Ep2: Get the Compass + Second Fragment
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Sep 20, 2019 @ 11:41pm1,0677
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This is one of the worst-telegraphed puzzles I've encountered in a P&C game in decades.
If you're not using a walkthrough and you're actually trying stuff out, there's a good chance that you'll screw yourself on this puzzle. (And if you go to the existing walkthroughs on Steam out of desperation, they won't explain what you did wrong). You'll wind up at a dead-end for the whole Episode.
Even after you've hit the dead-end, the game still won't ever clearly communicate to you:
- that a compass is something you need,
- that a compass is something you could ever acquire,
or - where you might acquire a compass.
So, here's a guide for anyone else stuck like I was.
I appreciate you rating this guide up if you used it.
Finding the Compass
- The compass is in the backyard of Wright Manor, in the statue garden.
- To get it you need to make the 4 statues on the corners take off their masks, which causes the statue in the center to lower its hands and drop the compass on the ground:
- The 4 statues around the corners depict 4 different figures or characters. Clockwise from top-left, they are: Sage, Clergy, Queen, and Peasant.
- While almost nothing in the game has communicated it to you, each of the 4 statues' masks is controlled by 4 panels in various rooms in/around the house. You can change each of the 4 panels between 2 states, corresponding to "Mask On" and "Mask Off." (You could be forgiven for missing this since none of the panels looks anything like a mask, or a statue, or any of the 4 figures.)
Getting the Second Fragment
I'll throw this behind spoilers.
Go to the Graveyard. Now that you have the compass that you didn't know you needed, clicking the anonymous tombstone will suddenly matter; like a complete maniac, you'll promptly dig up the grave without any hesitation (and with your bare hands, apparently) to recover the 2nd fragment.
This sequence of puzzles is a real low point in the series so far (which I otherwise rather enjoy), and it makes me very sad.
Go to the Graveyard. Now that you have the compass that you didn't know you needed, clicking the anonymous tombstone will suddenly matter; like a complete maniac, you'll promptly dig up the grave without any hesitation (and with your bare hands, apparently) to recover the 2nd fragment.
This sequence of puzzles is a real low point in the series so far (which I otherwise rather enjoy), and it makes me very sad.