Darkon’s Elegy of Madness — Eridani
The Village in the Woods
The map entry presents Eridani as a town in Darkon’s Elegy of Madness and invites the visitor to continue with Re. It lists Bursha Night, Bydis Miller, Caden Night, Christopher Lugha, Loshe Allen and Re. Listed access points include /join eridani, Astravia, Fa’s Go Find Re button in Darkon’s Garden, and the Elegy of Madness map. These are navigation descriptions, not a record of travel or a chronological route.
The village transcript opens with the Hero remarking that it has become dark, then describes Re greeting them as “fresh meat.” The Hero rejects that label and asks who Re is; she says her gal pal told her about the visitor after her batteries ran dry. The Hero connects the red moon and nightmare sky to a girl with the exact same fashion sense, and Re asks what that means. The Hero responds sharply, then apologizes and says they have been short on sleep and are not feeling trusting. The cached replay listing says this scene plays on the first join per login before Lost Breadcrumbs is completed.
Re says she will not bite and cannot do anything from up there, then asks why the visitor came. The Hero says a letter asked them to investigate a series of murders. Re asks whether they know who sent it, then reports finding him in the pit in front of the Hero. The Hero objects that the letter bears yesterday’s date and doubts that the skull is the sender; Re questions that certainty and says she hates lying. The Hero says they will scout the area, while Re calls the situation bad news and urges them to go home and sleep. Re compares the red moon to someone awake too long, perhaps tired or sad.
Re says the problem is spreading to the townsfolk. When the Hero says they are walking away, Re says they are not feeling sick just because it is another full moon. The Hero asks how Re knew. Re says time stopped and it has been the same night for years, with villagers going feral under the blood moon. The Hero thanks her for saying something useful, and Re again asks whether they want to go home.
Little House of Horror
The house transcript captions Bydis Miller and the Hero entering and seeing someone’s legs on the ground. Bydis gasps; the Hero says they had told her to stay outside, and Bydis replies that the door was open and no one had left the house in a long time. The Hero tells her not to scream and says they did not do this, but Bydis shouts “MURDERER!” and calls for help. Its replay listing places the scene after A Worn Book’s Cover. Christopher’s separately listed No Good Deed requires that quest and includes inspecting the house; the exact scene trigger remains unresolved.
After the transcript’s black-screen break, it says infected villagers appear. The Hero asks everyone to stay calm and denies killing the man. One villager calls the Hero a liar and outsider; another demands that they be cut open. The Hero says the man has clearly been infected, probably with some strange disease, cautions against jumping to conclusions across a pause, then asks whether all the villagers have it. The transcript captions a villager’s head exploding and turning into Creature 34, then a skull coming from outside the view and striking another villager in the head.
Outside, Re says, “I suggest a nice little nap and look what happens!” and adds that “Poor Yorick sacrificed himself for you!” The Hero asks how Re knew they were inside. Re says she had come looking for the owner earlier and calls him popular. The transcript then places Creature 34 at a window; Re wonders why she helped and says she thought it was an angry mob, not a costume party. The Hero urges her to run.
The Wicked Man
At the end of the road, the Hero asks whether the speaker is the mayor. The Mayor recalls living in the endless while nothing moved, and describes their skin stretching again and again. Re says the Mayor is in a much better mood than when she arrived. The Hero says it sounds like the other people they have encountered.
The Hero asks whether Re killed the people she visited. Re admits that she did and says she had to restrain herself from slicing them thin: they still look human, she says, before correcting herself that they were human. Asked how obvious it was she was the killer, the Hero answers, Very. Re then asks whether it was also obvious that she sent the letter while pretending to be one of the slack-jaws. The Hero reacts in surprise, and Re says that now they know. She asks why the Hero did not ask if she was the killer and skewer her when they first arrived, insisting that she hates lying. The Hero replies that there was no solid proof and that they are not a mindless monster like Re.
The Mayor calls someone a liar and says time has healed no wounds. The Mayor describes scratching inside the skull that has not stopped and will not stop, while asking it not to stop. The Mayor says the skin stretched to its limits as horror became a… A separate text fragment follows: “Divine ecstasy.” No speaker is attached to that final fragment.
Get Out!
The Hero says, “What a mess. At least it's over.” Re warns that one should stand back when “one of these” starts singing its Swan Song, then says the Hero's special powers might have kept them safe in the village but would not have kept them from becoming a stove stain. When the Hero says, “Your arm…,” Re explains that she lost the boring squishy one long ago and has lost many replacements; Fa will be angry with her for this one too.
The Hero asks, “Why did you save me?” Re answers, “We're partners, buddy!” When the Hero demands that she stop joking and explain what's going on, Re says they wiped a whole village off the map and are “basically blood brothers.” She waves away the rest, saying she makes sure she barely knows what's going on, tells the Hero to think about a nice dinner, mentions her official weekly game night with Fa, and warns the Hero to see a doctor if holes appear in their throat or a stray tentacle turns up on their backside. The Hero calls, “WAIT!” and makes a note to strap anyone who looks like HER to a chair before they can move and to visit Cleric Joy for vaccination. The note ends, “No bloodmoon sickness for me”; it records intended precautions, not actions already taken.
The exchange turns to the report on Village 13. Re asks So which one is present this time; So answers, “An unnecessary query.” After Re calls So the flavorless one and suggests switching to spicy next turn, So assumes the experiment has concluded and requests a report, excluding irrelevant subjects such as what small animals Re found that could fit in her mouth. Re asks whether she may include how soft the Hero's throat looked; So says no. Re offers an oral presentation, then reports three findings: killing a couple of villagers made the rest paranoid; the moon stuck in the sky weakened their minds and gave the Entities soil to take over; and when Re's buddy barged in, the villagers turned on the outsider with the fun hair. So summarizes the hypothesis as proven and the Hero as a beneficial presence despite their status as an opposing Entity. So thanks Re for the report and says frivolous details can be omitted from later meetings.
Re asks, “What about the others?” So replies that all experiments have gone according to prediction, that Darkon has ordered the Scale's return, and that it is time for the next movement. Re says, “Finally!” then hopes the Hero can clear their calendar and promises front-row seats to “our performance.” The identities of the others, the Scale, and the coming movement remain unspecified in this exchange; it does not reveal what the performance will be.
Conversations at Eridani
Re says she wanted to join the search for a killer but was shooed away, and points the visitor toward a woman in a frilly dress whose child is missing, at a house on the west side. In a separate account after No Good Deed, Re remarks that masked villagers bite. After The Gentlest Truth, she says she and the visitor did a “great job of massacring the village” and offers the visitor the chance to put an unspecified this one out of its misery. After Time Moves the Moon, she calls the visitor a final survivor and says it is rare for one to also be a monster; she adds that a sequel might be in the works and points out her new arm. These are Re's statements in separate quest-linked accounts, not independently confirmed events or a continuous chronology. When the visitor mentions a place that looks familiar, Re names the Garden and says Fa can be visited there.
Re describes herself as a horror-film fan who relates to the killing-machine part of slashers, not to evil itself. She promotes her ReReelReview channel, its bi-hourly releases, and a possible horror-game stream with Fa. In her weapon conversation, she claims her blades are sharp, says she has only used them on flesh, and offers some in exchange for monster teeth so she can watch the visitor's technique.
Bursha Night says many people have died and that others refused to help when her boy went missing because they thought he had already been murdered. She asks the visitor for help. After Lost Breadcrumbs, she thanks the visitor for finding him but says it is unsafe for him to return, asking that he be told she misses him. After Dirty Laundry, she says she is glad he will not return because she fears he would end up like Loshe’s wife. She advises caution when speaking with Loshe.
Caden says he once lived in a village in the woods, left, and was never able to return. In the Lost Breadcrumbs account, an unlabelled speaker says his mother sent them; Caden says five years have passed and he still hopes to find his way home, though a nice family adopted him. In another conversation, he is upset that his mother wants him to stay away for safety, but says he will keep watch outside and scream if he sees anything suspicious.
Loshe calls Bursha a nosy hag and says he made his wife a new dress and threw out her muddy one that morning, before she died. He wonders whether it was only that morning, saying it feels like years ago, and recalls discussing spoiling their children. Loshe says Bursha suspects him of the killings, then alleges that her family brought curses from the Doomwoods and trails off while suggesting her involvement in the murders. These are his accusations, not established facts. After Kids These Days, he says they are out of bread and suggests the Mill if the visitor needs some, warning that the miller’s daughter probably will not help.
Bydis Miller says that since her father died she has barely been able to care for herself or the Mill. She remembers him reassuring her, says she would give anything to bring him back or secure justice for him, and asks for help learning more about the village she calls cursed. In the account after A Worn Book's Cover, she tells the visitor to speak to the Suspicious Man in the Town Square.
In the conversation listed after No Good Deed, Christopher says he studied for years but was put on the street by the King he served. He says he gave solid testimony for his brothers’ innocence, but villagers hanged them anyway, and describes decades of work and love destroyed in seconds. Asked about the miller, he says: The advice I gave him to help? Still killed him. His daughter still grieves. He denies intending harm, questions whether the visitor treats their lives as entertainment, and refuses to take part. If the visitor wants to help the girl, he directs them to the house on the far east side to end what he calls a farce. The relation between his advice and the death remains ambiguous. He declares that effort means nothing, saying forces beyond comprehension can wipe people out despite all their work and love; this remains his judgment.
Investigating Eridani
Lost Breadcrumbs — Bursha asks for help finding her son, who went out to play after breakfast and may have wandered into the woods near the graveyard. She says she told him to stay close and fears he could be cold, hungry, alone, or hurt; she offers her house if necessary. The record calls for two Creature Slain items dropped by Maggot-Like Creatures and one Bursha's Son Found interaction by talking to Caden Night on Screen 11. Its completion text gives the rescuer Bursha's blessings but says it is not safe for her son to come home. No prerequisite appears in this entry. Bursha's header marks her quests as completable once.
Dirty Laundry — Bursha says Caden was lucky not to meet the same fate as Loshe's wife: she says the wife was murdered and that she saw Loshe throw her clothes away. Bursha suspects the remaining dress scraps may be a maggot nest and asks for them to be investigated. This record requires completion of the previous quest and lists five Dress Scraps dropped by Maggot-Like Creatures. Its completion response asks whether the visitor wants to talk to Loshe directly and warns them to be careful if they do. The Bursha header marks this quest as completable once; her suspicion is not proof of guilt.
Ergot Bread — Loshe Allen's record requires completion of Dirty Laundry. Loshe accuses Bursha of mistreating her son and spending time at the mill, then says the miller died and rats took over the grain. He asks for the rats to be cleared because the mill is still needed and the miller's daughter will not get out of bed. The objective is five Rats Exterminated items dropped by Rat-Like Creatures; the completion response complains that the rats may have carried fleas. The Loshe header marks his quests as completable once.
Kids These Days — Loshe's next record requires the previous quest. Loshe says the miller's daughter never worked while her father doted on her, then speculates that she may have killed him out of jealousy over his attention to Bursha. He proposes bribing her with food to get inside and look for bloodstains, while asking for Bat-Like Creatures to be slain because the household is out of bread. The objective is five Meat Cuts dropped by Bat-Like Creatures. Loshe's completion response warns the visitor to be safe and repeats his suspicion about the daughter; the accusation remains unverified. The Loshe header marks the quest as completable once.
No Good Deed — Bydis Miller's first record requires completion of Kids These Days. Bydis says her food stores were full before her father died, but something was wrong with their dried meat. She recalls that her father got directions to a good hunting ground from someone he had helped and asks the visitor to try it. The objective is eight Wolf Hunted items dropped by Wolf-Like Creatures. The completion response notes bore holes in the meat and asks what is happening. Bydis's header marks her quests as completable once.
A Worn Book's Cover — Bydis's next record requires the previous quest. She says her father often gave bread to the homeless wanderers who slept in the town square and were the first executed after the murders began, except for an addled old man her father liked. Bydis suspects that man gave her father the unusual hunting-ground directions and asks the visitor to ask him why; she says she fears losing control and hurting him herself. The record lists one Rat-Like Creature slain, one conversation with the Suspicious Man by talking to Christopher Lugha on Screen 2, one Bat-Like Creature slain, and two Maggot-Like Creatures slain. Its completion response says, “The last of the roaches.” The Bydis header marks her quests as completable once.
No Good Deed — Christopher Lugha's record is distinct from Bydis Miller's quest with the same title and requires A Worn Book's Cover. Christopher challenges the visitor's interest in the village and tells anyone who wants to help the girl to find the house on the far east side and “end this comedy.” Its objective list asks for two Wolf-Like Creatures slain and one House Inspected interaction by clicking the legs on Screen 9. The completion response is “Oh my…”; the Christopher header marks this quest as completable once.
The Black Goat in The Dark — Re calls herself the Hero's Watson and asks to circle back to the worried mother and widower, tell them the Hero is doing well, and thin the mobs of “people” together, with each taking half. The printed prerequisite is completion of “No Good Deed”; the record does not identify a native quest ID or giver for that title. The listed objectives are one Creature 15, one Creature 16, and seven Creature 34 hunted. Re's completion response says the Hero will forget the mobs by tomorrow. The Re header marks these main quests as completable once.
The Star Sinks into the Sea — Re says the town is quieter and safer for the little girl and the man on the street to emerge from hiding, and asks the Hero to check on them while she makes sure the others are feeling better. This record requires the previous quest and lists one Creature 30 and one Creature 31 hunted. Re's completion response asks for the cute plush. The Re header marks this quest as completable once.
The Gentlest Truth — Re says there goes the town and remarks that no one is left to get angry about unburied bodies. She then remembers that the Mayor might be angry about them skipping town; she suggests finding him first in case he turned out like the others and is looking for them. This record requires the previous quest. Its listed objectives are one Door item dropped by Door and one Mayor Found interaction by walking to Screen 10. The completion response is “Wow.” The Re header marks this quest as completable once.
Time Moves the Moon — Re says it is do or die, promises to back the Hero however they handle it, and adds that she never lies. This record requires the previous quest and lists one Creature 6 hunted. Its completion text says Re makes a confetti noise with her mouth. The Re header marks this main quest as completable once.
Re’s Tooth Errand
Sweet Dreams Are Made of Teeth — In this separate optional entry, Re tells the Hero to collect teeth from monsters by beating them out, with no time for questions. The printed prerequisite is completion of Time Moves the Moon. The list asks for 28 Tooth and four Wisdom Tooth, records a Teeth x1 item, and gives the completion response “More content for my channel!” The listing notes that the title parodies “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” by Eurythmics. Its repeatability is not stated.