bob_doe_nz on 3/1/2010 at 11:12
The Ouija board tells you the numbers to the safe upstairs
jericho on 3/1/2010 at 13:03
Yea, I know that. But why there are 2 sets of switches: the board with numbers near the dining room and the levers just under the safe?
Yandros on 3/1/2010 at 13:16
The board with the numbers near the dining room is for placing the tarot cards as you find them. The levers are all that's needed to open the safe.
<Username> on 4/1/2010 at 14:33
I got a bit of a problem with the second objective. I did lure all of the ghosts into the holy water. For some reason, it worked only with the one in front of the furnace, the one patrolling the cemetary and the one in front of the fountain. It didn't work with the one in the morgue and the one in the attic. What am I doing wrong? Is this a bug?
Yandros on 4/1/2010 at 14:42
Sometimes it takes a few passes through the puddle for them to die, but we never had a problem with it not working eventually in test. I found it's best to stand on the edge of the puddle so they have to stand in it if they want to melee with me.
<Username> on 4/1/2010 at 15:05
Thanks for the tip, Yandros! I managed to avoid the melee attacks of the attic ghost by crouching and circle strafing. He was standing in the puddle for about half a minute. It didn't work unfortunately. While doing that I noticed another thing: The puddle has vanished. The particle effect is still there, and I can still see the puddle's outline, but the holy water itself has vanished. I don't know what I did that might have caused that.
Note: I'm pretty sure vanquishing the morgue ghost didn't work either when the holy water was still visible.
BrokenArts on 4/1/2010 at 15:56
Oh wow, thats a new one, with the water vanishing like that. The only thing that happened during testing was the particular effect disappeared at one point. I restarted the game, and it was fine.
jericho on 4/1/2010 at 16:25
Exactly the same here. There must be a single point eliminating the ghosts, not the whole area of the spilled holy water.
I'm not sure if I understood the story correctly. Few issues I was not clear with:
1. What was it about the girl? Was she dead or just fictional? The "monster" haunted her, but why would we get rid of it by eliminating the thief ghosts?
2. Who killed the assistant and why?
3. What really went wrong with the gang's plan? They wanted to fake their deaths and I take it that's why there were 5 ghosts. Didn't they plan to awake afterwards?
4. The mission ends when Garrett kills all 5 ghosts with the holy water. Um... and what next?
I plan to have another run through this magnificent FM. Perhaps I will understand it better. :)
Yandros on 4/1/2010 at 16:32
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I'm not sure if I understood the story correctly. Few issues I was not clear with:
1.
What was it about the girl? Was she dead or just fictional? The "monster" haunted her, but why would we get rid of it by eliminating the thief ghosts?She's the mortician's granddaughter, and she's real. She saw at least one of the thief ghosts (which she called a "monster"), and she also witnessed the assistant getting paid by the gang, which is depicted by her drawings in the book in the attic.2.
Who killed the assistant and why?3.
What really went wrong with the gang's plan? They wanted to fake their deaths and I take it that's why there were 5 ghosts. Didn't they plan to awake afterwards?He fell down the stairs and died while going to get the antidote to revive the thieves, per their arrangement. Because of that, they were all killed by the coroner, in effect "killed by autopsy". The girl's book in the attic (see #1) is supposed to help suggest their deal, along with the assistant's notes in the attic about the herbal concoction and in his journal in the room where he died.