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==Plot== ===Chapter 1: "Prologue"=== The game starts with Lauren visiting her friend Kate's house after she went missing. After parking her car at the head of the driveway, she walks down a path to Kate's home but finds the house left open. Kate is nowhere to be found, and there are drawings and wall-scratchings hinting at the Slender Man. When Lauren finds Kate's room, a drawn-out scream is heard from the back gate. The scream came from none other than Kate, who had fled the house a bit before Lauren showed up but was caught by the Slender Man. After looking through the pages saying things like "Go to the forest." and "Can you see it?" Lauren decides to look for her at the radio tower as depicted in multiple drawings. Taking a flashlight with her, Lauren leaves the building to investigate. ===Chapter 2: "The Eight Pages"=== Lauren explores the nearby Oakside Park, collecting 8 pages which are clues to Kate's disappearance. As she collects them, the Slender Man begins to pursue her aggressively. When she collects all 8 pages she encounters the Slender Man. The Slender Man grabs her, but she breaks free and starts to sprint away as fast as she can, but she mysteriously blacks out. ===Chapter 3: "Into the Abyss"=== Lauren awakes in a field close to the Kullman Mining Facility. As she explores the closed valley, she finds that she must enter a dark tunnel into a mountain that, as is alluded to in a collectible newspaper article, was created by Kullman Mining Co. after purchasing mineral rights from the owners of Oakside Park. As she enters, Lauren sees a sign that instructs that in the event of a power-outage, six generators must be activated in order to power the emergency lift and escape. As she powers the generators, she realizes that she is being chased by a figure in a white hood and a mask, later revealed to be Kate, transformed into Slender Man's proxy. As all six generators are activated, Lauren activates the lift and is risen to the top of the mining shaft, transitioning to Chapter 4. On Hardcore difficulty, Lauren has to collect gas canisters before activating the generators. ===Chapter 4: "Flashback"=== After making her way out of the mine, Lauren explores the beautiful landscape as she continues to collect evidence relating to Kate. As she traverses, she finds a small building, inside which there is a TV with a girl scribbling on a sheet of paper. The video is of Kate, and shows what happened to her. In the flashback, Kate has to secure her home by closing 8 windows and/or doors from the Slender Man. During this process, she sees the Slender Man and tries to hide in her room. Confronted by the Slender Man, she crashes out the bedroom window and escapes to the nearby park, ending Chapter 4 and the video recording simultaneously. However, some video game players on the internet found out that this level CAN cause a crash if the player DOES NOT collect the 8 pages that CR left behind before. This crash can be noticed if Kate doesn't jump out of the window.It can also crashed if the player don't closed the 8 doors and windows before Slender man gets here. ===Chapter 5: "The Arrival"=== After the flashback ends, Lauren makes her way up the mountain and through a cave, where she realizes the surrounding forest has been set on fire. She charges toward the radio tower that she thinks will save her from the Slender Man. Along the way she dodges flames, falling trees, and a very aggressive Slender Man. Once inside the radio tower building, Lauren discovers a locked door, where a key must be found to unlock it. After finding it, footsteps can be heard and Lauren is forced to proceed to a dead-end hallway. The leading door slams behind her, and as she reads the writing etched on the wall, she discovers a dead body of who is presumably CR (a friend of Kate's heavily mentioned in the game's collectable items), as well as the body's video camera. Once the camera is played, there are multiple knocks on the door behind Lauren. The screen flashes violently as the game ends. ====Normal ending==== Lauren walks to the end of the hall and finds the corpse of a man, presumably Kate's friend CR, lying next to a video camera. As she plays the audio on the camera, she hears Kate and CR screaming. The audio ends suddenly. The fire near the door where Lauren entered is blown out, and the door can be heard being violently knocked upon. Lauren's camera, near dead, begins to flash of incoherent shapes and loud noises as the game comes to an abrupt end. ====Hardcore ending==== If the player beats the game, a Hardcore difficulty mode will unlock. Completing Chapter 5 on this difficulty will result in a slightly altered ending from Normal or Easy mode. Directly following where the game ends on both other modes, it shows Lauren falling from the top of the radio tower, she then crashes into the earth. Her camera's batteries then presumably die. This is meant to imply that she died attempting a plan that has already failed once. ====Steam ending==== The Steam version of the game features an extended ending - after the knocking on the door, a skeletal figure runs towards Lauren, with the screen flashing violently before cutting to black. Lauren wakes up in an old basement, where the skeletal figure is perched on the stairs, attacking Lauren if she attempts to escape. After exploring the basement, and finding more notes, the player is able to climb up the stairs (albeit with the sound of a crying woman). Lauren finds herself in the ruins of an old house that was burned down. After exploring, Lauren finds the woman crying in the corner - the woman attacks her, revealed to be Kate. The camera flashes out, but turns back on again to show Lauren being dragged off screen. ===Extra Level: "Genesis"=== An extra level is introduced in v.1.3, and takes place before Chapter 4. In it, Kate is wandering around a park at night, when she finds a page with disturbing images and text on it. The Slender Man begins to stalk her. When Kate finds all of the Eight pages scattered around the park, Slender Man catches up to her. But, rather than abducting her, he simply says (probably through telepathy) "I have plans for you, Kate". This level serves as a mostly unaltered remake of ''[[Slender: The Eight Pages]]''; some of the landmarks from the original have been re-rendered using higher quality graphics. ===Secret level=== [[File:Charlie Matheson Jr. missing poster.jpg|thumbnail|right|Poster of Charlie Matheson Jr.]] There is a secret level in Stage 1, which is accessible through the player satisfying obscure but simple conditions. While many players have speculated on how to unlock the stage, talking of conditions such as turning on the radio inside the house or walking past the swing set, all that is required is that the player collects the missing child poster of Charlie Matheson Jr. stuck to a tree outside the house three times within one gameplay session (not closing the game window). After satisfying these conditions, static will appear and bring the player to the main menu. When they click "Start game", the secret level will begin. The first part of the secret level takes place in the same house from Stage 1, as well as the immediate surroundings. The difference is that it's always day time and the ground outside isn't rendered. It's unknown if the player is still playing as Lauren, due to the events of the level seeming to be separate from Lauren's journey. But it's possible that the player plays as CR due to the flames that burned him. Text appears on the screen prompting the player to "play a game" and "find" whoever the speaker is. Pausing the game is not possible in this stage. Upon entering the house, the player will find that trying to go through a door results in them being teleported to another part of the house. Trying to enter a locked room will result in the player being captured. Text will then state "I like you" and that the player's captor intends to play with them. After this part of the stage, the player is then back to the main menu. The stage selection screen now has the image for every stage replaced with Charlie's missing poster, with varying levels of light exposure on each. Progressing to the next part of the level brings the player back in front of the house, now at night. Text states that the captor will now find the player instead. While wandering through the house in this part, growls and shouts similar to those of the masked figure in stage 3 begin to become audible, although the masked person themselves doesn't make an appearance, only the Slender Man. Once the player has been caught, they're teleported outside, unable to move and set aflame. Slender Man will start advancing towards you and eventually the screen cuts to a shot of the missing child poster overlaid with Slender Man, which then cuts to text stating "You are dead". After returning to the main menu, there is only the option to start the game or exit. Starting the game will simply have the player looking up at the sky, immobile and unable to look around, until the shot of the missing child poster and Slender Man comes up again, followed by a return to the main menu. This seems to be the only possible outcome from starting the game at this point. Exiting and reopening the game will bring the menu back to its usual state and the main game can be played as normal once more.
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