Keeper of Infinity, Chapter 2: Raven’s NestSoul Tear

6 January 2016

Much of this material is taken from the author’s YouTube walkthrough.

There are 8 secrets in this mission. (Not shown in order of appearance.)

Secret #1: A purse is under this bunk.

Secret #2: Frob this portrait to get a key to the jewelry box. It containsanother key. (This is the house shown in figure 7 below.)

Secret #4: Although hard to see, there's a potted fern on the window sill. Remove theplant to find a small ring hidden there.

Secret #3: Frob the trophy to get access to the gold in the terrarium. (HINT: Grab thefrogbeast and take it with you.)

Secret #5: Get real close to the panel and frob it. The switch inside disables the currentprotecting the dagger on the wall below the painting.

Secret #6: There's a money box behind the junk under this stairway.

Secret #7: Climb up onto the tall cabinet and frob the moose head.

Secret #8: Blind frob the corner post to open a painting behind you. (The small switch islocated on the post’s left side.)

Initial Objectives:

➔ Unlock the forest gates and head to the west. The Hammerite church is beyond the field.➔ Don't kill anyone.

When you pick up your lockpicks from the table, this completed goal will appear:

➔ You've gained a new skill: BURGLAR LVL.2 After yesterday’s training and rest, youfeel that you can open locks faster.

How do I get out of my room?

The key to the door is on the small book shelf. Perhaps you should quit while you’re ahead.

Exit the tavern. Directly across from the tavern’s double doors is a narrow fence NW blocking the alley.Mantle over it, go to the end, and turn left. There are three guards watching the main gate who willbegin a chain of conversations lasting several minutes. You can hang around if you want, but when theyare finally done prattling, the following will be added to your objectives list:

➔ It seems that this pawnshop is also an illegal weapon shop. You’d better visit it and armyourself well. This night will be hard.

How do I break down the boards in the passageway?

You would think the crowbar would break down the broken lattice in the passageway (figure 1).The trick is to equip anything from your inventory (your compass) and frob the wall. Wait a fewseconds—the screen will go black—and it will break.

Fig. 1: Go beneath the tavern porch and be sure to have some flares to findthis blocked passageway.

I went into the shop shown in figure 2 and found a stool but it doesn’t frob!

It won’t until you first visit the gate where it is to be used.

Where’s the pawn shop?

Climb over the fence (figure 3).

Fig. 2: The key is on a table just inside the window. The stool inside that frobsis used to climb over the gate shown in figure

Fig. 3: This gate frobs but needs the stool mentioned in figure 2 to climb over it.Just equip the stool and frob the gate, and you should easily climb over.

How do I get past the guard standing in front of the pawn shop?

Frob him 4 times to get the following goal:

➔ The City Watch officer has confiscated a bag of unknown content from the pawnshop guard.Return it.

How do I find the “bag of unknown content”?

1. Return to where you climbed down and plant an arrow in the stool that is stuck on top of thefence.

2. Enter the tavern. The bag is on the bar, in front of the No-KO guard. Use a gas arrow to takehim out.

3. In a short time, another guard will come up from the basement. Take the scroll from her beltand read it.

4. Return to the pawn shop and “use” the bag on the guard.

Once you enter the pawn shop, go a speak to the owner, doing multiple frobs until he tells thewhole story. Once done, this new objective will appear:

➔ Penny has a valuable dagger and Ol’ Flik wants it badly. In return, he promises to sell mehis weapons.

What am I supposed to do now?

Once the pawnshop owner gives you this new objective, return to where you left the rope in thestool and hoist yourself over the gate. (You might want to speak (frob) the pawnshop guardbefore doing this.)

Head to the street, where all the guards are loitering about, and turn right. Go as far as you cango, and turn left. You’ll see a tall stack of large crates. (See figure 4.) Mantle up, put a ropearrow into the roof peak, climb up, and lockpick the shutters.

Once inside, you’ll find a narrow window that opens. Step out onto the sill and look up. You’llsee the end of a wooden beam. Plant an arrow there and climb up a couple of feet. You shouldsee a narrow window with a single metal bar. Frob it, and Garrett will say he needs a hacksaw.Return to the pawnshop.

NOTE

The scroll containers carried on the guards’ belts are not just fancy objects. Once in your inventory, make sure you open them up and read them. Failure to do so may prevent certain objectives from appearing.

NOTE

Leave the rope arrow stuck to the stool, as you’ll be using it again.

Flik put the hacksaw on the counter but I can’t pick it up.

“Use” the bag of loot on it.

Once you have the hacksaw, return to the house where you saw the narrow window. Jump onto therope, position yourself so that the metal bar highlights, and use the hacksaw (one click is enough). Nowclimb through into the next room, where you’ll get two more objectives:

➔ Maybe the Hammerites can cure these people? Better I’d just use holy water, but not anyother weapon. (Hard/Expert)

➔ Although my deal with Jacob probably doesn’t mean anything right now, maybe it would benice to check out how Lady Adaline is doing.

I used the hacksaw on the metal bar on the other window, but it didn’t cut.

There are two windows on the same wall. Make sure you’re at the one on the LEFT side.

I’m in Zombie Land. Now what???

Poke around a bit. Follow the male servant zombie and then hide before he turns around to doanother circuit. Find a real narrow alley and look for the house shown in figure 7.

Fig. 6: Finding the dagger.

NOTE

If you return to the pawnshop and Flik doesn’t say anything about a hacksaw, it means you did NOT frob the metal bar referenced in the above paragraph.

Lady Adaline and the Knight

Like the other characters in this mission, you need to click/frob them several times to get all of theinformation from them. When you encounter the knight, he’ll tell you something. Now go to LadyAdaline to get her story. RETURN TO THE KNIGHT and frob him one last time to get the last bit. Thetext will stay on the screen quite awhile (for slower readers). Once it disappears, this new goal willappear:

➔ I should infiltrate the city,raise the portcullis andescort Lady Adaline andher people to the inn.

As you investigate the variousresidences in the town, you’lleventually find a guy writhingon the bed, located in a lockedbedroom. (In the same apartmentwhere you find Penny’s dagger.)Read the note and Garrett willsay, “Don’t worry, Farage, I’llcome up with something.” Thiswill tick off another goal:

➔ You need to do some-thing to help Farage.

Fig. 7: Put a rope where the white X is and mantle over the balcony.

Fig. 8: There are all kinds of ways to get inside without resorting to ropearrows, which attract the enemy.

Where do I find Penny’s dagger?

When you find an apartment with a book that opens when you frob it, look in that room for afrob-able ceiling panel. See figure 9.

Fig. 9: Penny's dagger is hidden somewhere in this room. (Look up.)

NOTE

While you’re inside a residence, make sure you check all windows. Some of them lead to alternate paths.

Fig. 10: After getting the objective to open the gates, find this manhole coverand head into the sewers.

I clicked on a glyph that suddenly appeared in my inventory and found myself teleported into a strangeblue hall. There’s a guy at the far end.

There are various glyphs that perform specific actions once you activate them. For example,right-clicking the Concentration glyph takes you to the Hall of Achievements (blue hall).

The man you see is Keeper Jonas. Frob him to get details on what’s going on. Once you’re donespeaking with him, head to the opposite end of the Hall of Achievements and frob the glyph toreturn to the sewers. Don’t leave the room in the sewers. Instead, enter the broken door andclimb the ladder. Voila! You’re back in town!

What do I do once I’m back in town?

Return to the pawnshop, call up the dagger from your inventory, and “use” it on the proprietor.Frob him a second time, which will get him moving. Follow him.

What should I buy in Flik’s armory?

A slowfall potion and a gas arrow. (You’ll need 3 to complete one objective.) The money youget from Flik won’t buy much more. Once you’ve made your purchase, return to Flik and speakwith him.

1. He’ll give you the key to the north gate controls.2. Three new goals will appear:

➔ Ol’ Flik will show me a secret pass to the forest if I steal 4 items for him: the IsisStatuette, the Precursor's Dagger, the Rocksbourg Legends, and the Pagan Mask.

➔ Steal 4000 loot plus 500 in gems.

Fig. 11: Enter this small room to discover Jonas and the Glyphs.

➔ Use Flik’s secret passage to get into the forest.

Where’s the gate that opens with the keys Flik gave me?

Remember those three guards watching the broken main gate? If you forgot how to get there,make your way to the street and climb over the narrow fence to the NW. There’s a metal doorbehind the last guard, near the wagon blocking the street.

Where is the portcullis I need to open?

Find the east portal gate. It has the name Rocksbourg over it. Walk into it and you’ll beteleported to the correct part of town. When you do you’ll get this new goal:

➔ Before I raise the portcullis, I should take care of the guards. But no one should see medoing this.

Fig. 12: Once you've managed to rope up to the first beam, retrieve the rope and quick-save. To plant a rope in oneof the upper beams, lean out and try to place it on the beam's END, not its side or bottom. Otherwise, you may fallwhen leaping over to catch the rope. If your bow won’t nock the arrow, it means you’re not quite on the beam—

jump up to situate yourself better. You’ll need a slow-fall potion to get back down.

The stairs in the inner hall are blocked to prevent access to the lower levels.

How do I take care of the guards without anyone noticing?

They are all No-KO. Remember the 3 gas arrows?

I threw the big lever to open the gate but the screen went black. I hear stuff, but there’s no picture!

It’s just a cut-scene.

Now what? I’m back at Lady Adaline.

Frob her and the guard outside to read what they have to say. Once that’s done, be sure andlockpick room 37. The important thing here is found in one corner of the ceiling. Climb uponthe armoire.

Once done, head for the stairs. You’ll teleport back to the city street. You want to go north,where another cut-scene will take place. Afterward, you’ll find yourself in a large bedroom witha blazing fireplace.

Fig. 13: Get onto a balcony and shoot this weather vane with an arrow. You'll berewarded with a couple of gas arrows.

Wooden balcony railings seen while you’re on the street are big clues.Nock a rope arrow and start investigating those apartments.

Fig. 14: Going this way will take you into another cut-scene. Avoid it until you’re doneinvestigating the city.

Fig. 15: If you're hunting for all the scrolls, this one may slip by you unnoticed.

How do I open the grate in the library?

Fig. 16: The arrow points to a set of keys tucked between the bed and wall. This is in thelibrary. (Figure 17) You need this key to get the Rocksbourg Legends book.

Fig. 17: In the library there's a grate that must be opened.

The grate in the library (figure 17) requires a complicated set of moves. Here is how it’s done:

1. Once you manage to rope up to the beams, navigate via the narrow ledge to the grate.2. Use the crowbar on the grate. It will break. You can drop it from your inventory now.3. Call up the glyph in your inventory called Enter the Void and right-click4. Once in the Hall of Achievements, turn around and frob the floating glyph.5. You’ll find yourself back in the small room in the sewers.6. Do not enter the sewer proper, instead, go through the partially opened door in the small

room and ascend the ladder.7. Exit to the outside and go left into the narrow alley. Head to the pawnshop.8. In the pawnshop, go downstairs and use the small sack of cash in your inventory on the

vial of Spider Acid sitting on the associate’s desk. Buy a slow-fall potion if you don’thave one. You won’t be able to get an objective without it.

9. Return to the sewers.10. Angle NE to find the other ladder that takes you to the haunted section of town again.

The easiest way to find it is to turn left just before you come to the green spider, godown that hall where two zombies are patrolling, and keep going until you see theladder.

11. Once you’re back on the street, use the glyph to teleport back to the library.

What do I do once I’m teleported from the library back to the streets?

Use the ‘Void’ glyph. Then frob the floating glyph once you’re in the Hall of Achievements. Goto the inn. As you head towards the stairs going up, you’ll be teleported to where a mage willspeak to you.

When you’re done with him, you’ll find yourself just outside your room where you started. Goin there and take the scepter that’s laying on the table. Now return to the pawnshop.

How do I help Farage?

That objective will complete after you speak with the mage.

Where do I find the Isis Statuette?

Bring the other three items to Flik and he will give you something.

Warning!

If you get the steps in the wrong order, you won’t be able to teleport back to the library. Apparently, you are not to use the glyphs anywhere but in the street. I would recommend

doing a hard save once you reach the grate.There is a save game (in the !Save folder) if this happens. Simply drop it into your Saves folder.

It will be at the top of the list when you enter the game.

Where are the four items I need to collect for Flik?

Isis Statuette Given to you by Flik once you give him the other three items.

Precursor’s Dagger Where you find secret #5. (The wall-mounted dagger protected by electricity.)

Rocksbourg Legends In the science library, after you get the spider acid to open the grate.

Pagan MaskCorner of ceiling in apartment 37, near Lady Adaline and her guard. You have to completethe objective to open the portcullis first.

The mission will end once Flik escorts you to the tunnel in his basement.

List of Achievements

These are shown in the blue Hall of Achievements, when you frob the Enter the Void glyph.

Achievement Requirement

Burglar Unlock 15 locks of varying complexity. (There are a total of 16 locks)

Collector Steal the coin on Flik’s counter.

Defender of Lady Adaline Gained by successfully completing the objective to save her.

Desperado Shoot down the weather vane in town. See figure 13.

Devastator Collect all the loot in the mission. (6228 total)

Fearless Fighter1. Kill a haunt in close combat. Or...2. ...inflict one frontal blow with your sword and then kill your enemy with a different weapon.

Flayer Kill the sewer monster by dropping the frogbeast onto the green spider.

Neophyte Meet the mage.

Pickpocket Pickpocket all 18 available purses from guards’ belts.

Searcher Find all eight secrets.

Thief Steal 5,000 loot.

Spy Listen to all conversations by guards and get all scrolls (Captain’s orders).

Warning!

When I gave the 3 items to Flik, he did not say anything, nor did he show me the way to the secret exit.