Back in the Mammalogy lab (I took the screenshots of the police file from a separate save), the time advances to 1:45 AM as soon as we discover Carrington’s skeleton.
The next few time shifts are all timed rather than scripted, meaning that we don’t have a whole lot of time to see everything else in Act 3. In fact, it’s possible to miss this conversation between Yvette and O’Riley that kind of blows the lid on a lot of what’s been going on up to this point.
: “Well, lass, I guess that makes us even. You lied to ME!” : “You had something to do with ze Dagger burglary!” : “You’ve been sleeping with someone else! I saw you go off with that dock worker!” : “I’ve never slept with Steve! And ze Ziggy fellow, he told me about you and ze Dagger!” : “And you BELIEVED that little weasel? I’ve arrested him more times than I can count!” : “Ze Ziggy, I know him a long time. He would not lie to me.” : “That man’d lie to his own MOTHER if someone paid him for it!” : “Ziggy, he says you were working with ze Carrington to steal ze Dagger!” : “Lies! You can’t be trusting the man! If he wasn’t already dead, I’d pound the truth out of him!” : “Maybe you already did..” : “Were you sleeping with the little rat, then?” : “Of course not!”
O’Riley hears us at the door, and the conversation stops there.
Anyway, welcome to the worst part of the game - playing the waiting game. I actually recorded a dick-around video that I’ll post here once Twitch decides to let me export it that will show off exactly what I did for the twenty minutes realtime it took for me to get the time change to happen. Edit: The Dicking Around Video
In the meantime, the time changes in the most awkward way possible as Laura walks in on Yvette and Ernie making out for the second time this evening. For those who watch the video, the time change is not triggered by walking in on them. You do, in fact, have to wait long enough.
By the way, I never do find that conversation in the Armor room. After twenty minutes of dicking around later, we return to the Mastodon room..
Oh, hey Ernie! I’d probably be tired too if I’d had to bang Yvette multiple times in one night.
Oh.. you’re dead. Why am I not surprised? There’s not much we can do here, as going through any door will have Laura just kind of warp to the art gallery.
And of course, Wolf and O’Riley are waiting. At least this time, they didn’t just outright catch Laura looking at a dead body.
: “Sure and begorrah, a man needs a little nip from his flask now and then, doesn’t he?” : “Personally, I do not require ze drinking of ze alcohol. It vould impair my physical and mental zkills.” : “ERNIE LEACH has been MURDERED!” : “What was that, lass?” : “Ernie is dead!” : “Zo, you’ve finally come to us to confess, iss that it?” : “Confess? No, I’m reporting a murder!” : “Und you vere ze first one to find ze body again?” : “Well, I guess so…” : “Quite a coincedence, fraulein. I think ve should be INTERROGATING you to learn ze TRUTH! I’ve had enough of your LIES!” : “Calm down, Heimlich. If there’s any interrogating to be done, I’ll be the one who does it.” : “Now then, lass, where did you find the body?” : “The mastodon room. He’s hanging from some mastodon tusks.” : “Ach! He’s probably just zleeping on ze job!” : “No, I’m sure he’s dead!” : “Well, I’ll go take a look at him, then. If I need to talk to you, I’ll find you later.”
With that, Act 3 finally ends and we move on to the second-shortest act of the game.. and the final time I’ll need to waste 20+ minutes dicking around to get the timer to move. Apologies for the short update!