The Freak Circus of Horrors
The grounds are not set dressing, they are a map. Each tent's colour tells you who owns it, and which one you can enter depends on the ticket in your hand.
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The layout
- Centre: Pierrot's big red and black tent, strung with lights and topped with a flag.
- Behind it: Harlequin's green and black tent, with a green flag.
- Top right: The Jester's purple and black tent.
- Bottom left: The dark pink and black tent in Columbina's colours.
- Bottom right: Five red and white food stands.
The tents
Red tent
In gameOwner: Pierrot
A regular stage for his dancing and knife throwing. The biggest tent, at the centre of the grounds, strung with lights and topped with a flag.
Access: Open from Day 1.
Green tent
In gameOwner: Harlequin
Behind Pierrot's tent, green and black with a green flag. Looks like an ordinary circus tent, which is rather the point.
Access: Open from Day 1; picking the purple tent first sends you here.
Purple tent
In gameOwner: The Jester
Top right of the grounds, purple and black with lights. Inside is a stage where he performs with the Fools, and where the Columbina show is told.
Access: Day 1: the show is already over. Day 2: always the last attraction of the night.
Cyan tent
In gameOwner: The Doctor
A Fool waits outside with a contract covering injuries. Inside: one chair, one light, and eyes all around, glowing the same cyan as the Doctor's lenses.
Access: Day 2.
Blue tent
In gameOwner: The Ticket Taker
Full of mirrors used for his illusions. The sequence ends on the flashback of Columbina's death — the most important scene in the current build.
Access: Day 2. Save before the final mirror.
Pink tent
In gameOwner: Columbina's colours
Dark pink and black, bottom left of the grounds. Its only current use is the Missing bad ending: you are escorted in, it is dark, and you are knocked out.
Access: Refused unless you are holding a pink ticket. You do not want to hold a pink ticket.
Black tent
In gameOwner: Unknown
The Ticket Taker refuses you entry on both days. Try it repeatedly on Day 2 and you unlock a cutscene. Beyond that, its purpose is not established.
Access: Never granted. The cutscene is the reward for persistence.
Food stands
In gameOwner: The circus
Five red and white stands at the bottom right, selling human food. Sometimes the food is drugged or laced with something.
Access: Open. Eating is a choice you can make.
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