2023: Walkthrough by: Louis Koot
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Chapter 4: Captured and Escape from the Secret Sociëty
Free yourself from the chair
Darren sits in the middle of a room, tied to an office chair. If you go to the inventory you will notice that all of Darren's things have been taken by his captors. The only item in inventory is the rope (Bonds) that ties Darren to the chair. Behind Darren is a bay window. A ray of sunlight enters the room through a hole in the window pane and makes a light spot on the wooden floor. Under the window there are some pieces of glass from the broken window. There is a Kerosene lamp in the windowsill. There is a green bottle on the floor against the left wall of the bay window. To Darren's left there is an Old Cloth on the floor. There is a desk niche in the wall and there is a Wooden Strip on the floor in front of the niche
Click on the Old Rag, the green Bottle and the Kerosene Lamp to hear Darren's comments on those items. Also click on the Window, the Pieces of Glass and the Wooden Strip, Darren explains what each of these items is. After you have clicked on everything once, click on the green Bottle again and....Darren slides the chair over and picks up the Bottle with his feet and puts the Bottle back down in the sunlight. Click on the green bottle again and Darren now sees that there is kerosene in the bottle. Click on the Pieces of Glass again and Darren now picks up a glass shard with his feet.
Immediately take the glass piece from inventory and click with it on the green bottle
Darren cuts open the bottle with the shard of glass, causing kerosene to flow out of the bottle.
There is now a puddle of Kerosene around the bottle. Click on the Old Cloth again.
Darren slides over to the old rag and scoops it into the inventory.
Take the Old Cloth from inventory and click with it on the Kerosene puddle, near the green bottle.
Darren slides back to the bay window and places the rag near the bottle in the kerosene puddle.
Click with your hand cursor on the wooden strip, which is on the floor in front of the desk.
Darren slides to the wooden strip and picks it up with his feet and the bar ends up in the inventory.
Click on the Pieces of glass again to get another Glass Shard.
Also take this second shard of glass from inventory and click with it on the old cloth that is now soaked in kerosene (Kerosene soaked rag).
The second shard of glass works like burning glass in the sunlight and after a few seconds the kerosene rag catches fire.
Take the Wooden Strip from inventory and click it on the now burning cloth to grab the burning cloth.
In inventory, combine the Burning Wooden Strip / Cloth with the Rope (Bonds) and....
Darren burns through the rope with which he is tied to the chair. Darren has freed himself from the rope and quickly extinguishes the fire in the bay window. Near the chair is now the rope with which Darren was tied to the chair.The rope is in 3 pieces near the chair. Take the left piece of rope and the right piece of rope (Piece of rope and Rope)
In inventory you then have the pieces of rope and a rolled up rope. To the right of the room door is a built-in cupboard in the wall. There is a panel (Strange place) at the bottom right of the built-in cupboard. There is a Wig (carton) in one of the compartments of the built-in cupboard. There is a thick bale of cloth in front of the built-in cupboard. A large Sheet hangs on the wall to the right of the bay window and there's also a headless Clothes Dummy
Click on the Bale of cloth. Darren reports that there are sheets and blankets packed in the bale. Click 2x on the Wig (carton) .
Darren doesn't take the wig but the headpiece that the wig was on.
In inventory you then have the Wig Head. Click 2x on the Panel (Strange place) in the cupboard.
The panel in the cupboard is a secret compartment and Darren opens it. In the secret compartment is a Toy Car. Take the Toy Car.
The ceiling beams (Beam) are above the built-in cupboard. You see 3 of those beams. Click out those support beams.
Take the Rope from inventory and click with it on the middle of the 3 beams and.........
Darren throws the rope over the left beam. On the wall, to the right of the bay window, there is a large sheet hanging on the wall.
There is also a headless mannequin (Clothes dummy) in front of that wall.
Click on the large sheet to pull it off the wall and...... The sheet ends up in inventory and on the wall Darren discovers the complete family tree of the Gordon family. Look at the family tree again and then listen to Darren. Look at the Clothes dummy and then take the Clothes dummy.
Click on the room door with the exit cursor and....Darren opens the room door and stands in the doorway for a moment.
Darren sees a hallway and hears the TV. Darren walks outside and then stands on the stairs and sees an older woman behind the piano.
The woman apparently knows Darren but she calles him Samuel
.A flash of light appears and Darren grabs his head and disappears. Was this a vision?
Then we are back in reality and we see Bob in the hall. The phone rings.
Bobby is Darren's guard, but Tom is not far away either. Darren is then back in the bay window room wondering what just happened...
who was that woman at the piano? And why did she know who Darren was? it's time to escape.
Take the headless mannequin from inventory and click it on the office chair to place the mannequin in the office chair. Take the Wig Head from inventory and also click on the office chair to place the head on the mannequin. Then take the sheet from inventory and also click on the office chair to drape the sheet over the mannequin.
The rope hangs down over the beam at the door. Click on the left part of the rope. You then get "The Rope over Bearing Beam" (Rope over joist) in inventory. Take this Rope from inventory and click with it on the large Bale in front of the cupboard. Darren ties the rope to the rope surrounding the bale.
Take the toy car from inventory and click it on the room door and see what happens....
Darren rolls the toy car down the stairs into the hall.
Bobby is surprised, doesn't understand it for a moment, but then walks upstairs to see if Darren is still tied up.
Darren has now pulled up the heavy bale and when Bobby enters the room,
Darren drops the heavy bale on Bobby's head. Darren then ties the unconscious Bobby to the office chair.
Click on the room door again to leave the room permanently. Darren ends up in:
The Great hall:
The red toy car is at the bottom of the stairs. Look at the toy car and then take the toy car again to put it back in inventory.
There is a box with greasy Sandwich paper on the table. Click on the box of Sandwich paper and then take a sheet of greasy paper from the box.
Click on the grand Piano. Click 2x in the fireplace. Darren reports that there are still in the fireplace
. Click again in the fireplace to grab a piece of charcoal from the fireplace.
Open the wooden box:
At the bottom right of the screen is a wooden chest. Click the wooden chest.
Darren thinks all his stuff is in this chest, but the chest is locked. You end up in a close-up of the chest.
Darren sees that the box has a padlock and he suspects that it will not be easy to open the box. Click the padlock and listen to what Darren says about it. Click the lid (Decorations) of the chest. Circles and lines are engraved in the chest's lid. Take the greaseproof paper from inventory and click it on the lid (Decorations) of the chest and...
Darren uses the piece of charcoal to transfer the decoration from the lid to the wax paper. Right-click on the greaseproof paper in inventory. You don't get to see the paper in close-up, but Darren explains that the dots on the paper are musical notes and that it is the combination code for the padlock on the chest. Click on the piano again and listen to Darren again. Then click on the piano again and now you end up in a close-up of the piano's keyboard. The greaseproof paper is now at the top of the screen and you have black dots on it. What you see on the greaseproof paper are musical notes and you have to play those musical notes with the keys of the piano. Fortunately, it only concerns the white keys. Count the white keys, from left to right. There are 18 white keys. You can press 8 white keys with the gear cursor. You will then always hear a musical note. Find the 8 white keys that you can press. Then number these 8 keys, from left to right, 1 to 8.
You see 8 black dots on the wax paper. From left to right these are the white keys 1 to 5.
You now have to press keys 1 to 5, but in the correct order. You see that keys 3, 2 and 5 have to be pressed several times.
Click on the white keys in this order: 1, 3, 3, 2, 5, 3, 2, 3 and....
........you go out of the close-up and the piano automatically plays the tune again, but now with 3 extra musical notes. Those extra musical notes are the keys 3, 2, 5. The complete melody that the piano plays is then the keys: 1, 3, 3, 3, 2, 2, 5, 5, 3, 2, 3. Fortunately, you don't have to do this not to be played. In the melody, key 3 is used 5 times, key 2 is used 2 times and key 5 is also used 2 times. So this is the number combination for the padlock of the chest, so: 3, 2, 5. Click on the Chest again to return to the close-up of the box. Then click on the padlock to see the lock in close-up. The lock has 3 tumblers. Click on the tumblers to put the correct number in the tumbler. Enter the code 3, 2 5 and....
.....the lock clicks open and you leave the close-up. Click on the chest again with your eye cursor and....
.Darren now opens the chest and takes out all his inventory items and then closes the chest again.
Leave the hall through the door in the back left corner. Darren ends up in:
Garden:
The garden is a wilderness and Darren is in despair. Darren remains standing on the front steps of the garden. It is almost impossible to see, but on the far left there is a boy on the platform. The boy is standing right behind the first bush near the wall. So move your cursor over the stone wall of the platform to the left and you will then get the talking cursor on that boy (Boy). Click on the boy with the talk cursor and..... Darren walks up to the boy to talk to him, but stops in front of the left window of the castle and tells him that the boy is about 12 years old and that it appears that the boy is watching Darren. Click on the boy again with the talk cursor and then use all conversation topics
The boy pretends to be "Van Helsing", the famous Vampire hunter from the Dracula stories and games. Continue talking to the boy and use all conversation options. Darren now knows that he is in the Black Mirror castle of the Gordon family. The boy says that he saw Angelina here at the castle, but that was a week ago. The boy says that he saw Angelina enter the old summer house and that she wanted to go into the laboratory. The summer house is now in ruins, but Samuel Gordon had his laboratory in it. The toy car belongs to the boy and he will keep a lookout for Darren and report if anything happens, while Darren continues to explore the area.
You can't see it well, but the boy has a small axe in his hand and Darren wants that ax. Speak to the boy again and then use the Toy car topic.
Darren hands the toy car to the boy and he drops his axe to grab the toy car.
The Axe (Hatchet) then lies on the ground next to Darren. Look at the axe first and then take the Axe.
Continue into the garden via the bottom left (To the garden).
Darren ends up at the ruins of what was once the castle's beautiful summer cottage. On the right is a green garden hose and a water tap .
Click 2x on the garden hose. The Garden hose is broken because there is a large hole in the hose, but Darren takes the garden hose anyway and put it in the inventory. Click on the water tap. Darren turns on the tap to see if water still comes out. Water comes out of the tap, so Darren turns the tap off again. Continue to the left. To the left of the summer house is the archway to the rear garden and the Gordon's crypt.
Click with the Exit cursor (To the back) in the archway. However, Darren reports that a thick fallen tree is blocking the passage, but that he can climb over the fallen tree. So click again with the exit cursor in the arched passage, or on the tree blocking the passage, and......Darren now walks on and climbs over the tree trunk and ends up at:
Crypt
Walk a bit further to the crypt but don't enter the crypt yet. There is a pulley on the left in front of the crypt.
The pulley is almost invisible, so use the space bar to see the "hot spots". Click a few times on the pulley to take it and to store it in inventory. To the right of the crypt are 3 trees, click on those trees to hear what Darren has to say about them. Enter the crypt and look around. There are 2 sarcophagi in the crypt. There are 3 statues in the back. There are 2 Leather Carrying Slings on the floor in front of the middle statue. Take the 2 carrying slings.
Click the 3 statues and click the left sarcophagus to hear what Darren has to say about it. Click the right sarcophagus. Darren reports that the lid of the right sarcophagus is not positioned exactly right. Darren examines the floor just in front of the right sarcophagus and finds fresh stone splinters. Darren thinks Angelina opened the lid of the right sarcophagus, but why?. Click again on the sarcophagus.....Darren wants to open the right sarcophagus too, but the lid of the thing is way too heavy to lift. Darren needs some supplies to put together a lifting device. Walk back out via the right edge of the screen. To the right of the burial vault are 3 trees. If you didn't click those trees before then do so now to hear Darren's comments on these trees Then take the Axe (Hatchet) from inventory and click with it on the 3 trees and with some effort,
Darren cuts down the 3 trees with the axe and cuts 3 nice straight trunks.
Take the pieces of rope from inventory and them on the tree trunks to tie them together.Then click on the tree trunks and.......
Darren drags the tree trunks, which he has tied together with the rope into a 3-legged hoist tripod , into the crypt and places the whole thing above the right sarcophagus. Take the Pulley from inventory and click it between the "legs" of the Tripod to hang the pulley on the hoist. Take the Carrying Slings from inventory and click them on the sarcophagus and....Darren ties the straps around the lid of the sarcophagus. Then click on the hook of the pulley so that Darren also hooks the straps on the hook.
Then click on the hook of the pulley and....Darren pulls on the chain and lifts the lid..........
The sarcophagus is now open, so click twice on the sarcophagus with the exit cursor and......Darren ends up in a:
Tower:
There was an explosion here once. Under the "window" is a rusty safe (Safe). There are chains hanging above the safe. To the right of the safe is a pile Debris. That pile of debris lies against a wrecked wooden cupboard. There is a folder in the cupboard. Above the cupboard and the pile of rubble there is a large Tear in the stone wall. There is a piece of tube on the floor in front of the cupboard. To the right of the cupboard a faded poster is hanging on the wall and there is a passage to a corridor (Passage). At the bottom right is a Welding set.
Click a few times on the safe. Darren reports that apparently someone has tried to crack the safe using a welding machine. Darren thinks that Angelina has cracked the safe and he reports that the safe has a combination lock that requires letters to be entered. You come to a close-up of the lock of the safe. You have to enter a 5-letter code, but you have no idea what that code is yet. So immediately leave the close-up again, via the exit cursor on the left edge of the screen.
You can look at the chains, the pile of debris, and also the larger crack in the wall, but it won't do you any good. Take the Tube, which is on the floor in front of the cupboard. It's a piece of plastic tubing. Take the folder from the rickety wooden cupboard. Right-click on the folder in inventory to read the contents.
The folder contains newspaper clippings from 1981 and Darren reads them out loud. The newspaper clippings are all about the series of bizarre murders committed in Willow Creek in 1981 and also about the "suicide" of Samuel Gordon. In fact, the newspaper clippings briefly tell the story of Black Mirror 1
Click on the poster that hangs on the wall to the right of the cupboard and do that twice.
You will see the poster in close-up. It's a Blood Type poster.
At the bottom right you see, in color, the indications of the 5 blood groups that can occur among people, AB, B, A, O... hello... that's 5 letters... could this be the letter code for the safe?Write down the 5 letters, so A, B, B, A, O and click the poster away again. Click on the safe again with the gear cursor. You return to the close-up of the code lock of the safe. There are 5 tumblers on which you can click letters to enter the letters of the alphabet. Click from left to right on the tumblers to enter the code A, B, B, A O and..... You hear "Click" and go out of the close-up because the safe is now open. Click in the now open safe and....
The safe contains the blood samples from the Gordons. Listen to Darren as he looks at those blood samples. So Angelina was after the blood of the Gordons. Darren no longer trusts Angelina and he wants to return to Willow Creek quickly.Click 2x on the welding set. Darren reports that the welding set was not used to burn open the safe and Darren turns the thing on for a moment and then knows that the machine is still working perfectly. Click in the Passage. Darren reports that the passage has collapsed, so he cannot enter that passage.
Darren can use the welding set to repair the broken garden hose. In inventory combine the Axe with the Garden Hose tochops the broken piece out of the garden hose. You then have 2 pieces of the garden hose in inventory. Take the plastic tube (Small tube) from inventory and click it on the welding set to heat the tube so that the tube becomes thicker and you can put the garden hose in it. Once Darren has heated the plastic tube, combine both Garden Hose Ends with the Heated Tube in inventory to insert them into the tube.
The plastic tube then connects the 2 hose pieces and you then have a Repaired Garden Hose.
Using the Exit cursor on the left, crawl back through the sarcophagus to the Tomb.
In the crypt, Darren meets the boy again who told Tom that he had returned to the castle.
Darren sends the boy to his parents so they can call the police. Leave the crypt (To the garden) and walk to the right, under the fallen tree. Darren is then standing at the side door of the summer house. There is a hook on the wall to the left of the door. Click on the hook to pull the hook out of the wall. But the hook is too stuck in the wall. Take the Axe from inventory and click with on the hook and.......
Darren use the axe to loosen the hook and then he automatically pulls the hook out of the wall and puts it in the inventory. nWalk further to the right and then along the front of the summer house to the right again and then go back to the back of the castle via the Exit cursor (To the castle) at the water tap. Darren sees Tom's car and thinks he can get the car running. But then Tom steps outside and Darren sneaks back to the summer house.
We need to teach that Tom a lesson. Take the Repaired Garden Hose from inventory and click it on the Water Tap to connect the hose to the tap. In inventory you then have the "Garden hose on the tap". Go again, to the left of the summer house, under the arch and walk to the fallen tree. On the other side of the fallen tree the ground is quite boggy (Marsh). Click on thet Marsh and Darren walks on to check out this bit of "swamp" and gets an idea. Take the "Garden Hose on the Tap" from inventory and click with it on the Marsh and.....
Darren puts the spray end of the hose in the ground here. Go back to the Water Tap and now click on the Water tap again to open the tap so that the piece of marsh ground changes into a swamp with quicksand. Walk back to the castle and......Darren calls Tom and quickly runs back to the crypt. Tom comes after Tom, with a gun, but gets stuck in the swamp.
After Tom got rid of his gun and gave his carkeys to Darren, talk to Tom and use all options.
Tom never saw Anngelina and he has kidnapped Darren on behalf of the secret Society. Darren automatically drives back to the Gordon's Palace Hotel. Murray hands Darren a letter. It's a letter from Angelina. Darren quickly reads through the letter and you hear Angelina's voice reading the letter out loud. Read Angelina's letter. Angelina apologizes for her mysterious disappearance and she wants to meet Darren at the old lighthouse tonight at 11 o'clock to explain everything to Darren.
Click the letter away. Darren has his doubts about Angelina's honesty, but hopes everything can be cleared up tonight. However, Darren has some other things to do, such as trying to obtain and read the other pages of the Book of Chronicles in the museum. So go, via the postcard, to the:
Museum:
Of course it is daytime, so the museum is open and Darren immediately ends up in the museum via the postcard. Continue to the right, to the large display cabinet containing the Chronicles book. The two German tourists are also present again and the female tourist is looking at the Chronicles Book. Behind the display cabinet is the wooden cabinet from which you previously removed the liquid soap for blowing bubbles.
Click on that soap cupboard again and Darren reports that the cupboard is a nice place to hide. Click on the cupboard again and.....
Darren first stares away at the German woman and then he crawls into the closet to hide in the closet and wait until the museum closes.
That happens almost immediately, so after a few seconds Darren comes out of the closet again.
So it is now evening and the museum is closed. Darren is now all alone in the museum. Look at the large display case again to get a close-up view of it. Take the Display Cabinet Key from inventory again and click on the lock of the display case again and ..... "Click".....Darren reports that the display case is now open.
Click again "read" on the page on which the book is open to read the text on these 2 pages again. Darren had already read these 2 pages, but you had probably forgotten most of it. You now have to scrol back through the book and you do this by clicking on the Dog's Ear at the bottom left of the left page.
So scroll back to the previous 2 pages and read them via your eye cursor. Darren learns more about the Secret Society and the murders and his own role in the whole thing. When Darren has finished reading, leave the close-up. Darren now has to leave the museum without the alarm going off. Walk back a little to the counter. To the right of the counter is a trash can. Click on the trash can.
Darren reports that there is a piece of chewing gum wrapped in aluminum foil in the trash. Click again on the trash can to take out the Gum in Foil. Walk back to the right. There is a sewing machine table in front of the red curtain. There is a Wooden plate on the Sewing Machine Table. Click 2x on the Wooden Plate to take it and to put in the inventory
Go through the red curtain to the Horror Exhibition. So the Shredder is under the window. The pivot window, above the shredder, is connected to the alarm. The museum is closed, so everything is out,. Take the Wooden Plate from inventory and place the plate on the Shredder. Then click on the Shredder and.....
Darren climbs on top of the shredder and can now reach the window. Click the pivot window and Darren to talk about the alarm again.
Then take the Chewing gum foil from inventory and click with it on the window and.....
Darren sticks the foil over the contact points of the alarm and he can now safely open the window.
So now click on the window with the Exit cursor and.....Darren climbs out through the window and.....
.....he has another meeting with that tramp, at the door of the museum.
De tramp quotes some lines of poetry and these sound familiar to Darren. They are the poems that Darren wrote on the corpse of Reginald Borris in the bunker.
Darren asks the tramp who then mumbles something about people in the woods with cloaks and white masks.
Escape from the Secret Sociëty
Darren returns to the Secret Society's secret meeting room and thinks he sees a ghost.
SAVE YOUR GAME HERE
Darren hears voices and has to hide quickl. Quickly...run to the left, to the elevator.
Click on the elevator and....Darren hides behind the elevator and.......
The members of the Secret Society then gather in the meeting room with their leader and their leader is.......Miss Valley.....Darren sneaks back to eavesdrop on the meeting but is discovered. Darren flees, chasing through the entire assembly. Darren crawls back through the tunnel to the Front Room of the Bunker. The pursuers are banging on the large metal door.
Bunker:
Quicky.... you have to barricade that metal door between the Antechamber and the Generator Room. If you are too slow, it is "Game Over". Run onto the stage and go through the door to the Generator room. Darren is then back in the Generator Room. Quicky...Click in the large doorway to close the heavy doors. Then quickly take the Metal Tube from inventory and click with it on the doors to barricade them with the tube.
Run to the right, to the 3 levers. All 3 levers are now up. Click the middle lever and the right lever down.
Walk into the cell and then through the door to the Water Tank room.
Below the switch box of the door stand an iron bar and to the right of the door is now a new yellow water hose. First lick on the Switch box to close the door. Then take the Iron Bar and the yellow Water Hose. You have to click on the water hose twice to grab the hose. In inventory combine the Iron bar with the Water hose. Take the Water Hose/iron bar combo from inventory and click with it in the thick opening of the sewer pipe, top right and......
Just in time, Darren climbs into the thick pipe and up through the pipe
Darren is now back in:
The Sewer:
Go left 4 times. Darren then crawled back under the metal sliding gate.
Click on the Wooden Block that you previously placed under the fence to remove the block.
The gate drops again. Continue left, right and then bottom left (To the entrance). Walk down the tunnel to the metal ladder rungs in the wall.
Click with the Exit cursor at the top of the ladder rungs (Angelina's room) and....
Darren ends up back in Angelina's hotel room. Murray is waiting for Darren in Angelina's room because he is attracted to the sewage smell.
Murray throws Darren out of the hotel and Darren immediately goes to the Lighthouse for his appointment with Angelina.
Lighthouse:
Dream or reality?
Darren is now at the old lighthouse. It's raining cats and dogs. Darren shouts and shouts but Angelina doesn't answer. To the right of the lighthouse is an old tree that is partly overgrown by grass. There's something hanging on a branch of that tree. Click at the bottom of that old tree (Tall grass) and do that twice....
Darren calls out twice for Angelina and......finds...a burned corpse that he thinks is Angelina.
Overcome by intense emotions, Darren passes out and has another one of his strange nightmares.
2023: Walkthrough by: Louis Koot