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"Home, sweet home. My favorite cocoon..."Max Caulfield in "Chrysalis"

Max's Room is number 219 in the Prescott Dormitory at Blackwell Academy. Max fondly refers to it as her "favorite cocoon". She seems to have made herself at home in the room, with many of her personal belongings reflecting her love of photography and her links to Seattle.

In Max's nightmare, the name "Tara Garcia" replaces Max's name on the dorm map, hinting that she occupied Max's dorm room before she arrived at Blackwell.

Exterior[]

Max's door slate is the only notable thing outside the room; in Episode 1 it is blank, and Max has the opportunity to draw on it. She writes her name and creates an image of an awkward figure (poker face meme), commenting that she has nothing to say.

In Episode 2, if Max comforted Victoria Chase on the previous day, Max's door slate will remain intact. If Max made fun of Victoria, Max's door slate will be vandalized and Max may change the picture and message on it.

Interior[]

Episode One - "Chrysalis"[]

On the wall next to the door, there is a mirror. There is also a power strip that Max can turn on and off, and it powers the lights that are hung above her bed. There is also Max's wardrobe against the wall, and a box of chocolate coconut bites that her mother sent Max for her birthday.

Max has photos covering most of the wall that is to the right of the door. She thinks of it as "The Max Caulfield Photo Memorial Wall". Her bed is by this wall, and Max has a cushion she sewed with her mother. Also on the bed is Max's teddy bear. By the end of the bed is a chest of drawers. Inside is a photo of Max with her best friend Chloe Price from five years ago. On top of the drawers are a Hi-Fi stereo, headphones, notes, cups, and other miscellaneous things. There is a shelf of art books above the drawers. Next to the drawers, the wall has more photos, including a tourist poster of her at the Space Needle, a photo of her at a hockey game with her dad, and a photo of her with her friends from Seattle, Kristen and Fernando, at Fremont Troll.

On the unpainted wall opposite the door, there is a window with a plant beneath it, named Lisa. The wall next to the window has papers stuck to it, and there is a desk against the wall that has Max's laptop on it. The desk also has a photo album on it. A shelf next to the desk has miscellaneous things on it, such as another plant, and her film collection.

Opposite the wall with Max's bed against it, there is a radiator with a poster above it. There is a sofa next to the radiator, a shelf with instant film on it, and a lamp. Max's borrowed copy of "The October Country" is on the sofa, as well as some cushions. There are some images and records above the sofa, as well as a pennant for the Thunderbirds team, and Max's guitar is leaning against the sofa.

Episode Two - "Out of Time"[]

The following day on October 8, Max's cell phone, journal and camera will be visible next to her bed and on her desk when she wakes up and can be interacted with similarly to the Tab button.

The first page of Max's journal will mention she has carried out an exhaustive study on time and quantum physics over the previous night. Her desk will now contain a set of books on time, with a Moron's Guide to Time Travel by Dr. Nick Meyer as the visible book being shown on top. A set of sticky notes on the wall in front of the desk as well as a set of books and papers containing Max's notes on time being scattered on the sofa and the floor in front of the radiator will be visible. Max's webmail and browsing history will also be updated when her laptop is used. If Max had made fun of Victoria in the previous day, Max's social media page will continue to have unflattering pictures of Max's face superimposed on a sheep and a monkey. In addition, the photo of Victoria covered in paint is visible on top of the book and music shelf next to the desk and can be looked at.

Inside the chest of drawers by the end of the bed, a set of Mystic: Enchantment Cards will be there instead. In one of the drawers in Max's wardrobe, a wristwatch will be there instead.

A timetable on the school schedule for the week at the side of the wardrobe can now be interacted with.

The episode will begin with SMS messages from Chloe, prompting Max to take the shower supplies in the wardrobe and exit the room.

After Max has returned to her room after having her shower to look for the book she borrowed from Kate Marsh, Max's photo wall will be vandalized with a threatening message and a threatening photo will be on Max's bed if Max reported Nathan Prescott to Principal Wells on the previous day. If Max made fun of Victoria in the previous day, Max's mirror will be vandalized and the room will be in a mess. If Max rearranged the photos in Victoria's room the previous day, the box of chocolate coconut bites will be gone in her room. Otherwise, the room will be left intact.

Episode Three - "Chaos Theory"[]

That evening on the same day, Kate's caged rabbit and carrot supply will be in one corner of Max's room next to the window. A floor lamp next to the rabbit can now be switched on and off. Max may also look at her plant Lisa and look outside the window. The glass of soda that Max placed aside in the previous episode to obtain a book is now empty with absorbent tissue placed underneath to prevent water droplets from damaging the papers underneath.

Max's browsing history will be updated again when her laptop is used. There is a news article on Kate's suicide attempt, a list of reported missing persons from Arcadia Bay police department, Kate and Max's social media profile pages and a page on reinstating Mark Jefferson or getting David Madsen fired from his job at Blackwell if Max blamed Mark Jefferson or got David Madsen placed on temporary leave for Kate's suicide attempt.

If Max had made fun of Victoria in the previous day, the writing on the mirror will be wiped with faint ink patches left.

Inside the chest of drawers by the end of the bed, Max's photography class photo will be there instead.

The episode will begin with two SMS messages from Chloe, prompting Max to wake up and exit the room.

Episode Five - "Polarized"[]

Max will return to her room after focusing on her winning selfie. The area where she can move is very limited, but Max's belongings can be seen inside boxes. The Photo Memorial Wall is arranged, but the other walls are still bare. Max's computer can be seen on a chair.

She leaves the room after tearing her photo.

Interactions[]

PC users: Hover over the text to see Max's comments. See here for all interactions in the game.

Episode One - "Chrysalis"[]

  • There is a slate outside the room that Max can draw on. (Comment: Empty: "How sad. I didn't write anything. I have nothing to say."
    Pokerface: "Obvious, but true.")
  • She can look in her mirror and take the fifth optional photo. (Comment: "Hard to believe I'm 18. Do I look any older? Just more stressed.")
  • She can read a note Warren gave her with his flash drive. (Comment: "Warren even left me a little message with his flash drive. He's such a goofball.")
  • She can turn on and off the power strip to control the lights above her bed.
  • She can look at her teddy bear. (Comment: "Ahoy, Captain. At least I know you've got my back. When I swallowed your eye
    and my parents rushed me to the ER, I knew we were bonded forever...")
  • She can lie down on her bed and reflect on her day.
  • She can look at the cushion on her bed. (Comment: "So cheesy, but it makes me smile thinking of the day Mom and I sewed that together.")
  • She can look at the photos above her bed. (Comment: "'The Max Caulfield Photo Memorial Wall.'")
  • She can look at her Hi-Fi. (Comment: "I should hit the thrift store and pick up some dollar vinyl... Is that too hipster?
    I don't care. Music inspires me, and my photography...")
  • She can look at her art books. (Comment: "Cartier-Bresson, Doisneau, Hamilton... The greatest!")
  • She can look at photos of her at a hockey game, at Fremont Troll, and the Space Needle. (Comment: "That was a good hockey game, and a great fight."
    "Man, Kristen and Fernando were so drunk hanging on the Fremont Troll..."
    "That's the only tourist picture I let them take of me at the Space Needle...")
  • She can look at the cookies her mother sent her. (Comment: "I love that Mom sent me a fat box of chocolate coconut bites for my birthday,
    and slipped in a 200 dollar gift certificate. She sure knows how to make a sad birthday happy.")
  • She can look at her wardrobe. (Comment: "It's not exactly 'Pretty in Pink' but no shits are given. I like my wardrobe.")
  • She can open a drawer and read a birthday card from her parents. (Comment: "Hard to believe I'm 18 now. I'm lucky my parents enabled my photo habit into adulthood.")
  • She can look at a poster of Man Ray. (Comment: "Would Man Ray call them 'selfie-portraits'?")
  • She can look at and play her guitar (if Hi-Fi is turned on, Max will play accompaniment). (Comment: "It's such a pretty guitar. I need to play it more.")
  • She can look at the book she borrowed from Kate. (Comment: "I'm glad Kate let me borrow her copy of 'The October Country'...
    I should have every Bradbury book for myself.")
  • She can look at the Thunderbirds pennant. (Comment: "I'll miss going to the games with my Dad. Go Thunderbirds!")
  • She can look at some instant film. (Comment: "Instant film is so damn hard to find and expensive now. But, I can't help it, I'm analog, not digital.")
  • She can water the plant below her window, which counts as a minor choice. (Comment: Look: "I haven't forgotten you, little Lisa. Yet."
    Water: "You are thirsty. I'm the worst baby mama. Drink up...")
  • She can look out the window. (Comment: "If I'm not looking through a viewfinder, I'm looking through a window... Always looking.")
  • She can look at her DVDs. (Comment: "One day I'll organize my film collection... One day I'll get an actual HDTV.")
  • She can look at a sticky note Dana left her about Warren's flash drive (required). (Comment: "Looks like Dana left me a li'l post-it note...")
  • She can look at and read a photo album on her desk. (Comment: Look: "Here's my go-to source for instant photo inspiration."
    Read: "Philip-Lorca diCorcia, my man! I don't think I could take my camera
    to those places, look at that shot... I love Julia Cameron's Victorian vibe.
    Talk about analog cameras... Ah, Dali, what a fantastic eye! He could truly freeze time...")
  • She can open the chest of drawers beside her bed and look at a photo of her with Chloe. (Comment: "...Max and Chloe: Best Friends Forever. Who even says that anymore? I'm going to have to call
    Chloe eventually and find out what she'll say. The longer I wait, the worse it'll be. Idiot.")
  • She can look at and use her laptop. (Comment: "There's my poor laptop begging me to check in.")
    • Max can look at a website called "Camera Porn" which documents camera specs. (Comment: "I am so addicted to this site... Look at these vintage beauties...")
    • She can look at an email from Warren. (Comment: "Warren makes me laugh. It's nice to feel like I already made a real friend here.")
    • She can look at her social media page (determinant). (Comment: Made fun of Victoria: "I look so pathetic."
      Daniel drew her portrait: "Daniel has so much talent. I hope nobody hates on it just because it's me.")

Episode Two - "Out of Time"[]

  • She can interact with her phone and journal next to her bed.
  • She can look in her mirror. (Comment: "Whoa, hello zombie-face. This is what happens when you research quantum physics all night...")
  • She can look at her blanket and make her bed. (Comment: Look: "This totally reminds me of being a kid in my room. Sorry Mom, I can make my bed
    whenever I want. Boo yah!"
    Make the bed: "I am so not a rebel. I always like my bed to be neat and tidy. Thanks, Mom.")
  • She can look at the photos above her bed. (Comment: "'The Max Caulfield Photo Memorial Wall.'")
  • She can look at her art books. (Comment: "Cartier-Bresson, Doisneau, Hamilton... The greatest!")
  • She can turn off and replay her Hi-Fi.
  • She can open the chest of drawers beside her bed and look at a set of Mystic: Enchantment cards. (Comment: "It would be fun to get some peeps together and play a real game instead of drama games...")
  • She can look at photos of her at a hockey game, the Fremont Troll, and the Space Needle. (Comment: "That was a good hockey game, and a great fight."
    "Man, Kristen and Fernando were so drunk hanging on the Fremont Troll..."
    "That's the only tourist picture I let them take of me at the Space Needle...")
  • She can look at the camera on her desk and take a selfie with it. (Comment: Look: "This picture will capture this crazy historic moment in my life..."
    Selfie: "No smiling. Take your power seriously.")
  • She can look at the books on her desk. (Comment: "I could rewind for days and read all of these books. Will I really find any insight into my power?")
  • She can look at the new set of sticky notes attached to the wall in front of her desk. (Comment: "I can't keep my eyes open, but I know there's a scientific answer...")
  • She can look at and use her laptop. (Comment: "Whew, I could get lost doing time travel research. Me and the search engine
    have become one. If only I could be this focused on homework.")
    • Max can look at an email from Warren. (Comment: "Warren is blowing up my inbox now. As long as he helps me figure this out.")
    • She can look at a website called "Ilive4science". (Comment: "This is so insane it sounds logical to me...")
    • She can look at a website called "WORMHOLE!" (Comment: "This wormhole thing makes total sense, but doesn't explain how I can do what
      no scientist ever has...")
    • She can look at a website called "I-Sign Petition". (Comment: "I would say this is some crazy shit, but now I'm not so certain... Should I sign?")
    • She can look at her social media page (determinant). (Comment: Made fun of Victoria: "Thanks Victoria. I always wanted to be a 'Max meme' when I grew up. She'll spread that shit everywhere.")
    • She can look at an email from Dana. (Comment: "And I thought I was into Halloween. Dana is not messing around here.")
  • She can look at the photo of Victoria covered in paint (if Max made fun of Victoria on the previous day). (Comment: "I admit, this is hilarious, but... I shouldn't sink to Victoria's bully level.")
  • She can water the plant below her window, which counts as a minor choice. (Comment: Watered in previous episode: "Good morning, Lisa. Your leaves are lovely today.
    I may not have a green thumb, but I have a green finger..."
    Didn't water: "Oh Lisa, I've left you on the brink of drought!")
  • She can look at her DVDs on the sofa. (Comment: "Now I have to wonder if any of these films are based on a true story...")
  • She can look at the Thunderbirds pennant. (Comment: "I'll miss going to the games with my Dad. Go Thunderbirds!")
  • She can look at and play her guitar. (Comment: "Meanwhile, my guitar gently sleeps.")
  • She can look at the timetable attached to the side of her wardrobe. (Comment: "Mrs. Hoida is still out sick. I heard somebody say she has severe depression. Poor thing.")
  • She can look at a poster of Man Ray. (Comment: "Would Man Ray call them 'selfie-portraits'?")
  • She can look at her clothes in the wardrobe. (Comment: "Good morning, clothes! I hope you slept well... Now, shall it be my Gucci shirt with the Vuitton jacket?")
  • She can open a drawer in the wardrobe and look at a froggy watch. (Comment: "Uh oh! I wonder if I'll ever wear a watch again...")
  • She can look at and take her shower supplies (required). (Comment: Look: "Just because some ass pranked a girl's shampoo bottle and
    her hair fell out, we have to safeguard our toiletries. So summer camp."
    Take: "Okay Max, let's hit the showers now!")

After taking her shower,

  • She can look at the threatening message spray-painted on the photos above her bed (if Max reported Nathan on the previous day). (Comment: "Oh shit, Nathan's revenge. Even Chloe told me not to go to the Principal...")
  • She can look at and put away the threatening photo on her bed (if Max reported Nathan on the previous day). (Comment: "Man, this could almost be art—if it wasn't so fucking sick and disturbed.")
  • She can look at the message on her mirror (if Max made fun of Victoria on the previous day). (Comment: "Victoria. Of course. That's what I get for making fun of her... Bitch.")
  • She can look at and clean up the mess on the carpet in her room (if Max made fun of Victoria on the previous day). (Comment: Look: "My poor Donnie Darko... How could anybody want to break cute li'l Jake Gyllenhaal?"
    Clean: "Ta da! I do love a clean room. Very zen. Except for that bullshit graffiti.")
  • She can put on the clothes in her wardrobe (required). (Comment: "Maybe I'll just put on a shirt and jeans. Hey, Einstein had the same exact
    suit for every day of the week. And he couldn't even rewind time.")
  • She can search her desk, the papers on the floor, the papers on the sofa, and the papers on the small DVD stand next to the sofa for Kate's book (required). (Comment: "No book here..."
    "And nothing here."
    "I promise to clean this up, if I find the book.")
    • She can rewind and move the glass of soda after she spills it on Kate's book (required). (Comment: Before rewind: "Of course you just spilled soda on Kate's book."
      "Better fix this fast. Kate needs the book and I don't want to add
      to her list of problems."
      After rewind: "Begone, foul soft drink!")
    • She can look at and take Kate's book, "The October Country" by Ray Bradbury, after moving the glass of soda (required). (Comment: "Aha, you sneaky book, you're mine!")

Episode Three - "Chaos Theory"[]

  • She can look at her laptop. (Comment: "How did Sherlock Holmes deduce anything without the internet?")
  • She can use the laptop to view:
    • A news article on Kate's suicide attempt. (Comment: Kate alive: "Glad the media doesn't waste a second exploiting Kate. Now she has another video
      of herself all over the web... and even I'm in this one. At least the news didn't mention my name...
      yet."
      Kate dead: "Glad the media doesn't waste a second exploiting tragedy. Now Kate's family has to
      see their daughter's death all over the web like a cat video... and I'm even in this one. That
      makes me ill.")
    • A list of missing persons reported to Arcadia Bay police department. (Comment: "Hmmm. Besides Rachel, it's been a while since anybody vanished
      from Arcadia Bay... I shouldn't sound so disappointed.")
    • Max and Kate's social media profile pages. (Comment: Kate (alive):"I sure hope these people treat her better
      when she comes back to school... if she does."
      Kate (dead): "Yes, now everybody loves Kate Marsh.
      They bullied her and now post their feels. Hypocrites."
      Max: "Either I delete my page or I block everybody. Nowhere to hide these days...")
    • A page on reinstating Mark Jefferson (if Max blamed him earlier that afternoon). (Comment: "Man, I really turned a molehill into a mountain... I feel bad for Mr. Jefferson about this...")
    • A petition to fire David Madsen from Blackwell Academy (if Max blamed David and got him placed on temporary leave earlier that afternoon). (Comment: "Now David will get a taste of public surveillance.")
    • If Max failed to save Kate, there will also be an email from Principal Wells to Max. (Comment: "This is such a moving piece of cut and paste Blackwell bullshit.
      Nobody here had Kate's back. Too little, too late...")
  • She can look at her plant below the window. (Comment: Saved only Lisa: "See Lisa, at least I kept you alive... Guess I'm better with plants than people..."
    Saved Kate, Lisa dried out: "Poor Lisa. I guess I'm better with people than plants..."
    Saved Kate, Lisa drowned: "Oh I'm sorry, Lisa... I save Kate but I drown my own plant..."
    Saved both: "First I save Chloe, then Kate, and now you Lisa. Not a bad record for a week."
    Saved neither, Lisa dried out: "Oh noes! I can't even take care of a plant, much less a person...
    What am I good for?"
    Saved neither, Lisa drowned: "Sorry Lisa. Too much water. I can't even keep my plant alive,
    much less Kate...")
  • She can look outside the window. (Comment: "There's been so much going on I almost forgot about the eclipse... All this atmospheric
    action can't be a coincidence... and all roads are leading to my tornado vision...")
  • She can look at and feed Kate's rabbit. (Comment: Kate alive: "Hey bunny, Kate will be back soon and until then I'll be catering to your every whim."
    Kate dead: "Hey bunny, don't be too bummed but from now on... I'm your new mommy."
    Feed: "Are you a hungry bunny? Here, nosh on this...")
  • She can turn on and off the standing lamp next to the couch.
  • She can look at the timetable attached to the side of her wardrobe. (Comment: Suspended: "Let me see which classes I won't be attending this week..."
    Not suspended: "Pretty hard to focus on my class schedule this week... I wonder why.")
  • She can look at herself in the mirror. (Comment: Kate alive: "Kate's okay, Max. Take a breath, get your shit together. You have time."
    Kate dead: "Come on, Max. No more tears. You have to act, not react.")
  • She can look at her bed. (Comment: "Jeebus, I am so fricking tired... I sound like a moron... But crime
    does not delay... I need to stay on top of this investigation...")
  • She can look at her Hi-Fi. (Comment: "You know you're hurting when you don't give a shit about music.")
  • She can open the chest of drawers beside her bed and look at Max's class photo in Mark Jefferson's photography class. (Comment: Kate alive: "It's amazing how happy Kate looks here compared to today... She was
    basically pushed up to that roof. And I will use my power to find out why. This has to end."
    Kate dead: "Kate - I swear that I will use all of my power to find out who really pushed you
    off that roof...")
  • She can look at the threatening message on the photos above her bed (if Max reported Nathan on the previous day). (Comment: "No way can I clean that shit off. Time to get Samuel DaVinci to repaint...")
  • She can look at the threatening photo in front of her Hi-Fi (if Max reported Nathan on the previous day). (Comment: "Ew, thanks for the image, Nathan... and everybody here thinks Samuel is a creeper...")
  • She can look at the image of David harassing Kate (if Max took a photo on the previous day and didn't blame David). (Comment: "I'm such an idiot, Kate. I could have shown this to the Principal and busted David...")

Episode Five - "Polarized"[]

  • Max can look at and tear apart her photo (required). (Comment: Look: "I just have to make one simple change so I won't end up in San Francisco... Simple."
    Tear apart: "Sorry, San Francisco... Chloe comes first.")

Trivia[]

Max room paradox book
  • The "Theory, Paradoxes & Possibilities" book seen on the floor of Max's dorm room in "Out of Time" could perhaps be based on a 2013 online article about time travel, which is titled, "Time Travel: Theories, Paradoxes & Possibilities". (The two white lines that sit above the "Theory, Paradoxes & Possibilities" title on Max's book could be an artistic representation of the two words, "time travel", as text is commonly represented on the game textures by way of bars and squiggles.)
  • Looking at her wardrobe Max mentions John Huges' movie Pretty in Pink.
  • The poster in Max's room for "the WINGER and the COW" has a very similar style and design to the cover of The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger.

Gallery[]

Screenshots[]

Concept Art[]

In early concept art for Max's room that was uploaded to the Feral Interactive website, Max appeared to have an environmentally conscious roommate. A poster that appears in Victoria's room in the game can be seen under the bunk (a bird with paint drips), but concept art for Victoria's room also exists, so this roommate may not have been Victoria, or it could have been an early idea for her.
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