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(sc09.3) Assigned Reading // CONTINUED
The Sinking City 2

(sc09.3) Assigned Reading // CONTINUED

Guide for The Sinking City 2's 'Assigned Reading' quest. Find clues like the Unsent Message and Student's Diary, solve a Retrocognition vision, and collect all Key Evidence.

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Guide for The Sinking City 2's 'Assigned Reading' quest. Find clues like the Unsent Message and Student's Diary, solve a Retrocognition vision, and collect all Key Evidence.

At the crossing with Justice St, follow it west past Warren Rd. Turn left on Inner Shine St and disembark from the boat.

On the left is a house. Enter it.

Student's House (sc09.3.1)

Investigation scene, Assigned Reading

Key Evidence (5)

  • Multiple fractures
  • Dried blood
  • Bleeding wounds
  • The massacre [CASEBOOK, Assigned Reading]
  • The Second Eyelid [CASEBOOK, Assigned Reading]

Evidence (2)

  • Unsent message [CASEBOOK, Assigned Reading]
  • Student's diary [CASEBOOK, Assigned Reading]

Lore

  • Illusions [LORE, Mythos]

Interact with the page on the smaller table in the kitchen.

  • Unsent message [CASEBOOK, Assigned Reading] (Evidence 1/2)

Go upstairs and head to the end of the hall. Melee attack the door open and interact with the journal on the desk here.

  • Student's diary [CASEBOOK, Assigned Reading] (Evidence 2/2)

Head through the other door here to enter another student's room. Stare at the bloody handprint by the bed with Mind's Eye to dispel the illusionary wall. Interact with all three dead "doppelgangers".

  • Multiple fractures (Key Evidence 1/5)
  • Dried blood (Key Evidence 2/5)
  • Bleeding wounds (Key Evidence 3/5)

Enter the Retrocognition vision.

Find the three critical scenes: near the bed, near the spilled chalice, and near the door to the hall.

Mark the scenes in chronological order:

  1. near the spilled chalice
  2. near the bed
  3. near the door to the hall

After the vision this will be received.

  • The massacre [CASEBOOK, Assigned Reading] (Key Evidence 4/5)

With Mind's Eye, follow the omens downstairs and to the back corner by the dining table. Stare at the wall with Mind's Eye to dispel the illusion and reveal shelves with a book.

Interact with the book.

  • The Second Eyelid [CASEBOOK, Assigned Reading] (Key Evidence 5/5)
  • Illusions [LORE, Mythos]
  • Key Evidence Collected
  • All Evidence Collected
  • +184 XP [SKILLS]

Experience 847 / 1,000

All the actual doppelgangers will now attack. Time for a little shooty-shooty, smacky-smacky. Or just run, they're human enough to not be worth any experience to kill. Leave the house.

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