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The Commonplace Book is a clue in Alone in the Dark (2024).
Overview[]
The Commonplace Book is a detailed journal by Jeremy Hartwood about the travels to his memories by the use of the Talisman given to him by Miss Jackson, his descent into madness by The Dark Man and his concern about an alleged plot by the patients and staff in Derceto.
Transcript[]
1/5
Every night the Dark Man stands opaque at the threshold of my
room. Counting the days until my spirit spills out of my tired shape.
Only his pallid mask shelters my remaining sanity. Staring directly
into the face of that demonic sultan would surely sunder time itself.
Would he have looked the same to my father as he struggled for his
life. Does his veiled face haunt my niece quite the same way?
I wish so that I could rest my soul in that sunburnt convent of
Taroella. Would I find you there, Juan? Or signora Perosi, back from
the beyond.
Every night I hide from him. Moving from one misshapen memory
to another - scenes conjured out of fantasy and delirium. Places I
struggle to even paint.
I wish I understood your death, signora. Is there anything I could do
for you, but bury you in that bleak necropolis. That triumphant
chapel, rising above the ledgers and the oven vaults, shall be your
sepulcher. Where you may rest and I shall weep.
2/5
How did you first come to understand such things, signora? How did
you know that the battered boiler in the basement would lead me to
Lafayette's cemetery? Or how the old upstairs clock, with its
astronomical motifs, would take me to that hateful mound outside of
Clermont Harbor? Those are my memories. My past.
Is there perhaps a chance, if ever so small, for me to see Taroella?
I want that more than anything. Please let my talisman take me
there. Let me sit with Juan under his bodhi tree.
Despite having sold me that talisman, Miss Jackson, the voodoo
priestess, revealed none of her secrets to me. That's why I had to
travel to Toncre. Instead she cruelly told Batiste, my caretaker, that
he would be betrayed and killed in the most awful way. That the one
he loved would pierce his thigh with a sharp spear, and that he
would be devoured by his own mother. What a terrible thing to say.
3/5
The people of Derceto are becoming dangerous. They do not
understand what they are doing. I must do something to stop them. I
tried talking to Dr Gray, but he confuses my worries. He is caught
up in treating me. How can he expect evil to be cured with medicine
and conversation?
The orderlies, the housekeeper, and the patients are all deranged!
They will call upon evil to enter this world. All will be lost.
Everything!
Unless I can find the clerk, Mr Waites. He seems to be a clear
thinking man. Maybe Beauregard?
4/5
The Dark Man offered me a prison and I accepted. I signed that
miscarried contract and entered a dark pact. Everyone is safe, except
for me.
5/5
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