Elysium

you're a custodian. except you're also a detective now?

REALLY IMPORTANT NOTES!!!

• Press R to restart a minigame and ; to skip it!
• Make sure you speak to Blaise (the boy in the lower hallway) FIRST, or you may not be able to progress!
• Do NOT press R to THINK ABOUT cleaning a puddle, or the game will glitch and you will be unable to progress. Sorry. We had some really fun lines there.
• Even though the task says, "Talk to Blaise about the cap," you have to talk to TWO other people as well: one in the left classroom, one in the upper hallway.
  
• Do the puddle tasks IMMEDIATELY after they appear, or you will not be able to progress through the game! 

If you follow these few guidelines, you will be able to progress through the entire game just fine.

You've been a custodian for Elysia Preparatory Academy for god knows how long. All you know is that it's been too long: the people you see every day have no idea who you are, the work is long and mind-numbing, and someone stole the disinfectant from your cart 2 weeks ago.

You went to college for forensic science, dreaming of being a detective -- of giving victims the justice they deserved and grieving people the resolution they pray for -- but you had to drop out to support your sister when she became ill. Every day, you wake up hoping it's all a horrible nightmare induced by the  stress of  working long hours and hard cases.

When a police superintendent mistakes you as the new detective hired to work on the case of Stella Liebeskind, a student at Elysia Preparatory Academy, you're not about to let this chance to finally become what you've always hoped to be slip out of your hands. Here are the facts: Stella died on the school rooftop from respiratory failure from combined drug intoxication -- alcohol and her medication, prescribed for anxiety --  around 11:20-11:50 P.M. on Sunday, December 16. She wasn't the type to drink, and evidence suggests that someone else was with her when she was on the rooftop.

Your job? Find out who killed Stella.

Lori Kennedy: The Ex-Friend

Elias Matteson: The New Friend

Blaise Vanderbilt-Jones: The Cool Kid

Jude Hart: The Unreciprocated Lover

We’re planning to add endings to fully tie up the game later on, so subscribe and/or follow us to get notifications for when we do!

Effixs - pixel art, background/memory art, minigame art
florian0 - suspect art, story/characters, script, this page :)
cinnamew - visual novel coding, visual novel art
danqzq - minigame coding, bug fixing, coding this page
(Team Moth)
  
Music by Kevin Macleod, Arthur Vyncke, DOVA SYNDROME, and the inimitable Erik Satie!

Created in 72 hours for MelonJam5, which had the theme of flow!

Quotes from happy gamers:

xx.huitzilopochtli.xx: why isn't our sister one of the suspects when she's clearly the murderer? she's obviously been keeping us from being a detective for a reason...

barmanathandle07: Too easy. Knew the second I saw the Police Chief and his weird little mustache that he was the killer.

janetorjan: is there an option to just clean puddles the whole time?