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Nightmare Fuel / Myst IV: Revelation

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  • Myst IV features you trying to rescue Atrus' kidnapped daughter; you can view her fairly disturbing abduction and attempts to escape in flashbacks. What the badguys have in mind for her is scary in and of itself, not to mention the Creepy Child moment near the end.
  • There is the scene where the camoudile goes right over The Stranger after the latter hits the ground (after being pulled into the air by a tent, hang-glider-style, by a zeftyr whose foot was caught in the bounding ropes).
  • Related to this, there's a weird "Let's choose a spirit guide!" ceremony, just before the part when you go and look for the aforementioned guides. There are three Serenian acolytes, each meditating at a different shrine and in different outfits. And they all have creepy, placid masks on. After the strange ceremony (which involves sticking your hand into a silver liquid that burns your handprint onto a sheet of cloth, along with strange glowing lines that correspond to the spirit that chose you), A fire acolyte comes up and gives you the stock pronouncement of which spirit chose you. Then the camera moves and HOLY CRAP THERE'S A FREAKY MASK PERSON RIGHT THERE!!!!! Of course, that didn't help the frustrating and fiddly puzzle right after that involving getting an offering to said spirit so that it'll transport you to the next puzzle. Serenia was nasty like that. We did get some cool music on the first link, though.

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