Puzzle Escape

This is a report made by a detective named Matthew [redacted].

A teenage girl has gone missing with little evidence as to where she could be. Because she is a teenage girl, it is a possibility that she simply ran away. Then again, it appears that she left in the middle of playing a game on her computer.

The girl's name was Lily, she was last seen with short dark brown hair in a bun, wearing a black sweater and shorts.

According to her girlfriend, who wishes to remain anonymous, the night before she went missing, they had gone to Game Stop late at night to see if there were any good games to play, but it was closed when they got there. There was however a middle-aged man who didn't speak good English selling a game for the PC for 2 dollars. She claims that Lily bought the game and that they went home soon after.

What happened between now and when she was kidnapped is unknown, except for the fact that she played the game until a point where there was a maze. We feel the need to investigate the game in case there was anything that might have provoked the disappearance.

The title screen of the game says "Puzzle Escape" in a cool, fire-like orange text. Then normally in a game where it says "press this button" it says something in Japanese, so I just pressed the space bar and that worked. The background on the title screen was the first part of the game. There were three paths next to each other. On the left, there's a door that leads to a bathroom with only a toilet, a sink, and a shower. Under the sink, there was a note that said "Tank has key" which I assume was poorly translated. I looked in the bathroom just clicking on things until I found a key in the toilet tank, which did not unlock the locked door in the middle, but the door on the right. This door has one of those slides the pictures around to make a larger picture, and that gave me the key to the door in front.

When you enter the door there's a small maze that doesn't have anything anywhere in it (except the exit). The end of the maze was also the end of the game, and it played a video. The video was of a man wearing a V for Vendetta mask and a Hawaiian shirt, he said "you win!" While he said this he clapped. Then he said a bunch of things in Japanese, which I assume was more congratulations.

Matthew is missing. We caught the man who did it but didn't find Matthew or Lily. They hope that they find them, but they won't. I'll translate what was written anywhere. The first thing was "Start Distraction" and the ending said "You win! You win. Yes, um... You got to the end of the distraction. Wow. I'm happy for you. I'm surprised that you could even understand the hint. I tried to make it understand but I guess that didn't work. It's ok, I'm likely already in your house, or will be soon. But congratulations, that's kind of impressive." Amazing how a piece of media such as a game or a movie or an article could be used as a distraction.

Shame. They framed an innocent man because he looked Japanese. They could never suspect that an American looking man's first language was Japanese. And now I have to move. They're too close for comfort. I had so many friends and I lived in such a nice neighborhood. But I don't belong here. I belong with the cat-like creature. Their face vaguely looks like a cat, an orange cat. But its weird and their body is unnatural. They want five children, and then he will let me join him, and then I will belong.

Farewell.