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The room, always the same room.
They looked around and the feeling of it hit them again, the same light half-illuminating the poster on the wall, a tiny, evanescent, layer of dust over the books.
Maybe if they had enough time they could watch the light moving, the shadows creeping on the different surfaces.
Behind them the screen blipped again, it was time to go back to what they were supposed to do…
Looking at the screen you see an email from Dimitri. Read the [[email]]Hey, I have some pretty bad news, Matt's Dead! You need to come home. His mom really wants to see you since your like a son to her. I think the legends might be real. This happened right after we performed the ritual.
[[Reply]] to Dimitri's email
[[Ignore]] Dimitri's emailYou write
Dimitri, I warned you not to do the ritual. What were you thinking.
Click [[Send]](set: $ignore = $ignore+1)
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[You have to [[reply->Reply]] Matt is dead you can't ignore this any more.]
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[Seer Island Wasn't a happy place for you growing up. You don't want to go back there.
Stare at the [[email]] feeling guilty.]You leave your apartment in Boston, bags packed and head to Maine.
You buy a [[ticket]] at the ferry terminal. [<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/191160267@N07/50638577913/in/dateposted-public/" title="FogHarborTicket"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50638577913_7a82cdd6db_b.jpg" width="1024" height="614" alt="FogHarborTicket"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script>]
You look at your ticket briefly then hand it to the ferrymaster as you step on to the [[boat]]. It is a foggy morning and you think you are the only person sitting on the top deck of the ferry when you hear a voice behind you, it's old Gus, a local retiered fisherman who lives on Seer Island.
He knows everything about the island. You first heard the legends of Seer Island from him when you were a kid. Dimitri's email said the legend was true maybe you should get a refersher from old Gus?
Ask him about the [[legend->Legend1]]
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[Long ago the island was home to a creature named Mónos. He was a solitary creature and didn't like company. He preyed on fear and lonliness. The first humans to inhabit the island were the tribes of old. At first they ruled the island without fear, but on the Harvest Moon a massive storm rolled in imprisoning them on the island for months, the sea was too choppy to leave. One by one their children were found face down in the swamp in the middle of the island. When the storm lifted they fled never to return to Seer Island. They were the lucky ones to get out alive.
The ferry bumps agains the dock and Old Gus concludes his story and gets up to leave, but as he goes a piece of [[paper]] flies out of his pocket landing in front of you.]
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[[Keep the paper->Keep it]]
[[Give it back]] to Old Gus.
]
Look down into the dark blue green [[water]].
Look out through the fog at the old [[army fort->Jewel]].You don't see any seals today, but you do hear a segull cawing.
[[look aorund->sea]]This fort, like many others in the harbor were built during World War II in case of an attack from the north that never came. Today most are abandoned, roots creep through the concrete roofs down into the dark tunnels below. There are several forts like this one on Seer Island, but the biggest one is Battery Eal, the place where the [[legend->Legend1]] lives. Old gus interrupts your toughts with his story. (set: $paper = $paper+1)
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[[back->Legend1]]You are intrigued by the note so you put carefully put it in your pocket and head off the boat onto the [[dock]].You run after Gus to give him the note back, but you stared at it too long and he is gone. You will have to find him later. You head off the boat and onto the [[dock]]. You step onto the dock looking for Dimitri, the friend who emailed you, but your eye catches a little [[boy]] there is something strange about him.
You hear [[Dimitri]] call you and look up. when you look back the boy is gone. He is a bit dirty and looks alittle wet, but that could be from the fog. His clothes are strange, not of this time, You want to approach him, but [[Dimitri->dock]] calls your name.Dimitri runs up to you and the two of you walk to a secluded [[spot ->graveyard]] to talk.You are standing in the old graveyard next to the ferry. There is a tombstone with an army symbol and 10 names engraved on it. But wait, there is another [[symbol]] carved on to it. [<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/191160267@N07/50659364117/in/dateposted-public/" title="symbol"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50659364117_416348cec2_c.jpg" width="800" height="783" alt="symbol"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script>]
It is the same symbol from the note Old Gus dropped. How strange.
[[Dimitris ->speak]] voice diverst your attention. Two nights ago we performed the ritual, the one from the legends that summons Mónos.
Do you remember the ritual?
[[Yes->respond]]
[[No->ritual]] remind me.Dimitri tells you that all through your life, kids would go to the old army fort in the middle of the island, Battery Eal, and light bonfires in each circle carved on the floor of the fort. They would walk the around them chanting, “Mónos arise” three times, then wait. He was supposed to arise and burn out the three fires, leaving those who participated in the ritual to live a short life of misery before committing suicide.
The ritual was said to only work with 10 people, on a harvest moon, during a great stom, like the storm from the legend when the tribal children drowned.
The mention of the three circles in the ritual reminds you of the symbol on the note and the grave so you ask Dimitri to take you to [[Battery Eal]].When you arrive at the abandoned old WWII fort. You see the three circles. You get down on your hands and knees and wipe away some dirt and sure enough it is the same [[symbol->symboldirt]] as the note and the grave. The war had been going on for over four years and the soldiers on the island had grown weary. It is said there were only [[ten soldiers->poster]] left at Battery Eal, the rest had been moved to the front. As time wore on they grew weary. They sat isolated feeling like their beloved fort, originally so full of excitement and wonder, had become a concrete prison holding them in posts that never changed, holding weapons that would never be used. That September their provisions were running low. A storm had been raging for over a month and no boats could get to the island. When the storm abated, the rations arrived, but there were no soldiers left to feed.
The official story was that soldiers began to go mad and one-by-one the weapons they had never used in combat had stopped their beating hearts. The bodies were rounded up and buried in a mass grave in the old cemetery.
The truth was they had gotten bored and performed the ritual and none had survived.
[[Old Gus]] must have been alive then. You should go see him maybe he knows how to stop it. Yes I remember.
You don't really remember but, you don't want to hear the legend now. You are still thinking about how the symbol on the grave matched the one on the note that fell out of Old Gus's pocket. Maybe you should go see him to [[ask him about it.->OldGus]] [<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/191160267@N07/50658649503/in/dateposted-public/" title="symbol_dirt"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50658649503_b9a8d054ff_c.jpg" width="800" height="783" alt="symbol_dirt"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script>]
You look up from the symbol and see the boy again. You realize you can see through him and behind him is something yellow floating in the swamp. Is that a [[raincoat?->Whatisthat]]You walk up to the swamp and see a body face down in the water. It's Georgia, she was a few years younger than you in school, she performed the ritual with Matt.
Devistated you and Dimitri sprint away to call the cops. As you run you trip over [[something->GeorgiasPurse]].
You are now convinced the legend is real and need to figure out how to [[stop it]] before all 10 people involved kill themselves, Dimitri included. Its Georgia's Purse. Without thinking you open the purse only to find a military death certificate with 10 soldiers names listed on it dated 1942. You remember the [[legend->legend2]] about how they died.
On the edge of the certificate there is hand scrawled [[text->poster]]. (set: $poster = $poster+1)
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You pocket the certificate and hand the police the [[purse->GeorgiasPurse]]
Being here reminds you of the [[story of the lost soldiers->legend2]]. You and Dimitri head to Old Gus' home and he is sitting on his porch, cane leaning against his rocking chair as he smokes a hand rolled cigarette.
[[Give him the note->GiveNote]] he dropped on the ferry.
Keep the note, but [[ask him about the symbol->legend3]] in the fort. The only person you can think of who might know how is [[Old Gus]] so you head to his house. You hand him the note telling him he dropped it on the ferry.
[[Old Gus]] says keep it you are going to need it. Maybe you can figure out what I never could.
You put the note back in your pocket feeling like Old Gus is Hiding something. Old Gus begins to tell you a story, "In the early 1900's Seer Island was a booming vacation spot. A man named Charles Whitmore built theatres, bowling alleys, restaurants and mansions. The rich summered there and the island prospered...for few years. One fall the owner of it all, Charles, burned himself alive in his mansion and the fire spread to all he had built on the island. His son, Charles Junior, was away at university when it happened. Soon after, Charles Junior, vowed to kill Mónos. He set off to the island with his younger brother, Wyatt. They were gone for several weeks, then only Wyatt returned. The boy was so frightened he wouldn’t say anything other than the beast was gone and so was Charles Junior."
He continued I know you kids woke Mónos. If you want to stop him you have to figure out what Charles Junior did, you have to figure out what the soldiers did. I found this in the remains of the old maision when I was a kid, maybe it can help."
He then handed you an old [[theater flyer]] with a note written on the side. You and Dimitri head to Old Gus' home and he is sitting on his porch cane leaning against his rocking chair as he smokes a hand rolled cigarette.
[[Give him the note->GiveNote]] he dropped on the ferry.
Keep the note, but [[ask him about the symbol->legend3]] in the fort. [<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/191160267@N07/50663465516/in/dateposted-public/" title="Ruby Theatre"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50663465516_5e9d5893cf_b.jpg" width="777" height="1024" alt="Ruby Theatre"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script>]
You put the flyer in your pocket. As you do you see the [[little boy]] again. This time you are going to talk to him. You leave Old Gus's proch and approach the boy saying "who are you, why have you been following me?"
When you get close enough you realize he is soaked but no rain touches him it just goes straight through him splashing on the ground, he is a ghost of one of the tribal chldren.
The boy says "You can stop this. The papers in your pocket will tell you how, but there is one more piece. You must give up that which is most prescious to you at the [[place]] where it all began" You know he is talking about Battery Eal. The boy is there waiting, watching. You and Dimitri head there and once you arrive you pull all the papers you have collected out of your
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[[[pocket->Pocket 2]]]You made it to Battery Eal, but you can't figure out what to do to stop Mónos once you get there. Mónos doesn’t just inflict despair on those who participate in the ritual. He wipes out the entire Island and any future visitor to the island. You slowly watch everyone you love die and eventually overcome with lonliness you throw yourself to the sea.
You have lost. Togther the papers tell you
The symbol is the lock.
A human life is the key.
Blood will seal Mónos in.
You have figured out what you need to do to imprison Mónos.
The clues told you that someone must be sacraficed on the symbol and their blood will seal Mónos in. The choice is yours:
[[Sacrifice yourself->Ending2Win]]
or
[[Sacrifice Dimitri->Ending3Loss]]You light three fires in the three circles of the symbol. You close your eyes and dive into the flames. Then suddenly your vision goes black and you feel no more as your blood pools in the cracks of the symbol sealing Mónos inside, jsut as Charles JR had once done.
The next day you and the boy look on as your family weeps for your death. Old Gus is there and he winks at you. He can see you even though your are dead. How can he see us you ask the boy? He replies “The ritual doesn’t need 10 people and Mónos doesn’t just inflict despair on those who participate in the ritual. He would have wiped out the entire Island if you hadn’t stopped him. The tenth soldier figured that out and poured his blood into the seal to save Gus. Gus was the 11th soldier, not mentioned in the story, but Gus never learned how his friend stopped Mónos. Ever since that day he has been able to see me. He has been searching for years trying to figure out how to stop Mónos in case he returned that is why he gave you what he had found. You didn’t just save your friends lives. You saved the entire population of the island present and future.
Congratulations you have defeated the Mónos and saved Seer Island!You light three fires on the three circles of the symbol and you push Dimitri into the flames.
You watch the light leave his eyes and his blood pool in the cracks of the symbol.
You think you have defeated Mónos once and for all
[[but]]Later that day you hear of another death, then another a few days later. You slowly watch everyone you love die and eventually overcome with lonliness you throw yourself to the sea.
As you embrace the cold winter sea filling your lungs you remember what the boy told you. He said you must "Give up that which was most prescious to you." You needed to sacrafice your own life, not that of a friend, in order to stop Mónos. Now it is too late. Blackness engulfs you and you are no more.
Any future visitor to the island will feel Mónos' wrath as you have.
You have lost.(set: $password to (prompt: "Enter the code in all caps" , "Enter code here" ))
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[[give up->Ending1 loss]]]
You look at them realizing some letters are bold. You also realize each piece of paper is dated. If you put them in date order the bold letters spell something out.
[[What word is that?]]
Paper
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Poster
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[[What word is that?]] It doesn't look like it spells a full word, maybe you missed something.
Paper
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Flyer
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