CLOVEJAR'S PROFILE

• Lol the secret door being left open XD I never thought about that
• Hmm yeah maybe I should put the info in game. I've seen people do puzzles that need external resources before, but it's not just you that doesn't seem to like them.
• Joseph didn't actually get ~killed~ for leaving his toys out. However he did get mistreated a lot which is part of why he's dying now. =P
• Really I thought the icon was a butcher's knife o.o maybe I looked at it wrong lol.
• it's "eat you up" in an original version of the fairytale. It's like a 'kiddish' way of speaking that people use with kids.

• I guess the waiter could have gone to sleep earlier in the day than you do, and go through the whole thing just ahead of you? But actually what happened (and he tells you this only if you backtrack and interact with the garden ladder) is he found the trapdoor on his own (which is why the tile looks different that time).
• I think with the maths and chemistry in this game I assumed the player had a certain knowledge level, sorry! Sorry if you didn't understand it, I guess I don't take into account people who are completely new to maths.

• Legit hidden rooms do sometimes exist in old buildings =P (Or if not, big storage cupboards/loft spaces that get turned into rooms.) I figure the school just had a hidden room or a cupboard left over from historical days that got forgotten about and reappropriated by the students.

• Joe would sometimes sleep in the library in the secret room, meaning his body's probably in the secret room.

• The life-for-a-life 'taking my place' thing is a moral I was trying to push with this game, haha. It's the idea that you can't expect to meaningfully 'help' someone while staying safe and protected on the sidelines (in this case, staying safe in a dream). To truly help, you have to make sacrifices without expecting kindness in return.

• The way I imagine the "switching" works: it isn't teleportation, it's more like the dream changes reality. When the dream ends, reality is rewritten to fit what happens, who lives and dies. Which is why you wake up in your bed rather than in the classroom and why joe's already been reported missing by the time you wake up. (It's like in this new reality, he had already died and Angela never met him.) I could have been more consistent with it though - I should have made it so the library burned down ahead of time, too, rather than "last night".

• If you set fire to the door, you'd probably burn the whole school down haha. Besides, I don't think Angela is properly aware of her abilities, just like how she doesn't acknowledge she's a lucid dreamer.

• The cage is a kind of metaphorical cage, it just represents his real-life imprisonment. So he's been ~confined~ for decades, but not literally in that one birdcage with the one door haha.

• Nobody was in the cell before, Joseph was the first (as he mentioned, he resorted to creating a 'world inside my mind'; he created the whole dream to mirror real life). Everything happens because Joseph wanted to escape death by luring someone in to replace him.

• The person Joseph targets is actually Joe, since Joe's a kind-hearted guy with a similar name (basically a good fit for replacement). Angela starts dreaming too because she has latent paranormal abilities (e.g. the latent pyrokinesis, which yes does awaken after this incident). They both would never have progressed without the peppermint incense though.

• The 3 items at the end aren't useless, you need them and ALSO a replacement person to get him out (he says "you just don't have ALL the pieces yet").