Hi guys.
Welcome back to yet another chapter of Trapped Until Dawn. I have a couple things to say:
For this chapter, seeing as Ryan and William are gonna be split up for the next chapter or two, the totem visions are gonna get a bit confusing, especially for me because I have to decide whether both Ryan and Will should see them or just one of them at times because some totems are gonna be completely useless to one of them and might be useful to the other or both, but I want them to find all the totems.
Also there are quite a few totems in quick succession and in completely different orders to the actual game so it's gonna be hard to decide what order to put them in and at what time to put them, so it might get a little confusing but do try and stick with it.
And with that said, let's get into it.
Ryan's pov, Upper cable car station, 01:04
Matt, Emily and I went back to the cable car station to see if we could get back down the mountain and get some help. We were just about to walk through the gate that lead down to the station when I stopped as I felt another totem vision come on.
I could see what looked like Matt, which was kinda appropriate seeing as I was with him right now, outside a metal double door holding a lantern. He looked kinda flustered and then I heard a monstrous screech and a bang on the door, the same screech that I heard from one of the totem that appeared when I was tied up. Matt looked around frantically as the vision faded out.
"You gonna move or just ignore us." I heard Emily say annoyed as I came back to reality.
"Sorry, I spaced out for a moment there. I'm coming." I replied as I walked towards them and through the gate.
Suddenly, I heard a clunk come from the gate as Matt closed it, so Matt pressed the button to test it.
"Hey... It's locked! The hell? Who did that? Man there's some seriously uncool shit going on up here tonight." Matt said as he walked away from the gate towards me and Emily.
"I can't believe Josh is dead." Emily said as we walked down the path towards the station building.
"I can't believe how he died." Matt added.
"Yeah, it was horrible. I can't get it out of my mind, and I was a witness to it all." I said to them.
"No, I mean, what if you guys were wrong Ryan." Emily said.
(Matt) "What?" (Ryan) "Are you serious?" Matt and I asked simultaneously.
"Maybe we should have checked the shed to see if it was really true." She continued.
"Trust me, you do not want to see the state Josh was in. It would probably give you nightmares for the rest of your life." I said stopping for a second to talk.
"I agree with Ryan on this one. There are some things that once you see them, you can never un-see them." Matt agreed.
"Yeah, I guess... But some things you have to see for yourself." She said as I walked around curiously trying to see if I could find anything of use.
"I'll take their word for it." I heard Matt say as I noticed a totem over in the corner by the trees. I picked it up and turned it over to see a black butterfly, which is death, and hesitantly looked into the hole as the vision started.
I saw Matt again but not for long as he had fallen off a cliff of some kind and I winced as he cracked his head on some rocks at the bottom, blood spilling out all over said rock as the vision faded. But that wasn't all, the vision started back up again and it was exactly the same, except it was me in Matt's place. It felt weird seeing myself falling off a cliff and dying. It sent shivers up my spine even thinking about it.
I came back to reality yet again breathing a sigh of relief.
"I really hope I don't have to see anyone else die tonight." I whispered to myself as I strolled back over to Matt and Emily who were standing by the door to the cable car station arguing over something.
"What did I miss?" I questioned.
"Well, while you were gallivanting around the wilderness, we were trying to find a way into the station. You know, to try and find help!" Emily stated being the bitch she was.
"Em, cut it out. Anyway, I found this axe which should protect us if we run into trouble." Matt mentioned holding up the axe he had in his hand with pride.
"Where did you find that?" I asked.
"It was stuck in the door." Matt answered, pointing towards the door of the cable car station which now had an axe sized hole in it.
"Wait..." I said as I remembered something.
(Authors Note: Imagine how the game tells you that a character is remembering something.)
We got round to the side and I saw a display case that looked like it was supposed to have an axe in, but it was gone. "Hmmm." Chris hummed as he looked at the display case. That's weird. The axe is gone. That could have helped us a lot. I wonder where is went and who took it. I thought as we moved over to a green box.
"...when Josh, Chris, Will and I were trying to find a way into the lodge, there was an axe holder on the wall but the axe was missing." I continued.
"That's weird. It wasn't here when we got up here." Matt said.
"Same." I confirmed.
"So what, the axe wasn't here, now it is, who cares. Can we now try and figure out a way to get in now." Emily said not caring at all.
"But don't you find that a little weird? If it wasn't here before then that means it was put here recently. Meaning that the Psycho could be nearby." I inquired.
"Let's try not to think about it too much." Matt said.
"Hello! Can we try and get inside now!" Emily shouted loudly.
"Ok, ok. Keep your pants on... Matt, Maybe you could try smashing the door down with the axe." I offered.
"Whoa, wait a second. We start smashing shit down he's gonna hear us." Matt declined hastily.
"I think he already heard Emily's bitching." I said snarkily.
"You got any better suggestions?" Em said, ignoring my comment, but by the look on her face, I could tell that she was holding back her insults.
"I dunno." Matt said, looking around the area. "Look! A window." He pointing at a slightly open window over to our left.
"That's great Matt. I could just about fit my lip balm through that little slot." Emily said sarcastically. I really hate this woman.
"No come on." he said.
"You will never fit through there, big guy." She said.
"I won't fit but you will." Matt said to Emily.
"Are you nuts? You're gonna shove my ass through that little hole?" She replied disbelievingly.
"I've seen you slip into some pretty tight jeans, Em." Matt said.
"Uh? Excuse me?" Emily said sounding offended, me looking on confused.
"It's a talent." Matt said quickly.
"Nice save, dude." I commented, a hint of sarcasm in my tone.
"Think again lug head. No can do. For one thing that maniac is probably just sitting there under that window waiting to blend us like Pina Coladas." Emily said clearly annoyed that Matt would even suggest an idea like that.
"Fine, if you won't do it then I will. I'm quite scrawny." I said walking towards the window.
"You sure? I'm kinda worried that that psycho guy might be in there." Matt asked concerned.
"I'm sure I'll be fine. And if the psycho is in there, I'll just ground his face into a pulp." I insisted confidently, even though on the inside I was scared shitless.
"Yeah sure." Emily said sarcastically.
"Or I can try to avoid his advances again. I avoided him once, I can do it again." I said.
"Not quite. Look where that got you." Emily said, pointing towards my bruise. I chose to ignore her as I started climbing through the window.
It was a tight fit but I managed to squeeze through into the station. It was pitch black in the room but I could see the moonlight streaming through the window on the door. But before I could even take a single step, yet another totem vision started playing.
I jumped back a little when I saw a figure of sorts descend from the ceiling. The image backed off a little so I could see what looked like Matt, yet again, with his face smashed in, blood seeping out. Wow Matt, you're really popular at the moment I thought morbidly as the totem faded.
The pitch black room come back into view. I noticed that I was having a bit of a headache from all of these totems in quick succession.
"I'm gonna have a major headache after this is all over." I whispered to myself as I started to walk around the room, my target being to get to the door.
"No psycho in here, but it's completely dark in here. I can hardly see anything." I said to Matt and Emily on the other side of the wall.
"Just get to the door already, it's freezing out here." I heard Emily say irritated. I REALLY hate this woman! I managed to get to the door, but I somehow managed to kick my foot against multiple object that had somehow managed to end up on the floor.
"Voilà, open sesame." I declared, opening the door for them.
"Finally, what took you so long?" Emily said.
"You try hunting around in the dark trying to get to the door without stubbing your toe on the clutter in there. You should be grateful." I said starting to get really annoyed with her lack of appreciation.
"Stop, we don't have time for an argument right now. We need to go find help." Matt said defusing the argument.
"OK, let's just look around and see what we can find." I said as Emily went to turn the light switch on.
"Oh... God damn." Matt said as he looked at the mess that was on the floor and the whole room when Emily turned on the light.
"What happened?" Emily asked.
"Jesus Christ. I didn't know it was this bad," I said looking around too.
"This is crazy-" Matt continued looking into the cable car control room to see, on the walls, it says 'die' everywhere.
"We were just here like a few hours ago - this must have just happened." Emily said.
"What the fuck is going on?" Matt said.
"It's gotta be the guy... the one that got you and Will and Ash and Chris... and Josh." Emily said sadly.
"He's gotta know this is the only way back." Matt said.
"Don't say that." Emily said.
"Look. The cable car's all the way up there." Matt said pointing out the cable car that was suspended in mid-air.
"Well that's... I mean that's not far, right? You... You can jump it?" Emily asked hopefully.
"There is no way I could jump that and I wouldn't advise Matt doing it either." I said remembering the totem I saw a few minutes ago.
"Yeah, I'm good Em but not that good. Flattered though." Matt said.
"Well if you or Ryan can't jump that, what are we gonna do?!" Emily asked.
"I... I don't know." Matt said.
"There has to be some way to get the cable car to move." I said, making my way into the control room.
"God, everything is like, so busted up" Emily said.
"I think they knew exactly what they were doing." Matt replied as they followed me into the control room to look around. Matt went over to a frame and put it back up on the wall.
"Hey look, fire tower." Matt pointed out.
"Hey, Megellan. Maybe we should get the cable car working and get this show on the road, huh?" Emily said as I went over to the wall that had die all over it.
"Very friendly." Matt said.
"Ugh, un-follow" Emily said.
Did she really just say that? I thought as we went over to the cable car's controls to find that the key to start the cable car was gone.
"Wait, there's no ignition key." I said.
"Great. No key, no cable car. Sooo... back to square one." Matt said.
"What about the fire tower? On the map you found?" Em said.
"Well... I guess it's an option." Matt said.
"Maybe it has a radio or something. I mean, it would, wouldn't it?" She continued.
"I think that's a good idea." I said.
"We could use the radio to call for help. Somebody's gotta pick up the signal." Matt agreed.
"Oh. Well. Someone's learning to play by the rules." Emily said.
"What? What rules?" Matt asked confused.
"Rule number one, 'Emily is always right.' Rule number two, 'Nothing else matters because Emily is always right.'" Emily said.
"Uh huh." Matt hummed.
"Sure." I said as we moved out of the control room.
Oh my god, she is so self-centred. It's unbelievable. I thought as I followed them to the other side of the station where there was a ladder that was up.
"Oh! Hold up!" Emily grunted as she tried to grab the ladder.
"Here Ryan, hold this for me please." Matt said to me handing me the axe. "What's cookin', good lookin'?" He then kneeled down to give Emily a boost.
"Gettin' us out of here, mister meat for brains." Emily insulted as she was boosted up, grabbing the ladder and pulling it down.
"Can I have it back now please?" Matt asked hoping to get the axe back.
It might be a good idea to keep the axe for myself, but I should probably give it back.
"Can I keep it with me? You know, just in case." I asked hoping he'd say yes.
"Sure, OK. Keep it." Matt replied while Emily climbed down the ladder. (Butterfly effect)
"Look at this bad boy. You're comin' with me, buddy." Emily said picking up a flashlight that was for some reason on the ledge that the ladder lead down to. "And just like magic. Come on down. We can totally get out this way" Matt climbed down and got onto the ledge.
While I was climbing down the ladder, I heard a gasp come from Emily. Looks like Emily nearly fell off the edge. "You guys ok down there?" I asked as Matt pulled Emily back and place her behind him.
"Yeah, we're ok." Matt shouted back to me. I got onto the ledge and walked along behind Emily.
"Hooo... Okay... Okay... Easy now..." Emily said to herself to calm herself down after that near-death experience.
"We can do this." I said, the cliff totem replaying in my mind, make me shudder.
"Okay... Alright." Matt said as we continued to scoot along.
"We'll be fine." I said, trying not to look down. I've also never really been good with heights.
(Emily): "Oh my gosh..." (Matt): "Okay... Almost... Almost..." Both Matt and Emily said simultaneously as we edged even closer to the end of the ledge.
"I'm feeling kinda faint." Emily said.
"Don't look down." Matt said.
I think that's kinda impossible Matt. I thought as Matt got to the end.
"Holy cannoli, thank god that's over." Emily said relieved as she got to the end too.
"Yeah for real." Matt said.
"Whoa, I hate heights." I said as I finally got to the end.
We walked up some stairs and continued walking until we got onto an actual path. I noticed a totem out of the corner of my eye. I quickly went over to it and picked it up to notice the butterfly was yellow and the vision started.
I saw a flare gun in someone's hand being rotated. The vision pulled out to show that the flare gun was in my hand and that I was passing it to Matt. The scene faded but it started again and it was the same but instead of me giving the flare gun to Matt, I kept it for myself. I guess that means I can do either. I thought as it faded again.
I came out of the vision and was about to move on but was stopped by the feeling of yet another totem vision coming on.
I saw Mike in what looked like the lodge holding a lighter with his hand ready to light it. He did and there was a massive explosion and I managed to catch a quick glimpse of a being of some kind in the corner of the room but I couldn't tell what it was.
I came out of that vision only to be greeted by a huge surge of pain in my head. I suddenly dropped the axe, groaned in pain and put both of my hands on my head.
"Hey, are you alright Ryan?" Matt questioned sympathetically, jogging over and standing by my side.
"Y-Yeah, I'm fine. Just got a sudden migraine. Just give me a minute." I answered, my head feeling like it was being split in half.
"Well, hurry up. We don't have all night to wait for the maniac to kill us!" Emily mentioned rudely. Bitch, you try seeing vision after vision and see how you feel afterwards. After a while of my head killing me from the inside out, the pain started to fade away. Once the pain was pretty much gone, I grasped the axe in my hands, stood back up and we started heading back up the mountain again.
"What if it doesn't work?" Emily said.
"What?" Matt questioned.
"The radio." Emily replied.
"It'll work." Matt reassured.
"But... Okay, if it doesn't... We need a plan." Emily said.
"Maybe... We could just climb down." Matt suggested.
"Climb down what?"
"The mountain."
"Are you serious?"
"What's the big deal? It's not like it's floating in the sky."
"It may as well be, it's pitch black out!"
"And I'm pretty sure it's just a sheer rock face, we would need climbing gear." I added.
"Hey, hopefully we won't have to." Matt said as we continued to walk down the path.
"You think that psychopath is just going to give up and run away?" Emily said.
"No... But... Maybe we should find a safe spot, hole up, wait it out. It'll be a lot easier to figure this all out in the morning." Matt offered.
"As long as we don't hide in the lodge. That's where he expects us to go." Emily warned as we climbed up some stairs on a wooden bridge and across the way.
We came to a split path. While Matt and Emily went right, I decided to go left to see what was over there. I saw a wooden archway of some sort, I went though it but I heard a weird creaking and the wood moved a little. I bent down to move the floor board out of the way. I saw a frozen block of some kind. I picked it up and rotated it.
"Hey guys. I think I found something!" I called them over.
"Huh? Whoa, that's Beth's phone." Emily exclaimed.
"Wait, you mean Beth as in one of the girls who went missing up here last year?" I asked.
"Yeah. I thought the police like, sweeped the entire area..." Matt said.
"Well, looks like they missed this." Emily said as I gave the icy phone to Matt to keep with him and we walked back the other way. I saw another totem on the ground next to one of the trees. I went over to it, picked it up, turned it over to find the butterfly to be white and the vision started.
I saw Ashley open the back door to the lodge and Chris running in looking scared out of his mind and tried to close it as quick as possible. I could also here the same creature scream that I heard in some of the other totems too.
I came out of the vision and continued to walk along the path with Matt and Emily until we got to a cliff edge which scared me to no end. Matt bent down to look at the half-broken sign that most likely said DANGER, CLIFF EDGE, but now only said DAN, CLIFF.
"Watch where you step over here, you too." Matt said.
"Yes Matt, given the choice I'd prefer not to spend my evening plummeting to my death off a snowy cliff top." Emily said.
We started to walk back but we heard a screech of some kind, to me though, it sounded like the exact same screech I heard in the visions I've been having, along with the noise of another animal, probably a deer or something.
"Guys! What is that?" Emily asked.
"I think we should get out of here now!" I warned, trying to get away from this area as fast as possible to avoid whatever made that screech.
"Jesus! Shit!" Emily exclaimed as a herd of elk came out of nowhere blocking our path.
"Oh... Damn..." Matt said as we began to back up away from the elk. As we backed up towards the edge, I took a sneak peek over the edge and saw rocks at the bottom. Just then, I remembered...
...I saw what looked like antlers as the snowy forest came into view. An animal lifted its head up and I saw it was a herd of Deer and they looked angry but I couldn't see any of the characters in this totem whereas other totems...
...I saw Matt again but not for long as he had fallen of a cliff of some kind and I winced as he crack his head on some rocks at the bottom, blood spilling out all over said rock as the vision faded. But that wasn't all, the vision started back up and it was exactly the same except it was me in Matt's place. It felt weird seeing myself falling off a cliff and dying, it sent shivers up my spine even thinking about it.
"Oh crap." I said to myself as we backed up even farther.
I could die here. Well, no one is dying on my watch! I thought determinedly, holding the axe firmly in my grip as the deer backed us towards our doom.
Butterfly effects:
Will chose not to shoot the squirrel; Nature remained in balance.
Will decided to face the 'danger' on his own; He attacked his 'attacker' who turned out to be Chris; He gave him a bloody lip and black eye.
Ryan tried to save his friends himself; He was caught by the Psycho before he could do anything; He ended up with a bruise like Will and Chris.
Will pushed Chris out of the way to pull the lever; Chris blamed Will for Josh's death.
Ryan kept the axe.
Phew, I finally finished this chapter. And I did it in just under a month. I try my best to get these chapters out as soon as I can but it is quite hard sometimes. So now totems are starting to come into play. I'm quite excited for these next few chapters because I have some ideas planned that depend on choices so stay tuned to find out what happens next.
Bye guys.