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Sorry, I misled you there - wrong tool.
Have a really good look at the streetlight.

The tools you will need are:

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Crowbar, cutter, extension cord.

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Procedure is :

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Use crowbar on streetlight to get cover off. Use extension cord on electrical socket. Use extension cord, and Yago will unroll it. Use cutter on extension cord and streetlight, use extension cord to fry the electrics.

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You need to distract him. What is he doing right now? Maybe you need to :

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Fry his cable TV

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Your screwdriver could be used outside.

You need to:

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Make a ladder.

You will need the materials, some of which you get after defeating the last dog, the rest you will then get from behind the city hall - that screen is bigger than I initially thought:-)

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Yes, that's it . It is an installer, not a zip file. Each to his own I guess. Personally I'd choose the .zip format, but I can assure you there is nothing nasty in the installer.

Hi Everyone!

I'd like to nominate "Yago the Coquerrestrial" for "pick of the month.


Yago is a reporter from the planet Coque, and is commissioned to renew a documentary about Earth that the Coquelians made 50,000 years ago. The human race has evolved a lot, and Yago has the onerous duty to revise the doco. Solo. He loses nearly everything in a collision with a satellite, so he not only has to make the doco, he needs to fix his ship as well.
He is goal-oriented, which is one of those irregular verbs - I am goal-oriented, you are plain selfish, he is a complete a55hole! He does many nasty things, but he has to.
The animations are first class and the plot is sublime. The humour is from chuckle to absolute belly-laugh-out-loud. Yago is an enigma; a lovable character that you can hate as well. This, for me, was one of the best games of 2018. Try it! There are many helpful hints on the "hints and tips" thread, I put some of them there.
Don't miss out - it's a hard game but worth the effort!

Hi again Michael 2968!

I'm happy to see how far you have proceeded. I found this game very hard, but I was assisted on this thread by a fellow
player called "peter". When I got stuck he would help, and vice-versa. A re-occuring theme in this game is "getting rid of dogs". (As a cat lover I like this.) You are nearly there, but only 25% through this full-length game. I really hope you are having a fun time playing it, I thought the animations and humour were great, and it only gets better from here!

To your current problem:

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The dog can smell Yago.
You have to make Yago smell differently.
What do you have in your inventory that must stink?

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Use that on Yago.

Hi all!

As an ex-airline pilot, I can help - not with cheap airfares, but how to organize yourselves. Firstly, for all Americans out there (and this is NOT a joke) Columbus proved that the world is round. If you want to come to OZ, go via Hawaii - yep head WEST - or fly direct via LAX. The amount of idiots I have seen fly via the middle East is laughable and lamentable.

For all other sane people, Singapore is the most accessible hub. Norwegian Airlines offer cheap flights from LHR. Silk Air (low-cost offshoot from Singapore Airlines) fly direct to Cairns, where I live. I have a Japanese friend, Sammy Kawano, who rode his bicycle around the world. He lives here now because it is the most beautiful place he ever saw. Accom is cheap - particularly through Wotif.com - and we charge per room in this country, not per person like in the UK.

Exchange rates are favourable at the moment, and food-wise you won't get a mountain of fatty inedible crap like in the US, you might actually taste really fresh produce beautifully cooked. I really hope to see you here!

There's something in your inventory you can use on the earth.

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The antenna.

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Hi Michael2698 !

That's not what you need.

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A pole can also be used for vaulting.

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Have fun.

It's a slight mis-apprehension. You haven't been killing the dead woman, you've been saving her from her suicide attempts.

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Cutting her down when she was hanging, pulling the wires out of her bath, and now bandaging her cut wrists.

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Keep at it - you're doing well.

That's a bad guess morganw. There are things located elsewhere that you will need in nearly all of the puzzles. Garbage man is a big help here.

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You don't kill the dead woman, you bandage her wounds with the bandage from the medi-kit,

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Hope that helps!

Thank-you Shadow1000! Actually my problem was not searching the cells thouroughly enough. Finished it now, will write a comment as soon as my mind settles down!

Help please I'm stuck. I'm loving this game but:

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What tool do I need to smash the weakened wall at Prison Rock? I suspect I need to make a bomb downstairs, but Teagan won't pick up anything that is there.
The man with two mugs' puzzle I assume needs all 3 symbols lit, but turning on any symbol turns off others. Is this puzzle solvable?

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Thanks in advance!

Congratulations!

A masterpiece of adventure gaming, and overcoming the daunting tasks involved. Beers are on me!

Hi Shadow1000!

You're almost there:

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The strawman is counting down from ten to zero, and you are required to input after "six" (three left flashes), so click the right eye 4 times for "five" then click the left eye to "enter", the next is 5 for "three" and so forth.

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Hope that helps!

I quite agree, but the first 3 puzzles were logical, diabolical but solvable. The 4th is where I find no logic.

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Make an equation with the following, assuming all the laws of maths apply: 1,2,3,5,6,+,=,x
I tried 5x3+6=21, and commutative variations

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This must be hard to code, and when the vocal clues helped in the past, I got nothing from this one. But then I don't watch Hollywood movies.

The key to this puzzle is the elevator status screen.

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Click on the "<" or ">" symbols and you will bring up other screens, one of which will show the effect of moving each lever. When all the rectangles are darkened, the lift is enabled.

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Hope that helps, if not I'll post a spoiler, but it's pretty straightforward from here. Good luck!

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep;
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep."

Oh crap! That doesn't meter Terrance!
That doesn't matter Phillip!
It's from a Robert Frost poem - one of the best in the 20th Century
"On a walk through the dark woods"
But if it doesn't meter, yet it's good Terrance, that means that I
don't know my arse from my elbow!
Here, Phillip - pull my elbow!
PPPPHHRRRRAAAT! Hahahahahahahahaha!
<you don't think it's supposed to be about the content, do you?>
Pull my elbow again!
PPPPHHRRRRAAAT! Hahahahahahahahaha!

It's a "lay down misere" as far as I can see, Sinitrena gets all my votes in all categories; that wasn't just a story - it was a novella, and probably should be expanded into a short story or series of same. Google "Pantera books" and follow the directions - you'll be published! (If you can find the descendants of the publishers of Alexandre Dumas and Charles Dickens, then you're in clover 'coz they got paid by the word!) Saucer of milk please...thank-you, where was I?

There's no point in embellishing the other worthy entries, 'coz all my points are gone. Once again I pay tribute to the conveners and participants and applaud the high standard demonstrated. My next story will have to start with; "Rikki the magic pixie went to visit Daisy Bumble...."

I think I'll have a lash at poetry this time, albeit from left field.

The following is a true story about dragons, there are two meanings to the word I hope you realise, and one is NOT loveable. It happened on the occaision of the 30th anniversary of my pilots' course graduation, and yes I was flying single engine jets since before most of you were born. The Queen paid for it, and it was a real hoot! Upside down at one hundred feet at 10 nautical miles per minute on my 20th birthday beats any roller-coaster you've ever been on! (and I was burning a gallon of kerosene per second) To reminisce over formative years is great, but there's always someone to spoil it. There's always a dragon...

DRAGONS

Dragons circling, dragons' flight;
Dragons waiting, hov'ring, in the night;
Dragons that must be fed, dragons on the prowl;
Well fed dragons, Prada clad, make their hunting howl.

Many miles they've come this night;
To strut themselves before their ilk;
And chatter unimportant things,
Before they make their kill.

Amongst themselves they chatter, bicker, and complain;
About "Useless bloody pilots, all they talk is aeroplanes!"
While totally forgetting who paid for that dress,
And the tennis club's membership, alas! I do digress.

The first and business travel that they got but for a song;
400 bucks London and back? Nice, but far too long!
The dragons, blue and red and green,
Wait for a signal, quite unseen
By men at least, Not man nor beast;
Can hear the huntress' call,
But soon the fun is over,
For us men, one and all.

The dragon is a mighty beast,
With sharpened claws and razor teeth,
Most splendiferous, and magestic;
With wings it flies across the skies
A scenario fantastic!
A mission bent, with great intent
To scratch out your very eyes!

Amongst our clan there stood a man,
Who would not be one outspoken;
When the dragons called 'We're all bored!"
He played the final token:

"Fifteen years I've spent with you,
and shower'd you with praise,
But to this man here, I owe my life,
If you'd heard you'd be amazed!
You begrudge me seeing him, once in thirty years,
and my 18 mates who defied the fates
and the lost that caused us tears."

The way to beat a dragon, isn't through a lance,
For it will always lead you through a very merry dance;
But if you were to rob it of its pompous gift of flight
You clip its wings, and then it sings,
"Oh Waily!" through the night.

"Yer'r'off my staff travel!" cried he; with a flourish of his phone!
"Unless you've got some money, seems like you'll be walking home!"
Some Dragons threatened everything; like "No sex e'er for you!";
One brave (and lucky) man then said; "Of girlfriends I have two!"

The next morn, we old "young men" return'd
To our homes and hearths, we'd had our laughs,
The dragons were very burned.
The greatest mistake we all can make
In life when we're confronted;
Is to take anyone, any thing or gift, for pity's sake, for granted.

'Coz you'll find your own freakin' way home! Bitch!