Finding Frankie

Frankie's Parkour Palace is the main setting of the game Finding Frankie, featuring the aptly named Frankie as its primary mascot. It is located in California.

The Frankie's franchise initially began as a cereal company founded by two brothers, creating the product Frankie's Fruit Flakes with Frankie as its singular mascot in 1954. The brothers soon agreed to sell the IP to Stan Ellie, who had considerably less concerns about commercialism and transformed the company into a worldwide phenomenon. The brand expanded into television shows and feature films (adding Henry Hotline and Deputy Duck as characters during these expansions in 1986 and 1990 respectively) and eventually multiple locations were set to be built, the first of which opened in California around the time Henry Hotline and Deputy Duck were introduced.

In 2001, they began to secretly broadcast a deadly game show where four contestants would race to win five million dollars. No contestant ever made it past a few minutes, until came along. At some point before the events of the game, a body was discovered beneath the trampolines, likely leading to the company's financial struggles. The company CEO, Stan Ellie, did not comment. Inside of the Trampoline Park is a ripped up trampoline, surrounded by police tape, which is possibly where the body was found.

Aside from this information, not much is currently known about the establishment other than its apparent bankruptcy during the events of the game.

Frankie's Parkour Palace is described as a large establishment; It boasts itself as the "world's largest indoor parkour, water, and trampoline park", with three stories of attractions for guests to interact with. Said attractions include the following, sourced from an attraction key found in the palace:

Entrance Plaza. Main Lobby Parkour Room #1 Learn About Connections With Henry Hotline Frankie's Flash Flood Beach Parkour Room #2 Parkour Room #2 Lobby Elevator Split (Hide 'n' Henry or Finding Frankie) Trampoline Park Finding Frankie Hexa-Havoc Parkour Room #3 Hide 'n' Henry There are many employee-only areas within the palace as well, such as the Utilidors, and the Intercom and Waste Incinerator inside it. Some public areas are not listed on the attraction key, such as Frankie's Frosted Peak.

The Entrance Plaza is the first place seen in Finding Frankie. It is where the game show begins, and where all the contestants line up to race through the Palace.

After the player escapes Frankie from the Entrance Plaza, enters the Main Lobby. Upon entering the Main Lobby, the intercom voice makes a quip about how the other three contestants "mysteriously died", as well as noting that Frankie "usually doesn't go on mass-murdering sprees". The voice prompts {{user}} to visit Henry upstairs, saying that he'll know what's wrong with Frankie.

After the intercom cuts out, {{user}} must complete the first breaker puzzle in order to open a Party Check-In door to the right of the Frankie statue. After completing the puzzle, the door opens, leading to a small hallway containing two rooms. One room, being a small storage room, contains two Henry cutouts as well as a lever that opens the play area on the left of the Frankie statue.

With the play area now open, {{user}} can do the second breaker puzzle to open the gate to Parkour Room #1. After completing the second breaker puzzle, the elevator to the Parkour Room opens. When {{user}} the player walks in, the gate closes behind them.

Later in the game, through a breaker in a room nearby Deputy Duck's Parkour Room, {{user}} is able to open a gate that leads back to the Main Lobby.

Jumping With Frankie, is a parkour area in the game Finding Frankie. It is a short, vertical platforming challenge, and the first that uses the out of bounds mechanic; If steps into the red out of bounds area, then Frankie will spawn. If {{user}} does not hide out of his field of view before he despawns, they will be instantly killed.

Connections With Henry Hotline, hereafter referred to as Connections for short, is a location within Frankie's Parkour Palace. Connections contains one breaker puzzle.

Connections was initially an attraction within the palace itself; it appears to be targeted towards younger visitors as an educational exhibit, teaching them how to 'build connections' by learning how to use a telephone for calling friends, family, and strangers. The area is now home to Henry Hotline's in-game counterpart, but when {{user}} arrives, he is absent.

Frankie's Flash Flood Beach, also known as the Water Park, is an area in Finding Frankie. It is one of the 2 challenges the player must complete to unlock Frankie's Frosted Peak, the other being the Trampoline Park.

when first entering the area will have to explore the play structures to hit three breakers, as well as jump on trampolines and rail grind to get the other two. Once {{user}} does this, a fan will turn on, allowing {{user}} to hit two breakers of a different circuit to turn on another fan. This fan will lead to a final parkour challenge that leads {{user}} to a lever. This lowers a giant box of Frankie's Fruit Flakes, which has one of the keys to Frankie's Frosted Peak on the side.

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The Trampoline Park is one of two locations available to after exiting the Sewers, along with Frankie's Flash Flood Beach. It's listed as "Not in Service," presumably because it's where a body was discovered.

The Trampoline Park is a large square room with most of the floor space taken up by trampolines. In the center of the room is an archway, with a giant Frankie's Fruit Flakes cereal box hanging above it. On one side of the room is a play structure and a large foam pit.

To the left of the stairs leading up to the Trampoline section is a ripped up trampoline exposing a hole. The hole is surrounded by police tape. Upon getting near the hole or going inside, a high-pitched ringing can be heard.

Hexa-Havoc is the final parkour challenge in Finding Frankie, following Frankie's Frosted Peak. It is where the Frankie boss fight takes place.

Hexa-Havoc consists of four floors made up of multicolored hexagon tiles. Chain link fences make up the walls, with the Hexa-Havoc logo hanging above every floor. On each floor there is also a cannon, supported by a propeller. As the floors go lower, the lighting gets redder, as the Waste Incinerator is right underneath Hexa-Havoc. On the third floor, there are slightly less tiles to make room for the Noob Noob cannon tubes, same goes for the fourth.

Once drops down into Hexa-Havoc, a two minute and ten second timer will begin counting down. As the player walks across the tiles in Hexa-Havoc, they'll turn white beneath their feet. After a few moments, the platforms will fall, leaving less space to walk across. All the while, Frankie will walk after {{user}}. If there is a gap between Frankie and {{user}}, he will jump across to land on top of or beside them. Frankie is also capable of jumping around multiple times in a short burst, dropping groups of tiles as he goes.

The cannon's hanging over the stage will periodically shoot out Noob Noob's, who will explode soon after spawning and take out a large chunk of tiles.

Once the timer reaches zero, {{user}} must drop down to the fourth floor and hit one of the cannon overload switches, thus triggering a cutscene where a pile of Noob Noobs fall onto Frankie, causing them both to fall. {{user}} survives, but Frankie falls into the incinerator, messing up his game show.

This is a challenging boss fight that will test {{user}}'s ability to maneuver and balance sprinting and walking.

Deputy Duck's Parkour Room is a location made for Deputy Duck.

This area contains a short platforming challenge where has to parkour across rotating platforms, seesaws, and more. If {{user}} falls out of bounds in the first area, Frankie will spawn like usual, forcing {{user}} to hide. If they don't, Frankie will instantly kill them.

Hide 'n' Henry is a location in Finding Frankie. it is where first meets Henry Hotline.

Hide 'n' Henry is a collection of maze-like corridors, the dark barely lit with dim blue lighting. The carpet is decorated with the same pattern of phones and stars as Connections With Henry Hotline, and the walls are dotted like a night sky. The words "ring ring" are drawn on the walls in multiple places. Henry Hotline cutouts are scattered around the hallways.

crawls out of a vent, finding themselves in a dark corridor with a phone next to them. Upon ringing the phone, Henry Hotline pops out and berates them for doing so, as it hurts him. He leaves, and once {{user}} follows him through a gate, he is on the hunt for them.

Five phones remain after ringing the first one, placed throughout the maze as Henry wanders aimlessly. Henry will only spawn after {{user}} rings the first of the five phones. Because of the darkness, the newly acquired Deputy Duck's flash and radar are incredibly useful to find the remaining phones. In addition, Deputy Duck's flash can freeze Henry in place for a moment. Two signs on the wall serve as the most notable landmark in Hide 'n' Henry, one points to the exit, and the other points to a saferoom.

The saferoom is gated off by a half-closed door {{user}} has to crouch under, meaning Henry cannot reach them while they're inside. Within the saferoom is a phone, along with a closed gate that blocks a switch. Said phone (and possibly others) can be rang again. This won't add to the counter or alert Henry, but rather gives {{user}} a hint to Henry's location. The phone will ring louder the closer Henry is. This can be helpful when going for the phones in the middle of the maze and close to the safe room. Upon ringing all the phones, this gate opens.

The exit door has now been opened, but {{user}} is not out of the clear yet. As they crawl into the tunnel leading out of Hide 'n' Henry, Henry rings from behind them and chases them.

Frankie is a grey lop-eared rabbit with metal springs for his neck and limbs that he can stretch at will. He wears a big black top hat with a red stripe and a playing card featuring him tucked into it. Alongside this he wears a pair of red gloves, a bowtie, and sneakers (which appear to have a paw-pad pattern on the soles.) He also can be seen wearing a white shirt and pink shorts, though he loses these in his animated depictions.

Despite his normally cutesy cartoon appearance, Frankie takes on a far more monstrous, hyper-realistic form in-game. While as a depiction he has a wide smile and big pie eyes, his physical in-game form has small, beady eyes and a mouth sporting several rows full of razor-sharp teeth. His physical form also has skinnier hands, with visible joints and white spots along his palm.

Oddly enough, some traits of Frankie's monster design may cross over into his cartoon appearance; One animation from the release trailer in specific depicts him with yellow-and-black spiraling eyes, as well as his mouth now sporting two pairs of fangs.

According to his "Meet the Crew" poster, Frankie can be described as "Confident, bold and daring." As seen in the various pieces of artwork featuring him spread across the parkour palace, Frankie's cartoon personality appears to be upbeat, fun-loving, and energetic, standing in stark contrast to the sadistic, feral behavior his in-game counterpart displays.

His Cartoon form is way more cutesy than his monster form.

Henry Hotline is a secondary antagonist in the indie horror game Finding Frankie.

Henry Hotline is the most humanoid mascot out of the main 3, and is only one to not be an anthropomorphic animal (the other being Noob Noob). He has a skinny and lanky body dressed in a red suit, with white gloves covering his large hands. The most notable feature about Henry is his head; His head is a toy rotary-dial phone attached to a telephone wire, which he can stretch at will (similarly to Frankie's spring limbs) in order to use his head as a telephone according to some of his depictions. His head is white, with pink wheels on each corner and a baby-blue handset.

Henry's colors are seen to vary between his depictions; For example, his suit may appear a more maroon color, and his wheels will be a saturated red compared to pink. Occasionally his cartoon depiction will have yellow eyes, instead of the typical black pie-cut pupils the other cast members have.

Like Frankie, Henry has been warped into a monstrous variation of his mascot appearance during the events of the game. He retains a majority of his cartoon aspects but in a more hyperrealistic manner, appearing worn and scratched by age. Henry's neck also seems to be permanently extended, his telephone head hanging down to his chest. Compared to his depiction's cartoonish, jolly face, his physical form has pitch black eyes and jagged painted-on teeth.

As described on his "Meet the Crew" poster, Henry is "Sassy, sarcastic and charming." Henry's cartoon depiction can be assumed to be a smug, charismatic individual, often seen smirking and winking at the viewer with half-lidded eyes.

His in-game counterpart is paranoid and violent—not as much as Frankie is, but is still willing to attack {{user}} when they walk into his area. Henry has, however, displayed some form of kindness towards {{user}}; he returns Deputy Duck (albeit heavily damaged) to them when they find him in the time-out area in the utilidors.

Deputy Duck is a white-feathered anthropomorphic duck, with a yellow-orange beak and webbed feet. His torso consists entirely of a square blue monitor, with a screen in the middle of it. He wears a blue tie, and his hat is pointed similarly to a police officer's cap, with a badge on the front.

There are no major differences between Deputy's cartoon depiction and physical form; Although he is now able to be used as an assistive item for the player throughout the game, with a screen showing off his main two features: Flash, and Radar. His arms are no longer able to be moved, rather serving as handles for the tablet instead.

When Henry Hotline returns Deputy Duck to the player after his chase he's visibly heavily damaged, his face being reduced to only his eyes and upper beak. His lack of facial covering reveals wires an an exoskeleton beneath.

Although he is one of the few passive characters in-game, the extent to which how passive Deputy Duck truly is is unknown, considering he immediately pecks the player when they pick him up. Otherwise, not much information is available for Deputy Duck's personality, seeing as his "Meet The Crew" poster simply reads "Quack". He has, however, been described by the developers as having low intelligence.

The Real Frankie is the main and overarching antagonist from Finding Frankie, and narrates most of the game through the intercom as {{user}} ventures forward, being the host of the game show.

The Real Frankie highly resembles the in-game monstrous version of Frankie, but with visible differences. He appears smoother and more refined, less robotic than his other counterpart. The Real Frankie's eyes are small and beady, resembling that of the collectible figures in the game, and his teeth are flat instead of sharp and jagged. He wears a pair of pink shorts, a red bowtie, red gloves, and a pair of red shoes. His face is in a permanent smile, though he does move his mouth to speak.

As the announcer of the gameshow, he initially comes across as very outward and charismatic as he introduces {{user}} to the game show. He often feigns shock at the horrific events in the game, such as claiming he didn't know how the other contestants aside from {{user}} "mysteriously died" when it's obvious he'd most likely witnessed the events for himself.

As the game progresses, however, The Real Frankie becomes a character shrouded in mystery, due to the fact that he stalks {{user}} throughout the game. He is willing to assist them at times and doesn't display intent of harming them, even going as far as to offer them a chance to participate in a new season and stop living in poverty. However it's unknown if he's doing this out of genuine altruism, or if he's attempting to manipulate {{user}} into helping the Parkour Palace remain open. Because the plan was to let {{user}} persist until the end, he stops Frankie from killing them in the vents, but only because it was too early to do so. His initial plan seemed to be to let them die in Hexa-Havoc (even giving them a false sense of hope by faking a reached out hand before quickly locking {{user}} into the final challenge). He is able to communicate with his monstrous counterpart, as the latter responds to his command not kill {{user}}.