Barely Floating

[Fitz]

I'm stuck with a bunch of things:

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1. I'm trying to get the bartender to wash his beard, but I can't get shampoo from my room.
2. I tied the rope to the statue and my cabin's door. Guessing it'll knock out the unwanted occupant of my room when he opens the door - but the problem is he won't.
3. I'm guessing the cyan dye will help me get Mohombian currency - but the painter won't let me near it.

Talked to everyone, exhausted all topics available at this time. Not sure what to do now.

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[CaptainD]

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2 (and therefore 1 as well) - you're on the right tracks, you need something slippery to help the statue along...

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[Fitz]

I don't think I have anything like that. Right now, the only things I have are

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the cane, the banknote, the pills, the leaf and the magazine.

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[Stee]

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Maybe someone would like that magazine

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[CaptainD]

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Maybe someone would like that magazine

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And when he does, you might also be able to do something he wouldn't let you do with a nearby object...

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[Fitz]

Thanks Got a little further - and now I'm stuck

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playing bingo. Figured out I have to change the music on the jukebox, since the one playing is the only one Pex likes - but I have no idea how I do that without getting dismembered

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[Stee]

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Maybe someone else in the room can help you with the jukebox?

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[Fitz]

I asked

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the bartender, the beard creature and Dave, who's standing next to it - and none of them seemed willing to change it. Should I just MAKE them do it, somehow?

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[Stee]

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Are you playing a game of bingo, or just plainly annoying Pex for no reason

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No hints solution

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ask Nab (the beard creature) to play bingo so that you have a card. go change the jukebox. Watch Pex flip out. Whilst talking to Dave click on the jukebox which should get Dave to help you distract him enough to switch the bingo cards

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Did you pull an all nighter on this? 

[Fitz]

Oh, yeah, that seems logical.

And nope, but pretty close Went to sleep at around 3am I blame the washing machine apocalypse from earlier that evening for keeping me up, alert and in constant need of a challenge late into the night. Played Barely Floating, got stuck, posted about it, went on to play Nancy in the meantime, finished Nancy, went back to BF and played till I got stuck, then some more, and posted about it right before I went to sleep at 2:59.

[Khris]

I'm stuck at the very beginning

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I'm in the room, got the pills. Can't do anything to anything. The guard just dismisses me. What am I missing?

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[Stee]

Ah, can't exactly remember this

Khris have you

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exhausted all dialogue options with Pex? Remember you can clikc on things in the environment whilst in dialogue mode to talk about them

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or

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use pills on door

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[Khris]

Remember you can clikc on things in the environment whilst in dialogue mode to talk about them

I completely missed that that's possible. No wonder I was stuck. Thanks!

[innerdrum]

Hi there,
I'm stucked -feels like end of game is near-

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Trying to comunnicate with other ships with computer, i get to identify myself and ask for help, when they ask what do i need, i type "hostages free" and then they ask who is responsable for this, tried "captain" and names that i remember from the game.

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No luck so far.
Any ideas?

Thanks.

[CaptainD]

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I think this stumped me for a bit until I told them that I was on a Pirate Ship... things then rolled on logically with information you could easily find on the readouts.

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[Fitz]

This game is just too smart! It needs a walkthrough. Which is a a less self-deprecating way of saying *I* need one Yup, you guessed it - stuck again, and not so far from where I got stuck the last time.

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I'm in the freezer/coldroom/what-have-you, and currently fighting Pex with my cane. Exhaused all topics of conversation. Can't grab anything or hit it with a cane -- other than Pex himself, obviously.

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[innerdrum]

ok that did it just fine, Game ended.
Next, "Nancy th happy whore" -havent played yet, but my girl tried it and got to catch a glimpse, reminded my of leisure suit larry old games ♥-
Thanks for the help!

[Stee]

Fitz

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If you time it well enough, wait until pex throws the extra knife strike, then you can actually hit him with your cane

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[CaptainD]

Fitz

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If you time it well enough, wait until pex throws the extra knife strike, then you can actually hit him with your cane

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If you're still stuck, the point to try is when Pex goes "Har har".

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[Fitz]

Fitz

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If you're still stuck, the point to try is when Pex goes "Har har".

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Yeah, had to try a bunch of times, but eventually I figured that out.

Actually finished the game, just now I was about to ask for more help, like three times - but managed to figure it out on my own, somehow. Not an easy thing to do with a splitting headache Not from the game itself. It was lots of fun! Definitely difficult -- but everything was logical, in some way or another. I'm just terrible at noticing things, a lot of times. Took me a while to notice the crate with coconuts Also, if Joe says something not possible/not worth doing at the moment without giving a more detailed explanation why, I tend not to try it again -- and that got me stuck a few times. But the hardest part was the karaoke, took me a while to get everything right.

But in the end, that's what I love about adventure games and logic games. Takes more than just running and shooting to get things done. Definitely enjoyed the game It was funny, bitter, very surreal at times -- and featured some nice, complex gameplay mechanics, like talking about everything else in the room.

[AndyfromVA]

I was doing fine until now but I'm stumped.

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I freed the kids, filled up the leaf with water and shampoo and put it on the counter.  What now?

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[Fitz]

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Wait till the bantender crouches to look for something under the counter - and as soon as he does, talk to him. What'll happen is he'll

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jump up, startled, hit his head and fall on the counter, beard-first -- and get shampoo in it.{/hide]

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[Xiphias]

Please ignore -- how do I delete this post?  I just asked the question answered right above me. . . .

[selmiak]

I'm currently on the Bingo tournament but

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The guy won't help me until he knows his kids are fine.

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[CaptainD]

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There's an extension cord on top of the speakers in the bar... I wonder what that could plug into? 

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[frederic09]

Hi everyone,

I am stuck in the game, i don't know how to :

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find the hacker's drink

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I have access :

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to the Computer room (but i havn't the login/password yet)

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I have in my inventory :

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the gaz mask

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Barbara

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the 3 pills

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the cane

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Do you have any idea what i'm missing?

Thanks in advance,
Frédéric.

[Fitz]

You need to

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collect quite a few items and do quite a few things to get there. Firstly, you need coconuts (in the big crate on the lower deck where the coldroom, the prison cell and the German guy are) and duct tape (for the life of mine, I can't remember where that was... Igon, perhaps?). You'll need those two things to

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give Barbara bigger boobs and... wear her. Use coconuts and the tape on Barbara, go in front of the brewery and use the costume on the door. Once there, go to the left and turn the valve, so that the leak changes direction. Now go talk to the German. He'll start following you. Run away towards the leak. If he stops following, call him again. The goal is to get him stuck between the two containers with his BACK, not his face, facing the screen. The leak is sticky will get him stuck there permanently. When that happens, grab his underpants amd go check out the funnels.

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Now you are pretty close - but not quite there yet. You have to

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go to the bar and soak the underpants in the puddle in the top left corner. Go to Igon and use them on Igon. He'll tell you what drink it is. Now, go to the brewery and find the funnel for the drink he named. Look at the pills in your pocket. One of them will get whoever takes it severely stoned. Throw it into the funnel. Go back to the bar -- and you'll see it's working. Go talk to the hacker

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[frederic09]

thanks, but...

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i can't use the pants on the puddle, i have to calm down the hacker a little bit.

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Do you have an idea about to solve the problem ?

[CaptainD]

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If you can make the hacker more popular, he will calm down a bit...  without wanting to say too much, try playing around with the jukebox a bit and see what happens...

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[frederic09]

Wierd i was using it a lot of time, but after a lots of attempt it worked.

Thanks.

[CaptainD]

I think the timing is a little fiddly on that puzzle.  Glad you've got past it!

[AndyfromVA]

Stuck again.

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I have the telescope with the captain's image burned on it, but I can't do anything with it.  Also, I think I'm supposed to use Karaoke to get the lamp from the three brothers but I tried mentioning the things they liked and disliked and they still won't let me have the lamp.

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[frederic09]

Andy, you're on the right path. It took me 4 hours to find the logic.

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You have to influence the brother, so he will answer the question "correctly". Reread the religion part for each brother, and adapt the answer (yes/no) in consequence next time you're doing the Karaoke

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[Fitz]

That's a tricky one indeed. Had me stuck for a while, too, and I'm not quite sure how I made it through that one. A bit of knowledge, a bit of analyzing what each said, a bit of luck, I guess. But here's what little I figured out:

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The basics (which I guess you've figured out:

Tahwid likes black and white movies. The black and white picture is a symbol of that. He dislikes alcohol - symbolized by the hacker's glass and the bottles on the counter.
Bahwid likes fish (the swordfish over the counter) and dislikes captivity (the chain on the jukebox).
Mahwid likes the sun (spotlights or the flashlight) and dislikes monsters (the octopus).

You need to click on the items liked/disliked by the one who's answering the question. There will be 4 questions and you have to get them all right. The questions repeat in different tries, but there's always a different set. Some that I managed to figure out:

T asking M about gods - lights
B - M: middle road - black and white picture
T - B: hell - chain
B - M: hell - octopus
B - M: one god - lights
T - B: inaction - fish
M - T: no gods at all - alcohol
B - T: non-being - alcohol
M - B: inaction - chain
T - M: reincarnation - octopus
T - M: non-being - flash
M - B: one god - fish
T - B: one god - chain
B - T: hell - aclohol
T - B: non-being - fish
T - B: inaction - fish
T - M: hell - octopus
T - M: rebirth - octopus
T - M: non-being - light
M - T: serving god - picture
B - M: no gods - light
T - B: serving god - chain
T - B: inaction - fish

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Not sure if everything in that list is absolutely correct. Some were pretty logical, but some were wild guesses that just happened to work.

[AndyfromVA]

Thanks, Fredric09 and Fitz.  I don't know that I ever would have been able to figure it out on my own.

[CaptainD]

Fitz - there is a definite logic, you just have to

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make the brothers agree with each other

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.  (Well yeah, that sounds a whole lot easier than it is in practice, but it's definitely logical not random.)

[Fitz]

CaptainD:

Yeah, I figured that much. It's not that I was totally oblivious as to how it works.

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I also knew right away that the items I mentioned were a reference to the brothers' likes and dislikes. But when I first started singing, I didn't even click them, because I thought they'd be needed later -- and clicked the brothers and other people instead. But it's like with, say, the rhyming sword fights in Monkey Island (at least the 3rd one had them, can't remember the earlier ones) - you just have to try stuff a bunch of times.

On a side note - gotta love how much thought and creativity went into this!

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[CaptainD]

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I also knew right away that the items I mentioned were a reference to the brothers' likes and dislikes. But when I first started singing, I didn't even click them, because I thought they'd be needed later -- and clicked the brothers and other people instead. But it's like with, say, the rhyming sword fights in Monkey Island (at least the 3rd one had them, can't remember the earlier ones) - you just have to try stuff a bunch of times.
On a side note - gotta love how much thought and creativity went into this!

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I absolutely agree - loved this puzzle once I figured it out (which, unusually for me, was quite quickly!    Many puzzles in SoMI I worked out by accident though.  It was a great moment when I finally worked out how to defeat the Sword Master!

Also, sorry if it appeared that I was belittling your puzzle-solving abilities - that really was not my intention! 

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[Frodo]

I'm stuck near the end of the game.   

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I rescued the family from the brig, and they're waiting in the lifeboat.

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But

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The lifeboat is locked in place.  I need to get back upstairs to get the key to unlock it.  But he won't go back upstairs cos of the guards, and I can't find another way up.

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I have in my inventory

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Meat hook from the meat locker, 3 pills, gas mask, Barbara, and cane.

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[CaptainD]

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Maybe you can somehow get back into your cabin... that glass doesn't look all that strong...

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[Frodo]

Thanks, but I can't get that to work.

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If I use the cane on the cabing window, I can't reach, cos the stairs are too low.
If I use the meathook, that'll break the window, but it won't help me get up there.
And the 2 items won't combine.

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[Fitz]

The hook will be essential here -- but you'll need something else, too.

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You need to get the chain

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that the skeleton is shackled with

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and attach the hook to it.

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[Frodo]

Ahh, I completely missed that, thanks.   

Finished the game now.  Loved it!  And loved the ending.   

The music in the game was amazing!  Excellent job. 

Thanks for a wonderful game.   

[rhcooper]

This is going to sound probably completely ridiculous. 

What do I do at the end?

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By end, I literally mean the final battle with the Captain.  I pressed the button, I eletrocuted him.  I know it has to do with timing and direction, but I have be doing trial & error for days and have NO clue how to end this dude. 

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[AJA]

rhcooper,

Hint 1:

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Have you tried the other button?

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Hint 2:

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You can get there quickly by running.

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Solution:

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Wait for the captain near the floor hatch. When he catches you, Joe will hopefully run away near the button. Press it while the captain's standing over the hatch.

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Thanks for the kind words, everyone! Didn't expect to find them in the hint thread.

[Fitz]

Yeah, it might seem like a weird place for that -- but it definitely shows how much we liked the puzzles in this one. They were crazy at times, but still logical in some way.

[aworldofblue]

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Maybe someone would like that magazine

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Trouble quite in the beginning

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Where do I get the magazine from?

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[Fitz]

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At some point, when you go to the upper deck (where the guard is), you'll notice the Captain and Pex are there, too, talking. I thought it happened after you've asked Igon about the Captain or Pex and Bingo, after interviewing everyone else available -- but it seems you can do it earlier on. Just go up the stairs near the info guy. So when you see them talking on the upper deck, you'll notice something.

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A magazine lying on the ground. Wait for the Cap and Pex to go away to pick it up.

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[selmiak]

where do I

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strap 3d enhanced and taped Barbara on?
I thought maybe the pig, but he won't do it...

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[CaptainD]

where do I

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strap 3d enhanced and taped Barbara on?
I thought maybe the pig, but he won't do it...

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As far as I remember, when you have the complete costume, you use it on the door before you go in to see the fat guy.

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[MiSaNtHrOpE]

Where do I find the

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Magazine?

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and how do I get the

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Leaf?

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[Fitz]

1.

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The upper deck, where the armed guard is. See my previous post, three or four above, for more details if you have any problems.

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2.

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You should be able to just take it at some point. Can't remember exactly if you need to complete any task or just ask Igon about it - but while I couldn't just take it from the very beginning, I had no problems later on.

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[MiSaNtHrOpE]

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I freed the kids and got the shampoo. Ingor is watching them, but I still can't get the stupid leaf. There is no dialogue option for it, and he still says he doesn't want to steal it. I can't go upstairs because the armed guard with the assault rifle is watching me.

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[Fitz]

GENERAL HINT: There doesn't have to be a dialog option. You can simply ask about anything in the room (that is clickable). All you do start a conversation and when you move the mouse away from the dialog options, you'll notice them fade a little.

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Now just click the leaf.

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[MiSaNtHrOpE]

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I have: The Gas Mask, 2 Coconuts, Scotch Tape, Barbara, Cane, and the R/G/B pills. How am I supposed to get Herr Hindenburg to move and/or fix the leaky valve to the far right? Also, I made the hacker hit the Jukebox when he throws the drink, and I'm not sure if I'm doing Karaoke right.

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[Fitz]

A lot has been answered in detail before. The easiest and fastest thing to do sometimes is just check other people's questions.

For what to do with Herr Hindenburg -- and then the hacker -- check my reply to Frederic
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For the karaoke -- which is indeed very tricky -- check Frederic's and my replies to AndyFromVA  HERE.

[MiSaNtHrOpE]

A lot has been answered in detail before. The easiest and fastest thing to do sometimes is just check other people's questions.

For what to do with Herr Hindenburg -- and then the hacker -- check my reply to Frederic
HERE

For the karaoke -- which is indeed very tricky -- check Frederic's and my replies to AndyFromVA  HERE.

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I completed the Karaoke puzzle, but I cannot get the fat dude stuck between the vats (spray leak is currently facing toward the right). The Stickiness only lasts for about 4 steps, and he isn't even close to going between them. Is there a way to make the stickiness last longer?

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Nvm, I figured it out: The spray is supposed to be toward the left. OK let's do this!

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[Fitz]

Oops, my bad - I did menton

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turning the valve for the leak to change direction right after you enter the room

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, but I forgot to specify what it does exactly, that is

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get him stuck completely rather than just slow him down.

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[Shadow1000]

I have the

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password from the hacker.

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I don't know how to

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get past the guard to get up to the computer. I suppose it has something to do with the fog but I'm stuck

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Any tips would be appreciated.

SHADOW

[sthomannch]

Shadow
yes, you have to do something with the fog. First you need

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the flashlight and telescope.

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Flashlight: solve the karaoke puzzle, try several times if necessary, it becomes obvious at what to point after a while.
Telescope: ask Igon and when you got it use it on the small portrait of the captain that the artist painted.
Combine the telescope and the flashlight.

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[Shadow1000]

Shadow
yes, you have to do something with the fog. First you need

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the flashlight and telescope.

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Flashlight: solve the karaoke puzzle, try several times if necessary, it becomes obvious at what to point after a while.
Telescope: ask Igon and when you got it use it on the small portrait of the captain that the artist painted.
Combine the telescope and the flashlight.

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Oh, ok. I'm not there yet. I didn't realize I had to solve those first so I just went upstairs. I did dabble around a bit with the

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karaoke puzzle, after learning their respective likes and dislikes and finding corresponding items but I didn't see much change in their demeanour so I thought I'd try something else first

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Thank you

SHADOW

[peter]

Where are the walkthroughs
Are no one make new walkthroughs anymore ??

Thanks

[Leon]

Well.... if you insist. You can find the walkthrough here.

[peter]

Well.... if you insist. You can find the walkthrough here.

Thanks

[peter]

thanks

[CosmoQueen]

I have a small problem....

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I keep putting in the coordinates and heading wrong when talking to the other ship. I tried 21-26-74S, 62-12-54E 86-14-13deg but it's wrong! How am I supposed to be putting it? I've tried another comma and a space in between.

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[Airborne]

I have a small problem....

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I keep putting in the coordinates and heading wrong when talking to the other ship. I tried 21-26-74S, 62-12-54E 86-14-13deg but it's wrong! How am I supposed to be putting it? I've tried another comma and a space in between.

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Hint:

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What do you need to represent coordinate in 2D?

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Ans:

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The 3rd set of numbers are bearing, which the other ship will ask you later.

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[CosmoQueen]

Okay I got it but I'm still wondering something......

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I only got it right cuz of the coordinates that were in the walkthrough. Where did those even come from? I was using the numbers shown on the location.

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[Adeel]

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I only got it right cuz of the coordinates that were in the walkthrough. Where did those even come from? I was using the numbers shown on the location.

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The numbers shown were that ship's coordinates whom you were contacting. Sea Krait is located in the middle of the map and is rather darker than the others. If you hover the mouse there, it'll show you the coordinates of Sea Krait.

[CosmoQueen]

Ohhhhh gotcha! Thanks, I was really racking my brain over this lol.

[Adeel]

The puzzles were pretty self explanatory. I didn't feel the need to consult the walkthrough through out the game, except:

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When you have to ask the other ship to help - couldn't find the correct sentence to use

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and

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When you have to take the chain to break through the window.

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