Quest guide

List of quests and related items I've come across.

To start with

This is what I could gather over a few playthroughs. There is a few parts I'm not fully sure on, but this is as far as my current notes have made, and a good enough start for now. Plus, more can be added in time.

Some quests are given to you as you start going out the door. Others are discovered by going to places or talking to someone on the right day. Also, you have to know and be on good terms with a person to be given their quests.

And of course, sometimes getting in one persons good book can get you in another persons bad one. Try to keep that in mind. Also there are references to locations in the city which may feel vague. I've played the game enough to know most of the locations.

The first week 1-7

Day 1

A grand reception:11:30am, Allan manor(Start)
-Drink or don't
-Ask how long you'll stay
-Why Allan sent you the letter

King in Yellow: Poster at theater(find, poster)
-Tickets at city hall

Harriet:Brightening up the place(start)
Shelves in back, use straw mop and vinegar and lemon tonic
Shelves to right of entrance, use arsenic soap and cat tail mop
Big crates, sulfur ointment, seal whisker mop

Day 2

Urgent meeting: city hall(start)
-Wait or interrupt
-Are you with rich or poor
-Why did you come to town

Migraine(start)(only if you drank at the party)
-Get remedy from Dana
-will keep getting prompts about pain every 2 hours, use medicine to ease it

Exploring the rich quarter(start)
-Talk to Lucas(library)
-Check the 5 streets of the rich quarter, walk around

Down with The Union! the Union:Gills(newsstand)(find)
-Talk to locals in red district(not far from city hall)(the bridge is fine)d area, tell them Union are sabotaging 4 times

A letter
-Chose what to say

Day 3

Warm plates, cold hearts(start)
-Talk to Florence
-Good to poor distrect, talk to people
-Report back(tell her the truth, or don't)

Those little monsters:(start)
-Talk to Clinton
-1 pound 15 shillings
-Blind and Follies

Full Stomach(start)
-Talk to Stout
-Get two boxes fresh food(Likely from Clinton)

The lost incunabulum(find)
-Talk to Lucuas
-Find his book(Liber Ivonis) in nearby box

An unpleasant encounter(find)
-Speak with August.
-Tell him what rats you like

That letter:take a side
-Juliet
-Dana
-neutral

Day 4

A buccaneer's sorrows(find)
-go to the lighthouse, then the orchard bar
-have a drink with Saul, get drunk, ask one thing
-ask about the city
-ask about Henry
-ask about Saul's life
-Blonds or Brunettes

Top hat brother(start)
-talk to Everett at the Top Hat Club

Everything for the people(start)
-talk to mayor to decide a use for public funds(choose one)
-For a party for all
-Aid the constabulary
-Help the poor

a masterpiece(start)
-talk to Stout
-agree with August, ask about the fire, ask about torture methods, kiss him

The first time(start)
-Meet Juliet in Windless Meadow park.
-Regardless of choice, she will call the meeting a mistake.

A dream of a color(find)
-Talk to Gail speaks of a dream of seeing yellow.

The Library expansion(available by asking about locked door, can be payed over time)(find)
-400 coins for Lucas.

An old friend
-Dream on Day 4

Day 5

Walking with the poor ones(start)
-Talk to Lucas
-explore poor district, walk each street
-return

Explosive headlines(start)
-Talk to Stout(might be more complicated. Cart locations:Corner near Clinton's, Poor square, near stubborn statue)(he gets around that day)
-Get explosives
-Distract Giles, invent a rumor about Dana, romance, a housekeeper, then say look behind you.
-Journal will be out until Sunday....I feel bad.

Neighborhood collections(start)
-Talk to Lloyd
-get map of collection points for "insurance"
-On lower corner of between Durian and Ore , threaten children
-On upper corner between Pollot and Needle, threaten hands
-On lower corner Oolong and turbot , threaten reputation
-or lie

Smoky and delicious(start)
-Talk to server at the club
-go to poor bazaar, talk to kids
-get cigs from them(pay 50-75, or threaten to get August)
-get cigs to Tom

Day 6

A royal rattle(start)
-talk to Florence
-Got to library, talk to Lucas
-check France box twice

A recipe for dreamers(start)
-Talk to Emily, close to poor bazaar, Tarragon Street
-Get recipe book from Lucas(pay 30 coins or sweet talk)
-Get back to Emily


The first corpse(start)
-talk to Doris at hospital
-get body from graveyard
-Pay undertaker. Can get away with 200, but the price can raise to 250 if you make mistake
-speak with Doris

One sip is enough(start)
-Talk to Giles
-Get Myles to drink the drink, keep him talking

Day 7

Bloody bureaucracy(start)
-talk to mayor
-Do a song and dance with the three at the lobby desk(it never gets old)
-Tell mayor it was stolen or spin a lie

Masterpiece(start)
-Talk to Stout
-vandalize the church with paint at 11:00 at night.
-chose to paint or run away.
-choosing to paint what comes to mind makes an apple. Other choices are to threaten the rich or the proletariat.

Black market buccaneer(start)
-Talk to Lloyd(near his shop)
-Talk to the pirate near the dock
-wake him gently, answer assertively, treat him as a subordinate
-get package back to Lloyd

Second week 8-14

Day 8

A pinch of wallflower(start)
-Speak to Emily
-get ingredient list
-See Clinton, pay 20(or sweet talk)
-See Florence pay 95(or sweet talk), get sweets for Emily
-return ingredients, give or keep sweets(you monster)

Hunting the grimoire(start)
-Talk to Lucas
-Get his books back. Second floor of Police Station
-Downplay the value of the books, say a humorous passage, say a boring one.
-Return books to Lucas

Painaway(start)
-Talk to Lloyd
-Sell to six customers
-Return to Lloyd or keep profits(or not sell and pay out of own pocket -60)

Keeping my ears peeled(start)
-Talk to Dana
-Talk to guests to get gossip Bring up one being out of place, agree with the other's issue
-Talk to Dana about one rumor(Mayor Wallace sent a spy seems to make her happy)

The week of blood(start)
-Check Justice street
-Crime scene just past city hall(red, a symbol)
-Check body, flip over

Itching to death:(start)
-Talk to Stout(Can likely be found near the hospital, close to the green statue area)
-Talk to hospital reception(Ask how things are going, ask for pills, whole body itch, no other symptoms
-Return to Stout(he is somewhere in the area)

Another dream
-Henry said the white ship will be here in 5 days.
-Ask 2
-About the murders
-About the Play
-About his death

Day 9

Week of Blood(day 2)(start)
-Body on Weston
-Green symbol
-Ask officer about victim, he mentions a receipt from the library
-Body is in forbidden wing

Dreams of ink(find)
-Speak with Gail
-Get ink from Florence (20) and maybe a painting kit (40)
-Return to Gail

Psychophonical Warfare(start)(yes, it's misspelled, there is a reason)
-Talk to Stout
-Find scary guy at cafe
-Convince them to quit paper-route
-Return

Emptied pockets(start)
-Talk to mayor
-pay 130 coins(or don't)

Recurring headaches(start)(only if you run out of remedy)
-Talk to Dana(more magic drugs)


Day 10

Week of blood(start)
-Check the Orchard
-Check body, blue symbol, ask officer about scent
-Check church, body on upper side

The inconvenient package(start)
-Speak to Lloyd
-Got to station. Act rude, say Zimmer sent you

A chat with the Sphinx(start)
-Speak with Clinton
-Answer riddles. A school, 4.

Signatures for charity(start)
-Speak with Florence
-Talk to people in the rich district(you will fail)
-Return to Florence(Tell the truth or lie)

The second stiff(start)
-Speak with Doris
-Get another body
-Grave digger isn't happy one bit.
-Pay 400 coins for a body from interested man(don't haggle)

Making a mess(find)
-Get to the lighthouse?
-Get key(be Saul's friend, get key from city hall, maybe potato?)

Pulling a fast one(start)
-Talk to mayor
-Talk to investor, tell him you came here seeing clear growth(his pride makes him easy)

Day 11

Rise to the occasion(start)
-Talk to Everett at Top Hat
-Answer for what the murderer is, agree
-Raise prices= agree
-Joke cruelly.
-Seems they agree to the worst options...

He will call us(start)
-Talk to Lloyd
-Join Lloyd as La Luminear at 11:00pm
-Light up(Fire is power. Fire is blood.)

The second time(start)
-Talk to Juliet at park
-Ask one question
What she thinks of Henry's death
Why the hostility between her and Dana
What's gong on with the city
If she likes you

100 coins for compassion(start)
-Talk to Emily
-Give 100 coins
-Get Oolong street key

What's happening out there(start)
-Talk to mayor
-Go to poor square
-Report back

Those that don't come back
-Talk to Stout(at the docks)
-Talk to poor folks at the docks
-Return

Week of Blood
-Body in the Bazaar(not yet found the other victim)

Day 12

Cutting to the chase(start)
-Talk to Clinton
-Get knife, cut chicken(or don't)

The third cadaver(start)
-Talk to Doris
-Talk to graveyard man with crate
-Pay 700
-Talk to Doris again. (And maybe dare her to talk)

The week of Blood(start)
-Check Top Hat club
-Cyan symbol
-Smell of the sea, Lighthouse
-Body behind lighthouse, check cap

The crown(find)
-Talk to Gail

Passing round the hat(start)
-Talk to mayor
-Talk to him again???
-Offer 300 coins

Another dream(silence, just listen)
-Spoke of Leng, the king and his goats. But the necromancer isn't there, he's in the city.
-Told me to leave tomorrow.


Day 13

Thick or light?(start)
-Talk with Florence
-Help with curtains(thick or thin)(Gold or Lavender)
-Went with thin and lavender, it's quite nice.

Unknown words(start)
-Talk to Lucas after 9:00
-Translate four letters
-MIST (VERMIS MYSTERIIS)
-Ask for the full quote or don't

The other side(start)
-Talk to Clinton after 10
-Far from door, going clockwise, Ice, electric, burning
-Klaatu, barada, nikto(3rd, 2nd,1st)Grijan de Mor


A child for a day(find)
-Talk to Gail
-Take place behind register, lose 2 hours
-Feel better about oneself.

Week of Blood(find)
-Body on Ore Street, near statue
-Amethyst(purple), signs of dirt and grass
-Second body in windless meadow, by broken statue
-Another body in side park by hospital

August's doorman(find)
-Talk to August, poor district(red door, east wool street)
-Threaten, reason, thump

Worthy of a king
-talk to Giles
-Make a wish
-Get a yellow ticket



Day 14

A loyal pupil(start)
-Get key from city hall
-Say secret mission (if mayor rep is good?)
-Go to lighthouse, proceed.

Rasbiries and cho'lat(start)(Yes, it's an accent)
-Talk to Emily
-Go to La Cafe, south of church
-Bribe 200 coins(or more if you'd like)
-Return to Emily

Let's get ol moustaches!(start)(accent)
-Talk to Stout
-Hire thug at The Orchard for 50 coins
-Barter-ing! Try over 100(got him at 120)

The Premiere(start)
-Theater doors open at 5:30, show at 7.
-Be in lobby at 7 to be sent to the show.
-Sleep or don't sleep(don't)
-ignore, heckle join, or stop the heckle.(ignore to keep watching)
-Sleep, or don't sleep(don't to keep watching)(his lord died of fatty livers to his liver)
-intermission at 8pm, show continues at 9:30
-Miss monday(the fire, the fire! He ruined the second act!!!)

The Week of Blood(start)
-Body in front of city hall
-Yellow symbol
-Second body is at the theater

Buying silence(start)
-Talk to mayor
-Send letter(Be threatening? Insinuating? Bribe?)

Marking the territory(start)(auto fail if you help with curtains)
-Talk to Dana at city hall(she will be there in time)
-Slander Marsh(Hygiene, decorum, bad taste)
-Return to Dana

Day to remember(find)
-Meet Lloyd at theater after 10:30(22:30)

The White Ship?
At the lighthouse, at night. (Maybe bring down the potato ripper first?)

Last week 15-21

Day 15

Funeral of Saul(start)
-12:30 at the church
-Then to the graveyard

Betting on your life(start)
-Talk to Stout
-Go to Orchard
-Talk to man at the table
-Play blackjack (clear out bank of 200 coins)

In the eye of the hurricane(start)
-Talk to Wallace
-Decide where to put police(rich, central, poor)

Day 16

Model citizen(find)
-Talk to August
-Demand explanation, or move along.
-Keep demanding, you take a beating. Go to next day.(Maybe something else if you're friends?)

A matter of numbers(start)
-Talk to mayor
Let markets run its coursed, block trade, raise prices, lower prices

Stout behind bars
-Talk to Giles
-Find Stout, near Windless park
-Find officer, tell them where he is.

Transience(start)

-Talk to Doris
-Make a choice.


Day 17

Interview behind bars(start)
-He'll find you at the front door
-Offer cigar, encourage him to talk, ask about his health, Learn Philly, ask he would report brutality, learn factory

Turning the tables(start)
-Talk to Dana
-Take Philtre to Al-Sabah door, near the corner at the end of Orsini)

A reckless walk(start)
-Talk to Florence in poor district, she'll be somewhere
- Have conversation

Fighting for my hat(start)
-Talk to Thomas at Top Hat
-Speak, bring up skill as a merchant
-speak, harsh plan
-speak, gained trust of powerful friends.

Consoling the inconsolable(find)
-Talk to Stout, not far from book store


Day 18

The hammer falls(start)
-Talk to Wallace
-Go to Orchard to stir up trouble, hungry, cut wages, throw bottle
-Return

A high flying gift
-Talk to Florence
-Get tiger kite(70)

The Third time(start)
-Talk to Juliet in the park
-Be there on Sunday

Flowers for Henry(optional?)
-Get flowers from Florence, Tulips(50) or Roses(75)

Day 19

The new Cyan(start)
-Talk to Everett at the club(where is he???)(Not at 2pm, nor 4-5,not 7)(was there until 9:30, no show)

Drinking from Leth(start)
-Talk to Gail
-Talk to Dana, price of 150(Or free if friend)
-Return to Gail

Tomorrow's child(start)
-Talk to Doris
-Give tongs
-4A and 1600 watts
-Kiss it

Another one bites the dust(start)
Talk to Stout(side park)
-Talk to August, say you found Stout

Three in the Abyss(start)
-Talk to Juliet at the tomb(11-12)
-Words for Henry(He was generous, courageous, nothing)went with generous
-Mention Henry's ghost or don't
-Sad.... (His love, his regret, prays for forgiveness)

Day 20

Wallace tasks(start)
-Check with August, spread out, violence, enclose locations, don't think

Stout's tasks(start)
-Talk to Stout, find crowds in poor district(near lighthouse, Bar, dock)Revolution or death
-Funny or violent(violent works), Reassure or fire(Fire), Factories or income or police violence or counsel(Stout's choice)

Feedback and etc

I know there are a few holes here and there. If anyone has more info, let me know.

[Beta_138]

Got back, now on PS5, after being locked on the black pharaoh sequence playing on PC back in the days. So I come with a few questions:

1.How is the lighthouse key supposed to be acquired? I've done it once then, but can't remember how. When Saul is making a mess the Mayor is busy with the investor and doesn't talk to me about anything else. Tried talking to Saul every day since he shows up day 4 and also checked and helped the Mayor every time and he seems to be busy on the investor routine when making a mess is active.

2.When do I turn Clinton to progress the mystery regarding the city (maybe keeping Saul, idk). Did it as soon as I could and woke up to the ending dream.

3.Does romancing or not Juliette affect the city mysteries or it's more a matter of being eligible to get her ending?

Love this game so much and I really would like to experience "knowing more" of the mysteries one can witness in the game, but I think I need some more help

[m0thman]

i'm trying to find myles on day 5 and you mention the stubborn statue?? i'm not sure where that is? and related to this: would u be able to give locations for each statue? (if not that's totally cool)

[Jewbacca]

What do you mean catch him? Is the stranger moving around? I'm trying to find him but nothing. Also unfortunate this seems to still be a thing with not being able to enter the theater even after all this time... Thanks for the guide though

[Odd Collector]

The Dreamed City is something you can find on Week 3. It's dreamlike to be sure. Find the stranger that lurks there and catch him to find a better fate. Can't exactly make a guide for it, as some of it is random and other factors I'm not sure on.

[alpha_omega8]

I'm stuck in some awful dream world where half the characters don't talk to me in week 3. Is this meant to be the case? Either way, nice concept, but incredibly poor execution. Shouldn't have been released in this state.

[guidodi34]

Thanks for the guide. Shame the game is such a bugged broken mess, even after several updates. Myles and the Mayor just stopped giving me quests one day and I had completed everything they asked. The day of the play, had a ticket but could no interact with the door at all. August quest about torturing someone, If I acept I just got a black screen... so my only option was to reject the quest which resulted in a beating a loosing the day. Anyway, liked the game but it is just unplayable like this.