LogFAQs > #954146534

So I got stuck in this next part and I'm still salty as a lyre about it. After we find Dover's body in the present, Debeste and Courtney let us investigate the fountain atrium. This investigation takes a while, because it takes me too long to realize that some tea's been spilled on the ground (this isn't the reason I got stuck though... that's coming up). Laurice and Kate H. are both acting suspicious. It doesn't take much to figure out that Larry's acting weird cause he fucked up somehow - indeed, he spilled the tea, breaking a teapot in the process. To show he's sorry (? - I wish I had Larry's mind sometimes) he shows us this sketch he did of this case's lovely women. He insists that Delicia isn't one of them though - you did draw her Larry. Methinks you dost protest too much.

Now to figure out why Kate is acting weird. Here's where I got stuck. I've mentioned before that I have problems with the "Deduce" mechanic, because it wants you to choose the particular contradiction in a scene when there are multiple ways of conceptualizing it in your brain. Obviously Larry's sketch is the right evidence to present, but where on the tea cart am I supposed to "deduce it from?" I kept clicking on top of the cart because there's chocolates on it. Or I can click on the teapot because it's not there on the picture. I got desperate a few times and tried submitting the "lift cart" as evidence instead of the sketch. Turns out, the game wants you to compare the sketch to the "side" of the cart - the tablecloth ostensibly - because the big contradiction here is supposed to be that Larry's sketch has a "light blue" tablecloth and not a white one. This is maybe my fault for playing on desume on a pretty small screen, but I honestly could not even tell the difference. But still, why do I have to compare it to the "side" of the cart? I knew the right evidence? Anyway, this ate up a good half of my health bar.

From the investigation we learn:
1) Kate bought the mansion recently
2) The teapot probably contained normallium
3) The cloth and the body are from 18 years ago, so the exhibits probably are too
4) Kate was doing a lot of moving around with tea carts

This all makes it pretty obvious that Kate moved the body in the present as some way to get revenge on the true culprit; I couldn't quite figure out what she was doing in the past until she admits that she just stole the statues in the past because of her love of Pierre Hoquet, not knowing that the dead body was actually in one of them (how'd it get from the chocolate ship to here though)?

Kate's present plan is actually pretty good: 18 years later she buys back the mansion and finds the exhibits/body still in cold storage. She puts on the art exhibit to lure the murderer back - she changes the rooms and disguises the statues to set a trap for the real killer, who is the only other person who would know where the body was. She puts poison gas in the trap and voila, you've caught yourself a killer. Though it does kind of make you an attempted murderer.

Next: finale

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