Chapter 0

**Chapter 0** is the first chapter of *Reverse Falls: The Game*. It serves as the prologue for the game, and the story begins here.

## Plot

There is a news report of someone attacking two boys, although it is mostly disregarded by outsiders as a grizzly bear, the kids' mother, or a mean-spirited prank on one of the townspeople. However, Pacifica Southeast wants to prove to everyone that it is a real monster, so she sets out on an adventure to capture it. She eventually befriends Gideon Pines, who is suspicious of people in the town and suffers from anxiety.

## Synopsis

Duck-tective and Mallardarty appear in a short cutscene, before Reverse Toby Determined tells the other characters in the next scene to stand by for breaking news. Local residents report being attacked by a strange creature in the woods. Mr. Scot complains about his neckerchief being damaged (which he named "Katie"), from off-screen. The police do not seem to consider it as a viable threat. Sheriff Blubs claims that kids make up all kinds of nonsense, like the monster attack, as an excuse for their misbehavior or to try to garner their parents' attention. The law enforcement are currently working off the theory that the children pulled a mean prank on Scot, and are trying to cover their tracks. The paramedics noted that while the boys were unharmed, large chunks of their clothes were ripped away, much like what happened to Mr. Scot's neckerchief. Suspicious-looking footprints were discovered by the police, near the crime scene. The footprints of the unknown entity disappeared after a few paces, while the victims' footprints continued for several meters. Reverse Toby questions if there is a hideous monster lurking in the forest, or if it is just the imaginative hijinks of two unsupervised children.

After the news report was finished, there is another Duck-tective scene, this time with the Constable. At the Southeast residence, Pacifica Southeast asks her parents if they just saw creature that was indirectly mentioned on the news. Preston misinterprets this as something that Duck-tective said in his show, before Priscilla corrects him, as Pacifica was actually referring to the newsreel. Preston still thinks the news report interrupted the show. Pacifica informs her parents of the report about the monster, before Priscilla and Preston dismiss the truth that she has told them. They just think it's something that the kids made up. Pacifica gets angry, as she meant that there might be a real-life monster in the woods. Preston tells his wife not to be judgemental of Pacifica, as he assumes that she's just trying to express herself. Pacifica asks her parents if they saw the bite marks on the clothes belonging to two kids, or the vanishing footprints. The only logical explanation from Preston's perspective is that the attacker could've been a mother grizzly bear, as they can be territorial when someone gets too close to their babies, while Priscilla guesses that it could simply be the boys' mother. Priscilla and Preston Southeast hope child services and Sheriff Blubs step in. Pacifica just wants her parents to admit that there's something weird and unexplained out there, and thinks they never listen to her. Priscilla tells her that it's not true, since she and Preston listen all the time. Then, Preston suggests that Pacifica should be given the gift that was originally going to be saved for her birthday. Pacifica unwrapped the present to reveal Journal 3, which was found underneath some floorboards after her father had his accident with the weed whacker. Her parents thought of her, the moment they read the book. Regardless if they don't always agree with her, they tell her that they will always support her and they want her to be happy. After her husband leaves, Priscilla informs her daughter that she will be going too, as she is giving a lecture about quantum-entanglement and the impossibility of time travel to people at the community center. She doesn't want Pacifica to get into too much trouble, while she's alone with no one to watch her at home, and her daughter obliges.

After her mom leaves, Pacifica continues reading the entries in Journal 3. She wonders who wrote the book, but the author's name is scratched out. Deuce pops out from under a floorboard. He found the journal, when he was doing a multitude of tasks (such as clearing dust, fixing wires, and uncovering secrets). Pacifica thinks Journal 3 looks too complicated to have been done by a kid, nor does it look like any of the books that Deuce's abuelita reads to him. Then, the player is given three options to choose from, as a part of the paths that can affect the storyline. A vampire, a werewolf, or a wendigo can be selected, with the dialogue for the cutscene with Pacifica and Deuce being different for each one.

* **Werewolf** - When Deuce and Pacifica look at a picture of a werewolf in an entry of Journal 3, the former asks if that is what Pacifica's dad looks like, when his shirt is ripped off. Pacifica is disgusted by this thought, before she reads the text on the page. It is mentioned that when werewolves transform, they cannot control their animal instincts, and are prone to attacking people (most frequently in the woods).
* **Wendigo** - Deuce mentions that the wendigo has all powers of a deer, but with human thumbs. He comes up with the portmanteau name of a "hueer", which confuses Pacifica. According to Journal 3, wendigos are cursed souls who eat people to sate their hunger, which commonly occurs in the forest.
* **Vampire** - Pacifica shows Deuce an entry about vampires, but the latter mistakes this undead creature for a picture of Reverse Robbie that Wendy showed him a while back. Pacifica tells Deuce that vampires are pale because they can't go outside during the daytime, which explains why they hide in the woods to protect themselves from the sun.

Pacifica asks Deuce is the wendigo/vampire/werewolf is the thing that attacked the two kids in the morning. Much like Priscilla, Deuce thinks that it was just the kids' mother. Pacifica needs proof of the creature's existence, as she thinks about capturing it and bringing it back to the town to prove to everyone that it's real. Deuce informs her that the entity is super dangerous, before a weakness is found in the journal — and that is silver (as well as burns, in the wendigo's case). Pacifica grabs a silver mirror that was her grandma's, and she asks Deuce if that would work to defeat the monster. After Deuce dives back into the floorboards amidst some clamoring, Pacifica walks downstairs to the main room of the Obvious Shack, where Reverse Robbie can be seen manning the front desk. Robbie greets Pacifica, then asks her what she's up to. Pacifica yells "Adventure!" multiple times, as she is told to stop saying that. When he was asked if he saw the news, Robbie replies that he is concerned about the weird stuff going on in the woods. Pacifica tells Reverse Robbie that she told her parents about it, but they think she's making it up. He wants her to be safe during her journey. She asks him, if she could borrow the Go-Kart, then he answers her question, by telling her that it's not a toy, and she could get herself hurt if she uses it. The door to the Obvious Shack opens, as Reverse Wendy arrives. She tells Pacifica to get out of her way, and calls her a "twerp". Reverse Wendy doesn't have enough money to purchase a new swimsuit, and needs to get some from Robbie. He literally gave money to her on the previous day, before she clarifies that it was grub money. Reverse Robbie is shocked, as Wendy spent $70 on food in one day. If she doesn't get a swimsuit, she does not know what she could possibly wear to his parents' pool. Pacifica tries to give Wendy some advice, as she suggests that she could wear her old swimsuit, but she gets told that the one that she used to wear barely fits her anymore. Robbie pulls out his wallet, and hands Reverse Wendy a $100 dollar bill. She thanks him for lending her enough money to buy her swimsuit, then kisses him on the cheek.

Reverse Robbie is left in a daze, after Wendy kissed him. He continues fantasizing, as he doesn't notice Pacifica. She gets the keys for the Go-Kart from him, while he's asleep. Deuce comes back, as he has packed some snacks for Pacifica, as well as an additional weapon that she could use against the creature. If the werewolf path is chosen, Pacifica is given a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, as well as some garlic cloves if she runs into any vampires; she is given a chicken burger instead, if the wendigo path is picked, in addition to a few packets of Tabasco sauce to burn the wendigo or to augumentate her lunchtime experience; a grilled cheese is given to Pacifica, if the player chooses the vampire path, with the bread used for the sandwich being garlic bread, so the vampire can be defeated in this way. Pacifica thanks Deuce for packing the snacks for her, before he disappears via jumping back into the ceiling. She gives Reverse Robbie a worried look, and then leaves to hunt the monster. When Robbie eventually wakes up after Pacifica takes off with the Go-Kart, he yells "WHAT HAVE I DONE?!". At the other side of the town, Bud Pines commands his son to see him. Gideon Pines begrudgingly leaves his nook behind, to see what his dad wanted. Bud punishes Gideon, as the latter is not surprised by that, since it happens a lot. He wants Gideon to explain himself for what he did with his caulk (his son refers to this tool as "glue stuff"). Gideon tells his father that he didn't do anything his the caulk... except pouring it in his car's engine. Bud orders him to get a replacement instantaneously. Gideon goes ahead and gets it over with.

Gideon decides to wander around Reverse Falls. If he's lucky, his dad will be passed out by the time he gets home. The player has three options on the map to take Gideon to. Regardless of what order of the places that he traverses to, he will always return to the town, after all area encounters in Chapter 0 are completed.

* **Hardware Store** - Gideon goes to an average, boring hardware store, so he can get a replacement caulk. He bumps into Reverse Grenda, and he felt insulted when she called him "tubby". Grenda gives the cashier a list of items that she needs: two 20-ft stakes, three weather resistant tarps, and *a high-power buzzsaw.* Gideon was shocked, when he heard that last one. When Reverse Grenda asks Gideon what he wants, he is barely given a chance to finish his sentence, as he was acting anxious around her. She misinterprets this as him being another boyfriend, although she already has one. The dispute between the two of them continued for a bit longer, until Gideon conceded and stormed out of the hardware store.

* **Tent of Telepathy** - The Tent of Telepathy is where the people in the audience watch a stage performance by Mabel Gleeful. Gideon walks up to the crowd, but he is unable to squeeze through them. They cheer for Mabel, before she meets Gideon. She offers fliers to the audience for the next magic show. Gideon accepts the flier that was given to him, although it felt kind of forced, since the crowd stared menacingly at him. He was reluctant when doing this, but he still respected Mabel's wishes.
* **Arcade** - Gideon puts a quarter into the arcade machine for the *Fight Fighters* video game, before he begins playing it. However, the game is not responsive, and he gets frustrated. He kicks the machine on its side in anger, before a voice can be heard from it. The voice belonged to Reverse Candy. Gideon thought the arcade machine was broken, and apologized to her for his mistake when he accidentally hurt her. Then, he notices a bunch of hardware and circuitry in Candy's hands, revealing her to be a hacker. Gideon is roped into another argument, before he is blamed for tearing apart the arcade machine (although Candy is the one in there, instead). The arcade owner asks what is going on, before Gideon leaves, and Reverse Candy steals the quarter that he inserted into the machine.

After going to all locations in Chapter 0, Gideon returns to the town. He intended to head home, since it's getting dark, before he is thwarted by Reverse Grenda and Candy. Grenda thought she told him to beat it, and Candy snapped at him for being accused of bothering her. Gideon tries to give a counter-argument to the girls, before Reverse Candy tells him not to mess with her, as she can ruin his social media life, and Grenda's boyfriend can ruin his life's life. Gideon attempts to clear up the misunderstandings, before the crowd show up and claim that he threatened Mabel earlier (when he actually didn't). He told them that the only threatening thing was the prices for the fliers, then he is accused of lying. Reverse Candy and Grenda told the crowd about what they think Gideon was doing to them, when he knows that none of the things the duo said were true. Gideon is chased by the crowd, until he escapes from them in the forest.

Gideon was exhausted after fleeing from the crowd, but he doesn't know where he currently is. A man in a brown cloak approaches Gideon. He gets yelled at when he keeps inching closer to the boy, and doesn't know why people use the term "stranger danger". Gideon screamed for help, before Pacifica heard his voice in the distance. The monster has Gideon cornered, but Pacifica mistakes the latter for a girl in the process. Gideon told her that the entity was going to eat him. Pacifica realizes her error of misidentifying Gideon as a female, then he wants some justice for being harmed. The monster was confused, when Pacifica called him a werewolf/vampire/wendigo, before she brandishes her silver mirror, then she repeatedly hits him with it. As it turns out, the silver mirror does nothing against the entity. The Mothman was revealed to be the one who attacked the boys early on in Chapter 0, after his identity is no longer ambiguous. All he wanted was some cloth to eat, so he wasn't actually targeting people — just their clothing. There was a misunderstanding here, as Pacifica thought he was a man-eater at first. The Mothman used to eat at a "quaint Chinese place" once before, but it closed on him. Pacifica does not remember any Chinese restaurants in Reverse Falls, before the Mothman clarifies that he was eating Chinese people's clothes from the dry cleaners.

The Mothman hasn't had a single decent meal in a week, and now he's taking lip from Pacifica and Gideon. Pacifica suggests that he should try some new things, but he thinks she is talking about people. His wings emerge from his back, before Gideon and Pacifica make a run for it, after he starts hunting them. While Gideon runs away from the Mothman, Pacifica pulls up alongside him in the Go-Kart. Pacifica and Gideon use the Go-Kart to flee from the Mothman as fast as they can, but he seems to be gaining on them. He grabs Gideon by the hoodie, before Pacifica rams the Go-Kart into some trees, and he gets injured as a result. He lets go of Gideon's hoodie, and is shook loose. Pacifica tries to introduce herself to Gideon, but he tells her to look out, and then she veers off the road, when she sees a blue light. Will Cipher is in a state of panic, when the Mothman encounters him. Will uses electrokinesis against the Mothman when he gets into contact with the demon, completely frying him. The dream demon flies away, shortly after the Mothman is defeated.

Pacifica and Gideon made it out alive. Pacifica missed her chance to prove that weird things exist in Reverse Falls, now that the Mothman is (presumably) dead. Gideon asks her if the pile of fried moths could be scooped up with a dust pan, or if the caulk could be used in an attempt to put him back together. Pacifica says "When one door closes, another one opens!", as she wants to find Will Cipher. Gideon and Pacifica have a proper introduction, as the get to know each other. He guesses that they should head back to the town. Pacifica gets excited about making a new friend, as she has a lot of things planned for him, although it is overwhelming. Gideon thinks she's not listening to him, as she is more focused on what can be ordered at the diner, and he wants her to take him seriously. Bud Pines expected Gideon to return home a few hours ago, and his son freaks out when he realizes that he has been away from home for longer than he should. The moment Gideon is gone, Pacifica ensures that he will be fine. However, she doesn't know where he lives, and tells him to wait up.

## Characters

* Pacifica Southeast
* Priscilla Southeast
* Gideon Pines
* Deuce
* Reverse Robbie
* Reverse Candy
* Sheriff Blubs
* Mabel Gleeful
* Reverse Toby Determined
* Scot
* Constable
* Duck-tective
* Reverse Wendy
* Preston Southeast
* Reverse Grenda
* Bud Pines
* Will Cipher (off-screen)
* Mothman
* Mallardarty

## Gameplays

Reverse Falls Chapter 0 Gameplay - No CommentaryWerewolf path.Let's Play -Indie- Reverse falls Chapter 0 part 02 - The WendigoWendigo path.Let's Play -Indie- Reverse falls Chapter 0 part 03 - The VampireVampire path.
## Trivia

* Dipper Gleeful and Bill Cipher are the only characters who debuted in the demo, but do not appear in Chapter 0.
	+ However, Will Cipher makes an off-screen appearance in this chapter.