See-all Walkthrough, With Commentary: “The Little Princess” Chapter (Part 11a): Front Yard
Posted by PokerNemesis in Clues, Plot Structure & StoryNow go through the gate into the front yard.
As Jennifer travels further into the front yard, at some point a cut-scene will occur showing the bloody bag (that Diana was seen to be beating with a stick earlier) being pulled through the open front door into the orphanage building, and the door slamming shut. We aren’t able to see who it was that pulled the bag inside.
If you take Jennifer to the stone path that leads from the front gate to the front door, you can see that there is a large amount of blood on the path.
If you have Jennifer stand in the blood, you can see a technical glitch in the game: the blood seems to be floating above the ground, above Jennifer ankles.
On the right edge of the stone path, a little bit closer to the front door than the blood stains, you can see the drawing of the flying fish balloon (you get the best camera angle by standing on the grass to the right of it), with a tether line angling down to where some drawn figures are holding the tether line. This is the drawing that we saw Wendy making when we came to the front gate before going to the rickety shed. It is also present in the same location (with Wendy seen drawing it again) during the “Once Upon a Time” chapter. The drawing is very similar to one that is drawn on paper and hanging up in the Sickroom of the airship.
I won’t bother describing other features of the front yard, as I don’t see any significance to these features at present, except for the blood on the front steps.
The blood on the front steps seems to have come from the bloody bag that was pulled through the front door.
I think that all of this blood on the path and the front steps is a clue that tells us that what we have seen (relating to the blood) does NOT match with the date of March 1930, despite the fact that this chapter is assigned that date.
Can we really believe that Diana and Eleanor would boldly make a bloody mess in the front yard, leaving that big mess of blood on the stone path and the front steps, and then drag that bag, that is profusely leaking blood, into the front hall of the orphanage building, while Hoffman and Martha are still present at the orphanage? I can’t find any way to believe such a scenario.
I think that the scene with the bloody bag MUST have occurred after Hoffman and Martha have already disappeared, which means December (or very late in November) 1930.
Why was Diana beating an animal?
I have already mentioned the idea that animals( i.e. meat) were being offered to Stray Dog. Stray Dog was thought to eat children, so the idea might have been to make sure that he didn’t get hungry. There may have been some justification for this idea, because Gregory might have sometimes resorted to cannibalism.
On the cannibalism topic see the following blog-posts:
What Are the Black Shapes on Gregory’s Kitchen Floor? Blood?
Was there another reason that the orphans might want to kill animals, after the adults had disappeared?
I think so.
We don’t know how much food that the orphanage had stocked, but the orphans must know that it would run out eventually. Then what would they do?
I think that some of the slaughter of animals by the orphans may have also been done in order to feed themselves.
Why put the animals in bags?
Perhaps it was easier, psychologically, on the children to hide the animals from their sight in bags and kill them without having to look at the animals while they were killing them.
Why did Diana and Eleanor wear imp-bags while doing the killing of an animal?
Perhaps the impersonation of imps had something to do with the Stray Dog Cult, but it is possible that the orphans just needed a psychological shield to help them to do unpleasant things. If the girls wanted to think of themselves as Aristocrats, that self-image wouldn’t fit too well with slaughtering animals. So maybe it was helpful to pretend that the imps were doing those things. Impersonating the imps might have served to psychologically allow the Aristocrats to protect their self-images as Aristocrats during times when they had unpleasant tasks to do.
Similarly, impersonating imps while killing Martha may have allowed the orphans to “blame it on the imps” (in their own minds) and avoid confronting the guilt of their own actions.
Tags: Diana, Eleanor, Gregory, imps, StrayDog
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Why put the animals in bags?
The bags are dark. If you but an animal in a dark place, it will stop moving. You can prove it during an eclipse. Chickens go to sleep when is a eclipse, as all the birds. If you put a bag in the head of an animal, it will very probably that the animal will stop moving, so it’s easier to kill.
I’ve often wondered why you cannot proceed on around the building which would take you past the windows for the Reception Room and the Headmaster’s Room. I understand that there probably isn’t much to see but have felt it a little odd. Is there something there that we aren’t supposed to see? Graves?
And where is Gregory’s house in relationship to the orphanage?
I wonder if the blood was also foreshadowing the murders of the orphans too? Since they died in that area?
Lost Orphan is Quoted as Saying:
And where is Gregory’s house in relationship to the orphanage?
Ain’t that the eternal question? There’s not really any sort of distance measurement… if you walk to the end of the road in front of Gregory’s house, you reach a white picket fence that proclaims, “The gate is locked. You cannot go any further.” (you have to go past Wendy) So we have no idea where his house is compared to the Orphanage, just as we have no reference as to where town is compared to the Orphanage.
LO is also quoted as saying:
Is there something there that we aren’t supposed to see? Graves?
I don’t know which window it is, but I think one of those windows you’re able to see out of in The Funeral (Daytime). It says something like, “You can see the garden out the window.” Then something about how lonely it looks in the sun. I’m in the Funeral Chapter again so I’ll have another look to try to dredge it up.
Neko:
That’s true for rabbits as well. When we wanted to calm Runa down when she was pregnant we would turn out the lights and drape a towel over her cage.
It wasn’t like, “BOOM! INSTANT KNOCKOUT!” but she did go to sleep.
“Why was Diana beating an animal?”
i think that in the scene in the first chapter Diana is not beating an animal.
diana is beating Brown.
i agree with you with the fact that the first chapter of the game dont match with the date ofr march 1930.
what we are seeing is more probably matching with the day of “the funeral”…
the time,that we played in that game was totally chaotic.
I propose,the orphans always sacrificed the animals for straydog because they were afraid if they being eaten by a straydog so they replaced it into an animals.i just though, ,
i just w0nder,why wendy made all of this,arrange that weird stories about strayd0g. ,
“i just w0nder,why wendy made all of this,arrange that weird stories about strayd0g. ”
to gain power.
who control the “media” control a country…
but,why she want to gain p0wer,want to ruled that orphanage,is that any reas0n?
Also,if the aristocrat club was made when the adults still at the orphanage,why hoffman or martha didnt realize it?why he didnt chek the attic,which embosed by the orphans with a lot of roses,chairs,tables,candles,red carpet,
Because the true aristocracy is not what you see when the Aristocrats are punishing or praising Jennifer. It’s what you see when ‘Joshua’ is sitting on the highest table, telling Jennifer to remember what she did. The place where you choose between the three character chapters; ‘The Little Mermaid’, ‘The Red Bird’ and ‘The Goat Sisters’.
It’s just tables stacked up (probably by Hoffman to satisfy their whims, or already stacked like that long ago), covered in long bedsheets. I haven’t played in a while, but the real attic was no where near as beautiful as the childhood fantasies of it.
Thanks, Masq! I went back to that chapter and found the window that you are referring to. It’s amazing what you can find in this game with a few more pushes of the X button. The Headmaster’s room revealed a caption by the bookcases that I wasn’t previously aware of and a lollipop in the closet on a shelf (this was during “The Funeral” I don’t know if this item can be found any other time, but most of the chapters won’t let you back beside the bed to approach the bookshelves).
Off to press the X a few more times to see what else can be found!
^_^ No Problem.
And yes, the lollipop is chapter specific. (checked. <.<)
What I liked about that room was the bookshelf quote. You can always tell what’s going on in a person’s head by the books they keep on their shelf. “Modern Spiritualism” and “The -something starting with a T- of War” and “Ideology(whatever that is)” probably tell us something about Hoffman’s personality, or they probably wouldn’t be mentioned.
Also, I don’t know how many of you could read it, but in the Classroom, there are no subtitles, but if you look at the board you can make out three sentances. The first and the last look to be identical but they say,
“Monarchism is a form of government that symbolizes one man’s will.
Democracy is a form of government -hard to make out but I think it says a S word- controlled.
Monarchism is a form of government that symbolizes one man’s will.”
Seems they were studying History this day.
“but,why she want to gain p0wer,want to ruled that orphanage,is that any reas0n?”
I think her tears in the Funeral chapter are telling. She only cries after her sacred Aristocracy is filled with hate.
“I hate you! I hate you! And You! And I hate you too! But most of all I hate me!”
The airship was supposed to be her way of being loved and respected. The Aristocrats respected her and Jennifer was supposed to love her. That was, I think, the foundation for the entire ordeal. It was the, “Make Wendy feel not lonely” love airship.
Masq wrote:
—I don’t know which window it is, but I think one of those windows you’re able to see out of in The Funeral (Daytime). It says something like, “You can see the garden out the window.” Then something about how lonely it looks in the sun.—
It is a window in the Reception Room:
If that is the rose garden, then Gregory’s house would likely be in that direction.
About the writing on the blackboard in the Classroom (“The Funeral” chapter, daytime), it says:
If that is the rose garden, then Gregory’s house would likely be in that direction.
O.o I thought the rose garden was in the other direction? Towards Strange Hill?
I had missed that there was a time that the books on the bookshelf by Hoffman’s bed could be examined.
The subtitle says:
The “Modern Spiritualism” book seems like a clue of some sort.
You sure the War one isn’t some thing as well? I find it interesting that it caught Jen’s attention along with a book on Spiritualism and a book on Ideology, which, I’m assuming, has something to do with either mind over matter or altruism. I’m kinda scared to look that one up on Wiki.
Masq wrote:
I think that the Orphanage and the rickety shed are both on Strange Hill (it says Strange Hill east, for the rickety shed). The Orphanage is named the “Rose Garden Orphanage” so one would expect that the rose garden would be on or near the orphanage grounds. That the garden could be seen from the Reception Room makes sense in terms of design. The Reception Room is for visitors, and one would want there to be a pretty view for the visitors through the windows of the Reception Room.
Gregory’s house, as we know, is very near the rose garden.
I suspect that the beating of the animal (Brown) on the lawn is foreshadowing of events to come. The designation Strange Hill lets you know thiswill be “strange”.
Or It could be a reference to Silent Hill, as has been stated before. Alessa ruled Silent Hill (in Silent Hill the first; the others dirive from this fact). Her “power” gave it and the monsters the shape she chose. It could easily be a lead in telling us, “This is Jennifer’s deepest part of her mind and heart. These are things as she saw them all that time ago. On this hilltop, such things are her reality.” Just as it was for Alessa/Cheryl in Silent Hill. (it’s more complex than that, but it’s the jist.)
“Gregory’s house, as we know, is very near the rose garden.”
So then the question becomes, “How big is the rose garden/Rose Garden Orphanage’s plot?” as their may be roses in more than one area. (Lets face it… that garden LOOKS huge from a single person standpoint.)
I don’t think the orphans would really care much about the pain and suffering of animals, especially if they did indeed kill Hoffman, Clara, and Martha. Wouldn’t human suffering effect them in some way if animal suffering got to them?
(having said that I must admit I am a little more compassionate towards animals than I am to most people)
Anyway, bagging the animals and wearing masks wouldn’t, in my opinion at least, be a way for them to shield themselves from the animals suffering.
I think the bags would be to keep the animals confined so they can’t run, but can still be bludgeoned, and also makes it easy to move the body.
As for the bags over the orphans heads… Maybe it was so they could continue to think of themselves as the high and mighty Aristocrats? Not only that, but if one does think of them as a cult it could be a part of their rituals.
I don’t think they just killed the animals for food though. Some humans tend to harm animals because it’s a way for them to deal with their own problems, both emotional and psychological. I think that may be a part of why they did a lot of what they did.