The Mind Place

[makethestory]

Profiling || Case Board || Manuscript Pages

//resources
- https://interfaceingame.com/games/alan-wake-ii/
- https://alanwake.fandom.com/wiki/Mind_Place

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[makethestory]

[ Like David. Interesting. Something to come back to when I'm not mid crisis.

Whenever that is. ]

The bars are too low. Okay. What bars? Someone put you in a cage?

[tarakan]

I can't hear myself think. / I can't remember. / I can't escape. / It's been too long, when did I last drink water? / I tried.

[makethestory]

[ So let's add 'torture' onto the list. I'm getting the shape of this. And it's making her angrier and angrier. ]

You do remember. Some part of you remembers. So tell me: how long? What did he do to you?

[tarakan]

Can't think. / Days? Five? Six? / The Rapture is coming, I see the sermon on the screen. / I can't move. / No food, no water.

[makethestory]

[ Definitely brainwashing.

Shit.

The technique requires her to keep her focus and it's hard when she's this fucking angry. ]

And you were alone?

[tarakan]

Yes.

I didn't do this. / I don't remember. / I wouldn't. / Please believe me.

[ That icy feeling starts up again as Hilbert's internal desire to be believed buts up against his other desire to not show emotion. ]

[makethestory]

[ I hate that my gut says that I'm going to hate this answer. ]

And who put you in that cage? Who showed you images?

[tarakan]

I don't know. / Why are you asking me this? / Seed. / Stop asking me things I don't know!

[makethestory]

[ That was all she needed, even if she hates that answer. Dammit, Jacob. Goddammit.

I need to tell them what I know.

Which is when she slips out of her Mind Place. ]