Comments on: The Sick Bay Drawer Mystery

By: PokerNemesis

PokerNemesis — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 19:29:11 +0000

@ RosesInMay,
Try somebody’s YouTube playthrough of the “UnluckyClover Field” chapter. If they are any good they’ll find it. Unfortunately, there isn’t much chance they’ll press “x” more than once. I don’t think that any of the playthroughs I’ve ever seen were THAT good.

By: PokerNemesis

PokerNemesis — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 18:52:01 +0000

@ Daniel
Thanks for the kind words of appreciation!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 16:45:19 +0000

You my friend, are absoloutley briliant!
This game is so underrated and you really get the best of it!
The many details we all miss are discovered by you! You should actualy be able to speak for hours with the game’s creator and make HIM explain every detail for you! For all this work you’ve done you sureley deserev it!

I love ALL your theories, videos, time-linse, etc.
So thank you for this amazing hard work!

By: tron

tron — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:03:38 +0000

Hello!
Certainly not a fetus or anything like that. As DarkWidow said, it was probably a journal of Clara’s or something suggesting that she was abused, but I don’t think it was any “evidence” that she was given an abortion. If it was anything of that sort, the game-makers surely would have made Hoffman react as well.

By: RosesInMay

RosesInMay — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 04:19:27 +0000

Is there anywhere on youtube that I can see this whole drawer thing?

By: PokerNemesis

PokerNemesis — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:43:46 +0000

Welcome, tron!
What do you think the fuss over the drawer was about then?

By: tron

tron — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 08:16:02 +0000

I don’t think the drawers and the tools have to go together. Honestly, I think the game makers put them in the attic just to look ominous.

I also thought that the vomiting was supposed to hint towards Clara having an eating disorder (brought on by Hoffman molesting her) rather than being pregnant. Each time you see her, Clara’s arms and legs look unusually thin, and during the Mermaid Princess boss battle, the cuts/gills on her torso are exactly where her ribs would be. She just looks unusually scrawny and flat-chested for a 16-year-old girl.

I do think that Hoffman was a doctor (if not a surgeon) and it’s obvious that he was sexually abusing Clara, but the abortion thing seems a little out there. If anything, it was an implied pregnancy, but not an abortion. Even a pregnancy seems unlikely to me.

By: PokerNemesis

PokerNemesis — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:28:10 +0000

@DarkWindow,
I should, perhaps, explain myself further. From the standpoint of this game being about mysteries and clues, I think that the game-makers have a responsibility to make clues that lead us to make logical connections. If the intended mystery of the medical drawer were about Clara’s diary, the game-makers could have given us a glimpse of a book or something. But without giving us any glimpse, I think that the medical tools (shown in the previous chapter) and the medical drawer need to go together, or the game-makers are just being misleading.

By: PokerNemesis

PokerNemesis — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 23:46:18 +0000

@ DarkWindow
Some have suggested Clara’s vomiting during the boss battle was an indicator of pregnancy.

The pregnancy/abortion idea is only a hypothesis, but I think that the drawer-relates-to-medical-tools angle is stronger than the alternative you suggest. And the medical tools angle doesn’t depend on the pregnancy/abortion hypothesis. Alternatively, those tools might have been used to torture Brown (or another victim). Clara may not be stopping Jennifer on her own behalf, but acting as an agent of Jennifer’s mental repression of bad memories.

By: DarkWindow

DarkWindow — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 23:19:23 +0000

I (respectfully) think you guys are overreacting.
I really enjoy reading this blog, but this is just wrong.

I HIGHLY doubt that anybody gave Clara an abortion.

Hoff was a sick dude, but this is just not the kind (surgical abortion) of thing I get from his personality.

IF Clara WAS pregnant, there are probably enough drugs etc at the orphanage that were probably within reach to give her.
Wouldn’t some of the orphans mention how Clara got fat, then was sick for a while? Surgery of any kind is extremely hard to bounce back from.

I’m guessing that whatever is in the drawer is know to Clara only, because only SHE reacts when you try to open it.
This is my point.
If it had something to do with Hoff, he was in the room when you try to open it, and he would have reacted after Clara’s freak-out drew his attention to it. He probably would have scolded Jen, etc.

It could have been a diary, a drawn record, or something like a record of Clara’s distress/abuse.
Victims of abuse often write down what’s been done to them if they don’t have anybody else. I’m thinking this is extremely probable since Martha was always busy, and none of the other girls were of Clara’s age. (except Diana, but she’s a wack job)

IF she had an abortion/was pregnant, wouldn’t we see or hear something of that in the boss fight?
The Sick Bay drawer might be in the room, or we could hear a baby crying (ala Fatal Frame 2), or a bloody sack.
All of the boss fight have symbolism in them, so if it was about pregnancy, we would see evidence of it.

I’m ready for the criticism.
Bring it on.