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Dead how?

I was not very intrigued by the house at all. I felt less was explorable in a group setting, and more was to be enjoyed by the individuals own personal expierence. I feel that one person should be let into the house at a time, given at least 10 minutes to move around, and then send the next one in. If my expierence was an individual one, I would have been frightened more than curious, at least for the first few minutes. I don't think, that even being alone, I would have gone into the tiny crevices that we as group climbed through. Therefore, I would have missed the very few intricacies of the house.

Tripps comment about the amount of secrets available was a rather valuable one. I would agree partly that the doors that are closed are frustrating, only because there were so few open to begin with. One or two frozen doors would be fine, but the amount close were not.

My thoughts of the authors intent was that they were trying to communicate the feel of a personal space that had been lived in, and that it had a very specific narrative behind it. I think where this fails is that they were trying to express the history of the space without anything in it. As interesting as this concept can be, I feel the only way to effectively pull it off would be to have many more rooms, each constructed in the odd fashion that those were. Stairs were meant for climbing, but they also need to lead somewhere, not just nowhere. Houses all have their locked doors, but the inhabitors have more ways than one to access those secret places.

Basically, I needed a lot more of the same thing, or less with more secret rooms full of junk to give me some sort of narrative. Hiding it all in one place didn't seem to be to effective; pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Hmmmm, maybe if I could just see it, but not get to it.