Cliffside

Art can elicit all sorts of reactions. Delight, inspiration, desire... but also doubt, fear and dread...

This article is about The Dark Pictures Anthology's fourth installment, The Devil in Me .

Cliffside is the fifth chapter of Act 3 in The Devil in Me and the thirty-fifth overall.

The player controls Charlie/Mark as they venture toward the lighthouse.

3:32 A.M.[]

Charlie/Mark enters an area with an elevator, and can find a 10 obol coin in the section below (which Mark starts in if he fell down the ledge). If they try the button for the elevator, they are disappointed to find that it doesn't work. They must climb up and reach the top of the elevator in order to continue.

Charlie/Mark begins climbing down the ladder in the elevator shaft, only to fall when the ladder stops before the ground. They get up and find themself behind a fence in front of the curing house.

If Charlie is alive, he is suddenly attacked by Mark, and can complete a QTE to fight back.

• If the QTE is completed, Charlie elbows Mark in the ribs, and the two are surprised to see each other with Mark joking that his ribs are broken.
• If the QTE is failed, Charlie is knocked to the ground and yells at Mark to get away. Mark is surprised to see Charlie, who says that Mark nearly killed him, and Mark replies that he thought Charlie was Du'Met.

The two look at each other.

• If Erin did not find the edited tape in Silver Ash or died in the same chapter, Mark embraces Charlie and says he's glad they are both alive. Charlie says he nearly went up in flames, and Mark explains he saw it on a monitor and the whole place is wired.
• If Erin found the edited tape in Silver Ash and survived, Mark says he thought Charlie was dead and questions how he made it out there. Charlie says he nearly got fried and Mark says that he saw it. When Charlie questions how, Mark asks how Charlie survived.

Charlie asks where the others are and if they are safe.

• If Erin is alive, Mark says they were all separated.
• If Erin is dead, Mark says so, prompting Charlie to ask what he's gotten them into.
  • If Erin died before Breathless, Mark adds that she was mutilated, horrifying Charlie.
  • If Erin died during Breathless, Mark adds that he watched her suffocate, horrifying Charlie.

Mark says that Du'Met has the whole place rigged with traps, and Charlie says they have to get out of there and return to the ferry. Mark says that Du'Met disabled it and the group agreed to signal for help at the lighthouse. Charlie asks if Mark has any good news, and is relieved when Mark returns his lighter.

Charlie/Mark can shimmy through or go around the fence and explore the area outside the curing house to find:

• The locked door of the curing house. They see through the window that there is a hole in the roof that they must find a way up to.
• A business card next to a tree.
• A crate on top of the scaffolding. After pushing it off, it can be moved over to the hole in the curing house's roof near the locked door in order to enter.

Charlie/Mark can also go across the scaffolding and through a second floor window to enter a room and find a picture and a locked drawer. If Charlie is alive, he can use his business card to open it and find a secret.

Upon entering the curing house, a piece of the roof falls away, and if Charlie is alive, he lets Mark in. They enter the curing house, with Mark questioning the smell, and can inspect some bloody clothes on a curing table, a group of monitors showing security feed of the gardens, and the Animatronics Newspaper.

• If Charlie is alive, Mark says he saw a dog out there, and Charlie says he saw it too and it scared him. Mark says Charlie probably scared it away.

They are surprised by a buzzing noise, and a large pull-up door in the curing house begins to open. Charlie/Mark hide in some empty freezers as Du'Met enters. Du'Met begins to leave but notices the fallen piece of roof and instead looks around the curing house as a Keep Calm segment begins. Charlie/Mark whisper to stay quiet and peer at Du'Met through the freezers as he moves through the room with a knife.

• If the Keep Calm is completed, Du'Met leaves.
• If the Keep Calm is failed, Du'Met opens the freezer on the left.
  • If Charlie is alive, Du'Met finds Charlie inside, and pulls him out and onto a curing table. He stabs Charlie to death before gutting him and plunging a meat hook into his chest, raising Charlie up to the ceiling. The player controls Mark for the rest of the chapter.
  • If Charlie is dead, Du'Met finds nothing in the freezer and leaves.

The survivors get out of the freezers and can go through the rest of the curing house, first entering the next room and being horrified by all the bodies hanging from the ceiling. They can explore to find:

• Some medical curtains on the first floor. Pulling them back reveals a man being preserved with a clipboard a chart about body preservation nearby.
• APB Broadcast on a table on the first floor.
• A locked door on the first floor. Through it, they can see some planks leading over the water from the curing house to the rest of the island.
• A broken pulley chain on the first floor that would have been used to open a trapdoor below. Upon seeing that it is broken, Charlie/Mark is disappointed, and the camera reveals a metal box teetering on the floor above that can now be inspected.
• A crate that can be pushed over to reach the second floor.
• A locked box on the second floor. Charlie must use his tie clip to open it, and inside is a 10 obol coin.
• A wedding ring on the second floor identical to the one found in Pool.
• The metal box on the second floor. Charlie/Mark pushes it over and it breaks through the trapdoor, giving them access to a ladder that reaches the planks leading away from the curing house.

As they explore, if Charlie is alive, he explains that Du'Met is preserving his kills and considers them valuable trophies. Charlie says Du'Met seems to know a lot, and when Mark questions if they are dealing with more than one person, Charlie says Du'Met is just one very driven man.

After climbing down the ladder beneath the trapdoor, they reach the planks, and Mark goes across. As he reaches the end, one of the planks breaks, and he jumps to the end as it falls into the water. If Charlie is alive, he must balance on the one remaining plank to reach the other side.

• If Charlie reaches the other side quickly, he jumps over.
• If Charlie loses his balance, he falls onto the rocks below, dying as his lighter falls from his pocket. Mark calls after him.
• If Charlie takes too long, the plank breaks and Charlie falls onto the rocks below, dying as his lighter falls from his pocket. Mark calls after him.

The survivors look toward the lighthouse.

Collectibles[]

Secrets[]

• Childhood Medical Record - Inside a locked drawer in a room on the second floor of the curing house that can be accessed through the scaffolding. Charlie must open it with his business card.
• Clipboard - On a table beside the body in the curing house.
• APB Broadcast - On a table in the room at the end of the corridor next to the medical curtains.

Pictures[]

• Spaced - On the opposite wall to the window on the second floor of the curing house, which can be accessed by the scaffolding.

Obols[]

• 2 Obols - Near a tree next to the cellar doors. Charlie must be alive.
• 5 Obols - In the puddles after several rock ledges and before the path to the elevator. Charlie must be alive.
• 5 Obols - On the dock near the boxes. Charlie must be dead.
• 5 Obols - In the puddle with blood, below the thin rock bridge. Charlie must be dead.
• 5 Obols - In the grass on the rock ledge, near the broken bridge. Charlie must be dead.
• 10 Obols - In the area with the elevator, down below on the ground near the wall covered with ivy.
• 10 Obols - In the locked box in front of the pillar, located in the balcony of the curing house. Charlie must open it with his tie clip.

Inventory Items[]

• Camera Lens - Inside a drawer in the shack near the dock. Charlie must be dead.

Photo Opportunities[]

Note: In order to collect these photo opportunities, Charlie must be dead.

• Hotel - In the distance.
• Lighthouse - In the distance.
• Bloodied Clothes - On one of the curing tables in the curing house.
• Hanged Bodies - On the ceiling of the curing house.
• Harrison's Body - In the curing house behind the medical curtains.

Business Cards[]

• Doctor - On the ground to the left outside the curing house.

Deaths[]

Determinant[]

Charlie

• If Charlie fails the Keep Calm segment while hiding from Du'Met, he will be gutted with a knife.
• If Charlie fails to balance on the beam or reach the other side in time, he will fall to his death.

Trivia[]

• This is the third chapter in which Charlie can die.
• In Shared Story, both this and Maze are played at the same time.
• If Charlie is alive, Mark always befriends Connie.

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