The Sinking City Looking For A Newcomer

[Chanelle Glugla]

Secret notes are hidden documents in The Sinking City, there are 10 notes scattered around Oakmont, plus one last bonus note. Player can start searching for these notes at any point during the game after meeting with Victor, the owner of the Devil's Reef Hotel, for the first time. All the collected notes can be read in the 'Documents' section under the 'City Lore' tab.

These secret notes are similar to those in Letters From Oakmont, many of them are not related to any cases in the game. However, they provide deeper lore and backstories about the situations in the city and the people who left these notes behind. Player needs to search for them on their own without any hints provide in the game, by looking for any door with a crooked H-shaped indicates that it is an accessible building, or a place on sunken roads with a pier and accessible hole on the wall. These locations will spawn wylebeasts inside.

This note is located in a flooded factory on Sunset Avenue in Salvation Harbor, between Marsh Avenue and Maple Lane. After enter the building, Reed will find the note placed on a pillow next to a woman's dead body lying on the desk at the upper floor.

This note possibly related to the final main case Into the Depths where Charles encounters the fire worshipers, as there is a human skeleton in a pile of ashes with several gas cans around it. It is located in the basement of an office building on Bourbon Road, between Darwin Street and Yellow King Avenue in western Reed Heights, north from Oakmont University. There is no wylebeast spawn at this location.

He led me into a Zetetic room below his church. Laying there, near a Monolith wall, I felt myself falling into an endless pit underneath the city. There, at the very bottom, I met the gaze of something ancient, something cold and alien...

The note is located in an flooded office building on Whisper Street in Grimhaven Bay, between Central Street and Deepshore Road. The same location with Omega-Two in side case Defunct Brain Cylinders. It is on the desk hidden under the craft item in the room on the right after Reed enter the building.

This note is located in an office building on Hubert Avenue in Coverside, between Asher Road and Roosevelt Street, just to the east from Oakmont Police Department. The notebook is on a middle desk facing the front of the building on the second floor.

There is no point running away. That blasted hollow-eyed freak always catches up, with his grin, his long black coat, and those thin crooked fingers clutching a gun. He's got a bullet with my name on it. I dodged it once. There won't be a second time. Kay, help me.

This note is located on the top floor of an apartment building on Derry Lane near Asher Road in Coverside, just before the danger zone barricade. Reed will find the notebook on a desk at the very end of the apartment.

This note is located in an flooded apartment building on Central Street in Coverside, between Lincoln Street and Roosevelt Street. Reed will find a notebook on a desk in the middle of the upper floor apartment. Similar to the Red Queen's crash site, if Reed stays too long in the apartment, his sanity level will gradually deplete.

This note is located in an infested area on Inner Shine Street in western Shells. It is a first house on the left when entering danger zone from the pier on Justice Street, just before the 'House in Shells' for the case Open House which is nearby on Hawking Lane. Charles will find the note on a coffee table in the first bedroom on the upper floor.

This note is located at a flooded house on Moorland Road in The Shells, between C. Smith Avenue and Powderhouse Street, right across from the hidden lab from the case Fleeing Phoenix. The note is on the dinning table in the very first room Reed enters.

I can't take anymore of this. My heart is breaking when I look into the hungry eyes of my family. They are still trying to smile, saying that someday this horror will end. But I know the truth. I think they also understand this - there's no salvation.

There will be the 11th note posted on Charles's room door at the Devil's Reef Hotel, greeting him with an intimidating message. It will appear right after Charles has collected the 'Nowhere to run' note.

Some time after arriving at the police apartment Reed is bailed out by , either Graham or Brutus Carpenter, depending on who he supported in Fathers and Sons. After speaking to the man bailing him out, Reed can also speak to the officer near the entrance of the Police department. From here, Reed needs to speak to his savior at Carpenter Manor.

After arriving, Reed can thank Graham or Brutus try to find out more about why he was arrested. Mr. Carpenter informs Reed that Milton Pierce claims to have witnessed Reed committing the crime. He gave a statement to the police, saying he saw Reed murdering Johannes. The only other information that Mr. Carpenter can provide is that Milton Pierce is a prominent political voice who recently had an interview with the Oakmont Chronicle, and that he lives somewhere in Reed Heights.From here, to get a more complete address, Reed heads to the Oakmont Chronicle and the archives there.

Once here, Reed can use the archives (People: Celebrities, Section: Articles and Interviews, District: Reed Heights), from this search Reed obtains a document entitled Pierce's interview which provides him with the address of the Apartment of Milton Pierce: Museum Avenue between Communion Road and Healog Street].

Once here, Reed can inspect a bloody handprint on a poster next to the door, he can also find a basket of bloody clothes in the basement. Reed can break the padlock to enter the apartment proper and can inspect the following things there.

After searching the apartment, you go to the City Hall to meet him. After a short conversation, Milton tells Reed that the person he saw was certenly a newcomer, and offers to change his testimony if Reed poison his mother (Agatha Pierce), giving him the address to her home: Beacon Street near the corner of Bullock Street, in northern Oldgrove.

There are several ways to complete this case. You can either do what he asks to change his testimony, meaning poisoning his mother so he can get his inheritance and use it as funding for his campaign, or decide to find the real murderer right away.

If you choose the poisoning option, you have to go to Agatha Pierce's house and either poison her or change your mind and tell her about her son's plans. If you tell her, Milton won't change his statement. If you do, you have to go get a bottle of Chianti in her basement, clearing it of wylebeasts at the same time, and poison the drink.

"...hereby certify that Glenn Gordon Byers and Evelyn Katherine Lane, residing at the Revenue House on the corner of Powderhouse St and Orchard Ave, eastern Shells, were united in marriage in accordance with the license issued by the city of Oakmont Massachusetts numbered..."

When meeting him, you can either choose to help his family, as he's been blackmailed to commit the murder, or force him to hand over the murder weapon. Charles also notice they look very much alike. You can choose if either Pierce knew it wasn't you or if he genuinely thought it was, and if Byers deserves mercy for his crime.From here you will have some options, get Glenn Byers to confess, or frame Pierce for the murder.

In the bag of a dead gang member I found a piece of map for the southern part of Salvation Harbor. One of the houses on Eel Street, north of the intersection with Skipper road, is marked with a red circle.

This address leads Reed to the Gang Hideout. Once there, upstairs, behind an illusory wall, Reed will encounter Billy Drunnon again who is holding the Byers family hostage. After some dialog Reed can choose to fight and save the family, or leave.

Should reed choose to fight he will face several armed men with shotguns, rifles, and pistols. Afterwards, in the unlocked room, he can find several letters, and a key to the other upstairs room. In the locked room he will find the kidnapped Byers. In the other room upstairs Reed should pick up the Carefully folded letter on the table, which shows Milton Pierce agreeing to lie to the police. He tells them to find a place to hide while he goes back to speak with Glenn. Reed then can return to Glenns apartment and speak to him. After a short conversation Reed receives his confession.

Reed, after convincing Glenn to tell him where the weapon is, heads downstairs to the kitchen to find it. It is underneath the sink. From here he takes the weapon back to Milton Pierces house, goes down into the basement and places it in the basket of bloody clothes. He takes a photograph then returns to Mr. Carpenters man with the evidence.

Once here, Reed can head upstairs to his room where he meets the curiously not-deceased Johannes van der Berg. He reveals he set up the entire "murder". He urges Reed to make the prophecy into truth, to take the Seal of Cthygonaar and open the gate, In order to actually have an impact on reality. He reveals more information about an archeologist named Joseph Hill and an address: Lumbert Street, between Healog Street and Hale Lane, in eastern Reed Heights.Thus ends Self-Defense and begins Fleeing Phoenix

I was told that the best way to get to know Venice is to just get lost. Find your way through the maze. Discover the alleyways and narrow canals that meander beneath bedsheets strung between the buildings. Stumble upon small pasticcerias and restaurants and silent squares, away from the glitzy glamour district where shoppers hustle from Gucci to Dolce & Gabbana to Armani before they grab lunch at the Hard Rock Cafe.

Crossing the grey-green waters of the Venetian lagoon on a high speed train is like crossing the bounds of reality into some sort of dream. In my first steps outside the train station, I stumbled as I found myself in a land of what seemed like improbable realities. The water lapping on the steps of the canal, and up against the weather-worn buildings is not lake water. It definitely has the scent of sulfur and salt that I associate with the ocean, and gulls whirl overhead looking for scraps dropped among the hordes of tourists that seem to pour into the city throughout the day.

c80f0f1006