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    Valex

    Episode 01 · Episode 02

    Episode 01

    Louis keeps his Valex locked in the safe in the bedroom, behind the painting over the bed. Getting at it is the first puzzle of the series: take the painting down, then open the safe with its combination, 20 left, 80 right, 30 left. Louis takes a pill as soon as he picks the bottle up.

    Episode 02

    Louis wakes in room 1112 of the Bellevue Hotel with a headache and no idea how he got there. The bottle is in the bathroom’s garbage can, under a torn-up message, and he won’t leave the room without it: “I can’t leave without my headache pills... They have to be somewhere...”

    What Louis says

    His lines when you examine it in the inventory, as the game writes them. Turning the 3D model over can give a line for its front and one for its back.

    Episode 01

    • It’s my holy grail!
      I can have a clear head for the entire day!
    • 2009 releaseRegular red and white pills. The drug is red, the rest is a placebo... unless it’s all just a placebo!
    • 2009 releaseIt’s a brown tinted glass bottle. They’re always like that, medication designers have absolutely no imagination...

    Episode 02

    • FrontWhite and red pills
      The red one is the actual medicine, and the white one is the placebo...
      Or maybe they’re both placebos!
    • BackIt’s a brown glass bottle.
      Actually these are always brown glass...
      Honestly, the packaging designers from the pharmaceutical industry really lack of any kind of imagination...

    In the inventory

    The inventory’s icon for each look the item has, then its 3D model, the one the game lets you turn in your hand, seen from the front and from behind.

    Valex: Episode 01, the inventory icon
    Valex: Episode 01, the 3D model from the front
    Valex: Episode 01, the 3D model from behind
    Episode 01 · Episode 01 · Valex
    Valex: Episode 02, the inventory icon
    Valex: Episode 02, the 3D model from the front
    Valex: Episode 02, the 3D model from behind
    Episode 02 · Episode 02 · Valex

    Trivia

    • In the 2009 release, swallowing a pill from the inventory made Louis say “Ahhh!! I feel much better!”. The free Lite edition of the game ended at that moment, with Louis announcing that it “ends now, more to discover with 1112 episode 01”.
    • The safe’s combination comes back in Episode 02: the back of the torn message reads “20 80...”, the PIN of Louis’ credit card.