I would think it IS "the" mask, since it is the one missing from that display case in the African Room, and only in that little 'closet/room' does it 'feel' eerie and supernatural(?) or 'evil'....I have to say that if I opened a 'closet' door and that thing was right there looking at me like that I would definitely be FREAKED OUT! And stepping into that 'closet' and turning to face that mask gives me the same blood-curdling reaction
I suppose that 'face' I see in the hole in the floor could be another mask or something....I just wish someone else could or would see what I clearly see there - boy my IMAGINATION is so much "huge-r" than even I thought....
Love, Betty Lou :kiss:

In the upper right of the floor...near where the end of the arm (attached to the torso) is? I see something there that could be a face (or more likely a mask), but it could just be my imagination...

Agree - If it were a mystery suspense thriller type, think Hitchcock, it would have been an In Your Face Conclusion (so you would have thought - How could I have overlooked that?)

But, it wasn't, at least for me it wasn't, and I thoroughly enjoyed it none the less.

Seems to me discussion here closes to an end.. but i when parsing through different scratchers forums, i found this interesting opinion(in Nucleosys forum).
I recite "
Then how to explain the fact that the handwriting of Jerry is so similar to Milton's? I'd like to say they are completey identical. I just wonder if it is possible that son's handwriting can be so similar to his father's."
Any thinking about this?

Maybe the English version is somehow different - but, there are minor but distinct differences. The doctor hangs a small loop under his capitol I, Jerry does not.

Now where does THAT come from? Nowhere was there any indication that Jerry (the writer who buys the old victorian mansion) does not know who his father is - that would be a totally whole different storyline that was not offered as far as I can see - did I miss something? Ya think there might be a sequel? to solve all these questions? or add more?
Love, Betty Lou

Note to self: Don't and work and play at the same time -

The 'I's are identical (wrong letter)

Oh, well - back to work..


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And... back from work -

It's also the same handwriting as the note written on the newspaper in the attic. So... either Jerry wrote the note, or he writes just like the Doctor... Hmmmm.

I always thought Jerry was more involved than it originally appeared.

Of course, I also thought we were going to use the rare south african plant to induce vision, a la "Sherlock Holmes and the Devil's Foot." I was kind of disapointed that we didn't!

WW

Hi everyone. I've been wondering all of these puzzling questions too, and I'm curious if anyone on GB has heard from the guys at Nucleosys about what "actually" happened in Scratches. I'd love to get the real low-down from them---assuming they're willing to give away their secrets!

Cat

I believe Raul (spelling?) has the inside track on what's what with this game - did he write it? or work on it or was he a beta testor? Not sure.
Love, Betty Lou

Betty Lou,

Rael IS Agustin. He is the developer and program designed the game. Scratches is his baby.

Rael (Agust

HE sure is, but he's not talking! Just hinting mysteriously.

WW

Finished the game and must say I'm really glad our 'hero' didn't end up as lunch for poor deformed Robin. What I can't figure out is: After discovering he had no lights and no water (and no food because his car was dead), and after crawling through the furnace, he finds he has company in that big, old, long abandoned Victorian, why a (supposedly) intelligent writer of words stayed there. I wouldn't need a car to get gone. My feets would take me away very fast! And, what was the deal with Jerry and the eviction notice? -- as in The Black Mirror. I hate that. It totally ruins a game for me and puts the kibosh on any replays of same.

I think there's a phone conversation that addresses that, that Michael stays because he's becoming (perhaps unnaturally) obsessed with the events that took place there.

Plus, he IS a writer, and a writer of horror novels at that, and as he's growing interested in James's story anyway...well, he's not likely to leave without knowing the ending.

I was quite happy when he got into his car after getting that notice: "Oh, so we're going to go kill Jerry now?"