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I'm so confused. HELP. THE SLENDER MAN. IT'S THE Slender Man. That'll keep us warm. The Slender Man. Okay, that's What the Stop. Whoa. Why? There was no menu. This is how it started. This is after me. Oh my goodness. Oh my. Trippy. Oh, weird how I see in the dark. This is just the demo. There's our frying pan in the fridge. Who the hell are you? I heard that. I heard boom banging. Why did I hear boom banging? Why is the floor so dirty?
Okay. [groaning] OH MY GOD. WHAT? HUH? WHERE? WHAT HAPPENED? Was I shot? I mean, there's blood on the floor, so I'm guessing I was kind Maybe. I don't think I'm healthy. What the hell is that? What Huh? [groaning] Imaginary pills? Yum. Who doesn't like downing random pills they find? Certainly not me. For a chunk. Hm. Is this just a stain or is this supposed to be a drawing of a hunched over monster? I can't tell.
Okay, lights are on. I don't know if that's good for me. Hi. I would like to get out now. Uh-huh. Huh, okay. All right, that's good. Good to know. Glad the lights are flickering, too. What's this? Anything? Nothing? Nothing. I said what fell over? Oh, I see something. Can I get No. Never mind. It's not what I was thinking it was. I was horribly mistaken. That is not a way out of there. Then what am I supposed to do? Okay.
Is this some kind of escape room where I need to find What the hell is falling? What did that? I heard noise. I don't see any result. Radio is not doing anything anymore. Good. Great. Must be something that I missed. If I can be methodical about it, I can find it. There was this, but when I click on it, it doesn't seem to do anything. Is it a safe? Is that what it is? So if it's a safe, there might be some kind of combination available somewhere. But the only way that I would Oh, hi.
Okay, so it's less like an escape room and more like I got to find the weird thing, walk around until it happens. Who's laughing? What? What is it? Okay, someone's having a good time. Should be me. I should be having a good time. Am I not whoa? What the hell is that? Ah. Ooh. Black light, so it should be able to reveal hidden things. Except I can't How Can I not Why can I not directionalize it?
What Why is it dark in this corner? What kind of adaptive light is this? Why is this not How does this work? How's it working? Wait. I can't present it or anything. What about Huh? Now what does it do? Huh? I can't brandish it. Why is it not brandishing? THIS SHOULD BE BRANDISHING. I'VE GOT no way to like wave it around.
Okay. So Oh, it's gone. Wait, why is it gone? Wait, it's gone. Huh? What happened? Where did it go? IT'S GONE. HELP! HUH? WHAT THE WAS THAT? What is happening? I'M SO CONFUSED. HELP! [screaming] MY LIGHT STICK IS GONE, I GUESS. Not a clue. Maybe I need to turn the lights off. But now the light stick's kind of gone. I really don't know what happened to it. I might have broken the game or have Could I have? Oh. [screaming] WELL, THAT IS WEIRD. BUT WHAT DO I DO ABOUT THAT?
CAT? FOX. It's a fox. Kind of. It's kind of a It's a little bit of a fox. Kind of foxy vibe. What is it? I don't know. Oh uh close. Huh? Oh, we open? Oh, we're open now. Freedom. Hey, man. Oh, come on. That's so mean. Oh, hey. What's going on? I see you over there. What's up? I see you. All right, hold on. Ah, interesting. What's uh what's up? Hey, what's up? Okay, all right. You don't need to do that anymore.
Hmm, all right. So there's a portrait there with a dart over it. That oh. At least all you did was slap me. That's fine. All right, everyone calm down. First there was nothing happening. Now there's too much happening. What's going on here? What's with you? Got to turn the lights back on. This freaking fox, why? I really don't know why the light stick just went away, but it's gone now forever.
Some kind of children's art, I think. Okay, now this is blocked off. This wasn't blocked off before, but now it's blocked off, kind of. Okay, so why is it blocked off? I think I just need to try some more things or maybe loop back and forth a few more times. Oh, there's a gun. OH, OH, GUN. I FOUND a gun. Do I need to use this? I should have left the power on. Oh god. Oh. What is that ammo?
Looks like ammo. Oh, did I win? Well, I kind of got away because went the wrong way. Oh. Well, that's good. Glad I did that. What was that? The What? I've never seen THIS MENU IN MY LIFE. WAIT. But What? Huh? Okay, so that was it. Right? That was it, right? I'm not going to take my pills. Okay, that but that was it. Then why have I never seen this main menu? Unless I somehow magically click new game before even getting into the game, or maybe that's just how it
starts. I don't know. All right, this is pretty fun. I don't always like the go back and forth until something happens, kind of like exploration feel. The thing that I've always wanted in these types of escape room games is give me places to look that are tangible, physical, interactable places, like boxes I can open, even if there's nothing in them then. I want a reason to like go and check a space. I don't always feel good if I'm going back and forth to nothing. At Dead of Night did this really well where the rooms had kind of a similar template of drawers and wardrobes that you could open up and look in, and part of the game was just trying to remember which ones you'd
already looked at. And so I loved that because it was a big sprawling building, so it's different than this in a single room, but it was like a lot of going back and forth, and there was a main threat of the guy who was stalking you in the hotel. And I've still yet to see a game that's quite like that one. It's hard line to go for, but this one still did a good job, I think. It was unsettling enough and it didn't hold on too that I felt like I was just lost wandering forever. I liked this a lot. So, thank you. Let me know what you thought in the comments. Links in the description.
Moving on. Welcome to Already Here. Who is already here? We're about to find out. But from the previews, it looked suspiciously close to the Slender Man. Go talk to dad. Oh god. Oh my god. Dad, sorry. That's a bad reaction. I apologize. Hey, what's up? Hey, talk to dad. Good. We've chopped plenty of wood. Time for a rest. Give me a hand, Nika. Bring five logs for the stove. The ones around the yard? Yes, they're scattered all over. Look by the wood pile, the cart, and the well.
Dry logs, log. Okay. Log. Am I supposed to put them somewhere or am I just hauling these cuz I'm very strong? Log. Come on, good. The oldest hunger already has a place at the table. The youngest thirst is already in the bath. What are we talking about here? The earliest itch is stuck in the garage. What are we talking The last boundary opens inward. The finish line is a hole in the ground. I don't know what do you mean? Got to talk to dad, but I'm compelled to read these notes.
They're very slender, the eight pages, which again, haven't beaten. Probably should. Something counts the space between roots. Okay, man. Sure. Sure, whatever you say. Don't see any others. I'm sure there are more out there and probably leading me in a breadcrumb trail all the way to my doom. But I got to go help dad. Dad, I got the logs. I know that we were cutting logs all day and doing that, but I have to go get them. I don't know. You were cutting so violently they flew around the yard.
THE SLENDER MAN! IT'S THE SLENDER MAN THAT'LL KEEP US WARM. THE SLENDER MAN! DAD? Dinner's ready. Nika, come here. Dad, there was a Slender Man. There was a man who was slender. Oh, another note. Mom, hold on. I got to read some really weird poetry. The threshold remembers a different weight. The wardrobe encloses a different style. A borrowed name leaves no echo. A loaned label is really loud. Hi, mom. Did you all dislike my poetry I was shouting in the yard?
Go to the kitchen. Oh my god. All right. Okay, ma. What's uh what's Oh, hi. Sit down, Nika. Everything's on the table. I'll just get Mr. Bunny. He's hungry, too. All right, be quick before it gets cold. Get Mr. Bunny by your bedroom mirror. Sure. I probably should have looked a little closer for all of the pages. I bet there's a some kind of secret for that. Is that a window to the outside? Okay, no offense, but that's that's clearly a painting. Oh no, what's going to happen when I grab you? Nothing. Oh my god.
[screaming] Return to your chair in the kitchen. Okay. Hey parents. Hey forensic units. There's something bad happening, I think. Monsters and demons and whatnot. This is delicious, Marina. You've outdone yourself. I still haven't brought in water for the night. It's freezing straight from the well. We can let a bucket full warm up inside. Would you get it, Nika? There's a full bucket by the well. Don't stay out too long. You'll get cold. Uh. Uh, okay. Uh. I'm going to go make a loop around just to see if I missed any other notes.
Not sure what it's going to do for me when I get them all, but hey. The second shadow belongs to the interval. The witness waits beneath the remainder. This is going to make a lot of sense when I actually say it properly. The snitch waits under the bush for stitches. No season returns from the pale margin. Uh, no reason sale by the sale barge. The quiet dead outlives its keeper. The loud loans end up paying more interest than principal.
All right. Well, I think I might have got them in It's going to be sure. I'm sure I'm going to get a great true ending for getting all of those. Probably. Also, my parents probably think I'm dead. I was out way too long. All right, bucket. Bucket, get the full bucket. Got the full bucket. All right, getting back inside. I'm sure my parents are alive. Mom, dad, I got it. No, you're fine. Bucket. Thank you, Nika. That'll last us until morning. I almost forgot. Nika, we need fresh berries for the tea. Pick five from the bushes beyond the fence, please. They're near the gap in the fence. Come straight
back when you have them. [snorts] All right, okay. Berries for tea, of course. Yes, good berries. This is how I could have probably gotten the notes, but whatever. Berry. Oh, there's a note there. I missed one. Oh my god. Only one voice may answer the hollow hour. Only one face may respond to the full second. Bring the berries to mom. I'm sure nothing bad will happen to me. Nothing bad. [snorts] All right. There they are. Thank you, Nika. I'll put them in the tea. Don't make me go outside again. Some of the firewood is soaked through. It won't
catch. Bring three more dry logs, please. Then straight home. Okay, you could just tell me this all at once or you could come out with me, you know. All right. I'm doomed this time. I'm dead. I'm so dead. Also, I don't think that these are going to be dry considering they're still in the rain. It's what they get for sending a kid out to do this. All right. This is fine. You know, I noticed that we spent all that time chopping the firewood only to have me get the ones out of the mud.
Thank you, sweetheart. There's enough firewood now. I made some lovely tea. Try it. I don't want any. I'm full. Just a little sip. You'll sleep better. You've been so restless lately. Nika takes a small sip. The tea tastes strangely bitter. What's wrong with dad? He's coughing. He caught a chill in the rain. He's gone to bed. Should go to bed, too. I'll clean up here. I don't hear dad coughing. All right. Is this my bed? Apparently it is. Mom? Huh? Oh, that's not good. What huh? Dad, what did you do to him?
Stay there. Don't fight it. I had no other choice. Mom, I'm scared. Only one of us can survive. I'm not going to die. OH WHOA HUH WHAT DON'T touch me. What huh I'LL TAKE YOUR AUNT. SURE, you know, you haven't heard me none. Already here. Oh, let's make another choice, I guess. Snap. All right, don't touch me. I'll run away, I guess. I appreciate it for doing okay. Well, I think we all understand where this game ha how this game did the thing that it did.
We all get it. I get it most of all. Most of anyone here, I think I understand it and everyone understands that I understand it and we all understand it. Well done, I think. I know. I know for certainty. Well done. And well done for you. And moving on. Welcome to Black Pines Stay Forest. Black Pines Stay Forest, Mirror Lake, Boat Rental, Ranger Station, Trailhead, yada blah. Oh. Alex. Friday. Alex is typing. Made it. Black Pines is insane. Trees just swallow the road. Signals one bar up here. If I go quiet, that's why.
Am I responding to this? Am I typing this? Am I Alex? Send picture. It didn't happen. I'm not Alex. Ate at a diner on route nine. Old guy got weird when I said I'm camping past the ridge. Weird how these times are way far apart. Kept saying people come back different. Locals. Lol. Maybe camp before the ridge then. Relax. It's just a forest. Anyway, I'm dead. Found scratches on the trees by my sight. High up, like 3 m. Bear? Bears don't scratch in straight lines.
Whatever. Wind damage probably. I don't think wind scratches in straight lines either. You awake? Barely. What's up? There's a light across the lake. Been circling for an hour. Too slow for a person. I don't know. People can go pretty slow. What are you talking about? Probably just some hunter. It stopped. I think it's facing me. No. It's not a light. What do you mean? What Huh? What's happening? Why is it going down? Alex? Hello? You mean it's not a light? Probably lost signal again. Text me tomorrow.
Well, all right. Good talking with you and great weekend. I spent just here. Only here. I'm going to sleep now. The next morning. Check the computer. Hey, Alex. Alex, you there? Answer your phone. [clears throat] Alex. Oh, boy. That does not bode well. 3 weeks later. 3 weeks since he went into those woods. The police closed the case yesterday. No leads, they said. I'm not waiting anymore.
I'm wazting out of here. Oh, open the drawer. Oh. Close the drawer. Open the drawer. Keys. Close the drawer. Okay. I need a flashlight. F flashlight F flash flashlights over there. A big honking flashlight. Leave the house. That's all I need. Do I have a door? I have a door. I barely have a Go right to the forest. I appreciate it not wasting any time. I really do. I just like you got what you need, you go get your friend. That's loyalty right there.
I hope IF I GET HOLY GOD DAMN YOU. What the was that? I really need some break. Find a place to sit. All right. Can do. Hi, what's up everybody? You look like you've got some stories to tell, my friend. I don't want to sit here. I don't want to sit here, old man. I don't want to sit next to your wrinkly stinky ass. Same reason. Same reasons. Don't push me. Same reasons. Oh. You all right, man? You okay? I'm going to sit here with my back turned to that guy. Hey, how you doing, friend?
What can I get you? I'll take some advice. Just coffee, black. Wait, coming right up. Is that salsa? Guac and limes. Kind of restaurant is this? Burgers and popcorn and salsa? Long drive. Yeah. Heading up to Black Pines. Pies on the house tonight. I don't like that. Huh? Drive safe out there. I don't like this. I don't appreciate any of that. What the hell was that about? I don't know, man. All right, I'm going to drink now. [snorts] I like to chug my coffee. Done.
Boom. Record time. I got to go to the bathroom. Never mind. I got to pay. That'll be 2.50. Here, keep the change. You're really going up there, huh? It's just a forest. Yeah. That's what the last guy said. And thus ends our conversation. What is this guy talking about? The last guy. Right. Whatever. I need to keep moving. I 'm not going to listen to that nonsense. I'm out of here. Goodbye everybody else. I'm done. It's no wonder people go into the woods and die if they just don't pay attention to any of the signs. They just tunnel
vision straight in like me friend up in Black Pines. I go there. No. I don't trust anybody that wants to give me any advice. I didn't even take the free pie. Oh, Moose. Oh no, Moose. Oh, well, Alex. Moose. Hm. Okay, so you are here, Ranger Station Mirror Lake. All right. Pretty good. Ranger Station about halfway up. Lake's a couple miles after that. 3 weeks, nobody's even taking it down. Oh, Alex was my friend. Right, Alex.
I care about that. I yeah, YEAH, ALEX. OH, YEAH, YEAH. I'M SO WORRIED. I WAS JUST worried about you, so I wasn't anybody else. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, anyway, I'm going to go on the trail now. Whoa. Does that look like a Slender Man? Oh. I was looking at that. Yeah, bears can reach that distance. Bears don't scratch in straight lines. That's how I breathe. Nothing to worry about everybody. Just taking in a nice breath. I'm not paying attention to that. Okay, that's what THE STOP.
OKAY, I'M OUT OF HERE, MAN. OH, EVEN THE lights over there are flickering. My mind is playing games with me or it was just a deer. All right, sure thing. Sure, yeah. And whatever I say. So I'm the only one here. No one else is here to say anything else. What's that noise? That's something just on the edge of perception. Hm. Yeah, it's fine. Yeah, this is all fine. Oh, hey, that's weird. It's just All right, okay. Ranger station.
Hello. I'm sure that there are people here. Hello. Rangers. Hm. Chair knocked over. That's probably fine. Rangers. Rangers, mind if I raid your fridge? Mind if I check your pooper? Oh. And by pooper, I mean toilet, not your pooper. Hm. Ooh, jacket. Check the radio in the filing cabinet. All right. I don't see a radio. Missing person report, R. Okata. They reported 1987. Trail four, Halvorson, Webb. Wait. Search called off after nine days, no physical evidence. Party of two, second hiker returned. Statement inconsistent. Dog lost scent at water.
Case remains open. One boot was shore. Missing person July 27th with nothing else written. Weird. 1987. Every one of them at the exact same time. And the last one is today. That's not funny. That's kind of funny. It's a little bit Where's the radio? Batteries. Oh, I need these. Alex Carter. Uh-huh. They started Alex's report. Okay. Why is it not complete? Cuz they're investigating it right now. Hello? Station four, does anybody copy? Anyone, please, if you can hear. I'm here. Am I going to respond?
Hello? Hey, I'm here. It's not transmitting. No, I thought he was shouting that into the thing. Why thought? What was that? Stop it. I think I'm losing it. Uh, get to the lake. Yep. Well, I'm done here. And obviously I am not there. Hey, developer, uh, you can't just reuse this cuz I'm not here, I'm there. So you know, it doesn't work that way. All right, whatever. I'm out of here. Hey, anybody want to jump out of me and go boo? Anybody want to go Dingaling. Oh, Oh, done. 30 minutes, maybe more. Where the hell is that lake?
It took only like two minutes to get to the Ranger station. That map was not drawn to scale. Check the tent, check the fire pit, check the phone. Am I lost or something? Wait. In many a horror game, I have often said, I sounds like I've got two footsteps, but Nothing to fear in the middle of the woods in the middle of the night. Why would I go in the middle of the night, too? Why would I go in the exact same time that I saw everyone else disappeared? That's just asking for trouble. Also, wouldn't the Rangers have been here already to say that they couldn't find anything?
Clearly, there's a big rip in the tent. Hm. Need to look around first. Okay. Examine the fire. Probably weeks cold. Uh. Why did he torn from the inside? Why did he torn? Bro. Interesting. I'm next. Can't get me. I would have had to come out into the woods and Oh, no. What does that mean? Anyway, the lake. Just have to get to the lake. Yes, that's the only solution. Should I'm going to get to the lake now. What? It's not even scary. Didn't get me. I didn't scream. So wooden Slender Man. So that was All right, lake. Oh, it's a sign. Good.
What's on the sign? It stops when you look. Don't turn away. If you turn your head away three times, it's teleporting somewhere close. Don't forget about this. It followed me to the ridge. So it is Slender Man. If you turn your head away three times, it's teleporting somewhere close. Is that how the original Slender Man worked? I still have never beat the original Slender the Eight Pages, which is crazy, crazy when you think about it. I should try that again sometime. Okay, it stops when you look. Don't turn away. If you turn your head away three times, it's teleporting somewhere close.
Okay. So I just got to keep looking at it, but with Slender Man, if you kept looking at it, there was like a mechanic, you know, couldn't look at it too long. Is this nonsense? I don't know. What is this nonsense? Who knows? Nobody knows. Obviously nonsense. Oh, there's a light. Unless it's not a light at all. Oh my god, it's not a light, is it? Oh my god, it's a monster. That's not a light. Oh no, that is Hi. Get to the cabin, huh? I don't know what the cabin is, but I'm going to the cabin. Oh Okay.
Yeah, I see that. Yeah, I get it. It found me. I understand that now. All right, I'm looking at that thing. I don't know. It's not a light. It's some stupid not a light. I'm not dumb. Oh boy. All right. Okay. So I just need to you know vanished. Hi. How you doing? I'm good. Good to see you. Okay. All right. Okay. That's a creepy noise. That's one of them creepy noises.
See how it's not really doing what you said it was going to do. You said if I turned away I had away three times it would disappear. Oh my god. So I kind of do have to a little control it. Cuz that's three time. Nope. Oh my god. There you are. It teleports a little farther away when I get it there, but Okay. I'm at the cabin now. Uh Where's the door? Where's Oh Trash is there. Door. Please. I just need to get to the door. Okay. I get it. I'm in. I'm safe. What was that?
I don't know. It's a weird cabin. Robert Okada, caretaker mere late boat rental. April second season opens six weeks. Roof needs work. Order new oars. Kids stole two last year. Bear got into the shed third time. Straight cuts through though not claws. Called it in. They said bear. Nobody rented today. Nobody rented all week. Found scratches on the pines by the ridge. 3 m up measured it. No bear stands that tall. There's a light across the water some nights. Thought it was campers. Rode out to check then nothing over there. No
trail, no clearing. Just trees and rock. I stop going out after dark. It stands at the tree line. Doesn't come closer. When I look at it, it stops. When I turn away, it's nearer. I've tested this 11 times now. It won't come inside. Two weeks in it hasn't. I don't know what stops it. I'm afraid to find out. Radio is dead. Nobody comes up the road since June. I counted the files at the station once. 62 71 79 always the same time 3:17. I am going to walk out at first light. If it follows, I'll know can't in the sun. If it doesn't follow, then it's already ahead of me. Wait, what?
Robert Okada, he was the first name in the file. Stopped It's topped. What? I didn't God, I didn't get the rest of that. What is that? Doorknob? Hm. Someone left this. Whoever finds this, the door was open. I stayed two days. It doesn't come inside. I don't know why, but it waits. I can hear it moving at night. Not walking, just moving. I 'm out of water. It's outside right now. I can't stay here. Going to try for the car. Maybe you shouldn't. Maybe you should have stayed there. Maybe you should have stayed there and wait until it got bright, you know?
He was here. Alex was right here. So he must be alive for surely. I just need to wait here for him to come back. Or day to break. I shouldn't leave, should I? I'm going to leave. I left. [screaming] GOD DAMN IT. ALEX. HI. WHAT'S UP? JESUS, where were you been? SAY SOMETHING. ALEX. Uh Oh. Okay. All right. What the You're not going to believe what I saw back there. What the are you doing, man? Don't follow so close. You weirdo. God damn.
You okay? You're quiet. What the are you even doing? Why are you being weird? We're almost at the car. I Is The monster isn't wearing your skin like a suit, is it? You kind of standing in the monster pose, you know, kind of like You kind of standing like that monster did a little bit. Head tilted the same way, too. But when you walk, you're all dandy and jolly. Any who, let's get the car. It's never done that before. Hey, Alex, you're a car guy, right? Are okay? I took the wrong one. There were two outs. Oh, no.
All right, that was pretty good. I liked it. It was very um Man, it would sound almost insulting if I said rudimentary, but it was a little rudimentary. Um it was very basic, but I don't know. It's there's still something about these things that are effective. I didn't think it was like the super scariest thing in the world, but it's still it was interesting to play. It flowed well, and it didn't overstay its welcome, right? I think that's my favorite part about it. When I'm playing like Fear the Fathom, there's a diner scene. I go into that diner, and I'm like, oh god, this is going to be like a 15-minute scene in here for some reason. But it actually flowed pretty quickly
from one to another. And then it had, you know, the little monster sequence there and there were some things that were like railroading to go one to another, but that's horror games usually are very linear, and that's this you know, obviously qualifies as being that. But still, I thought that was very good, and it's divided into five chapters. Got through it very quickly. Thank you. Great stuff. Black Pines. So thank you everybody so much for watching. And as always, I will see you in the next video. Bye-bye.
