Eyes of the Killer

"'The residents of the city are drafted one by one into a new play. It's the hit of the season and applause rings out night after night. But why do all the people that come to see it disappear? What does 'immersive theatre' mean... and will BB survive to tell anybody else?'"Eyes of the Killer is the fourth game in the Strange Town series, released on Gamejolt on March 5th 2021. In it, BB is enrolled to participate in a theater play, but decides to investigate details of the play that are being kept from her.

Links

 * https://gamejolt.com/games/eyesofthekiller/592750

Story
The game starts following an unnamed theatergoer attending the Immersive Theater's performance of Melmo the Wanderer. In the court of Count Masko, the player encounters Mr. Sun, Mr. Moon, News Serf, Prisonman, Count Masko himself, and Potsy the Mop Girl, the last of whom is promptly murdered during the dinner party. While passing by a backstage room, the player listens in on a conversation between Director Bosso, News Serf, and Potsy, now revealed to be BB. Deeper into the venue, the player searches for a refreshment stand through a series of long hallways, ending in a dead end as the player is captured by a group of actors in bear suits.

Backstage, BB is frustrated at the incomprehensible plot of the play, as the actors are not allowed to know more about the story than their characters do. She convinces ZZ to fill in for her as Potsy while she investigates into who kills her character. After initially stumbling into Prisonman's dressing room, she makes her way through the dance studio, where the dancers are practicing a song for the worship of "Caesar", and up to the catwalk. Below her, the scene of the summoning of Mappy is under way. BB sneaks down behind the curtain and watches the scene, where Mappy advises Masko to release Prisonman's true power. Masko speaks the incantation to do so, but the lights unexpectedly shut off and Prisonman grows to giant size, abducting Masko as the audience applauds.

BB climbs down a trapdoor and follows a trail of black tar through an underground hallway, finding a page of the unsettling script. In a puppet storage room, she opens a door and is buried under a pile of costumes just as Prisonman passes through the room. He does not see her and proceeds through another hallway. BB follows Prisonman, finding him in his giant form on his way through a giant prison room as an unseen chorus sings about the capture and death of the sun. At the top of a series of stairways, she finds Count Masko locked in a cage hanging from the ceiling. He tells her, panicked, that the script has been changed, just before he is lifted out of sight to be killed.

BB, enraged at the actors' seeming inability to break character, pushes through the curtains and winds up in a series of dressing rooms, where she follows one of the bears down a hallway, but falls down a trapdoor into a room where Cool Policeman and several other policemen in bear suits are chopping up corpses. BB is about to be killed by a bear when a sandbag falls on its head, allowing her to escape. She runs from the bears as the audience laughs, believing it to be part of the play.

When she reaches Director Bosso's dressing room, she tries to tell her about the police, but discovers her wearing a bird mask and purple robe with the symbol of the Hand of the Killer. She explains that she is part of the Art Appreciators' Club, a second cult affiliated with the Murder College, and that the AAC runs the entire city from behind the scenes. She leads BB onto the final stage, where the dance troupe, News Serf, Prisonman, and Mappy conduct a human sacrifice ritual, culminating in the arrival of the Killer, playing the character of Caesar as he murders Mr. Sun and Mr. Moon live on stage.

Director Bosso sends BB off after the ritual, but BB is only paid twenty dollars for her time.