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Think about the chronology of events in Poppy Playtime. Factually speaking, our protagonist has been trapped inside the Playtime Co. Toy Factory for at least three or four days by now. No food. No drink. No sleep, only being brutally knocked out by some creatures. The latest Chapter 5 update included the scariest element, which will make our life much more complicated for Chapter 6 finale: a painful physical limp, labored gasping, and blurred vision. It’s not about our escape anymore; our body is failing. And that electric shoco at the end of Chapter 5 was not about recovery but the injection we got from the factory infrastructure. Since our player character is physically impaired now, Chapter 6 cannot be just another run-and-hide chapter. This situation requires a total restructuring of the game. This is the final blueprint of the narrative for Chapter 6.

It is far down under, and we are running out of real-world Earth to discover for it to make narrative sense. The Sixth Chapter doesn’t have to be an endless sandbox such as Chapter 3’s Playcare. The Sixth Chapter should be a claustrophobic and brutal dive into the last two uncharted territories: the strange underground settlement seen at the beginning of Chapter 5, "A Better Place", and something sinister that hides right behind the Backup Facility. In order not to contaminate the horror and keep it separate, the Sixth Chapter has to strip everything unnecessary. No extra characters with useless toys. This is a deadly game of Cat and Mouse between the Player, the Prototype, and our digital nightmare—Dr. Harley Sawyer.

Plot Holes:

DogDay:

We already knew from chapter three that Mini-Smiling Critters had consumed him from the waist down. The discovery in chapter five was that the Prototype accumulates organic matter. You do not battle a living DogDay. You see that, at first glance, his empty, shorn upper body is dangling from one of the huge meat hooks from the ceiling, once you enter the Reanimation Core. The Prototype has been utilizing the DogDay as an "anchor" all along. He has even grafted the DogDay’s fur to his own upper back, to replace the burned fur of CatNap, and severed his arms to replace the missing appendages attached to his ribcage.

Boxy Boo:

Boxy Boo is definitely a part of the game canon and played an active role in the Hour of Joy. Since he is a jack-in-the-box, he thrives in narrow and metallic vertical places.

There is a big and multi-story warehouse area located between the Chapter 5 Labs and the Backup Facility. It is where Playtime Co. packed their "Bigger Bodies" into the crates. We enter this area after spotting DogDay.

Boxy Boo becomes the ultimate horror scare in the area. Instead of chasing the Player openly, he travels using the automatic belt and rail transport system. As you know, the Player limps, so there is always the noise of the Boxy’s music box. In order to stop Boxy and prevent him from coming out of the dark and crushing you, the Player needs to activate box crushers using Sawyer’s "Mainframe Link". Unfortunately, Boxy Boo manages to tear off the Blue Hand from our GrabPack during the process.

The Prototype's Hunters:

The "hunters" alluded to in Chapter 5 are the bloodhounds of the Prototype, which are extremely mutated and unsuccessful attempts to transform into viable commercial products. They are thin, bald, bio-mechanical creatures constructed from muscle fibers and scrap metal.

"A Better Place" will be as if you are having a nightmare. With your poor eyesight and sleep deprivation, the Prototype will make use of the existing intercoms from the community to sound like the orphans that were lost or Giblet. You will have to measure the sound frequency using your GrabPack audio-receptor. If it is a mechanical sound, then it is a trap by the Prototype.

The very start of Chapter 6 finds you right in that ominous IT chamber. Terminal screens twitch wildly. Sawyer's synthesized voice rumbles over the intercom system, warning that the facility is sealed off completely under the control of automation since the Prototype has begun invading the lower levels. The Player awakens lying on the ground, barely able to see clearly, and walks slowly, limping.

Setting: Upon exiting the large blast doors from the Backup facility, one leaves behind the world of the neat, high-tech IT department and enters the lowest level of Playtime Co., The Reanimation Core. Visual Description: The environment is that of a vast industrial slaughterhouse. Instead of having the walls made of cement, the walls consist of large glass tanks containing glowing Poppy Gel. Inside the glass tanks are disposed skinless toy parts and large organs.

The Atmosphere: The ceiling is made up of a complex network of metal hooks and conveyor belts which used to transport the "Bigger Bodies" to the reanimation stations. The floor is covered with grease and biological fluid. There is an oppressive silence except for the faint but horrifying sound of huge electrical generators which keep the organic material alive.

While navigating the catwalks of the Reanimation Core, the lights shut off. The Prototype does not attack; he aims to destroy the very structure of the room by knocking over an enormous steam pipe above. The Tragedy: The catwalk collapses underneath the Player and Giblet. Being in pain and weakened, the Player limps around, so Giblet gathers his last strength to throw the Player through the air to the other side. The catwalk completely gives out and plunges Giblet into the dark abyss of the lower vats.

The game immediately goes back to its full isolation. The Player is now totally alone, panting in the darkness, with nothing but the taunting voice of Dr. Sawyer in the speakers to help them out.

Poppy Activities: In Chapter 5 when the Prototype snatches Poppy, he brings her to the Reanimation Core in order to integrate her essence into his mass. However, because she is the original most stable soul, her glass-and-porcelain casing makes her extremely difficult to fuse biologically. She was kept caged in a very high-security holding cage that was suspended above the core. How Does She Escape: By the time the Player and Sawyer have the facility power re-routing to go around a puzzle, it caused an electrical surge that opened the doors of her cage. The cage doors get blown open due to the electrical surge and Poppy lands to the floor and runs away into the shadows. Kissy Missy – scarred and damaged after Chapter 5, finds Poppy in the shadows and heads back to the storage areas of Chapter 4 in The Foundation to pick up the crates of dynamite that you noticed earlier. They head back to the core carrying the explosives when the Prototype attacks them in the confined passage. Kissy Missy throws herself with her whole body against the claw of the Prototype, yelling at Poppy to flee. The Prototype attacks and wounds Kissy badly, yet she escapes and makes her way into the ducts with Poppy and the dynamite.

Following Giblet's demise, Boxy Boo ambushes you in a narrow passage way. You sneak into a secure Containment Office and hide in there. Within, you come across a clean dust-covered briefcase belonging to a top-ranking-scientist. The briefcase contains The Boundless Hand-a gleaming all-white robotic hand.

This is an improved version of the Omni Hand and it has unlimited usage as opposed to just four charges. That's literally it.

In the same room, there is a tiny, black box. Inside, is a Computer Chip, labelled "Negation Formula". Hidden beneath the shadows, in the corner of the room, is one of The Doctor's amalgamations. It activates, slowly walking toward the Player. It takes the chip, the main computer on the desk turning on, The Doctor's digital eye lighting up the room. The Amalgamation puts the chip inside of the computer, giving the Negation Formula details straight to The Doctor's database. The Doctor then mocks the Prototype for his foolishness as he begins to work on the 'antidote', ordering the Player to leave and let him focus.

What is the Negation Formula?

It is a very dangerous, weaponized counteragent created in secrecy by the best scientists of the factory before the Hour of Joy and its only function was to serve as a "failsafe" or a literal "kill switch" in case the Bigger Bodies Initiative would rebel.
From a biological perspective, the Negation Formula immediately breaks up the molecular structure of the Poppy Gel, causing instant cellular necrosis once applied on living tissues. In other words, it literally transforms the alive tissue of the toys into dead biomass.
The Prototype is an apex predator since he can physically collect pieces of other toys and use them for his growth and healing. The Negation Formula takes away from him precisely this capability since it attacks the biological "core" of the toy making impossible its fusion with organic tissues, thus turning it into a fragile skeletal structure made out of metal scrap.

After, the Player employs the Boundless Hand to pry open a gigantic, rusty hydraulic pressure door at the very end of the room.

The door leads to an immense, dark underground cavern called "A Better Place." It is a totally deserted, man-made subterranean housing area constructed right within the rock. Rows of vacant houses from a bygone era lie beneath huge metal pillars holding up the ceiling of the upper factory. There are even plastic trees planted on the cracked cement roads, and towering rock formations all around.

In order to leave the neighborhood, the Player will have to activate a grid station located within the old "Community Center." Dr. Sawyer narrates the way forward over the loudspeakers, taunting the town design he created.

Where the Hunters come in:

An enormous level, flat floor located in the outskirts, covered in artificial, very high red grass, which does not decay.

The Atmosphere: The area is shrouded in a heavy fog making you unable to see anything beyond a few feet ahead. The only features visible through the fog are rusty playground equipment, old cars, and security guard towers. Due to your severe limp, this area is entirely tactical and you need to move in stealth. You will need to crouch in the red grass and use your GrabPack hand on the metal playground equipment to make sound distractions for the Hunters.

During the search for the power cells inside the houses, the Player comes into an orphanage which resembles a church and is located at the center of the neighborhood. Here, you will find the rest of the mutated orphans of the factory. These are not the giant monsters like Huggy or CatNap but small, crying, mutant toy creatures crouching behind the benches, their human skin still visible.

Even as the Player moves towards them to console them, the walls explode. The mechanical hand of the Prototype comes through the roof. Rather than attacking you, he attacks the tiny toys of the orphanage in front of your eyes, consuming their biological components into himself in order to repair his wounds incurred in previous chapters.

This act horrifies the Player so much that, driven by anger and adrenaline, you don't flee anymore, but go after the Prototype.

The Prototype moves backward through the city streets, taunting you over the intercom system. As you are limping, you cannot run away from him, so you have to contact Dr. Sawyer via terminal stations to close the security gates ahead of him and trap him, making him turn around and go down.

While chasing after him, you come across the same Containment Office you were in earlier. A small part of the computer opens up, a mediate-size container filled to the brim with shiny, alive, blue liquid; The Negation Formula. You attach the container to the wire connecting to your Boundless Hand, being able to fire doses of the antidote.

You follow the Prototype back through a huge industrial garbage chute, and right back into the shining Reanimation Core from where the game started. The Prototype runs back into the center of the Core surrounded by huge vats of the glowing Poppy Gel. He thinks he has trapped you, but Dr. Sawyer slams a huge high-security blast door behind you, trapping the Player and the Prototype in a completely sealed room.

This initiates the last battle. In order to win, you have to use the Conductive Hand's elements glove to blow up the chemical piping and electrify the floor, exhausting the Prototype without getting hit by his enormous claws within a small area.

Since the Player is badly limping, they can't avoid the attack. You have to stay and fight inside the central control ring. You flood the arena's floor grates with the freshly mixed Negation Formula. As the Prototype steps into the liquid, his stolen biological flesh, including the lower limbs he harvested from DogDay, begins to visibly boil, melt, and peel away from his frame.

The Prototype attacks with his enormous mechanical claw, hitting the Player. The hit damages the right arm of your GrabPack and makes the Player fall to the knees, causing the screen to crack with red static. Yet, the Negation Formula makes the organic parts of the Prototype smoke and melt, showing his metal endoskeleton. He is slowing down, wheezing through his mechanical throat.

As the Prototype prepares to kill the Player, a loud explosion shakes the ceiling above. The badly scarred and wounded Kissy Missy falls from the ceiling into the Prototype and pushes him into a huge pool of the antidote. Poppy enters behind her carrying the last box of dynamite.

The Prototype holds Kissy down on the ground and crushes her chest but before he can attack Poppy, the Player rushes in, grabbing and tearing off The Prototype's left claw, and jamming it into their own empty Grab Pack slot. You then pierce forward straight through The Prototype's head as he quickly pushes you off. Poppy places herself between him and the Player and delivers her monologue:

"I was wrong about you. I thought you were nothing more than an instrument of fixing my mistakes... too perfect to be lost. But look at what this place has done to us. Look at what he has made of us. There is no saving Playtime Co., and there is no escaping our pasts. It ends here. Now. In the ashes."

Poppy places the detonator cord straight into the central generator. The Prototype bellows in a terrifying, metallic sound and attempts to crush Poppy. At this point, Huggy Wuggy drops from the shadows of the topmost ventilation shafts. He appears to be in a completely feral state; his body is caked with dust and he cries tears of raw, undiluted fury because of seeing Kissy Missy die. He attacks the Prototype with full force of an animal, ripping open his endoskeleton. Poppy presses the detonator and causes a series of explosions that break apart the remaining vats. Poppy cries to the Player over the screeching flames: "RUN!"

A timer for 10:00 shows up in a red color. The heavy organ that reminds of the style of Interstellar starts playing together with excruciating, searing violins. You go inside the secret elevator and your tortuous ascent starts. You are not discovering new spaces; you are tortured by the spirits of your past:

The Chapter 5 Labs: You enter the labs, which are secured very tightly. Scaling steam rushes from the pipes along your way. The distorted face of Dr. Harley Sawyer can be seen on the monitor screens, and his voice turns into a horrified scream: "No! Not my mainframe! You are destroying my empire! Go back!" Using your last hand of GrabPack, you lock the blast doors.

The Rocky Uphill Climb (Chapter 4): Here is where you find yourself at the end of Chapter 4; in the rocky, hilly cave that you fell in. Your legs totally give out, and you’re forced to lie on your stomach while manually pressing the buttons to crawl uphill by dragging yourself through the dirt and rocks using your GrabPack Hand, scratching and tearing at the rocks with the monster's own arm.

You break through the shelf ventilation and reach the gigantic green slide that you went down near the end of Chapter 4. You have to climb up it, the camera moving back and forth and leaving traces of the Player’s sweat, tears, and blood behind. Far away in the distance below you, the sounds of Huggy Wuggy’s scream of rage and the Prototype’s maniacal laugh can be heard.

You pull yourself into Safe Haven. The loud music immediately quiets down into a wailing, desolate violin solo. In the middle of the room, you see Doey’s dead, distorted, and crystal-like body. As you limp past him, the gigantic concrete pillar falls and utterly pulverizes his body into nothingness. The music immediately returns and goes wild.

Playcare (Chapter 3): You enter the secret maintenance elevator that takes you up to Playcare. The huge orphanage is in the process of destroying itself and crumbling to its core. The actual fire and smoke take the place of the imagined red smoke. You take the tram on the elevator through the burning streets.

Train Tracks (Chapter 2): You crash land close to the trash compactor and make your way onto the train tracks. You have less than two minutes on the timer, but you lose all of the artificial adrenaline. You see your screen flash bright red, and the camera angle is tilted very dramatically as you crawl inch by inch along the wooden train tracks to the Game Station.

Chapter 1 Vault: You enter into the Game Station and enter a hidden elevator that brings you to the lower sub-level of the first game ever. You crawl through the hall and face THE door—the big mechanical door of the vault to the right of where the Huggy Wuggy statue was in Chapter 1.

Using your final ounce of strength, you jam your remaining GrabPack hand into the electrical lock, and the Prototype's own severed hand into the door, overriding the system. The heavy metal door blasts open. You collapse forward into the quiet, smoking first-floor lobby of Chapter 1. You detach the broken GrabPack, letting it clatter to the floor, and limp toward the exit doors. You leave the Playtime Co. Toy Factory. Broken. Shattered. Scarred.

...But alive.

Consider the chronology of events in Poppy Playtime. In real terms, our hero is confined in the Playtime Co. facility for about three-four days. No food, no water. No sleep either, just being mercilessly knocked out by the monsters. The latest Chapter 5 update introduced a shocking twist for the final Chapter 6 sequence: physical limping, laboured breathing, and blurred/reddish vision. The player is not escaping, their body is breaking down. The burst of power or electric shock seen at the end of Chapter 5 was not healing but rather a chemically-induced adrenaline boost supplied by the factory facilities to keep us alive on borrowed time. Since the player is literally breaking down, there is no way Chapter 6 will be the same "run and hide" chapter. It requires a whole new structural approach. Here is my version of the Chapter 6 storyline.

We are already deep under the ground, and there is not much left of physical earth for us to discover without making narrative sense. Playcare’s big sandbox is not required for Chapter Six. What is required is an oppressive and claustrophobic journey towards two final destinations – the underground neighbourhood-looking-community “A Better Place,” and the dark industry within the backup facility “The Reanimation Core." There will be no new character toys randomly added here. It is the deadly psychological struggle between the Player, the Prototype, and The Doctor.

In order for the protagonist to make things personal, there has to be a departure from the silent-protagonist rule set by the start of the game. As early as the start of the game, you can select either a Male or Female voice profile. This is not an avatar creator; this is giving a voice to the inner demons of the Ex-Employee. This makes big content creators and people like you and I wanting to replay the game just to hear both voice lines from both sides.

Since your legs aren’t working anymore, there is no way that you can outrun your nightmares during a sprint. The game mechanics need to be in alignment with the fact that your body is not functioning anymore. The Collapse Gauge: It is not possible to limply jog for more than 3 to 4 seconds without collapsing. You have to hit a certain prompt in order to stand up again. The Mainframe Link: In order to survive, the GrabPack receives an upgraded version of software at the Backup Facility terminal. You can fire the electronic wires into the wall-mounted junction boxes in order to hack security cameras and track down the path of the Prototype. Transactional Commands: You can talk to Dr. Harley Sawyer through the intercom and give him a command such as closing the blast door or leaking toxic gases. But Sawyer is nothing but a psychopathic corporate. He will expect something in exchange. For example, he might compel you to redirect the power of the facility in your area away from you, leaving you enveloped in darkness for several excruciating seconds.

While turning on the backup at the end of Chapter 5, The Player and Giblet hoped to find a blueprint or a formula for "Negation Compound," which could destroy the Prototype. Instead, their computer became a host to the mind of a psychopath. In Chapter 6, Sawyer plays "The Owner" of the maze. He is not our ally. He is a narcissistic entity who manipulates the player like a puppet. Because the player is not strong enough to escape, we have to depend on Sawyer in order to slam security doors, hack the automatic traps, and change the grid configuration in order to avoid meeting the Prototype. However, this is only an alliance out of necessity. “A Better Place” will feel like a fevered nightmare experience. With your distorted vision and extreme sleep deprivation, the Prototype will use the neighborhood’s outdated intercom system to make you hear the voices of the missing children or your sidekick Giblet. You will have to take the help of your GrabPack’s audio sensor to determine the frequency of the sound. If the tone of the sound is mechanical, then it is a trap by the Prototype. In order to achieve the perfect isolation in this chapter, Giblet has to die early.

Chapter 5 Conclusion Flashback: Chapter 5 ends when the Player and Giblet boot up the Backup Terminal, but Dr. Harley Sawyer's digital eye flashes on the screens, taunting them. The Opening of Chapter 6: Chapter 6 starts right away from the beginning in the IT room. The terminal screens flash crazily. Dr. Sawyer's digital voice booms on the intercoms, stating that the facility is under automated lock down since the Prototype is breaking into the lower levels. The Player finds themselves awake, one knee dragging against the floor, with blurred vision, taking limping steps.

The Setting: As you pass through the blast doors of the Backup Facility, you leave behind the clean and digital world of information technology and enter the very bottom layer of Playtime Co.: The Reanimation Core. The Visuals: The setting is an expansive and brutal factory of death. Instead of concrete walls, there are huge glass containers filled with the coral glow of the Poppy Gel. In those containers are floating the cast-off skinless toy parts and giant biological organs. The Atmosphere: There is a labyrinthine system of rusty meat hooks on the ceiling along with the automated assembly lines that were bringing the "Bigger Bodies" to the reanimation table. There is slime, oil, and other bodily fluid all over the slippery floor. Complete silence reigns aside from the hum of enormous generators.

As the player moves through the catwalks of the Reanimation Core, the Prototype focuses on destroying the stability of the room and not on attacking. The Prototype smashes an enormous steam pipe in the roof. The Tragedy: The catwalks break down and the Player and Giblet fall down. The Player is limping and weak, and Giblet pushes the Player on the other side using his last energy. The catwalk breaks entirely, and Giblet falls into the darkness of the lower vats. The Consequences: This brings back the feeling of complete isolation that the game provides at the very beginning. The Player will be alone once again, struggling through the darkness and hearing Dr. Sawyer on the speakers.

Following the death of Giblet in the Reanimation Core, the player opens an enormous rusty gate using the GrabPack device at the distant end of the facility. The Reveal: The gate reveals a gigantic dark space that is the underground cavern. This cavern is named "A Better Place," and it is an entirely deserted artificial underground community constructed within the rocks. There are rows of abandoned retro houses supported by huge metal beams that hold the roof of the upper factory. The streets have fake plastic trees, and the sky is nothing but floodlights flickering on the ceiling, surrounded by humongous rocky terrain that stretches in every direction for miles.

Objective: In order to pass through the neighborhood, the Player will have to energize a central grid station situated in the former "Community Center." The Player is guided throughout the whole process by Dr. Sawyer over the loudspeakers, taunting the design of his own creation. The Orphan Search: During the search for the energy cells in the houses, the Player comes across a huge orphanage that looks somewhat like a church. Here are found the leftovers of the factory's orphans, mutated into twisted patches of a toy creatures that cry fearfully.

The Cruelty of the Prototype: As soon as the Player approaches to comfort them, the walls collapse. The giant mechanical hand of the Prototype emerges from the ceiling. Instead of attacking you first, he viciously destroys the little toys in front of your very eyes, taking biological pieces out of them to heal himself from wounds obtained in previous stages. For him, they are just parts.

Shift Occurs: Such an awful incident causes breaking of the Player. Being filled with utter rage and an instant influx of adrenaline, you no longer run from your adversary. Instead, you start chasing the Prototype. A Better Place: The Prototype moves throughout the streets of the neighborhood taunting you on intercoms. As you are walking limped, you cannot run away from him; therefore, you need to communicate with Dr. Sawyer via terminal stations in order to lock the security gates in front of the Prototype, making him go down .Back to Reanimation Core: You push the Prototype down a huge trash chute of an industrial facility leading straight to the glowing Reanimation Core.

The Prototype is now trapped within the Core, surrounded by the large vats of glowing blue Poppy Gel. The Prototype thinks that he has cornered you, but the Doctor Sawyer seals the Player and the Prototype within a completely enclosed and claustrophobic area using a heavy blast door.

Climax: As the Player is badly limping, he can not evade. It will be necessary for you to take a defensive stance within a control circle. By means of your GrabPack’s elements glove, you will release electric shocks in the leak of gel on the floor, thus shocking the Prototype as he makes his way to closing the gap. The Prototype releases an attack by swinging his gigantic metallic arm at the Player, thus disintegrating the left arm of the Player’s GrabPack and making him fall to his knees, thereby breaking the screen with red static shock waves. However, due to electric shocks, the organic body parts of the Prototype are smoking and melting.

Where Poppy Was: In Chapter 5, when the Prototype takes Poppy away to the Reanimation Core, his intention is to absorb her essence into his mass. However, Poppy is the original and most stable soul that has the hardest shell of glass and porcelain for him to fuse biologically. She was confined in the holding cage suspended above the core. The Player and Sawyer reroute power through the facility to solve a puzzle nearby, which results in an electrical surge in the holding block. The cage doors short out and burst open. Poppy drops to the floor and runs to the shadows. Kissy Missy, now heavily scarred and almost useless after her ambush in Chapter 5, finds Poppy in the shadows. They go back up to the storage areas of Chapter 4 in The Foundation where they take all of the remaining dynamite crates that you spotted in Chapter 4. During their trip to lower the dynamite down to the core, the Prototype ambushes them in the corridor. Kissy blocks the attack with her whole body and screams at Poppy to run. He brutally injures Kissy, but she manages to escape, eventually catching back up with Poppy. And for the remaining time, they plant explosives across the whole entire factory.

As the Prototype brings his claw down to end the Player's life, a large explosion rumbles from the top of the ceiling. A heavily scarred and barely functioning Kissy Missy drops down and tackles the Prototype into the electrified gel. Poppy follows her in and drags the last dynamite crate inside. As the Prototype restrains Kissy onto the ground and crushes her torso, he turns on Poppy and prepares to strike her; but Poppy gets in between the two and delivers her final, definitive speech: "I was wrong about you. I thought you were a mere instrument for fixing my mistakes... too perfect to be lost. But what has become of us because of this place? What has he made of them? There is no hope left for Playtime Co., and there is no escape from our pasts. It all ends now. In the ashes."

Poppy fires the cord straight into the core of the central generator. The Prototype emits a tremendous roaring noise and attempts to crush Poppy. Suddenly, emerging from the shadows of the upper levels of the ventilation system, Huggy Wuggy appears. His mind is wild, he is covered in factory dust, and he weeps tears of rage as a result of witnessing the death of Kissy Missy. Poppy hits the detonator button, triggering a chain-reaction explosion that shatters the remaining vats. She screams at the Player over the roar of the flames: "RUN!"

A red 10:00 timer hits the screen. A heavy Interstellar-style organ kicks in, accompanied by agonizing, burning violins. You plunge into a hidden elevator, and your grueling ascent begins. You are not exploring new rooms; you are forced to violently face the ghosts of your past:

Chapter 5 Labs: You rush into the highly secured labs as pipes shoot out scaling steam. Dr. Harley Sawyer's face on the screens appears to be malfunctioning, and his voice distorts in terror and screaming at you, "No! Not my mainframe! You're destroying my empire! Go back!" You shut the blast doors using your last GrabPack hand. The Rocky Uphill Climb (Chapter 4): You come to the rocky and steep cave where you fell in the end of chapter 4. You are completely exhausted, unable to move anymore. You have to lie down and press the button using your right GrabPack hand to pull yourself up through the rocky ground and mud .The Green Slide: You break through the shelf ventilation block and find yourself facing the green slide you slid down near the end of Chapter 4. You have to go up it. The camera keeps sliding down the greasy surface that gets dirty because of your sweat, tears, and blood from your struggles. From afar, through the cavern, you hear the screams of anger of Huggy Wuggy and the Prototype's maniac laughter. The Safe Haven: You pull yourself into the silent haven. The thumping sound all of a sudden comes to a screeching halt in the form of a mournful solo on the violin. At the center of the room, you see Doey's dead, distorted and crystallized body. Just as you hobble past him, a huge concrete column falls down and smashes Doey's body into dust. Almost immediately after that, the music gets ramped up again into a frenzy of crescendo. Playcare (Chapter 3): You take the secret maintenance elevator up to Playcare. The huge orphanage begins breaking itself down and imploding into its core. Real flames and dense dark smoke take the place of the red smoke. You ride in the tram through the burning streets, covering your eyes with the collapsing structures overhead. The Train Tracks (Chapter 2): You crash land near the trash compactor and climb over to the train tracks. Under three minutes left on the timer, your artificial adrenaline stops working entirely. The screen turns blood red, and the camera tilts heavily with every inch you crawl over the wooden tracks to the Game Station. The Chapter 1 Vault: Past the wrecked train, there’s a rusty lift that brings you to the lowest sub-level of the very first game. You go down the corridor and see THE door – the huge mechanical vault door to the right of the Huggy Wuggy statue from Chapter 1, which you needed two hands to open. With your last bit of strength, you thrust your last GrabPack hand into the electric lock, bypassing it. The massive metal door lets out an ear-piercing screech and swings open. You fall to the ground in front of the silent, smoky, first floor lobby of Chapter 1. You are back right where your nightmare started. No monsters in sight. Just the factory burning beneath your feet. You are given one final, definitive choice:

Option A: LEAVE. The Player breathes heavily, opens the huge front doors, stares at the sun in the morning, and murmurs, "This is the end..." as they limp off into the credits.

Option B: GO DOWN WITH THE SHIP. The Player leans against the wall and sighs, saying, "I should have stayed with all of you." Blackout as the building crumbles. Playtime Co. completely erased.

In the event that Mob Entertainment finishes their game in such a cyclic manner, Poppy Playtime won't only be a wonderful indie horror game; it will be the greatest of all time.