Story

[Karakas]

What was the whole story about? We found ourselfes inside house on island in middle of water. We found lot of story about the island and people living there but one thing really got me, it was the sentence when you leave the house.. Four people lived here, now only one does... Or something like that but what does it mean? Who are we playing as? There were many houses but only few were for people.. Please discuss abot your teories.. BTW: Have you felt like the tunnels in the underground storage changed when going back?

[Son of a submariner]

They DID change, right? I had the same feeling - but I also started to see faces in the fog so - i thought it was my jitery imagination.

[kingofkings5632]

I didn't notice a change in the tunnels, though its certainly possible.As for the story, I'm pretty sure I understand the basics of what happened, but obviously thats pretty deep in spoilers So.....


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You're the older man. Abel I believe. You live on an island with 4 people. The island was a lot bigger before the events of the game, but there was a flood, or something of the sort that caused the water level to submerge most of the town. The island is unique in the fact that they have their own religion, worshiping the moon after it spoke to the prophet, Hector. Eventually the island got attacked by a "demon", and the moon responded by giving Hector "The Moon Sliver" a holy artifact that can protect them from it.

While Abel was growing up, Hector wrote more. This time, instead of writing about the moon as their god and such, he says it is backwards. They're in hell, and this "demon" is in fact the only way to escape it.. These are ordered to be burned before anyone can read them, but somehow Abel gets his hands on these and reads them before they are destroyed.

Fast forward to a little before the game began. Abel and the other 3 have been on the island or a long time, with conditions getting worse and worse. Most, if not all of them are begining to show signs of depression and hopelessness. Until one day, The Moon Sliver disappears. They all begin to blame one another with no one admitting what happened.

The two younger children go down into the storage room (For supplies? Can't remember) and the demon gets them

Ellie notices Abel and the kids have disappeared so she goes looking for them, with a knife for protection. In the mountain, she finds Abel sitting in the darkness alone. Here Abel admits to her that he was in fact the one that took The Moon Sliver, destroying it. Here he tells her of the things he read in his youth, that the demon is going to SAVE them from hell, not send them to hell. Ellie, not believing this to be true, kills herself so she doesnt get captured by the monster.

Stricken with grief, Abel goes back up outside, with the plan to spend the day walking around the island one last time, remembering everything that happens before he meets his fate with the monster.

And the game starts.

[Karakas]

Originally posted by kingofkings5632:

I thought that too. But i do not understand what is the house we started in.

[kingofkings5632]

Originally posted by ¤๖Karakas¤:

I thought that too. But i do not understand what is the house we started in.
:tmstree:

Its none of the main characters houses, theyre all in the little square. I assumed it was just some rubble, maybe a storage room?

Jealous of the tree too by the way.

[Karakas]

Originally posted by kingofkings5632:

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Yeah. Abel is the only one we did not read to die. also text about last of four living on island shows that.

[DoDaDragon]

You play as the guy that was found reading in the mountain ( I think ). What I wanted to read more of was the book of Hector or what ever it was. I just got done with my first play through so I'm not to sure I found all of them; only found like 2 or 3.

[robilar5500]

Abel was the one survivor. I thought that was pretty clear. He brought upon the destruction of the others, directly or indirectly, by releasing the demon. As to whether the demon was good or evil, that is purposefully vague, but it did kill the other two, so there is that. However, there was also the transcript where Abel says he was the demon as I recall. So, at the end, he turns and see the silhouette, which was obviously the demon, but also possibly representative of the dichotmy in his soul.
All that said, he does then walk to the light, lol.

[Nemed]

Hi everyone, i pretty much understood what is written in this thread by myself. But i have questions nobody seems to raise... For example, who built those bunkers and for what? Why is the ground "poisoned' so that you can't cultivate it? There's a tank and a pipe on the island that had "acidic" smell. As i get it ground is poisoned by this "acidic" liquid held in the tank.

[Geri Halliwell]

I didn't understand, did Abel slept with Ellie ?
The starting house maybe is the house of Josiah.

[humito68]

Originally posted by kingofkings5632:

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Mostly correct, but there are some flaws:
a) The woman who was talking with Abel in the ending was Isa, not Ellie, because Ellie was killed by the monster in the basement;
b) These people shouldn't be called "kids." Daniel and Ellie are just young, but not children, and Isa and Abel are old.

Originally posted by Ice Geniuz:

I didn't understand, did Abel slept with Ellie ?

Quite so.

Originally posted by Ice Geniuz:

The starting house maybe is the house of Josiah.

Most likely.

[OneWingedJehuty]

It was an enjoyable little game, but I have a few "dilemmas": my first dilemma is the shadow that is in the tunnel when you turn back around after reaching the chair at the end of the final tunnel. Since Abel is the only one left alive, I have to assume this human-like shadow is the monster, but it doesn't seem to match the (few) descriptions we are given about the thing (nor does it seem like this silhouette would make such a snarl and growl that we hear in the basement. I know, looks can be deceiving).

I think for anyone who gets into the so-called secret room, you get a pretty clear idea that this Moon Sliver religion is a farce, as the guy who founds it, Hector, recants the entire thing before he disappears from the story, and the scraps you find in the secret room at the very least confirm his sincere about face on the religion. But this is my second dilemma: is Hector's recanting of the religion done because the religion truly is bad or manipulative? Or is his recanting only spurred on by his disgust for being on this rapidly depopulating island?

That said, I am curious to know what was and wasn't made up prior, in terms of the religion. The monster seems to definitely exist, as Hector only changes his opinion on the thing, not eliminate it entirely by admitting it being made up. I've heard a theory that Hector is the monster, which I could see happening prior to his refutation of the religion if he was the sole creator of the religion (and it wasn't divinely inspired), something akin to The Village, but why keep up the farce after?

I feel like the deity this religion worships (in this case, a moon god of some sort?) DOES actually exist, and the moon sliver itself is a legitimate item of worth that does prevent the monster from attacking. However, at some point, I'm guessing Hector somehow discovered or came to the conclusion that this religion is not a good one. But again, dilemma #2, I don't really know if Hector's recantation is done out of an absolute that the religion and moon sliver are in fact bad, or if he just decides they're bad because he's tired of living on the island, and sees the monster as an escape.

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[Arlyeon [Crit Hit]]

The way that this story interconnects with the Music Machine was pretty wild to me.