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  • Nightmare Fuel:
    • The end of the second day. You solve a puzzle when the power suddenly fails and the emergency lights reveal graffiti reading "YOU ARE NOT REAL". After you move toward the now open door into the laboratory Sabrina begins to shout at you for not following instructions. To further hammer home that she controls not only the physical world of the house but also has significant access to Rumu's electronic mind, she transports Rumu's consciousness into a virtual world that consists of a monolithic red Anodyne logo looming over you and asks "What do you love, Rumu?"
      Option 1: I love Sabrina I love Sabrina I love Sabrina I love Sabrina
      Option 2: I love guilt I love remorse I love shame I love contrition
    • David and Cecily's cause of death is stated to be histotoxic hypoxia, meaning they essentially "suffocated" despite being able to breathe freely because the cyanide in the gas prevented their cells from properly absorbing oxygen.
  • The Woobie: So very many.
    • Rumu is a sweet robot who just wants to love but is deceived by the only real friend he has
    • Sabrina the A.I. had to watch her beloved creators die. Even worse, David had already been exposed to a fatal amount of cyanogen gas but Cecily only died because she used an emotional override on Sabrina's safety protocols to open the lab door. Sabrina mentions that she had to sit in an empty house with their corpses for 4 months until she was able to deal with the bodies. She then spent years trying to finish their last project, Rumu, and create "fun" days for him in the hopes that he would be able to relieve her crushing loneliness.
    • The other appliances are unable to fulfill their purpose now that their humans are gone and some were even abandoned before that despite having been given personalities of their own.
    • Sabrina the human was emotionally neglected by her parents for years to the point that she told them she would not come home anymore because they would always be too busy working to pay her any attention. And her parents' deaths also means they will never truly be able to reconcile.

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