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Right. Just started the game yesterday. I love Lovecraft and so love the game. I want to love the game.

I have shot the wolves, the rats, and got everything to get.

And I'm just walking around. For hours. Explored the caves, explored the road north, been in every house except the locked ones. The heart key doesn't work anywhere. The locked door is locked. The two "heavily" locked doors in the forest are still locked. It's all locked.

In the inventory is a book symbol thing (the third row, under the swords) but no book in it. I see notes in houses, invisible ink, but what to do with it? You can't pick any of it up. You can't read anything. It doesn't add up!

Help!
b.m.

Maybe this Walkthrough helps you!

Thank you Scraper!

Right. I just start getting into it, and I'm stuck again. I have opened every room except the laboratory and the one with the skull door.

I try to use the oil lamp on the oil drum (?!) according to the walk through, and it says I can't. I have used the three plugs (though they are still in the inventory, strangely). There is nothing else. Just the oil lamp won't let itself be "used" on the drum.

Any assistance would be most helpful as there is little to do now!

b.m.

If they are in inventory then you just haven't used them. Are you sure that you put them correctly?

'Cause if you did it correctly...

Thank you for this Scraper but I'm still stuck.

Everything is dead or open, and the Lab door is locked. I put the plugs in the holes in the wall in the order given in the walkthru, but they are still in the inventory after even though the scroll text says "you put the plug in the hole"!

The lamp- I walk up to the barrel of oil, right up to it, click inventory, then oil lamp, then USE, and the scroll text says you cannot use this item here, there is no use for this item here, this item can't be used here, you can't figur out how to use this item here, etc.

Argh!

TO use somthing you open inventory, click the item, click use, right? It's worked so far!

Well, I can say atleast about the Oil Lamp that you need it only in one place.
It's in one scary and fully dark place... That's all I'm gonna say about Oil Lamp.

But about the Plugs, I cannot say more than: Put them in right places in first try and it should work...

If don't, then I don't know...

Hi Scraper,

I have just FINALLY got the plug thing right, I was doing the order wrong!

Thanks for your help, I will now see what lies in wait...

B.M.

OK, good to hear!

But now I'll have to say that if you stuck in some place, I cannot help you, 'cause I haven't finished the game... I didn't have every items to finish the game and I didn't now where to look.

Ah. Well.

I seem to have followed the walkthru all the way, and I have done the triangle fire thing with the amulets, and ... and..., now what? The walkthru says to walk out of the cellar and that's it! But I walk out of the cellar and nothing happens. Does this mean I have finished the game? Shouldn't there be an end screen or something?

All the doors are open, everything -except the wobbly thing in the catacombs- is dead. There is nothing left to do or to try or to get or to kill (apart from the black thing but I don't know if it dies)!

Have I finished ?

Or am I meant to somehow get into that round underground hole thing earlier in the cellar which is sealed and which "even a tool" won't open?

[some observations: There are some really good things about the game, and some parts are actually very effective and scary, but the clues and objectives are impossible to understand unless you have the walkthru to tell you what to do next. There should be an "objectives" screen like in Neverwinter Nights for example to make it easier to know what is supposed to happen next. Also, when a combination is necessary (plugs eg.) the object used should not still be in your inventory, it should go. You shouldn't have to use all of them before they leave your bag. And you should be able to get them back if you have done the combination wrong. And there's spelling and other language mistakes galore. But quite creepy and effective! Well done guys!]