This story is about a town, a small town in Canada.
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[[Continue|Passage1]]
So, you decide to open the album.
You don't understand what is going on and you fail.
[[Try again|Introduction]]From a distance – or from the window of a train rising by – it presents itself like so many other small towns all over the world. Decent. Innocent.
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[[Continue|Passage2]]At a certain point, though, you look close enough – and start seeing the shadows underneath the town and sometimes the shadows take over. And you’re living in this place you don’t recognize anymore and you are feeling a lot of things, but safe isn’t one of them.
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The name of this town is Videville...
[[Enter the town|Detective info]]You’ve been a detective since 2014.
You came to Videville from Minnesota to conduct the investigation of the mysterious disappearance of your niece, Sophie. She has been missing for a month. All previous searches gave no results, which is the main reason why you are here.
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Where do you want to go?
[[Visit her Parents|Parents]]
[[Visit her friends|FRIENDS]]
You visit Sophie's parents. They tell you that she returned from school later than usual on the day of her disappearance, dirty, hiding something under her jacket. You think this information is insufficient.
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[[Go to her school|SCHOOL]]
[[Visit her friends|Friends2]]You visit Sophie's friends'. They tell you the same thing: Sophie was detained by the teacher for the unfinished project and she was late for the last school bus.
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[[Visit her parents|Parents2]]
[[Go to her school|SCHOOL]] At school you talk to the principal, communicate with the children and the teachers, everyone says that Sophie is a very isolated and strange child. When you are about to leave, you are hailed by a cleaner who says that on the day of the disappearance she saw Sophie walking in the direction of the woods…
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You decide to repeat her path to find out more facts about her vanishing…
[[Continue]]
You've been walking through the woods for a long time... And you notice a burnt-down house standing alone...
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[[Enter the house|GO INTO THE HOUSE]]
[[Pass by|Pass By The house]]Going into the house you smell the scent of burnt wood and dampness. You decide to ransack the house.
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[[Ransack the house|SEARCHING THE HOUSE]]
[[Pass by|Pass By The house]]You walk through the woods, and then...
You hear a click, and then you feel a hell of a pain in your leg, and you realize that *you're trapped*, you lose a lot of blood, you go to the hospital.
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<center>YOU FAILED YOUR INVESTIGATION!!!</center>
[[Try again|Introduction]]You enter a small house where an old lady is making tea. You start the conversation and politely ask about the legend. She believes in you and decides to share the old legend.
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As she is pouring some tea in your cup she starts her story:
*An old town legend says that in this house lived an inventor, he didn't enjoy people's company, that's he lived alone in the wood.
All his life he spent trying to create a photo device which would be able to take a photo of a person -- immediately. Eventually he succeeded. His invention worked, it was a photo album that could take photographs itself.
But his enemies decided to lay their hands on this invention. They broke into the house of the inventor ans killed him. But then something terrible happened in this house. One of the killers was found hiding in a closet. During interrogation, he confessed to the murder and told some unthinkable stories about the album, which devours people. Nobody believed him, the story turned into a legend. But since then this house has been bypassed.
But more recently, some hooligans set it on fire, and it burned to the ground.*
You thank her for her time and [[head to the archive|Archive]].You go around the whole house, look into every room and (either: "[[FIND THE ALBUM]]","[[FIND NOTHING]]"). Having walked around all the rooms, you return to the hall and notice an album on the table that you haven’t seen there before. It is very strange that there are no traces of fire on the album. You decide to open it ...
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[[Continue|FAIL]]Your quest was not successful and you decide to go to
[[The Motel|MOTEL]]
[[The Police Office|POLICE]]You are very tired for the day and when you come to the Motel, you fall asleep.
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When you wake up, you realize that you saw a very strange dream where your niece came out of the burned house with an album in her hands.
You decide [[to go back to the house|You decide to go back to the house ]].The police Sheriff Hopper tells you about the recent arson of an abandoned house and advises you to go to an elderly lady who may know something.
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If you are lucky enough she will reveal the legend to you.
(either: "[[Try your luck|LEGEND]]","[[Try your luck|NOLEGEND]]").
You decide to go back to the house
After walking rapidly through all the rooms, You return to the hall and notice on the table an album that you have not seen before. It is very strange that the album hasn't any burn marks.
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[[Open the album|OPEN THE ALBUM]]
[[Keep it closed|DON'T OPEN THE ALBUM]]So, you decide to open the album.
You don't understand what is going on and you [[fail|FAIL]].
[[Try again|Introduction]]You decide to take it away
You go back to the Motel, you want to explore the album.
You explore the album cover carefully, but, suddenly, you fall asleep. The next morning you find out that the album disappeared .
You are shocked and decide that the best option would be to go to the police office and to find out the information about this house.
[[Go to the police office|POLICE]]In the archive you will learn about the arrested accomplice of the murder of a scientist from newspaper clippings and you understand that the album always comes back to the house. This story is becoming more and more confusing and mysterious.
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You decide to return to the house to get rid of the sinister album.
[[Go back to the house|back to the house 2]]You find the album in the same place again and puzzle over the way to destroy it:
[[Burn it|BURNING THE ALBUMY ]]
[[Damp it|TO DROP ALBUM]]
[[Shred it|To tear up the ALBUM IN THE SHREDDER ]]
[[Bury it|TO BURY THE ALBU]]
[[Take it to monastery|MONASTERY]]You understand that the album is extremely dangerous, you decide to destroy it by drowning it in a river.
You go to the river, tie a huge stone to the album and throw it into the river. In few minutes you feel the taste of river water in your mouth, it is difficult for you to breathe, your lungs fill with water, it fills your whole body, water rises through the respiratory tract and you feel that you are choking whith water pouring from your mouth... you can't breathe. *You fall to the ground...*
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<center><h4>**YOU FAILED TO INVESTIGATE !!!**</h4></center>
[[Try again|Introduction]]You realize that the album is extremely dangerous, you decide to destroy it by tearing it up into a shredder.
You throw the album into the shredder, the machine begins to absorb the album with greed. Your palms are covered with cuts, you see blood oozing from them, you're shocked by the sight of your fingers falling off. You see the bloodied pieces of your skin on the floor and feel that the parts of your body are destroyed and *life is flowing out of your body.*
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But you can be proud of yourself.You saved a lot of innocent people at the cost of your life.
[[Try again|Introduction]]You understand that the album is extremely dangerous, you decide to destroy it. In the archive you saw a clipping from an article about the monastery for the blind, which is located on another continent, in Macedonia. You understand that this is the ideal way to get rid of the sinister album. You're going to Macedonia.
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(either: "[[Continue|FORGET THE ALBUM]]","[[Continue|DON'T FORGET THE ALBUM]]")You realize that the album is extremely dangerous, you decide to destroy it by burying it.
You decide to bury the album near the house. In the barn you find a shovel and bury the album under the porch of the house.
[[CONSTRUCTION ]]50 years later
The company **BREZO KAPO Inc.** begins construction of a shopping center on the territory of the house. During the excavation, workers find a strange, old, shabby album. One of the workers opens it and...
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[[Try again|Introduction]]
You understand that the album is extremely dangerous, you decide to destroy it by throwing it into the fireplace. You understand that the album is extremely dangerous, you decide to destroy it by throwing it into the fireplace. As soon as the album is on fire, you feel a slight tingling in the shoulder area, you take off your shirt and see red spots, and then blebs ...
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<center><h3>***YOU ARE BURNING !!!***</h3></center>
You smell the scent of burning flesh, but you can’t do anything about it, you feel skin cracking and your hair burning, you feel fire in every cell of your body, you collapse to the floor and *take your last breath...*
<center><h4>**THE INVESTIGATION IS FAILED !!!**</h4></center>
[[Try again|Introduction]]You take an album on a plane in your hand Luggage. You fall asleep and Wake up when people are already out of the plane. You run out of the plane, go to check in Desk. Half an hour later you realize that you left the album under the seat…
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[[Try again|back to the house 2]]You go to the monastery and leave the album for the monks to keep, confident that no one will ever open it again.
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<center>**THE INVESTIGATION IS FINISHED**</center>
[Credits]
You visit Sophie's friends'. They tell you the same thing: Sophie was detained by the teacher for the unfinished project and she was late for the last school bus.
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[[Go to her school|SCHOOL]] You came to Sophie's parents. They tell you that she returned from school later than usual on the day of her disappearance, dirty, hiding something under her jacket. You think this information is insufficient.
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[[Go to her school|SCHOOL]]
<center>**Credits**</center>Written by:<ul><li>Mary Brekkel</li><li>Kseniya Zolotukhina</li><li>Alena Kapsamun</li><li>Darya Katerova</li><li>Valentina Pogorletskaya</li></li></ul>Supervisor:<ul><li>Roman Galatonov</li></ul>[[Play |Introduction]]She is not in a good mood today. Try another time.
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