music. Actually, it's a dance version of the Blackwell theme.

When Joey asked Jamie to ask last time, she said she didn't want to because the music sucked. Hopefully, she'll be more amenable to her favourite band! The Steam Achievement certainly seems to suggest as much.





Sure enough, Jamie heads out to the dance floor and bops around, while Joey floats stoically back and forth.

Now that she's out here dancing, Jamie is more open to chatting. Joey takes advantage and starts asking questions.




Well, we've definitely confirmed she isn't aware of her own death.






Jamie sounds like she's trying to convince herself, rather than Joey. It's pretty clear what happened here. She obviously told Gavin the same thing, that she felt trapped and bored, and he convinced her to get out and "live a little", which apparently meant overdosing nightly on Ecstacy and partying until you literally drop dead. What is still not clear is why he bothered.

Joey tries to prod Jamie into recognise her death, as is his usual approach.





I guess the implication here is that she wasn't enjoying her life before she started coming to seedy nightclubs.



That's pretty creepy

Joey tries asking Jamie about Gavin...






...but it's like she's been programmed not to respond. She absolutely does not want to talk about him.


Actually, Jamie's doesn't really seem interested in talking about anything in her life outside of partying.


Joey checks up on Jamie's supposed links to drugs.




Alright, that's enough small talk. Time to get into the meat of this puzzle. Now, bear with me here, because this is a touch creepy. Jamie can't move on because she is utterly obsessed with partying. It's pretty clear that she isn't going to recognise her own death unless we can get her out of this nightclub. However, she has absolutely no interest in leaving. So what's the solution?
The solution is to get Joey to flirt like crazy with Jamie, so that she gets so damn hot on him that she wants to take him back to her dorm. Seriously. Of course, Joey might be charming, but he's not quite that charming. So the solution is to cyberstalk Jamie, learn all of her hobbies and preferences, and basically pose as her ideal soulmate. Yeah, it's pretty damn creepy, but I guess in some sense it's not really that much different that pretending to be Mavis' son. Or Isaac's sister, for that matter. Or Allen's wife.


Actually... it probably is just a little bit creepier


We'll need to successfully chat up Jamie in these three areas. As soon as Joey asks a question about Jamie, she will immediately turn it back into a question about him.


Joey has a whole bunch of choices:






And more choices...









And even more choices...







But from talking to Professor Appleton, we know that Jamie absolutely loved history, at least at one point.

It was Middle-Eastern history, but of course, Joey can pretend to be interested in the history of other areas of the world by mistake:






Hilariously, Joey can even claim to have studied dinosaur history






Alright, let's do this.


Joey is just talking some bullshit here, but Jamie buys it.





Bingo. That's the first objective ticked off. And to think I've been wasting my best years trying to woo girls by buying them drinks like a sucker!

Next up, Joey tries asking about Jamie's hobbies. Once again, she immediately turns it back around to a question aimed at Joey.

Like last time, Joey has a bunch of responses, though in this case most of them just boil down to him blatantly flirting:








And even more flirting...




I love this


There is this amusing option as well, but Joey decides the better of it.

Unfortunately, we haven't learned enough about Jamie yet to pull off this PUA bullshit. We'll have to cyberstalk her a bit more and learn her hobbies before we can blatantly lie about sharing the exact same ones like an enormous creep.

The last objective to tick off is about Jamie's hometown. As you have probably guessed, she immediately spins the question back around at Joey.

Joey has plenty of choices, as usual:






Yet more choices...




But, as we know, Jamie is from Illinois, out west.



Most of the incorrect options here just lead to Jamie saying "Oh. I don't know that area," so I won't bother showing them. The bottom option is amusing, though



Okay, so Illinois is the correct choice.


Um. Hm. Joey thinks of the first place he can from Illinois.



That didn't work...


The solution, of course, is to pick a place right near where Jamie spent her childhood.

From Sarah's email last update, we know that Mattoon is close to Jamie's hometown.


Joey doesn't even try to sound surprised here, but Jamie misses it entirely.




Well, two out of three aint bad. We'll need to do a bit more, ahem, "research" before Joey can seal the deal here.



Back home, Rosa and Joey confer regarding Jamie.

I guess this is in reference to that one line where she seemed more keen to convince herself of her happiness than anything else.




We all know why you want to "learn" more about her, Joey.



Well, we'll need to get some more information about Jamie before we can say for sure. But who would have more information about her that we haven't already spoken to?

Oh yeah, that's right. Professor Appleton mentioned that Durkin was investigating Jamie's death, even though it was caused by natural causes. Perhaps he'll know something?




Hahaha, Durkin must be wondering who the hell Rosa is by this point




Hahaha, "you owe me"



Now we just need Durkin to get assigned to investigate Tiffany's death so we can watch his reaction when he finds Rosa's business card in her mailbox




Excellent. Hopefully he'll have some info for us!
Join me tomorrow as we continue this LP of PUA Simulator X-treme!!