dedaki on 20/2/2022 at 17:24
Quote Posted by Christine
There is an attic near the mechanist temple. Look up when you walk through the streets. You will recognise the flat by a plant at the window. :)
[spoiler]I read the book in this attic that the accountant was behind all this[/spoiler] but the objective doesn't tick off. Am I in the wrong place?
baeuchlein on 21/2/2022 at 16:01
No, this is the right book/diary. But there are some other things you have to do to uncover the whole truth.
I think the following is necessary to get the objective to tick off:
1. Read the accountant's diary (which you have done) lying in the attic far above street level near the Mechanist temple main entrance.
2. Read banker Lehman's diary. You can find it in Lehman's apartment in a niche on top of the bookcases. Use a rope arrow to get there. Lehman's apartment is close to the bank, in a large house with a swimming pool in the garden. One way into the apartment is to go to Lehman's balcony in the bank, turn right and climb or jump over the railing, follow the metallic ledge until you reach an adjacent flat roof, and go to the window of the next house. You can open it and jump towards it, then mantle up and inside - but it's better to save your game before that. After successfully making the jump, you are just one door away from Lehman's apartment.
3. Read one or two readables of the third man present during the meeting of the two bank job masterminds. Check the banker's diary (see spoiler above) to find out that someone with a peculiar face look appeared at the meeting of banker Lehman and the head of the gendarmerie, Doyle. That is the man whose readables you need to find. Actually, this man is Fantomas, who runs a secret casino in the city. This casino is located behind the large shopping mall on one side of the plaza with the bank and gendarmerie entrances. To enter this casino, you have to find an abandoned flower shop near the Mechanist temple main entrance. Smash the door open with the sword, or try to climb through one of the broken windows. Advancing further on the only path available, you will reach a location where a black-clad "thief guard" waits behind an iron gate. That's where you need to go, but this guy looks tough... Another way to the courtyard with the guard leads through the shopping mall, but I am not certain whether you can enter it from the other side.
When you have entered the casino, search it thoroughly for a somewhat hidden apartment with Mr. Fantomas inside. You should find him and one readable there. The other one lies on a desk of one of the casino "employees". Both readables have details about someone named Tjark.
4. Read the other mastermind's book. This is Doyle's case book, located in the gendarmerie building. Unfortunately, the book is hidden. A secret switch in the building would be nice to find, so look for it. It is located in the armoury and takes the form of a burnt out torch. Use it to reveal a compartment with a book inside that contains surprisingly unimportant stuff. Hmmm... Anyway, read it.
5. The last piece of information I can remember for sure is the written account of a witness of the mastermind's secret meeting. This man is Mario, a drunk who has been arrested by Doyle in order to remove him from the public before he could spill out what he knows of the bank robbery plans. Find poor Mario in the holding cells of the gendarmerie building. He is asleep in the first cell, but a written note tells you his story. Read it.
6. If that's not enough yet, you might have to find something in Tjark's hideout in the harbour warehouse - I'm not sure. Go to the harbour area and look for a high building with a crane and some wooden platform hanging from it. Shoot a vine or rope arrow into the wooden platform, climb up, and jump into the opening leading inside. A hatch in the ceiling of the middle floor is locked, but if you searched Fantomas' place, you should have obtained a key for the hatch. Watch out, there's a trap up there! Use a fire arrow, or throw some lit flares up there, to trigger the explosion without getting caught in it. Climb up and search the little room. You should find one share of the bank job loot, and perhaps some readable. As I said, I am not sure about this anymore.
Once you're done with all this, the objective telling you to gain information about the double crossers' plans should tick off.
RJS66 on 21/2/2022 at 17:10
I seem to be missing a secret area in the casino. Anyone got a hint for locating it?
baeuchlein on 21/2/2022 at 21:06
Did you find the casino owner, Fantomas, already? If you did not, then you have two options: You can enter his area from the casino's inside by going through a fireplace, preferably after dousing the fire, and look for a rather well hidden secret button there. If you can't find it, turn left after going through the fireplace, and check the area around the lamp standing there very, very carefully. Two buttons are to be found there, and one of them should help you.
The other option is best used if you are still on the outside of the casino. You can go around the casino, and check a tower-like building at the end of the path around the main building. There should be an opening in the wall of that building, in the section between the outer wall of the casino area and the tower's wall. You can drop down there, but you need something to slow down your fall. A slowfall potion would be ideal.
I think this is the only secret area in the casino. If not, tell us what makes you think that there is (another?) secret area there, and maybe we have more ideas.
RJS66 on 21/2/2022 at 21:46
Quote Posted by baeuchlein
Did you find the casino owner,
Fantomas, already? If you did not, then you have two options: You can enter his area from the casino's inside by
going through a fireplace, preferably after dousing the fire, and look for a rather well hidden secret button there. If you can't find it,
turn left after going through the fireplace, and check the area around the lamp standing there very, very carefully. Two buttons are to be found there, and one of them should help you.The other option is best used if you are still on the outside of the casino. You can go
around the casino, and check a tower-like building at the end of the path around the main building. There should be an opening in the wall of that building, in the section between the outer wall of the casino area and the tower's wall. You can drop down there, but you need something to slow down your fall. A slowfall potion would be ideal.I think this is the only secret area in the casino. If not, tell us what makes you think that there is (another?) secret area there, and maybe we have more ideas.
I had already been there. So, I did not miss any secret area. I was going through Mr Munkeepants post from page 3 where the six readables are identified. I had read all, but the objective still does not tick off. So I was going back through them to see if I was missing something. Still not ticking off.
zappenduster on 23/2/2022 at 09:05
Quote Posted by dedaki
I read the book in this attic that the accountant was behind all this but the objective doesn't tick off. Am I in the wrong place?
Don't get me wrong but I doubt that you
really read that the accountant was behind all this in that attic book. Quite the opposite. :rolleyes:
Quote Posted by RJS66
I was going through Mr Munkeepants post from page 3 where the six readables are identified. I had read all, but the objective still does not tick off. So I was going back through them to see if I was missing something. Still not ticking off.
Sorry for the late answer but the only explanation might be that you read the readables and made a reload in between. Or did you confound the readables? You can't miss the goal as long as you frob (and - recommended - read) all books and scrolls in the town. :cool:
Quote Posted by baeuchlein
The other option is best used if you are still on the outside of the casino. You can go around the casino, and check a tower-like building at the end of the path around the main building.
BTW this
tower-like building is ment to be the chimney of that old abandoned factory. :cheeky:
dedaki on 23/2/2022 at 15:52
I completed all the objectives except the one about the Mechanists. [spoiler]It has something to do with the secret little gate between the generators in the Mechanist church? This gate takes me to a hammerite area but i have no keys and I see absolutely nothing to do there. I climbed the wall to the abandoned hammerite church but there is nothing there except some fire arrows[/spoiler]
baeuchlein on 23/2/2022 at 18:51
The Hammerite area has some puzzles (and even keys!) to offer, but these are not relevant for any objective (except maybe the loot goal on highest difficulty). The Mechanist objective can be completed by reading a plaque on the outside of the Mechanist building, not far from the door, near some shaft where people can dump their dead (!) in. After that, some investigations inside the Mechanist building are necessary; I think you have to read a book in a conference room, and read some readables in the main factory room, and also use the controls in that room. The aim is to find out what the machine in that room is for.
However, AFAIK, the Mechanist objective is optional, although some translations might not tell you about that little detail.
downwinder on 23/2/2022 at 21:22
the mech goal here is how i did it when you enter factory go all the way down hall to right you will be a machine what spits out food,but you have to activate the lever a bit to the right of that then go back to the machine running and look at it,objective ticks off as garrett says something
that is how i completed that objective
