VHS Tapes

VHS tapes can be found throughout various areas in "The Trial". When a tape is obtained, the player’s screen glitches into a dark room in front of a television, connected to 9 videocassette recorders. Each tape projects a woman recording her confusion and desperation of escape from the plane she's in.

Throughout these tapes, the woman is seen slowly deteriorating, both physically and mentally. Her face starts to crack as her eyes slowly white out. She becomes more and more deranged and hostile as she becomes more desperate for an escape from the prison she’s trapped in.

Tape Dialogues[]

Spoiler warning: Plot, ending details or any kind of information follow.

LOST[]

"Hello? Is anyone listening? Is anyone there? Please, I need help… I… I can’t remember… who I am. It’s so dark here. I remember a blinding light, then a burning pain washed over me. Then I was here. I can’t shake this feeling of loss and despair. Am I… dead?"

PHANTOM[]

"I saw a faded shape of a man. There’s something important about him, I can feel it. Like a distant memory itching at the back of my skull. His image is fleeting, it flickers in and out of view. It’s as if he’s trapped in a parallel reality. A phantom, just out of reach. Or perhaps I am the phantom and he resides in the land of the living? I’ve cried for his attention but I don’t think that he can see or hear me."

OTHERS[]

"There are others here, parallel to this place, like the man. Though, not significant like he seems to be. They are harder to see and appear less often. And something else… Something ominous lurks beyond my vision. Even though my senses can’t make it out, I can feel its presence. I can feel its gaze piercing through me. What’s left of my humanity is crumbling away in this void. I fear what I am to become in such endless isolation."

BRIDGE[]

"Why?! Why won’t you answer me?! Every passing moment, just silently staring down upon me with no remorse. They’re gathering as we speak and they mean to open a vortex. Perhaps into this world. A bridge between us and them. Does this not arouse your attention in any way at all?! Sometimes I wonder if you’re even real. If there’s anyone behind that lens or just a corpse decaying at a helm; my pleas for help infinitely echoing into the vast emptiness of death."

HUNGER[]

"Hunger has been tearing at my stomach and yet I don’t die. How long has it been? It’s impossible to tell, in this endless night. How long must I rot in this fucking prison?! No food! No light! No sleep! No contact! Nothing! Nothing… just glimpses of life beyond my reach. I wish they would open up that goddamn vortex already. I wish they would tear this world apart. I wish this would all end. I need this to end."

SKIN[]

"[mumbling] It’s not here. She’s not alive anymore. And we won’t be. We’re so hungry now. And this skin. This fucking skin! It’s so itchy. Why? This skin isn’t mine. The skin. Isn’t mine. It’s not mine."

EVOLVE[]

"The ghosts. So full of life. Strong, healthy blood. Tender meat. Oh, how we crave their flesh. Yet, they deny us… Soon. Soon, we will be there. And they will have called. And we will have answered. The floor is moist. Is this me? There is nothing left. We have consumed."

RAGE[]

"Why do they torment us so! Slipping from our grasp! These filthy fucking pigs! They are swine at the feet of god! Animal corpses dragging their claws about and scurrying across the dirt, rearranging things! Always rearranging! We will annihilate every molecule of their pitiful existence!!"

/ / /[]

(When this tape is played, the whole screen shakes. The woman’s skin is dark, looking as if she’s already corrupted by the dark, and her eyes are devoid of color. The woman says nothing, but the screen breaks and then turns to static.)

End of spoiler warning

Locations[]

Tape 1:

The first tape is acquired by unlocking Beelzebub's fourth door during the dream sequence at the beginning of the episode.
- See Her Fate#How to unlock for the solution to the puzzle.

Tape 2:

Found in the back of the shed next to the workstation.

Tape 3:

In Addison Apartments, go to Room 203 and retrieve the pocket knife from the kitchen.
Go to Mrs. Packerton’s room (Room 201) and in the bedroom with the life support machine, use the pocket knife on the patch of carpet.
Input the code 435542 and the tape will be in the safe.

Tape 4:

Go to Room 404 and use the pocket knife on the broken tape laying on the living room floor.

Tape 5:

Go to Room 503 and walk until reaching the hole in the wall where the tape is sticking out.

Note: All remaining tapes are found during the barrier spell sequence.

Tape 6:

While playing as Larry’s ghost, go to Room 501 and use the Deadstone on the Unknown Man.
Switch to Sal and go to Room 501. The key to Room 504 will be on the floor where the Unknown Man was sitting.
Go to Room 504 and enter the bedroom. Walk to the end of the room where the hole is located and go through it.
Switching back to Larry, go to Room 504 and repeat the actions from the step above.
After going through the hole, use the Deadstone on the tape laying on the floor.
Switch back to Sal and retrieve the tape.

Tape 7:

Playing as Larry, go to Room 404.
Walk to the right until reaching the tape on the ground and activate the Deadstone.
Switch to Sal and the tape will be on the floor in the same location in Room 404.

Tape 8:

As Larry, go to Room 303 and retrieve the dark pony.
Once the Pillar on the second floor has been destroyed, go to Room 204.
Place the dark pony in the middle of the pentagram.
As Sal, go to Room 204 and the tape will be on the floor.

Tape 9:

As Sal, go to Room 104 and retrieve the carrot.
Place the carrot on the ground outside of Room 101.
Switch to Larry and retrieve the lighter at the end of the hallway on the first floor.
Walk to the other end of the hallway until reaching Room 101 and use the lighter on the rabbit.
Switch back to Sal and the tape will be sitting in the rabbit’s place.