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Let's Talk Alone in the Dark Prologue on Not Now Mom, I'm Gaming
Jun 5, 2025
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hello everyone and welcome to another
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episode of not now mom i'm
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gaming my name is kay and in this
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episode we'll be talking about the game
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alone and the dark prologue
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the main reason i'm doing a podcast
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episode for this game is because it's so
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stinking short and i need to start going
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through at least some of my backlog of
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games that i've already played this game
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is less than 30 minutes in length and
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it's gotten some bad reviews for that
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but this isn't the demo for the main
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game it's the prologue it's literally
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setting up that something is going on
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and if you play it you understand why
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the two people in the main game showed
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up in the first place that's the purpose
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of a prologue people to set things up
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for how they happen currently clearly
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the people who moan about this have
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never read the prologue of a book and
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it's sad prologue and demo are not the
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same stop comparing them but it's only
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20 minutes of doing nothing welcome to
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the world of walking simulators and it
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does do something it sets up the scene
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for the main game
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i'm not saying i'm a fan of how short it
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is but really it accomplishes what it
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needed to do the main blurb of the game
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states this one of residents jeremy
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hartwood has been acting strange lately
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he asks grace to do one simple thing
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help him deliver a letter to his niece
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emily hartwood she seems to be the only
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one capable of understanding the
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otherworldly horrors plaguing jeremy's
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mind according to steam db uh the peak
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of players that played this game
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concurrently was 220 it doesn't seem
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like a lot and it's not but it is a
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prologue rather than a full
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game also i don't normally do this i
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don't think but i'm going to leave the
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credits in at the end of games from now
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on because a lot of people just don't do
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this especially on let's plays though
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you might find this a thing on
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walkthrough channels it just doesn't
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always seem fair to cut the credits off
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and i apologize for doing that on my
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other
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videos i'm just trying to tweak these
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podcasts a bit to benefit
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everyone now let's get on with the game
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review on the title screen you'll notice
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that even though this game is called
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alone in the dark prologue alone is
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being overtaken by the name grace so
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technically it's grace in the dark
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prologue because we're in her viewpoint
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when we played the
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game i also think it's cool that we see
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the detto mansion on the right side and
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has shadows crawling around the edges of
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it while rain patters down on the image
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creating a blurring effect it's sort of
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a light storm that doesn't have
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lightning as a main focal point but it
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is there it's ominous but not in a this
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is going to be scary way not that it's
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not scary this is a horror genre type of
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game but not really in a jump scare edge
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of your seat trepidation type of
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horror all this just to say while it's
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not an image that takes up the entire
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screen it's an image of where we're
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going to be and sets it up so that's not
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a completely nice place to
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be upon playing the game we're in a
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scene that starts with a couple dolls
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definitely not my cup of tea especially
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since these are the kind of old style
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types of dolls not the ones you might
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find for kids in the story these days
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they aren't smiling they're very stoic
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as if they've already lived a rough life
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and they have to prepare for even more
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of it who thought those dolls were
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something anyone would want there's also
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jack in the box and an old teddy
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basically this game isn't present day it
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is set in the past without actually
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telling us the year i believe the year
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is supposed to be
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1930s we have a girl who's got a jar of
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paste or glue and she's got someone's
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manuscript titled alone in the dark
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ironically enough by cassandra
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bureugard you can actually read some of
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the manuscript on the first page but not
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all of it when she pulls the title page
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away the first page that you can read
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says "jeremy hartwood had hung himself
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in the attic inside cursed detto there
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was little struggle as his life was
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slowly strangled from his body he knew
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it had to be done there was no choice
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this was his only escape people acted
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shocked but there was no surprise the
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old house was cursed by something very
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old that had walked in one stormy night
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and settled there such ancient things
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have no names only descriptions the
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figure stood opaque redacted the
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fireplace as jeremy pretended to sleep
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he did redacted years jeremy did not
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confront the dark man redacted what he
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called him for his presence redacted
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embers and shadow the moon from where
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redacted jeremy did manage to fall
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asleep redacted they're next to him
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leading redacted spreading like the root
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redacted the house and then you can't
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read anymore it's not something a lot of
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people are able to read on the spot
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because the game's in the middle of a
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scene that takes you away from it at
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most you can read the first line and i
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think that's what they wanted most
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because this manuscript is in regards to
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jeremy
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hartwood so this girl is currently
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tearing away pieces of paper to glue
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them onto a paperier-mâché mask not
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really sure what the mask is for because
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it's slightly horrifying to look at let
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alone see someone wear let alone to see
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a child wear maybe she's just bored or
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it does have an actual purpose there's
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even a moment where she brings a mask up
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to her face so she's looking through it
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from this front side and you're seeing
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her eyes from the back side a little
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eerie that it's
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flipped when a sound keeps occurring she
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finally gets fed up with it like all
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people who hate constant sounds do and
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we can finally control her
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character her room doesn't have much in
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it that you can interact with aside from
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some pictures she's drawn posted on the
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wall and a jack in the box that you can
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crank in the hall there's a crow that
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flies out an open door and outside a
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sunny setting and it sort of looks like
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there's a cornstalk through the doorway
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i was a little disappointed you can't
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spin the globe every game should be
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given an option to spin the globe when
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there is one
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available there's i think a magazine
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open on the couch which she considers a
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mess but i mean if that's a mess then so
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is the papier-mâché project she left on
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the floor of her
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room when you get close enough to the
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door leading outside it slams shut and
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when you open it it's just a bathroom a
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gross looking bathroom that makes you
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want to wash your hands in another
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cleaner bathroom after walking into it
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but a bathroom nonetheless cassandra has
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left her medicine out labeled
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nidolazine i tried looking it up and all
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i got was metoly
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mettoazone which is a water pill to help
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reduce edemas and i don't think this is
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what nidoline is it says underneath a
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label title what's used for but my eyes
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aren't good enough to have read what it
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said
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opening the side door leads us to a
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scene oh goodness you scared me what are
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you up to jeremy i have to tell someone
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what is going on here i have to try
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you're not one of them are you please
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tell me grace you you're not a spy are
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you who spy them the others all of them
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no you're too innocent i'm too innocent
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i need to get this letter to my niece
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she would understand
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just give it to the clerk mr waits and
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he'll post it no he could be in on it
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what if he won't post my letter then
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don't make it look like it's one of
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yours here let me do it
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miss emily hartwood defan street new
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orleans you don't have the number not
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sure the postman's going to find it
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without jeremy where'd he
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go i'll just post it myself then
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so we come across jeremy who's paranoid
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that everyone in the house are spies or
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something and needs to send a letter he
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wrote to his niece emily hartwood jeremy
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hartwood was the person in the
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manuscript and it was cassandra with the
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medication that wrote the manuscript it
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makes you wonder if she's somehow
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writing his character out and making him
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into the paranoid person he is is
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everything she wrote happening or going
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to happen with him it's her typewriter
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in fact that he he used to write emily's
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letter and as grace it's now our job to
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take the letter to the clerk's office
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the sterile key is on the typewriter
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table it opens the door across the hall
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closest to grace's
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room dude i love the satisfying sound of
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the key turning into lock when we get
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close enough to the stairs the scene
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changes to something quite a bit darker
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making the statues around us rearrange
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their form or poses and while it does
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startle grace she also wonders about
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what jeremy has done as if this has
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happened before and she's not too
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concerned about it the entire house
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seems to be covered in moss and vines as
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if the environment has decided to take
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over from lack of use also the moon
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outside has a glow around it so it's not
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just the house itself that has changed
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there's even a creature in the water
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that grace orders to stay after it
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nearly got her any normal person at this
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point especially a kid would probably be
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frantically looking for someone but like
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i said she's pretty levelheaded at the
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moment meaning she's somehow been
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through something like this before maybe
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more than once and is used to the
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environmental change she doesn't even
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bat an eye when she has to knock a
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grizzly bear taxiderermy over to cross
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the water
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the creatures still come for her so
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clearly she's not off the menu for them
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but again nothing to make her go running
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and screaming
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it's when you crawl in through the mail
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room's window which i had some trouble
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with trying to align her with the window
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so she wouldn't keep grabbing the door
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by accident and place the letter down
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that there's a noise that catches
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grace's attention funny enough she turns
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to face us with a wonder that was
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expression while a monster comes up
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behind her from the
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shadows it's absolutely the perfect way
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to end the prologue right there because
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you end up asking so many questions what
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happened to her did the creature get her
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why did the house change into what it
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did what did she mean when she said
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jeremy did something why wasn't she
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afraid of everything that changed around
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her where was everyone else what does
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cond cassandra writing the manuscript
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have to do with jeremy and is that why
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he's
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paranoid so many questions from the
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prologue that you'll hope will be
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answered in the main game the prologue
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doesn't technically end here as we do
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get another scene of emily hartwood
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showing up
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[Music]
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last night i dreamt that my uncle hung
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himself in the attic that we were too
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late the house looked different but it
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was still called detto
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definitely a weird place feels like i've
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been here before i just can't think why
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let's not waste any time detective
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yeah you're right let's go get your
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uncle miss
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hartwood after seeing those two show up
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the prologue officially ends i clearly
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know david harbor from his time as
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hopper from the stranger things series
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but i couldn't really place jodie comr i
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think that's because the only movie i've
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seen her in is free guy and let's face
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it i only had eyes for ryan reynolds in
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that movie and you'd be a liar if you
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didn't say the same like i said it's a
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very short prologue but does set up the
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start of the main game which is what its
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purpose was
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i'm not going to say too much on it but
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i wish i like the main game as much as i
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did the prologue but it was just too
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confusing as to what was going on the
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creature that the prologue ended on was
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so interesting and not what you ever
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want to see coming out of the darkness
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towards you i wonder if that's the thing
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that would have made her run screaming
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in the
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end all right everyone i do hope you
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enjoy this podcast episode for alone in
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the dark prologue i'm curious what your
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thoughts were on this game if you played
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it did you like it did it make you want
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to play the main game most of all did it
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make you shake the shadows of your own
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room while brushing the paranoia off
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with a not now mom not gaming
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