#Hackett house

[elklounge]

Werewolf Lore Book found in The Quarry Game

Okay, where do I start? A few days ago I was playing The Quarry and trying to get screenshots of Travis. However, while in the Hackett House, I saw this book. I was curious if it said anything. Part of me wondered if it was just gibberish since the player can't really see it and it would just be for dressing the set and making the room look full. However, as I squinted I realized it said Curse of the Moonlight. I began to try multiple different methods to read the two pages of text. I couldn't find it in the game files and searching book didn't get me anywhere. However after some clipping and eye strain through using my glasses as a magnifying glass. Maybe this has already been discovered if so that's okay. I still just wanted to point this out. I am unsure which character was reading this. I want to say Chris Hackett since there are cigarettes present and the only other time I've seen them is in Chris' office as he smokes.

The text reads as the following:

Before the creation of the curse more than 23,000 years ago, the people of the old town, recognized the presence of an evil spirit, which successfully escaped from hell, broke all the spells which imprisoned it since the initial establishment of the Earth. Mankind had been struggling to fight and hopelessly defend themselves before the cruelty and the brutal behaviour of the beast. Finally, through all the tears and bloods, prayers and desperation, mankind lost to the creature and vanished. However, becasue of the vital impact and the destructive damage the conflict resulted, the Mother of Nature abandoned it from the ground, kept it in captivity under thousands of earth layers, for million of years.

The curse is supposed to be timeless. But unfortunately, some unconscious individuals summoned the beast with a deadly ancient magics and spells. Following the guide of the devils, they were forced to wake the monster from the deepest place that the humanity may ever know. Hence, every night when the moon shines the brightest, it will rise and hunt for human lives, as many as he can find, as much as he can fulfill the hunger through so many years, just until the sun rises to the fullest. And that became the story, which is then conveyed and spreaded from ears to ears, about this enigmatic forest.

Once upon a time, there was one said every journey is always full of unexpectancies and moreover, inevitable incidences. Stories have been told through centuries and decades, from villages to towns, from the elder to the youth. But not as the generations pass by or as the time fades, the curse has never been once broken. Whenever the reading is started, the moon will shine and the untamed creature will be released from your worst nightmare. Danger is triggered. And death follows.

Now, one is here in this place, reading these ambiguous is and wondering about everything. But he did not even noticed the wind has begun to blow harder and colder. The surroundings are frozen, not because of the weather, but due to one thing which is coming for the thirst of blood. The shelter is no longer a place to settle. It is now a deadly hunting area, dangerous obstacles, damaged constructions and mysterious blood stains.

In every step he takes, the traces will stay to wait for the beast. Like the last footprint he left during the last moment of his life. His scream will not be heard and his prayers will not be granted. He may survive but the terrified soul will last forever. His curiosity was the cause of the unfortunate event. And now he has to pay the bloody price and no savior would come to rescue.

Every moment he has now is priceless and vital. His life and the journey of survival depends on how he uses his last breaths. Which means now is the time that he needs to start to run.

My most insane attempt to read it which got me 2/3s of the way down the first page.

[be-side-my-self]

@durorholmes

Travis just keeping back and staying quiet like the obedient dog

Very true. Because...

They trained him well…

Which is why it's so much more impressive that he does not shoot Laura when they tell him to do so:

And it hurts him to do that:

Well trained indeed... and still he does not shoot her. (It also suggests that he has silver bullets in his pistol?)

We all know why most fanfictions with Travis as an important part are tagged with "former child abuse".

Anyway here is the reaction of Travis if you shoot Constance:

One thing I constantly think about is the fact that Travis has to know that Laura is infected because the last time he saw her she was missing an eye...

And they meet again and Laura has two:

I would have loved to see any real reaction about that from Travis but I guess that is just another thing the developers didn't get around to add.

Because the inner monologue had to be something like "Why the fuck is Laura here? Oh shit, she is bitten and she is in our house and she is the one who killed Kaylee and mom knows but they don't know she has been bitten and when will she change? What the fuck am I going to do? Oh shit..."

That would explain why Travis did not react any more than he did when Laura gets shot, because he knows she might get up again?

[cloudycaffeinatedcryptid]

Chapter 18 of Take Me Back and Back Again really got me thinking about how the house is a mirror of the Hackett family's dysfunction. Both are crumbling from the inside out, rotting from years of neglect and in desperate need of renovation/therapy. It's only a matter of time before they collapse in on each other

that's a really good parallel to draw! the house layout is bizarre to me & the state of disrepair definitely is perfect as a metaphor for the Hacketts' broken family. could for sure use a LOT of TLC

... or gasoline & a good lighter. who knows?

i'm glad you're continuing to read & looking for subtext! hope i can continue to provide :)

peace & love!

[thegroundhogdidit]

pisses me off that the quarry explicitly tells you that kaitlyn is the best with the gun and then makes ryan use it the whole game

[best-supermassive-character]

Josh Washington x Chris Hartley (Climbing Class)

1. they're so iconic, so cute, so tragic. just the true otp

Laura Kearney x Travis Hackett (Hackearney)

1. they have a cool dynamic. they could be a battle couple!

[a-carnie-and-a-cop]

Travis.exe has stopped working

[truefandemonium]

You think I’m like all those other basic girls with daddy issues who wants a man to dominate me?? HA jokes on you, I have mommy issues so I want a sad wet puppy dog man I can take into my home and let him sleep on my lap and shake when he gets nervous until he throws up on my carpet and I put him in a cage as punishment

[hrefna-the-raven]

The Quarry - masterlist

all Travis Hackett x female reader

The Naiad (nymph reader)

Chapter 1 - The naiad of the lake

Chapter 2 - Kintsugi

Taste of regret (human female reader)

Chapter 1 - Wednesdays

Chapter 2 - Thursdays

Chapter 3 - Lunch

Chapter 4 - Friday

Chapter 5 - Unspoken

Chapter 6 - Tuesday, 27 October 2015 (18+)

Chapter 7 (final) - Taste of regret

The Aftermath

Chapter 1 - Start believing

Chapter 2 - Behind bars

Chapter 3 - Belly of the beast

Chapter 4 - White wolf

Imagines

Being a counselor at the summer camp

The well

Police academy

Dating Travis

SPN comes to the rescue

Don't you wanna kiss me and seal the deal, Sheriff?

Camping drabble

[staticbleeding]

‧⁺✧(˶´⚰︎`˵)⁺‧Masterlists‧⁺✧(˶´⚰︎`˵)⁺‧

Gravity Falls Stanford ⛧°。 ⋆Waiting on the Stars⋆。 °⛧ Stanley

House of Wax Bo Vincent Lester ⛧°。 ⋆Headcanons⋆。 °⛧ Nick

Michael Myers

Scream Stu Billy

Midnight Mass Father Paul Riley Flynn Sheriff Hassan

The Quarry

Travis Hackett

+ more later

[detectivelokis]

HORROR BANG EXCHANGE 2K23

To celebrate the lovely art of horror gaming, myself, alongside @sstewyhosseini have decided to host a gift exchange of sorts. This one will be a bit different than past ones I've hosted as it will be a little more on the collaborative side. Consider it a mish mash of a gift exchange/secret santa and a fandom bang. You will create a fic or art that you would like your partner to make something based off of and in return you will make something for them. The exchange will run around 9 weeks. 4 weeks to create your fic/art and 4 and a half weeks to make your gift. If you have any questions don't hesitate to DM me here or on discord. Sign ups under the cut. Reblogs would be much appreciated

RULES:

Both OC x canon and canon x canon ships are allowed here. If you aren't comfortable working with OCs, feel free to let me know.

But you don’t have to submit a ship either! Platonic ships or single character pieces are allowed too.

Your starting piece can be as detailed as you want, but I do ask that your gift itself is detailed.

If there is anyone you would not like to be paired with, please let me know.

FANDOMS INCLUDED:

RESIDENT EVIL

DEAD BY DAYLIGHT

DARK PICTURES ANTHOLOGY/SUPERMASSIVE GAMES

OUTLAST

DEAD SPACE

SCHEDULE:

SIGN UPS: JUNE 8TH - JUNE 15TH (12 P.M. CST)

MATCHUPS: JUNE 17TH

YOUR WIP DUE: BY JULY 15TH

GIFTS POSTED: AUGUST 19TH

[elklounge]

Unknown room. The Hackett House.

While I’m unsure who exactly this room belongs to in the Hackett house there are weights everywhere. Near the bed (if you can call it that) is multiple beer bottles.

There are three posters show cased. The Nature of Evil (this may be another reference to Evil Dead but that’s just my opinion. There is also a real short film called The Nature of Evil but I couldn’t find anything on it that would link it the quarry.)

The second movie poster is titled Once Bitten. Ironic. The tagline says “Twice shy.”

The third movie poster is titled Die by Dawn. The movie tagline states, “Can you survive until sunrise?” This itself may be a reference to Until Dawn.

There is also an tv and a chair and paperwork and beer bottles on the desk.

[108garys]

Concerning the quarry(update)

I had previously pondered the inclusion of the quarry in my super massive family tree project and decided against it as the main goal of the project is to make all(or as many as possible) of supermassive's recycled models related to each other.

It started focused on the dark pictures anthology and eventually included the inpatient and hidden agenda because of the shared models and by extension until dawn because of the inpatient and so on but there was no obvious connection in the quarry and if I made unique models related to reused ones it had to be purposeful and not just "these characters are both insert random thing" So when I say was settled on the exclusion of the quarry I mean it was not having to work with a game I don't particularly care for and that was that

All that being said I was looking at the Hackett family tree because it goes back to the time of little hope and with my own family tree project it's good to have an example to look at(some of mine to further back lol)

My reasoning at the time was that with all this material it would be simple to include Hackett side characters in stories set in different eras, I was thinking "oh free names to use for historical OCs in little hope reincarnation cycle fic or stuff otherwise set over a century ago" you feel me? Like I could feel the way I do about the quarry and still do something like that

...but then something unexpected happened

"Louisa Clarke(Hackett) 1920-1985"

That's Jed's mum

I had previously decided that any Clarke's would be connected to the Clarke family(even jessie Clark the random construction guy from tdim who's last name I'm treating as a typo)

In my preexisting drafts the generation above James Clarke has three brothers but I had always imagined them having a sister/4th sibling and Louisa just slots right in there exactly how I imagined and so just like that the quarry went from not included at all to having around a third of the cast accounted for. I'm not sure I'll actually go ahead and add the whole in game Hackett family to my next draft but at the very least I can make a note off it next to Louisa's name

It's funny because there were other things I was wanting to do that day but this reason to give a damn about the quarry(and not even the main game at that) blew me away and I needed to process it and what this new development means(it means that James Clarke and Jedediah Hackett are first cousins)

I always thought any care for the quarry on my part would come from connecting it with other games and that seems to be true, I can't say if this will translate into me liking the game itself but now I've already got some great crossover stuff that I'm eager to work on that I hope you'll love as much as I do

That all being said I'm not now going to be adding random player characters into the family trees and this is far more than I was prepared to have in my project(not me begrudgingly excepting that I'm going to have to interact with the quarry for these aus I'm excited for 😅)

@kassiekolchek22 @delurkr @tatjana-fantasy @blubary @ctrvpani @eddie-brii @unhingedlesbear @qusok @myscprin @mybrainrotforreal @taylorshope @kindheartedgummybears @tinynightmarewoman (I hope this is at least a good chunk of people interested in this information lol)

[starsandgutters]

I’m playing The Quarry for the first time and the powerful urge to translate the Dylan x Ryan x Kaitlyn triangle into a KateKevAaron poly AU…

Ryan is Kevin. He’s got that ‘tism rizz. He’s dry and blunt and often a little rude but still somehow has formulated chemistry with them all. The Hacketts are the Moriyamas. He’s known them for years, has been coming to the Nest camp since he was a kid. He’s reluctant to believe any word against them.

Kaitlyn is Katelyn (cute but badass bitch who takes no shit but tries to look out for everyone) & Dylan is Aaron (sarcastic, hides behind a blasé mask of sarcastic humour to fit in better but is a secret nerd). Despite both being into Kevin they still have a friendly relationship, even tease each other about their crush on him.

Aaron and Kevin getting closer earlier in the night. He’s who Kevin kisses during truth or dare, and Kevin protects him in the radio shack even though he’s terrified himself. But then Kevin goes off with Neil (Laura).

Aaron and Katelyn heading to the scrapyard together. Both like. Damn guess we missed our shot, but they’re laughing about it. Shit, after everything that happened tonight, they’re not going to fight over a fucking boy, are they? Even if it is Kevin Day. Then they have their close call, and Aaron is racing towards her afterwards like, “shit, are you okay?” Katelyn, breathless, high on adrenaline: “you saved my life.” And she kisses him. And Aaron kisses back.

Kevin finding them holding hands and sharing affectionate gazes later in the night. He’s gone through hell. He’s stared death in the face more than once. He was gonna be brave and make his move if he survived it all, but it’s too late. Like so much in his life, he let the anxiety stall ruin another opportunity.

Except 👀 Aaron and Katelyn have not stopped liking Kevin just because they like each other 👀 and after everything they’ve been through they really don’t give a fuck what anyone else thinks. They deserve their happiness 👀

[best-supermassive-character]

Max Brinly

1. He is the perfect pocket-sized lil boyfriend and when he and Laura get married he will be the ultimate malewife. We all saw him in that tracksuit.

2. He’s underrated and deserves the world

Travis Hackett

1. Such a complex, morally grey character

2. Because he's a sweetheart who tried to protect everyone.

3. A morally-complex man in a hard situation. He's a police officer who has to balance the duty to protect his family and everyone else from them. He's emotionally constipated and socially compromised thanks largely to the mistreatment and lack of appreciation from said family. His awkwardness also gets others' backs up and is rarely supported.

4. For not a playable one sure was a good one along with larue

5. An extremely complex and well executed antagonist that goes against the typical script of a villain, a pleasant twist of being a victim as much as a perpetrator

6. He holds two people hostage for months. He covers up murders his family committed. His people skills are so awful he can't convince two grad students in the middle of nowhere to get a motel room for the night instead of a summer camp filled with poorly restrained werewolves. His mom doesn't respect him. He doesn't like being called names. He just turned 57. His family is down a well and he can't pull them back out alone. Truly a pathetic little meow meow for the ages.

7. He’s misunderstood and mistreated. And doesn’t know how to communicate.

8. Literally the best written, best acted, best voice acted character in the whole supermassive. Best boy forever

Laura Kearney

1. Because she's one tough cookie

2. Very much a badass

[queenofbaws]

i love hackett house i love hackett house i love hackett house i love hackett house i loVE HACKETT HOOOOOOOOOUSE

[mariocki]

Play for Today: A Touch of the Tiny Hacketts (BBC, 1978)

"It is very possible that I could have stopped it ever getting into the papers."

"Well, I don't see how, we don't even know how they found out about it."

"You're missing the point, Ray, there are things like injunctions for contingencies like this."

"Against who?"

"Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying I'm a legal expert. But I will say this: I am experienced enough in life to know the value of the Mr. Ridleys of this world."

"Well, I know he was very good over the crazy paving, but is he capable of slapping injunctions against newspaper editors? I mean, particularly when they only printed the truth?"

"I dunno. But we could've tried him. And failing him - had you told me - who knows? I could have taken it to the ombudsman!"