Til Morning's Light Story

## Synopsis

   The events of Til Morning's Light continues straight after Til Morning's Light: The Private Blog of Erica Page in a haunted mansion set in the fictional town of Leisterville, New England. It follows the game's protagonist, a teenage girl named Erica Page, as she tries to find her missing friend Angie, who must have entered that mansion and never found her way out.

So Erica decides to enter the mansion hoping to find Angie or clues about her whereabouts. However, things take a turn when Erica realises that her search trip has now become a race against time and so now she must find a way out of the mansion before morning, if in vain, Erica will become the next ghost of the mansion trapped with the rest for all eternity.

   Erica along with Brooke and Lexie arrive at the mansion. Lexie opens the front door and gives Erica a flashlight, Brooke pushes Erica inside the mansion and they lock her up laughing at her, nailing the door and leaving her alone up to her luck.

As Erica thought, now it is up to her find out what happened to Angie and explore the dark, mysterious mansion. After Erica attempts to open some doors, she hears the voice of an unknown man at that moment (Nathaniel Crowes) it asks her what's her name and what she's doing in the house. Erica mentions how Brooke and Lexie tricked her and locked her in asking the voice for a way out of the house, the voice denies her request and spawns a Chomper in front of her. She battles it and proceeds in her mission to escape.

As Erica approaches a hallway, she encounters Keaton, a lonely ghost of a boy trapped inside the mansion. He introduces himself and tells her to let him know if she’d like to hang out

   as he knows the place “inside out”. A few moments later, Erica finds Asa and Edith, a pair of siblings bickering over which one of them is taller, Erica asks them if they have heard or seen a girl named Angie, Asa mentions how if she was here, "the bad people" must’ve gotten her. After talking with the siblings, Keaton reappears and tells Erica that in order to leave the mansion, she must defeat "the bad people" the four Bosses (Crowes disciples) and then she'll be able to leave.

    After solving a few puzzles and meeting some of the ghosts trapped in the mansion, Erica finds Victor, who's incharge of making all the creatures for the locations, Victor learns that Erica is indeed the one who is killing his creatures and he proceeds to attack her. Erica manages to defeat him but he warns her that his "brother and sisters" will be more troublesome and she can welcome the despair, Erica takes the key and proceeds on her mission.

After confronting Victor, Erica meets another male ghost named Elijah Price,

    He informs her that the man that has been speaking to her is Crowes, "the master of the house" and also warns her to not believe what he says and anyone here really, Elijah then vanishes and leaves her to it. Erica enters the Hunting Room where Crowes talks her again and realises that Erica is looking for her friend named Angie. After solving a few more puzzles, Keaton reappears and asks Erica what's the deal about Angie, Erica realises that Keaton was spying on her but she tells him about Angie anyway, he breaks it out to her that she must break this curse by morning or she will be dead like everyone else.

    As the night continues, Erica enters the Ballroom where she finds Constance, who at first shows her a bit of kindness but Erica overwhelms her patience and Constance begins to lose her patience and strikes in for the attack.  When Constance is upon death, she warns Erica that she has no idea of what she's dealing with and that the master (Crowes) has a greater plan for all of them. She finally dies and Erica leaves with a key covered in gunk. “Doesn’t anyone use pockets” - Erica as she walks out of the ballroom.

After Erica defeats Constance, she makes her way onto floor 3, there she finds a guy named Evan, the ghost of a loving husband who was murdered and separated from his wife Hannah. Erica offers Evan to deliver Hannah a message from him if she sees her, He says “tell Hannah that I love her and that I’m sorry”. - Evan

    Erica finds Hannah at a staircase and gives her Evan's message, Erica asks Hannah if she knows where to find a witch, she replies with no but tells Erica about Lucian and that he murdered Evan and herself, Hannah tells Erica to find him and she may get some answers, she thanks Erica and disappears.

When Crowes has the opportunity to talk to Erica once more, he offers her a deal which is that if she stops altering order and killing his disciples he will allow her to leave the house unharmed with Angie, Erica exclaims how can she trust him, Crowes responds she shouldn't trust him or anyone, but this is the best option she has right now.

When Erica reaches the rooftop, Keaton frantically appears telling Erica that she shouldn’t trust Crowes and that he has seen it a hundred times where the clock strikes noon and the people trapped become a ghost, she says that she can't stop fighting now. Erica then realises that Keaton said morning and not noon, she finds out that all this time Keaton was trying to get her killed, that's why he said that she had to fight those "things" until one of them kills her and she will be stuck in there with him. Keaton says being dead doesn't suck unless there's someone to spend it with, Erica fearful and angry yells at Keaton to leave her alone, Keaton vanishes abandoning her.

Erica finally finds Lucian killing time in his workshop. Erica begins talking to him saying how she doesn’t want to fight

    him, Lucian responds “is to late for that now”, Erica then mentions about the deal she had with Crowes but Lucian pays no mind to what she's trying to explain to him exclaiming that she plays funny tricks, but he is smarter than she thinks. Erica and Lucian begin to lose patience with each and begin the battle.

After Erica kills Lucian, she gets out of his workshop only to find Crowes enraged saying how they both had a deal, Erica exclaims she never agreed but now she's ready to stop fighting, Crowes surprised asks her if she considers him a fool and cancels the offer. Then A lock safe containing an Amethyst Gemstone opens in front of Erica, as she approaches the lock safe to grab the gemstone, a trap door opens beneath her and she falls down into the basement.

In the butcher room down in the basement, Erica meets Sarah. Sarah tells her that in life. she worked for Master Crowes as one of his servants, Erica asks her why is Crowes collecting all the souls. Sarah

    then tells her that Crowes, Isobelle, Lucian and the others began to do rituals (probably to give Crowes eternal life or another unknown purpose) and that the town's people got mind about that, and invaded the house and dragged him outside and strung him from the old oak, Sarah witnessed the whole thing, Erica then asks how Crowes managed to come back from death, Sarah explains to her that Isobelle (who was unknown for Erica at that moment) is a very skilled witch, she and the others made a ritual in an attempt to resurrect him, they managed to bring Crowes back in spirit but not in body, and at a cost. All of them became cursed, condemned to live forever and carrying a horrible dead-like appearance. The ritual will be complete once 100 souls have been collected, until then all of the ghosts will remain trapped in the house. Sarah then vanishes.

Now that Erica knows who is the next boss is, she must kill her in order to break the spell and leave the mansion, she proceeds to exit the butcher room and go on her hunt.

Erica makes her way into the upper west side of the mansion, In the museum, Crowes and Erica talk once again. Erica says that she now knows all about him, he won't show himself because he doesn’t have a self, Crowes responds that she doesn't know who he is and what he is capable of; Erica says that she thinks she does and she's not impressed and he only spends his time making empty threats saying how she can't beat Victor, Constance or Lucian, But the fact is that he can't beat her and that the wrong teenage girl got locked in his house tonight. Crowes does not respond and disappears.

When Erica arrives in the attic for the first time, Keaton appears in an attempt to recover Erica's trust by saying how he totally regrets trying to get her killed earlier and now she can trust him, Erica exclaims that she will never trust him again and asks him to leave her alone.

After a long night of solving puzzles and fighting all kinds of creatures, Erica finally enters Isobelle's

    Lair. When Isobelle sees Erica, she mentions that Crowes informed her that she would be coming to kill her, Erica says she’d prefer not to, but that's not how this place "works". An outraged Isobelle asks Erica who let her in here and why is she tormenting her, Erica responds that ‘the master’ let her in and she can thank him for whatever happens next. Erica starts to confront Isobelle, After a few moments, the two finally confront each other in the battle.

As Isobelle is dying she mentions the name "Nathaniel" and asks them to protect and save her upon death, Erica then takes her key and leaves Isobelle's Lair.

In the foyer, Crowes says to Erica the she must be very proud of herself, Erica blames him for every encounter that’s occurred tonight. He says that she maybe right about that, but anyway Isobelle is dead and she is now free to leave the mansion. Erica says Isobelle mentioned the name "Nathaniel" she asks him if that's his full name "Nathaniel Crowes" he responds "At your service". Erica then asks him if Isobelle loved him, he affirms she loved him “as much as any woman could” he supposes. Erica exclaims Crowes that she hates what he forced her to do tonight. Crowes says if she seeks for retribution, he will be waiting in the tombs..... with Angie. Erica affirms he is lying and even if Angie was here she would be free now because Isobelle's spell is broken. Before Crowes leaves the chat, he says that he has a little magic left and he has never lied to her up until this moment.

Erica proceeds to open the door to Crowes lair when Keaton appears one last time to talk her. Keaton asks if she wanted to know how he died, he tells Erica that he didn't die in the house and that he has nothing to do with the place or Crowes. Keaton tells her how he was goofing around one night and he fell into a construction pit, and "done, end of story".

Erica surprised asks Keaton why he’s in here, he mentions to Erica how he was bored and at least there were people to talk here but when he got inside he realises that he’s stuck in there too, but just not as stuck like everyone else, that's why he can go anywhere in the house. Keaton thanks her for breaking the spell and he tells her how the other ghosts have already left which means Erica is now able to leave the house. Erica replies that she knows and so Keaton asks her why isn’t she leaving then, Erica says she needs to know the truth, Keaton warns her that Crowes does not have Angie, he's lying. Erica sadly says that lying is something he knows all about "right?". Keaton disappears and she then enters Crowes Lair.

As Erica approaches the old oak, Crowes shows up saying how he knew Erica would come. Erica furiously asks him where Angie is, Crowes plays dumb and he affirms Erica has “enjoyed" the night and that she's not the same little girl who got trapped in here 12 hours ago. Erica says how she has enjoyed absolutely nothing about this night, Crowes then says it's fair enough and he wants to end all this as quickly as possible, both begin their final battle.

A few moments later of fighting with Crowes, he knocks down Erica and uses the opportunity to throw an Energy orb towards her in an attempt to kill Her. Keaton suddenly appears and bravely steps in between the orb and stopping it from reaching Erica. Keaton yells at Erica to run and get away because he can't hold it any longer, holding the orb consumes Keaton, killing him in the act. Crowes being satisfied tells Erica how he has been waiting for a long time to dispose of Keaton, he then says not to tell him that she's sad especially after what he did to her. Erica furiously says to Crowes that Keaton was her friend and she proceeds to attack him again.

Erica manages to defeat Nathaniel Crowes. Him terrified of death says he's not done yet and that’s there still so many things to do, he for his plans and his "life", Erica asks him what life because he's been dead since he was strung up from the oak and it's time to accept that he is dead. Crowes disintegrates screaming NO, concluding that she has survived the night and the curse is broken, she is now able to leave the mansion.

And finally who Erica was looking for shows up. Angie (who apparently doesn't know she's dead) appears to

    Erica, but now as a ghost. Angie delighted seeing Erica here says she knew it was her, but she (Erica) looks different. Erica tells her how it's been a rough night, Angie tells Erica she was right about the mansion being haunted and invites her to go and explore it with her.

Erica (demolished physically and mentally) says to Angie that she can't and she's sorry for making her come into the house, Angie responds to her “don’t be such a cry baby, I’ll go and you catch up okay”. as she runs through a door and disappears. Erica (sadly and relieved) says she will catch her up as crowes lair starts to erupt.

When morning comes Brooke and Lexie return to the manor to retrieve Erica, As they are walking towards the front door Lexie asks Brooke if she thinks Erica is dead, Brooke responds she probably spent the whole night crying against the front door.

When they reopen the door, Erica frantically comes out, Lexie exclaims Erica what a way to overreact if they told her they’d be back, Brooke then asks Erica what's her problem. Erica furiously turns back and gives Brooke a big punch right on her face like she said she would. Erica then leaves with a big and relieved smile.

On an audio played at the end credits, Keaton somehow reappears to Erica in her house. Keaton exclaims that those girls suck (Brooke and Lexie). Erica surprised of seeing Keaton again says she thought he was dead, Keaton sarcastically responds he is, Erica laughs and says never mind, he then asks her what's next, Erica responds him she doesn't know but there are a lot of strange places in this town to explore. This concludes that Keaton didn't perish in the mansion and somehow he found a way to escape there along with Erica.

## See Also

.Bosses

.Creatures

.Weapons

.Items

.Lost Spirits