I hope you’re ready for the shortest update in this LP! Welcome to 2AM, Day 3. By the way, absolutely NOTHING in that title card happens in this time segment. Also, fair warning: the cutscene at the end of this update contains content related to sexual assault. Nothing in this time segment is at all important apart from the one item we pick up, so you can probably skip this one if that’s something you don’t want to see.
We start as Gabriel again, outside of the hotel room.
If we go downstairs, Simone is sleeping. That can’t possibly be good for her upper back and shoulders. Also, if she’s asleep… who sent us the wake-up call?
Now, you’re probably thinking that the first and only thing we’re going to do is go to Larry Chester’s house, follow him, spy a lot, and then go back to the hotel. But.. there’s a source of points that I have no idea how you could possibly figure out exists.
We actually want to start by heading to L’Homme Mort. If you’ll remember, this is where we saw Mosely and Madeline bump into each other back before this game turned into a geometry management simulator.
Mosely is out here digging a hole by himself. It’s like he’s ASKING for whoever killed the Scottish guys to come kill him and bury him in his pre-dug grave. You’d figure that if two guys who were probably armed got brutally murdered people would.. you know, not go out alone at night.
I also have absolutely zero idea what the logic was supposed to be that would bring you here, apart from just checking every location.
I’d like to think that Grace told Mosely about how his shirt is a war crime and he’s trying to bury it before the ICC can get to it.
There’s one other thing that doesn’t really make a whole lot of sense here if you think about it. Grace spent presumably several hours with Mosely before falling asleep. Why didn’t she tell him about the whole geometry thing she did?
Actually, wasn’t Mosely there when Grace and Gabriel were talking about how the treasure was probably the holy grail, and how the grail was actually just a metaphor for the birth records from the Temple of Solomon? I dunno, I think the writers and designers for this game were just kinda phoning it in at this point. They probably didn’t expect anyone would get this far.
The worst part is I can practically hear Archer’s voiceactor saying this.
There’s nothing we actually need here, other than the points.
Now that we’re at Larry’s, there’s another pixel hunt. You’d think we’d just go up to the window, but no.
Instead, you have to pan the camera to the window, click on Larry, and “sneak” to him.
Here’s another plot hole: why Larry even bothered setting his alarm clock if he’s up and about already. Moreover, why is his alarm clock in his office and not in his bedroom?
Larry heads out with a shovel and.. something under his arm.
He then goes off to a separate screen behind his house with it. I honestly thought he was going to die here, but he doesn’t.
The camera angle for this is definitely not the best, but you can see him burying something by those rocks…
and if we look down there, there’s an off-colored patch of dirt.
I don’t know why they bothered to do this when it’s already been shown that Gabriel can fit pretty much anything into his jeans, but whatever.
Now, if you’ll remember, I’m pretty sure Sinclair was one of the list of families thought to be descended from the Merovingians and thus may or may not have Jesus blood in them.
And naturally, don’t forget to fingerprint! With this print, we now have fingerprints for every major character except Emilio. We can therefore narrow the list of people who could have taped the copy of Le Serpent Rouge to the museum door down to one person: if it’s not Larry, it’s got to be Emilio.
Unfortunately, Gabriel won’t look at the report, insisting that reading is for Grace. He’s supposed to be a writer by the way.
Also, don’t question how Gabriel managed to dust something for fingerprints at 2AM in pitch darkness.
When we go back for the bike.. hey wait, that’s the vampire car! By the way, this area is godawful to navigate at night - thankfully, the game will dump us back at the bike once we leave the area behind Larry’s house.
Naturally, we’d expect to find the vampire car at the house of the guy who totally isn’t a vampire, but unfortunately the gates are closed and there’s no sign of the car. Actually.. wait - the garage was locked when we got here the first time. I bet that black sedan is in the garage. The only question is, what were they doing?
Near the end of Montreaux’s driveway is a pair of tire tracks. I don’t think you could find these when Gabriel was here earlier.
No surprise that they belong to the Scottish guys.
That’s all we can do in this time segment. Let’s head back to the hotel.
Meanwhile, in badly-compressed CGI land..
I never thought about it before, but I think this unicorn might actually be a re-used asset from King’s Quest Mask of Eternity.
No, you dipshits! Has Monster Hunter taught you nothing?! You want to plant barrel bombs near Kirin before you go rushing in. It’s free damage!
It’s hard to see what’s happening even in-game, and even when I tried increasing the gamma on the image it still looks like a blocky mess.
That’s it! Cut that fucker’s head off! Bastard carted my hunter enough.
It’s hard to show in stills, but the guy’s face pulsates in a way that could only be rendered in a late-90s blocky cutscene.
Ladies and gentlemen, furries. In case you can’t tell what’s going on, the guy grew a unicorn horn. I have a theory that says that everything that has to do with furries eventually ends in vore, and I think this is just proving me right.
It must really suck if you’re like, a bear furry though. Or a hippo furry. Actually, what if you’re one of those furries that’s a furry of a single-celled organism that can’t technically bleed, which I presume exist because of course they do. It’s furries.
I’m not entirely sure where this shot came from, but whatever.
Oh fuck, an actual vampire! This is the first one we’ve seen in.. almost 2/3 of the game!
You ever just get your leg stuck in a couch? By the way, the reason the vampire isn’t just killing Gabriel is because Gabriel has the Schattenjager talisman, which as far as I understands it protects against most supernatural bullshit.
The vampire then does something kinda.. questionable.
Gabriel finally gets up. The game doesn’t do a cut here for some reason, but the implication is that this is just a dream… layered on another dream.
I’m sure the fact that he just put the talisman on her will in no way relate to a dumb bullshit puzzle later on, because I’m positive there’s going to be a puzzle to get it back.
Points Breakdown:
Previous Update: 559/965 points
Talked to Mosely at L’Homme Mort: 2 points (561)
Watched Larry bury the report: 5 points (566)
Dug the report up: 4 points (570)
Fingerprinted the report cover: 2 points (572)
Saw the black sedan drive by: 2 points (574)
Compared the tire pattern to the one in Montreaux’s driveway: 2 points (576)
Total: 576/965 points, still 2 points ahead of the guide.