Murder College

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The **Murder College** is a cult led by Dr. Zoo, structured as an art school with the goal of studying and perfecting murder techniques. They serve as the main antagonists of Hands of the Killer. Their campus is located in the deepest layers of BB's apartment building and is the setting for the second half of the game.

The students dress in blue pointed hoods and robes bearing the college's emblem, a long-fingered red hand with a black star in the palm. They practice their craft using a massive collection of My First Strangle Victim dolls, and it is unknown whether they have ever actually killed anyone, but Dr. Zoo claims the college's interest in murder is purely symbolic and that real death is too kitsch.

The Murder College was affiliated with the Art Appreciators' Club, but never achieved the same reach or influence as the AAC and was ultimately destroyed before it could.

## Areas

### Administrative Office

The room to which BB is first taken after being captured. There is a large pile of My First Strangle Victim dolls in the corner, as well as a parody of Leonardo da Vinci's *Vitruvian Man*, featuring a man in a pointed hood, holding a knife and noose, and with a skull censoring the crotch.

### School of Engineering

A large, maze-like series of rooms filled with paintings, bookshelves, anatomy models, and various weapons strewn about. There are several functionally-useless spiked crusher traps with no mechanism, as well as an assortment of crude handmade torture machines, several of which have My First Strangle Victim dolls stuck in them. Two students wander the halls and chase BB if they see her.

### Demonstration Apartment

A 1:1 replica of BB's apartment used for practicing murder techniques in a realistic setting. The apartment is strewn with mutilated My First Strangle Victim dolls.

### Workshop

If BB is caught by a student in the School of Engineering, she is tied up and taken to a small workshop where a student is busy dissecting a My First Strangle Victim doll. BB can inch her way out of the room while the student is busy.

### Purple Hallway

A short, dark hallway covered with purple wallpaper. On the walls are several framed photos of the inaugural class of the Murder College, as well as pages detailing their philosophy.

### School of the Arts

A second maze patrolled by a single student, containing the art, music, theater, and film departments. This area is framed as a video lecture in front of a class, as Dr. Zoo reads any notes found by BB.

### Video Lab

An optional room where a student is working on the filming of the "Bloody Night" horror movie series. The student does not harm BB, seemingly stunned at being told by BB that people only watch the Bloody Night films to make fun of them.

### Abstract Room

If BB is caught by a student in the School of the Arts, she is taken to a garishly-decorated room with psychedelic wallpaper and lighting, ostensibly designed to test whether art can be a murder weapon. BB remarks that it just seems like a stupid music video.

### Dr. Zoo's Office

A calm study with a wallpaper pattern of white cats, containing many copies of Dr. Zoo's old published works and memorabilia from his time as a college professor.

### Exit Hallway

A long hall filled with abstract decorations and wallpaper that eventually fades back into the rest of the apartment complex. Dr. Zoo chases BB through this room. If he catches her, she is automatically sent to the Maintenance Room, with the only negative consequence being potentially missing some notes.

### Maintenance Room

A winding room of brick and wood at the edge of the campus. The controls for the exit door are here.

### Vents

A section of vents flooded with red light. Through the grates, BB can glimpse the Killer slaughtering all the other Murder College students, hanging some of them from the ceiling. At the end of the path, BB falls down a vertical drop and falls out of the hole behind her bathroom mirror.