Guide to Part III: The Long Fall in Night in the Woods. Investigate spooky happenings, uncover Dusk Stars, find Notebook Sketches, and prepare for band practice.
While previous chapters were more about exploring the town and getting to know your friends, the focus of this one is on something slightly different: solving the disappearance from Harfest. Mae will first investigate spooky happenings in the town at the library, and then once again you'll have a choice of what to do. There are three different SPOOKY locations to check out, but you will only be able to check out two of them. In between these two segments, one night you will also just hang out with either Bea or Gregg again. This, however, will be locked in by who you hung out more with in the previous chapter.
Additionally, there is a lot of side stories you can follow this chapter. You will be able to unite two musicians to form a rocking band, learn about Germ's "pet" Possum rabies, and of course uncover more of those hidden Dusk Stars with Mr. Chazokov. The entire town will open in this chapter, and there will be a couple of new places you can check out that you couldn't previously. On top of all of this, there are a ton of new Notebook Sketches you can find if you know who to talk to. Check the tables before each section as they'll detail all of the missable Notebook Sketches you can find.
So get ready everyone. It's time to put our detective hats on and figure out exactly what is up with Possum Springs. I'm sure this won't be dangerous is any way...right? Right? RIGHT?!
Area Overview
| Location | Action | Object | Notes |
| Your House, Your Room | Inspect | Computer | New messages from Gregg, Bea, and chattrBox |
| Your House, Your Room | Inspect | Guitar | Same three songs as before if you want more practice. |
| Your House, Second Floor | Inspect | Picture | Little Mae still looks as adorable as ever. |
| Your House, Second Floor | Inspect | Clock | Are new clocks afraid of big old scary clocks? The world may never know. |
| Your House, Second Floor | Inspect | Bird | Don't cats eat birds? What's this thing even doing here? |
| Your House, Second Floor | Inspect | Bookshelf | Mae looks for books that might relate to her current predicament of possibly witnessing a murder. Don't know if you have those. |
| Your House, First Floor | Talk | Mom | Apparently the reason she's stressed is they took out a bad loan to pay for your college and now you may lose the house. Yikes. Talk to her about her detective book and at the end of the conversation you'll get another Notebook Sketch. |
| Outside Your House | Inspect | Penderson's House | If you climb on top of the power line pole to the left of your house, you'll find out why Penderson hates you so much. You dropped an M80 down his storm pipe. Seems justified, honestly. |
| Outside Bea's House | Talk | Mr. Chazokov | Time for more Dusk Star hunting! You can find Big Snake just slightly above and to the right of your starting spot and Gramercy the Medium in the bottom left. You'll get two more Notebook Sketches from this. |
| Outside Bea's House | Talk | Selmers | More poetry from Selmers. This guy really should set up shop in a second rate coffee shop. |
| Outside Bea's House | Talk | Crow | Join us for more "porch talk" with our host "Crow guy who I'm not sure has an actual name". |
| Storefronts, Screen 1 | Talk | Lori M. | Exchange notes about how she watched a movie and you maybe saw a murder. Good times. |
| Storefronts, Screen 1 | Inspect | Roofcat | Mae wants to camp up here, but then realizes she'd probably roll off and fall to her death. |
| Storefronts, Screen 1 | Enter | Window | There's more to see and down in this building, so be sure to check it out. |
| Storefronts, Screen 1 | Enter | Market House | You can talk to Bea in here, and she'll remind you that there is band practice tonight. You aren't quite ready to talk to her about the whole "maybe witnessing a murder" thing though. |
| Storefronts, Screen 1 | Inspect | War Monument | Mae has some thoughts about war, and you're going to have to listen to them, statue that can't move in any way. That's one of the major downsides to being a statue, really. |
| Building Your Broke Into | Inspect | Boxes | Dead flower vs. plastic ones: which gets your more sad? Tell us in the comments! |
| Building Your Broke Into | Inspect | Dresser | After you check out the boxes, you can turn back right but go down the stairs instead of up. This room used to be locked, but now you can check out everything inside of here including the dresser next to the fridge. |
| Building Your Broke Into | Inspect | Bed | This bed comes decked out with five pictures of saints to watch you sleep. How cozy! |
| Building Your Broke Into | Inspect | Closet | If you go all the way to the right in this room you'll enter a bit of darkness which is apparently the closet. |
| Underground | Talk | Miss Rosa | Find out about the time your grandfather broke a car's windshield and peed inside of it. Dang, this lady has the best stories. |
| Underground | Talk | Teens | You ask them if they know if anyone is missing, and now they'll be creeped out by you for the rest of their lives. |
| Outside Church | Enter | Church | The only thing you can do in here is talk to your mom. |
| Outside Church | Talk | Pastor Kate and Bruce | They'll chat amongst themselves for a bit, but after you can talk to Pastor Kate about bad dreams and the big town council meeting coming up concerning the fate of Bruce. |
| Storefronts, Screen 2 | Enter | Video Outpost "Too" | Angus is inside and will remind you that band practice is tonight, in case you forgot. |
| Storefronts, Screen 2 | Talk | Workers | They're wondering why they've been standing out there. We were wondering the same thing too, honestly. |
| Storefronts, Screen 2 | Talk | Man In Window | Uhhh...I think he just threatened to murder us. |
| Storefronts, Screen 2 | Enter | Snack Falcon | Talk to Gregg and tell him when you're ready to head to band practice |
| Storefronts, Screen 2 | Talk | Danny | He'll be to the left of the Clik.Clak.Diner. Apparently he's working as the janitor here now. |
| Outside Food Donkey | Talk | Germ | He has a lovely story about some weird, scary individual following him home. SPOOKY. |
After you wake up, you can again check your computer or play your bass for a bit. Head downstairs and talk to your mom to patch things up a bit. She again hints at whatever i
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