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Volume 3 - Specificities

Book 1 - Regretful

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- Story: Regret

In this regretful world, she is here to clean out her apartment; she is about to move out. Over the course of three flashbacks, we learn why. Her ex boyfriend proposed to her twice: once in a silly fashion, with a plastic ring, and the next time for real, in a restaurant, with a diamond ring. However, the suitor changed his mind and called off the engagement with a letter. She takes her last items and abandon the apartment, just as her boyfriend abandoned her.

The breakup with the boyfriend happened because he found someone more "fun", but because he was indecisive and overly kind, the relationship went on for far longer than it ought to have.

- Puzzle design

This level is basically a treasure hunt level. Collect all the items, to familiarize the player with the space. There are no "puzzles" beyond finding the right things. Finding some items will trigger a flashback to the relationship and how it ended.

There are five hiding places. Looking in any one of the hiding places will find the "next" ring, which will instantly teleport into the location newly searched.

The following ring types exist and can be found:

a Claddagh ring; a traditional Irish ring which represents love, loyalty, and friendship (the hands represent friendship, the heart represents love, and the crown represents loyalty); something you picked up while in Ireland, you thought it was pretty and romantic; you were in high school

a carnelian ring; a semiprecious stone consisting of an orange or orange-red variety of chalcedony; ostensibly from your great grandmother

a plastic ring; Ring Pop is a brand of fruit flavored lollipops manufactured by Topps. They are in the form of a wearable plastic ring with a large hard candy "jewel" and come in an assortment of flavors. They were invented by Frank Richards in 1975. This triggers the wedding proposal flashback at the carnival.

a diamond engagement ring; this triggers the dinner wedding proposal.

a wedding band; you received it in a breakup letter from the suitor; triggers the breakup letter in the rain.

There are following hiding places in the apartment:

a fake can of shaving cream in the bathroom cabinet;

a teapot in the kitchen cabinet;

a bag of some ground coffee stored in the freezer;

the top shelf of a bookcase in the living room, which you must stand on either the sofa or a chair to see, and you

must stand on the chair to get;

on the mattress in the bedroom, but finding the ring will require being on the mattress while examining it;

under the left pillow of the squashed, ugly couch in the living room.

The cardboard box contains an I Love You Beary Much bear that you bought for yourself. Meh. A bar of soap is in the bathroom cabinet. It smells like him when you pick it up. Meh.

Written in your own hand is a combination at the bottom of the breakup letter.

- Flashbacks

There are three story moments that occur. First, at a carnival, boyfriend proposes marriage with a plastic ring he's won. We say yes or no. Boyfriend reacts. Second, over an expensive dinner he has the real version. He asks again, taking into account the previous answer, and we say yes or no again. Third, we are at the apartment mailbox where we open the breakup letter in the rain. If we changed our answers, he couldn't be sure that we were sure; if we always said no, he points it out in the letter; if we only said yes, he says that she was his soulmate, bur you never were.

In sum, the suitor counts up the number of times that we have said yes to his proposals, and breaks up with us differently based on that number.

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