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Chapter Nine: NOWHERE
Silent Hill: The Short Message

Chapter Nine: NOWHERE

Follow our comprehensive walkthrough for Chapter Nine: NOWHERE in Silent Hill: The Short Message. Solve puzzles, find keys, and uncover the game's secrets.

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Follow our comprehensive walkthrough for Chapter Nine: NOWHERE in Silent Hill: The Short Message. Solve puzzles, find keys, and uncover the game's secrets.

You find yourself in a new area resembling parts of the hospital, but with unfamiliar surroundings. Your objective is to find a map. Lisa appears to be struggling mentally, raising concerns about her condition.

Walkthrough
  1. 1
    You wake up back in the Director's room in the basement with Lisa. A strange noise emanates from the basement.
  2. 2
    Head towards the elevator. It opens automatically, seemingly beckoning you. Enter it.
  3. 3
    Exit the elevator and go to the first room on your right. You'll see a locked birdcage containing a key.
  4. 4
    Leave that room and go to the room across the hall. A key is stuck in a faucet, but you cannot retrieve it yet.
  5. 5
    Continue down the hallway until you see Cheryl entering a room. The door is locked with "Phaleg" etched on it.
  6. 6
    Proceed to the next door on your right, which is UNLOCKED. This room resembles the Antique Shop and contains a notepad to save your game.
  7. 7
    Examine the clock in the room. It has a square hole instead of a round one, and one of the clock hands is a key. You cannot break the glass protecting it. Pick up the First Aid Kit and ammo in the room.
  8. 8
    Leave the room and return to the hallway. Two nurses will appear; defeat them.
  9. 9
    Continue examining doors. You'll find a door with "Ophiel" etched on it, which is locked.
  10. 10
    The last door on the right should be accessible. Enter it.
  11. 11
    Take the stairs down to a door at the bottom. Enter it to find yourself back in the school.
  12. 12
    Examine the desk in the middle of the room for a carving: "Who could these words be to? You?"
  13. 13
    Go to the back of the room and through the door. In the next room, find a gurney with tools and add them to your inventory.
  14. 14
    Return upstairs to the room with the faucet. Use the pliers to retrieve the key from the faucet. This is the Key of Ophiel.
  15. 15
    Use the Key of Ophiel to unlock the door marked "Ophiel".
  16. 16
    Enter the new hallway, which resembles Alchemilla Hospital. Only one door is unlocked. Enter it.
  17. 17
    Inside, you'll find four pictures on the wall representing astrological signs. A pillar in the center holds the "Stone of Time".
  18. 18
    To solve the puzzle and obtain the "Stone of Time", you need to change the numbers of the astrological signs based on the "changed month of the year" and the signs on the pillar. Enter '6' under Capricorn, '4' under Taurus, and '8' under Scorpio.
  19. 19
    Once you have the "Stone of Time", leave the room. Be aware of a nurse in the hallway.
  20. 20
    Proceed through the double doors at the end of the hallway. To the right of the door is a keypad.
  21. 21
    Go to the other end of the hall to read clues carved on a plate: "Names engraved on a lithograph. The Grim Reaper's list. Yes the headcount is set young and old lined up in order of age. Then the pathway to opens awaiting them to frenzied uproar, the fest of death!"
  22. 22
    Return to the door with the keypad. On the wall to the right is the Grim Reaper's list:

The Grim reapers list

35 Lydia Findly
60 Trevor F. White
18 Albert Lords
45 Roberta T. Morgan
36 Edward C. Briggs
  1. To solve the puzzle, arrange the names from youngest to oldest and use the first letter of each first name to spell a word. The word is ALERT.

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