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Not to be confused with Burned House or Burned Cottage.
Burned Houses Icon burned houses
A portion of the Burned Houses, as seen in-game
Location
Dry Meadow
Type Major Location
Characters
Creatures Several Dogs
Notable loot Fabric
Tire
White Dress
Note from the Burned Houses
Notes {{{notes}}}
Release [[Update:{{{release}}}|{{{release}}}]]

The Burned Houses are a major location in Darkwood. The building complex is located in the Dry Meadow biome, close to the first hideout.

Initially it was a home to a family consisting of a father, the twins from the medallion and their dog. They left their home when it burned down and hid in the basement of the Church. When the player finds this location it is populated by a large pack of Dogs.

Appearance[]

The demolished, burnt-out buildings contain various mushroom patches and a safe hidden under a sofa, which has to be moved aside. In the safe the player can find the White Dress and one Fabric.

A broken well and a disassembled tractor can also be found here, containing respectively Rope and the Tire, alongside some Gasoline.

A red see-saw can be found outside the houses.

Backstory[]

We can uncover the story of the family through the Child Drawings found inside the Strange Box.

The family lived in this house alongside their dog. One day the dog ate a strange red mushroom, after that it became hostile and attacked the father. The dog was then put down or died by itself due to mushroom poisoning. The father dismantled the doghouse and made a red see-saw form the aquired wood for his daughters to play on (the remains of the doghouse can still be found, along with the red see-saw).

Some time after that event the military decided to burn all the houses in the area to fight the spread of the disease (as is later confirmed by the Cripple). The family left the house and decided to go to the Church's basement, where they hid with other people from the area. At some point the father left his two daughters there and for some reason returned to the house, but was unable to return due to the spread of the forest (confirmed by his note).

They later probably all died due to infection or starvation (the father might have brought the infection in as he was bitten by the dog or it was in the air all along). When the player visits the Church's Basement he can find many infected people lying on beds, some in the process of decaying, others in the process of becoming Red Chompers (some of which are already active and moving around).

In the dream sequence that takes place at the Church, when the player comes closer to the trapdoor a line of people appears leading to it who start shouting at him for cutting the line. In the room next to it he finds the Strange Box. After picking it up a Black Chomper attacks him repeating:

"A red see-saw
A white dress
A black box
For my girls"

Revealing that he was the father. After killing the black chomper by cutting it in half, the player can loot him, finding the medallion depicting a distorted picture of the two girls with a code to the trapdoor written on it, putting it into the trapdoor ends the dream. Later if the player comes to the Church he will find a chomper's body which he can loot for the non distorted medallion.

If the player fails to kill the chomper in the dream sequence he will find a madmen (possibly the father or a hallucination of him) sitting in the Church, he will recite "A red one, a green one. For my little girls" referencing the colours of the girls dresses as seen on the child drawings. He will then call the player a thief for taking the Strange Box, and ask him to go under the floor where he belongs. After trying to open the trapdoor the madmen will tell the code to the player. If you kill him you can loot the medallion of his body. The picture will not be distorted this time.

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