What Happened in the Well

Why can't I just let it go?

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NOTE: Characters are randomized (and you're not really supposed to know that normally) so a second playthrough is likely to be different!

Content Warnings

• Structural Violence: A conflict between hierarchal powers occurs. The words "riot" and "uprising" are used.
• Physical Violence, Injury, Death: Some brief descriptions of gore, injury, drowning, murder, death, and gun violence.
• Swearing: "Motherfucker", "bitch" (in reference to a place only), "bastard", "fuck", and the more mild "damn", etc. are used.

References

If I looked at it and thought, "That's cool," while I made this, it's here.

• In a Bamboo Grove (Ryuunosuke Akutagawa, tr. Jay Rubin)
• Annihilation (Jeff VanderMeer)
• rat chaos (winter lake)
• the works of Emily Carroll
• Mörk Borg
• Pathologic fan comics by @elenaillustrate

Credits

If you can find it in the Well but I didn't make it, it's here.

• Fungus
• The Things They Carried (Tim O'Brien), excerpts from "How to Tell a True War Story"
• publicdomainreview.org
• freesound.org (in order of use)
  • dripping
  • empty noise
  • alarm clock
    
  • switch
  • blanket
  • wooden door
  • whispering
  • faucet + running water
  • ambient loop
  • water click