The Mystery of the Druids: A Bizarre Adventure Game

Most people know The Mystery of the Druids from the screaming face meme cover. That's barely scratching the surface of this insane adventure game

Additional excellent music provided by: @BenLevin and @JusticeCow
Music visuals provided by: Felix Wenko "Xilefenko" and David Garb "Sam"
Intro animation by: @Extellus
Moral support and nightmares provided by Haruspex and Lowry fans
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00:00 - Intro
1:22 - An Opening Cutscene
3:37 - Mystery Begins
12:20 - Halligan Tries to Make a Phone Call
18:13 - On the Path of Druids
22:33 - The Salt Arc
28:15 - The Amulet's Fallout
36:46 - The Deus Ex Neo Druids
43:00 - The Melanie Arc
47:58 - Struggle Continues
54:00 - Return to the Past Now
01:05:06 - Grand Finale
01:10:15 - The Mystery of the Droods
1:12:36 - Credits
1:14:07 - It's Not Over

[MandaloreGaming]

I was starting to doubt parts of this game happened but at least I'll have permanent evidence now.

[ClanCrusher]

Does anyone else feel like there's an undercurrent of meta-commentary going on here? Halligan obsessively picks up random things, follows insane paths of logic, and goes off on random journeys to follow inane threads. In response, the people around him treat him like a crazy conspiracy believing, kleptomaniac nutjob who is grossly unqualified for his position.

Halligan is essentially the real world equivalent of an adventure game protagonist and the people who know him treat him exactly like you would expect them to.

[SlipMaker]

I love that he could have stopped the ritual by heroically stabbing himself but instead he casually murders his girlfriend.

[marwansobhy]

You start off the game wondering why everyone hates Halligan and you end it wondering how Melanie doesn't

[franklinbarnes]

Halligan and Melanie's relationship makes a billion times more sense when you realize that because of his deal with Serstan, she's technically a puzzle item

[NomadicDuck]

Halligan didn’t ask her out for pizza to actually go on a date, he needed someone to pay the Pizza Tab

[Brian]

I like how the druids tell him he's eating human flesh, in order to elicit some sort of shock response, but after we've been following Halligan for a while, we know he's unfazed because it's probably not even in the top five of heinous acts he's committed this week.

[iResistive]

I'm here because the queen is gone and somehow Halligan might have a hand in this

[galaxycamerata]

Halligan's behavior makes perfect sense considering he goes through 28 cigs a day.
His brain is so full of nicotine that there's no room for empathy, shame or regret.

[zacharyheine]

The police chief desperately begging Halligan to tell him that he didn't seriously poison a homeless man to steal his change really elevates this for me

[Electroporcupine]

I love a protagonist whose actions are so divorced from reality that when he gets mind-controlled into eating human flesh and murdering the woman he likes the audience honestly can't tell if there's anything out of the ordinary.

[Colddirector]

I love the idea of the druids brainwashing and recruiting Halligan, but quickly regretting it after realizing just how unpleasant he is to be around.

[EphemeraEssays]

The forensics guy casually accepting that Halligan wouldn't know what grass is kills me every fucking time

[TOASTEngineer]

Here's the thing about inviting Halligan in to the droods: To everyone who doesn't know him, Halligan appears to be a competent, professional detective. He works for the homicide department of the most central police bureau, and has an unflappable demeanor and a kickass RP accent. Sinclair is a not-vampire who has been manipulating the world from behind the scenes for centuries, so he'd naturally assume anyone who is sent after him, especially someone who actually makes progress against him, would be someone pretty special himself. Halligan stumbles on to the right lead within an hour of being assigned the case. He gets on to Sinclair's estate without a warrant when Sinclair probably thought of himself as untouchable. Sinclair even says, "your investigation had us worried."

Sinclair has *every reason* to assume Halligan is a Bond-esque supercop, and no reason to think he might be a pizza-addicted dysfunctional psychopath who ruins everything he touches for no reason. He genuinely believed Halligan would be a great asset to the Drood Illuminati. It's a shame Melanie snapped him out of it. Can you imagine the antics Halligan would get up to with access to the levers of world power?

[dingusdangus]

You are the big hero of the story, the only way to stop the druids is to cause Serstan to break his deal. Do you:
A. Sacrifice yourself heroically to end the ritual
B. Stab your new girlfriend and the only human being in space AND time that wants to have anything to do with you.

[lgosnipr]

My favorite thing is that there's only two detectives in Scotland Yard, but both of them are terrible.

[somanyfruitsmango]

Halligan is like a DND player that constantly does really stupid things on purpose, but he keeps rolling really high so the DM is forced to have all of his absurd, convoluted, criminal schemes work.

[CoolSmoovie]

Poisons and robs a homeless man
Eats a human steak
Stabs his girlfriend
Owes debts to all of his co-workers
Calls the Caribbean for reasons
All of his co-workers hate him
*Saves the world*

This is literally the most interesting character of all time.

[MrDirzel]

Halligan is such a fascinating character. Morally dubious, not a hero, not an anti-hero, just a bad person completing a task.

[Inkspeckle]

the fact that Halligan's first choice was, with no warning whatsoever, to stab his maybe-Girlfriend when any other 'chosen one' would have stabbed himself to accomplish the exact same thing is both an absolute dick move and entirely in character.

brilliant