Then again, going by real world logic, contacting the video game developer was arguably the most sensible action he could take - he just didn't realize he was in a psychological horror game with mystery elements and that it wasn't the in-game characters who were the real threat but the company that created them (And whatever OLD_DATA is) in the first place. Genre Blindness: After discovering an obscure, surreal game which appears to hold a dark secret, what does Luke do? Why, contact the same video game company that created this game of course! By the time he realizes that they have no interest in helping him whatsoever and attempts to go public with his findings, they have already gotten fed up with him and he is killed by them to cover up their tracks.His insistence on uncovering the secrets of Inscryption, in spite of the increasingly obvious danger he's in, is what ultimately nearly drives him insane and gets him killed. The safest thing Luke could have done is simply stop playing the game and turn it back over to GameFuna, an option that was presented to him at the very beginning. Throughout the game, it is made clear that Luke is dealing with forces, in terms of both the supernatural and the mundane, that are far beyond him. Dropped a Bridge on Him: Is unceremoniously killed at the end of the game.As Luke's phone is in another room, he makes a recording for someone to use if he dies. Dead Man Writing: Invoked with his confession cam when he hears someone sneaking around late at night.No twitching or struggling to stay alive. Dead-Hand Shot: After Amanda the GameFuna representative blasts his face apart and the camera falls, this is all we see along with a giant blood pool.And that he began doing his "Lucky Carder" show as a way to cope with her death. They reveal that he had a sister who tragically died. After facing the Archivist in act 3, you can find photos from Luke's computer hidden around the map. Dark and Troubled Past: Relatively anyway.Sure enough, he's killed at the end to protect GameFuna's secrets. Curiosity Killed the Cast: He's given lots of clues and even some outright warnings that continuing to play and investigate the game will end badly for him, but he doesn't stop.Boom, Headshot!: What happens to him when GameFuna decides he knows too much.He decides to record himself playing it but finds himself thrown into a world of secrets and danger. The host of the online show "The Lucky Carder," he finds some map coordinates written on cards he bought at a garage sale, leading to a buried floppy disc that contains a video game adaption of the card game Inscryption. "Hey there, card gamers, I'm The Lucky Carder!"
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