Story

The story is the main part of the game, being a visual novel and interactive audio book with multiple choices. Because of this, **it is best to view this page after completing the game.**

## Overview

The main game feature and genre is "choose your own adventure", but it serves only as illusion for the player as the narrator has a bias towards a "Good" or "Bad" ending. In certain parts your view switches back to the book, where the game panned into at the start of the game, and you make the choice to pick one of the available charms. Charms allow the player to use one word to change the story (i.e; "[...] he found the best way to deal with an enraged Roxy was to be a little \_\_." With a choice of "Shit" or "Chill" - both make drastic changes to the story of Beacon Pines. These decision points are called **Turning Points**. The game has 11 Turning Points in total, leading to 13 endings, and only one of these endings can uncover the one True ending of the game.

## THE BEGINNING

### Chapter 1 - Normal Isn't What It Used To Be

After the opening narration, you meet Luka - the player character - grieving at his father's grave. A little bit later, Rolo interrupts Luka's alone time with plans for how to start their summer together. They head to Luka's house through a dandelion field, where he eventually sneezes, revealing the player's first charm. The narrator explains how these charms are used and why they are important. This also unlocks the achievement **A Charmed Life.**

After obtaining your first charm, Rolo says that he can't tell Luka what his plans are, because it is too risky out in the open. Explaining that they could be overheard by someone, he tells Luka to come to their treehouse dubbed "Mission Control". But first, Luka needs to stop at his house to tell Gran where he is going to be for the day.

Within Luka's house, the player can locate four charms: **Junk**, **Ponder**, **Chill,** and **Hide.**

## A Gran JURY

When Luka finally goes into the garden to speak with Gran, the player encounters their first Turning Point to answer the question of what Luka is going to do today. This is the one and only choice which does not have any impact on the story and serves as a foundation for other choices. Regardless of what charm was chosen, Gran allows Luka to go and warns him about not getting into trouble with Rolo. Luka immediately writes a task to get in trouble with Rolo.

### Chapter 2 - Welcome to Beacon Pines

This is the first split in the story, where you can choose where to make your mark on this town. Rolo waits excitedly near the "Welcome to Beacon Pines" sign and then runs into the town. Here, Luka can come and say hi to almost every Beacon Pines citizen.

At The edge of town, Luka talks to Mayor Augustus Valentine and William Kerr, learning about the festival that will take place in a couple of days. Mr. Sinclair could be found sneezing in his chair with complaints about the Perennial Harvest building. Iggy and Tish are trying to pressure Andy into stealing a wallet from one of the Clipboards. The Clipboard named Pete asks Luka if he has a minute to "share his thoughts".

Near the Old Picker's Pond, he speaks to Jetson about Luka and his dad going together fishing when Luka was younger. After this conversation, Luka can remember himself fishing with his dad. This unlocks a Fishing Minigame for the player to access whenever you can reach the picklers pond.

Going through the woods, Luka comes to their Mission Control treehouse and speaks to Rolo. Inside, Rolo tells Luka about the abandoned Valentine's warehouse building not far from Rolo's house. He says it was glowing last night and that was unusual because since the Foul Harvest, the warehouse was empty. Rolo originally just wanted to do research at the Library, but Luka wants to investigate the warehouse directly, managing to convince Rolo to investigate. Here the Player can unlock only one new charm here - **Pull**.

Rolo stops to catch his breath and tells Luka to go ahead of him. In the Town Square, he greets Holden Wilder and Mrs. Nelson and asks about the old warehouse, but gets no response besides warnings. This is where player gets **Change** charm.

In the Market Luka says hi to Griffin and Bert, stopping by to watch preparations for the History Museum. In this location, the player can get the achievement **Play that Funky Music** and obtain the **Smack** charm as well.

Finishing his overview of the town, Luka bumps into Roxy and Fitz and immediately gets questioned about Rolo's whereabouts. Luka lies, saying he didn't see his friend and then Rolo runs towards Luka, not noticing Roxy standing nearby, speaking about her being an obstacle for their adventure. Rolo notices Roxy and then Roxy orders Rolo to get back home and finish his chores. Luka strikes his quest to get in trouble with Rolo. Rolo does not want to dig up rotten carrots and refuses to go back. Roxy takes a step towards Rolo and Luka needs to deal with an enraged Roxy with two options.

## RENDEZVOUS WITH ROXY - Chill Option

Luka tries to negotiate being chill and calm to Roxy, reminding her it's the first day of summer and Rolo can finish his chores tomorrow. Although, Roxy does not agree with Luka, saying that Rolo's problems eventually become her problems. She grabs Rolo back home and he tells Luka that he expects a full report about Valentine's building before heading back. He keeps his "chill" attitude for a little bit more and asks Fitz about what she's been up to. Examining the statue of Sharper Valentine Grants the player the *Indulgent* charm.

On his way through the Old Part of Town, he meets Solomon, but they don't talk because Solomon doesn't have the time. Luka gets stopped by Mr. Nuncreed, he asks him to tell his Gran to make more jam for him and then talks about how great of a woman she is.

On his way to Weep Wood, Luka talks to Joey about bugs and is told that they disappeared for an unknown reason. Later, on a small hollow at the edge of Weep Wood, Luka stops by an electrified fence and finds a way to disable it by throwing items at it. Continuing forward, Luka finds out that the warehouse indeed isn't abandoned as it seemed like before.

## WAREHOUSE OF HORRORS - Change Option

Looking around, Luka tries to open the door, but it is locked. Hearing something on the other side, he tries to listen harder, hearing footsteps that grow louder. The door opens and Luka meets face to face with an unknown figure in a yellow hazmat suit, who says only "Shit." in response. Player gets the **Shit** charm and then is taken inside the building.

Narrator tells us that this is a story about change, but that this change is not a kind that Luka imagined for himself. After this, the game ends for the first time, leaving no clues as to what happened to Luka. The Narrator encourages the player that they will find the ending that this story deserves and suggests to try something different this time.

## RENDEZVOUS WITH ROXY - Shit Option

This time, Luka decides to be a little shit with Roxy and kicks her right in front of her brother. Rolo panics and runs away with Luka. Running forward, Rolo accidently knocks over Solomon and keeps running. Luka to Solomon, telling him that his friend can get overexcited sometimes. Solomon asks Luka if his mother is still missing, and says that it is truly a shame that she still is. Then asking if his Gran actually moved to their house and now takes care of Luka, complaining about family and the problems that it brings. Heiress Valentine comes right after and grabs Solomon with her on their way to maintain the History Museum. Here the player gets the **Shame** charm.

Luka doesn't stop by Mr. Nuncreed to repeat their dialogue in the previous Turning Point and just continues his on his way to Weeping Wood. Rolo awaits him at the electrified fence, saying that he is a "champion", because he got here first. The two examine the sign and Rolo strikes towards the fence, getting an electric shock. He tells Luka to find out how to disable it. Luka disables the fences by throwing two items at it.

After the two friends come near the fertilizer building, Rolo starts examining things and unsuccessfully tries to open the door. He asks Luka to help him get into the dumpster to look for something valuable. Rolo finds two walkie-talkies and gives one to Luka, then the two boys check them out, parodying Hank Atomic. They both hear some kind of noise and rumble, but don't attach importance to it. After this, they hear someone coming and the two of them hide in the dumpster. Here the player gets **Rumble** charm.

A yellow figure opens the door, then comes to the dumpster to open it's hatch and then returns to the building, only to come back with big blue bag, throwing it into the dumpster. They find a name-tag inside the bag with the name of "Dr. Prescott: Deep Engineering". Luka feels something hold his hand and then he realizes he grabbed a disembodied hand. After this realization, Rolo and Luka are scared. Rolo suggests to divide and run away separately, mentioning the flaming chicken coop.

Rolo escapes the territory, telling Luka to count to 100 and then run. Luka credits that Rolo actually found an interesting way to start their summer, and then starts to count. Not being able to count to 100, he stops early and then runs. He made it to his house, immediately falling asleep.

### Chapter 3 - Finding A Friend

Luka quietly has his breakfast with his Grandmother. She asks Luka to deliver jam today and questions what he did with Rolo yesterday, then the phone rings. Gran answers the phone and then once again asks Luka about yesterday. Luka says that everything was ok, and then Gran forbids him from leaving the house under any circumstances.

Getting back to his bedroom, Luka hears eerie electronic sounds coming from the walkie-talkie, with Morse message coming from it. In attempt to answer the incoming call from the walkie-talkie, the signal is lost.

Heading back, he hears someone knock on the door and Luka opens it to see a worried Roxy. He finds out that Rolo didn't come back home last night. This news perturbed Luka and he decides to accept Roxy's request to help look for him in the Library.

Going into the town, Luka finds Bert in the Small Bridge Area, getting no info about Rolo and finding out that the Clipboards are actively preparing for the festival. Near the Old Picker's Pond, he asks Jetson about Rolo and finds nothing. Going forward, Luka greets another Clipboard that he mistakes for Pete, finding out it's Toby. Luka refuses to answer questions and goes ahead.

Continuing on leads to a small cutscene where Zariel, Lumi and Piper are being asked by Fitz and Roxy to help find Rolo. The group then decided that Roxy and Fitz should check Weep Wood and the others will help with missing posters.

Luka sees how Roxy and Fitz are running towards Weep Woods. He then hears Mayor Gus talking with Ilona and Nelly about how Rolo will be safe and how Heiress Valentine provided them a proper house to live in.

In the Market, Luka speaks to Griffin and Ylsun, getting no answer about Rolo’s whereabouts, but instead getting told about the recently completed History Museum, being available for the player to now watch a short movie about Sharper Valentine's career by going inside.

Luka checks out the library, speaking to Jase and Kado, not finding Rolo, so he leaves the library. Here the player can obtain the *Succulent* and the **Fight** charm.

On the street, he sees a new kid looking at candies in Mr. Nuncreed's drug store. He meets with this new person and introduces himself to Beck. He tells her that Rolo's missing and is about to leave, but Beck stops Luka and says she is coming with him to help, flipping her Unlucky Penny before.

Heading to Weep Wood, Luka speaks with Joey about bugs again and then finds out that the way they infiltrated the warehouse with Rolo was now blocked by a wood sign. Luka and Beck decide to bypass the fence and come to the Stump Area, examining a puddle of an odd glowing green liquid. Approaching the puddle, a chill can be felt in the air, then Beck suggests SCIENCE! (poke it with a stick.) Beck dips a broken tree branch into the goo, miraculously, flowers sprout from the dead wood, but after a short period the flowers shrivel up and die.

After this, Iggy and Tish show up, immediately provoking and bullying Luka and Beck, looking for a fight. Iggy started to hurt Luka's feelings by bringing up his family's situation.

## HAZARDOUS HECTORING - Strange Option

Luka starts crying and Iggy kept his sneers about Luka, clenching his fists too. Beck decided to bust out the strange and decided to keep totally silent. Iggy starts threatening to bathe Luka in the mud and gets annoyed at Beck when she doesn't respond to him. He tries to speak with Beck a couple of times again and calls her a "wackadoo".

At this point, Luka completely snaps and struck Iggy, pushing him into the ooze. Iggy's clothes get soaked with the weird goo and his voice immediately begins to warp as he struggles to get up. The player gets a **Struggle** charm here. After he gets up, half of Iggy's body becomes mangled. Luka, scared of what just happened, tries to apologize, but Iggy and Tish run away in fear.

Leaving the Stump Area, Luka and Beck meet William Kerr, who tells them that Rolo is ok and is now resting in his home. Kerr tells Luka to get back home because his Gran is worrying about him, and then tells Beck that he'll walk her to her house.

### Chapter 4 - Our Harvest Awaits

Luka quietly gets back to his house and can't find Gran anywhere. He decides to lay down and fall asleep. The Narrator starts describing Luka's dream, where he was sitting by the pond with his father. Luka was being asked to grab a tackle and give it to his dad. Luka's father starts telling him it was the wrong choice, but he respects it and that sometimes "got to make the wrong choice before you can make it right". The pond begins to freeze over and eventually his father tells him some philosophical thoughts before being frozen too.

Luka wakes up in the middle of the night, hearing same morse code from the walkie talkie. Luka can hear Rolo through the static. Rolo tells him that he was grabbed by someone after they escaped, saying that he thinks he is underground, and something about Kerr and Mission Control. He repeats something about the treehouse several times and the walkie talkie goes silent.

Luka decides to grab a walkie talkie and connect it to the antenna on the treehouse. On his path there, he sees his Gran with Mr. Tolliver and Mrs. Fratelli. All three speak about the Valentines and something about an "Operation Sparkplug," going home after this conversation. Luka asks himself what just happened and then gets surprised by Dawn, who was also hiding in the bushes. They discuss what Gran, Mr. Tolliver and Mrs. Fratelli are doing and then Luka leaves.

In the Small Bridge Area, Ylson and Solomon talk about changing the festival sign and then run away. Luka goes to the treehouse and connects the walkie talkie to the radio inside. He tries to establish contact with Rolo but gets no response. Something behind the rocket in the treehouse corner started moving and Luka threatens it, but heard a muffled voice telling him he can't hurt something that's already dead. Luka can't recognize who the figure is, and they tell him they can't even recognize themself anymore.

The figure reveals itself to be Iggy, wearing a winter coat and looking mangled, having a changed voice as well. He tells Luka that he is being hunted by someone and that they treat him like a monster. He tries to reach over but Iggy is angry at Luka, blaming him for what happened to him. Luka falls to the ground and starts to cry, apologizing for what he did to Iggy. Iggy condemns Luka for not being able to control himself for a moment, leaving Iggy like this forever. Iggy says that he was being chased after by someone and they'll be here soon.

The walkie talkie begins to respond again and he says that it is not safe for Luka to be in the treehouse. Luka realizes that Rolo was trying to warn him not go there instead of telling him to go there, because now the Clipboards are coming. An unknown person knocks on the hatch asking if someone is inside and that they would like to share their thoughts. Luka checks the balcony and sees a big group of Clipboards, asking him that they would like to hear his thoughts.

Luka rushes inside and tells Iggy about the situation outside the treehouse. He falls to his knees and doesn't know what to do next. Luka said to follow his lead and grabbed a walkie talkie. They climbed up to the roof of the treehouse. William Kerr appears from behind the crowd, telling him they were worrying about Iggy and they need to help him. Luka wails for Kerr to tell them about his lies and then grabs the MCDC (Mission Control Defense Cannon)

## M.C.D.C - Fight Option

Iggy asks Luka what they would do next and he decides to take the only option they have - fight. Luka aims at William Kerr's face with a confident demeanor, telling him that Rolo sends his regards, but he misses. Kerr acts like he was just insulted by this act and goes back, ordering his Clipboards army to end this. Luka only looked into Iggy's eyes with humility.

The Narrator tells the player that "maybe discretion was the better part of valor, here" and suggests to pick an alternative choice.

## HAZARDOUS HECTORING - Tickle Option

This time, Beck decides to bust out the tickles. She asks Tish if she wants to see "something cool" and starts to intensely tickle her, making her laugh until she leaves. Iggy, confused about what Beck just did, realizes that he is outnumbered and decides to leave. But before he escapes, Iggy kicked at the ooze puddle, resulting in several drops of it flying onto Beck's hair.

She tried to shake it from her hair, but part of her hair was already gray now. Beck asks Luka how bad it is and after Luka's answer, Beck escapes from the Stump Area in fear.

### Chapter 4 - The Best Policy

Luka was shocked after what happened and feels guilty about Beck's situation, but decides to find Rolo first. As Luka was about to leave, Roxy and Fitz stop him and ask what he was doing here and why the new kid ran past them in a panic. Luka tries to explain that they were just looking for Rolo, but Roxy wants to hear only the truth. Luka breaks down and tells Roxy about their adventures in the old warehouse territory, but after they had to escape, they split.

Roxy reassures Luka that this is not his fault and that Rolo will be ok. She tries to send Luka back home, but he refuses and wants to help as well. Roxy thinks about their treehouse and sends Luka there instead. He agrees and leaves. A brief moment later, Fitz asks Roxy if she really believes Luka's story and the two discuss about how things have started to seem weird recently. Roxy comes closer to the puddle and asks why is it so cold here.

## WINDOWS TO THE SOUL - Shame Option

Luka leaves Weep Wood and goes past Mr. Nuncreed, standing near the phone booth. he warns Luka not to sneak up on him. Luka, curious about who Mr. Nuncreed was speaking to, asks what he is doing, and is answered that Nuncreed thought he heard it ringing, but how it wasn't and never does and how this phone booth is a waste of money. Nuncreed asks Luka about Rolo and mentions that it took him too long to just "lose his way" in the woods. Luka says that Rolo knows the woods too well to lose his way in them.

Nuncreed believes that Rolo is just playing a prank on the town and Luka becomes angered. He is certain that Rolo was kidnapped. Nuncreed places a hand on Luka's shoulder and asks him if he knows something about it.

Luka sees a shame deep in Nuncreed's eyes. Luka thinks that Mr. Nuncreed is worried about Rolo and wants to help. He tells him the truth and that he was hiding in the dumpster when Rolo escaped. Nuncreed calms Luka telling him that he was just scared of garbage, but Luka believes it was a body. Nuncreed said it was just some trash, but then Luka mentions the name tag with "Deep Engineering" on it.

After this, Nuncreed realizes what happened back at the Warehouse and apologizes to Luka saying that he tried to keep him safe but couldn't. Luka tries to step back but Nuncreed manhandles him into the phone booth and only says "Shit" at the end. The floor drops under Luka's feet and he moves in some kind of capsule until it stops. He opens his eyes and sees two large figures in hazmat suits covering his view. Nuncreed says over the intercom that Luka knows too much.

The narrator is a little shocked after that ending and is sure there is still much more and that they need to try something else.

## WAREHOUSE OF HORRORS - Struggle Option

Instead of being kidnapped into the warehouse, he fights back. He finds a blunt object and swings it at the yellow figure, breaking the glass on the assailant's mask. They let go of Luka and he runs back home.

### Chapter 3 - Everything's Fine

Everything is the same as in "Finding A Friend" chapter at the beginning, but Luka tells Gran that he was just poking around the town as Rolo was busy doing his chores. Gran gives Luka a task to deliver her jam to Mr. Tolliver and Mrs. Fratelli. Luka reminds Gran about Mr. Nuncreed wanting more jam and she suspected this, noting his particular interest in her jam. She tells Luka to make sure Fratelli and Tolliver would get the ones on top.

Luka leaves the kitchen and Gran calls someone on the phone. She asks a person to hear her out and that she has business proposition because they have the same problem that needs solving. They agree to meet tonight.

Luka grabs the jam basket and leaves the house. Rolo meets him in the front yard. He apologizes for Roxy yesterday and starts bombarding Luka with questions about Valentine's Warehouse. Luka mentions there was someone else, but he’s gotta deliver jam first before he goes into any more detail. They agree to meet tonight at the treehouse.

At the Small Bridge Area, Joey mentions that the beetles have completely disappeared. Mr. Sinclair, being obstructed by box piles, still doesn't want to move himself somewhere else.

In the Town Square, Luka sees Heiress Valentine speaking to Mr. Wilder. She was not pleased about the festival being the main topic of the front page instead of any mentioning of the History Museum. Mr. Wilder tells Heiress that things have changed and no one cares about the Valentines’ family anymore.

Luka heads to the Diner Area. Here, he speaks to Dawn about the town's recent weirdness. She follows up by saying she had a few leads but can't tell exactly what's happening in Valentine's Fertilizer building. Dawn mentions the new kid somewhere around - Beck, and how both her parents got jobs here, working for William Kerr and for the Valentine family.

Inside Last Chance Diner, Luka speaks with Mayor Gus about being stressed out preparing a festival speech and then Luka speaks to Mrs. Fratelli, giving her the jam Gran prepared. Fratelli reminds Luka how he and his mother used to help out by working in the very Diner. She shows Luka a picture of his mother taking orders back in the day. She tells him that his mother will come back one day. Player gets the **Break** charm here.

Luka heads to the Market, speaking to Mr. Tolliver at his counter. He doesn't notice Luka, gets scared and then leans forward, asking if Luka has something for him. Luka tells him to grab a jam and continues onward.

Finally, Luka heads to Nuncreed's drugstore in the Old Part of Town. Nuncreed mentions that it's uncommon for Juniper to ask someone else to deliver jam for her. He takes his jam and snatches Luka's basket to return it back to Juniper privately.

Beck runs towards Luka, immediately asking him about anchovies or pineapple and how old he is. Luka answers and Beck tells him to follow her without further questions. Luka agrees and follows Beck. She introduces him to her parents, telling them that this is her new friend. Luka awkwardly meets with them. Nelly and Ilona are happy for Beck and invite Luka over for dinner tonight. Beck tells them that she "already asked him and he said that he would come". Beck thanks Luka and asks him to meet her by the Valentine estate.

On his way, Luka speaks to Geoff about the festival, Perennial Harvest, and Valentine's Fertilizer, hearing him out that both companies are equally garbage. Luka meets Beck at the gate into the Valentine estate. Beck asks who lives in this mansion and gets a "boring" answer from Luka. She asks him to explain to her the Foul Harvest, but first they need to go for dinner. Before entering the house, Beck tells Luka he is not so bad and asks him not to bring up her parents work.

### Chapter 4 - Dinner With The Moedwils

Luka and Beck are having dinner with Ilona and Nelly. Dinner went without much conversation. Beck’s parents didn’t take roots yet and were very curious about Luka, asking him questions about where he lives and where his parents are. Luka tells the truth, but isn't very positive about it. Nelly decides to break the silence and asks Luka if he likes their pizza. Luka calms down a little bit and decides to ask Nelly and Ilona about their jobs, prompting Beck gave Luka a kick under the table. He tries to switch the topic, but was too late.

He finds out that Nelly is now an employee of Perennial Harvest, being in the Deep Engineering department. Nelly and Ilona start fighting in a passive aggressive manner, but Beck stops them slamming her fist into the table. Luka remembers about his meeting with Rolo, glancing towards the window and seeing the coming storm, so he decides to get going. Luka says goodbye to the Moedwil family and exits the house. Beck tosses her coin and follows her friend.

## WHEATHER WEATHER - Break Option

Luka and Beck are about to leave, and they see how the clouds begin to break, clearing the horizon. Luka almost tells Beck about what really happened at the warehouse, but stops mid-sentence. He then invites Beck to Mission Control to tell her and Rolo the truth.

Beck walks near the Valentine estate, and her attention is drawn by the closed gate. She wonders out loud about any secrets that the gate might be hiding and starts shaking the iron bars, promising that it will reveal its secrets to her. Surprisingly, the gate opens. They hide in the bushes and see a figure in a yellow hazmat suit and Heiress Valentine. They overhear their conversation, in which Luka and Beck find out about Heiress making an alliance with someone about "common threat". Heiress agrees with her new accomplice and asks about their motives. The figure takes off their mask, revealing Gran's face, speaking about the family. Finally, Luka's Grandmother bids farewell to Heiress and disappears into the night, leaving her Grandson in complete shock.

### Chapter 5 - What Big Ears You Have

Luka is frozen in shock until Beck gives him a tug. He tells Beck about Gran being the person in the hazmat suit and they head to the treehouse to meet up with Rolo. On their way, a conversation between Mr. Nuncreed and the Clipboards happens. They ask Mr. Nuncreed if everything is going as planned and he signs his name on one's clipboard, so they leave. He gives Luka advice to stay away from anyone asking to hear his thoughts and recommends he go home.

In Small Bridge Area, William Kerr talks to Mayor Gus about festival sign presentation and says how glad he is for Heiress Valentine's contribution. Gus doubts William's intentions, but can do nothing about it.

Coming further to the Old Picker's Pond, Beck looks on the water and asks what Rolo is like. Luka does not have a proper description, but mentions something about tough times for his farm right now, referencing the Foul Harvest. Luka tells Beck about it, describing it as an event where there was a fertilizer company called Valentine's, the product was really effective, and farmers loved it. Everything in the city was connected with it in one way or another. Everything was fine until about 6 years ago, Sharper Valentine suddenly died and something went wrong, could've been a bad batch of the fertilizer, contaminated soil, or something else entirely. Either way, this resulted in all of the crops dying and no one really knows why. Half of the citizens lost their jobs, and people blamed Valentine for this incident, calling it the Foul Harvest.

Rolo's farm was hit harder than others, but since that time everything was getting slightly better since Perennial Harvest came to town. They moved everyone out of town for a short while for decontamination purposes.

Luka and Beck arrive at the treehouse and Rolo greets them, telling them that he was about to leave. Rolo and Beck meet each other and Rolo and brags about their treehouse, mentioning the new security improvements he made during the day. Here the player has to play a small minigame, throwing junk at 3 targets.

Once everyone is inside the treehouse, Luka tells them about what happened in the warehouse, saying how active it was and how he was dragged inside by a person in a hazmat suit, and also mentions that he and Beck saw Gran in the same hazmat suit, leading Rolo to the conclusion that it could have been Gran that tried to drag him in to the warehouse. This would be impossible, as Luka broke his assailant's mask during his escape, and Grans mask was not broken.

The kids are discussing who the person who snatched Luka could be. Beck asks where his Gran came from, and as she mentioned it, Luka realizes he didn't know his Gran very well before she moved in. Luka gazes out the window as Beck theorizes about Gran being who she claims to be. The kids agree to meet tomorrow at Luka's house to investigate any secrets that Gran might be hiding. This is where player gets the **Refuse** charm.

### Chapter 6 - Secret Layer

Successfully getting home and sleeping, Luka wakes up the next morning to someone knocking on the door. He opens the door and greets his friends, joking about Rolo wearing a stereotypical detective hat. Rolo starts walking around the living room, trying to find any secrets while pretending to be an ace detective, but not finding anything. Beck stops Rolo from wasting their time and asks Luka if there's any place in the house Gran doesn't want Luka to go. The two answers were the closet upstairs and a hutch in the kitchen, which drew the party's attention because Luka was not tall enough to reach the door.

Rolo gives Luka a boost and he opens the hutch. Realizing there was nothing obviously suspicious about it, everyone was about to give up. Beck sarcastically pulls on one of the cups, thinking that it won't do anything, and then the entire hutch begins to slide, revealing a secret passage. Everyone goes inside and sees a basement full of strange equipment. Here Luka finds a punching bag he can interact with, a corkboard with strings connected between photos and notes of people from town, where different people have special marks near them. in another corner, there are barrels marked as explosives and lots of jam jars. To test the jam, Rolo opened one of the jars and finds a slip of paper inside, addressed to Mrs. Fratelli, mentioning "Operation Sparkplug". Here the player gets the **Incendiary** charm.

Next Luka examines the cabinets and takes the folder marked "Walter". Rolo snatches the folder and decides to skip to the middle, reading the contents aloud. Inside there are some medical notes about some kind of disease with symptoms such as a drop in body temperature, soreness of muscles and joints, and a reference to Joseph, which is Mr. Nuncreed's name. Walter was unable to help his patients and decided to take matters into his own hands, this is where document ends. Luka becomes hysterical because of this information and slams the cabinet shut.

When Luka checks all 3 points of interest, he looks at an old town map. Rolo assumes this is a treasure map and find a path leading to Town Square, which is marked with the same explosive symbol as on the barrels. As everyone starts to put two and two together, someone enters the house and comes to the basement. Beck flicks off the light and the party hides in the dark. Rolo decides to neutralize the unknown figure in the dark, despite Luka telling him not to. Beck turns on the light and the intruder was Mr. Tolliver.

## A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO HOSTILE INTERROGATION - Chill Option

### Chapter 7 - The Interrogation Of Hiram Tolliver

The kids tie Hiram Tolliver to a chair and while he is unconscious, Luka decides to run the classic "good cop, chill cop" and interrogate him. Hiram was very surprised by Luka and in process of interrogation, Rolo and Beck reveal themselves too. He asks them to untie him and that he'll explain everything to the kids. They don't see any reason to believe him, but he reminds Luka that he was been nothing but kind to his family and never did anything wrong. Luka unties Tolliver and he slowly moves to the stairs, stalling for the time by excusing. He flicks the switch and rushes up the stairs, locking the party in the basement. Luka tries to say something, but nothing comes to his mind.

Narrator declares this to be the end and that they can't find proper resolution to the whole story while being locked in a basement.

## WHETHER WEATHER - Rumble Option

Like in the previous option, Luka was about to leave, saying goodbye to Beck but instead of the clouds breaking, heavy rain begins. Nelly opens the door and tells the kids to go inside the house before they catch a cold. The scene changes to Beck's bedroom, full of unpacked boxes and barely set furniture. Ilona closes the opened windows and tells Luka to stay with Beck until they can reach his Gran.

Beck allows Luka to poke around her room. Here Luka finds Becks "weird" hobbies and activities. Luka reassures Beck, saying that weird can be cool. From inspecting wilting flowers, Luka finds out Beck was moving a lot before Beacon Pines and many sent their regards when she left, but Beck tells Luka that she didn't care. Here player gets "**Pungent**" charm.

The sky rumbles again and Beck asks Luka if she can ask a question, and then jumps down from her bed. Beck turns to the window and watches it for a moment, then asks if Luka has ever felt alone even when there are people around or if he's ever felt that his family doesn't care about him. Luka knows that Gran loves him, but sometimes he feels he is nothing but a problem to her. Beck asks for Luka's advice on how to deal with these feelings but he doesn't know, only quoting his father telling him "don't hold a grudge, especially on yourself." Then Luka says that something he's figured out on his own is that you've got to do something.

Luka opens the window, saying that he's doing something, and says that they should register their complaints with the storm. Luka immediately begins screaming into storm about how pissed off he is. Luka is tired of hearing how everything will be okay even though he knows it won't. Luka finishes by screaming into the storm and then lets Beck have a go.

Beck says how moving sucks and she just want to stay somewhere, settle down and be happy, living like a normal kid, screaming into the night. When both kids felt better, Luka closed the window and storm ended. Beck walks Luka to the exit and thanks for everything, promising to find him at the festival tomorrow.

### Chapter 5 - Friendly Feud

Luka heads back after the evening with Beck to the treehouse. On his way, he meets with Dawn, who shares with Luka details about Sharper Valentine's family. She tells about his Last Will and Testament. He gave his kids the inheritance but with certain conditions, forcing Heiress to take on a child as her ward, who is Solomon Valentine, or she will lose everything if she doesn't.

Proceeding, Luka sees William Kerr talking to one of the Clipboards closing for the night, assuming they finished all preparations for the festival. William Kerr becomes very passive aggressive about the Clipboards deciding without him to close up for the night without finishing all the tasks. He asks if the Clipboard wants to let everyone down and tells them to continue working on the festival.

Luka comes to the treehouse, calling out for Rolo, but he immediately speaks with resentful tone, telling Luka to never come back. He accuses Luka of abandoning him for no reason. Luka tries to justify himself telling Rolo that the rain held him up, but Rolo accuses Luka of lying, saying that when the rainstorm got real bad he was worried and went to check in on Luka at his house, but he wasn't there. Luka tries to excuse once more, but accidently mentions dinner with Beck, raising suspicions from Rolo's side.

He tells the truth about helping Beck in convincing her parents that she had made new friends by eating with a dinner with them, but Rolo is offended that he was worrying about him while he was off making new friends . Rolo mentions the new upgrades he was making for their treehouse while Luka was delivering jam, but the rain knocked it off just like Luka did to their friendship. After these words, Luka becomes angry, shouting at Rolo.

Rolo accuses Luka being a bad friend, while he was doing the right thing, waiting for him while under the risk of getting in trouble for staying out that late, while Luka can stay as long as he wants because his Gran doesn't care. Luka wasn't pleased with these words and tells Rolo that he didn't choose this. Rolo becomes more aggressive in his tone, quoting his father about how rain brings more than just water, but something more and how this storm brought out the "real Luka".

Being tired of hearing Rolo's Pa's quotes, Luka tells Rolo that it means nothing, but Rolo retorts that at least his father is still around unlike Luka's. This was the final line that Rolo crossed. Luka wishes him a goodnight and leaves, unwilling to talk with him anymore.

Upon returning to his home, in a fit of a sadness, he dugs through his old stuff and finds a football (soccer ball,) kicking it in attempts to calm down, talking to himself about Rolo, continuing their previous argument with himself. In tears, Luka falls asleep, sleeping through breakfast. Gran is worried about him, but Luka asks for her to leave him alone. Gran accepts his wish and leaves the oatmeal by the door. He gets up and kicks the ball several more times, talking how miserable Rolo will be at the festival all alone and dozes off again.

Gran asks why Luka didn't eat and leaves him a sandwich, mentioning that Rolo came by to talk to Luka, but she said that Luka wasn't feeling good. Gran tries to cheer up Luka by telling him to go outside, but still leaves him alone. Luka gets up and kicks the ball right on to his shelf with a book, causing one of the books to fall. It was the complete full first volume of Hank Atomic, Rolo, who owns it, gave it to Luka to keep it. He loses himself in a reading, feeling melancholic about it but Gran addresses Luka telling him about another kid who came by named Beck Moedwil. Gran asks if Luka and Rolo fought and asks if she may come in, but Luka doesn't want her to. He lays on his bed once again, falling asleep.

In his dream, Luka finds himself standing in a black space with his father beside him, drinking a milkshake. Luka asks where are they and Walt mentions The Source. In an instant, Luka is sitting near a blazing campfire with a figure in a yellow hazmat suit beside him, speaking to Luka, greeting him and telling him to get comfortable. Luka tries to warm his arms above the fire but it doesn't work, because the fire is a cold flame. The figure points to the bottom of the campfire, which is the entirety of Beacon Pines itself, with little people trying to escape the burning town. Luka tells the figure that they need to help them, but the person tells Luka that they shouldn't waste their energy helping people who cannot help themselves, caring only about what's right in front of them, unlike them and Luka. Luka was confused about the figure using "Us," and then they take off their mask, revealing that the figure is Luka but older. He wistfully tells young Luka about how he tried to help once, but he got nothing. Luka's father catches him on his shoulder, speaking about the importance of every choice. The doppelganger contemptuously speaks to Walt and then plunges into the flames. Walt tells Luka that it is not only important what we choose, but why we choose it.

Luka wakes up, seeing his Gran in front of him. She asks if Luka wants to talk, but when he says no, she tells him to listen to her. Gran tells Luka the unimportance of what was said between Rolo and Luka. She asks if Rolo actually meant what he said to Luka and if Luka meant what he said, and he says no. She says to cherish friends best moments in good times and accept them in bad times. Gran requests for Luka to make amends with Rolo and buy him a corndog. Here player gets the "**Accept**" charm.

### Chapter 6 - Through Thick And Thin

Luka leaves the house and heads to the town, but meets with Roxy saying that Rolo wanted Roxy to tell him something. She reluctantly tells the riddle: "*A space adventure, though you needn't buy it. If ye be brave, go somewhere quiet*". She knows Luka fought with Rolo and asks him to make up with her brother.

In Small Bridge Area, William Kerr is preparing his big speech and some Clipboards man booths that ask everyone about their thoughts. Roxy and Fitz discuss Perennial Harvest's illogical behavior setting up a festival in dying city instead of working on it, and Roxy scolds Fitz for buying their lemonade. Geoff was staring into the distance, and Luka joins him. Iggy and Tish decided to set up a prank, using fireworks to lure the Clipboards inside Perennial Harvest building out and to watch their reaction.

In the Town Square, Gus is speaking to Heiress about returning the hazmat suit taken from Perennial Harvest and he asks if this is something to hurt Mr. Kerr, and she replies that it was not.

In the Old Part of Town, Luka heads to the Library, being a quiet place. Talking to Kado, Luka gets a second part of the riddle: "*On Planet Farpul, you may take... issue. When the fifth king dies, you'll need a tissue*". Then he gets a task to find a specific book and bring it to him. Luka takes The Adventures of Hank Atomic Issue #5 and brings it Kado. He flips through the pages under a purple light, revealing hidden words and next part of the riddle with 3 marked words: "Grift," "In," "Grub," and "Cart." Combining all words, Luka gets "Griffin's grub cart" and heads to Griffin's stand.

In the Market, Luka speaks to Griffin, getting a specific corndog, bought and payed for by Rolo. Luka starts to eat it and finds a slip of paper with a new riddle inside: "A pickup when you need some pep. Near the fountain up the step".

He comes to the Cafe Area and speaks to Lumi and Zariel. Lumi reluctantly gives Luka the last part of the riddle: "*What takes flight but has no wings. You final task, a friendship brings*". Zariel tells Lumi that it wasn't so hard. Here player gets the "**Hard**" charm.

Descending down the stairs, Luka meets with Rolo holding a bunch of balloons, giving it to Luka. Luka tells Rolo that it was unnecessary to get through so much trouble for him, but Rolo asks to apologize first. He tells Luka that he is sorry about his mother and he just wanted to be there for him and be a good friend, and when he found out he was hanging out with someone else, he felt he was not good enough for him. Rolo apologizes for being selfish and Luka hugs Rolo after it, telling each other that they don't deserve each other.

Next, Rolo asks Luka if he wants to do something else today and find something out about his mom, but he decides to just hang out in the treehouse with him. Rolo mentions about fixing MCDC aiming system, as the boys head out to the Mission Control. After this scene, the *Riddle Me This* achievement unlocked and it grants player the "**Flight**" charm.

Before entering the treehouse, Rolo gives Luka a letter from his Gran and asks if he wants to open it now. In the letter, Gran asks Luka to forgive her for not being able to find a better solution to move forward and she loves him no matter what. Inside, Luka and Rolo lay on beanbags and talk about the festival. Suddenly, a distant rumble was heard by two, but they didn't mind, guessing it was the fireworks.

After this, a shockwave of cold encases everything in a thick ice, freezing everything in the treehouse. Narrator tells how two boys reunited by friendship, separated by forces outside of their control for the rest of time, being the end. This turnabout unlocks *The Big Chill* achievement.

Narrator being very distressed by this ending and tells the reader to not accept this and that they need to try something else, because there are much more possibilities.

## M.C.D.C - Flight Option

Now Luka decides to escape with Iggy and they take another option - flight. Luka aims the cannon on the tree branches, shooting the rope and creating an improvised zipline. Picking on Kerr and escaping with Iggy, the kids go deeper into the woods. Kerr orders Clipboards to take the tunnels and leaves. They were running for a brief time, but then Luka suddenly stopped and Iggy slammed into him, resulting in them both falling on the ice. Luka writes a task to find a way home.

### Chapter 5 - Signs

Luka helps Iggy to get up and they both see the snowy terrain, having no idea how they got here. Heading north, near the frozen water, William Kerr calls on the walkie talkie and speaks to Luka, pretending to be worried for the kids. Asking how Luka managed to get one of their radios, he mentions the VanHorn family and tells that Luka's mother was helpful in the past. Without any wish to continue talking to Kerr, he ends the call.

Heading south, two yellow hazmat figures measure the temperature, discussing how its getting worse and spreading. After they leave, Luka and Iggy are trying to inspect the object looking like a town sign, despite there being no towns in Weep Wood. Luka throughs a snowball into it, revealing the exact same "Welcome to Beacon Pines" sign they'd seen before. Iggy says they could have just gotten turn around in the forest, but the snow makes no sense. Luka mentions the ooze puddle they fought near being cold and assumes it's somehow related.

Moving forward, they see the same Small Bridge Area, but apocalyptically frozen. Here Luka finds the same barrels that was near the stump during the fight with Iggy, the same chain fence and even the fish in the stream were encased in ice instantly, having no time to escape. Going forward, Iggy stops and confuses, saying that everyone is gone and there is nothing but snow. Luka tries to reassure him to continue looking for answers, but he quits. He tells Luka they are not in Hank Atomic stories and they won't save everyone. Being stressed and tired, Iggy leans down the wall.

As sky darkens, Luka tries to comfort Iggy, saying everything will be alright, and faintly Iggy begins to cry. Luka's never seen Iggy in such state, so it gives him a sense of heavy guilt . Luka suggests to rest and continue tomorrow, collapsing near Iggy. Then Iggy thanks Luka for getting them away from the Clipboards, and then Luka tries to apologize for what he'd done to him. But he reacts as it was the right thing to do from Luka's perspective, because he couldn't know what gunk will do to him and Iggy was "being a horse's ass".

Luka asks why Iggy looking for fights with anyone, and he responds as it's his own way to fight boredom and emptiness, a feeling that Luka wouldn't understand, because he has Rolo. After this, Iggy openly weeps and calls Luka "perfect little VanHorn with your perfect little life," but Luka does not agree. After a big conversation, Luka's eyes began to drift shut and they decide to sleep. Before dozing off, Iggy tells Luka how he always wanted to see the inside of Luka's treehouse. Luka wonders what Iggy thought of it, and he thought it was pretty cool. He then says that "for the worst day of my life, this ain't so bad" before they both fall asleep.

Luka dreams once again, where he is at home playing with toy blocks, while his parents are resting on the couch. His doppelganger appears, telling Luka that this is a child's memory, and how the last day they say their father alive was not like this, and shows him the true scene. Next, Luka sits next to his bed, listening to his heartbeat with his father's stethoscope. The doppelganger moves Luka's hand to the floor and he hears his parents shouting at each other. He peeks from the stairs, hearing his mother Eleanor imploring Walt to stay. But he says he can't let Sharper get away with what he's doing. Luka reveals himself, and he asks what's going on. Walt comforts Luka, calling him a Buckaroo. But he points a stethoscope on Walt's chest, hearing a racing heartbeat. Walt tells him that he has to deal with business, promising to come back, leaving the house.

As the boys were sleeping, a figure approaches soundlessly and smacks Iggy twice on his head. Immediately, Iggy wakes up, assuming a defensive pose and raised his knuckles, the noise wakes Luka as well. The figure tells them both that they have caused a lot of commotion. They tell Luka and Iggy that they are a friend and observer called Natt. Iggy was not pleased by the lack of answers and tells Natt to buzz off and so he does. Luka stops him and asks if he lives here and where they are, but Natt speaks with riddles, annoying Iggy and Luka. About to leave, Natt stops them and says that they'll help tell them how to get back home. He asks Iggy and Luka to close their eyes and then open them after a snap, but nothing happens. Natt tells that this is their home, Beacon Pines. Luka crosses his task to find a way home.

Luka denies what he just heard. Iggy says to give them the truth about this place, and Natt explains that the town that they are in is the original Beacon Pines, while their town is a replica. Both kids don't believe Natt, but he says that the brain has a property to smooth details, to ignore small inconsistencies to prevent itself from going insane, and that's why they didn't notice living in a replica this whole time. Luka begins uncomfortably laughing and can't accept what Natt said. He wishes to test it and runs back, and Iggy follows him.

### Chapter 6 - The Source

Realizing how every event points to Perennial Harvest, Luka runs to the place where his father grave should be located. The tree was gone and Luka starts to dig in the snow, revealing Walt's name on the headstone. Iggy catches up with Luka, but they both hear footsteps and hide. The two hazmat figures are doing same measuring, while one of them notices the grave and asks the second figure are they doing the right thing, receiving a snowball in the back.

Luka begins to grieve at the grave and tries to accept that he was not visiting his real father's grave, but Iggy smacks him on the back of his head, advising Luka to stop crying and pull himself together, referencing to what he said earlier about getting payback for someone being a jerk to him. Luka guesses that The Source, whatever it is, should be valuable to Perennial Harvest and must be destroyed. He promises Dad to make everything right.

Kerr calls Luka again, telling the kids that help is on the way. Luka starts asking about what he did to his mother and Rolo, assuming that he killed them. Luka ends the call and kids head back to the bridge. On their way, Iggy remembers something and digs under the tree, finding a box with fireworks. Luka asks where those come from, and Iggy tells him that it was few years back when Luka and Rolo were working on his farm near a chicken coop, and for an unknown reason Iggy decided to prank them with fireworks, but accidently burned the chicken coop down. He decided to hide the fireworks and lay low, but after a certain time they disappeared.

Kerr once again calls Luka and tries to convince him that he is not a hero, just an obstacle in their way. Luka quotes Hank Atomic, annoying Kerr, who warn them about their power. The boys proceed forward, coming to the Town Square. Inspecting the "Town Hall" sign will Grant the player the "**Crooked**" charm.

Instead of the fountain, there is a deep hole with wind blowing out of it. Iggy screams "Echo" into the hole to see if it would echo. Assuming that the hole is the source, they try to come up with how to decommission it. Suddenly, William Kerr appears and steps towards the kids, telling them that the hole is much more than they think. Luka aggressively asks what Kerr did to Rolo, the town and what the hole is. He was about to explain, but decided to not waste his time, telling them that he is not in charge and there is someone above him, making all the decisions. Here player gets the "**Hum**" charm.

Both sides begin to battle with words, but Kerr decides to "change the mood", by calling out for the Clipboards, ordering them to deal with Luka and Iggy, but Iggy just smirked, waving the fireworks box into the air above the hole, threatening to drop it down. Kerr tries to say nothing would happen, slowly getting closer to Iggy. Iggy takes a single rocket and tells him to call off the Clipboards. He accepts Iggy's condition and does so, asking him to put the rocket down, but he tosses one of the fireworks into the hole.

Being frightened after the explosion, Kerr charges through Luka and tries to grab the firework box, resulting both Kerr and Iggy sent over the side. Luka takes Iggy's hand and holds it. Kerr accuses Iggy and asks Luka to take the walkie talkie to call the Clipboards for help. Luka tries to ask Kerr do something selfless for once, saying that he has lived a long life already, but he refuses.

Iggy reassures Luka it's okay for him to let them both fall, saying that he is ready to die. Kerr tries to play on Luka's feelings, saying about it's not in him to kill his friend like this, but Iggy responds saying that he's his friend, but a no-good bully, telling Luka what he has to do with bullies, trying to convince him to "kill two birds with one stone" and saying that "wackadoos travel in packs".

## IT'S A HOLE THING - Refuse Option

Luka refuses Iggy's request and calls out for the Clipboards. They come back and help Kerr and Iggy, fulfilling Kerr's reprimands and mirror request instantly. Tussling his hair, Kerr thanks Luka for making the right decision, telling them that he'll put in a good word for him with The Founder. Clipboards take them away and Luka sees a defeated look in Iggy's face before cloth bag is pulled over his head.

Narrator thinks that doing the right thing was wrong thing to do this time and without commentary gives another choice.

## IT'S A HOLE THING - Accept Option

Luka has nothing to do but accept Iggy's request and he lets go. Two silhouettes fall into the hole and in an instance, many fireworks fly up from the hole. Luka bids Iggy farewell and sits on his knees, looking down the hole. Natt comes over and recommends that Luka takes a step back. After this, the hole quickly produces icy spikes protruding out of it. Natt says that Iggy's fireworks must have been just enough energy for the hole and they should leave before Perennial Harvest arrives. Luka demands an explanation of what just happened. Natt says that Iggy just saved the town and mentions Tempus Liquamine as a substance able to change matters relation to time, but that it requires a lot of energy. If one adds a large amount of energy, it can cause a cryogenic cascade that never ends, but with the perfect amount of energy the hole will just fill itself and the ice will go no further

Luka asks how Natt knows everything and why he didn't help, so he responds that everyone has a role. Iggy's role was to buy them time and Natt's is to observe and wait. Luka asks what his role is, and Natt tells him that he is going to save the world. Natt headed back west and Luka followed him.

Instead of the end, narrator tells that the story will be continued in "Beacon P**II**nes: Pines Harder - Revenge Served Cold - Second Time's A **Charm**" with certain letters marked as purple, with confusing voice intonation. Being annoyed that the story ended on a cliffhanger and that she just started to like Iggy. She refuses to take part in an endless parade of sequels and says that another option should be chosen.

## A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO HOSTILE INTERROGATION - Hard Option

This time, Rolo takes the lead in getting answers from Mr. Tolliver. Rolo channels every detective trope and cliché to mimic the detectives of classic movies. He slams his fist on the table and uses the lamp to wake up Hiram. Tolliver asks for everyone to settle down, but Rolo starts to press him even harder with threats. Rolo brings Hiram to spilling the truth, mentioning that Gran was not about to blow up the festival, but The Source, where everything started. On the question about Operation Sparkplug, he can't handle the pressure and passes out.

Beck comments on Rolo being too hard on Mr. Tolliver and everyone agrees that they need more information. Luka suggests that they visit the Library as a place to start looking. As everyone arrives in Library, Beck asks if Kado is too young to be a librarian, and the party asks Kado to do them a favor and help them with research. He recommends that they read county records from around when the town was founded.

### Chapter 8 - Six Feet Under, Three Towns Over

The kids spend half a day reading, trying to find something related to The Source or find something related to it, but they were not successful. Luka felt uneasy about his own Gran being a potential danger to the town and himself. Rolo says that he cannot continue reading, joking about his obituary saying that he read himself to death. Beck plays along with Rolo's joke and picks a random name, being J. Hartford, from the county record to use as a comparison. Suddenly, Luka realizes that that is the name of his Gran- Juniper Hartford.

Luka asks Beck to read that again and say the date of her death - 8 years ago. The article states that her daughter, Eleanor Hartford, is still alive. Luka asks who he's living with, if not his Gran. Kado interrupts the party, telling them that the Library is closing for the night. Everyone agrees to meet at the festival tomorrow and then they head back home.

Luka gets back to his house, trying to silently enter without Gran noticing. Luka sees that Gran is sleeping by the fireplace and goes to the basement to check on Mr. Tolliver. As he descends the stairs, he finds that Mr. Tolliver is nowhere to be seen. Luka wonders about what to do and realizes that he hasn't eaten at all today. Deciding to snack a little bit, he grabs one of the jars and eats some of the jam, seeing that the jam was intended for Mr. Nuncreed.

Luka thinks that its best to "play it cool" with his Gran and heads up to his room. Leaving the basement, he sees that Gran is no longer sleeping on the chair and is nowhere to be found. Luka climbs upstairs and begins to feels weak. Approaching his bedroom, Luka cannot walk any further and falls to the ground, immediately falling asleep. Gran finds Luka and talks about him dragging himself into everything, and that she will handle everything, and then moves him on to his bed.

### Chapter 9 - A Speech To End All Speeches

Luka wakes up and finds that the festival has already began. He hurries to the town and meets with his friends by the welcome sign. Luka explains why he was late and mentions the jam intended for Mr. Nuncreed putting him to sleep. Rolo comments it and calls Gran a "sly devil", giving the player the "**Sly**" charm.

Luka thinks Mr. Nuncreed could be in danger and the party can't find Luka's Grandmother anywhere. The kids go to the podium to join the Mayor Gus's speech to the town. He awkwardly starts the speech and asks everyone to to honor the memory of his father and the founder of Beacon Pines - Sharper Valentine. The crowd applauses and Geoff says that Sharper doesn't deserve that much applause .

William Kerr, standing nearby, takes the place of Gus and motions him off the stage. Kerr starts the speech with the words community, conviction and commitment being three pillars of the town and he wants to add a fourth one - change. William speaks about change being the most powerful and important effect and then tells them about fate bringing him to Beacon Pines, being a small business trip four years ago and then once again talks about change.

Underlining people's mindset to still stand after a great loss, being the Foul Harvest, he thumps the podium, once again repeating the words community, conviction and commitment, adding change. Mentioning Perennial Harvest being a horizon for people to strive for, he says everyone will walk hand in hand to the future together, choosing to change for the better together

Suddenly, a heavy rumble happens and William stops his speech, but asks everyone to keep calm and not to worry about a little thunder ruining the day. He continues with words about everyone planting a lot good in the town and proclaims that "their harvest awaits", raising his hands. At this very moment, a shockwave of cold air freezes everyone in the town.

Here, after declaring the end, narrator freaks about the ice happening and ruining everything again and addresses the player to just quit and close the book, never thinking about her again, but apologizes for it right after. She asks the player to try again, saying that this time we got a little closer to the truth.

## A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO HOSTILE INTERROGATION - Sly Option

This time, Beck decides to handle everything. Luka and Rolo hide and she starts to talk, waking up Hiram with a few snaps. He recognizes her and Beck asks for him to call her by her name, apologizing for tying him up, saying that you just cant trust anyone in this town. Lying, she says that she is here for the same reason that Mr. Tolliver is. He reveals his relation to Gran, and Beck keeps tricking Hiram and mentions Operation Sparkplug, saying that Gran sent a child to avoid extra attention. She is sorry for everything and removes the ropes.

She tricks him into admitting that he was sent here to destroy the evidence. Next, Hiram says that if someone were to find out that they are going to destroy The Source, it would be bad. She tells him that she would finish everything on her own and tells him that he can leave now. Mr. Tolliver says that he is going to deal with one last "loose end", mentioning that he intercepted the phrase "**Underground Secrets**" transmitted on Perennial Harvest radios. Tolliver assumes it's a password and leaves the basement.

The party gathers and Beck says that the password must to be related to something or someone and says that they should find the hidden meaning. Beck thinks it could be a number cypher and Luka thinks it could have a different meaning, but then Rolo says that it's an anagram - "**Nuncreeds Drugstore.**" Everyone heads out to the Old Part of Town.

On their way, the party talks to Mrs. Fratelli near the welcome sign, who is looking for Tolliver. In the Town Square, the scene with Heiress talking to Gus happens. She scolds him being late, and Gus says that he is busy with work, finishing something before the festival. Heiress asks what's the festival is really about and Gus thinks Kerr is doing it just to make something good for the town. She continues scolding him, telling him about her pulling the strings to make him a mayor and asks him to help her to find the true intentions of Mr. Kerr and Perennial Harvest.

Augustus says the town once was their father's, but now everything changed and now Perennial Harvest is offering their help to the town, but Heiress says that all the problems that Perennial Harvest will be blamed on them first. Gus says that it is important to be a part of future, or you will be lost in the past, and says goodbye to Heiress, going home. Heiress walks in the opposite direction, meeting with the party.

In the Old Part of Town, kids meet with Solomon, who is holding a bag of licorice. He says that Mr. Nuncreed is not here, and exits. Beck tries to open the pharmacy but it's locked. Luka checks the phone booth, wondering if anyone's ever actually used it. Beck says that there is something strange about the booth, noting the blinky keypad inside. Rolo mentions that the password they heard would fit here. They fit inside and Luka enters the password, and the floor under them opens.

The party find themself in a room with a console, three large holes in the wall and a box with broken hazmat suit. Rolo compares it to Hank Atomic, while Beck inspects one of the tubes. Luka reads each label, containing "**Mining Operations Alpha**", noting that there were no active mines around Beacon Pines, "**Perennial Harvest Main Office**", where Beck mentions that Nelly, one of her mothers works there and "**Valentines Fertilizer Warehouse**" where Luka was almost kidnapped. Inspecting the box, Luka recognizes the same suit he broke back at the warehouse and Rolo assumes the owner of the hazmat suit could be Mr. Nuncreed himself.

Interacting with the console, Rolo is reminded of the same science stuff from Hank Atomic. He picks one random button, and suddenly one of the tubes activates. The tube ejects Mr. Nuncreed, and he meets with party, saying only "Shit". He deactivates the tube and tells them to come with him, but everyone refuses to do so. Rolo calls Nuncreed "Mr. Underground Secrets", and he mentions that the Perennial Harvest people only made it that because they wanted to be clever.

Luka tells Nuncreed they will stop him and that he is not scared, while Nuncreed tells Luka that he is speaking like his father. Luka refuses to hear anything about this from Nuncreed, but he continues, mentioning his friendship with Walt, them being a team as a doctor and pharmacist. Nuncreed tells Luka that Sharper Valentine came one day with offer he couldn't refuse, mentioning that Walter warned him about taking his deal, as he says that Sharper has a way of making someone agreeing to a deal once turn into agreeing for a lifetime. Joseph Nuncreed then describes Walt as a man who loved being righteous more than he loved his family. Nuncreed steps forward, repeating himself about trying to keep Luka and Juniper out of everything, but Luka starts to laugh and surprises Nuncreed, telling him that Juniper is already involved, doing her plans under his nose.

Nuncreed was shocked and asked how they knew, so the party answer that they visited more than one secret underground lair, and they mention the explosives and map. Joseph grabs Luka and orders him to tell him everything right now, and Luka tells him what was on the map, so Joseph realizes that she knows about The Source. He lets go of Luka and turns on one of the tubes, entering and telling the kids to run as far away as they can, but Rolo says that they should follow Nuncreed instead and jumps inside the tube, and Luka and Beck follow him.

### Chapter 8 - The Cold Hard Truth

Everyone arrives in the snowy terrain, jumping out from a round metal hatch in the ground. The party don't know where they are and just follows Nuncreed. Passing by welcome sign, Beck suggests to clear off the snow but Luka tells they need to move forward. Coming next, Beck notes the similarities with Beacon Pines and says that it looks like a frozen replica. The kids move forward and see Nuncreed and Juniper who is holding a torch, standing near a large hole, which is The Source.

Nuncreed, being panicked of what might be, tries to convince Juniper not to drop the torch as it would doom the whole town. Juniper refuses to hear Joseph as she "knows what he'd done". Then, Luka steps forward and asks his Gran what is happening. She warns the kids to run away from here and Nuncreed joins her. Luka approaches closer and Nuncreed tries to reach the Juniper again, but she accuses him in betrayal of Walt and adds to Luka that "this man's entire life is a lie", continuing to fight who is right and who is wrong.

## FIRE AND ICE - Weep Option

Under the happening events, Luka just couldn't bring himself anymore and falls to his knees, weeping. Gran switches her attention to Luka and reassures him that everything will make sense soon, promising to return back everything to normal.

Talking to Nuncreed, Juniper says to watch it what will happen to his loyalties, dropping the torch into the hole. Right after, she mentions a life lesson she learned. Before she could finish, a huge beam strikes from the ground. Running towards Luka, she hugs him before everyone got encased in ice again.

Narrator now tells they found out where ice comes from, but now they need to somehow deal with unfathomable nature and find a better solution.

## FIRE AND ICE - Hum Option

Being overwhelmed by emotions, Luka starts to hum loud the familiar melody. After his father passing away, mother hum Luka a gentle melody, being the strongest memory of Luka's mother. As Gran was listening closely, she lowers the torch. She recognized the melody and dropped the torch to the snow. She steps toward Luka and joins him in humming along. In astonishment, Luka lifted his head, realising hearing the same melody only last night he saw his mother.

Juniper apologizes to Luka, calling him a "Buckaroo". And realising the only people who called him like this were his dad and mom. Luka starts looking into Juniper face, realising it was his mother, Eleanor, this whole time, but older and changed. Luka asks if this is true and Eleanor responses positively, and Luka tightly hugs his mother.

Nuncreed can't believe Eleanor was not gone this whole time, and she though he already have pieced everything together. Luka asks why he was lying to him so much time, but she had to in order to keep him safe from bad people from Perennial Harvest. Luka tells mother they have to stop them, but Joseph don't agree with that, talking about they can't be stopped and Sharper always gets what he want. Everyone leaves The Sources, leaving Nuncreed alone.

### Chapter 9 - The Devil You Know

The chapter starts from a flashback 7 months ago. Narrator describes how Eleanor walks in hallways under Perennial Harvest and stops in front of the door marked as "Deep Engineering". She opens the door with a keycard and enters inside, looking for reports about something called Tempus Liquamine. As someone was approaching, she hides inside a strange pod.

After a flashback, the narration returns to the present time where Kerr stops at his speech about change. Eleanor and the kids and shouts from the crowd, accusing Kerr in lies. She steps on the podium and exposes Perennial Harvest, keeping a dangerous secret from the town and even moving it under everyone's noses. Being unable to hear Eleanor anymore, Kerr snaps the fingers, asking for a help from Clipboards, grabbing Eleanor.

She asks once again not to believe Mr. Kerr, but he tells she has no proofs. As a proof for her words, Eleanor exposes her true self, introducing as Eleanor VanHorn. But Kerr tries to convince everyone it's not true. Then, Nuncreed steps in and supports her words. Willing to tell the truth, Solomon comes forward and sarcastically claps.

He says it was enough for Nuncreed to talk. Kerr asks Clipboard to take them away, but Solomon wants them to see something. He addresses to Eleanor, telling she was an obstacle the whole time, saying more and more words, revealing his true self. After his monologue, he thanks Kerr for his oratory skills and will take it from here.

Solomon pulls a glass vile from his pocket and drinks the green liquid contents, processing through transformation, becoming his true self - Sharper Valentine. He inspects his new body and confirms the festival was a ruse, being just a cover for his great revival. He doesn't like the mood of the crowd and asks Kerr to reveal the sign, where letters are changed to "Sharper Valentine".

Jeoff calls Sharper a malicious bastard and he destroyed the town, but taken by Clipboards away. Sharper keeps pressing others and asks if someone want to contribute something. Mentioning his kids, Augustus is happy the father's comeback, but Sharper talks about opportunity to prove theirselves to him, but they failed. He calls Gus hopeless and tells Heiress she failed him with admirable consistency. She tries to excuse being busy with preserving their legacy, but Sharper calls it unnecessary as he can live forever. Player gets the last charm - "**Malice**".

In attempt to blame it on Joseph, he tells people to thank him for everything, because it would not be possible without him for Sharper to come back. Sharper recommends Nuncreed to follow Kerr's example and mentions his past, being a miserable actor, who got help from Sharper and accepted a fake personality from him to conspire their activity, being Bill Kerr in fact.

Fratelli asks Sharper what stops them from rise against him, and he responds Perennial Harvest personnel of Clipboards were writing all thoughts of the citizens, including their fears and personal information what can be used to blackmail them. Luka stands up and says he is not afraid of him, but Sharper says he is already won and if Luka did something else, he could have his moment of triumph instead of Sharper.

Narrator describes the town's future where Sharper made a town in his own image, fertilizer factory reopened, sales rose and Beacon Pines became famous for anyone who look for it.

Narrator tells this a completely wrong, she and the reader can't let Sharper win and he might be the whole key to everything. They just need to try again last time.

## WINDOWS TO THE SOUL - Malice Option

After getting the last charm, Luka feels a malice from Mr. Nuncreed, standing near phone booth. Luka feels as something is wrong and wants to get out of there instead. He says goodbye to Joseph and tells he'll go to the treehouse to wait for Rolo there. Walking to the treehouse, he finds Solomon and Ylsun speaking about spicing up the festival with changing letters on a new sign and then run away. Then the scene where Nelly Moedwil tries to enter the Perennial Harvest building, having troubles with identification as she was planned to work the next day, but gots a permission for entrance.

Luka makes it to the treehouse and calls for Rolo, but nothing happens. He decides to wait for him and falls asleep in a beanbag. In his dream, Luka finds himself in a black space, this time knowing where to go. He appears near the blazing campfire, being The Source, and waits until it burns out, taking the last ember. The dad speaks to Luka, telling he is proud of him. Luka asks what is the place where they are, and Walt describes it as "a place where everything that has been and everything that could be all wait together". Luka don't know what to wait, and doppelganger says it's up to him. Doubting the reality of his doppelganger and his father, he weeps and asks them if this is true. Walt responds he is as real as the part of Luka missing him and doppelganger as real as part of him hating Walt is gone. Waking up, Luka hears knocks in the treehouse hatch and it opens.

### Chapter 5 - Dangers Big And Small

An unknown, large figure gets inside the treehouse. Luka tells them to stay away, but they respond they thought Luka would recognize them. The figure comes closer and Luka threatens them being clobbered with a bat. The figure says they are Rolo, but Luka does not believe in it, thinking it's Rolo's relative probably. He asks for some proofs and Rolo mentions the flaming coop incident, which was known only by these two. Luka sees his best friend, but bigger and older.

Luka asks what happened to him, and Rolo tells he was grabbed by yellow hazmat suit people. They imprisoned him somewhere underground. Rolo didn't recognize himself yet and tries to brag his new big hands. Luka mentions it was not only his hands being bigger, but his whole body too. Luka asks what did they do to Rolo, and he says they made him drink some sort of green liquid. He passed out then and woke up like this, escaping the cage. Luka promises to fix what kidnappers did to Rolo, but he refuses, telling he likes new change.

Then, Beck gets inside the treehouse with new look, wearing beanie and blue hair. Rolo scares a new kid and Luka introduces him Beck. She excuses for coming in a wrong time and comments if Luka actually just hanging out with large adult friend, and he starts laughing. Beck asks what happened, and Rolo says he would be one asking questions. He asks how did she find them and Beck answered it was not that hard. Beck mentions something strange happened recently.

Beck starts from the moment of getting to the home after brawl with Iggy. She dyed her hair with a chemistry set. Then a flashback scene appears, with Beck thinking what to tell her parents about new look. Ilona comes in and asks what did Beck do to her hair. Beck and Ilona start fighting about change's nature and Nelly's new job. Beck shows her rebellious thoughts, telling she doesn't like the new town and "it sucks". Ilona got annoyed of Beck's attitude and she grounded her.

Rolo interrupts Beck telling their town not "sucks" and Luka tries to take a guilt on himself for what happened with Beck's hair, but she continues and adds she intercepted radio transmission in the middle of the night with Mr. Kerr speaking with The Founder. They speak about new Lead Research of Deep Engineering. The Founder orders Kerr, addressing him as Bill. He asks Kerr to track Nelly's progress and loyalty to the Perennial Harvest and refuses to delay the festival suggested by Bill.

Beck asks do the guys know who The Founder is and what is the mess her mother got caught into. Rolo realises the body they found at the warehouse was a predecessor of Beck's mom. Luka and Rolo thinks it would be better to get out Beck's mom from Perennial Harvest, as her employees will not let her go until the work is done.

Beck flicks a large sheet of paper and shows it to everyone. Rolo thinks it's a blueprints, although they appear to be just a welcome map. In it's contents, Rolo notices the room with marked as "Founder's Office". After this, he starts wiggling and suggests to prepare a heist.

### Chapter 6 - The Heist

Without a sleep, all night the party were preparing the plan and agreed as a result to start the heist. They would will use the final day before festival to prepare and recruit additional members in their crew for special suited roles. Rolo was asked to talk to Roxy and Fitz and enlist them both and Beck was asked to bring in Ilona, while Luka had to find Geoff and Iggy.

Speaking to Geoff, he shares common hate of Perennial Harvest, but refuses to help seeing no reason to risk his business. There is only one word came to Luka's mind. At this part, the player chooses one of the word to convince a character, using only one right charm straight into the dialogue instead of a book.

Luka instigates Jeoff and tells him to hide if he doesn't want to do anything about Perennial Harvest while even kids can do what needs to be done. Jeoff doesn't like such position and tells no one said he hid from anything before, and agrees to help the group. Luka asks for cover and buys a big crate from Jeoff for candies.

Speaking to Iggy, he tells if Luka came to tickle them to death this time but Luka asks to hear him out. The same charm mechanic appears once again for player, and Luka tells they both were acting like a shit to each other. Continuing his dialogue, Luka notices how life became strange recently. Luka offers a truce and asks to break their hostilities. Iggy says they like to break things while Luka says there is a way to have a truce and break stuff. Iggy is interested in such business and Luka asks him and Tish to cause a distraction near Perennial Harvest HQ and if successful, they can visit the group's treehouse later.

### Chapter 7 - Into The Hive

Everyone agreed to take part in the heist and do their respective parts. Their heist starts on the next day. Rolo, being disguised as a deliveryman with tool belt and mustache, talks to the Clipboard near the entrance and asks to let him in but they refuse as there is no delivery scheduled. Rolo starts improvising and tells the delivery should go directly to the Founder. The Clipboard lets Rolo inside. On a reception, another Clipboard tells Rolo needs to fill in papers to proceed next but he starts keeping them talking and gets into his character more.

Answering a question about his name, Rolo just heads forward, trying to open the door. At this time, Iggy and Tish set up a firework and launched it, distracting the Clipboard inside HQ. Rolo regains his confidence and asks to open the door for him as he hurries to deliver a package for the Founder. While panicked, the Clipboard opens the door in a rush, letting Rolo in.

Passing the reception, the crate opens and Luka with Beck leaves it. Decided to split, Beck comes with Rolo, while Luka looks for the Founder office alone. Walking in maze-like hallways, Luka find Solomon, leaving some kind of room. He meets with Luka and confuses after his appearance inside Perennial Harvest building. He says he was grabbed by someone in hazmat suit and Solomon found himself here, running from them while they've been distracted.

Luka tells Solomon to stick with him, as they have a plan. Luka asks if Solomon did see a Founder's office and he responds positively, telling it's down the hall, but Luka notices a plaque above the door Solomon left before. Unfortunately, the door is locked with an electric lock and Solomon tells it's not possible for them to deal with it. With confidence, Luka tells him to wait a minute and the scene shows Ilona with a shovel, smashing the electric box outside the building. The sleeping Mr. Sinclair didn't know about their plan, but appreciated Ilona's action.

The doors opens and the two come inside. Luka calls Rolo and says he is inside. Rolo and Beck need help with a door with certain number and as expected, there is a control panel in office. In a password field, he types "Underground Secret", telling confused Solomon he heard it from imprisoned Rolo while he was locked here. Luka makes fun of the Founder about such simple password and remotely opens the door for Rolo, asking for next help.

Solomon leans forward and presses large red button in a way to help Luka, but sets off the alarm instead, apologizing for that. Rolo and Beck chased by the Clipboards. Running, Rolo starts to drink from a cooler but there are no cups. The duo runs in a dead end room, being surrounded by the Clipboards and William Kerr himself. Getting no answer from Rolo a certain time, he responds to Luka they lost them.

The surrounded people were Roxy and Fitz. Trying to apprehend them, Roxy kicks William and escapes with Fitz. Solomon being confused even more of what just happen, asks how Luka did everything and he responds how good to have friends once again. Beck and Rolo find Nelly's office and enter it. Beck meets her mom, Nelly inside.

She sees adult Rolo and asks who is this. Rolo responds he is not an adult and just had a growth spurt, but Nelly doesn't believe him. She examines his teeth and finds Tempus Liquamine exposure traces. Nelly shocked Rolo drank the gunk she described earlier and Beck asks her to explain them everything. Nelly explains she took part in a discovery of a lifetime working with a novel chemical compound found under Beacon Pines , coming from a wellspring called The Source. The component pulls energy from surroundings and alters relationship with Matter and Time.

That was the secret component of Valentine's Fertilizer, accelerating plants growth. But Tempus Liquamine is rebellious like the change itself and the more one wants it to do something specific, the more it resists. Nelly was asked to finish the work of her predecessor of harnessing Tempus Liquamine to manipulate an organism's age and William Kerr ordered to make a working sample before the festival.

Nelly succeeded where her predecessor failed and found oddities in his notes, made by them intentionally. Nelly tried to ask Prescott about it but didn't get an answer. Beck tells Nelly Dr. Prescott is dead, being killed by Kerr. Rolo tells everyone to leave but Nelly remembers about the vile, taken by Kerr not long before they came in and how she found the key to direct age change. All three leave the office.

Solomon asks Luka how does he want to escape, but he tells they will think of it later and he examines the office. On the desk, he find documents where it is said the Founder helped Kerr to plan the festival and the ashtray on the table is still warm, meaning the Founder was here recently. Examining the whiskey on a table, he comments how arrogant it is and Solomon whispers himself how he want to smother Luka right now but pretends saying not that. Trying to opening the cabinets, none of them opened and Solomon says the Founder not as careless as he think. Checking the console, Luka find different text information and find the Founder boring and Solomon once again mutters they will see about that.

Luka talks to Solomon and excuses for dragging himself into all of this and Solomon says not to worry about him. At this moment, the group runs inside and locks the door, barely getting away from the Clipboards. They start banging at the door and asks to hear out group's thoughts. Luka asks someone to watch the door and Solomon says he would do.

Revealing his true self, Solomon opens the door and lets Clipboard with Kerr inside, surrounding the group. Solomon addresses to Nelly and says he was the Founder this whole time, hiring her to reborn once again as a Sharper Valentine, once fallen before. The Valentine's Fertilizer and Perennial Harvest were connected by him. Nelly says Sharper did find how to reverse the process, resulting himself transf into the child.

Sharper asks Kerr to give him a vial with Tempus Liquamine, which he do dramatically. Didn't have time to finish his phrase, Rolo grabs the vial, making Sharper respond Rolo has no idea what is he holding, but they actually do, Rolo pointing on himself. He tosses the vial to Luka and he threats to drink it himself. Beck runs into other corner of the room and Luka throws it to her. Beck threatens to smash the glass vial.

Solomon assures Beck if she break the vial, they risk killing everyone or if nothing happens, they will capture everyone in the end, but if she'll handle the vial back, Sharper swears no one will be harmed and it's okay to be defeated by someone smarter than she. Beck gives the vial back, despite everyone said not to.

Sharper thanks everyone and orders Kerr to make a speech, lecturing him before for being outplayed by the group of children. He says it was all become possible because of Mr. VanHorn, referencing to Walt. Walt tried to sabotage everything and broke into Sharper's office, but showed his true potential to Sharper. After the applause outside, Sharper thanks everyone and leaves the room, locking group inside.

Speaking to everyone, Beck apologizes for doing what she had to and Rolo couldn't believe she sold them like this. He encourages Luka to find a way outside, despite he has no plan. Nelly speaks to Luka and tells about she found a hidden note in her office from Dr. Prescott, being a confession, but meant not for Nelly, but Luka more. It was said about the incident happened to his mother, being accidently exposed to a large amount of Tempus Liquamine. Dr. Prescott found her and hid inside the lab. Luka got overwhelmed by emotion and started asking questions where his mother could be this whole time. A sudden explosion happens, leaving everyone shocked.

### Chapter 8 - Comeuppance

Gran, with Mr. Tolliver and Mrs. Fratelly, made an explosion with all explosives they had prepared for destroying The Source. Coming forward through maze hallways, they fought with a group of Clipboards and opened the door to the Founder's office. Luka confuses what his Gran doing here, responding they are here to save Nelly, while they here to save Rolo. Seeing Rolo being older than he was, Gran asks herself what did they do to him, but before she could finish, Luka gathers everyone to leave and crash Sharper's party.

They leave the building and as Solomon finished his speech and took the vial, Luka says they gotta stop him. He downs the vial contents and smiles. Rolo thinks they lost, but Beck says she wouldn't be so sure about that and remembers Luka the moment she had the vial behind her back.

## THE VILE VIAL - Junk Option

Beck used a little junk to tweak his potion and added a cigar ash inside the vial. After Solomon says everyone can call him Sharper Valentine, he becomes the ash statue. Gus touches him and the statue wafted in air as pieces. As Sharper Valentine was gone, Beacon Pines can use the new beginning and change to let the past go.

The narrator says the ending was a bit gratifying, but if the reader is okay with such end, she won't stand in their way.

## THE VILE VIAL - Malice Option

Beck added the Malice, a whiskey from Sharper's office. After his words, Sharper Valentine pops with a confetti. Here player obtains "**Pop goes the Weasel**" achievement.

After what just happened, William Kerr escaped the scene and Beacon Pines, never seen again. Luka starts laughing coming from chuckle to heavy laughter like the crowd around.

The narrator says the ending was an absurd, but she is only writing a book and she doesn't stop anyone if they like it this way.

## THE VILE VIAL - Change Option

Rolo asks if it was a pocket change, and Luka says it was Beck's Unlucky Penny she popped in the vial. At the transformation, Sharper becomes even younger, becoming a baby. Luka assumes he is still a Sharper but Heiress Valentine says this is no longer matters whom he was, calling Sharper an innocent child. She apologizes before the crowd and asks Augustus to help her with a child.

## EPILOGUE

After the events happened, Luka, Rolo and Beck spend a year together, attending school and living through winter. In spring, people planted the crops and at dawn, Luka peacefully wakes up and calls out Rolo with a walkie talkie how is he doing. Rolo invites Luka to come by and he agrees.

His mom, Eleanor, now enjoys making jam without only a way to secretly communicate with others. Roxy plant new tree saplings near welcome sign. She says how she noticed Rolo's growth spurt and tells about her plans about the Agriculture University.

Gus, planting the trees ijn Small River Area sincerely smiles and being happy, telling he wasn't built for a mayor. Then two Clipboards report about doing the task he asked them about. Jetson says he caught an actual fish in the pond and this is a good omen.

In the treehouse area, Rolo stands on the balcony, observing Tish elevating Iggy on a rope. He greets Luka and leaves Tish in charge for the treehouse. They both leave together. Meeting Mr. Sinclair, he says he now enjoys the green view. Nelly and Ilona found planting different plants around former Perennial Harvest building, being turned into "Slow n' Dirty Harvest".

Heiress Valentine stands near the fountain with young Sharper and Luka asks how do they do. Heiress tells that Sharper's mind became infant after the transformation and was not developed to retain his previous memories.

Luka asks Mr. Wilder about recent news and he says the tomorrow topic would be William Kerr new post as an Iceman in State Correctional Facility.

Dawn sent her draft of the story to the Capital City and they offered her an internship. She promises Luka to come back from time to time to check new adventures they will find themself into, but Luka tells his adventuring days are over, but Dawn says it's not.

Mrs. Fratelli hold a suitcase and tells Luka she goes for a vacation for two weeks first time in her life and she tells they already agreed with Luka's mother to substitute her while Fratelli is on vacation.

Talking to Zariel, he offers Luka a biscuit on the house and then Lumi comes out telling he made a perfect espresso. Zariel says he would never think Lumi will be proud of something and calls him a person "that now cares".

Hiram Tolliver offers Luka an apple but he refuses, then Tolliver asks Luka to remind his mother make another jam batch, as everyone start liking her "spy jam" and Fitz doing her business on the next counter.

Griffin speaks to Ylsun about the icecream, Ylsun existentially telling the ice cream comes and then goes, but Griffin says it's tasty while it lasts.

Ms. Hatch, sitting all the time in the same place, finished reading her book and closed it. She greets Luka and asks if she did miss something, but Luka tells she is up to speed.

Kado and Bert became close friends during school year and were speaking about population of Beacon Pines and new fungus found in The Source. Jase finished last issue of Hank Atomic and Luka assures him to start something new, while Piper were hiding her reading of first issue of Hank Atomic.

Luka meets with Mr. Nuncreed and says he is about to visit his father's grave in Old Beacon Pines, inviting Joseph as well. Nuncreed doesn't understand why after everything what was done by him, Luka still invites him. Refusing to go there yet, Luka says he is always invited.

After Perennial Harvest was gone, the transportation tube were left unused and Jeoff used them, creatin an attraction "Geoff's Wild Ride", offering everyone "a ride of their life" for one piece of candy, talking to baby bunnies.

Joey says he found a rare bug and tells Beacon Pines can become a bug capital at this rate.

Luka and Rolo meet Beck in Mansion Area and she says the news how she did unpack her last box, completely moving in. She says there is a surprise by her house's door - the tree sapling, prepared not only by Nelly, but a whole town being owned Luka. At this part, player can freely walk around the town, being tasked to take Geoff's Wild Ride when they are ready.

## THE END

Luka stand with his friends and his mother at Walt's grave in Old Beacon Pines, planting the tree in the spot same spot where the original tree was before.

Now, the narrator begins to weep and says this is the end she had been waiting for, almost losing hope to find it. She thanks the reader for being there with her all this time and how much it means for her, suggesting to watch the end together.

Luka and friends done planting tree and Eleanor with Luka thank Rolo and Beck for everything. Rolo describes his feelings about everything and Beck mentions they are a good pair, but Rolo excuses himself and call them a trio now, and wills to tell her about Hank Atomic and then they leave. Eleanor says that Luka has great friends and she is proud of him, like his father would be as well, crying. Luka begins to weep and asks is eleanor afraid of forgetting Walt, but Eleanor says she wouldn't because so much of him lives in Luka. She gives him a moment and leaves.

Luka leans on the grave and speaks to dad how this place will warm up soon and how he understood why he left them that night - because he believed in right things and if he didn't stop Sharper, it wouldn't be him anymore and he left not because he didn't love them. Luka adds he won't visiting his father grave much, hoping he would understand.

The entire book closes and candle is fading out, running the ending credits.

## Trivia

* The final scene after credits was deleted in 1.0.5 version of the game due to confusing too many people and being unfitting for the whole epilogue mood.
* The **Accept** ending of **It's A Hole Thing** is an irony over real world long book series with no end and more and more sequels.
* The name of the Turning Point "**The Warehouse Of Horrors**" used to be "**In Deep**", as shown in the game's launch trailer.
	+ The file name used for the sketch is also "**In Deep**".
* In artbook there are scrapped images and sprites for some blue forest creature. This could be a whole character for additional and/or existing branches, but it was scrapped.
* Rolo's farm was planned to be included in the story, but it was unfinished and scrapped in the final version.

## References

2. ↑ https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1269640/view/3308481413932999580 - Removal of ghost monkey at the end of the credits, which seemed to confuse people more than we'd expected.
3. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHuSK0lMtbw
4. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/616982269667704844/616983232214335509/1137410364422758411
5. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h2h5dUO59k