Part 17: Chapter 4-4

So we’re back over at Mark’s studio. We’ll just let ourselves in.







…thanks, Gus.



This means finally using those lockpicks we’ve been hanging on to since the Pimp of Lingerie Street gave them to us.







Alright, welcome to probably the most asstastic puzzle in the game. It’s not as arcane indecipherable as the Cookie Puzzle, it’s just that the mechanics are set up to make you want to commit harakiri.



You have a short lockpick.



You have a slightly longer lockpick.



You need to use one of your lockpicks to press on a tumbler…



…and use your other lockpick to press on another tumbler. This makes a clicking noise and forces a tumbler to permanently lock so you can keep doing it until all are pressed.



So we’ll just push this one with the short pick.



This one with the long pi…



FUCK YOU, says the game. You hit the wrong tumbler? Those ones up top force themselves down, shoving your pick out of the way in the process. Start over.




Here I started consulting a walkthrough, and this *still* took me 20 goddamn minutes. One missed click and fuck you, back to the beginning as all your pegs reset.

Ugh. Start with this one up here…



Switch picks. This one down here…



Switch picks. Second one up top…



*Don’t* switch picks. Same one hits the one next to it. Then switch…













You hit the pink one here, in spite of it looking like it fucked you up and reset the yellow one on the bottom…



Then push the yellow one on the bottom down again…







Yes, this puzzle is assholeish enough that it requires you to sometimes hit blocks that don’t even have any tumblers sticking out. Just do it, bitch.





Again. See above.





This one, you have to hit twice in a row on the same block, because fuck you.



















I take back everything mean I said about the fucking cookie puzzle. That was nothing compared to this. Jesus H. tapdancing Christ.



So now we’re inside. I don’t care if Mark turns out to be the Ripper. I’m going to cram his knife so far up his ass for that puzzle that he’ll be coughing Ginsu.

Ugh. So to our right there, we can check out Mark’s finished paintings.



Might be because you seem like a bit of a control freak, Gus.







A grabbable thing over here. Turns out to be some kind of occult book.






just recalling their appearance to mind causes a shiver of dread to crawl up my spine.




sense of something else.



…and it cuts off there. I don’t even know what to make of that one.



Continuing onward. Another grabbable over here.



…huh.



Only other thing to check out is the couch.



…call it a hunch, but I think Apolina has gone bye bye.



Well. Back to the Park to share the bad news with Milena.



“I went inside, and there was no one there.”



“No, but I definitely want a word with Skalnic. Miss Milena, have a pleasant evening. I’d stay off the streets if I were you.”



“I found nothing, stop worrying.”

Gus, you’re kind of a dick.



Well, off to the police station.




Stasek is gone. The gate upstairs is open.



Up to Skalnic’s office, and…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=667i...eature=youtu.be

Yup, plot getting good on Gustav’s end. Time for more Vickie.