Megan Brooke

**“***What a creepy building...***”**
— **Megan understating the obvious, before stepping into the Branden Sawmill.**

**Megan Brooke** is a playable character and the main protagonist in *Power Drill Massacre*. She also appears in a cameo with the same role in *Night Shift,* in the demake minigame *Power Drill Massacre Arcade*.

## Description

### Appearance

Megan is an adult Caucasian woman with short brown hair. She wears a light blue sweater with a white cloud pattern, jeans, and red sneakers.

### History

Not much is known about Megan's background. According to the radio report heard in Ending A, Megan hails from Montclair, New Jersey, and was driving along Route 447 through rural Pennsylvania with her boyfriend Jeff West sometime in May, 1987. For unknown reasons, the van skids off the road and crashes into a ditch.

## *Power Drill Massacre*

Megan survives the crash with only a mild concussion, but Jeff was badly injured in the collision and is unable to get out of the wreckage due to suffering two broken legs. Promising to look for help before dark, Megan grabs a flashlight from the trunk and ventures into the woods, hoping to find a nearby town to call the authorities from or any sort of shelter for the night. Along the way, she comes across a barricaded shed with a pentagram drawn on the side, which she assumes is simply vandalism by local teenagers.

After a lengthy trek, she stumbles upon the Branden Sawmill ahead, an apparently abandoned lumber factory, and decides to check it out, desperate for possible assistance, such as a landline. Finding the ground entrances locked or sealed off, she climbs the stairs to the manufacturing level. Although uneasy, seeing the sun set over the horizon and set on getting Jeff the help he needs, she enters the unlocked side entrance. When the door clicks shut behind her, Megan is forced to explore the factory to find a way out.

Wandering the strangely empty and trashed halls of the upper floor, Megan soon discovers that she is not alone in this place and is trapped with a masked, drill-wielding maniac, who will promptly make his presence known with loud thumping before jumping her from corners with his make-shift weapon while squealing in a pig-like manner.

Scattered throughout the factory, Megan finds many hints uncovering the building's history and criminal happenings in the area. On occasion, she even catches glimpses of a little girl running down hallways leading to dead ends. With her only possible exits only leading further into unknown territory, Megan is ultimately left with two equally ambiguous options: search the complex for three keys to unlock a mysterious door or skip running the risk and attempt to maneuver through the confusing labyrinth system, ominously dubbed the "Sugar Tunnel", fingers crossed that one of the passages leads to the outside.

### **Ending A (True Ending)**

Megan manages to collect the 3 keys required to access the 2nd floor. When entering, Megan finds the little girl and, at the end of her wits, uncertainly asks if she can help her get out of the sawmill. In response, the girls starts sprinting down the hallway, with Megan chasing after her. As the hall lights up in red, the Driller Killer suddenly appears from a door on Megan's left, rushing through the little girl, who immediately vanishes, then turning around and beginning his own pursuit after Megan. She continues to run, attempting to flee, and as Megan screams in blind panic, the corridor continues to seemingly stretch on forever before the screen slowly flashes white.

Afterward, the screen fades to a nighttime view of the Pocono Mountains, while a radio seems to be switching in frequency, before playing a news radio station, the same one heard in the intro:

**“***The UN today is renewing its call for a ceasefire between Iran and Iraq, that negotiations with senior Iranian officials appear to have solved. In local news, police believe to have found the remains of Jeff West, after uncovering a wrecked vehicle off Route 447. West and Megan Brooke of Montclair, New Jersey have been missing since May. Brooke's body has not been discovered. News at 11.***”**
— **The radio report**

The radio then changes to a static signal, before a lullaby plays over it, accompanied by grotesque, deep-sounding groans, screams, and cries aloud.

### **Ending B (Secret Ending)**

Megan enters the Sugar Tunnel and navigates through multiple narrow, maze-like lines of hallways. After some time, she finds a flooded area and past it, she finds a corridor. At the end of the many corners, she discovers a horrific site: Piles of flesh, blood, bones, cages, a tool desk, and several children's items are strewn about a chamber, clearly designed to be a kid's room. A damaged vinyl record plays in the background. Megan examines the area, only for the door to lock on the outside. Moments later, the Driller Killer enters, and attacks. When Megan awakens, she finds herself locked inside a large cage, stripped off her clothes. Realizing that this is her doom, she sobs quietly. The Driller Killer then approaches her, and while Megan screams in horror, he begins to vocalize but, only produces odd noises, though it appears that the Driller Killer is making an attempt at talking to her. Megan is unable to understand and after a few attempts, he stomps out of the room in frustration. A music box playing a lullaby is heard, as Megan cries some more. The Driller Killer then returns and runs at the cage, battering Megan while piercing her flesh with the drill bit. The sound of a power drill loops, overlapping with her dying screams, and a large blood spatter flashes onto the screen. A biblical reference is displayed:

**“***AND DEATH AND HELL WERE CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE. THIS IS THE SECOND DEATH.***”**
— **REVELATION 20:14**

### **Arcade Ending**

The arcade version of the game largely follows the events of the original PDM, but extends on Ending A. After Megan is chased by the killer through the long hallway, she manages to escape the building and drives away in a pickup truck that was parked nearby. The following text is displayed afterward:

> **"Megan** **has suffered an emotional shock. She will recover in a crisis center. You win."**
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## Trivia

* The ending of *Power Drill Massacre Arcade* is a reference to the ending of *The Texas Chainsaw Massacre*, in which the final girl escapes the killer's grasp by jumping on the back of a passing pickup truck.
* It's not made clear whether the ending of *Power Drill Massacre Arcad*e shows what canonically happens after the fade-to-white sequence in PDM's Ending A, as it stands in conflict with the ending statement that Megan is still missing.
* Megan shares a base model with Grandma from *Stay Out of the House* and Heather from *Night Shift*.
* The ceasefire mentioned in the radio transmission is about the Iran-Iraq War and given the timeframe, is apparently referring to the UN's Security Council Resolution 598, adopted on July 20th, 1987, meaning the report takes place a month after Megan and Jeff's accident.
	+ This contradicts the wanted poster found in-game, which dates July 10th of 1987 as the last known date of the Driller Killer's sighting, well after the previous given setting of May of the same year.
		- It could, however, be possible for *Power Drill Massacre* to take place between July 10th-20th if Megan and Jeff had already been missing during the events of the game, which opens the question as to why they would have purposely disappeared in the first place. Considering that they were travelling through another state, the pair might have been trying to escape their former lives or at least lay low for a while, though no tangible reason can be taken from the game.

## Gallery

Megan in a debug scene of Power Drill MassacreMegan in the Killer's lair.Megan trapped in the cage (Ending B)Megan's model (Old Textures)Megan in Power Drill Massacre Arcade.Megan's walking animation in The PDM ArcadeMegan's death animation in The PDM Arcade