- For the location, see Holy Cradle Hotel.
First of all, welcome to the Holy Cradle's hotel! You will love the city, we love all the ignarii. When it is night, which in this case is now, I recomend that you do not leave. This hotel is a little different from some you may already have been too...
Hotel is the tenth episode of The Secret in the Forest. It aired on June 13, 2020.
Synopsis[]
After escaping the Holy Cradle's night creatures, the team stays in the village's hotel - just to get through their most traumatic life experience.
Summary[]
After finding The Helper's body, the team examines the body and discover a word written in blood next to it, next to the spiral symbol: "Source". Elizabeth discovers, in her investigation, remnants of the green crystal on his mouth, and analyzing the wound, she comes to the conclusion that he was killed with something akin to a kitchen knife. The Blacksmith stays a while perplexed until he reacts, and suggests that the party choose weapons from the Smithy to face the creatures of the night by taking them to the infirmary. Joui chooses a samurai sword, similar to a katana, Thiago, a long sword, Cesar, a sling, Arthur, a hammer, and Liz, two scythes.
They cross the Holy Cradle's village running, but are chased by incorporeal creatures, out of the fog. They come to the house of The Doctor, that uses green crystals to heal the injuries of the group, including Arthur, who had broken two ribs. Then the Blacksmith tells him that, unfortunately, his son was murdered, while the group recovers in the infirmary. The Blacksmith then suggests that the group stay at the Holy Cradle Hotel while the night lasts. After a short discussion, the team agrees and runs towards the site. Joui is grabbed by a fog creature, but, with the collective effort of Liz, Cesar and Arthur, he manages to get rid and reach their destination.
At the Hotel, the team is left to the care of The Hotelier, that explains to them the strange rules to spend the night at the place. He gives all the keys to their rooms and warns them to ignore suspicious sounds through the corridors and remain in their rooms individually until the night is over.
Joui and Thiago decide to retire to their rooms immediately, while Arthur appeals to Liz and Cesar to all sleep together, as he is afraid of what might happen there. Cesar denies the request, arguing that all precautions given by the Lusidii so far has been for their sake, and disobeying orders seems impractical. Liz contemplates giving in to Arthur’s plea, but when the Hotelier asks if they are lovers, she is filled with shame and decides to lock herself in her room.
During the night, when everyone was asleep, Joui wakes up with the image of the Hotelier, blindfolded, with a knife, ready to attack him. Soon, the man hits a black creature that was in his bed and explains that for some reason, the guests are being attacked by a Guilt Parasite, that attacks people in their dreams. The Hotelier says that both need to help the rest of the group defeat the source of their guilt without them realizing that they are dreaming, or the manifestations of their subconscious would become real and truly dangerous.
All the others wake up with Joui’s scream, and Liz and Cesar decide to leave their rooms to investigate what happened. Liz hears sounds of struggle coming from the room in front of her own, and when she opens the door, she runs into someone familiar with a distressed face, a bloody bullet hole near his eye, her recently deceased teammate Alexsander Kothe. Cesar goes to the room in front of Arthur’s and, when he opens the door, he faces the wide figures of Cristopher Cohen and Brúlio Cervero, fighting over an arm wrestling match. The hacker tells Arthur not to leave his room, even if he hears his father’s voice, while fleeing the appearance of Cris, who acts with increasing bitterness.
Downstairs, Joui and the Hotelier witness the meeting of Liz and Alex, which gets increasingly violent. Alex accuses the scientist of never caring about him and being the real cause of his death. Liz tries to reason with him, but is attacked numerous times. Soon, Cesar comes running down the stairs, crying, with Cris on his tail. Cris accuses Cesar of running away again, as he did all his life, and tells him that he never loved him. Upon hearing the creature’s lies, Cesar rants, realizing that this cannot be his father, for he would never tell him something like that.
Still upstairs, Brúlio goes to his son and judges him for being weak, abandoning him after the death of his mother and brother. He tries to escape, but Brúlio goes after him and punches him to death. Fighting sounds are heard from Thiago’s room, which suddenly appears in the hallway facing the officer Gonzales Medina.
Joui tries to intervene in the fight between Liz and Alex, but Alex proves to be very strong, and when she tries to forgive him with a hug, he takes the moment to rip her heart out with his own hand. With Liz’s body at his feet, Joui goes into shock and confronts the Hotelier, but he soon changes from confused to sinister, accusing the gymnast of never being able to save his friends. The bodies of everyone around him disappear into black ooze, and Joui realizes that the only parasite there was his, and it was all part of his dream. Joui stares at the parasite coldly and destroys it with a blow from the katana.
He wakes up in his bed the next morning, covered by the ooze of the creature that is falling apart, the gymnast runs to Liz’s room to see how she is. After a few seconds, the scientist traumatized by the memories of the dream finally goes to the door, and realizes that Joui has the gray skin and pointed ears of a Lusidii. In the rooms of each of the team there is a small package waiting for them. Soon after, everyone arrives at the hall wearing the costumes made by The Tailor, and confront each other about the strange dream of the night before. Cesar and Thiago don't react well to the new Lusidii appearance of Joui. The Hotelier, in turn, reveals that he was also attacked by the Parasite, a monster probably created by his father, the Old Hotelier, who committed suicide a long time ago. He says that his father was involved in the creation of monsters and that by destroying a picture of him on the wall, he found the hidden pages of his diary. He takes the pages and delivers them to the team.
Episode cast[]
- Cellbit - Game Master
- Luba - Joui Jouki
- Guaxinim - Arthur Cervero
- Calango - Cesar Cohen
- Gabi Cattuzzo - Elizabeth Webber
- LJoga - Alexsander Kothe / Cristopher Cohen
Trivia[]
- Rakin, that plays Thiago Fritz, was not present during the recording of this episode. His character was played by the master, Cellbit, who followed the player’s guidelines of how he would handle the plot situations.
- This was the first episode to have a special "cutscene", presenting the new protagonists' clothes.
- This was the first session to have a fight where a player purposely fights against others, in the case, Luis Gouveia playing Cristopher and Alex against the other protagonists.
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References[]
- ↑ The Secret in the Forest - Episode 10 (watch on YouTube at 1h16m28s)