DUSKWOOD EP.8!
Okay, it's been a long time since I posted here. I wish I had come back sooner, but the school has taken up any time I have, and unfortunately, I also didn't know what exactly to post here (And I had also stayed away from any social media for my own mental health.) But episode 8 of Duskwood gave me some excitement, and maybe I'll write some stuff here. (Or maybe I'll just do this post myself and be gone for a while longer until a new episode of Duskwood comes out ._.)
Needless to say, this post will be FULL of spoilers, but even so, it's good to warn unsuspecting people. Anyway everything will be below the cut, so prevent anyone from seeing it by accident.
(Sorry if it have something confused, or with English mistakes)
BUT LET'S GO WITH IT BECAUSE THERE IS A LOT, BUT A LOT TO SAY ABOUT THIS EPISODE.
For me this was one of the episodes with the most stuff, at least in my opinion, or maybe I think that because I've played so much the other eps. that nothing in eps. past surprises me. But anyway, let's start at the beginning. (I just hope I took a screenshot of everything, I'll be very frustrated if I forgot something)
Remembering that this is all from the choices I made during the ep, and maybe some things vary. I'm not sure, as I've only played it once I can't tell you where each question leads, and honestly, even though I really want to redo the game, it becomes more and more tiring, it took me 3 days to reach ep 8 (due to the fact that my game crashed when I was going to start ep 5, I had to uninstall the game and lost the progress of the game. End of story.) So, tell me what you think of the ep. I would love to know :)
(Sorry, I'm stalling again, it's inevitable.)
*Almost whenever I mention us/we, I mean MC.
Richy's death. This is where ep 7 ended.
We texted him, and obviously he didn't respond.
Thomas and Cleo call us saying they went to the pawn shop, they say Phil was the one who left the bracelet there.
We talked in the group about Richy.
Thomas wants to go search the forest, but we stop him.
Lilly calls the police.
Jessy says she's in the junkyard along with three policemen, she says she wants to talk to Richy's father, but she can't contact him.
She tells about the fish prank Richy did, and they made it a ritual/tradition(?)
One of the cops arrives with Richy's bloodied cap.
Jake talks to us.
He says he knows what happened and he's sorry.
We talked to Jake about Richy's death.
Jake tries to comfort us.
Jake confesses that he already thought about giving up, taking us and leaving it all behind, but he knew that sooner or later the consequences of that action would catch up with us.
We continued our investigations, telling Jake that Richy heard screams in the forest and so he went there.
We ask why Richy would be attacked, and Jake replies that the MWAF takes people marked, but they are taken in the new moon, but as he says, Richy wasn't attacked on the first new moon of the year, and we remember that it wasn't even night either when he was attacked.
Duskwood police call us. But Jake hangs up midway through the call. He says that talking to the police would not be a suitable move at the moment, as any information can make us the focus of investigations.
Jake tells us not to answer Alan if he calls again.
We commented to Jake that the killer didn't show himself this time, Jake says maybe we should focus on Richy.
Jake changes the subject and says he thought Phil would be our most important lead, but now that he's in jail, we've been forced to drop that theory.
We say Phil was the one who left the bracelet at the pawnshop, and that should be proof, and play a big part in all of this. And that was because of that fact that Hannah wanted to talk to Phil.
There is still a lot to be done: Ted Madruga, Amy, and now we know the right name for Jennifer (Hanson).
Jake says he's going to see which of these clues is going to be more productive.
If we ask Jake if he's purposely leaving us out, he says yes and says he wants us to rest. If we say that we don't want that, he says that we have a lot to do, and if we have to testify, we just have to ignore it, and that we must face the unknown with a clear head.
We say goodbye.
Lilly asks how we are going to proceed now. Whether or not they should go to the cabin.
We ask if anyone knows where the cabin is, and Cleo replies that she does.
They decide not to go.
Cleo says that we and Jake must reveal everything we know. And that we should add Jake to the group.
We talk to Jake, he accepts with the condition that we remove Richy from the group, because now the kidnapper must have his cell phone, and can see all the messages.
Dan says he was in the bathroom because the hospital food was hurting him.
Before we start talking about everything we have, Dan asks Jake how he knew Hannah was missing. He replies that Hannah had gone to get help from him, and he had a video call with her.
We ask if there's anyone close to Hannah, and Jake says from the angle the cell phone was on he couldn't see very well, but he doesn't think so. So we asked if it was like anyone could have seen Jake, and he said no. We ask how Hannah was attacked, but he doesn't know.
Jessy asks to wait because she wants to go home.
Dan talks to us and says he still doesn't trust Jake.
We tell the group to speak up when they have a question, join the conversation, etc.
We started talking about our MWAF clue and how/why we started to follow that.
We sent Hannah's photo of the crow. We ask about an incident Hannah could be involved in, but no one knows anything.
We talk about Hannah's notes. We said that she suffered from depression, no one believed it, even showing the medical prescription. Nobody knew what she was going through.
We show Hannah's psychiatrist's recording. We said that Hannah thought she was being followed, and that it was linked to her past.
We show the security camera recording.
We talk about the Jennifer incident, Jake asks who was asked about Jennifer, and (in my case) it was Richy. So... ._.
Jake talks about Jennifer's real last name (Hanson)
Jessy says she went to Hannah's car and went to the GPS location.
Thomas is confused by this information and says Hannah's car was not there before.
Dan asks for a break.
Lilly says she went to her parents' house to find out more about Amy, and says she couldn't even look at her father's face.
Lilly decides to send a letter to Ted.
Jake and Lilly finally talk.
We and Jake helped Lilly write the letter.
Lilly talks to Jake. (I found their conversation very cute, I have to admit)
Dan says he took a nap, Cleo said that too.
We resume the conversation.
Jessy says she met Iris. And that Jennifer was supposed to have been hit by a car, and the author of this was never found. Hannah was being followed by Jennifer's alleged killer.
We send the second note.
We talk about the bracelet.
Thomas talks about the bracelet, which he thought was proof that Hannah was cheating on him, so he went to the apartment to get it. Jessy says she saw it at the pawnshop, which led Thomas and Cleo there, where they found out that Phil was the one who left it there.
We said that Hannah should also know about this and that's why she wanted to talk to Phil.
We talked about the phone book. And about each one that was there. Rogers Garage because of Hannah's car in there, Alan because Hannah probably wanted something from the police, Phil because of the bracelet, Thomas and then the unknown number, where we thought it was Jake's, but then he reveals that it wasn't his, and that he had taken his number off the list before. And this is something we have yet to discover.
Jake then shows the stone it had in the place where Amy was found, said Jennifer Hanson. We concluded that it must mean something to the killer in some way that we don't know yet, but that everything is intertwined.
We talked about Ted Madruga in the group.
The group decides that it's better if no one leaves the house from now on.
We ask Jake how he feels, and he says he doesn't know, and asks how we feel.
Jake then finds a post from Amy on a forum. (Dark Mystery Forum)
Jake says we should check it out ourselves, but you can only log in with an account. Jake gives his account, Nymos and an impossible password. (I said it was a great password, that our account would be safe, mainly from me xD )
He asks if he wants to change the password for us, so we can choose the password.
(and damn, I picked cake when it was the perfect opportunity to put Jake as the password, I really wanted to know if anything would happen if we put him as our password, please, did anyone think about that? Could you tell me if something happens or not?)
We entered the forum, and there are 9 posts there, at least the ones accessible to us, some have nothing important, they are just stories that people post there, or interact to make a story, with each user saying a sentence, and so on. One has several pictures of ghosts. And well, on some posts we can interact (well, I know I didn't know, but as I read the posts, I saw that at the end of some posts there were some sentences and a button, but the button was in German, and I was too lazy to look up the translation, so in the post where each one posted a sentence to form a horror story, I clicked this button, and then I realized what that was, in this case, the sentence I accidentally put was that the gravedigger tripped on the phone cord, and fell in the middle of the room xD)
Definitely one topic that caught my attention was predicting the future, and I love it when it comes to games, because as much as I don't believe in real life, in games it always means something. I don't know if anyone else did, or if all the answers are the same, but mine said: LadyLotus "I see your pain Nymos. I share it with you. My prediction is stronger and clearer than ever. In your future, I see a king's golden crown. (I really don't know what that crown might mean.) Sadly, you're about to face tough times. But you won't go through this alone. There is one person in your life that you are very important to (I assume it is Jake) But something unsaid is still with you two. (I wonder what it is, but I have a feeling it's a very bad thing) And if something is offered to you soon, you must refuse. (I think this must be in relation to the Duskwood Police? Can't be sure)
Anyway, I thought it was really cool to be able to interact on the forum and predict our future. I loved the forum mechanics and hope we can use the forum more in the next ep :)
(I saw it Everbyte, and honestly I don't know how I feel about it xP)
We talked to Darkness, and found out Amy's number, which was the unknown number on Hannah's list. (Hello darkness my old friend was a tempting answer, but I didn't click, if someone chose that answer could you tell me what it answers?)
(I know at that time Jake sent a message, and I was scared xD, the scariest thing was in the dialogue I could say I got a fright ._. Everbyte, since when did you guys develop a mind reader in programming?)
We talked to Jake about the number.
I got another fright at Jake's notification, and what can I say, I wasn't really expecting this conversation, but it sure made me very happy. :D
Jake asks us if we like Chinese food. (I said yes, but to be honest, I've never eaten Chinese food, and I can't say whether I like it or not, but I said yes, I didn't want to say no to Jake. If someone said no, what happens? I'm curious.)
He says he has a restaurant in front of the hotel where he is staying. And he says he was thinking about us, and that it would be rude to invite us to a restaurant we don't like. We ask him if he keeps thinking about things like that, and he replies that he thinks a lot. We said that we thought about him too, and that it was good to think. Jake asks if we'd like to talk about it. (And my god Everbyte, I can't believe you turned my thoughts into reality, I mean "reality" as this unfortunately isn't real ._.) We have several answer options, and maybe I'll talk about it in another one post.
Jake says that thought is very good, and that he would like to make it a reality. (Everbyte, why do you do this with my heart? Why do I have to fall so hard for a guy who doesn't even really exist? TT_TT)
Phil calls us in prison, I can't remember his exact words, but he comments about Michael Hanson, that he's in jail because of Phil's connection to him, and that we should prove Phil's innocence.
Jake gets jealous. (I admit it was cute to see him like that xD)
We ask if there's any chance the police know that Phil called us, Jake asks if we were scared of the police, and then reassures us that we don't need to fear the police. We say that we can feel that Jake is hiding something from us, he replies that he still has a card up his sleeve, but that we would understand when the right time came (ah, he hasn't said that for a while, I don't even know why I'm still surprised xD )
Jake discovers an audio of an interrogation of Michael Hanson. We found out that Michael was the former owner of the bar Aurora, and that the day of the Pine Glades Festival was the day Jennifer disappeared/died, and that he didn't notice until the next day when he saw she wasn't in her room. The police suspected Michael was to blame for Jennifer's death.
We show the audio in the group.
Alan sends us one more message.
We found out that Phil took over the bar about a year ago, Phil changed everything there, and before that the bar was geared towards an older group. Thomas said that was where he met the group.
We know that Michael left Duskwood suddenly.
Thomas and Jessy go to the address that belonged to Michael.
We talked to Cleo and Dan in the meantime.
When Thomas and Jessy arrive at the house, (actually the mansion, because that's huge) everything was apparently abandoned. The two begin to explore, and even find a bunker, which was empty.
Lilly says she sent the letter and we say we found out the last number was from Amy.
At some point, Lilly says she remembers walking with her grandfather there a long time ago.
Thomas calls us, they find something inside the house, it was a room with lots of pictures and investigative stuff apparently.
Thomas and Jessy split up to find something. In the meantime the MWAF enters the house, Thomas and Jessy manage to escape in time.
MWAF then calls us asking if killing the mechanic wasn't enough for us? He then says that he's going to kill them all, one by one, that we'll have to watch them all die, and that he's finally going to come after us.
Phew, this took a long time to write, because a lot happened in this ep, I tried to put as much information as possible, but I may have left something out, and I also had no precision about what was said in the calls (and I was with too lazy to research, sorry.) Hope this post might be useful in some way? I kind of just wanted to comment on everything that happened in this ep. Maybe I'll comment on other things about this ep, and I also want to talk about Richy, all his suspicious stuff, and whether or not he's MWAF. (Of course, so far there's no way to know precisely, they're just theories, but I want to talk about it :) )
Oh well, and I also wanted to say, are we reaching the end of Duskwood? It would be ep. 10 the last one? One thing I noticed in the ep trailer was a puzzle, does that mean we're almost at the end of the mystery? Well, we'll have to wait and find out.
See you in the next post. And oh! Tell me what you think of this ep, and your theories :)
(In advance, this was one of the best eps for me, or maybe it is because I've played the other eps so much that I don't see it with the same eyes, but anyway.)
Restarting is tempting, but going through all 8 eps again, I don't think I can do that, especially as I would restart now, play a little bit, drop it, go into duskwood again just in the new ep, and have to spend another 3 whole days playing just to start the new ep. So... better not xD
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Some details in that creepy video from Episode 8...
~SPOILER for Ep 8 of Duskwood~
So I screenrecorded the video episode MVP Thomas takes after him and Jessy find MWAFs secret evil comic book villian lair and took some screenshots - quality isn't great, but what can I say, I'm not Jake 🥴
1. There is a board that includes (among other stuff) pictures of some of our friends:
We can clearly recognize Dan in the upper left, Cleo more in the middle above a map with a raven sign pinned on it and photos of Thomas in the upper right. The picture of Cleo looks like one of the ones her mom was send together with that threatening letter to cancel the forest search. The Girl in the lower right corner looks like Jessy to me, given the hair.
Jessy's, Cleo's and Thomas' pics look like photos a stalker took, but Dan's pic is taken from instagram (you can see his name and the like/comment buttons). Because he's been in the hospital for so long or because he didn't interfere? Or because he can't stalk himself?
Interestingly, the boys have their full names on post it's next to their pics: Daniel Anderson and Thomas Miller. We knew Dan's last name before (Poke calls him "Mr. Anderson") but his first name in full is indeed Daniel. Thomas' last name is new AFAIR. Why only those 2? Did he not know their names before this, but he knew the others?
The paper behind Jessy in the lower right corner seems to read "invoice".
The stuff in the left lower corner is super hard to identify. The letters in the yellow Post it seem to read 02:13 - a time point? Paper on the left seems titled "application for...".
There are 2 threats visible potentially connecting things. One is from the raven sign to the Girl in the lower left corner. If that's Jessy, maybe this is because she's been marked. The second threat connects Thomas to unidentifiable stuff on the left. At first I thought the threats were connected in the middle too, but looking closely I'm not so sure.
2. Another board with more people:
In the middle, we have a piece of paper with Hannah's and Amy's names and a threat connecting them to a place on the Duskwood map (plus "guilty guilty guilty" 🥴). That area on the map is close to the church/gate of hope (the "framed" area), we have no marker for it yet on our map.
On the right, we have photos of Richy. No name listed/added. Below those is a pic from the police statement from the news clip about Amy (when the police revealed the name of the dead girl).
On the left, we have a photo of a girl/woman - I'm not really sure who that is?
It could be Lilly, the hair would fit, but it is very hard to tell. Again, no name. If that isn't Lilly, she's the only one of our friends not included here.
The now supposedly dead Richy is on the same board as disappeared Hannah and dead Amy's names, while our other friends are on another board. Might mean nothing, but I find it noteworthy. Was Richy guilty of the same thing after all?
3. Below the board with Richy there are a few more pics:
There is a picture of what appears to be a finger print (who's?).
On the right screenshot, between the candles you can see a pic of Amy. It's the one that was used in the news about her death.
In the lower right corner of the right pic is another photo - could this be Hannah?
Those pics aside, Hannah and Amy aren't seen here. Somehow I think it's unexpected we have those stalker pics of Thomas, Richy, Jessy and Cleo but none of the actual two victims. Did he take their photos down after he kidnapped/killed them?
Phil is absent too.
4. Whatever the heck this is:
A lot of pics being connected to a place(?) - but I can't make out a single one.
5. Plus, in general there are a lot of raven feathers and some big signs reading "Justice" and "Revenge" (partially visible at the top):
Really playing up the legend 🤨
Now this whole "justice/revenge" (for Jennifer) thing would fit with Michael Hanson as MWAF, but as a member of Team "not so fast" I gotta say this contradicts what we heard from Iris in Ep 7 (from Jessy): Hannah said she thinks the man following her is the same man who killed Jennifer. So how could that man also be Jennifer's dad who wants revenge for her death? Anyone could be using MHs abandoned old house. Could it be that our MWAF is trying to frame Michael Hanson? Either MWAF blames Michael because he only noticed Jennifer being missing the next morning (thinking maybe she could have been found/saved had he noticed earlier?) or our MWAF killed Jennifer too and is viewing Hannah & Amy as guilty for something else? If so, what? 🧐
Anyway, this was enough wannabe detective MCing from me, if anyone spots anything I missed, please add! And take a cookie if you made it until the end 🍪
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