baeuchlein on 15/12/2016 at 18:04
Quote Posted by Azaran
I'm playing mission 1, latest version, and completely stuck (playing on normal):
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I'm trying to figure out the 'no available rooms' objective-
I'm supposed to drop a spider on Cleman, but his door is locked-
What are the Keepers hiding? (whatever it is, it's not where Jonas is)-
I have 3 bags of cash, and there's a pawnshop, but I can't do anything. There's an unpickable door nearby with someone sleeping, and if I frob it with the bags they vanish, but nothing else happensI think I finished the previous version of this, but this one has me stumped
The bags of cash are not used in the first mission of the campaign, but in the second mission. Don't worry about them now, but don't waste them by frobbing anything while holding your precious bags! (This was mentioned in the mission's info file, BTW.)
The goal about whatever the Keepers are hiding should be attained while proceeding with the mission. I am not certain when exactly this might happen, and can't check it out at the moment. It may be that the goal gets checked when you discover
Jonas' diary in
Jonas' hideout in the Inn. Or maybe later on. So, ignore it for now.
The other two objectives you mentioned are somehow linked to each other. Unfortunately, there's a long chain of events which have to occur until you finally can satisfy these goals. Therefore, my post will be quite long. Tell me if you want it separated into chapters.:p
You first have to read the two guest books in the two inns (the "Stumbled Traveler" as well as the "Clean & Cozy" located near the
House of Science) in order to try to get a room "the regular way", but in vain. Furthermore, the door of the "Clean & Cozy" inn will only open once you have done something completely different.
Thus, you should concentrate on Jonas and the objectives you get from him. First, he will send you to
investigate the House of Science. Once you did this and
found a strange creature above the rear doors of the House, you may return to Jonas, and after speaking to him for quite a while, he should give you a
crystal as well as another task. You have to return to the House then and
fetch the strange cloud-like creature above the rear entrance by using the crystal on it. Carry
the crystal back to Jonas, offer it to him, and once again talk to him repeatedly. In the end, he should first babble about what he's going to do with
the creature, and then he should give you some money (accompanied by the standard sound for obtaining loot)and tell you to get a room for the night. Your objective about getting a room should change slightly; in English, it's "Maybe I can find a spare room in that little inn near the HoS. I must also check the guest book in 'ST' inn." (in v1.6 of the campaign). In French, it begins with "Une fois tous vos objectifs atteints ...".
If you return to the "Clean & Cozy" now (yes, that means another trip to the House of Science, they should really install some bus stops there:cheeky:), the door should be open. Enter this inn, read
the guest book on or behind the counter, and then search the place thoroughly. You should find some loot in the place, but as well something else you'll need later on:
The spider for Mr. Cleman. It's sitting behind
a crate in the cellar room. To get it, you need
an urn from the kitchen of the "Stumbled Traveler". Use the
urn with the spider, pick up the spider-filled urn again, and your special Christmas present for Mr. Cleman is ready for delivery.:ebil:
Once you have concluded your business in the "Clean & Cozy", look for a note fixed to one of the doors of the House of Science. I think it's the front doors in the campaign version. Anyway, read the note, and if you do it the first time, you should get another objective:
Visit Thereon and steal his records. And off you go!
Return to the "Stumbled Traveler Inn", go up the stairs, and check out the rooms there. Thereon's door is firmly locked with a spell, and Cleman's door is not opened either. But the one near the fireplace should be unlocked now. Be careful, there's someone in there who should not see you. Your have to
cross this room now (while the inhabitant's back is turned towards you), grab a note from the desk and maybe a purse from the inhabitant's belt while crossing the room, open the window and climb out. It may be wise to save your game before attempting this stunt.
You end up on
a metal ledge on the outer wall of the Inn. Sneak away from the window, then close it in order not to alarm the guy inside. You may also shoot some spiders in the space below, since some of them might shoot magical projectiles at you once they see you up there. This can be a nuisance.
Anyway, the idea behind all this is to
go around the inn on this ledge and to pick the lock on Thereon's window in order to gain access to his room. Unfortunately, there's a part of the ledge missing near his window, and you have to either jump across the gap while running, or plant one or two rope arrows in the beam portruding from the roof of the inn and then cross the gap by jumping onto the rope and down onto the other part of the ledge. Once again it's wise to save the game before you attempt to cross the gap - and while doing all that, the spiders will usually recognize you up there and start shooting.
Sigh.Once you arrive before
Thereon's window, ready your lockpicks and use them to get inside. You will then behold a strange sight: Several floating stones are placed in the room, but there appears to be no Thereon there. Very well, no one to stop you from turning his lair upside down.
Extremely careful searching should yield
a broad slot in the underside of the large rock floating before the bed. (This rock is actually Thereon in stone form.) There's a book inside, and this is what you have to steal and read. Read it before leaving the room, or an invisible wall in the window might block your escape. After reading Thereon's notes, you get an additional objective to return with this new information to Jonas. You can now search the room for additional loot (something hidden well, something else not hidden very much) before heading out again.
Go back onto the ledge outside and cross the gap again. You may then either
enter the inhabitated room at the other end of the ledge again, or you can try to let yourself fall from the ledge in a way that you don't hit the ground below, but rather some wooden thing down there. That way, you can get down into the spiders' yard without taking damage.Regardless of how you leave the ledge, take care when you're on the street before the Inn again. One or two guards may have seen you while breaking into
Thereon's room, and if they did, they're hostile now. Anyway, your task now is to meet Jonas again. However, once you get into his hideout again, there's
no Jonas there anymore. Oh, great! Just what you need to search his room (presumably to find the Keeper's secrets there). You have to discover
Jonas' diary now, which is quite well hidden. Behind and to the left of
one of the statues in the room, there's a partially obscured button in a wall niche. Press it now, and
a small compartment in the wall, to the left of the fireplace in this room, should open. The diary lies in that compartment. Get it, read it, and thus get another idea now: Search for
Jonas' second hideout, somewhere in the sewers and near a watch tower.There's a bug still present in v1.6 of the campaign: If you read Thereon's notes again after reading Jonas' diary, you will get the objective to talk to Jonas again, but you cannot fulfil it anymore, and the mission is broken. Don't read Thereon's notes again after reading Jonas' diary!The entrance to the sewers in the campaign version of the mission lies between
the police station and Lady Adaline's house. Go there and open the sewer hatch with your crowbar, but don't jump onto the hatch - you might alarm the Lady, and that would mean Game Over for you. Once the hatch is open, get down there and travel all the way to the other end of the sewers, where a machine is working in the water. Across two bridges there should be an open door, and that's where another unpleasant surprise awaits you:
Jonas' dead body sits there. Now what?
A small key
near the dead man should catch your eye. Take it. It opens
the attic of the "Stumbled Traveler Inn" - your next destination. You'll find the door to the
attic on the upper level of the Inn, near two tables with eating and drinking guests. Enter the attic and read the diary you find there. You will temporarily get an objective to search for Jonas' killer, but even before leaving the attic, Garrett forgets about that again and remembers that Jonas still has
that crystal with the strange cloud creature in it. Oh, great... another lengthy trip, this time to
Jonas' dead body in the sewers. Did I mention my wishes for bus stops already?:joke:
Once you get to
the dead Keeper's body again,
save your game. Then, frob
your dead colleague in order to search for the crystal. But suddenly, everything gets dark, and two huge monsters appear near you. You can either
hide in a corner or try to run out of the room. Anyway, you should suddenly be teleported away and then fall towards a blue spot. Hopefully, you will enter this spot without taking damage. If it doesn't work, then you know why I told you to save your game.;)
When you get to this blue spot, you will be teleported again and end up once more in
Jonas' (first) hideout. Very strange, huh? Okay, forget about that crystal. One encounter with these beasts is enough for tonight.
All right, and now for something completely different. You should have another objective now: Change of plans -
steal the forest key. Do that now. This key is found in
a garrison located behind the House of Science area. There was an opening in the wall near the "Clean & Cozy", and a magic barrier blocked the way before. Now it should be gone. Get through, knock out the patrolling guard there if you wish to, then enter the hut found there. To do that, you have to
plant a rope arrow into the wooden part of the roof, close to where the hut touches the city wall. Climb up and find some wooden planks there. Your trusty crowbar will handle them, of course. Once they're gone, wait until a guard has entered the room inside and left again. Climb in now and get down. Walk through the doorway near the table and look to your right for a ragged curtain. You can climb up there and hide from the guard there. And you might even find something interesting there as well, but I'll leave that up to you.
Anyway, once the guard has passed through again, you can crawl out of your hiding place and continue through the corridor there. Passing by a gate and through a door, you will reach
another room with a sleeping guard. Creep towards his bed in order to be able to knock him out with your blackjack - otherwise, you'll face a pissed-off guard with a sword in his hand soon after entering the room!
Go into the room beyond this one, and also
take the guard with you unless you want his friend from the hut go in there, find his knocked-out colleague, and raise the alarm. In the room beyond, look for that forest key. You'll find it inside a glass case on the wall. Your only way of taking it is to break the glass, and that
will alarm the remaining guards. Thus, plan your escape before doing that. You can either
open the window in the room of the sleeping guard or pick the lock on the door in the room with the forest key. Either route can be used to escape, although the one through the window might mean you will take damage from the fall. You may also try a third route, through the hut again, but you may as well find more guards there than you like. Pick your choice.
If your preparations are done, steal everything you want to keep from the rooms here, then break the glass (e.g., with the blackjack) and take the key. Guard voices should tell you that the hunting game is up, and you're the prey now.
Once you have successfully avoided the guards, you can finally get back to your plans for Cleman and the spider. Read both guest books in the inns if you have not done so already, then go up the stairs in the "Stumbled Traveler" again. Garrett should say something about an open door, and finally, Cleman's door should be open. Get in, then save your game again. Use your
spider urn now by climbing onto the bed and dropping the urn. The screen should turn black, and you should hear the "interaction" between Mr. Cleman and his new "pet". When the lights are back again, you should have a few moments in the now empty room before the "Mission complete!" movie plays. Finally!:sweat:
If you find yourself locked in the empty room after the spider incident, but the mission won't end, then you most likely forgot to fulfil one objective. Unfortunately, there are some bugs in the mission which can lead to that (one may occur when reading Thereon's notes a second time), and that's why I told you to save this time - and why I wrote a partial walkthrough here. The chain of events described in this huge post can be broken, and maybe you'll see where the problem is if you read this again.
