Re-entering the southern pipe, you get a whiff of kerosene. As you work your way back to your items, you shuffle your feet back and forth searching for anything the madman might have dropped. The smell of kerosene get stronger as your foot bumps something on the ground. You reach down and discover you are back at your items. From where you stand you can see that the dead mans flashlight is almost out. You need light to see again so what are you going to do?

Follow the smell of kerosene to maybe find something that will shed light unto our surroundings. And since we are most evidently not supposed to be able to escape without having explored the upper regions of the asylum, I would vote to return to the beginning and explore the purple spaces a bit more ...

could we take the bulb from the dead mans flashlight, go back to the madmans flashlight and change the bulbs?

Yes! You can change the bulb over to the other flashlight. You now have a flashlight that should last several hours. Using the new flashlight, you go back to where your items were and discover the reason for the kerosene smell. It looks as though when the madman tripped, he knocked out the pencil plugs in the lantern and all the kerosene leaked out. Now that you have the flashlight, you no longer need the lantern anyway so it's no great loss. You can back-track to any place you want to go, but remember that if you make your way back to the beginning, you will get wet again. Do you still want to go back to the first basement and look around or do something else?

i vote move on.

btw, i think we all should give sheep a laural and a hearty handshake for spending so much time on this board. he obviously plans this all out way in advance. KUDOS SHEEP!!!

yes yes, giant standing ovation is in order

Yeah thanks sheep, and great job.

I think we should go back to the tan basement. Maybe try and figure a way to pry those window bars off.