◈ STORY CHAPTER WALKTHROUGH
Servant of the Lake Looking for the Cat Walkthrough
Find Rustie across the estate and use Kate's note to enter the hidden laboratory.
◈ Before you begin
- Task name
- Looking for the Cat
- Day
- Day 3
- Entry state
- Kate asks for Rustie on the final morning
- Required items
- Hammer, pebble, note
Task actions
Rustie's stove hiding state follows William's noisy interaction. After the cat returns, Kate's note supplies the portrait sequence. The same portrait later releases a rifle under different instructions, so retain the current task context.
- Speak with Kate, then William. Give William the hammer and take the pebble from Aldous's bust.
- Throw the pebble at the outdoor log shape. Follow Rustie under the chair, behind the bust, then into the stove after listening to William.
- Return to Kate and read the table note. Select hat, rifle, bear, crow on the portrait beside the bust.
- Enter the newly opened laboratory passage.
✓ Accepted result
- Completion signal
- Find Rustie, read the note and open the painting's secret passage.
- Next task
- Assisting in Alchemy