Unholy Night

Chapter I[edit] On September 21, 1987, Catholic priest John Ward returns to the Martin residence in rural Sterling, Connecticut, to finish the botched exorcism of 17-year-old Amy Martin. Exactly one year earlier, Amy killed her parents and John's superior, Father Allred, during the exorcism ritual, and John was traumatized by the event. Amy was incarcerated at Yale Psychiatric Institute for the murders, but she escaped nine days before John's return. While approaching the house through the surrounding woods, he is stalked by a pale humanoid monster that he repels with his cross. Entering the house, John finds Amy in the attic. He fails to finish the exorcism, and Amy throws herself out of a window and flees into the woods. John then finds a gun with a single bullet and a message, written backwards in blood: "KILL HER" (Amy). Shooting any of five specific targets with the gun concludes the chapter and results in a different ending. Killing Amy causes John to be arrested for murder and accused of impersonating a priest. Shooting at a shadowy figure near a shed ends with John being ambushed by the pale monster. Shooting a deer causes John to be killed by another deer. Shooting a fox corpse left at an apparent ritual site ends with John being captured and possibly sacrificed by cultists. Lastly, shooting the pale monster (which appears near the car if none of the aforementioned targets are shot) causes it to slowly retreat along the road before it is then run over by a passing truck. The monster's remains baffle authorities and are reported as a Chupacabra, and John comments that he does not know how to explain what happened at the Martin house, but he can only have faith that he did the right thing. Chapter II prologue[edit] Seemingly taking place after the fifth ending of Chapter I, Chapter II's prologue sees John crash his car into an oncoming truck driven by a cultist (named in the game as "Thralls"). Afterwards, John sees a rather unsettling scarecrow, which grows a hole after John exorcises a demon in the nearby cornfield. Afterwards, John finds a dead dog and six graves as well as a statue of Saint William. He eventually finds a derelict church. Going into it he finds a note talking about a nun named "Sister Bell" and her history with the church. He also discovers another demon and exorcises it too, learning more about Bell's strange behavior with the church's orphans. As he continues to investigate the ruined church, he exorcises various objects, learning more about Sister Bell along the way, which seems to break some sort of invisible seal on the staircase leading to the church's basement. Going down, it is pitch black and John finds a flashlight. He defeats yet another demon (which will later be encountered in Chapter II proper) before leaving the basement and going back up. There are two endings to this chapter, the first simply requires John to go up after leaving the basement. There he sees two purple children holding hands before a cloaked old woman appears and yells "HERE I AM!". The second ending requires John to burn the scarecrow from before and turn into a demon himself. Doing so, he meets the same lady who screams at him to "GET OUT!". Chapter II[edit] The main character in Chapter II, Father John Ward, walking through the forest The chapter begins with another priest, Father Garcia, attempting to perform an exorcism on a teenager he is holding captive named Michael Davies, who is revealed to be the pale monster from Chapter I. Michael breaks free from his restraints before Garcia can complete the exorcism, and escapes after killing and partially eating a passerby. The player then takes control of John Ward. John is suffering a crisis of faith due to the events at the Martin house, but he has nonetheless traveled to Gallup Cemetery in Connecticut to investigate strange activity. He is chased across the cemetery and beyond by demonic creatures, including Amy Martin, who afflicts him with terrifying visions and tortures, before eventually finding a hidden cultist sanctuary in the sewers. After he enters the inner sanctum and is attacked by the same cloaked old woman from the Prologue, Father Garcia appears and asks for John's help to defeat her by reciting the 91st Psalm. Following a demonic onslaught (where Father Garcia may die if not protected, resulting in the chapter's ending to change slightly), the woman transforms into a horrifying demon. John then awakens in his bed, revealing that his recent adventure was all a dream. He reads a letter from Father Garcia, asking him to help stop the imminent summoning of a powerful demon. A third ending of the chapter is possible, if the player fulfills certain objectives, such as drawing a pentagram between a set of rocks with blood, which ends with John being attacked by a creature with a mask and being inducted into the cult. Chapter III[edit] The third chapter takes place between October 28 and midnight on Halloween, October 31. On October 28, th…