Homesick

Homesick

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ALL books and papers in game // The main character info secret
By UltimateNetwork
All the writings in the game and understanding of the main character.
   
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All writings from the start point. Part 1.
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All writings from the start point. Part 2.





























All the photos, paintings and drawings
Photos
The photos are connected with newspapers.













Paintings






Drawings








Busts (only 3 from 4)



Thoughts about main character story
! Spoiler Alert !

Anything below that warning may destroy your game experience. Read it at your own risk!

The world and the building

As far as we can understand from some translated documents in the game there was an accident.
We don't exactly know what had happened or the scale of the cataclysm (Whole world, country, state, or a particular area)

From papers we can find out some bad feelings about possible coming cataclysm because of environmental crisis or because of implementing new clean and infinite energy source.

The building

The very architecture of the building tells us a little about its possible purpose.
Of course, we do not know anything for certain, but multi-storey closed-loop buildings (cyclical) usually refer to public buildings.

For example, it can act as: a hospital, a hotel, a hospice, a shelter for the homeless, social housing, a rehabilitation center, a dispensary, a sanatorium, etc.

With it's residents list:



EVAC drills

It sounds like an ordinary routine procedure, but let's pay attention to the third point:
do not search for missing individuals, agents will do a final inspection

And in falling to evacuate in emergency situation (The building management think an accident can become true) will result in negative health impacts.



The impacts



Our hero seems to has faced all of them.
She (our character is a woman) has many signals for severe health damage that she has faced during emergency situation.




The Ending

The ending is not so clear because we cannot fully understand the main story.

We may use the straight line of the story and think that her health condition was so bad that she even had to learn the alphabet again and cannot save herself because she cannot go outside (too shiny) and has no more sources to stay alive (clean water, food, medical attention and cure).
Moreover we do not exactly know what we saw in the end: a sweet dream or a real death vision.




OR

We may think that she is still in coma or deep dream and cannot escape from her mind boundaries (closed-loop building, flowers everywhere, the scene where the tree has grown in a moment after watering, lunatics, changes in the mirror display of her, etc)



The name of the book




Sleep can be an answer for whole game story or just for the lunatic walks with an axe at night :)

The question

And for the people who think that all game experience was real for the main character.

Is it too hard to cover your head with the bucket and go through bright areas touching walls and using an axe? That she cannot even pick up during the day

Thanks for the reading and your time.

This guide may be adjusted at will of the author to improve the content.


8 Comments
dawnppelganger 1 Jun, 2023 @ 3:17pm 
"the lunatic walks with an ax at night" ha, love it
I found it very interesting that you said it was a woman you saw in the mirror because I just finished the game and my friend had told me it definitely was a man, but I saw a woman, so I was very confused and had to go back and look at it again. The long hair and lack facial hair or adam's apple makes it look like a woman, but the strong jaw line makes it look like a man. Maybe they made it that way on purpose to say, "This could happen to anyone."
The MAZZTer 25 Jul, 2021 @ 2:59pm 
More:

* When you go into the restroom at the end it seems like you see yourself in the mirror and awake with a start (the only time you don't wake up where you went to sleep). The axe ends up on the floor in front of you, and it seems you shattered the mirror with it in your fright at seeing yourself.
The MAZZTer 25 Jul, 2021 @ 2:59pm 
More:

* One of the fiction books in the author's room sounds awfully similar to the real life situation (the village is dying, a boy goes off to a promised land, it's all lies and death and he dies. It mirrors the story of the farm girl who has a room near you, and probably everyone else.
* It's clear your "nightmares" are you sleepwalking, and you seem to remember things easier then. You can hear a constant burning sound (the building on fire?) people at times, you feel the need to constantly keep moving and fear what would happen if you stayed (eg as if you were evacuating) and you can read the sign on your door even before you remember how to in the waking world. Plus the fire axe disappears from the wall the first time you go to sleep.
The MAZZTer 25 Jul, 2021 @ 2:59pm 
Some details I noticed you didn't mention:

* The place where you are is company housing. Given the evacuation instructions, it sounds like you slept through an evacuation and nobody bothered to look for you, though it's not clear if it's malice or incompetence to blame for that.
* No bodies so everyone seems to have made it out safely.
* The whole thing reminds me of Chernobyl, given the symptoms the protagonist is suffering and how everything is abandoned (nobody came back to look for you).
* IIRC there are letters in your room you can go back to read that suggest you were the child of the family with the building blocks until you moved out (sort of). Given the letters in that apartment, might suggest you're adopted? I'm not sure, going back to look this stuff over again could be helpful.
UltimateNetwork  [author] 22 Apr, 2020 @ 1:53pm 
Actually, could be anyone! :winter2019happyyul:
GX7 17 Apr, 2020 @ 7:06pm 
We sure it's a she? The reflection in the mirror clearly shows a man.
UltimateNetwork  [author] 14 Dec, 2018 @ 1:55pm 
Wow! Thanks! Gonna correct that soon. And re-check everything. Happy gaming!
Fokeens 14 Dec, 2018 @ 1:14pm 
Howdy! Thank you for the guide! It's really nice that someone bothered to make it.
Although i`ve noticed that you`re missing some stuff. I haven't beaten the game yet, so i can't check everything, but you definitely missed page 2 of the first letter on the first table you see in the game (that starts with "Dear Tosh"). You might want to add it to your guide.
Good luck!