The Haruspex spoiler free walk-through (2020)

A point by point spoiler free walk-through for The Haruspex.

General Tips

This guide was adapted from the guide written by Halfgild Wynac which was translated by The LxR.
All credit goes to them. Thank you for your fantastic work.
Please refer to the map created by Halfgild Wynac.
I have tried to keep the guide short, so I have not included exact directions to NPC houses.

13ventrm's general guide to daily survival is really essential reading, so please read that!

When you are doing quests you generally want to befriend the NPC you are talking to. Being rude usually results in quests failing. One of the major themes of this game is manipulation. The NPCs will lie and manipulate you, so do the same to them. Play everyone off against each other so you can buy enough bread to get through the day.

That being said, it is very easy to mess up quests by choosing the wrong dialog options, so save before you talk to NPCs.

Shmowders are arguably the most important item in the game. You will want to hoard as many as you can for the last day.
On the other hand, I did not find medicine very important. Reloading a save is probably a better option if you get hit by a cloud or a rat. I never bothered looting houses either, because you get so much money and items from doing quests.

It is necessary to understand certain terms in order to fully understand the story in this game. I have also written a mini encyclopedia (with spoiler tags). So please consult that if you are confused about who is who and what is what.

The Haruspex's scenario took me 19 hours to finish. I was also editing this guide, and I did a lot of the unnecessary side quests so it can be done a lot faster, but it is still a very long game.

Controls
I – opens inventory
Q – opens Quest menu
P – opens player statistics
L –opens letter menu.
When you see a sigil on the bottom left of the screen you probably received a letter or got a quest update, so check the appropriate screen.

Trading
When trading with an NPC, click the item you want (on the left) and then click the item you will give them (on the right). You can choose multiple items. Then click the V button at the top right. If you want to cancel, click the X button on the top right.

When fighting you want to swing before you move forward because the animations are a bit slow.

Food
Nuts -1% (save them for trading with kids)
Crackers/biscuits -2%
Dried Fish -7%
Eggs – 12%
Canned Vegetables -12%
Milk -7%
Smoked meat – 17%
Dried Meat – 17%
Loaf of Bread – 25%
Fresh meat – 25%
Fresh fish – 25%
Lemons increase hungry by 10 but increase immunity.

Play the Bachelor first.
Burakh or the Haruspex as he is also called plays quite differently.
Get used to doing a lot of running away in the early game.
If you are being chased, enter and then exit a house to lose your pursuers.
He can collect and make herb mixtures.
But I didnt really bother with herbs much in my playthrough outside of quests.
Use proverb's map to find the herb locations in town, you can find it on steam.
He can also cut organs out of dead bodies to make "dead gruel".
As a result his inventory space fills up quickly.
You can trade the organs with worms for herbs.
You can store unneeded quest items in important NPC houses.
You can buy medicines from Var the Hunchback for 4 organs each.
I usually sleep at Older Vlad's house because it is in the centre of the map.
I ran into a glitch on my first play through wherein NPC's did not spawn.
If this happens to you I suggest you restart your playthrough as soon as possible as you will not be able trade and there is no known way to fix this error.
Reputation is not too hard to handle as long as you dont kill any NPCs.
There is a Steam Achievement for seeing every play. If you want to get this achievement sleeping at Older Vlad's house is a good idea.

Map

This map shows the shops and character locations.

Day 1

Loot the bodies of the men you killed and take their organs.
Talk to the two bird masks.
Sneak towards the men by the fire using shift.
Watch the cut scene.
Talk to Notkin

Main Quest - The killer of Simon, The Killer of Isidor
Talk to Older Vlad at his house from 11 am. (It will be locked before then)
You can rest at Capella's part of the house if you are too early.
Talk to Notkin about the Bachelor.
Talk to Bad Grief.
Meet the Bachelor at Eve's place at 6pm.
Your reputation will be restored. For now.
Go and buy food for tomorrow while it is still cheap.
Go and steal the bread and milk from Victoria's grave while you are in the area.

Quest - The Filthy little Toad and Waiths
Talk to Notkin
Go and talk to Bad Grief and take the same quest from him too.
Meet Licka at the place marked on your map.
If you kill him you will lose 10 reputation, (he will drop a Shmowder).
You will also get a Steam Achievement.
But you can get 5 shotgun shells from Bad Grief and a revolver and ammo from Notkin.
If you let him go he will help you on day 9 and you will get 10 reputation from Bad Grief and Notkin.

Quest - The survivor
Go to Grace's lodge at the cemetery.
Talk to Grace.
Go back to Notkin and Bad Grief.
Return to where you started the game and save.
Fight the bandits, strafe their throwing knives. Loot the bodies.
If you have enough health go and talk to the man Grace told you about.
You can give him your blood for a transfusion.
Take the blood to the man at the cemetery.
You will get 30 reputation, ask the man for his knife.

The Family Home
Go to your father Isidor's house.
Talk to the patrol man outside.
You don't need to kill him, just go and hide in a shop to make him stop chasing you.
Go to the Termitary. Kill the Patrolmen outside.
Get the supplies and the key.
Enter your father's house. (You'll probably have to kill that Patrolman now).
Go in with your knife raised and kill all the rats (use shift to crouch).
Talk to Sticky inside.
Talk to Grace.
Go and talk to Murky. (This quest is optional and has no reward)

Day 2

Main Quest - The Inheritance of a Warden
Read Older Vlad's letter.
Talk to Older Vlad
Talk to Alexander Saburov
Go to Apity's house and get your inheritance.
It will appear on the bed.
You’ll get 4,700 coins, Tavro, herbs, herb recipes.
Talk to younger Vlad
Talk to the Bachelor
Go to the building Vlad mentioned enter the north-east door.
Mix the herbs according to the reciepes
Take what you made to the Bachelor.

Quest - Gatherers' bride
Talk to one of the worms by the hut in the swamp.
He will ask you to look for his daughter
Talk to the bride at the worm hut near the cemetery.
If you let her stay with her love she’ll give you more herbs (6)
If you tell her to go home, her father will give you another herb recipe.

Quest - Brown twyre
Read Andrei Stamatin’s letter
Collect 10 stems of brown Twyre
You can also buy it from Worms behind the cemetary and in the swamp.
But you will need a lot of organs.
Its perhaps easier to simple go around the town and stepp collecting them yourself.
When you go back to the pub talk to Maria first before giving Andrei the herbs.
Tell Andrey you have found new mixtures, he will stay.
Maria will give you 5,000 coins and a another herb recipe.
Andrei will give you 4000 coins
He will also give you the location of a shop which is buying any item for crazy amounts.
(it is the clothing shop behind the Horns, in the Bridge Square district)

Day 3

You can make “dead porridges” from today.
You need immunity mixtures and infected organs (ones from quest rewards are better).
They will give you health damage but will also give you a useful effect.

Quest - The Brand
Read Olgimskiy’s morning letter.
Talk to Aspity, and go to the house she mentions in the Tanners.
Talk to the Butcher on the second floor.
Go back and talk to Olgimskiy.

Quest - Dead tissue
Read the Bachelor's letter at 10 am
1) You can visit the cemetery, kill the patrol man and take the blood from the
corpse. The blood is special, so you better take it.
2) Or take an organ from any infected person. (easy)
The Bachelor will reward you with healing items of your choice.

Quest - Capella's Troubles
Talk to Capella
Go to Notkin.
If you fight the bandits outside, 3 more will spawn
If you don’t want to fight ask the Bachelor for help.
After getting rid of the bandits Notkin will give you a shotgun
(or plus 10 reputation if you refuse the shotgun)
Talk to Capella again to get 3,000 coins.
If you don’t fight the bandits you will only get 1,000 coins

Quest - On the known recipes of the Burakh family
Read Notkin’s letter
Mix any 10 mixtures and bring them to Notkin.
He will take the first 10 you have in your inventory.
So throw the ones you want to keep on the ground before talking.
(There is no reward for this quest)

Notkin is now selling maps of the infected areas for money rather than razors.

Day 4

Quest - Mysterious blood
Do not finish this quest first because it will automatically end this day.
Read The Bachelor's letter at 7:15 am.
Go and talk to The Bachelor
Visit Lara (you need 70% reputation to talk to her).
Go to Rubin at the warehouse.
Put all your best items in the trunk by the exit.
Talk to Rubin.
When you leave you will be apprehended.
You will wake up in the prison tomorrow at 2pm
OR
You can avoid this by visiting Rubin at 23:30
Talk to him, then wait for the day to end.
Since the next day has started the police will be gone.
(I don’t know what effect this has on in game quests.)

Quest - The weapon stash
Talk to Sticky
Go to the cemetery and talk to the boy called Stub.
He will take you to a house (watch out for the 3 bandits.)
Use a lock pick to open the house.
It is an infected house, so be quick.
Go upstairs to the bedroom.
Take the shotgun and the shells on the bed then leave the house.

Quest – The Looters
Talk to Notkin
Go to the locked up district – the Tanners district, where Sticky lives
Enter any house, holding “shift” to stealth enter.
Kill the marauders, take the crowbars and loot the house.
You need to find 4 crowbars.
Return to Notkin – get 2 revolver bullets, 5 shells and 10 rifle ammo.

Day 5

If you didn’t glitch the quest yesterday you will be in prision.
(You should probably do the glitch because the prison sucks)
You will be hurt, and will have lost a lot of reputation.
Clouds of infection will constantly be hitting you.
Take everything from the dead guard.
Kill the other guards with his gun.
Before leaving you can help the infected for a reputation boost.

Main Quest - The Quivering heart
Read the Bachelor’s letter in the morning.
Go and talk to him.
Go talk to Aspity or you can talk with Willow at the pub.
There are two options, the Herb Bride or Willow.

The Herb Bride
Talk to the butchers at one of the herb gatherers.
Kill the three of them.
Take what you need from the bride.
She also has the fourth herb recipe, and you will get plus 40 reputation.
Visit the Bachelor
Your reward 2000-3000 money and a blue vaccine.

Willow
Talk to Willow at the pub.
Then talk to Anna and agree to help.
If you can’t fight, meet Willow behind Isidor’s house at 9pm.
Take what you need from her.
The Bachelor will give you nothing, you will lose 10 reputation.
But if you talked Anna, tell her not to be cheap her for 10,000 coins.

Quest – Younger Vlad’s Well
Go and talk to Younger Vlad.
Talk to Vlad but disagree to raise your reward to 14,000 coins
Vlad will also give you 50 kerosene containers even if you refuse the job.
In the well use the map or always turn left.
Talk to the “person” in the last room.
The exit is next to him.
Return to Vlad for your reward – 7000 coins, and 2 herb recipes.

Steam Achivement- Rat races
Read the doghead’s letter.
Catch a rat by sneaking and pressing E
Race it at the warehouse, each win results in a 500 coin reward.

Day 6

Quest - Bull's blood
Read the Bachelor’s letter at midnight, visit him at 7:15
After 25 minutes you will get Clara’s letter.
Go to Grace's lodge and agree to help.
Go to the short block at the Termitary.
Go to the top floor and talk to Tava.
Give her 50 yellow Alpah-tablets, to get a herb recipe.
(If you haven't been hoarding tablets you will have to visit every chemist in town)
(It'll cost about 12,500 for 50 worthless yellow tablets)
Find an infected organ to give to the bull.
Go to Raga Burrow behind the cemetery.
Watch the cut scene.
Take the blood to the Bachelor.

Quest – The Changeling seeks an answer
Read Anna’s letter at 7:00
Visit Anna, agree to help Clara.
Walk around the Theatre and find the Tunnels.
Be careful as they are full of infection clouds.
Talk to the Prophet.
Return to Clara to get a herb recipe.

Quest – They call the Mistresses out
Talk to Victor or read his letter.
Talk to Maria.
Head to the crypt, take the diary and leave.
You can avoid combat here by entering the crypt again.
Give Maria the diary for 2,000 coins.

Day 7

The Inquisitor, Aglaja Lilich has arrived
You can now make Panaceas.
Cape repellent and the mask (-25% infection) are sold at shops from today.
You can fight butchers at The Circle of Suok in front of the Apiary.
You have to fight hand to hand, but you will get blood as a reward.
Think of it as training for the rest of the games combat.

Quest – Neither man or bull
Read The Bachelor's letter, visit him.
Go to the Cathedral.
Talk to Taya in the Termitary.
From this day she will be on the third floor of the long block.
Go to the town council, talk to the guards.
Go to the Hump Man’s house.
Talk to the young men there.
Go and talk to Victor.
Go to the Cathedral and talk to the Inquisitor.
Go to the Abattoir.
There are two paths in the Abattoir, the left leads to the Foreman.
The right leads to the railroad exit, it will save you a lot of time later.
Take the blood sample from the Foreman.
Prepare a panacea from the blood and a Tywrine mixture.
Return to the Inquisitor.

Quest – Testing the Panacea
After finishing the above quest.
This will destroy the panacea.
(You can get another one on day 10, and survive by trading powders with the little girls.)
Go to the theatre and talk to the mask.
It will infect you.
Don’t heal yourself yet, head straight to the Inquisitor.
(this quest is optional I think)

Quest – The Sacrifice
Read Capella's letter.
Go and talk to Taya.
Talk to the worms in the short block at the Apiary.
Talk to Taya after. (There is no reward)

Day 8

Quest – Whose blood was it?
Talk to the Inquisitor.
Talk to Taya.
Ask Notkin and Capella about where Clara is.
Go to see Clara at the Changeling’s wagon, south-east of the station.
Save before you talk to her.
Trick her into telling you the rest of the story.
Return to Taya and tell her the correct endingw
(“…The prince tricked the gardener into pulling up a different flower…
...a new garden grew, a hundred times better than the previous…”)
Go to the Abattoir and talk to Foreman Oyun
Visit Aspity
Talk to Foreman Oyun again.
Talk to the Inquisitor to finish the quest.

Quest – A son will not be punished for his father's sins.
Read Georgiy’s letter.
Talk to Georgiy.
Talk to Katerina
Talk to Taya
You can choose Younger Vlad since he is not your Adherent.
You will still be able to save the Bachelor to the end of the game.
If you choose Younger Vlad, Georgiy Kain will give you 3,000 coins.

Quest – Below the ground
Talk to Younger Vlad about the well.
Enter the tunnels from the Theatre.
The four muggers down there have a lot of ammo so this quest is worth doing.
Find the book below Vlad's well, which is now blocked.
Just keep following the wall on your right.
Return the book to Younger Vlad for 4,000 coins.

Day 9

The army has arrived. You can buy army supplies at the shops now.
Watch the play at the theatre in the morning to get a Steam achievement.
Read Aglaja and the Bachelor’s letters at 7:15

Quest – The Defilers
Talk to General Blok at the Town Council.
Make sure you are well rested then talk to Elder Oyun.
Drink the drink he gives you.
(Don’t bother drinking coffee during the quest, drink it after)
Strafe walk to move quicker
Visit Eve and talk to her (go via the railway to save time)
Go to the prison in Factory building 3 to find the Bachelor.
(if you didn’t kill the doghead on day 1 he will help you now)
To free the bachelor you can bring them 30 rifle ammo (!!!) or kill them.
Return to the Elder to finish the quest.

Quest – Signal fires
Read Capella’s letter at 6pm.
Talk to the Inquistor and Capella at Capella's house.
(you don’t need to go to Sticky's house)
Go to the rocks in front of the cemetery and talk to Stump
Go to the first fire near the Abattoir
Kill the three people there before Stump catches up
Afterwards tell Stump to light the fire.
Go and light the other 3 fires.
One of the people guarding one of the fires may have a Shmowder!
After lighting all the fires head to Sticky's house.
Talk to the girl outside.
Go talk to Capella.
(There is no reward for this quest)

Day 10

Quest – The Udurg
Read the letters from Aglaja and the Bachelor at 7:15
Go and talk to the Bachelor
Make sure you have full health and at least on bandage.
Go to see Oyun at the Abbatoir.
The drink will make you very hungry, but don't worry, you have enough time.
Go to Raga Burrow.
Sleep on the stone at the top. (crouch and press E)
Visit all three herb gatherers and kill the butchers.
Visit the Elder and ask "who is the Udurg?"
Have something to eat.
Talk to the Bachelor.
Talk to Capella.
Talk to Katerina.
Talk to the Bachelor.

Quest - Who'll feed the doll
Read Capella’s letter.
Go to Mishka’s wagon and talk to her.
Go to the three stones sticking out of the ground.
Follow the trail of herbs to find the doll on the island.
Give it to Mishka to get panacea blood in return.
Head to the Polyhedron.
Find the dark spot near the bottom of the stairs and press E.
You will find more pancea blood.
Talk to Murky again (if you like)

Quest - Bos Turokh is coming
Go to Taya and talk to her prisoner (either Older or Younger Vlad)
Talk to Taya
Head to the bone pole
Talk to all the worms there.
Talk to Notkin.
Talk to Sticky.
Talk to Mishka.
(Go to Grace's lodge, talk to the girl there. optional)
Go to the wagon near Mishka's home talk to Grace there.
Make her promise not to interfere with the soldiers.
Go back to the bone pole.
Talk to the three worms to get panacea blood.
Talk to the leader worm.

Day 11

Sell most of your items at the end of this day and stock up on powders and panaceas.
You wont need weapons or ammo tomorrow.

Quest of the day - The Ultimate trail of the Warden
Read Clara's letter at 7:15
Go and talk to her, and accept her help.
After talking to her visit Elder Oyun.
Jump into the pit in the room next to Oyun.
If you didn't ask for Clara's help you will die.
In the passageway talk to Clara.
Talk to the women.
Choose one of them.
Walk to the end of the tunnel.
Talk to Oyun.
Fight the boss.
It will take 20 direct hits to the head to put it down.

You can also finish this quest by;
Talking to Ospina, Younger/Older Vlad or the Bachelor
Talk to Oyun about what you learned from them.
Fight the boss.

Quest - Bos Turokh departs
Read Notkin's letter at 11 am.
Meet him at his warehouse.
Go to the bone pole in the wasteland
Talk to the Corpsman there.
Go and talk to Captain Longin.
He is in the wagon were Grace was yesterday.
Talk to the Bachelor. (There is no reward)

Quest - The Spirit will bow before the power
Read Capella's letter at 12:00
Ask the Bachelor for the password (Fortified)
Tell it to the dogheads at the top of the Polyhedron.
Talk to Khan, tell him about Capella's request.
Visit Capella to get your reward, her necklace.

Day 12

Read Aglaja's letter.
The last day. Well done for making it this far.

Visit the last theatre performance before 7:00 in the morning.
The Theatre will be closed later.

Clara and The Bachelor will ask you to heal their Adherents.
If you have enough panacea and powders – do so, but don’t forget about your own Adherents.
If you heal their Adherents they will also come to the meeting.

Here are the lists of Adherents:
The Utopians: Eve, Georgiy, Victor, Andrey, Peter, Mark, Maria, Younger Vlad.
The Termits: Khan, Capella, Murky, Notkin, Sticky, Grace, Taya.
The Humbles: Lara, Yulia, Bad Grief, Rubin, Alexander, Katerina, Anna, Aspity and Oyun.

If you cure at least two groups of Adherents a letter from the Authorities will arrive.
Step on the drawing inside the inner chamber. Talk to everyone inside.

Quest - Last decision of the Town
This quest will automatically start at 7pm at the Cathedral if:
You completed all the daily quests.
None of your Adherents are dead or infected

Talk to everyone and then tell Blok your decision.......

[Masquerade]

is it even possilble to get enough cures for every bound? I ended with 5 panacea and 1 shmowder

[whowasphone404]

Thank you for the corrections Reniachii, I will correct the guide!

[Unseen]

Man day 10 is heavy as hell, they sure ask a lot from the haruspex on this day.

[Renka]

also for the quest Testing the Panacea on the same say, you need to talk to the inquisitor to first obtain it

[Renka]

The 7th day, on the quest The Sacrfice, the letter is not from Taya but from Capella. Capella asks you to first talk to Taya and then go to the short block.

[whowasphone404]

That is great information Sargon! Thank you! I will amend the guide!

[Sargon Aelther]

"There is a Steam Achievement for seeing a play on the 9th day. However I do not know if you have to see every performance before that. In any case, best watch them all."

The achievement is for watching all 11 plays with any combination of characters. I think this idea that it's related to the 9th one comes from the fact that Bachelor will "normally" be unable to watch the 9th one and so 9th one remains the only missing one, which other characters can acquire. It is possible to still get the 9th one with the bachelor, by intentionally failing the main quest, watching the play, then reloading your save before your intentional failure.

[O`Malley]

For some reason, I cannot seem to find any spawnings of the twyre.

[whowasphone404]

Cheers I'll edit the guide!

[Astute]

Hey, thanks for the guide. There is an error on Day 10 - "Quest – Udurg".

After 'Visit the Elder and ask "who is the Udurg?"', there are additional steps.

"Talk to the Bachelor"
"Talk to Kapella"
"Talk to Catherina"
"Talk to the Bachelor"

For some reason, the quest log leaves out the last "Talk to the Bachelor". Just pointing this out for anyone else, as I got stuck on Day 10 with no apparent way to complete the quest.