Elevator in chapter 9 bug

[Practical Fashion Taigo]

I can't remember what I did, but I think I left the second part of Turnip Hills to go back and bring the pipe to Rob. Now I can't get back there, and the one elevator that leads there (the one requiring the purple keycard) won't work. Is there something I'm missing, or did I just bug it out?

[Oskutin]

Did you close the door?
If you have already descended, you can unlock the metal gate at bottom floor of stairwell tower to gain acces to main square.

[Practical Fashion Taigo]

I did, but I didn't unlock the gate before i went back to the main square. I found a workaround though. I jumped from the lowest floor i could go to in that building onto the ladder in the garden.

[oku]

I remember that jump, tricky bit took more than a few tries but oh that big cache of deposit beer cans :)

[TheChef779]

**SOLUTION** I did the exact same thing OP did and boy, was I lost. I have an extreme aversion to googling for help in puzzle games like this but I was at the end of my rope. I googled "elevator glitch" as a generic possible solution to my stuck-ness and stumbled upon this thread.

- sort-of-spoiler -
Yes, as the developer commented above, after taking the elevator down from the office area (after the bridge) you must go down the stairwell and open the stairwell door to have continued access to that area. If you do what I and OP did - which is jump over the balcony down to the area below instead of unlocking the door - you will not be able to access that other area via the elevator any longer. I saw no way to rectify this other than load a previous save. Was unfortunate to lose all that progress but that's the way she goes.

It may not be so much of a "bug" as it is maybe something that the developers didn't anticipate the user doing (jumping down off the balcony instead of going down the stairwell).

[|Yucca|]

This sounds like an issue though. The player shouldn't get stuck when going about normally. I've opened an issue to our tracker.