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TopicWifebolo plays House in Fata Morgana [progressive spoilers]
Llarian
02/24/21 11:20:29 PM
#15:


We return to the mansion, but we've lost track of the Maid, the one we're supposed to always hold the hand of and never let go. A pitch-black painting starts talking to us. Creepy.

We were able to ask the painting several successive questions, including Who are you? Who am I? What is this place? Who is the Maid? Under your identity, the man in the painting realizes that none of the previous stories has jogged your memory. Maybe you're a different master than those. He mentions, "You were able to bear 'em because they weren't YOUR tragedies..." Wow, what an amazing quote.

You explore various areas of the mansion along with their associated memories that you can't interact with. There's a Bestia-related jumpscare of sorts in the cellar, and you return to the stained glass window after having seen it before. You call for the Maid. She claims that instead of her disappearing, you were the one who disappeared. She doesn't know anything about the master bedroom key you received from the painting and used to see memories in the master bedroom. You climb with her up into the observation tower.

The Fourth Door, the year is 1099. We quote Ezekiel 24:5. In the Backlog only, a creepy message appears in red: Erase everything - all your sorrows. Wipe them away for a fistful of happiness. Allow me to show you...that you have no need of the past.

Here we go! A group of people are pursuing White-Haired Girl [WHG]. We're on to Ezekiel 32. WHG prays, but if you go back to the Backlog, it's redacting parts of her prayer. Is this what it meant? WHG is cornered and must enter the mansion, it appears abandoned. We're experiencing this through the eyes of WHG. She scrambles for a light and eventually uncovers the stained glass window. The man approaches and requests that we not open the drapes. This reminds me of the Giselle and Michel moment from earlier. The image of the man with the candle distorts.

All the dialogue is slightly redacted in the Backlog with no real rhyme or reason. This feels like having memory problems. o_o;;; The man is now called Michel. We must be Giselle? Maybe? In any event, I'll have to play this in fairly quick succession. WHG is being hunted by people who believe her to be a witch.

More secret text in the Backlog: My lifeblood was your sustenance - your prosperity. Upon my blood did you build your lives - a sin so great it shall never be forgiven - and by my blood were your lives extinguished. This- This is the power granted unto me by God. My blood shall become a curse- blotting out the stars. I am the witch, Morgana. Now let us begin a tale... The beautiful finale to this world.

Yeah. There's more: You, having been trapped in perpetual darkness, found light in the same house where I withered away. That light was bestowed upon you by a certain woman... was it not? Leave everything to me, my dear. I promise, I shall make this into a most beautiful tale. Yes, I am giving you special treatment- a rare act of kindness from me. Of warmth. You do not wish her to know the truth... and I can make better use of her like this... so it is to both of our benefits... to rewrite the woman you loved.

So Michel reluctantly allows WHG to stay in the mansion, provided she promises not to enter his room. WHG can't stay still for long, and she begins to clean in the library, knocking over a multitude of books. In 1099, the printing press was not yet invented, and books needed to be painstakingly constructed and copied by hand. Michel offers the books to her to borrow, saying he receives one per month from family. WHG introduces herself as Giselle and Michel introduces himself, deflecting compliments as he does so. Michel warns of the effects of the curse, but Giselle is unfazed. Giselle asks him to teach her to read.

Giselle notices they're running low on food, but when she asks Michel, he's deliberately evasive. Someone comes to the door with a delivery. Michel urges Giselle to take the book, and says he'll show her his curse.

More to come Friday!

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