Rise Of The Night Creatures

Time appears to be short if all tags are not obtained.

So there are more than four tags to be found? OK, I'll try searching again. Thanks!

Many are linked to food and most can be missed. HINTS!

I have the first four tags (black dragon room, pantry, room with ghouls, room with schooner on the door), but I'm guessing the fifth one is in the back yard, and the door to that is locked. I've tried everything I could think of to open it. Is there a key hidden elsewhere in the house that I should be looking for?

The order I listed the hints in is (more or less) the order in which you can find the tags.

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.

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.