DESOLATION HUNT
This game is about a girl who suffers from psychosis and is in early stages of her illness.
Objectives of this game:
- To spread awareness about the illness.
- To put people in the shoes of such a person.
- Encourage people to support organizations who are working for this cause.
[[PLAY GAME|Play 1]]
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It's late on a Tuesday night.
Ellie, a teenage girl, is sleeping in her bedroom.
Suddenly, a breaking glass sound is heard. She wakes up.
[[Recall|re]].
Ellie is the only daughter of her parents. She also has an elder brother.
She was always a shy child. She didn't want to meet people or go to public gatherings since childhood.
When she turned 17, she was diagnosed with psychosis. The doctors couldn't find a reason for the disease.
She faced psychotic episodes during her illness. In such episodes, she sees different patterns, characters and hear voices. But, there is no specific reason to trigger a psychotic episode, it is part of the disease.
For the treatment, doctor prescribed her heavy dosage of medicines. After few months, she was a bit distressed with the usage of medicines.
When she started feeling better, she consulted with her doctor and parents so that she can avoid the medicines. Her doctor examined her condition and allowed to not use the medicines for a period of time.
[[Now|present]]In the near past, she started to feel dizzy a lot. Her parents are concerned that maybe this is due to the use of medicines that she had been using in recent months.
She has now woken up. She still feels a bit dissy. Her room is messy. Clothes are scattered around. She needs to drink water.
- [[Exit the room. | BR1]]
- [[Find water in the room. | AG1]]
- [[Sleep again. | AG11]]She comes out of her room. She stands in the gallery of the first floor. She hears a sound coming from downstairs.
- [[Go downstairs | GroundFloor1]]
She looks both side in her room. She finds one bottle but with no water in it. There is some other liquid in it so she leaves it there.
- [[Exit the room | BR1]]
- [[Sleep again | AG11]]She tries to sleep again. She closes her eyes but could not sleep.
- [[Exit the room | BR1]]<img src="2.PNG">
She arrives at the sitting room of the ground floor. She sees a lot of people in the room.
Her elder brother has organized a party for his classmates after the finals. People in the room are having drinks and snacks.
Seeing people all around her and hearing loud music, she starts to feel uncomfortable. She feels headache.
It seems that after being away from medicines for a long period of time, she is going through the same feeling again.
- [[Go to Hall | HallGroundFloor]]
She sees more people here and even louder music.
Finally she sees her brother and ask him, "Where are the parents and what is this happening ?"
He replies: "They have gone out to meet some family relatives. I was planning this party for a long period of time and as you were feeling better in recent days, so i finally got permission from parents."
Ellie: "Yes I am better now. But please try to keep the music low. And have you seen water anywhere ?"
He: "Yeah its in the dinning room."
- [[Go to Dinning Room | DinningFirstFloor]]
She remembers that after using the medicines last time she kept them in the drawer of her room's closet.
She goes to her room.
- [[Open Closet | Fwd]]
She finds water here. After having a glass of water, she goes to the lobby of ground floor. She thinks of going to the Garden for some fresh air.
- [[Go to Garden | Garden]]<img src="3.PNG">
Garden is full with flowers. There are flowers with different colors.
She started staring at them.
Suddenly she hears a voice: "Through these colors you will find him, the love of your life. Even death won't keep you apart."
Ellie looks around but could not see anything. She thinks maybe it was just a thought.
She hears again: "In your chest still beats.... A Heart. If you turn your back you will only see the shadow that it casts."
Now she realises maybe her old friend named N is back.
- [[Keep standing there | Garden2]]N is an imaginary character: an illusion created in her mind.
She starts to see the flowers are going bigger and bigger.
N: "Ellie, Ellie ! Crush them. They are going to hurt you."
- [[Stay in the Garden | Death]]
She starts to hear another voice of P; another illusion.
P: "Don't listen to him. He is going to let you die all alone here. And you will not be able to do anything."
N: "I knew it. I knew it. You will not be able to do it. You coward little girl."
- [[Crush the Flowers | Final]]
- [[Go back to your Room to find medicines | GalleryFirstFloor]]She wounded her hand while crushing flowers having thorns.
P: "You listened to him. Now look what have you done to yourself."
Ellie can't handle the voices anymore. She starts to scream and faints.
[[END | END1]]You couldn't help her to find what she was looking for.
"The hardest battles are fought in the mind..."
[[Try Again |Play 1]]She only sees the doctor's prescription there. No medicines.
She thinks that maybe her mother has put them somewhere else.
Her mother's favorite room is the store room on the second floor. Ellie's mother is a housewife. She loves to cook food and is always found doing something in the Kitchen specially near the stove.
[[ Go to Second Floor | SecondFloor]]Ellie stands in the corridor of the second floor. She hear voices from the game room.
[[Go to Game Room | Game Room]]
[[Go to Store Room | StoreRoom]]<img src="4.PNG">
She sees her brother's friends playing an action video game.
The people in the game room are shouting and laughing. They look happy.
On the TV, She sees nothing but a black screen. Even if she tries to look she can't.
N: "You look stupid staring at things which are not there. This TV does not works at all. Plug it off."
[[Plug off the TV | Death1]]
[[Go to Store Room | StoreRoom]]The Store Room is empty.
There is nothing but darkness.
She wonders where have all the things gone.
But she sees a note on the wall.
It is in her father's handwriting: "Don't forget to put Ellie's medicine in your favorite place."
She thinks whats the favorite place referring to here:
- [[Kitchen | Kitchen1]]
- [[Ellie's Bed Room | No1]]
- [[Parent's Bed Room | No2]]Her brother's friends started shouting at her.
"What have you done. Can't you see we are playing?"
Ellie: "There was nothing on the TV."
"Are you mad? We were playing a damn game and we were in middle of an important mission."
[[Explain why you plugged the TV off | Final1]]
[[Go to Store Room | StoreRoom]]She again tries to explain that there was nothing on the TV.
P: "You have failed again. You lost the war which you never tried to fought."
She starts yelling "Shut up. Shut up ! I have not done anything !"
People in the room starts whispering; "She looks mad"
[[END | END1]]Yes. She remembers that her mother's second favorite place is Kitchen. She must have put them there.
[[Go to Kitchen | Kitchen2]]No. How can Elli'e Bed Room be her mother's favorite place.
Think again:
- [[Kitchen | Kitchen1]]
- [[Parent's Bed Room | No2]]What ? No Way.
Think again.
- [[Kitchen | Kitchen1]]
- [[Ellie's Bed Room | No1]]<img src="5.PNG">
Ellie arrives at the Kitchen.
She recalls her mother must have put the medicines in the drawer at the right corner.
[[Open the Drawer | Kitchen3]]She sees nothing there.
- [[Try opening the drawers beside this one | Death2]]
- [[Go to the drawer near the stove | Pass1]]
She opens multiple drawers but could not find anything.
N: "Ah. You are not going to find them anyway. Stop looking !"
P: "Its right there in the next drawer. Try the next one."
[[Open Next Drawer | Final2]]She goes near the stove.
N: "Again, you will feel hopeless and lost. Nothing will be here."
[[Open the drawer | Pass2]]She opens the next drawer. This one is also empty.
N: "I told you; you are not going to find them. You are lost."
P: "Don't Listen to him. There is still hope."
N: "Like it was while opening the last drawer? Hope is an illusion created by lost people. People like you who have achieved nothing !"
She looses hope and faints in the kitchen.
[[END| END1]]Ellie finaly finds her medicines.
She takes her medicines with a glass of water.
Her parents are back now. She told them what happened to her. She felt the same tonight what she used to feel before. Hearing voices and seeing illusional characters.
Her parents thought that it would be best to take her to the doctor again tomorrow.
[[END | END2]]
You helped her to find what she needed.
"The hardest battles are fought in the mind..."
Thank you for playing this game.