diff --git a/desktop/resources/inside-house/background.png b/desktop/resources/inside-house/background.png
index b92cc869..6478a80c 100644
Binary files a/desktop/resources/inside-house/background.png and b/desktop/resources/inside-house/background.png differ
diff --git a/desktop/resources/inside-house/background.psd b/desktop/resources/inside-house/background.psd
index 742f2fdf..7dccc54d 100644
Binary files a/desktop/resources/inside-house/background.psd and b/desktop/resources/inside-house/background.psd differ
diff --git a/desktop/resources/inside-house/candle b/desktop/resources/inside-house/candle
index c353d53d..a634825c 100644
--- a/desktop/resources/inside-house/candle
+++ b/desktop/resources/inside-house/candle
@@ -2,26 +2,38 @@ Untitled
 - Delay -
 active: false
 - Duration - 
-lowMin: 3000.0
-lowMax: 3000.0
+lowMin: 10000.0
+lowMax: 10000.0
 - Count - 
 min: 0
-max: 500
+max: 1000
 - Emission - 
 lowMin: 0.0
 lowMax: 0.0
-highMin: 14.0
-highMax: 14.0
+highMin: 3.0
+highMax: 3.0
 relative: false
-scalingCount: 1
-scaling0: 1.0
-timelineCount: 1
+scalingCount: 7
+scaling0: 0.97959185
+scaling1: 0.0
+scaling2: 0.97959185
+scaling3: 0.0
+scaling4: 1.0
+scaling5: 0.0
+scaling6: 0.0
+timelineCount: 7
 timeline0: 0.0
+timeline1: 0.13013698
+timeline2: 0.32876712
+timeline3: 0.45890412
+timeline4: 0.63013697
+timeline5: 0.74657536
+timeline6: 0.93835616
 - Life - 
 lowMin: 0.0
 lowMax: 0.0
-highMin: 30000.0
-highMax: 30000.0
+highMin: 20000.0
+highMax: 20000.0
 relative: false
 scalingCount: 1
 scaling0: 1.0
@@ -83,8 +95,8 @@ scaling0: 1.0
 timelineCount: 1
 timeline0: 0.0
 - Scale - 
-lowMin: 2.0
-lowMax: 2.0
+lowMin: 1.0
+lowMax: 1.0
 highMin: 3.0
 highMax: 8.0
 relative: false
@@ -186,20 +198,20 @@ highMin: 1.0
 highMax: 1.0
 relative: false
 scalingCount: 4
-scaling0: 0.0
-scaling1: 0.12280702
-scaling2: 0.05263158
+scaling0: 0.0877193
+scaling1: 0.2631579
+scaling2: 0.10526316
 scaling3: 0.0
 timelineCount: 4
 timeline0: 0.0
-timeline1: 0.28082192
-timeline2: 0.42465752
+timeline1: 0.25342464
+timeline2: 0.65753424
 timeline3: 1.0
 - Options - 
 attached: false
 continuous: true
 aligned: false
-additive: false
+additive: true
 behind: false
 premultipliedAlpha: false
 - Image Path -
diff --git a/desktop/src-common/advent/screens/rooms/inside_house.clj b/desktop/src-common/advent/screens/rooms/inside_house.clj
index 1f9ff53e..461b55a9 100644
--- a/desktop/src-common/advent/screens/rooms/inside_house.clj
+++ b/desktop/src-common/advent/screens/rooms/inside_house.clj
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@
                                                                     (actions/talk entities :ego "It's a really big window!"))}}
                 :layers [(assoc (texture "inside-house/background.png") :x 0 :y 0 :baseline 0)
                          (assoc (texture "inside-house/desk.png") :x 0 :y 0 :baseline 200)
-                         (assoc (texture "inside-house/sillhoute.png") :x 0 :y 0 :baseline 240)]
+                         (assoc (texture "inside-house/sillhoute.png") :x 0 :y 0 :baseline 240 :parallax 2.0)]
                 :entities {:wizard (common/make-wizard screen {:x 228 :y 80 :baseline 160 :scale-x 1.75 :scale-y 1.75
                                                                :script (actions/get-script entities (do-wizard-dialogue entities))
                                                                :scripts #(condp = %
@@ -173,8 +173,8 @@
                                      :script (actions/get-script entities (actions/do-dialogue entities :ego "It's just a candle.")))
                            :candle-smoke (doto (assoc (particle-effect "inside-house/candle") :x 172 :y 112
                                                       :baseline 200)
-                                           (particle-effect! :reset)
-                                           (particle-effect! :start))
+                                           #_(particle-effect! :reset)
+                                           #_(particle-effect! :start))
                            :flask (assoc (texture "inside-house/flask.png")
                                     :x 265 :y 80 :baseline 240
                                     :script (actions/get-script entities
@@ -194,6 +194,13 @@
                 :collision "inside-house/collision.png"
                 :scale-fn (utils/scaler-fn-with-baseline 110 0.10 1.75)
                 :apply-state (fn [entities]
+                              (particle-effect! (get-in entities [:room :entities :candle-smoke] ) :reset)
+                              (particle-effect! (get-in entities [:room :entities :candle-smoke] ) :start) 
+
+                              (particle-effect! (get-in entities [:room :entities :candle-smoke] ) :update 10.0) 
+                              (dotimes [_ 160]
+                                (particle-effect! (get-in entities [:room :entities :candle-smoke] ) :update 0.2))
+                               
                              (as-> entities entities
                                    (if (actions/has-obtained? entities :flask-1) 
                                      (update-in entities [:room :entities] #(dissoc % :flask))