Plot Spoilers
Plot Progression Tips [Spoilers]
The Body in the Tree:
- Opening the trash container: There are two ways to unlock it: use a prybar, or get the key from Garte. Using the prybar requires passing an active Physical Instrument (Legendary 14) check.
- Getting into the Harbour: There are two ways into the Harbour: jumping off the roof of the office building (accessible from Cuno’s shack) towards the police officer cloak, or getting past Measurehead. Jumping from the roof towards the Harbour requires passing a Savoir Faire [White Check]. Getting past Measurehead (to unlock the door to the Harbour) requires a Physical Instrument check.
- Getting the body down: You are given two options: shoot the belt, or get help from Evrart Claire. If you decide to get help, you must now find a way into the Harbour.
- The feeling that something’s missing: During the autopsy, you may have noticed dialogue options hinting that there is something more to the body. The initial Perception check is very hard to get, but worry not you do get another chance. First, you need to refrigerate the body. This will start the task: “Ask around for fridge”. There is one such fridge in the Doomed Commercial Area, accessible from the back of the Bookstore. To gain access you must either break down the Warded Door, or convince Plaisance (with enough Drama) to let you investigate the curse. After you gain access to the Doomed Commercial Area, move the body to the fridge you find downstairs. There will be a
Perception – Legendary 14 [White Check] with some modifiers:
+1 Look in the mouth! (Look into the man’s mouth during the autopsy.)
+2 Refrigerated the body. (Move the body into the fridge.)
-1 Established probable cause. (Investigate more about the man to maybe remove this. Come back much later in the game.)
Titus and the Hardie Boys:
- The Jam Mystery: You gain this task from Joyce, who asks you to investigate the smuggling of raw ingredients for the manufacturing of drugs into Revachol. (You must not have your badge for this to work. This task is you negotiating for information because you are missing your badge to prove your authority.) There are three lorry drivers at the intersection: Racist Lorry Driver, Tommy and Siileng. Talk to them.
- Proving your authority: Authority – Challenging 12 [White Check].
This task has some modifiers you can gain:
+2 Evrart asked to cooperate. (Speak to Evrart and ask him to get Titus to cooperate.)
+2 Warned about the tribunal. (Speak to Joyce and find out more about the lynching.)
-1 Weak when you first met.
- Convince Titus he is being manipulated: Rhetoric – Heroic 15 [White Check].
This task has many modifiers you can gain:
+1 Mentioned surreal play. (Find the smoker at the apartments. Meet the Sunday Friend and interview him.)
+1 Strange reaction to bullet. (Find a bullet in the dead man. See the tips on ‘The feeling that something’s missing’ above.)
+1 Evrart asked to cooperate. (Speak to Evrart and ask him to get Titus to cooperate.)
+1 Understood why Titus is upset. (Dialogue checks. No game mechanic here. Don’t be tactless.)
+1 Warned about the tribunal. (Speak to Jouce and find out more about the lynching.)
-1 Pushed Titus on the tape.
Ruby
- Looking for Ruby in the Fishing Village: Speak with the Washerwoman about Ruby. You should gain a task to investigate the shack. Enter the shack and find a bullet hidden beneath the floorboards. Return to the Washerwoman and she will tell you that Ruby is hiding somewhere further up the coast.
- Feld Mural: Shivers – Impossible 20 [White Check].
There are many, many modifiers you can gain:
+3 Found the empty trap. (Help Morell with checking the four traps.)
+3 Heard Lena’s true story. (Speak with Lena and hear everything about her story.)
+3 Went on a date. (Go on a date with Lilienne from the Fishing Village.)
+1 Reconstructed execution. (Reconstruct execution at the wall of the building south of the Feld Building.)
+2 Made that awful call. (Dial numbers at the Phone Booth at the coast.)
+1 Confronted the Pigs. (Get signatures for Evrart and mail the envelope. Tell Evrart to set up a meeting with the woman who has your gun.)
+2 Established the night club. (Help the Ravers establish a night club at the Church.)
+2 Discovered the anomaly. (Help Soona discover the 2mm Hole in the World.)
+3 Death notification. (Find the dead body on the Boardwalk. Accept the case and deliver the death notification.)
- Feld Ladder: Savoir Faire – Challenging 12 [White Check].
Some modifiers you can gain:
+2 Saw Tiago climbing. (Tiago is the Crab Man in the Church. You must spot him climbing.)
- Drainage Pipe: Physical Instrument – Heroic 15 [White Check].
Some modifiers you can gain:
+1 Broke into Cuno’s apt. (Accept the task to steal speed for Cuno and break into his apartment with chaincutters.)
+1 Broke into communist apt. (Break into the room using chaincutters in the apartment complex.)
+1 Broke bookstore door. (Break down the Warded Door at the back of the Bookstore.)
