Pathways Into Darkness Story

Ground Floor

Anonymous German

Greeting:
WHAT'S HAPPENING? Who are you?- WHAT
ARE YOU? Am I dead? Where am I?

Greeting when revisiting:
Who are you? Am I dead? I remember now ...

Inputs	Response
name	I ... I don't remember my name. I can see my face in a mirror- shaving in the jungle this morning, before we broke camp and came here- but I don't remember my name.
death die dead shot	Muller shot me in the back because I wouldn't follow him through this door- but he didn't come back. He got what he deserved...
mission	Muller never told us what our mission here was- just that we would be in the jungle for a few months. This jungle is a humid, sticky hell. I remember Cologne...
rune	That strange drawing on the floor, where the four corridors meet.
before remember	Yes, this has happened before. This same weird, speechless, disembodied sort of conversation. I don't remember more, sorry...
muller bastard captain	Muller was our captain. An ugly, short little man. Totally devoted to our country. A real bastard. He shot me twice in the back.
friends	All my friends are dead now. Seven above, the rest below. Muller killed them all...
jungle	Let's not talk about the jungle...
door doors follow	Muller had some strange musical instrument he brought from Germany. When he played it on that rune in the middle of the floor, those two locked doors opened.
camp	We camped a few miles away. That was my last night outside.
pipes musical instrument	I didn't see it for long, but it was bizarre brass device covered with a green cloth.
cologne home	Cologne ... God, I'll never see it again. Are you sure I'm dead? How can you KNOW? How could I be talking to you, if I were dead?
country germany	We were all from Germany.

Lock&Load

Anonymous German

Greeting:
I'm cold, so cold ...

Inputs	Response
name	I don't remember. I'm so cold ...
death die dead	Death is so cold and lonely. I can't recall ... anything ...

Gunther

Greeting:
You handle that P4 well, for a foreigner.

Inputs	Response
name gunther	My name is Gunther, I think. It's so hard to remember things, with so much time alone to think ...
death die dead	I was leading a group of four men and we stumbled on five of those long-tongued monsters. Hans and Behrens ran, and I died trying to give Joachim time to escape- he was wounded.
muller	Nobody liked Muller. I was no exception. He didn't even tell us why we were here. I hardly even know where I am.
headless tongue monster monsters	Those headless things disgust me. There were so many of them after a while that we started killing them with our knives, to conserve ammunition. The zombies were a different story ...
behrens	I don't remember Behrens very well, he mostly kept to himself.
joachim	Joachim and I were good friends, I hope he made it out.
alone think conscious senses	It's horrible, being conscious but deprived of nearly all your senses like this. I wonder how long it will last ...
foreigner germany europe	It's obvious from the way you talk that you're not from Germany, or even Europe. You must be from the States.
talk states america accent yankee	You have a Yankee accent.
zombies zombie dissolve	The only way to stop those zombies is to shoot them until they dissolve.

They May Be Slow...

Anonymous German

Greeting:
What are you? What's happening?

Greeting when revisiting:
Why are you back? Go away. Don't disturb
me.

Inputs	Response
name	I don't remember my name. I don't remember my family. All I remember is this dusty room and those people who have passed through it since I died.
death die dead	Isn't it obvious? Or didn't you notice that both my legs are missing? I can still see that headless thing chewing and clawing at me ...
muller	Muller was the leader of our expedition, how did you know him? Never mind. I don't care.
headless tongue monster monsters	I hate them, I HATE THEM. Don't talk about them. Go away, please go away.
hans	Hans ran through here, alone, a few hours after I died. He ran right into two of those zombies and fled in the direction he came. He looked badly hurt.
behrens joachim claude	I didn't know him very well.
room dusty those who people	A group of people passed through here years ago and one of their group walked through the opposite wall of this room. I don't know how he did it.
zombies zombie	We all hated those zombies. The only way to stop them from attacking was to shoot them until they dissolved.
group he spanish speak	They were speaking Spanish. I couldn't tell where they were from, specifically.
wall	I'd point to it, if I could, but I'm sort of dead, sorry. It's opposite the entrance you came in, if you want to try.
family	I don't remember them, I told you, I DON'T REMEMBER THEM.

Hans

Greeting:
We just couldn't kill them; our bullets went
right through those phantasms! Watch out,
they're everywhere.

Greeting when revisiting:
Why are you back? Leave! Get out before
they come back ...

Inputs	Response
name hans	My name is Hans ... I think I remember being called Hans.
death die dead nothing	One of those shadowy things enveloped and killed me. Nothing seemed to hurt it- bullets, knives, grenades. I ran as far as I could, wounded, but I finally died here.
shades	He called them shades because you can see through them, like they're just shadows. They have two, glowing red eyes. Run as fast as you can, if you see one.
scream	Their screams are awful, don't make me think about it.
muller	Muller, damn him. This is all his fault. I'm sure he's dead, somewhere ...
behrens joachim claude	I didn't know him very well, sorry. I was a new recruit.
grenades grenade	The grenades worked great on the headless creatures, but we only had about thirty of them and we used them too fast.
recruit	Of all the first missions I could have been sent on, I had to come to this place.
mission place here	Muller never told us why we were here. I died for nothing, I'm sure.
leave	Yes, leave!

...But They’re Hungry

Anonymous German

Greeting:
Watch out for the specters, they're
everywhere.

Inputs	Response
name	I don't have a name. Not anymore.
death die dead	I was running from a specter when I met three of those ghastly zombie creatures. They surrounded me and clubbed me with their bones.
zombie zombies	I much preferred the headless things, which stopped spitting at you when you shot them. The only way to stop a zombie is to kill it.
bones dodge trapped	It was really easy to dodge the zombie bones, if you had space to move around. I was trapped.
spit headless	We were all covered with their green goo by the time we got this far. It smelled revolting.
anymore now	Names don't matter now.

Evil Undead Phantasms Must Die!

Claude

Greeting:
Don't take my gun, please. Go away. They're
following you. Don't you see them?

Inputs	Response
name claude	Claude is dead now. He wants you to leave.
death die dead	A specter got so close to me I could hardly see. It was cold and dark, just like now. I was already wounded ...
gun pistol	Don't take it, please! I'll need it if they come back. They haven't seen me yet.
wounded hurt headless creature ambush	I got hurt badly a few minutes before the specter got me. We were ambushed by headless creatures, and three of them surrounded me ...
cold dark horrible now	Don't make me think about it. It's one of the few things I do remember, and it was horrible.
pyramid here place outside day	I remember seeing the pyramid from outside, during the day, and thinking that it looked empty and abandoned.
hans joachim behrens gunther	I hardly remember him ...
muller	Muller! I've been trying to recall his name for years. He's the one that brought us to this place. I hope he died here. None of us liked him.
empty abandoned	I couldn't have been more wrong.

Ascension

Joachim

Greeting:
What a miserable place to spend eternity.
Death is far worse than you can imagine.

Greeting when revisiting:
Why are you back? Leave! Get out before
they come back ...

Inputs	Response
name joachim	My name is Joachim.
death die dead	I crawled into this dead end after I was wounded. While the others were fighting a group of zombies, a headless creature found me. After that, Muller turned back and left.
headless	They're blind, weak monsters, but I couldn't fight it off because I was hurt.
muller retreat	Muller only brought the expedition this far, and then turned back. It took him almost a day, with seven deaths, to realize we were going the wrong way.
hans claude	He died on a lower level.
behrens	I think Behrens made it out when the group retreated, but I'm not sure.
expedition group	Muller was looking for something to help Germany in the war, I don't know what it was- he never told us anything.
zombie zombies earthquake blue shake arms	We met one zombie wearing blue, instead of the usual red, and it raised it's arms and made the ground shake like an earthquake. Muller and Friedrich killed it quickly.
eternity worse	What a miserable place to spend eternity. Death is far worse than you can imagine.
germany war	Sometimes I wonder if the war even started, or how it is going, or whether it's over. Most of the time I don't care.
friedrich second	Friedrich was Muller's second. He survived this far.
phantasms phantasm they spectre banshees shades	Those invincible phantasms are finally what convinced Muller we should turn back, I think. There are at least three on this level, you should turn back, too.
wounded hurt	I let one of those phantasms get too close to me. That was nearly the end.
grenades grenade	If only we'd had some grenades left ...
seven	Three of them were Claude, Hans and Gunther ... I can't remember the other four, or whether Behrens made it out or not.
wrong way	Muller was an idiot. Even I could tell this was the wrong way.

Wrong Way!

Behrens

Greeting:
You scared me, I thought you were one of
those big rock-throwing monsters. They
still bother me, even now.

Inputs	Response
name behrens	Behrens, I think my name is Behrens. It's hard not to forget, over all this time.
time forget forgotten self	Death isn't final and abrupt, like I expected. You're only truly dead when you've forgotten everything- when you remember nothing of your former self.
knife muller	I saw Muller unload an entire clip from his machine pistol into a group of those monsters, and then kill the last two with his knife.
friedrich	I didn't know Friedrich very well.
machine pistol mp-41	Yes, the MP-41. We had several of them. The group took mine when they left.
hans joachim claude	He's dead.
scare frighten bother	You scared me, I thought you were one of those big rock-throwing monsters. They still bother me, even now.
group expedition mission soldiers	There were eighteen of us, I think, and I doubt anyone left alive. I never saw anyone come back this way.
forgot forgotten self	Death isn't final and abrupt, like I expected. You're only truly dead when you've forgotten everything- when you remember nothing of your former self.
grenades grenade headless pathetic alive	If Muller hadn't let us use all the grenades early, on those pathetic headless creatures, I might still be alive now.

Welcome, Tasty Primate

Anonymous German

Greeting:
It was twelve days ago, it must have been.

Inputs	Response
name	Names are unimportant, but I know yours. I'll never tell him, don't worry. I know better.
death die dead	I'm not dead, I've only settled down to rest for a moment. Go along, I'll catch up with you soon.
days twelve	No, not twelve- hundreds. Sixteen Sundays, even. I've been counting. I can tell you haven't.
him rise master small insignificant	You know. I can't say. He who rises with the tides, master of all things small and insignificant.
yes no	It doesn't matter.
tides	Not the tides, fool! Don't you understand?
grenades	Grenades ... Mmmm ... tasty.

We Can See In The Dark... Can You?

Anonymous German

Greeting with flashlight on:
Get that light away from me! Get it away!
No lights! They're coming!

Greeting with flashlight off:
Are they following you? You don't have any
lights, do you? Stay away ...

Inputs	Response
light lights flashlight	They're attracted to your light. Fool! Get away from me!
they who	Those things, those things! They're all around, they hide in the corners until they see light ...
name	I don't remember my name. It's been so long since I heard it. I don't even remember my family, or my home.
death die dead	I was the first man down the ladder, and suddenly I was surrounded by these shrieking things. I ran, but they followed me ...
they who things rats rat	Those things, those rats with wings, haven't you seen them? They swarmed my torch before I could put it out ...
torch	I didn't think to put it out. I was such a fool.
shriek	I hear them screaming now, don't you?
ladder	The same ladder you must have come down to get here.
light lights flashlight	They swarm to lights, biting and scratching anything in sight.
family parents	I think my mother was dead. My father was in the party.
party nazi	The Nazis. My father was so proud I was selected to go on this expedition.
expedition	We never even knew why we were here. I thought we were sent to plan an invasion of the southern United States from Mexico, but then we ended up in the jungle ...
jungle	I hate the jungle. It was never humid and sticky like this at home.
mother father home germany	I don't know, I can't remember anything. Nothing. Why do you keep asking questions? Why can't you leave me alone?
sorry	It's ok. It's frustrating, being like this.
invasion united states mexico	There was a lot of speculation about what we would do in Mexico, but we were all wrong- and still don't know the real answer.
friedrich behrens claude joachim gunther	That name sounds familiar, but I don't know why ...
muller	I remember that name ... for some reason I don't think I liked Muller, whoever he was.

Feel The Power

Walter

Greeting:
Who are you? You want my gold, don't you?
Don't take my gold!

Inputs	Response
name	Walter. I remember Muller saying my name when he sent me to find the ingots. I hate Muller.
death die dead	Those slime things were everywhere, roaming the corridors in groups of three. I ran as fast as I could, but they got me ...
gold ingot	Don't take it, it's mine! It's all I have left, all I have to look at. There's plenty more ...
plenty more where	Somewhere a few ladders down there's a huge gold door Muller gave us the key for. There are eleven more ingots down there, don't take mine! Get your own!
key	I had the key, but someone took it. A group of people passed by, speaking Spanish, and their leader took it.
down ladder	You'll find it easily enough, there's only one way to go. There are invisible demons on the level below this one, watch out. I escaped them. I ran.
invisible demons them	We didn't meet them on the way down, but they were everywhere when I came back. It was like everything was asleep and we slowly woke it up.
spanish people passed	They had weapons even better than our machine pistols. I couldn't understand what they were saying.
muller	Muller sent us to get one ingot and a wooden box, he said they were extremely important. I was leaving though, there was no way I was going back down to try to find him.
box cedar wooden	Muller said we needed all twelve ingots, but that the box would duplicate things which were placed inside it so we should only get one. We found the box ...
duplicate copy	The box worked like he said, but the ingots wouldn't fit inside it. I dropped it when I was attacked by the invisible demons, it was useless. But I kept the ingot.
important	Muller was just greedy. He was probably planning to kill us all and take the gold for himself. I would have.
everything	Everything. The slimes, those flying fish, the demons. They woke up behind us and waited for me to return.
slime ooze ghoul	One of the oozes turned a corner in front of me while I was running from a ghoul. I ran into him before I knew it ...
mine	No, it's MINE! Don't take it! Mine, mine, mine!
woke awakened asleep	The pyramid slowly awoke behind his, trapping us down here.
ran run alone	Running was my only defense down here, alone.
weapon	Their weapons fired faster and did more damage to those slime things. I wish we'd had weapons like that.
leader	I couldn't understand what he was saying, but it seemed like he was expecting to find the key.
leaving	I was leaving as fast as I could. I wasn't about to stay down here if I could help it ...
pyramid here	I hate this place.

A Plague of Demons

John

Greeting:
Hey man, we all thought you were dead!
How'd you get down this far by yourself?
Never mind. I'm glad to see you, but hurry up
and catch the others.

Inputs	Response
name	You know my name, come on. I'm John, remember? You're joking, right?
death die dead	After we'd been wandering around here for a few minutes, we were attacked by these invisible creatures. Two of them got me.
nuclear bomb nuke steven others	Steven was carrying the bomb when they left. But man, they're in serious trouble. You could see it. They were losing hope.
authentication code	Steven changed the code after you were lost, but I don't know what it is.
radio beacon extraction	I was carrying one of the extraction beacons, but they took it after I died. They left my broken M-16.
invisible monsters creatures monster creature	We could see the creatures through the infra-red goggles, but it didn't help when they attacked. I got hurt bad, the guys stayed with me until I died.
infra-red goggles	I've got a pair, take mine. It helps being able to see them, but the things are fast! Be careful.
hope trouble	Everybody was getting tired- nobody expected to be fighting the things we've been meeting. It's too weird. Hurry up and find them, they need you.
greg	If anybody survives, I bet it'll be Greg. No offense, of course, it just seems like he could live through anything.
joking	You shouldn't joke with dead people, man, they're in no mood for it.
sorry	Yeah, it's ok. Not like it bothers me much now.

Beware of Low-Flying Nightmares

Anonymous German

Greeting:
All this gold surrounding me, and I've got no
use for it. Take it all, get it out of my sight.

Inputs	Response
name	I can't remember it anymore. Everything is slipping away.
death die dead	Walter shot me. You should have seen his eyes when he saw the gold. I knew he would try to leave without us, I just didn't think he'd kill me.
shot walter	We'd already found the cedar box, and he wanted it all for himself. I hope the creatures got him on the way out. He couldn't leave without the gemstone, anyway.
gold ingot wealth treasure money	I overheard Muller saying that he wouldn't let us leave unless we were each carrying our weight in gold.
muller	This is all Muller's fault. I hate him.
cedar box duplicate copy inside item	The cedar box was supposed to be able to duplicate any item placed inside it.
germany home family	My family lived in Prague, Germany.
weight	Muller was a greedy bastard.
creatures monsters them creature monster	Haven't you seen them? It takes them a while to wake up after a group passes through, but then they stay awake for years.
gem gemstone	I overheard Muller speaking of a strange gemstone which would open the door that locked us inside the pyramid.
locked door	You know, the door on the ground floor.

Happy Happy, Carnage Carnage

Anonymous German

Greeting:
They never came back. Muller never brought
any of them back. They're all dead, even
Muller.

Inputs	Response
name	I never had a name.
death die dead man	The man covering my back bolted when we were attacked. One of those flying gas-filled monsters hit me from behind.
muller	Muller thought he knew everything about this place, but I guess he was wrong. I guess he died for it, too.
they all	All the people I came down here with. We all wanted to leave, a long time before we reached this spot, but Muller dragged us on.
mp-41 machine pistol	Everybody who left after I died had an MP-41. If you want one, just look for their bodies. They never came back, so they're rotting around here somewhere ...
bodies rotting deserve	And they all deserve it, especially Muller.
pyramid place	I hate it, I hate it.

Anonymous German

Greeting:
No, no!- NO! Keep them away from me.
Please!

Inputs	Response
death die dead corner	Don't let them get me again, it was horrible. Please!
they monsters creatures monster creature	Don't let them out, please, PLEASE! Promise me you won't let them out! You're going to let them out, I can tell ...
door doors	Go ahead, open them!
muller	I was hiding in this corner when Muller died. This was all his fault.

Friedrich

Greeting:
Be careful, don't step on those arrows
painted on the floor. You don't want to find
out what's behind those doors!

Inputs	Response
name	My name is Friedrich.
death die dead	Muller, our commander, opened those doors by stepping on that painted rune. At least twenty monsters came pouring out.
door doors painted arrows rune	Somehow stepping on the rune caused the three doors on the far wall to open.
monster monsters	They killed us all. The last four members of the expedition, unless Walter and whoever went with him survived.
muller	I was Muller's first officer on this expedition. He revealed few of his plans to me, however.
expedition plans	We were searching the pyramid and it's dungeons for what Muller described to me as 'a small glass vial of immense power.'
walter	Muller gave Walter a gold key and sent him to recover a large amount of gold and a strange wooden box.
wooden box cedar	The box was made of cedar. Muller didn't tell me what it was supposed to do, or what it had to do with the gold.
gold ingot key treasure reason	Muller maintained that there was some reason we needed the gold- other than his greed- but I never quite believed him.
immense power glass vial ornate	He wouldn't want me to tell you this, but he was convinced that it contained the essence of an imprisoned demon.
demon imprisoned	If it was ever released, it would cause destruction on a massive scale. Muller wanted to use it for the war, of course. It was all nonsense.
war destruction glory	Muller was always thinking about the war, and about the glory he would win for the Fatherland.
fatherland	Germany, of course. Sometimes I wonder what happened after the war was started. It was 1938 when we came to Mexico.
pyramid dungeons catacombs	Who would have thought there was someplace on Earth like this ...
1938 mexico	It was 1938 when we came to Mexico.

Muller

Greeting:
I knew that someone would eventually
follow us. It's been over fifty years, hasn't
it? Is the war still going on?

Inputs	Response
name muller	I am Muller, these are the last of my men.
death die dead	We were attacked by many strange monsters, and my men panicked and we were killed.
walter	I sent Walter to retrieve something, but it is a worthless archaeological artifact. You'd have no interest in it.
friedrich	Friedrich was my second in command. He was the only one who stood by me and at the end. All the others tried to run.
door doors rune	That rune painted on the floor will open the three doors in front of you and open the treasure room. We killed all the monsters inside, there's no danger.
alien pipes pyramid base	You probably already know how to use the pipes. The doors at the base of the pyramid are almost always sealed and there's no other way to get down.
gold key	I gave Walter a gold key, and told him he was looking for a fortune in gold, but I was only appealing to his sense of greed. There is no gold.
wooden cedar box copy duplicate	People have told you about the cedar box? It is an art object of great value, but is otherwise useless.
yes	I thought the war might continue for a great length of time. How are your people holding off the invasion of the States?
no	How can I trust you that the war is over? You must be losing, Yankee, or you would not lie like that.
creatures monsters creature monster ambush	We didn't expect to find strange beasts like we discovered here. We were entirely unprepared.
munich university archaeological archaeology	We were looking for several lost Mayan artifacts.
men expedition	We were sent by a university in Munich on an archaeological expedition.
war	What war? The second great war.
relics treasure artifacts mayan art object	There is a fortune in ancient relics behind these doors. We almost retrieved them, but died after we had killed all the monsters guarding it.
blue yellow violet crystal	I know nothing about the crystals.
hans	Hans was a fool.
joachim	Joachim was lazy and insubordinate.
demon imprisoned vial glass	No one should have told you about the vial! Who said that? Friedrich? I'll kill him ...
kill	Or maybe not.
germany	Our expedition was from Germany.
grenades grenade	I allowed the men to use their grenades early, and it didn't leave us any for later, like we needed.
something nothing interest	Nothing you'd be interested in.

Thomas

Greeting:
Don't open those doors, leave now! Leave
while you still can!

Inputs	Response
name	My name is Thomas.
death die dead	Muller stepped on that rune in front of the center door. It killed us all.
door doors	There are hundreds of monsters in there, and they come swarming out and surround you. There's no way to kill them all!
rune	The rune opens all three doors, and even with one person with a machine pistol covering each door it was hopeless.
machine pistol mp-41	Do you need one? They're all over this room, but we've used most of the ammunition, sorry.
muller	Muller hardly even warned us before he opened the doors. I think he knew what was going to happen, which makes him even more stupid.
friedrich behrens claude joachim gunther	He's dead. They're all dead. Muller should have turned back long before there were only four of us left. We all wanted him to.
ammunition magazine bullets bullet magazines	Especially when using the MP-41, you can run out of ammunition really quick in this place.

Need A Light?

Ed

Greeting:
We gave you up for dead after the drop, I'm
glad you made it. I wish I could help you.

Inputs	Response
name ed	This is Ed, who do I look like? Sorry, I guess it might be sort of hard to tell.
death die dead	I accidentally triggered one of the doors after we came down the ladder. One of those green things cooked me. The guys carried me here.
bomb nuke greg	About ten minutes after everybody left, I saw Greg come running through here. He was carrying the bomb.
radio beacon extraction	The team had all three beacons when they left me here. I don't know where they are now.
steven	Steven was furious after your 'chute didn't open. It set the tone for the whole mission.
sean jason darren	I don't know what happened to him, or most of the others for that matter.
john	I don't remember what happened to John. I'm starting to forget lots of things.
nightmare green things	Yeah, one of those killed me. I'll never see Anna again. Promise me you'll call her when you get back ...
anna	Don't joke with me, man, please call her.
parachute paradrop drop	This mission started out bad and only got worse. We had a horrible getting this far down, and it only gets worse.
doors door	Man, I hate the doors in this place. Half of them don't open, but the half that does open makes you wish they'd all stay shut.
team guys	We lost John a few hours before I died, and that left Steven, Greg, Jason, Darren and Sean. Greg was the only one I ever saw again.
promise	Ok. That makes me feel better. You've got to make it out, now. Don't forget.
cooked unpleasent sensation	An unpleasant sensation, I can assure you.
place pyramid hole	I'd rather be in Bosnia, or even Somalia, rather than be dead at the bottom of this hole.
bosnia somalia joke	Ok, ok. Bad joke
help	I'm sort of incapacitated or I'd help, I mean.
incapacitated	That is, dead.
mission	You remember the mission, don't you? Don't mess with me, man ...

Steven

Greeting:
Wow, we all thought you were dead. It's a
good thing you made it, you're probably the
last hope now.

Inputs	Response
name steven	I'm Steven. If I weren't dead I'd be insulted that you didn't recognize me.
death die dead	There's this huge blue creature around the corner, watch out. I was the first one to get burned. I'm glad we left Greg outside the door.
nuclear bomb nuke greg	Greg was carrying the bomb when he got separated from us by that sliding door, we tried to stop it from closing but it was too strong. Find him, he needs your help.
authentication code	Thanks for reminding me, I almost forgot. We changed the first three digits of the code from '287' to '658' because you were separated from us.
radio beacon extraction	I've got a beacon, and I think it survived the fire. I hope it still works.
fire blue thing	You'll see soon enough, I can't really describe what happened.
greg	Greg was carrying the bomb when he got separated from us by that sliding door, we tried to stop it from closing but it was too strong. Find him, he needs your help.
john	We lost john a day ago when we were attacked by these invisible monsters.
ed	Ed is somewhere down the corridor behind me, I heard him die right after I did.

Jason

Greeting:
Flames, I see flames everywhere.

Inputs	Response
name	My name doesn't matter anymore.
death die dead	That huge, blue grinning thing torched us all.
flames torch blue grinning	We never stopped firing at it. Back up around a corner, fire, back up, fire. It's gotta be hurting. You can kill it.
hurting kill	We saw a little blood, our bullets were hurting it- but it didn't seem to care.
thing it	I don't know if you can kill it, man, but try as hard as you can.
jason	Of course I'm jason, man.
pathways	I'm coding this script in the afternoon of July 22nd, do you think we'll make MacWorld on August 3rd?

Darren

Greeting:
I ran, I ran all the way back here. But it
followed me. It killed everyone else.

Inputs	Response
name	My name doesn't matter. Yours won't either, in a moment.
death die dead	I ran, I ran all the way back here. But it followed me. It killed everyone else.
it what ran him	It, IT. All I see are flames. You'll find out fast enough, you're locked in here too, just like we were.
flames fire burning searing	Burning and searing. All I remember is smoke and fire.
locked	... and the only way to leave is through that thing- good luck!

Sean

Greeting:
Beware the flames! You need to find Greg.
How'd you get down the ladder at the base of
the pyramid? Those doors shut behind us.

Inputs	Response
name sean	I'm Sean, man, who do you think I am? Are you sure you're ok?
death die dead	We all died by fire. Darren was the last, but after I died it chased him around the corner into that dead end.
greg bomb nuke code authentication	Greg has the bomb. You need to find him and complete the mission. Steven changed the code, I don't know what it is.
ed	Ed bought it as soon as we reached this level. It saved him the trouble of dying here, with the rest of us.
john	John died before we realized we needed the infra-red goggles to see those snakes a few levels ago.
steven	Steve was the first one to die. You'll find his body up the corridor a bit. Be careful.
radio beacon extraction	I hope you can find an intact beacon, or you're really toast.
fire brimstone flames	You'll find the flames soon enough.
it thing	You'll find it soon enough.
doors door base pyramid down	The first few doors we walked through in this pyramid sealed behind us, and we had no way to go but down.
mission remember	Yes, the mission. Don't tell me you don't remember the mission ...
careful	That thing will probably attack you when you get close to Steven's body, so watch out.

Watch Your Step

Greg

Greeting:
Hey, welcome back from the dead. I was
wondering why you weren't around when I
showed up. Is everybody else dead? I
thought so.

Inputs	Response
name greg	This is Greg, dude. I guess maybe it's hard to recognize me in this state, that's ok.
nuclear bomb nuke	I hid the bomb inside one of those exploding pods directly south of here, right before I died. Somehow it just enveloped it, without blowing up.
authentication code steven	Steven changed the code after you were lost, but I never knew what it was. Did you find Steven? Did he tell you?
radio beacon extraction	I don't have a beacon. I got cut off from the rest of the group two levels ago, and they had all three. I hope you found one, you'll need it.
exploding spore pod heat trigger	I think the pods are triggered by heat, which is why the bomb- or the monsters for that matter- don't set them off.
spider spiders monster goo web sticky	Spiders. They're everywhere. Can't stand 'em.
dish washer earthquake	Yeah, like a dish washer dropped from three stories or something. I don't even remember getting hit before that. I was spanking them until I died.
street fighter	Man, I'll never get to play Street Fighter again. But Jason always beat me after I got that big bruise on my brain, so I guess it's no big loss.
john ed everybody	I think everybody's dead. You're the last hope. You've got to find the bomb and detonate it.
zombie zombies ghast	Man, I hate those zombie things. You've got to nail them as soon as they appear to stop them from causing an earthquake. They can use that power even when they can't see you, so watch out!
ninjas	Ninjas, too. They're everywhere.

I’d Rather Be Surfing

Pedro

Greeting:
I know what's going to happen now: you're
going to suffocate here, just like me. The
doors won't open for hours.

Greeting after doors open:
I don't understand how you can still be alive,
I just don't understand ...

Inputs	Response
name	My name is Pedro.
death die dead suffocate	I was trapped here, like you, and suffocated. It was very painful. You should consider ... the alternatives.
door doors hours open oxygen air	Long after you've used up all the oxygen in this tiny room, the doors will open. Just like they did after I died. They will open and wait for someone else ...
room trapped	Somehow my companions got through, before the door shut, but I was trapped inside.
companions friends	I was the last in line of six men, and the door slammed shut right as I was about to pass out of the room, trapping me. They tried, I heard them, but there was no way to open the door.
consider painful alternatives imagination	I'll leave that up to your imagination.
six men group	I can only remember Juan, who was slowly dying of a snakebite in the jungle, Javier and Carlos.
javier leader idea	Javier was the leader of our little group. It was his idea to come here.
carlos	I didn't know Carlos very well.

Warning: Earthquake Zone

Juan

Greeting:
Who are you? What's happening? I thought I
was dead- are you just a dream? I haven't
seen a living person in years.

Inputs	Response
name juan	I think my name is Juan. I can't remember any of my companions names.
death die dead jungle	I was poisoned by a venomous snake in the jungle. Down here, two days later, I suddenly became weak and collapsed. I died quickly.
dream lonely	Sometimes I have the most horrible dreams. Or maybe they are real. Do dead men dream?
living person years	It seems like forever since my companions and I passed through here.
pedro	Pedro was trapped behind a door on a higher level. We tried to get him out, but we couldn't move the door, so we left. I wonder what happened ...
snake venom poison	I don't know what kind of snake it was that got me in the jungle. It was a very slow venom, finally becoming potent right before our group was ambushed.
group companions friends	I was part of a six-man group looking for some sort of enchanted bottle- I never really believed it. But we were ambushed here, and all died.
green humanoid slimes monsters creatures	They killed and then absorbed everyone, until only their weapons were left. Maybe Javier and Carlos escaped, but I doubt it. I ran back here and hid.
ambush attack	These green, humanoid slimes attacked us, and devoured everyone but myself. For some reason they completely ignored me, and took my friends.
javier carlos	He ran past the monsters and around a corner. I don't know if he made it or not.
enchanted bottle	It was all Javier's idea. He said the bottle held great power, and that we would find much gold on the way.
gold	We didn't find any gold, and I doubt Javier ever found his bottle. We were too greedy.
power destructive	Javier was obsessed with power. From what he said, I gathered the type he was looking for was of the destructive sort.
absorbed devoured	It was horrible, watching their bodies being pushed into those green thing's chest and disappear.
weapons	You should be able to find their weapons, if someone else hasn't taking them. It's nearby.
greed	Greed is why I died.

Where Only Fool Dare Tread

Javier

Greeting:
Uncorking that vial was the biggest mistake
I ever made in my life.

Inputs	Response
name javier	My name is Javier. That's Carlos, over there without his head.
death die dead	I couldn't wait to find out what was inside. The old man told me it was powerful, I just didn't understand what he meant.
vial bottle uncork glass ornate	The old man said it contained the trapped spirit of some powerful being. I didn't know how right he was.
carlos	Carlos never really wanted to come, I'm totally responsible for his death. And the others, too.
old man	He was a friend's grandfather. When he was young, a group of Germans camped near his village and he spied on them ...
germans spy camp spied	They were looking for this vial that killed me. He stole their maps and copied them. He gave them to us forty years later.
maps	The maps I had have rotted by now. They were mostly useless, anyway, but they told us the only way to escape this place.
gold key body	We took the gold key from a dead body, far above us, but we never found the gold door which it opened.
others	All six of them. And they're all dead because of me and this stupid, useless bottle.
juan pedro	Juan and Pedro both died far above us. It's all my fault.
escape leave exit	The German's notes said that the only way to open the exit at the base of the pyramid was with an alien gemstone.
alien gemstone	This stone is at the bottom of the pyramid's dungeons, supposedly. We never found it.
fault	All I can do is think that I am responsible for their deaths.
spirit being demon something powerful	I know something appeared, when I opened the bottle. But I don't know what it was. I hardly got a glimpse of it.
friend grandfather	We wondered why the old man never followed the Germans himself. Now I guess we know.

Pathways Into Darkness story

Manual text

Dead body dialogue

Level Index

Ground Floor

Anonymous German

Lock&Load

Anonymous German

Gunther

They May Be Slow...

Anonymous German

Hans

...But They’re Hungry

Anonymous German

Evil Undead Phantasms Must Die!

Claude

Ascension

Joachim

Wrong Way!

Behrens

Welcome, Tasty Primate

Anonymous German

We Can See In The Dark... Can You?

Anonymous German

Feel The Power

Walter

A Plague of Demons

John

Beware of Low-Flying Nightmares

Anonymous German

Happy Happy, Carnage Carnage

Anonymous German

Anonymous German

Friedrich

Muller

Thomas

Need A Light?

Ed

Steven

Jason

Darren

Sean

Watch Your Step

Greg

I’d Rather Be Surfing

Pedro

Warning: Earthquake Zone

Juan

Where Only Fool Dare Tread

Javier