Ah~ A new horror game to play - finally! I grinned excitedly at the title screen. I had already played Outlast with the most grateful fortune of nothing going wrong. I got scared shitless a few times, but overall it was great. Now, what exactly do I mean by 'nothing going wrong'? Well, exactly that. See, since my 26th birthday, I've had this odd... gift. I know, the whole 'gift from a birthday' plot is really old - believe me, I am living it. Anyways, the gift is at random - I can get transported into a movie, game, or book. Yeah, some gift. I don't get to choose when it happens but when it does... it's like being my own OC because I already have my own related back story and everything that I have to figure out. It's quite the adventure but... this time is different.
The moment I clicked 'play', the screen turned into static. I jumped away from the screen because I know what's about to happen. I closed my eyes tight and held my breath. I couldn't outrun it, I've tried before. My entire body went numb as if I had been put on ice for a few hours and then an electric shock raced up my spine and made me gasp sharply - my eyes opening wide and had me gasping for air. I was in a room I did and did not recognize. I don't think I was at the beginning of the game - from the opening screenshots I had viewed beforehand. I was in a normal orange jumpsuit that I remembered from the main game and found myself in a rusted cell. Where was I and who did everyone think I was? That was of course first thing on my mind - as normal since this had started happening. But as I paced the room, I realized I am infucking Outlast and not just normal Outlast but the DLC that I knew very little about.
On a desk by the door there was a blue folder document. Hesitantly I picked it up - did I want to know what sort of patient I was suppose to be within these walls? I had to know, it could be vital to my survival here. With a shaky sigh, I opened it and began to read. It had my name, though the last name was different as always - Alice Kennt. Apparently, I was a rather new patient just before it all decided to hit the fan, I hadn't even been given a doctor to look over me yet, or maybe they didn't have the time to give me one before their project decided to break loose. I read on to my short history and interview description.
Alice Kennt, an almost seemingly normal girl at first. She's completely aware of her surroundings except for the fact that she sees the people differently. Since the age of seven, she has been grotesquely attached and obsessed with the story of Alice in Wonderland due to the relation with her name. Ms. Kennt sees people as characters - both cannon and self made in order to surround herself with the sense of Wonderland. Apparently - I am a dodo bird. In any case, she reacts very violently when 'the Red Queen' is mentioned and curses in nonsensical slur. Her three victims were apparently the Red Queen's guards out to attack her. She refused to believe that they were only three teenage boys who were out to rape her. Though she could describe in perfect detail that she had pushed one of them into a conveniently placed sharp piece of metal jutting out from the wall then had removed a knife from her pant pocket and repeatedly stabbed the one boy in the genitals and chest then threw the the knife at the other boy, catching him in the leg then knocked the boy unconscious and tore the flesh on his face apart with her fingernails. I suggest heavy restraints for her violent outbursts and she'll refuse to take pills - thinking it will make her bigger and smaller and all that. I recommend sirringes and tranquilizing her before medicine administering.
I practically gagged at what I read. Not only did I find it completely unoriginal that the game decided to link my name into the story but the way she killed those three boys... not to say they didn't deserve it but come on - all three of them were younger than her and had no idea what they were doing. Oh well, it wasn't like I could change this... thing's history now. I looked around the room a little more, looking for any object that might be able to give me some sort of protection - of course not. However, in one of the corners, I did find some batteries and a camcorder.
"You've got to be shitting me," I groaned, shutting my eyes tight. Well, at least I knew how to turn on night vision.
Silently, I opened the door - the hinges creaked in an unsettling manner that made me jump back in anticipation that I would see a face behind it. Nothing, of course not, the game was better than to do that. As quietly as I could, I walked out into the empty hallway, unsure of the sort of beasts I would encounter. So far, nothing. I entered through this door way and that doorway till I found myself in what seemed to be a maze of broken wooden walls and piles of crates and other items that I didn't care to look at - besides for the still ever glowing batteries that were littered here and there. My heart raced in my chest, holding - nearly crushing the camcorder in my hand. This was such a completely bad idea, I was going to die before anything started. Ugg... this was such a spoiler for the actual game!
I froze, my blood not turning cold but in fact boiling that raced through my chest and tried to make me breath more heavily in order to obtain more oxygen and knock myself out - what a ending that would be. There were voices, they seemed almost similar but there were four and I didn't care to listen to closely to their conversation since it didn't involve me. "Alright, alright, alright - stay calm. For God's sake you've got to stay calm. You don't reload if you die. Shit, shit, shit, I am dead - I am freaking dead. They're going to hear me," I whined in my head. The stakes were higher than if I were to play the normal game, not freaking live it.
"Sh, do ya hear that?" one of the voices hissed. I gripped the camcorder harder as if holding it so tightly would save me from the lunatics of Mount Massive Asylum. Damn, what a name. But I was caught, another voice yelled out, "their in the walls!"
"Yep, time to run. SHIT!" I cowered as I ran as fast as I could, going through the passages, slipping between the narrow walls, climbing and jumping till finally I arrived at a stair case that descended into darkness. "Here comes your bride Mr. Gluskin," one of the voices said in a sketchy tone. Any other time, if I heard that, I'd nope the hell out of that place. But it may have been better than standing where I was where there was absolutely nowhere to hide - and no batteries. I really, Really, REALLY didn't want to go down there but... here we go.
