Roxanne

**“***My stomach... what did he do to me?...***”**
— **Roxanne after awakening in the House**

**Roxanne** is a playable character and the main protagonist in *Stay Out of the House*.

## Description

### Appearance

Roxanne is not seen in-game, but she is described as a young Caucasian woman in her 20's. Her physical appearance is unknown.

### History

Very little is known about Roxanne's background. Prior to the events of *Stay Out of the House*, she was on a long road trip through Oklahoma with her boyfriend Brendan.

## *Stay Out of the House*

### Prologue

Nine days after the events of the *Night Shift*, Roxanne is woken up by Brendan as they traverse a country road, teasing her about having slept for most of the trip and informing her that he will soon stop for a bathroom break. She falls asleep again, with Brendan eventually parking the car near a rest area and going in to relieve himself.

Roxanne wakes up some time later and notices Brendan hasn't returned. She finds the bathroom empty and his driver's license on the ground behind the building, spotting some large silos in the distance. Believing that Brendan may have gone that direction, she passes through the undergrowth and discovers that the silos belong to an abandoned industrial complex. Exploring further, she comes across a dog, that leads her through the area, finding random items, including scattered pieces of clothing, suitcases, a pair of glasses, a teddy bear and a wrecked car, all in the vicinity of a cornfield surrounding a fenced-in farmhouse manor. Roxanne goes to the house in hopes of finding Brendan or at least ask the residents for assistance, and enters through the open front door, with the inside of the home appearing extremely dirty and completely ruined, though seemingly lived-in. The dog quickly rushes ahead into the basement and when Roxanne goes in after, she finds the dog stuck in a bear trap. Freeing it, it immediately runs back upstairs through the entrance, which suddenly locks. Just then, the residents of the house reveal themselves, as a lady in a wheelchair rolls down the stairs, reacting towards Roxanne's presence by screaming out loud, alerting the owner of the house on the ground floor, who, masked and wielding a sledgehammer, sprints out from a previously locked door and knocks Roxanne unconscious.

### The House

Many hours later, Roxanne regains consciousness in a large cage, with severe stomach discomfort she attributes to her captor. She escapes from her cage and works her way through the house by collecting items, avoids being caught by the house's inhabitants, and also battles with recurring stomach pains and headaches which cause her to vomit and have hallucinations at some points in the house, such as whole room turning red and rats turning into worm-like monsters. Crossing through the vents, she finds Brendan in a room below, tied to a chair and yelling at his kidnapper, and can do nothing but watch as he is brutally executed by the Butcher. It becomes apparent that her abductor is a serial killer, with a macabre taste for human meat and furniture. Roxanne also discovers several other living captives trapped in cages in the backyard and may free them. Four able-bodied prisoners are able to be recruited and brought along during exploration, but can only serve as bait in case of discovery, as the Butcher will fixate solely on the companion, who will lead the killer off before inevitably getting caught and murdered on the spot.

#### Strategies

Outside of stealth, Roxanne can use bear traps against the killer. If the Butcher steps on a bear trap, he will drop to his knees and will start screaming while trying to free himself, giving players time to flee. If Roxanne gets close to him, he will try to hit her. After a certain amount of time, Butcher will free himself and continue searching for Roxanne.

If one shoots him with the pistol or stabs him enough times with a kitchen knife, the Butcher will run away and lock himself in a room with metal doors that cannot be accessed by Roxanne. After a certain amount of time, he will leave the room and continue his usual routine.

Once Roxanne exits the house into the backyard, the Butcher will turn the stadium lights on and start patrolling the backyard. From that point on, the Butcher will start taking the remaining victims from the backyard to the kitchen one-by-one, impaling them on a meat hook, and dismembering them piece by piece. All cages can be unlocked, although only five hold living people, with an injured woman being unsaveable on account of her crippled legs. The remaining victims can be ordered around and used as distractions should they be brought along, momentarily causing the Butcher to shift his attention on a single person.

Roxanne can get caught two times, each time being relocated to a different part of the house and losing all her items, except her lighter, as penalty.

### Chapter 4: Bunker

Upon accessing the bunker, Roxanne may stumble upon two points of interest: in one of the tunnels, she can find a hallway splattered in blood, with a red door at the end, while in one of the many siderooms, she can find a storage area with a vent. Interaction with either location will lead to drastically different paths and result in two equally unique endings.

### Endings

#### Ending A: Rebirth

Roxanne manages to gain access to the bunker and finds a corridor lined in blood, leading to a red-lighted door. If she opens it she is ambushed and knocked out by the Butcher as she opens the final door. When she comes back to her senses, she finds herself tied-up in a gore-covered room with the Butcher silently standing next to an animate, monstrous mass of flesh. Roxanne can only watch as a protuberance extends out of the creature's maw and seemingly examines her with its own mouth. As she fearfully begs for her life, the limb abruptly descends upon Roxanne, presumably devouring her.

#### Ending B: Escape

Roxanne is able to unlock the front door and escapes outside. Upon exiting the cornfield, the Butcher suddenly appears from the side, revving a chainsaw. She runs into the nearby scrubland, eventually finding a trailer park. Her pursuer having disappeared from sight, Roxanne bangs on a random door, being greeted by a strangely untroubled man, who ignores her panicked state and asks her if she would like to come inside. Roxanne then suddenly experiences abdominal pains and again begs the stranger to help her before she begins to spit up blood, a worm-like creature wriggling its way out of her mouth.

#### Ending C: Mother

Roxanne gains access to the bunker and either finds a vent which ends at a strangely misplaced security room or is knocked out by the Butcher, this time waking up in a cage with mutant hogs feeding on human bodies. Either way, she will find her way further into the facility, all the while avoiding the Butcher and his mutated dog. She discovers that she is inside a research facility hidden below the house, plastered with CFV logos, with private logs revealing that the scientists there had been conducting experiments with radiation there for decades. Roxanne manages to activate the lab's self destruct system and goes for the exit where she is confronted by the Butcher with a chainsaw. She is able to fend him off as she clears the way out and escapes to safety before the entire area detonates, but falls unconscious. She is rescued afterwards and wakes up several days later in a hospital bed, surrounded by a nurse and a doctor, who are apparently unaware of the true nature of what they believe to have been an "accident" and ask her how she is feeling. Roxanne is unable to speak, so the doctor assures her that she'll be back on her feet in around a week and tells her to get some rest for her upcoming surgery tomorrow. That night, while Roxanne is watching TV, she suddenly starts to vomit blood, and a worm-like creature erupts from her mouth. Roxanne faints again and sometime later Roxanne, wakes up to find the whole hospital ward bathed in red and empty safe for a number of pulsating organic egg sacs sprouting on the ground, the beds, the walls, and on top of the ceiling. Roxanne reaches the exit door, at which point the credits roll.

#### Game Over: Sacrifice

Upon being caught a third and final time, a short cutscene will play where Roxanne drowsily awakens in a laundry cart, pushed by the Butcher, as he takes her through a red corridor. The word "Sacrifice" will repeatedly appear on screen and once she reaches the door at the end of the hall, the cutscene will cut to black and screaming can be heard.

## Quotes

* "*You know I hate road trips.*"
* "*(How long have I been out?)*"
* "*Brendan? (How is he not back yet?)*"
* "*(The throbbing is driving me crazy...)*".
* "*HELP ME! IS ANYONE HOME?*"
* "*HE IS GOING TO KILL ME.*"
* *"Something's wrong. My stomach."*
* *"I'm SICK. HELP ME."*

## Trivia

* Roxanne, along with Jean, is one of the few Puppet Combo protagonists whose faces are never shown.
* Roxanne's character was introduced alongside Brendan's in Version 0.7.2. of the game.
	+ Prior to Roxanne's introduction, the cashier from *Night Shift* was considered the main protagonist.