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Kay ([personal profile] sincere) wrote2012-03-18 10:08 pm
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Silent Hill Downpour: DAY FIVE

Because it's late at night and we still make good decisions!


Starting from: With our mysterious letter from the orphanage in hand, we head into the movie theater.
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sincere: TOV: Estelle in a field of flowers (ring a bell ;;)

[personal profile] sincere 2012-03-19 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
We're in the bathroom and picked up a film reel there. The condom dispenser (?) has had some sort of mysterious electrical failure and is sparking.
sincere: DGM: Lenalee's back to the viewer (srs bizns ;;)

[personal profile] sincere 2012-03-19 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
We're in a theater. It's very dark and quiet, and there's creepy whispering.

So naturally [personal profile] rainfall is exploring more.
sincere: TOA: Peony is upbeat (oh hey ;;)

[personal profile] sincere 2012-03-19 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
The whispering is following us into the ladies' room. So inappropriate.
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[personal profile] sincere 2012-03-19 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
The bulb is missing from the projector, so we have a queeeest.
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[personal profile] sincere 2012-03-19 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
The voices won't shut up and [personal profile] rainfall can't find anything cluelike. We have to find a bulb, and there's a door with a padlock on it.

She's been running around with the UV light out but hasn't found any clues yet. She broke down and opened the guide, though.
sincere: TOV: Estelle doesn't know how to high-five (let there be dork ;;)

[personal profile] sincere 2012-03-19 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
Looks like we need to get a bulb from the hardware store. But the first store we went into is not. It has lots and lots of mannequins. [personal profile] rainfall didn't make it far in before freaking out and leaving. It was not convincingly enough a hardware store.
sincere: DGM: Lenalee's back to the viewer (srs bizns ;;)

[personal profile] sincere 2012-03-19 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
She went down into a subway, which is horrifying-looking. Empty dress shops = no, decrepit subways = yes.
sincere: DGM: Lenalee's back to the viewer (follow the leader ;;)

[personal profile] sincere 2012-03-19 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
And came right back up in front of a Screamer.
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[personal profile] sincere 2012-03-19 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
Accidentally got too close to the orphanage! Cutscene hijacked!

He knocks on the door and a nun answers the door. He says "Hey I got a letter but I think there's been a mistake" and she's all "Nope we were expecting you! You're the only family we were able to locate"

GOOD SIGNS
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[personal profile] sincere 2012-03-19 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
Murphy is REALLY UNSETTLED by the grotesque state of the orphanage as she closes the door behind him.


Nun: He died peacefully. He didn't have a lot of personal effects, but they're yours.

Murphy: Was there an earthquake or something? What happened here?

Nun: Look around, enjoy our work, I'm sure you'll find your visit enlightening. And come join me in the morgue when you're ready.
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[personal profile] sincere 2012-03-19 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
We're trapped in the orphanage now, so orphanage it is.
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[personal profile] sincere 2012-03-19 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
lol, it must have been an earthquake, there is a huge huge chasm going endlessly down in the middle of the next room that she went into.
sincere: DGM: Lenalee's back to the viewer (reaching out ;;)

[personal profile] sincere 2012-03-19 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
...standing in front of a hallway that appears to be having a water-surface effect, or maybe a gas leak or something. At the end of the hallway we have a creepy pantomime of someone being murdered with an axe, then we can get the axe from a -- bodybag, idk.

And then the room explodes FULL OF MANNEQUINS AND SHADOWY LADIES, there's like seven of them.
sincere: DGM: Lenalee's back to the viewer (give all my secrets away ;;)

[personal profile] sincere 2012-03-19 04:57 am (UTC)(link)
[personal profile] rainfall fights them all and then runs back and forth for a while, waiting for something to happen. Nothing does. We leave and now there's footsteps leading away. With the axe we can break open the nearby door!
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[personal profile] rainfall 2012-03-19 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
I am super-distressed to report that, according to the guide, I could have just run right out of that room.

After you exit, the magical hallway completely vanishes, and if you move the bookcase again there's a fireaxe.

[dead]
sincere: DGM: Lenalee's back to the viewer (give all my secrets away ;;)

[personal profile] sincere 2012-03-19 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
I thought you might have been able to, but I know you have a hairtrigger KILL THE SEX DOLL response.

Of course, by the time it was the seventh sex doll I was thinking "Yeah, maybe we should just. Go..."
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[personal profile] rainfall 2012-03-19 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
It's like, the only enemy I HAVE to murder. I'm trying to run from the others but sfjslkdjf this one.

I think I might have a vengeance thing going on because the basement that introduced them was so awful.
sincere: TOV: Yuri reclines with a smile, natural (he's got it all ;;)

[personal profile] sincere 2012-03-19 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
And of course I had no idea that you didn't even need to stop for the AXE.
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[personal profile] sincere 2012-03-19 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
There's a kid we can see behind a locked door with a window. Murphy asks the kid to let him in, but the kid says "Oh, it's you." He's not letting you in. Murphy is the bogeyman, or so the little girl crying in the closet says.

Murphy says, kid. I'm not going to lie to you. Monsters are real. It's not just stories. But I'm not one of them!

"Not yet," says the boy.

There's a rhyme that makes the bogeyman go away. Our new objective is to learn it.
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[personal profile] sincere 2012-03-19 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
There's been at least two "earthquakes" since we entered the orphanage, either to freak us out or to make small things happen that change the locale a little.
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[personal profile] sincere 2012-03-19 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
In the chapel now. There's a "rhyme book", Murphy says, behind some bars. But we can't get to it yet, so...
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[personal profile] sincere 2012-03-19 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
There's some complicated nonsense involving swinging chandeliers, but we break open the room and get the poem... fragment.

Poem Fragment 1:
Poor little Steven Skelter,
Even the chaplain won't forgive you.
"Forever lies!" your pleading cries,
But Suzy knows you felt her.

I have doubts that this poem is going to make the bogeyman go away.
sincere: DGM: Lenalee hugs Komui happily (no boundaries ;;)

[personal profile] sincere 2012-03-19 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
There's some pretty bell music and sobbing noises out in the playground. Oh, also the corpse of an inmate.
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[personal profile] sincere 2012-03-19 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
Hahaha holy shit, the corpse hanging in the playground sometimes turns into a tire swing when your back is turned and then sometimes comes back.
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[personal profile] sincere 2012-03-19 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
...Very creepy female monster approaching down the hallway, scraping knives against the walls. [personal profile] rainfall ran far away and the scraping sound faded. Run run run run turn into a room

turn around and OH MY FUCKING GOD SHE'S THERE

I yelped, I swear to god. XD
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[personal profile] sincere 2012-03-19 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
There was a little girl behind bars, singing the Itsy Bitsy Spider. She ran away before Murphy could get near her.

We have another hallucination of the Gas Mask Guy in the bathroom, and then Officer Coleridge urging Murphy to find himself or get in touch with his inner child or something. Face the truth--
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[personal profile] rainfall 2012-03-19 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
REACH OUT TO THE TRUTH, MURPHY
sincere: TOV: Estelle is fond (the sweetest thing ;;)

[personal profile] sincere 2012-03-19 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
We found a gun and a severed arm. Murphy's only comment is, "THAT'S more like it!"

He's a fan of severed arms. I mean, guns.
sincere: TOV: Estelle doesn't know how to high-five (let there be dork ;;)

[personal profile] sincere 2012-03-19 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
A few jumps later and we are ready to call that good. It's surprisingly intense. I don't know if it's the tired or what.

We'll get to it early tomorrow, [personal profile] rainfall will follow the guide religiously, and then we'll switch to something that's only horrible in small, non-scream-at-11-pm-inducing doses.
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[personal profile] rainfall 2012-03-19 05:23 am (UTC)(link)
/just lies here, sobbing uselessly

I swear, this is much scarier than these games usually are. There are usually small moments, and the Hospital location always has me tense from beginning to end, but this game is uncomfortable to play, it's so damned tense all the time and dark and the glitches only make it worse. While we were in the movie theater, the screen kept having some kind of pop that made me jump with white light showing through that sometimes looked like a face.

/cries more

We spent like an hour on this but it felt like so much, much longer.
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[personal profile] slayerofgod 2012-03-19 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
So even in a Silent Hill movie theater people talk too much.
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[personal profile] sincere 2012-03-20 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
/awards you a win, good sir
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