The Cursed Legacy

Arrival

Approach the gate and push it open. Head up the long driveway to reach a red car. Open the car door and take letter #1 (1/28) from inside. Continue up 2 sets of steps towards the front of the house and you will reach a terrace. Look at the sketch of the old statue on the table. Try to open the front door, but it is locked.

Turn around and walk back down the first set of steps. Follow the path to the left and you will find a statue at the end. Look behind this and take the entrance key (2/28) from behind it. Go back to the front door and use the key in the lock, then open the door and head inside.

Exploration

Downstairs

Go straight ahead and take letter #2 (3/28) from the corner of the painting. Turn left and go through the darkness to a large open room. On the right as you enter there are 2 light switches that you can turn on, which light this room.

There are several locations you now need to search to find the flashlight (4/28), but it will be somewhere near the photo of Napoleon, on the wall between the 2 light switches you just used:

• On the bottom edge of the painting's frame
• On top of the small cabinet beneath the painting
• In the top drawer of the small cabinet beneath the painting
• On the wooden ledge just to the left of the painting

You shouldn't need to turn on any more lights on the walls now that you have the flashlight. Now go to the far corner of the room and open the doors on the tall cabinet. Pull the red book forward and you will hear a mechanism. Turn around and pull open the painting on the wall to the left, then take a code paper (5/28).

Return out past the front door and you will see 2 wooden doors in a short corridor around to the left. The first room is a kitchen, and the second room is a storage room with a cabinet for the circuit breaker - try not to use this during the game.

As you leave this area you will probably have a ghost rush through you. Go back out to the large living room and you can now open the side door. Check the 2 side rooms here and you will find a lighter (6/28) on the ironing board. Return out to the living room and use your lighter to start a fire in the fireplace. Go back to the side room from the living room and head up the stairs.

Upstairs

Open the door at the top of the stairs on the right and enter. Pick up the ritual book (7/28) from the armchair. Notice the chess set in the room. When you go back out, you can see the words "crucifix protects me" written on the wall over the staircase. Turn right and go out towards the piano near the balcony, Light the 2 candles on the sides of the piano. You can open the piano, but you don't have any music to play yet.

Continue around into the next room on the right. Approach the far wall and you will see a diagram here - you will also now have a list of items you need to collect. You have some of these already:

• crucifix
• 5 x red candle
• 3 x salvia
• ritual book (you already have this)
• lighter (you already have this)

Keep an eye out for the remaining items, as their location is random. Continue around the balcony and enter the next room to search it. Back out on the balcony, push the cabinet covered with a sheet twice so you can enter the next corridor. Search the 2 rooms on the right. Go to the end of the hall where there are stacked boxes, and try to open the final door on the right - this is the attic and it is locked.

By now you should have found a portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven (8/28). You should also have found 1 salvia (9/28) and 5 red candles (14/28). Don't proceed to the next part until you have all of these items.

Go back to the piano and open it. Play the music indicated by the notes on the front of the portrait and the keyboard layout on the back: 4, 3, 4, 3, 4, 6, 2, 1, 5. You will hear a mechanism unlock. Turn around and pull open the painting on the wall, then open the chest inside It smells like sage. Take out the crucifix (15/28) and 2 salvia (17/28).

The Ritual

There should be a countdown on your screen - once it reaches zero, the entity in the house will be free to attack you. When you hear a scream, quickly use your crucifix and remain still to repel it.

Make your way back downstairs to the large living room. Place the 5 red candles on the floor at the tips of the pentagram, and light each of them. Place the 3 salvia on the plates around the pentagram and light them as well. The pentagram will now be glowing. Let the entity come towards you and it will be trapped by the pentagram. Use your ritual book to banish it Ritual.

The Attic Key

Examine the code paper in your inventory - it has a chess piece on the back of it. Walk around the house and use your UV light on the flashlight to examine objects. Four of them will display Roman numerals, and will correspond to chess pieces:

• I: Pawn on the chessboard (Black Pawn)
• II: Portrait of "King Louis XIII" (White King)
• III: Painting "A Cavalier on a White Horse" (White Knight)
• IV: Painting "Carnegie's Windsor Castle" (Black Rook)

Examine the chessboard upstairs and find the positions of these pieces on the board, then look at the code paper and find the corresponding numbers:

• Black Pawn: F5 (3)
• White King: C8 (3)
• White Knight: B4 (5)
• Black Rook: G4 (1)

Go back downstairs to the fireplace in the living room. Enter the code 3351 Simple deduction. Now take the attic key. Head up to the attic door. Use the attic key in the lock, then open the door and go through.

The Attic

Look at the 2 paintings of flowers on the right wall, as well as the other painting of flowers just outside the attic - there are small numbers hidden in the paintings. Pay attention to the colored flowers/leaves associated with each number. Now head up the stairs.

Search the attic thoroughly to find an old fuse (19/28), and take a short rifle (20/28) from the far wall. There is writing on the far wall that says "Use salt!". In one of the alcoves near a window, partially hidden by sheets, you will find a safe that requires you to press colored buttons, and there is a picture of some flowers next to it. Press the buttons in order according to the numbers from the flower paintings:

1. Yellow
2. Pink
3. Red
4. Blue
5. Green
6. Blue

The safe will open Red is blue. Take out the special ammunition (21/28) Bad omen. Also take another old fuse (22/28). Return near the far wall of the attic and you will find a fuse box on the left. Insert the 2 old fuses here, then lift up the handle - you will see the garden gate open outside. Go all the way back downstairs and head outside.

Select the short rifle in your inventory, and you will be able to hold both this and your flashlight. Go over to the garden gate and head through.

The Gardens

While you are in the gardens, red lightning will show where storm clouds have arrived. Demonic skulls will fly towards you from these clouds, and you have to shoot them before they reach you. They will eventually stop coming A hunter is born.

Follow the path to get to a tomb and pick up a hand wheel (23/28) from the right of the steps. Look on the tops of the small lights along the path and you will find a gear (24/28). Look off the side of the path to find a lit stone platform. There is a sliding tile puzzle on this platform - solve it, then take another gear (25/28) that slides out to the right.

Find 3 stone lion statues in the gardens - these can be rotated. Use your UV flashlight to search the walls around the edge of the garden and you will find 3 crosses. You need to rotate the lions to face these crosses. Once all 3 are correct, you will hear a mechanism unlock. Go up the steps of the tomb and take the final gear (26/28) from an open compartment on the left.

Insert your 3 gears to the right of the tomb door, then attach the hand wheel. Turn the hand wheel by clicking repeatedly on it, then quickly enter the tomb.

The Tomb

The door will close behind you. Go forward past the stone coffin to a puzzle on the far wall. Pull the handle down to reset the puzzle. You need to flip over pairs of panels to find matching symbols, and you only have a set number of tries before you must reset the puzzle again.

Once you are successful, go down the stairs into a bunker. Search the desk drawers to find a room listing (27/28). Look on the side walls and collect letter #3 (28/28) Collector.

Lift up the handle on the wall beneath the fuses, and the runic mechanism will become active. You need to adjust the runes on the sides so they match the runes on the walls in the rooms in the house. The rooms to select are indicated on the room listing you just found. If you need to return to the house to find the runes, you can reopen the tomb door using the red valve. Come back to the runic mechanism and set the runes as follows:

• Left Side
  Office (press 4 times)
  Living Room (press 7 times)
  Kitchen (press 5 times)
  
  
• Right Side
  Hall (press 6 times)
  Bathroom (press 3 times)
  Office (press 4 times)

Step through the portal It all begins here. You will get an additional achievement for never using the circuit breaker to restore power in the house I like the dark.