"Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone."
— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)
An abandoned factory turned Stasi prison is abandoned and ripe for development when the wall falls. What will be unearthed from beneath the layers of history?
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•brooding & investigative horror
•The former East/West divide in Berlin, Late 1980's/early 1990's
•Main location: Abandoned Car Factory that later served as a Stasi secret prison, now empty
•Additional Locations: a Beirhall on the Western side of Berlin, A rocky quay on the banks of the Rhine, A tiny Catholic church near the main location.
•The Witness: Anna Schmidt - A developer, she scouts for real estate deals for a big french firm. She is here to check out the abandoned factory for possible purchase, demolition, and development. Anna is persistent and practical. She has face in progress and that gives her an optimistic philosophy.
The Clues:
•The Demon Key - it arrived in a black envelope and has teeth
•The Ledger of Names - a stained tome with hundreds of names and coded annotation.
•The Photo of a group of people taken at the factory - One person has their eyes open, they all resemble one another and each person in the photo is labeled with strange coded annotation.
•A Large Inky Pool - a black liquid that seems to absorb the light, it is spilled out over the factory floor.
•The Black Door - a massive barred portal, ringed with writing
•The Body of a Person - It resembles the figures in the photo
•The Clay Figure - a crude representative figure with a spiced odour
•The Demonic Magic Circle - a face in the floor of the room behind the black door
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