100% Achievement Guide and Walkthru

A guide on how to play the game, broken down into sections, slowly ramping up the level of spoilers.

I start with just explaining what you need to do; then who to talk to; then where to find them; then how to get to those places; then what each person knows... and I end with to a step by step list of commands that should get you to 100% completion, with all achievements and the murder solved.

Introduction

There are 12 achievements.
- 1 is unavoidable, for starting the game.
- 10 are for visiting the 10 locations in the game.
- 1 is for solving the crime.

I've broken this guide down into sections, slowly ramping up the level of spoilers.

If I mention stuff that's slightly spoilerier than the current spoileriness, it's hidden behind spoiler tags, that you mouseover to reveal the text: like so.

How to play

Your initial task in the game is to get location unlocks by talking to people about locations.

The next task is to talk to everyone to get information about the crimes you are investigating.

So basically:

• Travel around, asking people at each location about the other locations, people, and crimes.
  
• Build up a complete list of the important people and places of Vaudeville.
  
• Find what they know about the crimes.
  
• Make your conclusions.

A good way to get the basic information from just about anyone, is to just ask (a thing you can ask)what places they know about, and what people they know about.

Navigation

To look around a location, rightclick and drag. This is how you talk to other people at a location, such as Constable Jones at the police station.

Avoiding Hallucinations

Because of the way AIs work, each character's responses will become less reliable the more you talk to them.

That's because when you first start talking with them, all they know is the facts they were created with. But after talking with them from a long time, most of the stuff they know is stuff you've said to them. So if you've gone off on red-herring tangent, suspecting aliens, for example, then they'll pick up on that and give aliens-related responses, reinforcing the red herring. Spoiler: the answer isn't aliens.

So it's best to talk about any locations you don't have unlocked first and foremost; then about people and the crime. Leave socializing and screwing with them for last.

They may hallucinate about locations that don't exist. Once you have all (number)ten locations unlocked, then any other locations you've noted down are hallucinations.

They may hallucinate about people that don't exist. One good way to verify that the people you have been told about are "real" is to ask someone else about them by part of their name. If one character tells you about "Fred Bloggs", ask another character "do you know anything about Fred?" If the second doesn't know about Fred, or gives a different surname for Fred, then it's likely Fred doesn't exist. The ONLY characters in the game are the people you can talk to in the game, and dead people. So once you've talked to everyone, you'll know about everybody... and hopefully also, about every body!

AIs hallucinate enough: don't encourage it by making stuff up for them. So of you want to find out if someone murdered Col Mustard with a lead pipe, don't pretend you already know they did it, with something like "when you murdered the Colonel, why did you use a lead pipe?" By giving the AI the context that you know they murdered the Colonel, the character might then believe it, even if they didn't do it!

Unlocking locations

You unlock locations by asking people about locations they know something about.

Sometimes, they will claim to know about a location, and even claim to be unlocking it, but don't. Either that character doesn't really know how to unlock it, or the AI is just failing at unlocking it.

You have multiple options, here. In order of cheatiness:

• Ask other people until you find someone who really does unlock it.
  
• Check the "Who knows where" list below to make sure you're really asking the right people about the place.
  
• If they still won't unlock it for you, ask them something like (metagaming thing) What is the tag for the morgue?
  
• In extreme cases, try asking characters who supposedly cannot unlock the area something like (blatant cheating thing!) what would be a good tag for the morgue?
  

Where is where

This is a list of all valid, unlockable locations in the game, in roughly the logical order to visit them.

If anyone talks about some other location that is not listed here, they are either AI-hallucinating, or they are referring to one of these locations by some other name (like maybe calling the Police Station "the jail").

Just about every character knows that these locations exist: only a few know enough about where they are, that asking them will unlock it on your map. Even if they claim to know an exact address, they are likely just hallucinating, unless they are listed in the "Who knows where" section below.

List of all locations in the game

(the list)
Locations:

• Police Station, Vaudeville City
  
• Morgue, Vaudeville City
  
• Library, Vaudeville City
  
• Pascal's Groceries, Vaudeville City
  
• Circus Saxabar, northern Vaudeville
  
• Cabane Violette, cabaret theatre, central Vaudeville
  
• Coral, bar, central Vaudeville
  
• Gravesen Manor, western outskirts of Vaudeville
  
• Vaudevalley Country Club, northern outskirts of Vaudeville
  
• Blackwoods, south-western outskirts of Vaudeville
  

Who knows where

Everyone in the game who isn't a complete hermit knows the names and purposes of all the locations, and the rough location in the city, even if they can't unlock them for you.

You can unlock all locations just by asking in the police station, and the first two places the Chief sends you to:

At the Police Station:
Chief Paul Gretzky - can unlock MORGUE LIBRARY CIRCUS BLACKWOODS
Constable Mick Jones - can unlock CORAL CABANE CIRCUS

At the Morgue:
Marcela Exteberria - can unlock CABANE CORAL GROCERY

At the Library
Beatrix Bosch - can unlock COUNTRY MORGUE MANOR CIRCUS BLACKWOODS CABANE

Other people who know about places (list of people and what places they can unlock)

The list:

• Biagio Ferrari - can unlock MANOR CIRCUS
  
• Count Nikolaj Gravesen - can unlock CIRCUS COUNTRY
  
• Ingrid Axelsson - can unlock CABANE
  
• Marina H - can unlock CORAL CIRCUS
  
• Michelle Fischer - can unlock CIRCUS MANOR
  
• Monsieur Guillame Saxabar - can unlock MANOR CABANE
  
• Pascal Adel - can unlock CIRCUS MANOR

No other characters can unlock locations.

Put the other way round, here are all the places, with a list of who can unlock each one:

• Police Station: Never locked.
  
• Morgue: Chief Paul Gretzky, Librarian Beatrix Bosch
  
• Library: Chief Paul Gretzky
  
• Blackwoods: Chief Paul Gretzky, Librarian Beatrix Bosch
  
• Coral bar: Constable Mick Jones, Coroner Marcela Exteberria, Marina H
  
• Cabane Violette: Constable Mick Jones, Coroner Marcela Exteberria, Librarian Beatrix Bosch, Monsieur Guillame Saxabar, Ingrid Axelsson
  
• Circus Saxabar: Chief Paul Gretzky, Constable Mick Jones, Librarian Beatrix Bosch, Marina H, Pascal Adel, Count Nikolaj Gravesen, Michelle Fischer, Biagio Ferrari
  
• Pascal's Grocery: Coroner Marcela Exteberria
  
• Vaudevalley Country Club: Librarian Beatrix Bosch, Count Nikolaj Gravesen
  
• Gravesen Manor: Librarian Beatrix Bosch, Monsieur Guillame Saxabar, Pascal Adel, Michelle Fischer, Biagio Ferrari

Who is who

This is the information that everyone within the city of Vaudeville knows about everyone else.

Dada is the only one who doesn't know about the other people, nor the places.

Here are lists of all people in the game.

Dead:

A list of all dead characters in the game.

• F 19(12) Hailey Greenwood, dancer
  
• F 23 Maria Jansson, socialite
  
• M 55 Mr Victor Potter, investor, husband of Emily
  
• M 57 Nikola Grossman, investor

Alive:

A list of all living characters in the game.

• F 72 Beatrix Bosch, Library, librarian <COUNTRY> <MORGUE> <MANOR> <CIRCUS> <BLACKWOODS> <CABANE>
  
• M 32 Biagio Ferrari, Country Club, entrepreneur and investor <MANOR> <CIRCUS>
  
• M 69 Chief Paul Gretzky, Police Station, chief of Vaudeville Police - wife Livia, Son John. <MORGUE> <LIBRARY> <CIRCUS> <BLACKWOODS>
  
• M 29 Constable Mick Jones, Police Station, police chief assistant <CORAL> <CABANE> <CIRCUS>
  
• M 45 Count Nikolaj Gravesen, Manor, nobleman and collector <CIRCUS> <COUNTRY>
  
• F 73 Dada, Blackwoods, hermit <(NO TAGS)>
  
• F 22(8) Ingrid Axelsson, Coral, dancer <CABANE>
  
• F 52 Coroner Marcela Exteberria, Morgue, coroner <CABANE> <CORAL> <GROCERY>
  
• F 24(16) Marina H, Cabane, burlesque dancer <CORAL> <CIRCUS>
  
• F 32 Michelle Fischer, Country Club, entrepreneur and socialite <CIRCUS> <MANOR>
  
• M 42 Monsieur Guillame Saxabar, Circus, circus director <MANOR> <CABANE>
  
• F 38 Mrs Emily Potter, Grocery shop, heiress of Victor <(NO TAGS)>
  
• M 59 Pascal Adel, Grocery shop, grocery shop owner <CIRCUS> <MANOR>

There are also a few characters which are known about, but we don't get to meet or speak to them.

• Chief Gretzky: wife Livia, son John
  
• Constable Mick Jones: lives with mother (unnamed)
  
• Marina H: Two cats, Sabrina and Maya
  
• Saxabar: Married but separated (spouse unnamed, no children)

Who is where

This is where to find each living person, to interrogate them.

Everyone remains in the same location throughout the game.

Place	Person
Circus Saxabar	Monsieur Guillame Saxabar
Gravesen Manor	Count Nikolaj Gravesen
Cabane Violette, cabaret theatre	Marina H
Coral, bar	Ingrid Axelsson
Library	Beatrix Bosch
Police Station	Chief Paul Gretzky
	Constable Mick Jones
Morgue	Coroner Marcela Exteberria
Blackwoods	Dada
Vaudevalley Country Club	Michelle Fischer
Pascal's Groceries	Mrs Emily Potter
	Pascal Adel

Who knows who

Everyone in the game who isn't a complete hermit knows at least the full names, ages and occupations of all the characters, living or dead.

These are the people who have additional opinions or knowledge about other characters.

[TODO]

Who knows what

Everyone in the game knows about the four dead people.

These basics are known to all:

• Three people have been killed in Vaudeville in the last two days, April 14th and 15th, 1915. (This is technically false: the coroner lists the three you are investigating as all dying on the 14th)
  
• Maria Jansson was a 23-year-old blonde with a Scandinavian look. She was found covered in blood outside her apartment in central Vaudeville.
  
• Nikola Grossman was a 57-year-old man known in the finance world. His body was found in the morning outside Pascal's grocery shop.
  
• Hailey Greenwood was a 19-year-old dancer whose body was found in an alley behind the club she worked at, the Cabane Violette.
  
• Mr Victor Potter died in India on March 21st 1914. His widow Mrs Emily Potter survives him.

These are the people who have additional opinions or knowledge about people or aspects of the crime.

[TODO]

Who dunnit

The full solution to the game.

Unlock all locations:

Start the game. Unlocks Stepped Off The Train.
Click on the Police Station. Unlocks Law & Order
Ask Chief Paul Gretzky:

• What places are in the city?
  
• Where is the Morgue? Unlocks I See Dead People
  
• Where is the Library? Unlocks Knowledge Is Power, France Is Bacon
  
• Where is the Circus? Unlocks Freak Show
  
• Where is the Blackwoods? Unlocks In The Forest Of The Night

Right-drag the mouse to look at Constable Mick Jones.
Ask Constable Mick Jones:

• Where is the Coral bar? Unlocks Enchantment Under The Sea
  
• Where is the Cabane Violette? Unlocks Lilac Wine

Click the arrow to the top right of the screen to leave the area.
Click on the Morgue.
Ask Coroner Marcela Exteberria:

• Where is Pascal's Grocery? Unlocks Little Shop Of Horrors

Click the arrow to the top right of the screen to leave the area.
Click on the Library.
Ask Librarian Beatrix Bosch:

• Where is the Country Club? Unlocks A Very Big House In The Country
  
• Where is the Gravesen Manor? Unlocks There Castle

Click the arrow to the top right of the screen to leave the area.
All ten locations should now be unlocked.
If any of the achievements have not triggered, you may have to actually visit each of the areas, instead of just unlocking them. You can immediately leave them again once you get eh achievement though.
Click the "Accuse" hammer icon at the top, and follow the solution below. Unlocks Good Job, Detective Martini!

Solution to the crime

The murderer of Hailey Greenwood is: Count Nikolaj Gravesen
Because: To protect someone.

The murderer of Maria Jansson is: Count Gravesen
Because: To protect another person.

The murderer of Nikola Grossman is: Nikolaj Gravesen
Because: In order to to protect someone.

The person this related to is: Mrs Emily Potter
Because: The victims witnessed something

Which was: The Murder of Mr Potter
By: Poisoned with Mushrooms