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Walkthrough
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You wake up in the woods with no memory of how you got there. Nightmares of blood and screams still echo through your mind. It's late and it's cold - unless you can find shelter fast, you won't last the night. You spot a house in a clearing up ahead and left with no choice - you decide to shelter there for the night. Soon afteryou begin to realise that death is a welcome choice compared to what lies waiting for you inside...
Outside
Click the door of the house to move towards it.
Click the door handle on the right to enter the house.
Entrance Hall
Click the stairs to go upstairs.
Upstairs Hall
Click the right side of the hall.
Click the hatch on the ceiling to lower the ladder, then go through the hatch to the attic.
Attic
Click the symbol on the ground to the bottom right of the corpse for a close-up.
Click the numbers scratched into the wood on the right side of the attic for a close-up.
The code is 3489. It is the same in every playthrough.
Click the white arrow in the lower left to go back downstairs.
Bedroom
Click the door to enter the bedroom.
Click the painting on the wall to reveal a safe, then click the safe.
Enter the code from the attic: 3489, then click Enter.
Get the book (Exmortis), the human heart, and look at the symbol.
Optionally read the book. The key passages at the end describe the Hand of Repose, a man "anoited with the blood of five" who will restore the cult's power.
Exit the safe and click the door to enter the Ensuite.
Ensuite
Click the sink to get the key.
Go back downstairs to the entrance.
Click the dark doorway at the end of the hall.
Dark Hallway
Click the picture frame on the left wall for a close-up.
It shows a pentagram with each point numbered 1-5. You will need this for the final puzzle.
Click the darkness at the end of the hallway.
Ground Floor Hall
Click the door on the right to enter the Kitchen.
Kitchen
Click the microwave to find a severed head.
Click the head for a close-up of the symbol carved into the forehead.
Exit the close-up and click the doorway to enter the Lounge.
Lounge
Click the diary on the table. It belongs to a hunter who fell under Vlaew's influence and became the Hand of Repose.
Click the white arrow in the bottom left to return to the Ground Floor Hall.
Click the door on the left; the key from the sink unlocks it.
Library
Click the symbol to the left of the arm on the floor for a close-up.
Click the book sticking out on the 4th shelf down of the right-hand bookcase.
Read the diary of Xavier Rehayem, which describes him murdering his daughter Gwen.
Go back upstairs and left. Gwen's door is now ajar.
Gwen's Room
Enter Gwen's room. Seeing Gwen is all you need to do here; the basement door is now unlocked.
Go back downstairs to the Dark Hallway.
Click the door on the left to enter the cellar entrance.
Cellar
Click the door to enter.
If the door is still locked, you have missed a symbol or book. Go back and click each one for its close-up.
The door locks behind you.
Pick up the axe leaning against the wall on the right.
Click the boarded-up door 3 times to break through.
Tunnels
Go forward several screens.
A man runs at you; click him before he reaches you. If you die, you restart at the tunnel entrance.
Click the man's head for a close-up of the symbol.
Continue forward.
Click the small hole in the wall to get a key.
Go back three screens and click the hard-to-see doorway on the left.
Click the door; the key unlocks it.
Exmortis Room
A floating face asks you to become the hand of Exmortis and presents a pentagram with the symbols you found.
Solve the puzzle for one ending, or click the doorway to escape for the other. A wrong answer simply resets the puzzle.
Ending 1: The Hand of Repose
Mirror each symbol as if a mirror were placed below it. Mirrored, they become the letters L, W, A, V and E.
Enter them around the pentagram using the numbered points from the picture frame in the Dark Hallway.
Click the symbols in this order: [ORDER]
The Cult of Exmortis is restored and millions die.
Ending 2: Escape
Click the door on the left. Vlaew tries to kill you.
Click quickly through the tunnels. If you are too slow, you restart in the Exmortis Room.
Click the very first doorway on the right; going straight leads to a dead end.
Woods
Keep moving forward.
You are attacked, wake up hours later with no memory, and wander back into the house to repeat the cycle.
Added: 4 Oct 2026 - Released: 27 Aug 2004 (Ben Leffler - Newgrounds)