See-all Walkthrough: “The Little Princess” Chapter (Part 6b): Side Gate
Posted by PokerNemesis in Clues, Plot Structure & StoryIn considering Jennifer’s use of the airship boarding pass to enter the orphanage’s side gate, we should (as with almost everything in the Rule of Rose game) examine the implications of it in two respects: (1) how it fits in with the plot (the sequence of dream-events), and (2) how it might be significant as a memory from Jennifer’s forgotten past.
Let’s start by considering how the boarding pass is used in the plot.
Jennifer’s use of the boarding pass at the side gate sets up the airship take-off announcement that we will hear in the last cut-scene of this chapter. To view the YouTube of that scene, use this link: take-off announcement.
Both Jennifer’s use of the airship boarding pass, and the later airship take-off announcement, set up Jennifer’s arrival on the airship at the beginning of the second chapter of the game.
Jennifer’s use of the airship boarding pass to enter the orphanage grounds also fits in with the idea that the airship in which Jennifer will find herself, later in the game, is the orphanage transformed by imagination. We can tell that this is the case by observing certain correspondences between things that we find in both the airship and the orphanage. I will point out these correspondences later in this “The Little Princess” chapter walkthrough as we encounter them inside of the orphanage.
Now let’s switch to considering how Jennifer’s use of the airship boarding pass might fit in as one of Jennifer’s memories.
Jennifer will tell us in the “Once Upon a Time” chapter that the orphans “played airship”. So it is easy to imagine that part of the game might involve airship boarding passes. But could there have been a more serious aspect to this part of the game? It seems to me that it would make sense that the orphans might try to restrict the access of visitors to the orphanage during that period of time that they had the orphanage all to themselves (after the adults were no longer present there). So they would want the gates to the yard to be locked. And they probably wouldn’t want to have to talk to visitors at the gate and get involved in answering questions that they might mess up in answering. Could the solution that they hit upon be the use of boarding passes to be placed in the mail slot and viewed by a hidden sentry (in this case, Xavier)? In this way the orphans could control access, letting each other in and out, without risking getting into any unwanted conversations with outsiders.
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hi,for all the R0R maniacs, ,
can i j0in this site??
W0w p0kernemesis,you’re like a detective.its awes0me! Great j0b!! I just c0nfused with everything in R0R Game. . . . .
But the m0st thing that curious ab0ut is “did the 0ct0ber ticket that we can find at 0nce up0n a time chapter is useless?”
Welcome blinded by tears!
blinded by tears asked:
—the 0ct0ber ticket that we can find at 0nce up0n a time chapter is useless?—
It makes the octopus “costume” for Jennifer available in replay (in the 4 leaf clover room in the airship chapters) after saving a “beaten” game and using that to start a replay .
g0tcha. ,i didnt think ab0ut it bef0re.. Its clear n0w. .h0wever,we g0t it in a strange ways. (you know,through the table where the ticket was there.iam sure you kn0w that)
anyway,sory for my english,iam an ind0nesian,the-he-he.
Good to see you parse out the possibilities, I`d like to see how you handle some of the questions I`ve recently raised about the death of Brown and the gravesite. As to the boarding passes : you may be trying to find a correspondence to actual events and things that occur in the dream . The orphanns could hardly have have made a slot in the wall for the pass this is just how J has structured her dream. The boarding pass is most likely just J`s way of representing the start of her recovery of memory and she has lumped/jumbled the orphanage and airship together. But just why is the October ticket the “October” ticket ? What happened in October , why is it associated with a sea creature ?
Stephen wrote:
I am suggesting that the slot was built into the wall, by the people who built the wall, to serve as a mail slot and that a postman would daily pass by and deliver mail for the orphanage to that slot and/or pick up outgoing mail from that slot.
When Martha tried to send letters to the police, the orphans could easily see these letters waiting there for the postman and steal the letters.
The orphans just adapted the mail slot for use as a place where a sentry could examine a pass for the gate without being seen by outsiders.
Stephen asks:
I’ll give my guesses at an answer in today’s blog-post.