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The game can be played [[http://www.kongregate.com/games/Percon/exit-corners here]]. The game is currently in progress, with 15 "chapters" currently playing and Chapter 16 scheduled to release on September 9th.

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* DefrostingIceQueen: Liza. Throughout the course of the game, she goes from abrasive and openly hostile to (currently) sympathetic but still standoffish.



* EnragedByIdiocy: Rae and Liza, both, which can be a problem when every wrong answer to a situation looks like idiocy to the other. Rae even gets mad at Ink for suggesting TimeTravel when asked how they can be in a building that was demolished 20 years prior.
* {{Facepalm}}: When Rae isn't engaging in his HairTriggerTemper moments, this is generally what he's doing.



** TheHero: Ink, the PlayerCharacter, is recognized more than once as being the best among them at solving the game's puzzles, and he's excellent at thinking very quickly and on the fly to make both deductions that the other Contestants miss and plans to mess with the game they're trapped in.

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** TheHero: Ink, the PlayerCharacter, is recognized more than once as being the best among them at solving the game's puzzles, and he's excellent at thinking very quickly and on the fly to make both deductions that the other Contestants miss and plans to mess with the game they're trapped in. It helps that, canonically, [[ThePlayerIsTheMostImportantResource he's the one that solves most of the puzzles.]]


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* HairTriggerTemper: Rae. Expect to see him holding his fist in most portraits.


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** Ink provides a heroic variant, [[spoiler: managing to outfox ''Sent'' and get him to reveal the live-feed nature of his "recordings".]]

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** SixthRanger / TheLoad: Liza. Acts unhelpful constantly for a while after she's first introduced, and most of her attempts to help get them rescued are basically useless. It doesn't help either that she has such a bad attitude that virtually every time she opens her mouth, it becomes harder to keep the group working together--especially when she makes the accusation that one of the Contestants is Sent. However, every so often she manages to gain some keen insight into a puzzle that stumped even Rae, and it's indicated that her problems stem from having [[SpoiledBrat a previously sheltered life,]] being more freaked out than the others because she's the youngest and not as mature as the others to begin with, and some pretty serious confidence issues. She starts to get better after Ink [[spoiler: proves that it's impossible for Sent to be among the five of them,]] though time will tell just how much of her Load status she loses.

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** SixthRanger / TheLoad: Liza. Acts consistently unhelpful constantly for a while after she's first introduced, and most of her attempts to help get them rescued via calling for help through her Gemini are basically useless. It doesn't help either that she has such a bad attitude that virtually every time she opens her mouth, it becomes harder to keep the group working together--especially when she makes the accusation that one of the Contestants is Sent. However, every so often she manages to gain some keen insight into a puzzle that stumped even Rae, and it's indicated that her problems stem from having [[SpoiledBrat a previously sheltered life,]] being more freaked out than the others because she's the youngest and not as mature as the others to begin with, and some pretty serious confidence issues. She starts to get better after Ink [[spoiler: proves that it's impossible for Sent to be among the five of them,]] though time will tell just how much of her Load status and she loses.becomes more co-operative and more willing to help solve puzzles shortly afterwards.


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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Sent seems to consider women as typically weak and overly emotional, much to Liza's chagrin.
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* DoNotCallMePaul: [[spoiler: Ink's real name is Kim]].

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The game can be played [[http://www.kongregate.com/games/Percon/exit-corners here]]. The game is currently in progress, with 14 "chapters" currently playing and Chapter 15 scheduled to release on September 3rd.

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The game can be played [[http://www.kongregate.com/games/Percon/exit-corners here]]. The game is currently in progress, with 14 15 "chapters" currently playing and Chapter 15 16 scheduled to release on September 3rd.
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** [[spoiler: And then it turns out Ink's actual name is Kim, making Aether the sole example of this trope.]]


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** [[spoiler: Later subverted. Sent outright states that he's not a woman, either.]]


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* {{Troll}}: Sent seems to have a slightly more sadistic approach to this.
-->'''Ink:''' Sent. Come to antagonise us again?\\
'''Sent:''' (''bouncing around the screen with a "happy" face'') I wasn't going to, but since you're here, I might as well.
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* WhatDidIDoLastNight: The Contestants wake up in the Four Elements Hotel without their memories of the previous night. For bonus points, the main character wakes up in the same bed as one of the other contestants, who is female. Ink comes to the obvious conclusion, but soon finds out that it really ''isn't'' what it looks like--it's [[DeadlyGame much,]] [[KidnappedByTheCall much]] ''worse.''

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* WhatDidIDoLastNight: The Contestants wake up in the Four Elements Hotel without their memories of the previous night. For bonus points, the main character wakes up in the same bed as one of the other contestants, who is female. Ink comes to the obvious conclusion, but soon finds out that it really ''isn't'' what it looks like--it's much, [[DeadlyGame much,]] [[KidnappedByTheCall much]] ''worse.''''[[KidnappedByTheCall worse.]]''
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** A number of people are kidnapped, put in a deathtrap-filled building, and told to play a game if they want to survive. Did we just describe this game or ''{{Franchise/SAW}}''?
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* ManipulativeBastard: Sent's showing more and more signs of this, and Ink even lampshades it in regards to how close he came to driving Beth to suicide.

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* ManipulativeBastard: Sent's showing more and more signs of this, and Ink even lampshades it in regards to how close he came to [[spoiler: driving Beth to suicide.]]
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Referenced. One of the puzzles involves a man who needs to have his limbs weighed a certain way to walk, [[spoiler: leaving him without one of his arms.]] Rae jokes that he's still capable of masterbating.

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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Referenced. One of the puzzles involves a man who needs to have his limbs weighed a certain way to walk, [[spoiler: leaving him without one of his arms.]] Rae jokes that he's still capable of masterbating.masturbating.

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The game can be played [[http://www.kongregate.com/games/Percon/exit-corners here]]. The game is currently in progress, with 13 "chapters" currently playing and Chapter 14 scheduled to release on August 27th.

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The game can be played [[http://www.kongregate.com/games/Percon/exit-corners here]]. The game is currently in progress, with 13 14 "chapters" currently playing and Chapter 14 15 scheduled to release on August 27th.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Referenced. One of the puzzles involves a man who needs to have his limbs weighed a certain way to walk, [[spoiler: leaving him without one of his arms.]] Rae jokes that he's still capable of masterbating.


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* HiddenDepths: Everyone, but Liza stands out to the point where it gets lampshaded in-universe. For example, she spent a considerable amount of time going through her father's company's archives, since she was going to inherit it one day. Aether notes that this is uncharacteristically responsible of her.


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* ManipulativeBastard: Sent's showing more and more signs of this, and Ink even lampshades it in regards to how close he came to driving Beth to suicide.


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** The puzzles themselves all thrive on this, since they all usually defy some preconception on the player's part. Highlights include [[spoiler: using negative space in picture puzzles]], [[spoiler: switching numerical systems]], and [[spoiler: using the meanings of various symbols in a simpler way than usual]]. Rae's reaction to the solutions to these puzzles is generally a {{Facepalm}} and a comment that amounts to "that's so dumb".
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** Before Sent reveals himself, Liza also assumes that the other contestants kidnapped her and intend to ransom her off. Fortunately, she gets dissuaded of this notion fairly easily.
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* DoubleMeaning: Sent's catchphrase, "...or you could die" that he always signs off with turns out to be this. While it's readily apparent that he's referring to the hotel's death traps and the game's overall time limit, it's not until the Contestants reach the first Corner that it's revealed that [[spoiler: there are also methods Sent has devised to induce them to [[DrivenToSuicide CHOOSE to die.]]]]
* DrivenToSuicide: Narrowly averted with one of the contestants [[spoiler: namely, Beth]] in the first Corner. Time (and further chapters) will tell if the remaining Corners were designed with the same aim.
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The game can be played [[http://www.kongregate.com/games/Percon/exit-corners here]]. The game is currently in progress, with 13 "chapters" currently playing and Chapter 13 scheduled to release on August 27th.

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The game can be played [[http://www.kongregate.com/games/Percon/exit-corners here]]. The game is currently in progress, with 12 "chapters" currently playing and Chapter 13 scheduled to release on August 20th.

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* ShoutOut: Sent's apperance on the monitors when he communicates with the Contestants bears a more than passing resemblance to [[StarFox1 the original Andross.]]

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* SamusIsAGirl: Sent reveals that "he" is "not a man", though given the twist-filled nature of the game, this isn't the only possibility.
* ShoutOut: Sent's apperance appearance on the monitors when he communicates with the Contestants bears a more than passing resemblance to [[StarFox1 the original Andross.]]]]
* TeamMom: Though not of anybody in the group, Beth behaves like this most of the time, and is generally good at holding the group together, particularly Rae and Liza.


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* VillainRespect: Ink gains Sent's after [[spoiler: proving the latter was lying about being a recording.]] [[spoiler: [[StalkerWithACrush It, unfortunately, gets worse.]]]]

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Sorry, but Cassandra Truth really doesn't fit there.


Exit Corners, or more accurately titled, ''Exit/Corners'' is a free to play VisualNovel game that draws heavy inspiration from the Zero Escape series. Five people awake to find themselves trapped in the Four Elements Hotel and soon discover that their captor, the mysterious Sent, has brought them all here to play the titular game of his own invention. [[PlayerCharacter Ink,]] [[TheChick Aether,]] [[CoolOldLady Beth,]] [[TheSmartGuy Rae]] [[RichBitch and]] [[TheLoad Liza]] will have to solve puzzles, thwart traps, and make it through the Exit, and all before [[ExactTimeToFailure the entire building is brought down around them exactly 24 hours from the moment they woke up.]]

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Exit Corners, or more accurately titled, ''Exit/Corners'' is a free to play VisualNovel game that draws heavy inspiration from the Zero Escape series. Five people awake to find themselves trapped in the Four Elements Hotel and soon discover that their captor, the mysterious Sent, has brought them all here to play the titular game of his own invention. [[PlayerCharacter Ink,]] [[TheChick [[DesignatedLoveInterest Aether,]] [[CoolOldLady Beth,]] [[TheSmartGuy Rae]] [[RichBitch and]] [[TheLoad Liza]] will have to solve puzzles, thwart traps, and make it through the Exit, and all before [[ExactTimeToFailure the entire building is brought down around them exactly 24 hours from the moment they woke up.]]



* CassandraTruth: Early in the game, Aether and Ink joke that Ink is qualified to be a detective because he has a good sense of spelling and grammar. [[spoiler: One of the first tip-offs that Sent is talking to them live is when another contestant mentions that he said "Hello Contestant" to them in the lift. Ink remembers that Sent had addressed him and his fellow contestant with "Hello Contestants"; and since there were only four lifts, he realises that Sent couldn't have known which lift had two contestants in unless they were being watched live.]]


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* FiveManBand: For the most part, the Contestants fit this extremely well:
** TheHero: Ink, the PlayerCharacter, is recognized more than once as being the best among them at solving the game's puzzles, and he's excellent at thinking very quickly and on the fly to make both deductions that the other Contestants miss and plans to mess with the game they're trapped in.
** TheLancer: Aether. The first to meet Ink and with a personality that balances him well. Depending on a choice in the first chapter, you can actually designate her his sidekick in universe as well.
** TheSmartGuy / TheBigGuy: Rae. Though he never manages to solve one of Sent's puzzles on his own, in most of them he's the most likely Contestant to give advice that actually helps significantly toward the solution. He's also excellent at keeping a cool head and applying common sense to the group's situations, and has enough muscle to double as the BigGuy.
** TheChick: Beth. She's excellent at defusing team tempers when they ride high, whether with a stern look and tone or with soft, consoling words. On the occasions when her emotions are the ones spiraling out of control, the others rally to help her.
** SixthRanger / TheLoad: Liza. Acts unhelpful constantly for a while after she's first introduced, and most of her attempts to help get them rescued are basically useless. It doesn't help either that she has such a bad attitude that virtually every time she opens her mouth, it becomes harder to keep the group working together--especially when she makes the accusation that one of the Contestants is Sent. However, every so often she manages to gain some keen insight into a puzzle that stumped even Rae, and it's indicated that her problems stem from having [[SpoiledBrat a previously sheltered life,]] being more freaked out than the others because she's the youngest and not as mature as the others to begin with, and some pretty serious confidence issues. She starts to get better after Ink [[spoiler: proves that it's impossible for Sent to be among the five of them,]] though time will tell just how much of her Load status she loses.
* IWasJustJoking: Early in the game, Aether and Ink joke that Ink is qualified to be a detective because he has a good sense of spelling and grammar. However, pretty soon he's figuring out certain pieces of information about Sent and the game well before Sent intended to reveal them, using deductions and investigating much like a detective.
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* WrongGenreSavvy: Liza comes to the conclusion that, since the messages are prerecorded, and most of the puzzles are automated, Sent is likely one of the contestants. [[spoiler: Proving that Sent's recordings are live feeds disproves this theory.]]
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* WhatDidIDoLastNight: The players wake up in the Four Elements Hotel without their memories of the previous night. For bonus points, he wakes up in the same bed as one of the other contestants, who is female. Ink comes to the obvious conclusion.

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* WhatDidIDoLastNight: The players Contestants wake up in the Four Elements Hotel without their memories of the previous night. For bonus points, he the main character wakes up in the same bed as one of the other contestants, who is female. Ink comes to the obvious conclusion.conclusion, but soon finds out that it really ''isn't'' what it looks like--it's [[DeadlyGame much,]] [[KidnappedByTheCall much]] ''worse.''
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The game can be played [[http://www.kongregate.com/games/Percon/exit-corners here]]. The game is currently in progress, with 11 "chapters" currently playing and Chapter 12 scheduled to release on August 13th.

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The game can be played [[http://www.kongregate.com/games/Percon/exit-corners here]]. The game is currently in progress, with 11 12 "chapters" currently playing and Chapter 12 13 scheduled to release on August 13th.
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* WhatDidIDoLastNight: The players wake up in the Four Elements Hotel without their memories of the previous night.

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* WhatDidIDoLastNight: The players wake up in the Four Elements Hotel without their memories of the previous night. For bonus points, he wakes up in the same bed as one of the other contestants, who is female. Ink comes to the obvious conclusion.

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* CassandraTruth: Early in the game, Aether and Ink make a joke about Ink's good sense of spelling and grammar. [[spoiler: One of the first tip-offs that Sent is talking to them live is when another contestant mentions that he said "Hello Contestant" to them in the lift. Ink then remembers that Sent had addressed him and his fellow contestant with "Hello Contestants"; and since there were only four lifts, Sent couldn't have known which lift had two contestants in unless he was watching them live.]]

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* CassandraTruth: Early in the game, Aether and Ink make a joke about Ink's that Ink is qualified to be a detective because he has a good sense of spelling and grammar. [[spoiler: One of the first tip-offs that Sent is talking to them live is when another contestant mentions that he said "Hello Contestant" to them in the lift. Ink then remembers that Sent had addressed him and his fellow contestant with "Hello Contestants"; and since there were only four lifts, he realises that Sent couldn't have known which lift had two contestants in unless he was watching them they were being watched live.]]


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* ClusterFBomb: Rae drops a few of these over the course of the game.
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* CassandraTruth: Early in the game, Aether and Ink make a joke about Ink's good sense of spelling and grammar. [[spoiler: One of the first tip-offs that Sent is talking to them live is when another contestant mentions that he said "Hello Contestant" to them in the lift. Ink then remembers that Sent had addressed him and his fellow contestant with "Hello Contestants"; and since there were only four lifts, Sent couldn't have known which lift had two contestants in unless he was watching them live.]]



* WhatDidIDoLastNight: The players wake up in the Four Elements Hotel without their memories of the previous night.

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* WhatDidIDoLastNight: The players wake up in the Four Elements Hotel without their memories of the previous night.night.
* ZettaiRyouiki: Grade A for Liza.
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* Closed Circle: Played with. The five Contestants are all alone in the hotel, but they do have limited contact with the outside world through their Gemini devices. Each one connects their Contestant with the person in their lives who Sent determined was the most important to them. [[spoiler: Even if they're dead.]]

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* Closed Circle: ClosedCircle: Played with. The five Contestants are all alone in the hotel, but they do have limited contact with the outside world through their Gemini devices. Each one connects their Contestant with the person in their lives who Sent determined was the most important to them. [[spoiler: Even if they're dead.]]
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* AerithAndBob: The main characters, as contrasted with the other three and the known names of the Contacts. No, seriously, [[WhoNamesTheirKidDude who names their kid Ink? Or Aether?]] The fact that they both have such odd names is even the first thing that gets them bonding with each other.
* Closed Circle: Played with. The five Contestants are all alone in the hotel, but they do have limited contact with the outside world through their Gemini devices. Each one connects their Contestant with the person in their lives who Sent determined was the most important to them. [[spoiler: Even if they're dead.]]
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* ShoutOut: Sent's apperance on the monitors when he communicates with the Contestants bears a more than passing resemblance to [[StarFox1 the original Andross.]]
* [[TenLittleMurderVictims Five Little Kidnap Victims:]] Since the messages from Sent are pre-recorded, most of the Contestants suspect one of them is Sent in disguise. Ink isn't convinced, but the only way the others will believe him if he comes up with hard proof to the contrary. [[spoiler: He later gets such proof when he uses a BatmanGambit to get Sent--who's been talking to them live ''the whole time''--to go completely off script and react directly to something he couldn't possibly have predicted well enough to pre-record a reaction to.]]
* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: In one chapter, Ink asks Aether to backtrack to a previous room to talk privately. He asks her to do something, and the player is told neither what it is or why he's asking at the time. [[spoiler: He asks her to ''punch him out'' in full view of everyone--'''including Sent,''' who was in the middle of one of his so-called "recorded" messages, and it shocks him enough that he stops talking and gives away that the messages he's sending the Contestants aren't recorded at all.]]
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Exit Corners, or more accurately titled, ''Exit/Corners'' is a free to play VisualNovel game that draws heavy inspiration from the Zero Escape series. Five people awake to find themselves trapped in the Four Elements Hotel and soon discover that their captor, the mysterious Sent, has brought them all here to play the titular game of his own invention. [[PlayerCharacter Ink,]] [[TheChick Aether,]] [[CoolOldLady Beth,]] [[TheSmartGuy Rae]] [[RichBitch and]] [[TheLoad Liza]] will have to solve puzzles, thwart traps, and make it through the the Exit, and all before [[ExactTimeToFailure the entire building is brought down around them exactly 24 hours from the moment they woke up.]]

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Exit Corners, or more accurately titled, ''Exit/Corners'' is a free to play VisualNovel game that draws heavy inspiration from the Zero Escape series. Five people awake to find themselves trapped in the Four Elements Hotel and soon discover that their captor, the mysterious Sent, has brought them all here to play the titular game of his own invention. [[PlayerCharacter Ink,]] [[TheChick Aether,]] [[CoolOldLady Beth,]] [[TheSmartGuy Rae]] [[RichBitch and]] [[TheLoad Liza]] will have to solve puzzles, thwart traps, and make it through the the Exit, and all before [[ExactTimeToFailure the entire building is brought down around them exactly 24 hours from the moment they woke up.]]

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The game can be played here: http://www.kongregate.com/games/Percon/exit-corners The game is currently in progress, with 11 "chapters" currently playing and Chapter 12 scheduled to release on August 13th.

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The game can be played here: http://www.[[http://www.kongregate.com/games/Percon/exit-corners here]]. The game is currently in progress, with 11 "chapters" currently playing and Chapter 12 scheduled to release on August 13th.



* OnlySmartPeopleMayPass: Most of the doors in the Four Elements don't unlock until a nearby puzzle is solved, and some don't unlock even then.

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* OnlySmartPeopleMayPass: Most of the doors in the Four Elements don't unlock until a nearby puzzle is solved, and some don't unlock even then.then.
* WhatDidIDoLastNight: The players wake up in the Four Elements Hotel without their memories of the previous night.
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The game can be played here: http://www.kongregate.com/games/Percon/exit-corners The game is currently in progress, with 11 "chapters" currently playing and Chapter 12 scheduled to release on August 13th.

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The game can be played here: http://www.kongregate.com/games/Percon/exit-corners The game is currently in progress, with 11 "chapters" currently playing and Chapter 12 scheduled to release on August 13th.13th.

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*OnlySmartPeopleMayPass: Most of the doors in the Four Elements don't unlock until a nearby puzzle is solved, and some don't unlock even then.
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The game can be played here: http://www.kongregate.com/games/Percon/exit-corners

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-> ''"Please note that this message is a recording and will only play once. It is advisable that you pay attention."''

Exit Corners, or more accurately titled, ''Exit/Corners'' is a free to play VisualNovel game that draws heavy inspiration from the Zero Escape series. Five people awake to find themselves trapped in the Four Elements Hotel and soon discover that their captor, the mysterious Sent, has brought them all here to play the titular game of his own invention. [[PlayerCharacter Ink,]] [[TheChick Aether,]] [[CoolOldLady Beth,]] [[TheSmartGuy Rae]] [[RichBitch and]] [[TheLoad Liza]] will have to solve puzzles, thwart traps, and make it through the the Exit, and all before [[ExactTimeToFailure the entire building is brought down around them exactly 24 hours from the moment they woke up.]]

[[ArcWords ...Or they could die.]]

The game can be played here: http://www.kongregate.com/games/Percon/exit-corners

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