Part 20: Chapter 5-3

Heading back to the Office, Miller is waiting for us.



Vickie automatically heads to the Interrogation Room.

“Hi, Vaclav. I believe you’ve met Detective Miller?”



“Well sort of, yeah.”



Your neckbeard is a federal offense!

“Can you tell where you were three nights ago?”



“Probably?”



“That’s how you met Natalie?”



“Let me show you a picture of Natalie. Did you do that to her, Vaclav?”



For reference, Natalie wasn’t in very good shape, in spite of looking oddly chipper about the ordeal.



“It’s different when you know the person, isn’t it? Maybe you should reconsider how you decorate your room. Tell me how you met Natalie.”

“Did you drown her before eviscerating her?”

Miller starts ‘helping’ with the proceedings here from somewhere off-camera.



“So how did you meet her?”



“What about Cynthia? How did you meet her?”

“You killed Cynthia the same way you killed Natalie, huh?”

Miller, you aren’t helping.



“Then how come we have partial prints at Natalie’s crime scene and Cynthia’s crime scene that match your prints at a 99% probability?”

“Did Cynthia resist? Is that why you beat her up so bad?”



“I get why Natalie would have partials of you, but Cynthia…something doesn’t fit. You hired her right?”



Do they speak English in What?

“Relax, Vaclav. I just want to know what happened between you two.”



“Cynthia worked at the same place you were picked up tonight, right?”



“What did they do?”



“What is this place? A brothel?”





And Obstructive Police Chief Browning has apparently followed us across town, because this investigation was clearly making too much progress.



Kolar gives a silly wave and leaves.



Miller objects by going into the YMCA.



“Why are we letting him go? On what grounds?”



“I’m out of here.”’



"No you wait a goddamn minute Browning! Prints are not circumstantial evidence you idiot!"



Vickie leaves the meeting of the minds and won’t go back in. Tragic.



Anyway, we can leave now, but trying to use that pass we found won’t fool the bouncer over at the massage parlor, as it doesn’t really look like Vickie. So we’ll need to head over here and mess with it a little.



There is a papercutter here.



First we’ll use the photo of Vickie on it and trim that down a little.



Like so.



Then we’ll do the same to Steph’s pass to remove her dead face from it.



Combine the photo and the pass…



And voila. Vickie is officially a whore.



But it’s not quite convincing enough yet, so we’ll use the pass on the laminator off to the left.



Better.





*Now* we can head back to the brothel. Or whatever it is. The game is being very vague.







We’ll just show the pass to our friend here.





“That’s OK, more money for me.”



So now we’re free to head in, but as our offensive friend noted, the other bitches haven’t shown up. First thing to check out is this thing here.



“In my memoirs you shall find the instrument of my suffering with which we celebrate our vows.” And then there’s a six digit code on the right that we don’t have yet. Is this Umbrella’s secret whorehouse?



Abandoning that, we wander to the right. The couch…bed…whatever isn’t important. What we need to check out are those paintings on the wall.



…yeah, this place looks like Brian Irons would be right at home. The cards down there are a red herring.




Over here is another.



Three and a five, but these are also red herrings so ignore it.



Continuing onward, we’ll check this thing on the wall.



A Klingon Bat’leth and some more ordinary knives. 3 and 6.



Over here…



…is a familiar looking mask. It’s grabbable, so…



Yoink.



And the nail it was hanging on too. Why not?



Yoink.



Another painting over here.



Er. I *think* this place might be a tad suspicious now. A 1 and a 5 in the bottom corner of this one.



Returning to here, we’ll head right now.



One more painting.



Lovely. 4 and 2.



Alright, back to the little puzzle here.



Not too difficult. “In my memoirs” refers to the Reminder thing. 4 and 2. “Instrument of my suffering” means the knife. 3 and 6. “Celebrate our vows” means the wedding picture. 1 and 5. 423615 gets us in.





And inside is a statue gallery. We’ll just take these in order from the right.



A shitty adventure game?



An arbitrary puzzle revolving around cookies?



To stop playing this and go start something fun?







And there’s one more thing in the middle here.



Apples and pears. One of which is takeable.



Or not. Turns out to only be half of an apple. Recall that Mia had an apple decoration in her room.



…thanks, Vickie. No point in even starting this little puzzle yet, as we need the rest of the apple to satisfy Lady Temptation.



So it’s back over to the Gallery. Hopefully Mia is still alive, or…well, I guess Vickie would just have to kick her door in, really. No big loss.