ESPER: THE TOWN ON THE EDGE OF DARKNESS WALKTHROUGH

Intro
Watch the intro as you visit Mr Stiles in prison.  He claims that the woman he murdered was not really alive, and he asks you to prove his innocence.

Boat
You start the game off in your boat.  Take the EMF Detector from bookshelf on the left, and make sure that you take the handgun from table on the right.  It is very important to have this gun.  Now climb up the stairs, so you are outside the boat.  Walk down the plank, and head right to the Dock House.  

Town Square
Walk up through the Dock House, into town.  Look at church doors to get a cut-scene with a small boy warning you not to go in there.  Very mysterious!  

Well, let's go and meet some of the locals.

Town Pub
Enter bottom-right door to find yourself in the pub.  Look at Barman (scary looking man with a rag), and then talk to him.  Not very helpful, is he?  Look at woman (Lucy) on the left, and then talk to her about everything.  She tells you about the mysterious 'sickness', and asks you to meet her in the Town Square tomorrow.  Now leave the pub.

Town Inn
Enter the Inn (top left door) and talk to the innkeeper.  He gives you Room 105 at the end of the corridor.  Go right, and enter Room 105.  Use the lamp to turn it off.  YIKES!!! What is that monster?  You automatically turn the lamp back on, and you hear a bang-bang noise.  SAVE YOUR GAME HERE.  Use the window to try and climb out.  Oh dear, you cut your hand.  You need to deal with that quickly.  Look at bed on the left, and then use it to get the sheet.  You automatically use the sheet to bandage your hand.  

Climb out of the window.  If you have not bandaged your hand, then you will die from loss of blood.  Now look at church window on the right.  Hmm, seems like you found a way into the church now.  

Town Church
Climb through the Church window on the right.  Take Pastor's journal from the pulpit, and look at it in your inventory (equip).  You learn a lot about nuclear testing and the sickness.  This is serious stuff!  Head right to the office, and look at Pastor William Richards.  Unfortunately, there is nothing you can do to help him.  Take shovel from next to the bookcase.  Now search the desk to get a dossier on Virginia Vallaincourt.  Look at it in your inventory to learn that she died from uranium poisoning and radiation sickness in 1944.  Therefore, if she was already dead, then your client Mr Stiles COULDN'T have killed her. Leave the office. 

SAVE YOUR GAME HERE.  Head down the isle, and towards the door.  Jimmy (the young boy) will appear again, and start talking to you.  You cannot let him reach you, or you will die.  After he has finished talking, QUICKLY take your handgun, and shoot him.  

Now head out through the door.  As soon as you leave the Church, you are arrested for murdering Jimmy Richards.  You are put in jail, and there is nothing you can do to avoid this.  

Town Jail
In your cell, look at scratches on the right wall.  Now 'Action' the scratches to get a chunk of concrete.  This could be your way to escape.  Use bloody bandage from your inventory on the sheriff to call him over.  Throw the chunk of concrete at him to kill him.  It is quite tricky to get to him through the bare, but keep trying until you succeed.  After you kill him, there is blood everywhere.  Now leave the cell, and pick up the yellow bag to get your possessions back.  Head right to leave the jail.  

Town Graveyard
Head up through the top-right door to enter the graveyard.  Look at all the gravestones.  Hmm, these names seem a bit familiar.  Most of them are people you have met in the town.  Now look at the big gravestone at top of the cemetery to see that it belongs to Virginia Vallaincourt.  Notice the dates that are on the gravestone.  Use shovel on the gravestone to uncover a secret lab.

Secret Lab
You have fallen through the grave into a secret lab.  Look at big computer on the wall, and then use it to get a printout of the lab's activities.  Look at printout in your inventory to learn about the cloning experiments.  This just gets scarier and scarier.  SAVE YOUR GAME HERE.  You have learned the town's nasty secret now, and you decide to stop the rest of the clones before it is too late.  Look at gas tanks on the left, and shoot them with your handgun.  Look at the blue cylinders to see some the clones.  Head through door on the left to find yourself in a dark room.  Make your way up the white stairs, and then enter doorway at the top.  You are now back in the Pastor's office, and the Pastor has been squashed by the fallen bookcase.  There is a bug that prevents you from entering the secret lab again.  Look at the bloody pentagram above door on the left.  Who could have done this?  Search desk to get a dossier for Jimmy Richards (the boy you shot).  Look at dossier in your inventory to learn that he was 'supposedly' killed by radiation sickness.  Now make your way back to the Town Square.  SAVE YOUR GAME HERE.  

Ending 1
You have had enough of this town, and decide to leave.  Head down, and walk through the Dock House.  Walk left, towards your boat, and Lucy will ask you to take her with you.  Tell here you understand completely, and then walk up the plank into the boat.  Enter inside the boat, and Lucy will follow.  Inside the boat, Lucy kills you, just as Virginia attempted to kill Mr Stiles.

Ending 2
You have had enough of this town, and decide to leave.  Head down, and walk through the Dock House.  Walk left, towards your boat, and Lucy will ask you to take her with you.  Tell her you don’t think so.  You are not going to fall for the same trick that Mr Stiles did.  You try to shoot her, but she will not fall down.  When she stops coming after you, enter your boat.  You return to Mr Stiles cell, to tell him that Noman Island is destroyed.  Unfortunately, you are too late, and someone has already got to him.  At least he can be at peace now.  

If you did not shoot the gas tanks, then the town will not be destroyed.  Some monsters creep onto your boat, and kill you.

This walkthrough was created by Frodo for Abandonia Reloaded.