R&G|MAGAZINE EDITION #4 - NOVEMBER 2014 | Página 18

The game sets in a mysterious world predominately inhabited by
shadows. It begins in the 1920s, in the bedroom of Didi Malenkaya,
a young girl with an imaginary friend named Dawn. They are
assumed to be the only individuals that appear in 3D form,
however Dawn has the amazing ability to phase from shadow to
3D in an instant.
Didi’s mother, Kat Malenkaya, enters the room and tells her not
to sneak out of the house while she is gone, again. Child services
had already threatened to take Didi once, due to Kat’s inability
to properly watch over her daughter and due to the assumption
that Didi maybe be ‘mentally disturbed’. Child services notes that
because of Kat’s absence during the night it has taken a toll on Didi,
causing her to act out (sneak out) and talk to ‘imaginary people’
(Dawn). Kat is given only two options; to find a more stable job or,
preferably, return to her husband. Kat works as a singing act at a
cabaret venue called the ‘Ghost Note’, in hopes of catching her big
break. She begs Didi to promise not to sneak out, so that she will
not get into trouble again. Didi promises but before she heads out,
Didi asks if her father will return home. Kat answers that she does
not know and leaves.
Didi and Dawn sneak out of the house to follow and watch Kat
perform. Before finishing her song, Kat leaves the stage with a
man, who happens to be Didi’s father, Johnny Fenris. While
eavesdropping on their conversation, Didi finds out that her father
did not leave, but had been kicked out of their home by her mother.
Johnny is known for making deals with gangsters and for ‘passing
bad checks’, which has landed him in prison once before. Johnny
tells Kat he wants to come home and begs her to take him back.
Kat refuses, telling him that his lifestyle is not healthy for Didi. He
promises that things have changed and asks Kat to visit him at the
hotel Excelsior, saying that he has some big plans that will improve
all of their lives. Kat reluctantly agrees before dismissing him to get
back to her performance.
Didi tails her father to a bar and listens in on another one of his
conversations. Here he meets with Vincenzo, a famous illusionist.
Vincenzo is to be the main attraction in a circus that Johnny is
organizing. Johnny asks for a film reel of Vincenzo’s act, to show
to his ‘investors’ how amazing he truly is. However, Vincenzo
refuses, as he does not believe Johnny has the means to pay
him, based on the his rocky past and history of sending insufficient
checks. He also requires more of his payment upfront to ensure
that Johnny is not lying.

Johnny nervously agrees to pay him more and promises that the
circus will be a hit. However, it is obvious that he has no idea
how exactly he would accomplish that without Vincenzo’s film reel.
Dawn, at the urging of Didi, sneaks into the office of Vincenzo’s
agent and steals a cinema reel of his performances.
Dawn and Didi deliver the reel to her father at the cinema, who
tells her about his plan to run a circus. He tells her that the circus
will help their family and hopefully he will be able to come back
home. Before Didi can hand over Vincenzo’s film reel, Johnny
urges her to leave because his investors ‘don’t really like kids’. Didi
tries to tell him about the reel, but quickly shoo’s her off before she
can say anything. She discovers that one of her father’s investors
happens to be Carmine Bruni, a gangster that was acquitted twice
for murder. Carmine and his lackey do not believe Vincenzo is on
board with the circus, and become agitated when Johnny asks
for more money to pay Vincenzo. Carmine’s lackey beats Johnny
until Dawn plays the film reel on the theater’s projector. Carmine
tells his wing man to stop after he sees a bit of Vincenzo’s act. He
likes his act and decides to give Johnny the extra money, however
Johnny is not done with him yet until he has paid his ‘$20 large’
debt. Afterwards, Didi follows her father to the Excelsior hotel,
where he and Kat fall into another argument. During the argument,
it is revealed that Vincenzo is actually Didi’s real father. As the fight
escalates Kat pulls out a gun and first points it at Johnny, but then
turns it onto herself. Didi interferes, stopping Kat and making her
tell Didi that it was just a toy. Kat tosses the gun away and says
that they were just having a little f ight. Didi tells her mother that
her father needs their help and insists that she takes him back.
Kat reluctantly makes up with Johnny, who is now finally allowed
to come back home.
Some time passes over to the opening night of Johnny’s circus and
Didi is found sitting in her room again. Bothered by the fact that
Johnny is not her father, Didi decides she wants to meet Vincenzo
and speak with him. That night, she walks downstairs to find an
eviction notice on the table. Worried that everything will fall apart
she sneaks out with Dawn and heads over to the circus, intent on
making things right for her family.
Johnny and Vincenzo are found talking about the circus venue.
Vincenzo is irate over the fact that three attractions are already in
disrepair and Johnny has done nothing to fix them.
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