Walkthrough Table of Contents
- Chapter 1: Capsized Da Capo
- Chapter 2: Fathomless Grave
- Chapter 3: Antiquity Stranded
- Chapter 4: Bilge Water
- Chapter 5: The Drowning Sailor
- Chapter 6: Dockside Dirge
- Chapter 7: Forlorn Isle
- Chapter 8: Lighthouse Lullaby
- Chapter 9: Key Chain Key Change
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Chapter 8: Lighthouse Lullaby
You begin on the beach near the lighthouse. There’s nothing to do here, so go up the beach using the “Go to Lighthouse” option.
Use the lighthouse door to enter the lighthouse, and then interact with the elevator door to find that it’s jammed. You need to jar it loose with a strong enough impact.
If you look at the roots to the right of the elevator, you’ll find an empty toolbox. Far above it, there’s a burglar owl with a screwdriver it stole. Examine it.
The burglar owl won’t give up its spoils easily, so we’re going to need to give it something as a distraction.
While still inside the lighthouse, look to the far bottom-left of the screen to find some washers placed above a stack of papers. Pick these up.
Now exit the lighthouse and go stand to the far left of the lighthouse, so that the camera pans a bit up and you can see the worm-shaped fruit hanging from the tree. Interact with this fruit – even though you’ll get the same dialogue as examining it, you will now be able to use your Washers on it.
The fruit will fall to the right of the storage shed. Pick it up.
Re-enter the lighthouse now and use the fruit on the owl.
The screwdriver will fall to the floor just below the toolbox. Pick it up.
Now go back outside and use the screwdriver on the plaque near the front door of the lighthouse.
Head back inside the lighthouse and pick up the fire extinguisher to the far left of the screen.
Now in your inventory, use the screwdriver on the fire extinguisher, and then use the plaque on the fire extinguisher.
Use the resulting fulcrum device on the elevator door. Interact with the fulcrum device to gain access to the elevator. Head up to the second floor by using it.
Inside the elevator, you’ll find that the thicket has taken over the second floor, and you can’t access the upper floors by the elevator.
There’s an emergency hatch, but it’s too far up to reach.
Go back down the elevator now (use the elevator button) and on the first floor, go to the left of the elevator.
You’ll find a vent here, next to a very tall stack of papers. Use your screwdriver on the vent to get an instant furniture pill.
Go back up using the elevator and use the pill on the puddle below the emergency hatch.
Interact with the hatch twice now to access it. Your goal now is to create a herbicide to destroy the roots in the elevator shaft.
If you were to go outside the lighthouse and examine the vent status to the left of the lighthouse, you’ll learn which vents are open and which ones are closed.
We only need the elevator vent to be open, not the vents on the first or second floors. So first, let’s close the second floor vent, which is beyond the thicket that’s covering the second floor.
Pick up the Spy Bot to the right of the elevator screen, and use it on the thicket.
You now have to solve a routing puzzle.
In this puzzle, you must guide the bot by giving it as many instructions as shown on the left side of the screen. Each instruction can tell the bot to go either left or right from the direction it is currently facing.
You cannot simulate an invalid path in this puzzle, so you have to give it the right instructions first. If valid, the bot will proceed.
The highlighted ‘diamond’ is the end point your bot needs to reach. This puzzle has three rounds, each with a different end point. The start point stays the same.
Once you’ve entered your instructions, press the Submit button to the bottom-left.
The solution for round one is:
1: Right, 2: Left, 3: Right, 4: Right, 5: Right
The solution for round two is:
1: Left, 2: Right, 3: Left, 4: Left, 5: Left, 6: Right
The solution for round three is:
1: Right, 2: Left, 3: Left, 4: Left, 5: Left, 6: Right, 7: Right, 8: Left
Once you’re done with this puzzle, the second floor vent will be shut. Go back down to the first floor now.
Use the screwdriver on the first floor vent to close it. If you’ve already closed it before, don’t open it.
Now head back outside and examine the storage shed to find a barrel of Neroblight.
Use the Print Chemicals (the Neroblight) on the atmosphere controller to the left of the lighthouse. Next, use the hose in your inventory with the print chemicals, and then finally, use the washers from your inventory on the print chemicals.
Now examine the vent lights to the right of the atmosphere controller. Provided you’ve followed all the above instructions and only the elevator vent is open, go ahead and use the atmosphere controller now.
Head inside the lighthouse after this, and go into the elevator. Interact with the hatch and use the up arrow on top of the screen to go up the lighthouse at long last.
Here, you’ll find a locked cabinet. Interact with it to find that its locked.
Then, interact with the three other objects in the room: the printing press, the telescope, and the junk pile. You’ll find the key on whichever is the third item you examine.
Use the key on the cabinet now.
Next, interact with the Reporter’s body and then interact with the key in her head twice.
After the sequence that follows, you’ll be presented with the murder board and asked to identify the Keychain Killer.
You can choose any suspect, with the only penalty for the wrong suspect being an achievement. You will be returned to the murder board if you select the wrong answer.
The correct answer here is the Angler. Click on the Angler’s key and then submit your answer to continue to the next chapter.
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