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So this episode was way more scary than what I thought.
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Cause last week you asked like,
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oh, how are you feeling?
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I'm like, oh, Outlast totally prepared me.
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And I take those words back
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because I screamed multiple times,
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even though you warned me there was a jump scare.
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I didn't know if your nerves of steel would last.
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Things got crazy in this episode.
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Speaking of, in this episode,
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we hope that squirrels are nocturnal
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cause we blame some creepy stuff on them.
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I think we're starting to suspect
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that the angry elk are behind everything.
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And then things get a little dicey or they get diced.
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Do I sound like Dracula or just Italian?
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He's not Italian.
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All right, so we pick back up in chapter three, haunted.
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It's now eight hours until dawn.
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Chris, Ashley, and Josh use the spirit board.
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And Chris says, Ashley, you're a recent convert.
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Why don't you get us started?
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And I'm thinking convert to what?
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What has she converted to that makes it relevant
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to operate a Ouija board?
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I feel like anyone can do it.
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I thought it was like, you just spit out a question
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like anyone can ask a question.
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Yeah, I don't understand the comment,
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but the questions and answers we get in this session are,
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is anyone there?
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Help, how can we help you?
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Warning, what are you warning us about?
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Sister, who are we speaking to?
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Hannah?
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Yes.
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And at this point, Chris says, if this is actually Hannah,
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we can find out what happened that night.
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And then when they ask who killed you,
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it says the library.
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Proof.
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And then did you see the ghost in the background?
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I thought I saw something,
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but I wasn't sure what I was looking at.
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Yeah, it's creepy.
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It's like an anti-jump scare.
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It's just kind of hanging out in the background.
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But then the board shakes and jumps,
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freaking them all out.
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Josh gets pretty upset and walks off,
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and then Chris and Ashley decide
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that they should check the library.
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I really don't understand why Josh isn't clarifying
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what exactly they're sorry for.
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I don't know.
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I felt like Josh, his character fell flat right there.
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Cause I don't think he knows
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that his friends pulled the prank, right?
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Oh, I thought he did know.
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I assumed he knew.
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I was assuming he's still in the dark about that.
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And that's why he would be so open
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to inviting all his friends back to the cabin.
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And that's why I had my whole theory
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about he's seeking revenge because maybe he knows
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and he's pretending he doesn't know
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and he's gonna see if his friends confess.
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Okay.
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But I don't know.
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I don't see.
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I will see.
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Anything else on scene one?
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I remember there was a jump scare.
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Something got me.
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It just screamed.
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Not even six minutes in and you're screaming already.
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So moving on to scene two,
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we're back to Mike right where we left off
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and he's looking for Jess.
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Along the way he finds a danger totem
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which shows a herd of elk.
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I don't know what's with the elk in this game.
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I don't know.
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The elk for some reason also look like
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there's some mystical creature,
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like something from Harry Potter.
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What is up?
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Yeah, they're doing weird things to the elk in this game.
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I don't know.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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It's weird.
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And this is only the,
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I mean, we're gonna talk about elk a lot, I feel like,
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in this episode.
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Speaking of, not long after the danger totem,
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Jess jumps out at Mike holding an elk head like a mask.
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Where do you just find an elk head?
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And how has she not creeped out that one is so readily
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available to be holding up and scaring people with?
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But also she filmed it,
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so I guess that she learned nothing from last year.
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She is going to get herself killed
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if she keeps playing pranks like these.
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It's gonna be the boy who cried while situation.
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Mike says, if you send that to anyone,
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I'm gonna kill you.
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And she just ignores that comment.
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It sounded a little too real.
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That's what I thought.
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And I think that that's why she's gonna get herself killed
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if she doesn't realize that people are more dangerous
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than what she thinks they are.
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As they're walking away,
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we see that they're being watched through that same vision
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that we saw looking at Hannah and Beth.
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So whatever was there a year ago is still here.
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This is where we blame the squirrels,
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even though it's the middle of the night.
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They hear a weird noise, kind of like a screech, just as.
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Was it someone screaming?
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No, no, probably just a squirrel.
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I don't know what kind of squirrels he's used to,
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but squirrels for sure do not make that kind of noise
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in the middle of the night that loud.
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Absolutely not.
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In a shed along the path, Mike finds an old mask,
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which is a clue, and then scares Jess with it,
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causing her to fall into the freezing creek.
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The noise he makes when he scares her is so dumb.
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It's like not, I'll pull it up.
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I didn't think she would get scared
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because it's such a dumb sound.
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Ah!
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There's something about the voice acting
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or the writing in this game where,
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like we had complaints about Detroit Become Human
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because it seemed so bad,
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but it's supposed to be bad in this game.
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You know, just like campy horror, and it's delightful.
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It helps enhance how stupid the characters are.
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And how unserious they're being too.
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So as they're walking through the snowy woods,
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they hear the sound and it turns out to be an injured elk.
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They could choose to either kill or comfort the elk,
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and Mike chooses, or the wheel chooses Mike
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to go and comfort the animal.
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But then, randomly, something pulls the elk away,
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or is it that the elk jumps away?
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I can't even tell, but it happens so quickly.
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I wrote, well, yeah, I wrote in my notes
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that it gets swiftly yanked away.
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That's a really good description.
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Something pulls that thing.
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Also, I need you to know that if you kill the elk,
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he doesn't go about it as you would expect.
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He grabs the antlers, and I guess because it's been slashed
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so deeply, when he twists it, the head just comes off.
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Oh my god, that's, so killing it,
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I was thinking it would be like as a humane way
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to let it stop suffering, not like yanking the head, what?
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Not like, yeah, dismembering it,
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which he doesn't expect it, but still.
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But anyway, obviously they're terrified
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and they start sprinting through the snow,
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and we see the creepy vision again.
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They do eventually make it into the cabin,
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but of course Jess has to trip and fall.
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And it takes her so long to get up,
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but I'm glad the wheel maid might choose to grab the key,
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because I mean, she could get up and walk in,
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but she doesn't.
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She's like, help me, but ma'am, just get up.
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You have legs.
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They do both, though, make it inside,
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and they decide, you know, it must've just been a bear.
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I'm sure it was just a bear.
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They calm down a bit and start to settle in,
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but Jess is pissed after being scared into the creek
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and being left on the porch after tripping,
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and the lack of power and heating in the cabin.
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She's in a mood.
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That's really nicely said about her.
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I was like, when read the room,
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that you almost got killed in this forest by God knows what,
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and then you're complaining about
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they're not being mood lighting.
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But around the cabin, Mike finds a book
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of Native American myths and legends,
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and inside we see the same symbol
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that we found in the mine.
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And about it, the book says, it's a ward or spell
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protecting against evil spirits.
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I'm curious how much more we'll see it.
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I hope it's not one of those things where it talks about it,
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and then it never really gets incorporated
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into the rest of the games.
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He also finds a rifle that he points at Jess
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before then looking down the barrel himself.
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Their stupidity.
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They're almost asking to be killed.
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They are, and we find out later that that gun is loaded.
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But then Jess soon realizes that she's lost her phone,
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but they don't want to go out and looking for it
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because they think that the bear is still out there.
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After Mike is able to get the fire lit and all of Jess's
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demands covered, he uses, she's still kind of pissed,
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but he uses a line on her that's just bad
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and says it's always worked before.
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It's the same line that he used on Hannah
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when they were pranking her.
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He says, maybe we should start with a little, you know,
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making out and see where it goes from there.
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It's, he's a pig.
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It's so bad, Kathy.
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I feel like calling him a pig is insulting actual pigs
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because he's terrible.
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It's so bad.
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And she was there too.
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Like she, there's video proof of that's what he said.
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Anyway, she's almost warmed up enough
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but asks him to close the shutters.
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And then you see the whatever mystery character
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that has a red vision.
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He just like sinks down.
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So he hears things differently
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and he also sees things differently.
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And I don't know if it's a mask that he's wearing
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or if he is some creature.
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We don't know, but slowly that thing just sinks down
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and why is it moving like that?
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Yeah, I don't know.
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We don't know what's going on
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but something is definitely watching them.
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And they're really unnatural looking makeout session
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is interrupted by a crash in the cabin.
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Upon investigation, they see that Jess's phone
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has been thrown through the window.
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The only person I can think of throwing the phone back in
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is that red vision thing, but why throw it?
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Like if you're scared,
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like you could have chosen any other objects like a rock.
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It didn't have to be your phone.
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So is there a reason why you did that?
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There's just something disturbing about something
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like returning your lost object,
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but in an aggressive way.
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I don't know.
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But Jess assumes that the gang is messing with them
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and she's angry.
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So storms outside to yell at them.
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And we see that she is being watched.
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And then she comes back inside
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and is quickly snatched and pulled through the window.
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I was shocked.
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What do you think is happening?
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I don't know.
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That thing had hands, like with fingers.
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And so unless it's just gloves
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and just some prosthetic hand,
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like it's not like it has elk paws or who's,
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I don't know what that is.
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It's one of those nocturnal squirrels.
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Yeah.
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I just don't know what to think that.
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Yeah, she had it coming with attracting all that tension
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like that when she was just screaming on the woods.
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But still like the fact that it's so easily pulled her
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through the windows, like that strength.
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Yeah.
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It's not a big window either.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Also at some point Mike says,
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nothing is gonna come through that cabin door.
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And he wasn't wrong, technically.
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We're now back to Chris and Ashley
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as they head to the library.
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On the way Ashley notices a light coming from the basement
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through a heat vent, which is a clue.
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And Chris says the power's not even on.
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Is there multiple sources of power
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because you have nothing from like the top layer,
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but then you have something from like the basement, I guess.
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And then we also kind of coming from the guidance totem,
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we know there's some kind of like an underground layer
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with some water source near that water wheel.
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So it almost feels like there's a whole other world
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beneath the ground level that maybe that's where
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that red vision creature thing is living.
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In the library, books fly off the shelves at them,
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revealing a hidden button.
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And when pressed, a secret room opens up.
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Inside they find a photo of Hannah and Beth
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with a message on the back.
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It says, I will take them and bleed them like pigs
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and rip their soft white skin off.
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16 years, 16 years I waited for pretty little Hannah and Beth.
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Okay, what a creep.
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So if they're 18 year olds when they died,
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like around that age, because they're in high school,
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that means this person has known them since they're two
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and has been creeping on them.
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And that is disturbing, A.
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B is the way it contrasts between just wanting to kill them,
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but then also describing their skin as like,
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what did they call them?
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Like pale white skin.
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Soft.
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And like a positive way, but then having such malicious
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intentions for them is also really creepy.
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And C, why is this person writing notes like that
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on a picture and how did this get kept
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from the Washington family?
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And why is it in their library, in a secret room?
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Yeah, how did they not know about this?
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But I thought that this game came out in 2014,
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but it's 2015, so they might be a little older, like 20.
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Assuming they're in like not all the same exact age,
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they're probably like 18 to 21.
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Just correcting myself from last episode,
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they could have another year or two on them.
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Still too young to be creeping on them.
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Oh yeah, well, shouldn't creep on anybody.
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Yeah, that's true.
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You definitely shouldn't want to rip their skin off
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of anyone at any age.
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They wisely decide that they need to go find Josh.
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And as they're walking through the house,
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doors open on their own, doors that were locked
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are now unlocked.
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But they decide to go through the door anyway.
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They do find a letter from Melinda Washington
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to the race and ethnicity department,
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stating that she plans to make a donation.
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And on the back is a handwritten note saying,
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saw that crazy guy again, Thursday, 917 PM,
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hanging around generator shed.
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I'm gonna start keeping a record.
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That might be our red vision, dude.
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Our skin peeler.
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That's so gross.
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Our heavy breather.
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What if the race and, what's it called?
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The race and ethnicity department,
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the people that they're representing said that,
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oh, we need a sacrifice to smooth things out.
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And they're like, just take our twin daughters.
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Just an under the table sacrifice, off the record.
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They chose that we will take a sacrifice of our choosing.
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And that's your twin kids.
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So as they're going further into the house
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or to a different part of it,
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they hear Josh behind closed doors.
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And it sounds like he's screaming for help.
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Ashley and Chris rush over,
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only for Ashley to be pulled behind.
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Yeah, she like opens it and peeks her head in
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and then gets like yanked.
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Yeah.
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Yanked in and the door slams behind her.
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And then Chris tries his best to break in.
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And when he does, he is attacked by this clown thing.
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Yeah.
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I don't know.
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We saw it in a totem at some point.
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It's so freaky.
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It's disturbing.
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This is why people hate clowns.
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One of many reasons why.
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We see the creepy clown dragging Ashley away
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and then lighting candles
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and leaving balloons with arrows on them.
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Clown has plans.
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And why is it putting this whole theatric part of it?
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Like if you want to kidnap Josh,
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just chloroform him and then, right?
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If you just want to kill them, just straight up kill them.
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There's no need for all this.
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Yeah.
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But moving on to scene four,
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quick session with Dr. Hill.
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He says, I'm going to show you pictures
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of people you've come to know.
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Who is it that you most dislike?
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And the wheel ends up choosing Chris.
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How do you feel about that?
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Do you agree is Chris,
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your most disliked at this point?
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For me personally, either Emily or Jess or Mike.
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There's a video I forgot to pull up.
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We missed the line.
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It's so good if you pick Emily.
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What Dr. Hill says in response is so funny.
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So I need to find it.
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A bit too bitchy for your taste.
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They know Cathy.
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They knew what they were doing.
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They made her character like that.
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She's so gonna hate on her.
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But in this play through, obviously,
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Chris is what we land on.
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And Dr. Hill says,
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I guess you think he's getting what he deserves.
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You think the way you feel about him
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justifies the terrible trauma that he will soon go through.
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Now, why would you think that?
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Kind of cryptic.
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Yeah.
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Also in Dr. Hill's office, I guess,
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he has this weird creature looking thing
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that just is standing there
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and it looks like it's being strangled.
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It's so creepy.
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Keep tabs on it.
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Chapter four, Malevolence, seven hours until dawn.
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After Jess is snatched through the cabin window,
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Mike grabs the rifle and a lantern and starts chasing her.
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At one point, he uses a scope to spot Jess
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and we see her crawling on her stomach
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only to be dragged backwards by something
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that Mike is not quick enough to scope.
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At that point though,
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if he knew something was dragging,
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why not just move your scope a bit behind Jess
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and just shoot?
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Or at least get a look at whatever is attacking her.
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He follows her screams to the mine
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and eventually hears her phone still playing music.
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Walking towards it, he soon finds Jess
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when she falls down in front of him pretty clearly dead.
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Do you agree?
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Yeah, and it looks like her lower half of her face
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has been ripped open.
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Sure does.
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The wheel wanted her dead so bad.
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In order to save her,
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you have to pick the quick options to get there
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and the wheel chose the slow option every single time.
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So it took like three times as long to get to her.
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I wonder what her fate would be if you saved her.
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Would she still be susceptible to death?
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She falls down.
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It's kind of left unknowing, like,
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oh, did she survive or not?
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She still falls, but her face isn't ripped off.
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Mike reacts to something above him,
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aims the rifle, and we see like a horizontal head.
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And he takes a shot at it
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and then for some reason climbs up after it.
00:20:06
And we see a man in a coat walking ahead of him.
00:20:09
What's going on?
00:20:11
But also, why is that guy so unafraid of being seen?
00:20:16
Like, if you killed someone, you would run away, right?
00:20:20
Yet he's so slow and confident
00:20:22
that nothing's gonna hurt him.
00:20:24
So why is he this confident?
00:20:26
It's kind of scary that he's that confident.
00:20:30
He continues to follow him anyway.
00:20:33
Outside the mines, Mike sees the man entering a huge building,
00:20:37
which I think we can assume at this point
00:20:39
is the sanatorium we've heard about.
00:20:42
I think it's a sanatorium, I agree with you.
00:20:44
I can't think of any other place.
00:20:47
Chris makes up on the floor.
00:20:49
Ashley's nowhere in sight, so he starts looking for her.
00:20:53
Along the way, he finds, and pause me
00:20:55
if there's any of this that you wanna talk about,
00:20:58
her coin purse, which is covered in blood,
00:21:01
blood spatters, and a crow.
00:21:04
More blood spatters, now outside,
00:21:06
and seemingly making a trail.
00:21:09
The jumpscare dummy, that one got you.
00:21:13
I think that was the one where, as soon as it happened,
00:21:15
I screamed, I hate you, Leah.
00:21:16
You're making me watch this.
00:21:19
See, I knew that that was a jumpscare,
00:21:21
but I thought it was something
00:21:22
that you had to press X to investigate.
00:21:25
So I wasn't expecting it either.
00:21:28
And then he finds a pig head, which that's a clue.
00:21:31
A death totem showing someone's legs flailing
00:21:34
while we hear odd screeching.
00:21:36
More blood trail, which leads to an outbuilding,
00:21:38
and we hear Ashley calling out for Chris.
00:21:40
I just am curious why Chris isn't dead right now.
00:21:46
I mean, they're all gonna die at some point, I assume.
00:21:50
But I'm wondering if, because we said
00:21:53
we disliked him the most at the Dr. Hill's office,
00:21:57
that's why we get to play him,
00:21:58
and he's not doing anything quite so dumb yet
00:22:01
to put himself into jeopardy.
00:22:04
Chris walks towards her voice to find her
00:22:05
and Josh tied up in another room.
00:22:08
There is a saw blade on a track,
00:22:11
and the track splits one to Josh and one to Ashley.
00:22:16
And then we hear the psycho's voice.
00:22:17
He tells Chris that he must decide who will live
00:22:20
and who will die, and at this point, the saw starts up.
00:22:23
I mean, here's the thing.
00:22:25
Until he makes a change to where the railroad tracks are,
00:22:29
saw blade isn't moving quite yet,
00:22:31
so he could've tried breaking in and saving both of them.
00:22:35
Yeah, I don't know if it does start moving eventually,
00:22:37
but I had the same thought.
00:22:39
Don't play this guy's game,
00:22:41
because then no matter who's left alive,
00:22:44
they can't blame you, you know?
00:22:47
Because you didn't make a choice.
00:22:48
So yeah, I think he should've been trying
00:22:49
to just find a way into the room, I agree.
00:22:53
The wheel chooses for him to save Josh,
00:22:55
but Chris pulls the lever the wrong way.
00:22:58
The instructions are unclear,
00:23:00
and he accidentally sends the saw to Josh,
00:23:03
who is cut in half.
00:23:05
If you chose to kill Josh,
00:23:06
would it accidentally go to Ashley?
00:23:10
Directions are unclear.
00:23:11
Okay.
00:23:12
That's what I'm gonna say.
00:23:16
How sick do you have to be to be totally okay
00:23:19
with creating something so gruesome
00:23:21
and putting it into a game, like sawing someone in half?
00:23:23
That's just, that's too much for me,
00:23:25
and I was saying that I'm fine with things not being gory,
00:23:29
and then this game takes a turn.
00:23:32
Little did you know.
00:23:34
And we're only part two into this game.
00:23:37
Okay, but their feet were not tied together,
00:23:40
and I feel like if they, you know,
00:23:41
had done a few more crunches in their life,
00:23:44
they maybe could've lifted their legs above the saw.
00:23:47
Might cut the bottom half of their cheeks, but.
00:23:52
Do your crunches.
00:23:54
Chris helps Ashley down,
00:23:55
and they start to walk back to the lodge
00:23:57
where they bump into Matt and Emily.
00:23:59
They get caught up on what's happened
00:24:01
and decide to find everyone and get some help.
00:24:05
I would never split apart at this point
00:24:07
if that's what happened.
00:24:09
I would be, my pants would be full of pee, full of poo.
00:24:13
I would've thrown up.
00:24:16
I'd be crying.
00:24:18
There would be no liquid left in my body within an hour.
00:24:21
First of all, I wouldn't even put myself
00:24:23
in this kind of position to be in the middle of nowhere.
00:24:26
I know.
00:24:27
I mean, it sounds fun.
00:24:28
If I had a friend whose parents owned an entire mountain,
00:24:31
I would definitely be up there.
00:24:33
But I would not play with the Ouija board.
00:24:37
And I wouldn't do it at night.
00:24:39
No.
00:24:40
The first thing that I would've said is,
00:24:41
let's get a fire going and the power on,
00:24:44
and let's make some drinks and some food.
00:24:48
Should we go back to Dr. Hill now?
00:24:49
That was a short chapter four.
00:24:52
So Dr. Hill asks,
00:24:54
is the night going the way that you hoped it would?
00:24:56
And our response is, it's going fine.
00:24:59
Dr. Hill says,
00:25:00
and do you think that these poor people
00:25:01
are getting what they deserve?
00:25:03
We say, who are you?
00:25:05
And he responds, I'm trying to help you.
00:25:08
I feel like Dr. Hill may be
00:25:12
like having a personality disorder,
00:25:14
and he is also the Red Vision person.
00:25:19
Like why is he alone in the middle of nowhere
00:25:21
with this practice?
00:25:22
His windows are boarded up.
00:25:24
Is he maybe practicing and like having this
00:25:28
whole therapy session at the sanatorium?
00:25:32
And then there's also that creature thing
00:25:33
that is now sitting around, I believe.
00:25:37
It's moved.
00:25:38
I think it has a saw blade in its head now.
00:25:41
Yeah, yeah.
00:25:42
It's, I don't trust this Dr. Hill.
00:25:46
I don't blame you.
00:25:48
He goes on to say,
00:25:49
this game you're playing, it's not good for you.
00:25:51
It's not good for anyone.
00:25:52
Do you intend to continue
00:25:54
with this elaborate self-indulgence?
00:25:56
I feel like because there's a hat,
00:26:00
he's talking to the Red Vision guy,
00:26:04
but I'm also wouldn't be surprised
00:26:08
if he's talking to another one of his personalities.
00:26:12
Okay, okay.
00:26:14
Speaking of, I guess, similar vein.
00:26:18
He says, do you even believe that I am real?
00:26:22
The heart of the problem.
00:26:23
Can you even tell the difference anymore?
00:26:26
I doubt it.
00:26:28
So whether he's talking to himself, someone else, us,
00:26:32
it's starting to get a little more complicated, unclear.
00:26:37
What's real, what's fake, we don't know.
00:26:39
I don't trust him.
00:26:42
Chapter five, Dread.
00:26:44
We now have six hours until dawn.
00:26:47
This guy has wolves.
00:26:49
Mike follows him anyway.
00:26:51
Inside, he finds that the man is living in the chapel,
00:26:55
but he needs a key card to get access to it.
00:26:58
He finds an administration note, which is a clue.
00:27:01
They're dated January 4th, 1952,
00:27:04
and talk about getting prepared for an influx of patients,
00:27:07
minors that are being rescued.
00:27:09
On the back, a handwritten note reads,
00:27:11
you'll need a nose peg, those guys smell awful.
00:27:15
And this note also confirms we're in the sanatorium.
00:27:18
Thoughts on this first clue in here?
00:27:20
It's pretty good.
00:27:21
Um.
00:27:23
But it sounds like the sanatorium
00:27:26
is there to serve the minors,
00:27:28
but I also don't know what other purpose there is.
00:27:33
It can't be just that generous
00:27:34
that they wanna take care of the people.
00:27:36
I feel like there's something nefarious going on.
00:27:40
And then we also find a plaque that says,
00:27:41
Blackwood Pine Sanatorium, open 1922.
00:27:45
And then I think it's Latin.
00:27:48
It says, Men's Santa Incorporate Sano.
00:27:52
I'm sure that I said that horribly wrong, but I don't care.
00:27:55
And that is a healthy mind and a healthy body.
00:27:59
Which is something no one has in this game.
00:28:03
Yeah, pretty standard for a sanatorium.
00:28:05
But yeah, elusive to all of us right now.
00:28:09
We also find a safe that contains 30 clocking in cards.
00:28:12
This is a clue.
00:28:14
Why are the time cards in a safety box?
00:28:17
Excellent question.
00:28:19
And why does a wooden stick
00:28:22
have enough leverage to open a safe?
00:28:24
It's a strong stick.
00:28:27
Especially with Mike's near frostbitten bare arms
00:28:31
at this point, there's no way he had the strength to do that.
00:28:34
He then finds a broken camera, which is also a clue.
00:28:38
And the Alberta Post from January 9th, 1952.
00:28:41
So pretty much same day as the note, it's pretty close.
00:28:45
And this discusses the assault of a reporter
00:28:47
at the sanatorium by security staff.
00:28:50
The article also mentions the minor rescue.
00:28:53
It sounds like they were trapped underground
00:28:54
for three weeks due to a collapse.
00:28:58
Any notes on this so far?
00:29:00
No, keep going.
00:29:02
Okay, a lot of information in this one.
00:29:04
We also learned that a man named Jefferson Bragg
00:29:07
is the sole proprietor of both the mining company
00:29:10
and the sanatorium, which I feel like
00:29:13
seems like a red flag a little bit.
00:29:15
Mm-hmm.
00:29:16
My theory at this point is what if,
00:29:19
because it's all owned by the same person
00:29:20
and that's fishy to me, they also were somehow involved
00:29:26
in the mining area and they knew something bad
00:29:29
was gonna happen, so they took all these miners
00:29:32
and moved them into their own facility
00:29:34
to pretty much discredit anything they say.
00:29:38
If they are normal, they're still gonna make it sound
00:29:40
like they're not, just because any truth that comes out
00:29:44
is going to backfire on them.
00:29:47
I agree, something feels fishy with this whole setup.
00:29:51
The next clue that we find is minor medical report.
00:29:54
The sanatorium had expected the miners to be starved,
00:29:57
but they had found emergency food supplies.
00:30:00
Mentally though, they're all worse off
00:30:02
and on the back of this, another handwritten note says,
00:30:05
one of those guys actually tried to bite me.
00:30:07
I'm gonna report it to Dr. Bowen.
00:30:09
I mean, what do you expect
00:30:11
when you pretty much trap them here?
00:30:13
I feel bad for the nurses.
00:30:15
Yeah.
00:30:17
They're getting bitten.
00:30:19
Random creeps just taking chunks out of them.
00:30:21
I said not ear licking.
00:30:24
Oh gosh, not Andrew Earlicker, I almost forgot about him.
00:30:30
And then he just pops right back up, okay.
00:30:33
So we also find a machete and a restraining chair,
00:30:36
which is a clue.
00:30:37
Carved into the wall, the words,
00:30:39
how many days will they keep us here?
00:30:41
We also find a note about keeping reporters away
00:30:44
written on the back of a telegram that was sent to brag
00:30:48
and mentions the miners and reporters interest in them.
00:30:52
It gives me outlast whistleblower vibes
00:30:55
to begin with, with this entire environment.
00:30:58
My question is, what was the reporter taking pictures of
00:31:04
that was so bad that they had to shut it down
00:31:07
and pretty much, I'm assuming like beat the crap
00:31:09
out of the reporter.
00:31:11
Like there must've been something that was not okay.
00:31:14
And this corporation doesn't want to let those images
00:31:17
go out there.
00:31:19
It gets weirder though.
00:31:21
He finds a dead arm on some kind of mechanism
00:31:25
that is moving it back and forth.
00:31:27
Oh God.
00:31:28
On said arm is a toe tag like thing.
00:31:31
So naturally Mike grabs it.
00:31:33
And when he does a bear trap clamps down
00:31:36
on two of his fingers.
00:31:39
Oh God.
00:31:39
What the hell is this?
00:31:41
Why is there a trap set up there?
00:31:45
So he's stuck in the bear trap.
00:31:46
We hear the wolves closing in on him.
00:31:49
We gotta make decisions,
00:31:51
but thankfully the wheel decides for us.
00:31:53
But it pretty much decides like,
00:31:55
I feel like one of the worst ways you could go,
00:31:57
which is try prying it open once
00:32:00
and then try chopping your fingers off.
00:32:03
I couldn't watch that.
00:32:04
I had to cover my eyes.
00:32:06
Talk about gore.
00:32:08
It's first of all, it's heavy rain again,
00:32:10
but at least you did all the cleaning for and sterilizing.
00:32:15
This one, if he doesn't die from whatever is out to get him,
00:32:18
he's gonna die from an infection.
00:32:20
Oh yeah.
00:32:21
He uses what has to be the nastiest gauze in existence
00:32:24
to wrap up his hand.
00:32:26
But it gets more disturbing
00:32:28
because we find ourselves in the morgue.
00:32:30
And not surprisingly, we find a dead person.
00:32:34
In his shirt is the chapel key card.
00:32:36
We also find a death certificate for Sarah Smith,
00:32:39
which is a clue from February 24th, 1952.
00:32:43
It mentions that she died
00:32:44
of severe lacerations on the abdomen.
00:32:47
The sections of her intestines and kidneys
00:32:50
were apparently eaten by the attacker.
00:32:52
The murder weapon was fingernails.
00:32:55
That's crazy.
00:32:56
So who's doing the eating?
00:32:58
Like, are they feeding it to the wolves
00:33:00
or is it the Red Vision psycho?
00:33:04
Verbatim, it says.
00:33:06
Body was not discovered until six to eight hours after death.
00:33:10
Sections of the intestines and kidneys
00:33:12
were apparently eaten by the attacker.
00:33:15
But as insane as this sounds,
00:33:17
it was signed off by Dr. Bowen.
00:33:20
Speaking of Dr. Bowen,
00:33:22
we find an emergency medical tag for Dr. Bowen.
00:33:26
He also died of lacerations, but to the throat.
00:33:28
And this time we get a note that says, attacked by inmate.
00:33:31
There's a door off of the morgue that leads to a hallway.
00:33:34
And in the hallway, he's chased by one of the wolves
00:33:37
until he makes it into the upper portion of the chapel
00:33:40
where he can lock it out.
00:33:42
At this point, he sees the mystery man
00:33:44
leaving the main chapel room.
00:33:47
And so he makes his way there.
00:33:50
I don't think that bone is animal bones.
00:33:54
Yeah, he chooses, well, the wheel chooses
00:33:57
to not punch the wolf.
00:33:58
And then he feeds it a bone from a trunk full of bones.
00:34:02
So we don't know where those bones came from,
00:34:04
but I would question it.
00:34:05
We also find a cigar in a cigar box, which is a clue.
00:34:09
And he says, Stokie stash exposed,
00:34:11
which is a hint that's the same cigar
00:34:13
that we found in the mine earlier with Jessica.
00:34:16
So is this the same guy that's been following them around?
00:34:19
Yes, but my other thought too is,
00:34:21
what if one of the miners got too powerful?
00:34:26
And I don't know how, this is where
00:34:28
the non-realistic elements play in,
00:34:31
is that he ate all his other roommates in the mine.
00:34:37
I don't know.
00:34:38
Roommates.
00:34:40
I mean, they're stuck there for three weeks.
00:34:42
They're stuck there for three weeks.
00:34:44
But anyways, he gets powerful enough
00:34:46
and then he overtakes them.
00:34:47
And then he becomes this crazy split personality.
00:34:51
And one of his personality is like CEO-ish
00:34:54
and smoking cigars.
00:34:55
And then he goes crazy and then he's like going full Traeger
00:34:59
and killing up people in the sanatorium.
00:35:02
I don't know.
00:35:03
I'm leaning into the multi-personality aspect
00:35:07
of this game or of the character.
00:35:11
Mike also finds a coat and a gun, so that's good.
00:35:14
And then a clippings wall, which is also a clue.
00:35:17
It includes topics of big foot sightings, missing persons,
00:35:21
footprints being found.
00:35:22
The word liars is written on a clipping that says,
00:35:25
local man found dead.
00:35:27
What the hell is this?
00:35:29
I don't know, but I feel like the person who wrote liar
00:35:32
is probably the missing person.
00:35:35
Mike leaves out the same door the mystery man went through
00:35:38
and continues exploring.
00:35:40
He finds a death totem, which shows him using a lighter
00:35:43
and then exploding.
00:35:45
And also a mine rescue photo, which says the miracle men.
00:35:49
The successful rescue of all 12 men
00:35:51
trapped in the disaster of January 5th, 1952.
00:35:55
I think that if Mike were to die,
00:35:58
it would be towards the end of the game
00:35:59
where he decides to sacrifice himself to kill
00:36:03
or possibly kill this red vision psycho,
00:36:08
which I'm calling him a psycho
00:36:09
because the subtitles call them that.
00:36:11
So it's not me naming names.
00:36:14
So I think that's what is going to happen.
00:36:15
He needs to kill himself to save the rest of his friends.
00:36:19
And you bring up a good point
00:36:20
because we have the psycho, we have the mystery man
00:36:23
and we have the red vision thing.
00:36:25
Are they all the same thing?
00:36:27
Are they all three different?
00:36:28
Are some of them the same?
00:36:29
You know, that's a good question.
00:36:31
I don't think the clown and the red vision guy
00:36:33
are the same people.
00:36:35
Unless that person changes personas between the clown
00:36:40
and this red vision thing.
00:36:43
There's a lot going on.
00:36:45
To close out this scene,
00:36:47
Mike ends up in some back rooms when a locked gate
00:36:50
blocks his path.
00:36:52
He then shoots the lock after he tossed a barrel
00:36:55
of flammable liquid.
00:36:57
So of course it erupts into flames
00:36:59
sending him flying backwards.
00:37:02
Tossing those not barrel wasn't even necessary
00:37:04
to what he was doing.
00:37:06
I know.
00:37:07
What are you doing, Mike?
00:37:08
Come on.
00:37:10
You don't look.
00:37:11
Everything is marked flammable.
00:37:13
Use your eyes, Mike.
00:37:14
So we see multiple screens including the same image
00:37:17
of the tub thing that we saw as Chris
00:37:19
at the start of the game in the cable car station.
00:37:22
Watching the monitors is the psycho.
00:37:25
He hits a bunch of buttons which appears
00:37:26
to lock a gate behind Matt.
00:37:30
And then we're quickly playing as Matt
00:37:31
who tries the gate and discovers that someone has locked it
00:37:35
even though it was just unlocked.
00:37:37
So this evil clown is able to control everything from afar.
00:37:42
I don't know where he's located,
00:37:43
but that's probably why there is lighting under the library
00:37:46
but no lighting above ground.
00:37:48
It seems like he's playing puppet master.
00:37:50
He can control lights.
00:37:52
He can control doors, locks.
00:37:55
He's got videos everywhere.
00:37:58
Right.
00:37:58
How did Noah know about him being able to do this?
00:38:01
Like is he maybe the groundskeeper?
00:38:04
At the very least, he has to have been there before.
00:38:08
Matt and Emily are near one of the cable car stations.
00:38:11
And Matt finds a can of red paint saying it's still fresh.
00:38:15
He also finds a death totem which
00:38:16
shows him falling to his death onto some snowy rocks.
00:38:21
Anything so far?
00:38:23
What was the paint used for?
00:38:26
Was it to paint like the words liar or not liar,
00:38:30
but what was it?
00:38:31
I think it was dye.
00:38:33
Dye?
00:38:33
Yeah.
00:38:34
I think so.
00:38:35
It looks like dyes painted over and over the walls
00:38:38
in the cable car station once they get there.
00:38:41
Once they get in there.
00:38:42
But they get in to the cable car station
00:38:44
using the axe, which we saw the empty axe holder before.
00:38:48
So now we know where it is.
00:38:50
Matt spots a fire tower on the map.
00:38:52
And Emily suggests they go there as it likely has a radio.
00:38:56
And Matt agrees.
00:38:58
And this is where Emily says, well, someone's
00:39:00
learning to play by the rules.
00:39:03
What?
00:39:04
What rules?
00:39:06
Rule number one, Emily is always right.
00:39:08
Rule number two, nothing else matters because Emily is always
00:39:11
right.
00:39:13
Matt's response, though, just uh-huh.
00:39:17
She's so annoying.
00:39:19
It's not the time for this.
00:39:22
Anything before they shimmy to the other side?
00:39:25
She acts like she's so confident,
00:39:27
but then when there's a chance of her dying,
00:39:28
she merely shoves Matt forward and says,
00:39:30
you need to protect me.
00:39:31
Yeah.
00:39:32
No, he doesn't.
00:39:33
It's just up to you to not slip and fall off of this ledge.
00:39:36
But once they do make it to the other side of the cable car
00:39:39
station, we find a guidance totem showing Emily
00:39:42
handing a flare gun to Matt.
00:39:45
And then farther on, while exploring,
00:39:47
Matt finds Beth's phone that we saw her drop in the prologue.
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What information is on her phone that's important enough
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to add it back to the game?
00:39:58
Matt and Emily end up on the same cliff as Hannah and Beth
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and are soon surrounded by a herd of elk, again
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with the elk.
00:40:05
I feel like the elk, they're not even that angry.
00:40:10
So if you wanted to freak them out,
00:40:11
I feel like a pack of wolves would have been better.
00:40:15
I don't understand the elk.
00:40:17
I don't know the theme that we're
00:40:19
supposed to be picking up from these elk.
00:40:21
I don't get it.
00:40:22
But should we move on to scene 10?
00:40:26
Sam is still in the bath.
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She has got to be a prune by now.
00:40:31
Seriously.
00:40:33
How long has she been in there?
00:40:35
Well, it might have been one hour,
00:40:37
because the rest of the time was her just
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lighting all the candles.
00:40:43
She might have stayed in there even longer,
00:40:45
because she's interrupted by her candles being blown out
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when the door is slammed shut.
00:40:50
She's listening to music and doesn't
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notice that the psycho is standing right
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behind her in the bathroom.
00:40:56
She gets out and assumes that the gang is just
00:40:58
messing with her and gets even more convinced
00:41:01
when she realizes that all of her clothes have been taken.
00:41:04
I don't understand why this clown needed
00:41:07
to take her clothes from her.
00:41:10
They left her one sock.
00:41:12
She leaves the bathroom and her towel,
00:41:15
and she sees all of the candles and the directional balloons
00:41:19
that have been set up.
00:41:21
So she starts following them.
00:41:23
She eventually is led to the theater
00:41:25
and is quite irritated at this point,
00:41:27
still thinking that it's just her friends messing with her.
00:41:30
But then the doors close behind her,
00:41:32
and she hears the psycho's voice.
00:41:35
It first shows her a video of herself in the bath,
00:41:38
but then switches to Josh getting sawed in half.
00:41:41
That's too much.
00:41:42
She's getting thrown into the fire here.
00:41:46
At least it's not like a live stream
00:41:48
of her friends being killed.
00:41:50
When she's watching the video, she's like,
00:41:52
why are you showing me this?
00:41:53
And I have to say, I love the response
00:41:56
that she gets from the psycho.
00:41:58
Why are you watching?
00:41:59
Yeah.
00:42:02
He has a point.
00:42:03
He does.
00:42:05
And then we hear the psycho say, I'm
00:42:06
going to give you 10 seconds, and starts to count down.
00:42:10
At seven or maybe six, he bursts into the room,
00:42:13
and Sam makes a run for it.
00:42:14
That scared me.
00:42:16
It's scary.
00:42:17
And he's not an easy face to look at either.
00:42:21
He's so creepy that you can't even look towards him.
00:42:25
You have to look away, but then you
00:42:26
don't know what's going on.
00:42:28
And the eyes are all pupil.
00:42:30
It's creepy.
00:42:32
After some close calls, Sam ends up
00:42:34
running through the basement, ultimately finding herself
00:42:37
in the old hotel, where she hides in an elevator shaft,
00:42:40
and the psycho loses her.
00:42:43
I don't understand why he didn't see her.
00:42:46
It seems like he's a pretty good hunter.
00:42:49
I'm wondering if he purposely let her go.
00:42:52
I think we're back to Dr. Hill.
00:42:54
Are you ready for that?
00:42:55
Yeah.
00:42:55
Final scene.
00:42:57
He says, you think this mistake won't have repercussions?
00:43:02
What mistake do you think he means by that?
00:43:04
I feel like not finding Sam, because that just happened.
00:43:10
But it also gives him authority over the red vision,
00:43:17
or the clown, or whoever he's talking to.
00:43:21
It almost sounds like he is the puppet master.
00:43:24
While Dr. Hill lectures us, the psycho pops up
00:43:27
and jump scares Dr. Hill.
00:43:30
We learned a lot more about Dr. Hill in this episode.
00:43:32
We saw things change in his office.
00:43:36
And it now seems like he's talking to the psycho, maybe.
00:43:41
And he's also scared of the psycho.
00:43:44
What's going on with Dr. Hill?
00:43:45
Any further theories?
00:43:48
I feel like he maybe was someone who worked at the sanatorium
00:43:55
as a therapist.
00:43:57
And then he pretty much got locked in there.
00:44:01
He stayed in there and couldn't leave.
00:44:03
And that's why he's still in a room
00:44:06
where there's boarded up windows.
00:44:09
I just love the analyst sections.
00:44:12
I love how they don't stay consistent.
00:44:14
They sort of change with the story
00:44:17
and with the level of confusion we have as the player.
00:44:21
Also, there's a snake on his desk
00:44:23
now because we said that we are scared of snakes.
00:44:25
But so far, no zombie or thunder.
00:44:27
Which I feel like that's a lot of work on their end
00:44:32
to be tailoring our fears that we choose,
00:44:36
because there's so many different combinations
00:44:38
that we could have had.
00:44:40
Overall, how are you feeling about this game
00:44:43
now after two parts?
00:44:44
This game got me stressed.
00:44:46
I think after watching it, I needed a break.
00:44:50
The jump scares were a lot.
00:44:52
And I didn't even have my headphones.
00:44:54
Imagine if I had noise-canceling headphones
00:44:55
and then that stuff came at me.
00:44:59
You would have tipped over in your chair.
00:45:01
I probably would have.
00:45:03
So yeah, that was a lot to take in.
00:45:08
It was.
00:45:08
Just two more videos for you to watch.
00:45:11
And then you get a break from horror.
00:45:13
Thank goodness.
00:45:15
Is that it for this episode?
00:45:16
I think so.
00:45:17
I'm ready to count us off.
00:45:19
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00:45:24
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