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I can't figure out how to get the belladonna (and the final dog tag), though. If the belladonna is outside in the herb garden or the back yard, is there a way to get there?

Well, I got into the back yard by testing my luck, finding a pickaxe in the room with the fireplace, breaking the aquarium in another room and retrieving a brass key, then opening the door to the back yard so I could get the belladonna and the last dog tag. But after that, when I tried the study door, I still got killed.

My experience has been that trying the door without all the tags can be lethal even if you have only the 'right' ones.

If you have all five tags, you're aware that there is one too many for the lock. Is the combination giving you trouble? If so...



If you're dying despite entering the correct combination, you might have been too slow about it all.

Okay, through trial and error I figured out which one is the decoy tag and got through the study door.

After going through the study door, I had to get out of the house, evade the militia and find the calamus root and blood of a ghoul. Also, I had to previously obtain the spikenard while avoiding the decoy dog tag. Managed to get rid of both the lycanthropy and the plague, and then it got easy after that, since the crazed chainsaw guy was quickly dispatched with the sparkling axe. There wasn't even an actual fight.

"jewels" but the hints to use the right one at the right time (especially the jewels you have to show to the trial masters, near the end) force you to be very carefull and adquire HINTS and not THE DEFINITIVE, right answer. Meaning I like that you have to make the association between "jewel name" and "Trial Master" name by yourselve

you get the clue about which shadow member is the strongest only by killing yourselve.

failing some of the "Trial Masters" tasks don't instantly means you get *one shooted* and that you can actually go on.

final allies that help you in the last battle

The ninja, of facking course!

found every contest at least once.

The one that follows looking like *a cleric*"

"The only thing you have to fear is fear itself." - thats the kind of feeling I getting when I read the passages with references to the cleric.

I guess my hint was too obscure, then? Hopefully it's obvious retroactively.

Also, it's possible to win after picking up two different deadly curses (you got one), or without getting any (you missed one).

And the web version of the book has a third deadly curse which will kill you if it triggers. Getting it to trigger is the real challenge.

I just didn't know which one was the decoy tag, so by a trial and error process I managed to discover it was the one in the ghoul-guarded pantry. I'd like to try this game again to see if I can win without picking up any deadly curses, because the fight in the ghoul-guarded pantry (to get the spikenard) is really difficult.

Played again, and it looks like you get infected with the plague if you check out the fireplace and get bitten by a monkey, which I avoided this time.

damn rat box