Silent Hill Downpour: DAY FOUR

[sincere]

I'm very busy buying plane tickets and cardigans, but I guess I can do this, too.


Starting from: Centennial building, ground floor.

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[sincere]

Okay, so, we're in the Centennial Building, heading up to the top floor to meet DJ RICK aw yeah

[temples]

DJ RICK

[rainfall]

Game: was, for once, where I expected it to be!

I walk forward and discover two locked gates, making the total number of locked doors in this room so far three. One has a blue question mark, denoting it as my goal.

I approach a van. The side door is locked, but I'm just pleased to be able to interact with it.

THEN I OPEN THE DOOR AND THERE'S BLOOD
and I have to pause because Kay's pain is so very intense.

[sincere]

She unpaused and immediately got attacked by a Screamer.

[sincere]

There's an abandoned cop car down here with a note about how our buddy Officer Sewell is a dirtbag, but there's only circumstantial evidence about his illegal doings.

[sincere]

There's a very angry police dog trapped in the back of the car. I feel kind of bad for it. I would be very angry if I were trapped in the back of a police car in Silent Hill, too.

[sincere]

There's a forensic light in the back of the car, but you have to drop your flashlight to pick it up.

You know, Murphy. The other guys who came to Silent Hill believed in having multiple items with the same purpose in their inventories.

[sincere]

We drain some water from a room down below where there's just a wheelchair and a corpse chained to a pipe.

[rainfall]

/opens guide to figure out how that was supposed to help me :|a

[sincere]

The water level starts to rise again immediately and ahhh there are two giant creepy guys wandering around upstairs now run find another room ahhh

[rainfall]

For some reason: "Weeping Bats".

I've got no explanation. The Screamer seems so nice and self-explanatory, man.

[sincere]

We find a room! And after some difficulty, close the door. Looks like a security area. The security camera shows the wheelchair moving.

DJ RICKS

[sincere]

My favorite guy is on the radio, joyously telling Silent Hill that we've been together for a long time, but you know what?

"I know a way out."

Cheerful music!

We better find him before he gets his ass killed.

[sincere]

We find a barred-off and bricked off room, which seems like overkill. Murphy peers through a crumbling brick and sees a shadow cowering and begging someone to please, stop, and then another huge shadow with what looks like a sledgehammer takes a swing at him.

Subsequent peering reveals nothing.

[sincere]

rainfall accidentally ended up with the non-UV-flashlight and she's pissed off. She's in the museum now, and the game cut off her ability to go back and, of course, autosaved behind her.

The game does helpfully tell her that the UV flashlight will reveal clues. Thanks for that!

[sincere]

Wait! Maybe saved?? The guide says there's another UV light...

[sincere]

The UV light reveals scrape marks on the floor, and fingerprints on books that are supposed to reveal hints about the game.

[sincere]

The first book: Rome, about divination.

There's a scrawl: X9714 5Q.

[sincere]

We thought we saw a corpse in a chair, but it just turned out to be a creepy sex doll.

Murphy comments skeptically, "Looks like somebody has... specific tastes in entertainment."

[sincere]

We very clearly see a person running between the library stacks, but it vanished in a dead end.

[sincere]

In the video archive now. There's a "200" visible in the UV light on the screen, as well as ALL the creepy noises and jumpy things you could ever want! Nothing has appeared yet.

[sincere]

"You're listening to the DJ Ricks show!"

DJ Ricks is my on-air friend to the end. :(

Stay alive.

[sincere]

THE INVISIBLE WOMAN IS THE SEX DOLL

[sincere]

There's a portrait of the sex doll on the wall that's titled "Dangerous Beauty". You're not creepy at all, whoever framed this.

[sincere]

AHHHHHH

Murphy's headvoice reassured him to trust himself because he knows more than he thinks he does

And rainfall saw Officer Coleridge in the mirror when he was talking

IS OFFICER COLERIDGE OUR SHOULDER ANGEL?
ARE WE GOING TO GET A SHOULDER DEVIL OFFICER SEWELL?

[sincere]

There's a corpse here at this desk, and then writing on the wall that only the UV light can read that says, "Sequestered does not equal safe."

[sincere]

DJ Ricks sends out a dedication to someone who isn't me! Sally wants one to go out to her little brother, who is in Brookhaven getting his tonsils out. Yaaaay.

...Does Brookhaven do tonsils? I thought it mostly did headcases.

[slayerofgod]

As long as we don't have to go there again. Twice was enough. D:

[sincere]

rainfall handed the controller to me to deal with an incredibly difficult spatial reasoning puzzle.

Because I'm the brains of the operation.

I try not to step into the limelight, but... when duty calls, you know...

[rainfall]

That's a good icon for this, Ms. Modesty.

[sincere]

An elevator door is endlessly trying to slam shut on a wheelchair that's been wedged into it. Murphy pulls the wheelchair out, letting the elevator close, and then shoves the wheelchair away as if angrily.

It's okay, Murph. Wheelchairs in Silent Hill creep me out, too.

[sincere]

AHHHHH I WALKED INTO A FLASHBACK

rainfall walks around in a flashback, Sewell is saying that the courts protect people like "him", but who's protecting Charlie? He'll give Murphy the chance to murder that guy and then Sewell will cover up for him so no one knows what happened. And Murphy will owe him one.

Then he disappears, and the room turns back into a shitty dilapidated office.

[sincere]

rainfall: THIS GAME IS FREAKIN' ME OUT

[sincere]

We find a report about Officer Sewell, saying that Sewell was reviewed for suspicions of illegal behavior and threats, and denied a promotion/raise but not rebuked.

[sincere]

A corpse gruesomely murdered and strung up by barbed wire gave us a keycard that lets us take an elevator straight to the 18th floor.

rainfall: I want to go hug DJ Ricks, but unfortunately, the wheelchair has also been this way.

[slayerofgod]

I admire the SH protagionsts' ability to take things of importance out of totally disgusting places.

[sincere]

We hear more ridiculousness from our headvoice (waxing eloquent about hope and the stars and shit) and see Officer Coleridge in the mirror again.

Dude, I am already being stalked by wheelchairs, leave my reflection alone.

[rainfall]

/cries this is so true