Underground Blossom

**Underground Blossom** is the seventeenth game by Rusty Lake and the sixth premium game. It was released on the 27th of September, 2023, and follows the player character Harvey as he watches over Laura Vanderboom through key moments of her life, depicted as stations on an underground metro track.

## Characters

* Harvey
* Laura Vanderboom
* Rose Vanderboom
* Robert Hill
* Ticket Seller
* **Newspaper Man**
* The Schoolchildren
* The Businessmen
* **The Trumpet Player**
* **The Cashier**
* Mr. Owl
* The Thief
* Train Conductor

## Walkthrough

***Note: This only works in the demo version.***

### Chapter 1: Crib Station

#### Beginning

* Open the train door.
* Enter the train.
* When you reach your destination, open the door and exit the train.

#### Crib Station

* Focus on Rose Vanderboom and talk to her.

I am glad you are here.
This is my daughter Laura.
Please take care of her.
* Exit focus.
* Focus on and open the briefcase.
* Get the matches and the bottle with milk.
* Exit focus, then go right.

#### Win A Trip

* Focus on the box.
* Get the cloth and the file.
* Exit, then focus on the grate to the left.
* Use the file on the notched bar on the left.
* Get the rod.
* Use the rod on the key, then pick up the key.
* Exit focus, then go left.

#### Crib Station

* Focus on the carriage.
* Get the safety pin.
* Pull down the blanket.
* Give the baby the bottle with milk, then click so she drinks it.
* Put the cloth on the baby.
* Affix the safety pin to the cloth.
* Click the diaper until she poops.
* Get the dirty diaper.
* Exit focus, then go left.

#### Tickets

* Focus on the trash can.
* Take off the lid.
* Put the dirty diaper in the trash can.
* Light the trash can on fire with the matches.
* Click the can again to have it explode.
* Get the scraper.
* Exit focus, then go right twice.

#### Win A Trip

* Focus on the poster.
* Use the scraper on the poster until it's all scraped.
* Note the symbol displayed.
* Exit and go left.

#### Crib Station

* Focus on Rose's pendant.
* Select the parts of the symbol that were displayed.
* Get the time: 10:15
* Exit focus, then go left twice.

#### Train

* Focus on the clock.
* Change the time to 10:15.
* Exit focus.
* When the train shows up, open the door.
* Talk to the conductor.

Ticket please!
* Get the coin from his pocket.
* Exit focus and go right.

#### Tickets

* Focus on ticket window #1.
* Use the key and open the window.
* Use the rod to poke the ticket person awake.

Ticket to the next station? One coin please.
* Give her the coin, then take the underground ticket.

There you go. Have a nice journey.
* Leave focus and go left.

#### Train

* Focus on the conductor.
* Give him the ticket.
* Open the puncher, move the ticket in, and punch the ticket.
* Click the conductor again.

Thank you, have a nice journey.
* Enter the train.

#### Carriage

* Close the door.
* Click any of the straps to proceed.

### Chapter 2: Child Lane

#### Carriage

* Open the door.
* Exit the train.

#### Child Lane

* Talk to Rose.

You have made it to this year.
I don't want to leave her, but I might have to.
Please protect her, also in the years to come.
* Talk to Laura.

I want candy!
* Exit focus, then focus on the pane to the left.
* Use the scraper to get old gum.
* Exit focus, then focus on Laura.
* Give Laura the old gum, then click until you get chewed gum.
* Leave focus, then go left.

#### Statue

* Get the poster.
* Click on Laura.
* Go right twice.

#### News Stand

* Click on the empty frame.
* Apply the gum.
* Apply the poster.
* Click on each item the poster tells you to. For "surprise", click the box.
* Get the phone number: "**24355**" or "**53114**"
* Exit focus, then focus on the second poster.
* Click each item from small to big, excluding the man.
	+ drink, hat, kite, camel, airplane, pyramid, sun
* Get the key.
* Leave focus, then click on Laura.
* Go left twice.

#### Statue

* Click on Laura.
* Go right twice.

#### News Stand

* Focus on Laura.

Look what I have found!
* Get the glass panel.
* Leave focus and go left.

#### Child Lane

* Focus on the mosaic in the upper right.
* Add the glass panel.
* Flip the tiles until it makes a tree.
* Get the crank.
* Leave focus and go right.

#### News Stand

* Focus on the news stand.
* Affix the crank to the hole on the left.
* Turn the crank.
* Get the newspaper.
* Exit focus and go left twice.

#### Statue

* Focus on the man.

Any news?
* Give him the newspaper.
* Open his pocket and get the coin.
* Exit focus and go right.

#### Child Lane

* Focus on the phone booth.
* Use the key in the lock.
* Put the coin in the phone.
* Click on the dial.
* Enter the number you found earlier: *24355* or *53114*
* Click the earpiece.

Hello, I am glad you called.
This is the end... For now.
But we will meet again in the near future.
Take the 7 o'clock metro and leave this station.
* Exit focus and go left twice.

#### Train

* Focus on the clock.
* Set the time to **7 O'Clock** or "**4:05**".
* When the train arrives, open the door and get on the train.

#### Ticket Machine

* Focus on the *Paintings* on walls.
* Count the number of *Squares*
* Now Focus on the Ticket Machine and click only the Buttons in the **Corners** and **Center**.

#### Carriage

* Close the door.
* Click to continue...

### **Best Kept Memory**

#### Child Lane

* Focus on the telephone in the phone booth.
* Instead of dialing *24355* or *53114* , dial the numbers; "**74222**".
* Chad Brunswick will answer.
* Exit focus and go left twice.

#### Train

* Focus on the clock.
* Set the time to **8:35**.
* Get in the train once it arrives.

#### Carriage

* Close the doors.
* Wait until you reach Best Kept Memory Distribution Center.

## Trivia

* There are 34 unlockable achievements.
* A demo version of the game was released along with its official announcement, containing a version of the game's first two segments.
* The character on the pendant around Rose's neck is देव, Sanskrit for "god".
* On the train to School Street, there is a brown-haired boy with a backpack to the left of the door, which might’ve been Robert as a child.
* For the demo, there doesn't appear to be a need to unlock the briefcase next to the N*ewspaper Man*. This is different in the final game, where opening it is necessary for progress.
	+ While not required, this briefcase is holds a secret in the demo, it can be opened by inputting "**8827**" previously the code was "*9827* ", a code found in a secret envelope in Cube Escape: The Cave in Cube Escape Collection.
	+ You will receive a camera. Give this camera to Laura, and she will take a picture, then suddenly scream and starts Crying *Or* she'll give you a film. Take this to the newspaper stand, place it in the bin to be developed.
	+ Go to the clock, then forward time by 20 minutes.
	+ Return to the film. You can now view the developed pictures.