In Henry's Position
Do you guys think you could have done what Henry had to do? I know that I would have freaked out having to do all that and knowing there's a huge hole in your bathroom.
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I don't, I just can't. I'll probably just kill myself at the first sight of that world... and then I'll just wander as a haunting spirit... trapped in a nightmare from wich I can never awake... damn.
"Can I ask what you expected to see from a Torquay hotel window? Sydney Opera house, perhaps?"
The farthest that I would get is probably seeing the first ghost. After that, I would haul ass back to the hole, into my apartment, and stay there till I starved to death.
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You wouldn't starve to death. Examine the stove more and Henry will say something to the effect that "He should be hungry but, his stomach is like paralyzed"
In short Walter would not let you die like that.
My spark, it feeds on terror
LOL nobody could survive that. I'm claustraphobic so i wouldnt even go in the hole, well maybe i would eventually just to see what was down there.. hmm.
I'd be perfectly happy staying in the apartment, never getting hungry and peering at Eileen through the hole in the wall. Up until the time that I discovered the TV wasn't working, that is. Still, I'm, with Patience... the thought of squeezing into that hole without knowing where it went doesn't sit well with me. What if it got too narrow to continue, and you got stuck and couldn't turn back, either?
I always wondered, if Henry had put his finger or something (and keep your minds out of the gutter, please)through that hole into Eileen's apartment, could he have gotten her attention? Any thoughts?
I think the wall must be thicker than his finger. If not, the he just couldn't, being in another dimension...
"Can I ask what you expected to see from a Torquay hotel window? Sydney Opera house, perhaps?"
True, true...
shareI always wondered why Henry didn't try to call to Eileen through that hole for help. Still, you're probably right. Also the hand prints on the wall outside.. are they from Henry's 'dimension' and Eileen and the others couldn't see them? Hmm.. so many questions.
I always wondered why he didn't try yelling through the hole in the wall, too. As for the handprints, I figure they're invisible to everyone but Henry and Walter. Since Sunderland and Eileen care enough to keep sweeping the floor in front of Henry's room, if they could see those handprints they'd have broken out the 409 and some sponges long before now...
shareHahaha.. yeah you're right. I always wondered why Eileen kept sweeping the floor.. by the way, what the hell was going on with Eileen, cuz at one point she looks like she's being chased by bees in the hallway or something? It was funny as hell but then it looks like Sunderland is yelling at someone or something..
Ha ha. Frank Sunderland rocks the house. He is pure loco. Methinks that Team Silent should make a spin off game about Frank and his back story. I think it could work especially if he is indeed related to James. It could make for a potentially very interesting game.
It could happen! I mean come on. SH4 was born from a newspaper article.
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I'm a dyslexic insomniac agnostic...
I lay awake at night, wondering if there is a dog.
LOL XD Yeh, maybe a prequel for ole' Frank? He was cool.
Hey I've realised why he never shouted through the wall. Joseph tried that, which is why theres a hole there. Read the writing on the wall. 'Eileen never even noticed..' so he tried to shout through to her but she couldn't hear him.
Probably, If I had too, I would of done it
Some people count sheep. Doesn't work with AlwaysCool, just gets him excited.
Patience Is A Virtue,
"Eileen never noticed." Damn me, I can't believe I forgot that. You're right, of course. And since the handprints on the wall are invisible to everyone but Henry and Walter, I imagine that Eileen is incapable of seeing the hole in her bedroom wall. After all, when she goes to pick up the broom early in the game, the hole would have been clearly visible to her. Frankly, I can't imagine any woman overlooking a peep-hole connecting her bedroom to the apartment of a single guy living next door. Believe me, I've drilled a few and they're always discovered. >:-(
yeah and the hole in the bathroom is also invisible to Eileen aswell. like she couldn't see it in the hospital world. that was probably Walter's doing i guess, lol. I never noticed the 'Eileen never noticed' thing either til i read the writing again on my second play. I never even realised that Joseph wrote it the first time i played tbh. i thought it was just something walter had put there..
I would work up the courage to fight, even though I'd avoid it at all costs and I would relly on strange, if not silly, ways to help me. If there were nurses in the hall, I'd make a molotov coctail with the gass and the empty health drink bottles (hopefully they <i>are</i> glass). The ghosts however would be a major b!^@$. I would pretend to be optimistic (though I'm a pessimist by nature) and crack a joke withing earshot of friend and foe alike.
shareI'd actually want to go through the game :p
shareI think I would've handled it the same as Henry. Think about it; he's been confined for weeks, malnourished, sleep-deprived, and cut off from contact with the outside world. At that point you can't really tell what's hallucination and what's reality, and hardly have the energy to make the effort to try. I probably would've gone nuts from the lack of music. When your sense of reality has been suspended for that long, courage just isn't an issue anymore, and when the seriously freaky *beep* starts it's a welcome break from the monotony of being pent up in that tiny apartment.
shareI'll tell you all this: If I were in Henry's position, I would've handled it with some emotion, imagination and a little intelligence. I can do a lot of things to keep myself busy when I don't have electricity to the television (but apparently everything else). I would've done ANYTHING to keep down the stress, man: exercise, draw, write, remove the bathtub caulk assuming I have fresh tubes to use, have a conversation to myself, kept the place clean.
House arrest really isn't that scary and the addition of making it forced is only mildly creepy. Plus, when you consider that the guy's door was chained on the inside it's amazing he didn't have the brains to check the other furniture in his room; if he was really convinced that someone else was in the apartment, why didn't he check his furniture and the telephone cord before all this happened? You can't help but wonder what else might've been messed up, right? Plus, I would've kept all the doors in the apartment open. Beyond the windows locking up, the TV not working, the cord working on some other frequency and the door being chained up, there was never really any indication that the room was messing with his head, at least not until we actually started playing as him, but that was day five out of five.
To be realistic, I probably would've ended up crazier than Henry because I would've wanted to talk to myself out loud beyond mumbling and ellipsis, but I would've tried to keep my charisma. Besides, this is four days before the **** really hits the fan, it never really reaches a week. If your food supply for your home runs out in four days, you're either poor or you're doing something wrong. All he'd have left to digest would be water, sure, but we never get any indication that he ran out of food. He even says 'I don't feel like cooking' when he examines the stove, that means he still has food! And why is it that he only has wine and chocolate milk in his fridge? Did this guy even have a life before all this happened? I've got juice, soda, beer, iced tea and an assortment of liqours in my apartment and I doubt I could polish ALL of that in four days.
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