Brandon’s Reviews > Sanctum > Status Update

Dan, Abby, and Jordan were trapped in the Warden's office with Professor Reyes and Cal. Professor Reyes attempts to torture Dan because she believes he knows the word that breaks the hypnosis of the gem. She cuts his neck to no avail as Dan does not know the word, suddenly Abby blurts it out, "Sanctum". Dan and Reyes begin to fight and they knock over a candle which sets the asylum a blaze.

Jordan, Abby, and Dan argue, Jordan and Abby travel to the police where they intend to tell the cops about the cult, and Dan goes to find a cure for the hypnosis. Cal catches Dan, Cal calls the police and tells them about Abby and Jordan, it turns out the police are part of the cult. Dan is drugged and wakes up in the Warden's office, where the cult leader, that being Mrs Reyes, tries to get Dan to tell her the cure.

Abby, Jorda, Dan, and Micah are all surrounded, when Micah bolts toward the group of cultists, this buys the rest time to escape, where they decide to go to the computer lab and do some research on their recent findings about the cult and the Warden. Dan begins to refer to the Warden in first-person which causes Abby to become agitated. The cultists find their location.

Dan, Abby, Jordan, and Micah, explore several abandoned homes that Felix had listed for them to explore, they find several old documents, photos, and other interesting relics, in addition to the abandoned homes, they find the childhood home of the Warden, and in it they find his journal. Shortly after they finish exploring the last home, they are surrounded and attacked by several cult members who had followed them.

Dan finds an unusual tent with an old man in it who recognizes Dan as the Warden, they chat though little can be gleaned from said chat due to the old man's vague nature, and Dan leaves the tent, afterward Dan tells his friends about the tent, and takes them to said tent, but when they arrive, there is nothing there.

Dan Abby and Jordan attend the festivities at the carnival, in an attempt to get some answers about the so-called cult within the town, Dan spots a cult member and attempts to run after them but gets swarmed by four other cultists. The cultists injure Dan leaving him delirious, they run off after Jordan finds Dan, but just before they run off Dan spots a pair of shoes on one of the cultists, the same shoes Cal wears.

Dan, Jordan, and Abby go to meet Abby's aunt, little do they know they are being followed, as looking out the window they can see a masked figure in a red robe, who runs off as soon as they notice him. Afterward, they find some abandoned houses with letters and are stalked, they read some of the letters and discover that a secret cult exists within the town, known as "The Scarlets".

The slow. unsettling realization begins to dawn upon the group of friends, they are beginning to go mad. Abby begins to hear her aunt Lucy everywhere with increasing regularity, and Dan begins to hallucinate, seeing a boy in the corner of the room singing a nursery rhyme with Dan's full name. Dan and Abby were chatting and having dinner when Jordan entered the room with several folders, and they all began research.

Dan, Abby, and Jordan talk about what their next move will be now they are back at the college, Abby intends to visit her Aunt, while Jordan and Dan are still unsure. Dan and his friends are with several other prospies, being talked to about the college by Micah and Cal, when suddenly a kid named Doug begins to say Dan's name repeatedly, among other things and then attempts to jump out of a window.

Dan begins to become jealous of the other people that Abby hangs out with at the college, dan meets several new people, and the trio, Dan, Abby, and Jordan begin trying to learn why Felix wanted them to go here.