The Box of Lost Things

A carriage without a reflection. A keeper without a name. Eighteen lost things that lead back to one stolen minute.

Hollowmere · 1897

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The Darkroom at Hollowmere

Story puzzle: develop glass plates under a crimson safelight and find the figures no one photographed.

The Darkroom at Hollowmere · 0/3 plates read

1894 · A crimson safelight studio. A box of exposed glass plates, never developed. Pull each plate from the developer at the right moment — too early and the image stays faint, too late and it burns black. A fictional glass-plate haunting, not the historical daguerreotype process. Sound optional · Touch and keyboard.

Story offers a wider clear-image window; Challenge needs a steadier hand. Completed photographs stay in your collection.

Plate I — The Porch Gathering

Watch the image emerge. Pull when details are clear, before a dark veil clouds the silver.

The crimson safelight above a chemical developing tray

Photograph gradually appearing in the developer

An unexposed silver surface.

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Story Adventures

Campaign chapters follow the Box of Lost Things. Hollowmere side stories award separate keepsakes and extra lore; they are not required for the campaign.

Quick Halloween Games

The Victorian Curio Cabinet

0 of 5 parlor keepsakes

Clara's keepsakes from the five Hollowmere parlor games. Tap an earned piece to inspect it; shadowed alcoves wait for their game. Separate from the campaign's eighteen artifacts.

Locked: A shadowed silhouetteDecode three phantom transmissions on the dead railway wire.Play to Discover
Locked: A shadowed silhouetteDevelop every glass plate and find the figures no one photographed.Play to Discover
Locked: A shadowed silhouetteGather every whispered testimony while the organ covers your steps.Play to Discover
Locked: A shadowed silhouetteAlign the moon, zodiac and year rings to every hidden date.Play to Discover
Locked: A shadowed silhouetteReturn each lost thing to its ghostly claimant at the parcel window.Play to Discover

Fill every alcove to unseal Clara's secret dispatch.

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