Fingerbones
You find yourself all alone in this supremely disturbing horror story... just you, the dust motes, the sunlight... and the knives on the table. Follow the notes to search for clues to find out what's happened, but be warned, you might not want to know.
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Behind these spoiler tags, I'm describing the content that some people may find too much or a trigger warning to play this game.
The narrative deals with themes of child abuse, child molestation, and infanticide.
Much of this is heavily implied and none of it is exactly shown, but combined with the atmosphere, if these things are at ALL too upsetting for you, please avoid this game.
I've got the first two codes:
katie
and
lynn.
I can't get the next one. I know
it ends (?) in "nny" and he's having sex with his daughter.
@ injygo
About the third code...
You are correct that part of the code is missing, but,...
not the first part.
Look at what you already have.
From a different angle perhaps?
"Lynn" ... "nny?"
Walk through
Walk to the far corner of the room. There is a flashlight sitting on the knocked over file cabinet. Click on it to pick it up.
Go to the opposite corner. There is a switch on the generator to turn it on.
Go to the keypad near where you found the flash light. It is gently glowing red. Enter the password found from the notes.
katie
Head into the unlocked basement. Searching the notes will give you the next password.
lynn
Go enter the new password.
The basement door is now unlocked. Searching it there is another locked door and notes hinting to the password to unlock that one.
lynn backwards: nnyl
Go enter the new password.
Enter the now unlocked door in the basement. There is a switch on the left wall. Hit it.
There is now an open alcove on the main floor containing a note and the last password to the cellar.
Freedom
Enter the cellar and head into the end. Read the note.
The ending is... confusing.
After the last note, there is some text about being "free in the cellar", then that fades away and it's just black. No "game over". I assume that *is* the end?
You know, I think this genre has sort of overstayed its welcome. Unless a game's doing something really interesting visually, like TRIHAYWBFRFYH, it's not really worth playing to me.
Yes, interactive fiction can be a great medium for delivering a unique, compelling story (this was not one). But when "interactive fiction" devolves into "walking around reading scraps of paper," I think I'd rather be "sitting down reading scraps of paper." Otherwise known as a book.
Puzzles weren't very puzzling, a lot of wandering back and forth at a slow walking pace, and the story was disturbing without actually being terribly interesting. Ending is vague rather than intriguingly ambiguous.
Really, I had an idea of where it was going to go from the first note you read.
Dora, can I just thank you a million times for putting in that trigger warning? As someone with anxiety who occasionally likes pushing myself to play games that are a little bit stressful, I may have given this one a shot and that would have been a Very Bad Thing for me.
Thanks for putting out the information so that people can make an informed decision about whether this would be appropriate for them. I wish more of the review industry would put out trigger warnings when this type of content is in a reviewed game.
Beginning of first sentence of description: "A short psychological horror game..."
Categories: Horror
Popular user-defined tags: Horror
All this, and you're actually thanking someone for putting "Trigger Warning"? The fact that the phrase "Trigger Warning" even exists is concrete evidence of two things:
1. Humanity is getting more stupid every year
2. Children are no longer taught to grow a spine
How has it come to be that instead of reviling idiocy and cowardice, we now praise it?
We tag our content so people can make informed decisions about the games they play based on their own feelings and experiences. After all, "horror" means a LOT of different things, and to imply that just the presence of the tag should act as a blanket for every potential theme does a disservice to the genre and its complexities, as well as to human intelligence and emotion. You're more than welcome to ignore them, just as others make use of them, but we'd appreciate it if you kept your conversations out of territory that veers into becoming a personal attack. :)
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Walk through
Walk to the far corner of the room. There is a flashlight sitting on the knocked over file cabinet. Click on it to pick it up.
Go to the opposite corner. There is a switch on the generator to turn it on.
Go to the keypad near where you found the flash light. It is gently glowing red. Enter the password found from the notes.
katie
Head into the unlocked basement. Searching the notes will give you the next password.
lynn
Go enter the new password.
The basement door is now unlocked. Searching it there is another locked door and notes hinting to the password to unlock that one.
lynn backwards: nnyl
Go enter the new password.
Enter the now unlocked door in the basement. There is a switch on the left wall. Hit it.
There is now an open alcove on the main floor containing a note and the last password to the cellar.
Freedom
Enter the cellar and head into the end. Read the note.
Posted by: Jiky
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March 24, 2014 7:29 PM