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* Just ... ''all'' of episode 2 of season 2, especially the first half before Ophelia descends the ladder beneath the statue. She awakens in her dressing room, has a frightening vision of the Cardinal, sees a man fall from a height, and is chased by a shadowy EldritchAbomination. The [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver background color scheme]] and the music doesn't help, either. Oh yeah, and once she reaches the subterranean vaults, she has to get the correct combinations to open them or else she will eventually be crushed by the ceiling.
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* Just ... ''all'' ''All'' of episode 2 of season 2, especially the first half before Ophelia descends the ladder beneath the statue. She awakens in her dressing room, has a frightening vision of the Cardinal, sees a man fall from a height, and is chased by a shadowy EldritchAbomination. The [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver background color scheme]] and the music doesn't help, either. Oh yeah, and once she reaches the subterranean vaults, she has to get the correct combinations to open them or else she will eventually be crushed by the ceiling.
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* [[spoiler:Baroness Vonaburg's -- aka Alicia Blackwood -- death. She awakens Shub-Niggurath, but ends up serving as a sacrifice to him. How? [[ImMelting She melts into a grotesque puddle of flesh]], [[TheToothHurts apparently with her teeth falling out]] in the process. [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves As much as she had it coming]], it's so uncharacteristically gruesome for a series that depends more on MindScrew than gore.]]
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* [[spoiler:Baroness Vonaburg's -- aka Alicia Blackwood -- death. She awakens Shub-Niggurath, but ends up serving as a sacrifice to him. How? [[ImMelting She melts into a grotesque puddle of flesh]], [[TheToothHurts apparently with her teeth falling out]] in the process.flesh]]. [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves As much as she had it coming]], it's so uncharacteristically gruesome for a series that depends more on MindScrew than gore.]]
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** Unlike previous Elder Star servants who will be oblivious to your presence unless you walk right in front of them, Barnstable will notice and kill you if you linger near him for more than just a few seconds- a rather rare situation in the series where the player can die while completely idle.
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* The next episode — while better-lit (at first) — is just as creepy. The crazy farmer you met in the first episode? [[spoiler:He died in the interlude between the second and third episodes, and if you click aimlessly too much, he'll come back to life with a pair of [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes,]] and start to hunt you down.]]
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* The next episode — while better-lit (at first) — is just as creepy. The crazy farmer you met in the first episode? [[spoiler:He died dies in the interlude between the second and third episodes, ColdOpen of episode 3, implicitly as a result of DemonicPossession, and if you click aimlessly too much, he'll come back to life with a pair of [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes,]] and start to hunt you down.]]
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* Episode 4 of season 2 has Ophelia move from one train car to the next. Upon entering the car, the camera then cuts to Ophelia behind the creepy, shadow Brother Barnstable, who is [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou ominously glaring directly at the player and looking as though he might reach out of the screen and grab them at any second]].
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* Episode 4 of season 2 has Ophelia move from one train car to the next. Upon entering the car, the camera then cuts to Ophelia behind the creepy, shadow shadowy Brother Barnstable, who is [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou ominously glaring directly at the player and looking as though he might reach out of the screen and grab them at any second]].
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While [[VideoGame/ArcaneOnlineMysterySerial this flash game]] is more LovecraftLite than it is a full-blown CosmicHorrorStory, it still has a [[NightmareFuel claustrophobic, often frightening atmosphere]].
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While [[VideoGame/ArcaneOnlineMysterySerial this flash game]] ''[[VideoGame/ArcaneOnlineMysterySerial Arcane]]'' is more LovecraftLite than it is a full-blown CosmicHorrorStory, it still has a [[NightmareFuel claustrophobic, often frightening atmosphere]].
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* Just ... ''all'' of episode 2 of season 2, especially the first half before Ophelia descends the ladder beneath the statue. She awakens in her dressing room, has a frightening vision of the Cardinal, sees a man fall from a height, and is chased by a shadowy EldritchAbomination. The [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver background color scheme]] and the music doesn't help, either. Oh yeah, and once she reaches the subterranean vaults, she has to get the correct combinations to open them or else she will eventually be crushed by the ceiling.
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* Just ... ''all'' of episode 2 of season 2, especially the first half before Ophelia descends the ladder beneath the statue. She awakens in her dressing room, has a frightening vision of the Cardinal, sees a man fall from a height, and is chased by a shadowy EldritchAbomination. The [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver background color scheme]] and the music doesn't help, either. Oh yeah, and once she reaches the subterranean vaults, she has to get the correct combinations to open them or else she will eventually be crushed by the ceiling.ceiling.
* The Cardinal. He may not look quite as monstrous as most of the horrible things encountered in the series, but knowing that he's just a man (albeit immortal) and has the power to seal the fate of the human race in his grasp is highly disturbing. It doesn't help that seemingly everything the heroes do to try and stop him is futile, [[spoiler:and he's bested them twice. Even the implication that he was eventually beaten at his own game doesn't help, as it seems that his defeat was only temporary, if the meetings between Bishop and Ophelia mean anything.]]
* The Cardinal. He may not look quite as monstrous as most of the horrible things encountered in the series, but knowing that he's just a man (albeit immortal) and has the power to seal the fate of the human race in his grasp is highly disturbing. It doesn't help that seemingly everything the heroes do to try and stop him is futile, [[spoiler:and he's bested them twice. Even the implication that he was eventually beaten at his own game doesn't help, as it seems that his defeat was only temporary, if the meetings between Bishop and Ophelia mean anything.]]
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** From the same episode, Ophelia travels to the future and looks around at Gregor, Prescott, and the Baroness. The latter two have become withered and elderly. But Gregor? He's become a skeleton, still sitting in the exact position as he is in the past and present.
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* Episode 4 of season 2 has Ophelia open the door to the next car. The camera then cuts to Ophelia behind the creepy, shadow Brother Barnstable, who is [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou ominously glaring directly at the player and looking as though he might reach out of the screen and grab them at any second]].
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* Episode 4 of season 2 has Ophelia open the door move from one train car to the next car. The next. Upon entering the car, the camera then cuts to Ophelia behind the creepy, shadow Brother Barnstable, who is [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou ominously glaring directly at the player and looking as though he might reach out of the screen and grab them at any second]].
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* Episode 4 of season 2 has Ophelia open the door to the next car. The camera then cuts to Ophelia behind the creepy, shadow Brother Barnstable, who is [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou ominously glaring directly at the player and looking as though he might reach out of the screen and grab them at any second]].
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With each pointless click of the mouse, you either undergo SanitySlippage, become one step closer to being devoured by horrible, shadowy {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, or see your friends slowly mutate into [[BodyHorror rotting monstrosities with tentacles for arms]], to name a few examples. [[MindScrew And those are only the most easily describable game over scenarios]].
** Season 1 episode 2 is pretty creepy. Ophelia finds the withering corpse of Alvin Carter in a closet, and with each wrongful mouse click, the portrait of the elderly woman in the upstairs hallway starts bleeding from the eyes, [[spoiler:and the painting slowly transforms into Ophelia, who — upon the complete transformation of the woman — [[DrivenToSuicide jumps from the window above the cavern at the bottom of the cliff]].]]
** The next episode — while better-lit (at first) — is just as creepy. The crazy farmer you met in the first episode? [[spoiler:He died in the interlude between the second and third episodes, and if you click aimlessly too much, he'll come back to life with a pair of [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes,]] and start to hunt you down.]]
** In the séance episode, Ophelia encounters the Cardinal in the future. He hands her the Death Tarot card and taunts her, "Look who dares defile the temple of Shub-Niggurath. Prepare yourself to suffer, like the mad witch who gave birth to you!" Then he does ... [[MindScrew something]] to make [[TearsOfBlood her eyes bleed]], then she looks down at her [[EyesDoNotBelongThere hands and sees a pair of eyes]]. Which then turn into a skull. The final moments of the vision have the room suddenly [[NothingButSkulls flooded with skulls.]]
** [[spoiler:Baroness Vonaburg's — aka Alicia Blackwood — death. She awakens Shub-Niggurath, but ends up serving as a sacrifice to him. How? [[ImMelting She melts into a grotesque puddle of flesh]], [[TheToothHurts apparently with her teeth falling out]] in the process. [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves As much as she had it coming]], it's so uncharacteristically gruesome for a series that depends more on MindScrew than gore.]]
** Just ... ''all'' of episode 2 of season 2, especially the first half before Ophelia descends the ladder beneath the statue. She awakens in her dressing room, has a frightening vision of the Cardinal, sees a man fall from a height, and is chased by a shadowy EldritchAbomination. The [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver background color scheme]] and the music doesn't help, either. Oh yeah, and once she reaches the subterranean vaults, she has to get the correct combinations to open them or else she will eventually be crushed by the ceiling.
** Season 1 episode 2 is pretty creepy. Ophelia finds the withering corpse of Alvin Carter in a closet, and with each wrongful mouse click, the portrait of the elderly woman in the upstairs hallway starts bleeding from the eyes, [[spoiler:and the painting slowly transforms into Ophelia, who — upon the complete transformation of the woman — [[DrivenToSuicide jumps from the window above the cavern at the bottom of the cliff]].]]
** The next episode — while better-lit (at first) — is just as creepy. The crazy farmer you met in the first episode? [[spoiler:He died in the interlude between the second and third episodes, and if you click aimlessly too much, he'll come back to life with a pair of [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes,]] and start to hunt you down.]]
** In the séance episode, Ophelia encounters the Cardinal in the future. He hands her the Death Tarot card and taunts her, "Look who dares defile the temple of Shub-Niggurath. Prepare yourself to suffer, like the mad witch who gave birth to you!" Then he does ... [[MindScrew something]] to make [[TearsOfBlood her eyes bleed]], then she looks down at her [[EyesDoNotBelongThere hands and sees a pair of eyes]]. Which then turn into a skull. The final moments of the vision have the room suddenly [[NothingButSkulls flooded with skulls.]]
** [[spoiler:Baroness Vonaburg's — aka Alicia Blackwood — death. She awakens Shub-Niggurath, but ends up serving as a sacrifice to him. How? [[ImMelting She melts into a grotesque puddle of flesh]], [[TheToothHurts apparently with her teeth falling out]] in the process. [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves As much as she had it coming]], it's so uncharacteristically gruesome for a series that depends more on MindScrew than gore.]]
** Just ... ''all'' of episode 2 of season 2, especially the first half before Ophelia descends the ladder beneath the statue. She awakens in her dressing room, has a frightening vision of the Cardinal, sees a man fall from a height, and is chased by a shadowy EldritchAbomination. The [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver background color scheme]] and the music doesn't help, either. Oh yeah, and once she reaches the subterranean vaults, she has to get the correct combinations to open them or else she will eventually be crushed by the ceiling.
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While [[VideoGame/ArcaneOnlineMysterySerial this flash game]] is more LovecraftLite than it is a full-blown CosmicHorrorStory, it still has a [[NightmareFuel claustrophobic, often frightening atmosphere]].
* With each pointless click of the mouse, you either undergo SanitySlippage, become one step closer to being devoured by horrible, shadowy {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, or see your friends slowly mutate into [[BodyHorror rotting monstrosities with tentacles for arms]], to name a few examples. [[MindScrew And those are only the most easily describable game over scenarios]].
** * Season 1 episode 2 is pretty creepy. Ophelia finds the withering corpse of Alvin Carter in a closet, and with each wrongful mouse click, the portrait of the elderly woman in the upstairs hallway starts bleeding from the eyes, [[spoiler:and the painting slowly transforms into Ophelia, who — upon the complete transformation of the woman — [[DrivenToSuicide jumps from the window above the cavern at the bottom of the cliff]].]]
** * The next episode — while better-lit (at first) — is just as creepy. The crazy farmer you met in the first episode? [[spoiler:He died in the interlude between the second and third episodes, and if you click aimlessly too much, he'll come back to life with a pair of [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes,]] and start to hunt you down.]]
** * In the séance episode, Ophelia encounters the Cardinal in the future. He hands her the Death Tarot card and taunts her, "Look who dares defile the temple of Shub-Niggurath. Prepare yourself to suffer, like the mad witch who gave birth to you!" Then he does ... [[MindScrew something]] to make [[TearsOfBlood her eyes bleed]], then she looks down at her [[EyesDoNotBelongThere hands and sees a pair of eyes]]. Which then turn into a skull. The final moments of the vision have the room suddenly [[NothingButSkulls flooded with skulls.]]
** * [[spoiler:Baroness Vonaburg's — aka Alicia Blackwood — death. She awakens Shub-Niggurath, but ends up serving as a sacrifice to him. How? [[ImMelting She melts into a grotesque puddle of flesh]], [[TheToothHurts apparently with her teeth falling out]] in the process. [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves As much as she had it coming]], it's so uncharacteristically gruesome for a series that depends more on MindScrew than gore.]]
** * Just ... ''all'' of episode 2 of season 2, especially the first half before Ophelia descends the ladder beneath the statue. She awakens in her dressing room, has a frightening vision of the Cardinal, sees a man fall from a height, and is chased by a shadowy EldritchAbomination. The [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver background color scheme]] and the music doesn't help, either. Oh yeah, and once she reaches the subterranean vaults, she has to get the correct combinations to open them or else she will eventually be crushed by the ceiling.
* With each pointless click of the mouse, you either undergo SanitySlippage, become one step closer to being devoured by horrible, shadowy {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, or see your friends slowly mutate into [[BodyHorror rotting monstrosities with tentacles for arms]], to name a few examples. [[MindScrew And those are only the most easily describable game over scenarios]].
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With each pointless click of the mouse, you either undergo SanitySlippage, become one step closer to being devoured by horrible, shadowy {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, or see your friends slowly mutate into [[BodyHorror rotting monstrosities with tentacles for arms]], to name a few examples. [[MindScrew And those are only the most easily describable game over scenarios]].
** Season 1 episode 2 is pretty creepy. Ophelia finds the withering corpse of Alvin Carter in a closet, and with each wrongful mouse click, the portrait of the elderly woman in the upstairs hallway starts bleeding from the eyes, [[spoiler:and the painting slowly transforms into Ophelia, who — upon the complete transformation of the woman — [[DrivenToSuicide jumps from the window above the cavern at the bottom of the cliff]].]]
** The next episode — while better-lit (at first) — is just as creepy. The crazy farmer you met in the first episode? [[spoiler:He died in the interlude between the second and third episodes, and if you click aimlessly too much, he'll come back to life with a pair of [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes,]] and start to hunt you down.]]
** In the séance episode, Ophelia encounters the Cardinal in the future. He hands her the Death Tarot card and taunts her, "Look who dares defile the temple of Shub-Niggurath. Prepare yourself to suffer, like the mad witch who gave birth to you!" Then he does ... [[MindScrew something]] to make [[TearsOfBlood her eyes bleed]], then she looks down at her [[EyesDoNotBelongThere hands and sees a pair of eyes]]. Which then turn into a skull. The final moments of the vision have the room suddenly [[NothingButSkulls flooded with skulls.]]
** [[spoiler:Baroness Vonaburg's — aka Alicia Blackwood — death. She awakens Shub-Niggurath, but ends up serving as a sacrifice to him. How? [[ImMelting She melts into a grotesque puddle of flesh]], [[TheToothHurts apparently with her teeth falling out]] in the process. [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves As much as she had it coming]], it's so uncharacteristically gruesome for a series that depends more on MindScrew than gore.]]
** Just ... ''all'' of episode 2 of season 2, especially the first half before Ophelia descends the ladder beneath the statue. She awakens in her dressing room, has a frightening vision of the Cardinal, sees a man fall from a height, and is chased by a shadowy EldritchAbomination. The [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver background color scheme]] and the music doesn't help, either. Oh yeah, and once she reaches the subterranean vaults, she has to get the correct combinations to open them or else she will eventually be crushed by the ceiling.
With each pointless click of the mouse, you either undergo SanitySlippage, become one step closer to being devoured by horrible, shadowy {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, or see your friends slowly mutate into [[BodyHorror rotting monstrosities with tentacles for arms]], to name a few examples. [[MindScrew And those are only the most easily describable game over scenarios]].
** Season 1 episode 2 is pretty creepy. Ophelia finds the withering corpse of Alvin Carter in a closet, and with each wrongful mouse click, the portrait of the elderly woman in the upstairs hallway starts bleeding from the eyes, [[spoiler:and the painting slowly transforms into Ophelia, who — upon the complete transformation of the woman — [[DrivenToSuicide jumps from the window above the cavern at the bottom of the cliff]].]]
** The next episode — while better-lit (at first) — is just as creepy. The crazy farmer you met in the first episode? [[spoiler:He died in the interlude between the second and third episodes, and if you click aimlessly too much, he'll come back to life with a pair of [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes,]] and start to hunt you down.]]
** In the séance episode, Ophelia encounters the Cardinal in the future. He hands her the Death Tarot card and taunts her, "Look who dares defile the temple of Shub-Niggurath. Prepare yourself to suffer, like the mad witch who gave birth to you!" Then he does ... [[MindScrew something]] to make [[TearsOfBlood her eyes bleed]], then she looks down at her [[EyesDoNotBelongThere hands and sees a pair of eyes]]. Which then turn into a skull. The final moments of the vision have the room suddenly [[NothingButSkulls flooded with skulls.]]
** [[spoiler:Baroness Vonaburg's — aka Alicia Blackwood — death. She awakens Shub-Niggurath, but ends up serving as a sacrifice to him. How? [[ImMelting She melts into a grotesque puddle of flesh]], [[TheToothHurts apparently with her teeth falling out]] in the process. [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves As much as she had it coming]], it's so uncharacteristically gruesome for a series that depends more on MindScrew than gore.]]
** Just ... ''all'' of episode 2 of season 2, especially the first half before Ophelia descends the ladder beneath the statue. She awakens in her dressing room, has a frightening vision of the Cardinal, sees a man fall from a height, and is chased by a shadowy EldritchAbomination. The [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver background color scheme]] and the music doesn't help, either. Oh yeah, and once she reaches the subterranean vaults, she has to get the correct combinations to open them or else she will eventually be crushed by the ceiling.
