You continue on the path. The woods are dark and deep, belonging to nobody but the Almighty himself. Such precision in the leaves, such care in the timber. The darkness is no longer dark as it is glimmering. A glimmering, shiny black. It blinds you almost.
You walk across another landmark. A plot of gravel.

A. Walk onto the plot
B. Walk back to the barn
C. Continue on the path

C

You decide to trudge on into the night, despite whatever nature threw at you. You followed your more cautious judgment and took the path of the determined man, or perhaps, the brash, the overconfident, and the unenthusiastic man? Time will tell how your actions have been justified.

Chapter 3 : The Discovery

You walk along the path until you come across an old, concrete, abandoned building. As you look down the rest of the path, it appears as though the path leads to a dead end. The building has no fence, though it does look very old. Some of the rocks are jagged and crooked. Much is broken. Indeed, things are destitute, for one side of the building appears very well-off, while the other seems to have collapsed long ago.

A. Walk up to the abandoned building
B. Walk the rest of the path
C. Walk back to the plot of gravel

A

You walk up to the building, unassuming or genuinely curious, whichever. Written on the front door in engraved letters "Steinwood Mental Hospital". Written in a cruel paint is "Stay out".

A. Enter
B. Return to the path

A

Carefully open the door, but look around before walking inside.

hells no

B , for gods sake return to house

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a. kick down teh front door and give a big scream to let everyone inside know you've arrived

(has anybody cracked the code? It's fairly simplistic so.. yeah)

You open the front door to the mental hospital. You look around what appears to be a reception front office. There is a fairly standard desk with an old-looking computer on it, as well as many scattered papers and a telephone. There are 4 doorways which appear to lead to other corridors.
The cold night air creeps in to the old, dusty place. There is a bad aura about this mountain, a worse aura about this building. You only wish to get back to the lodge, but until you find Amy and Casimir, you feel like you are not proving your loyalty to your friends.

A. Head down a medical corridor
B. Head down an asylum corridor
C. Head down a living quarters corridor
D. Head down an archives corridor
E. Investigate the reception desk
F. Leave the mental hospital

Damn it, we need to head back and start begging for mercy.

Uh, let's check inventory, I feel like we can do some code-cracking.

You look at your inventory

Baseball Bat from the lodge
Previously Unopened Letter from the barn (encrypted)
Small note from the complex (encrypted)
Some photographs and catalogues

If you'd like to try to decrypt, I'll post them here again. My options from earlier still stand if you'd like to do those as well, but we can take a break and code-crack if you'd like.

The complex note reads
"To whom it may concern, 7/15/15/4.25/15/21.21/14/4/5/18/19/20/1/14/4.18/5/13/5/13/2/5/18.20/8/9/19"

The barn letter reads
"8/5.23/1/20/3/8/5/19.25/15/21"

E

The desk.

Replace each number with the letter corresponding in the alphabet.
1 is A
2 is B
3 is C
4 is D
5 is E
Etc etc

You look at the desk. You ponder the contents of the desk.

A. Investigate computer
B. Look at scattered papers
C. Investigate telephone
D. Return to center of room

B.

There is nothing of interest in the papers other than a page of erotica.

A. Read erotica
B. Look at telephone
C. Investigate computer
D. Return to room's center

A (Nothing happened for a while so lets just chill)

A

I would say it's worth a short look.

Let's start walking back to the cabin and think of what to say to beg for forgiveness

we need to head back and start begging for mercy

What?? Is it just me who thinks our "friends" should beg our forgiveness more than we should theirs?? We may have been throwing wild and stupid accusations but they threw us out to a kidnapper and potential murderer after beating us up. That's as good as leaving me for dead. My friend ever did that to me, no way would I come grovelling back. Our only friend here is Casimir, and Amy I guess, though she and Casimir had that fight. Leah I'm not sure of since it was the others who really threw me out but she still went along with it so I'm not too happy about that either...

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I'd already figured out the codes but they're pretty useless.

The complex note reads
"To whom it may concern, GOOD.YOU.UNDERSTAND.REMEMBER.THIS."

Okaaay...

The barn letter reads
"HE.WATCHES.YOU"

Yeah honestly figured that much but was hoping for a useful clue to who it might be or where our friends are tbh. Maybe the next one could be more helpful?

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I guess the erotica gives a clue of this psycho's fetishes... but then check the computer for clues. Since we found some medical journals in the middle of a barn, lets go back and check the archives corridor afterwards. Someone's definitely been there...

(are you guys porn addicts or sth smhsmhsmhsmh)

You pick up the erotica. You flip to the first page.

"Chapter 1 of The Little Hispanic Maid..and her Sister Too!

For Cassandra, it was a hot day. It was always a hot day for her and her master. Of course, for Sister Nina too. Cassandra and Nina both had a hot day around their master, Dom.

On one particular evening, Cassandra and Nina were sucking-"

You put the erotica away and feel shameful that you read what you just read.

A. Flip through more of the erotica
B. Look at telephone
C. Investigate computer
D. Return to center of room