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

[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.

[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

[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]

...which is in another area of the library she's helpfully blocked off from.

[sincere]

Reloading to see if the autosave dumps us someplace helpfully not where we were.

[sincere]

Whoooo! In a different area! Score!

[sincere]

..........Wait. We had the UV flashlight all along. It has the ability to switch between UV and regular lenses.

Son of a bitch.

[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]

Another book: Rambling about Kafka's The Metamorphosis, and also a short story called In the Penal Colony, about an executioner who uses a killing device that kills the prisoners slowly over a period of 12 hours while carving their crimes into their bodies. Ughh.

The scrawl: T7218 5Q

[sincere]

As you can tell, this sequence was all very helpful.

[rainfall]

I wonder if the game is smart enough that it wouldn't have given me that message if I hadn't already had the flashlight. I mean, it seems holey enough to not have that, but there's a lot of thought put into the way things work. So I could see it going either way. :|a

[sincere]

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

[sincere]

The next book: About honey bees that can only sting once, thus paying the ultimate price for revenge, and how bees have what are essentially prisons in their colonies.

The scrawl: S7214 TK