Cragne Manor hint thread

[matt_weiner (matt w)]

About the other things to do in the next room, besides what you need to do to get your stuff back:

I… haven’t been able to solve that puzzle yet. But you can do a lot of other things without solving it! At least one thing you find in that room gets used there, so you might want to keep track of what you got from there.

[magurmaas]

@matt w

Hi magurmaas,

That should have done something. But it may not have helped you make any concrete progress. In which case:

You’re not ready to have that do anything yet. You’ll have to find something else which will put you a position to get something that will make the thing you just did useful.

For now,

You should just GO SOUTH to the next room and see what you can do there, and in nearby rooms.

In general,

Get the coffee cup from the next room… and then if you get a nearby book and read it a few times, the coffee cup will turn into an incredibly helpful thing which will tell you whether there’s a puzzle in the room that you can solve, or if you have to get something else from another room. Sometimes it can take a very long time to find the thing you need for a room you see early on! Just try working on the puzzles you can work on.

Thanks matt w, but i haven’t found any book yet. I have been trying to get out of the station for the last 2 hours.

[purple_monkfish]

The alter? I’ve tried messing with it but aside from the flask… I must be missing something or just having another verb issue.
dang verbs.

[mathbrush (Brian Rushton)]

If you need a minimal, explicit walkthrough for getting out of the station:

From the first room,

go south, then east

In that room you can

open the closet

Using the information in there, you can

SET LOCKER TO ####

and take what’s inside, i.e.

the insect

Then go

east and south

In that room, you can open

the trash can

and take everything.

[mathbrush (Brian Rushton)]

Once you have everything from that last step,

Examine the doll

You’ll notice you can do two things:

pull the string (which the woman reacts to), and

turn the head

Notice the woman’s reactions to what you do.

Basically,

she’s scared of anything the mean face talks about

So,

Turn the face to the creepy side, pull the string until it mentions the insect jar you should be carrying, then give that to her.

[magurmaas]

OHH, i missed the trashcan. Thanks, craiglocke

[purple_monkfish]

incidently, iv’e found the doll is sometimes useful in other areas to draw attention to things you might have missed in the room description.

[matt_weiner (matt w)]

purple_monkfish, about the room next to the room under the hatch:

Have you found the thing you can open with the Allen key yet?

That is a hatch too.

Once you get that hatch open there should be a switch you can use to turn the lights on in the other room.

[purple_monkfish]

AHAH! I missed the second one.

right. Excellent, I have stuff again.

sweet.

now to not get eaten.

[purple_monkfish]

I have access to the manor! I feel like this might be a monumental moment. Much like obtaining that lion book.

[Grueslayer]

@craiglocke

I was SO freaked out at this part of the game lol

Was that a compliment or criticism? In the first case, thanks.

[mathbrush (Brian Rushton)]

@Grueslayer It made me much more emotionally invested in the game so I would say…compliment? It was memorable, unusual, and made me like the game better.

[Grueslayer]

Cool. It made me wish I could collaborate more with other authors, to exchange ideas that might waft through more rooms than just mine, or another author’s. But it was a great experience anyway.

[Stompsy]

@purple_monkfish

incidently, iv’e found the doll is sometimes useful in other areas to draw attention to things you might have missed in the room description.

I love that doll. I “pull string” an obscene number of times.

[purple_monkfish]

Well i’ve been at this for a good hour now…

Music room, the wall in the kaleidoscope room. It’s too noisy to hear. Now my brain tells me I must need a glass or something but maybe not, maybe it’s another verb problem.
Or i’ve missed something elsewhere in this loop.

I have:the heart ring from the freezer, the poster from the concert, the chalk from the summoning, the child’s drawing of a corpse and i’ve drawn a circle around the body and put one ring on her. I assume there’s another ring in the wall or something.
but how do I get the dang thing?

[mathbrush (Brian Rushton)]

Weird, one of the things you mentioned is something that I didn’t know you could take, but actually should help you with your solution.

There are two riddles in Wade’s room. You’ve solved one, but not the other.

Some hints:

The room you solve it in is:

The back of the club

The only commands you need are:

just EXAMINE

The final solution is:

X LOAF (the loaf is the symbol of the something Loaf Mountaineers

[antimony]

@matt w

purple_monkfish: That’s OK! One extremely important thing about this game is that you’re not supposed to be able to make it unwinnable. If you get killed, you should be able to UNDO it. (There are a couple of cases where I think there is a special command that will let you undo a few turns.)

Which also means that if something happens like “I fell down a hole and lost my stuff” there’s a way to fix it. In this case, head to the next room and try to see if you can turn the lights on, so you will get your stuff back.

Any other Cragne Manor author who is reading this post will be laughing at me because they know the ridiculous stuff I did after I fell down the hatch.

(Also I’m impressed at how fast you’re progressing. It took me days to get down the hatch.)

If I dropped stuff in the open grave water have I made it unwinnable? I’m assuming not, because it’s not supposed to be cruel, but I can’t retake that stuff in any way I can see. (I only dropped items from that room.)

[purple_monkfish]

Yessss it is doooone

can you “empty grave”? Does that help

[antimony]

@purple_monkfish

Yessss it is doooone

can you “empty grave”? Does that help

Nope.

I will keep playing and if I made it unwinnable go back to an old save, not a big deal.

[mathbrush (Brian Rushton)]

@antimony

@purple_monkfish

Yessss it is doooone

can you “empty grave”? Does that help

Nope.

I will keep playing and if I made it unwinnable go back to an old save, not a big deal.

You should be able to do that if

You’re holding the copper urn.

If you lost that, there’s supposed to be

a special plastic urn that only appears if you really, really messed up