Stay Alive Page #3

Well, I grew up in Georgia.

My dad's an architect and my mom's

a kindergarten schoolteacher.

I'm going to Princeton in the fall.

Sounds like you've got

a perfect little family back home.

I don't know about perfect.

- Uh...

- Sorry. I'm sorry.

- Are you all right?

- Yeah.

I've got a thing with fire.

It's a long story. No big deal.

What's up?

Finding Miller's body in the game...

Look, I'm no gamer, but there are only so

many ways you could die in a video game.

It's all just really bad timing.

Not really. In a sense, the timing is bad

because he overresponds to deaths.

When you think about it, the coincidence of finding Miller's

game body and his real body was perfect.

That's why we're freaked out.

It's better in single player anyway.

D*ckheads.

All right, Countess, let's go.

There you are.

Oh, you hate mirrors. I forgot.

- Oh... You can't break this one.

Maybe timing had nothing to do with it.

Maybe it was inevitable.

Possible homicidal replication

on a sociopathic level.

Where are you going?

Loomis said his friends were playing that

video game the night they died, hours before, Now Miller.

What are the chances of all of them being

murdered right after playing that video game?

Jesus, if Phineus is playing that game...

- Hutch! Come on, honey. You've gotta relax.

- It's just bad timing.

But, Swink said

what about timing has nothing to do with it.

Did I say that? I have a penchant

for big theories. Don't listen to me.

Phineus!

Phin! Oh, my God!

- What are you doing, man?

- I'm pulling this b*tch. What's it look like?

- What if Loomis and Miller...

- Was more than a coincidence?

They both played the game

and then they died, so...

obviously the video game

killed them, right?

- Are you serious, man? Listen to yourself.

- Phin.

I was ready to bite it anyway.

Hey Swink, check this mirror I found.

I flipped it over. The back works like a mirror,

but it won't break like the other one.

I think it's made out of polished silver something.

I don't know. You guys don't have one.

We all know you've been through a lot, and you know I love you,

but you're freaking everybody out now.

I know. Yeah.

Nice.

"No distinguishing marks."

Had a broken banister.

"Adjoined twin blades."

This is why I'm missing

my G4techTV weekend wrap-up?

Hot sugar.

I though we had this conversation.

Call me crazy, call me paranoid,

I don't give a sh*t. Just look at this.

- Why isn't Phineus showing?

- He said he'd be here, so he'll be here.

OK. So we all saw

that Miller was stabbed to death.

The cops think he was stabbed

with shears. Loomis's friends too.

Sarah - her body was drained of blood.

The police report said Loomis's neck

was broken, and he was hung in the game.

They all died

the same way they died in the game.

This can't just be some coincidence.

I don't like this at all.

I think you're right.

You know I told you I heard

the story of Gerouge from my grandma?

This Elizabeth Bathory chick

was sick and twisted - and very real.

Guys, every detail of this game

is based on her real life.

The tower,

the cemetery, the torture chamber.

She'd hunt for victims in a black carriage.

She'd gut them with silver shears. The

shattered mirrors, why were they broken?

She couldn't stand to see herself get old.

All facts.

All I care about is finding out

what happened to Miller and Loomis,

and you are not helping.

As punishment, they walled the b*tch up

in her tower alive - and here's the kicker.

The last thing she said

was that one day she'd be back.

So what if she's back and killing us

one by one after we die in the game?

This is insane. Listen to yourself.

You don't want to listen to me right now, fine. All

I care about is:
Where the hell is Phineus?

# Close your eyes,

I want to ride the skies in my sweet dreams

# Close your eyes, I want to see you tonight

in my sweet dreams

Funky.

Is anybody out there?

Phin, are you OK?

- Yeah. I'm awesome.

- Phin, it's Hutch. Where are you?

I was on my way,

but my whip got stuck out on River Road.

- I'm just south of Binky's Adult Store man.

- I'll drive.

- Who's that? Abigail?

- Yeah.

- What's up, mama?

- What's up?

Hey Swink, when you were talking

about perceptive reality trash,

were you talking about

hearing or seeing things, or both man?

Both. It's bizarre.

You see, retinally speaking...

Shut up. Listen, I've not tripped out like this

since I ate that matzo ball at Bible camp brother.

Hey. Phin. hang on.

We're coming to get you.

Let's go.

Phin you didn't die in the game remember.

I'll be right there.

That's right!

I didn't die in the game, baby.

Hey.

Wait a minute.

In the game, she only comes at night.

Is anybody out there?

OK, we're close.

Look for his car.

Stop, stop, stop. Stop! Wait.

Phin!

Phin.

Jesus. Phineus died

exactly the same way he died in the game.

Need to tell me something?

This is...

This is gonna sound crazy,

but this game, Stay Alive,

is about the Gerouge Plantation

and a woman, Elizabeth Bathory.

- I think I know that ghost story, yeah.

- OK. Phineus was run over by a carriage in the game.

Miller... Miller died the same way

he died in the game too.

- Wait, wait, wait. Wait a minute, kid.

- I got this game last week from a friend.

Him and two of his friends were murdered

the same way they died in the game.

Now, explain that.

Right.

That's the Crowley case,

over in Church Point.

And you lived with that family, right?

After what happened with your folks?

Yeah.

You talked to that Crowley kid

the night he was murdered?

You know I did, Detective.

- You see, technically, anybody can hack into...

- Shut up.

Let's take a walk.

- Let's see what got you so scared.

- I don't think you...

Shut up.

- How do you do this thing?

- You have to read that.

All right.

"Come to me, clouds.

May you rise as..."

There must be a connection.

- Oh, yeah, there is, Hutch.

- Look, I already told you...

I'm telling you.

Friend or no friend, game or no game,

next time I see you on a crime scene,

I'm gonna be force to take you in.

I wonder how you would feel

if that was your friend.

- Someone you cared about, Detective.

- I would let the cops do their job.

Hey!

Hey, don't play that game.

Hey! Come on! Come on.

I just think

it would be better if no one plays.

Well, I guest I can see how at your tender age,

something like this game might put scare on you.

- Come on. Come on.

- I got it.

All right.

I'm gonna look into this,

but you're gonna have to go home, Hutch.

Why don't you lock that kid up?

Well if I just rode him up on a carriage

and mowed down the girl's brother?

Well, this video game business

sounds like bullshit.

That's great.

That's just really stupendous.

I know it! We all know it!

Something's happening, something bad!

Swink, shut the hell up!

You're not helping, man.

Why did you have to bring that game

into our lives, Hutch?

Why?

October.

My brother was all that I had.

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