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|| A VICTORIAN TALE ||
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This walkthrough was written so you can finish the game in under an hour.


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~ Hints ~
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* You have to use items from your inventory
* You can save the game at sparkling book piles
* When you're being chased hiding spots are highlighted
* Not all items you can pick up are also marked. Try to explore your surroundings
* There are several endings to the game
* If you don't want to use this walkthrough, do yourself a favor and ready
  a pencil and piece of paper for the puzzles.


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~ Walkthrough ~
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* It's 1866. You're an austrian soldier in bohemia! What could possibly go wrong?
* Anyway you start out in the hallway
* Walk through the right door
* There is a lamp in the lying in the hallway; Grab it.
* Go back into the hall
* Optional: Brag in front of Erik about your lamp
* Walk through the left door
* Go into the kitchen by entering the door on the opposite side of the hallway
* There is a shiny little owl key lying around; Grab it.
* Examine the barrels at the southern wall - A whole person fits in there you say? Remember that for later
* Walk back into the hall
* Go into the garderobe (one of the two upper doors)
* Check the middle door - no doorknob - Well too bad!
* Check the metal box in the upper right corner - a badge on it says "The Guest"
* Check the stove and pickup the fire iron
* Time for some sleep
* Once you wake up Walk back into the hall
* Dohoh foreshadowing. Anyway, Erik's gone - that lazy bastard
* Go back into the right hallway
* The door on the opposite side is stuck, stand in front of it and use the fire iron from your inventory
* Bang! Library. If you're interested, pick up the note right next to the door
* There is a tiny console right next to the door; Examine that

-- Library Puzzle --
It's pretty easy actually. There are three coils and every coil is numbered from 0 to 4.
Basically what you want is to change all three positions to 0, but oh, that's not so easy isn't it?
The mechanism works as follows:
* All coils can be increased and decreased
* The left coil increases/decreases with the middle coil
* The middle coil increases/decreases with the left and right coil
* The right coil increases/decreases with the left coil however their movement is inverted (increasing the right one decreases the left one and vice versa)
With the mechanism figured out you can easily solve the puzzle. However if you're too lazy to do so, here is the solution:
** Decrease middle
** Decrease right
** Increase left
** Increase middle
** Increase left

* Fetch the fox key from the upper right corner of the room
* Go back to the hall
* Save... no seriously, save.
* Go into the left hallway
* Before you enter the upper door: Remember those barrels in the kitchen. You better do.
* Walk through the upper door into the dining room
* Run! Run back into the kitchen and hide in the barrels!
* Once you get out of those barrels go back into the dining room and leave it through the door on the left
* Move the shelf and pick up a nice piece of story nobody reads
* Walk down the hallway and through the upper door
* There is a toilet on the right with a newspaper in it; You can pick that up if you want.
* There is also a locked door with a combination lock.
* Walk up the stairway
* Enter the first door on the northern wall
* Pick up a screwdriver
* Walk out on the hallway again
* In the room on the right you can save your game
* Walk through the southern door at the end of the hallway and enter the ballroom
* Walk along the gallery until you're on the eastern end of it
* Walk into the landlords bedroom
* Don't get startled
* This thing is going to hunt you down for a while, however you can hide in the toilet from before
* Once you lost the monster go back into the landlords bedroom
* On the other end of the room there is a piece of paper with a code written on it; Remember that code or write it down
* Behind the door on the right you can find a shelf with a piece of a diary
* Walk through the door on the left and pick up the badge ("The Drunkard")
* Walk back to the door with the combination lock on the first floor (save on the way)
* Enter the code and walk through the door into the servants room
* Pick up both the door knob and the box of screws
* Walk the door, dinosaur! Actually it's just the monster, but be sure to go left the second you leave the room
* Run upstairs and hide in the shelf
* Once you've stopped wetting yourself go back to the garderobe
* The doorknob on the middle door was missing, right? Well now you have it, and all the gadgets to put it to good use.
* Stand in front of the door and use the doorknob from your inventory
* Enter the garderobe locker and pick up the wolf key (also there is a part of the diary in the left upper shelf)
* Go back to the right hallway and enter the door on the upper right end
* Walk through the northern door
* Before you go up the stairs enter both rooms on the left
* SALVATION ENDING: The room on the right contains a crate with a strange chemical
* The shelf in the right room contains a bit of information that is actually useful. Who would have guessed.
* Go into the room on the left and pick up the badge in the drawer ("The King")
* You can also save your game here
* Go back into the hallway and walk upstairs
* The storage room behind the northern door contains a drawer (and a hiding place for later)
* Walk through the door on the western end of the hallway, turn around and unlock that thing for later
* Walk down into the middle of the gallery
* Enter the hobby room
* There is a badge in the fireplace ("The Sage")
* You can save your game in the room on the right
* There are scratches right next to that shelf on the left, examine them and move the shelf
* Pick up the piece of paper if you want to
* In any case pick up the deer key from the shelf
* Leave the room and run!
* You can hide in the storage room from before
* Walk back into the ballroom
* With the wolf key you can open the door on the western side
* Enter the study and talk to Ada
* Walk up to the metal box on the northern wall
* Use the badge "The Sage"

------------------------- OPTIONAL (SALVATION/ESCAPE ENDING): Planting the polyp --------------------------------
You still have that Strange Chemical right? Time to plant some yith eating flying polyps.
Ada has opened the guestroom for you. Go to the western hallway on the second floor. There enter
the left lower door. Hop into bed (because sleeping in a mansion full of eldritch horrors is a great
idea) and wait for the dream to start.
In the dream just walk north. The second you reach the cliff immediately go right, because the clock is ticking.
Walk up to the strange moss and use the chemical on it. Then wait and enjoy the view... until you wake up and have
to run! Maybe hide in the toilet on the ground floor.
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* Go back to the landlords bedroom
* walk up to the metal box on the northern wall and use the badge "The King"
* Leave the bedroom. Go down the eastern stairway and back into the middle hallway
* Open the door on your left with the deer key
* Go through the storage room into the bar
* Walk up to the metal box and use the badge "The Drunkard"
* Go back into the hall and save
* Walk through the garderobe into the ballroom
* Try to leave through the glass door
* Then try to stay alive
* Don't try to leave the ballroom, all exits are blocked, just try to evade the monster for a while
* Once the monster goes into rage mode it will get you
* Time for some sleep. Also cover your ears if you don't like resonance sounds
* Walk into the toolshed, wake up and feel miserable
* Walk through the door into the garden and into the shack
* Move the crate - tadaa!
* Climb down into the boiler room
* Pick up the piece of paper you're not going to read (unless you really want to know what's going on), also save
* climb through the hole in the wall
* Walk through the southern door
* Reade the plaque on the machine

-- Voltage Puzzle --
Read that plaque on the machine? Good. Write down that number. Walk back into the hallway and enter the machine
room on the left. There are 9 levers in the room. The puzzle is randomized so you will have to solve this
systematically. Take a piece of paper and write down the voltage of each lever. You should have 9 numbers then.
Some of these numbers will add up to the number on the plaque. When you get it right you will hear a machine
sound.

* walk out the southern door and pick up a piece of paper if you like.
* Once you solved the Voltage Puzzle you can walk back to the machine. A bridge should be there now.
* Walk over the bridge and into the next hallway
* Nothing here, just keep going
* In the next hallway you should see a stone door and Erik lying on the ground
* Walk into the room on the right and pick up the last part of the diary
* Go back into the hallway and walk through the stone gate
* walk into the altar room
* Time for a cutscene and time to sleep again (if you have a slow PC this might take pretty long)
* Walk out of the toolshed
* go a bit to the right and then down, you should see a little light, activate it
* If you planted the polyp you should be familiar with the region (walk to the moss on the right and see what became of your little plant)
* Save the game at the bonfire
* Walk up to the light at the cliff
* Talk to the archpriest (if you read Page 6 of the diary his name should show)

--------------------- MESSIAH ENDING --------------------------
* Accept the archpriests "gift"
* You're sent back to the Altar
* Run back through the cellar and the mansion and into the hall
* Leave the mansion
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* If you decline the archpriest will attack you
* Dodge the spheres he is shooting at you - there are four attacks: High, low, left and right
* After a while he'll be fed up with you
* If you did not plant the polyp you will get the [ASYLUM ENDING].

--------------------------- SALVATION/ESCAPE ENDING ------------------------------------
* Once the polyp attacks the archpriest walk up to the light and leave
* Now you have to be quick: You are back at the altar entrance
* OPTIONAL (SALVATION ENDING): Quickly go back into the altar room and pick up the girl
* Walk through the southern door and run!
* Run back through the cellar
* See the monster getting what it deserves
* Run through the mansion and into the hall
* Leave the mansion
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* Enjoy the outro



That's it. You made it out of the mansion. Maybe you went insane, but that's alright. It's
a lovecraftian story after all and with those that's the norm I guess. If you planted the polyp
and got out there with your mind in one piece, even better!

If you liked it or just want to speak your mind about the game, maybe drop me a line in the comment
section of the submission page: http://contest.rpgmakerweb.com/game/view/id/627
Criticism is more than welcome!

Thanks for playing!