Chapter 3 Walkthrough: Peabody Library, Basement Keys and the Briefcase

What happens in chapter 3?

You meet Dr. Coffey in his office at the library. He sends you into the basement with a set of keys to fetch a briefcase from storage. Along the way you collect two tools you will use for the rest of the game, a club and a flashlight, and you end the chapter with the spellbook from that briefcase.

What are the exact commands for chapter 3?

Start in the library lobby. A line made only of directions means a run of moves, so type each direction as its own command.

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knock
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talk to coffey
ask coffey about himself
ask coffey about massa
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unlock basement door
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d
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put bookstore key in satchel
put basement key in satchel
take club
w s s
search clutter
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switch on flashlight
break door with club
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search crate
s w n n u e e
ask coffey about briefcase
ask coffey about dennison

How do I find Coffey’s office?

From the lobby head east, then south twice. You come out in the Catering Staging Area, a large storage room behind a private door. Coffey’s office is the door to the east, and the basement stairs are the door to the west. Knock before you go in. Inside, talk to coffey and ask him about himself, which is polite and harmless, then about massa. He hands you the keys to a storage room in the basement and asks you to bring back a locked briefcase from it.

Where is the basement and the club?

Back in the staging area, unlock basement door, go west through it and down the stairs. Turn east at the bottom to find a heavy two-by-four, which the game calls a club. Before you take it, put your own bookstore key and the basement key in the open satchel, or you will hit the carrying limit.

You will hear footsteps echoing in the basement while you work. In our run nobody appeared and the chapter finished normally.

Where do I get the flashlight?

Return west, then go south twice to the room called Organized Clutter. search clutter finds a flashlight and picks it up. The room east of it is pitch dark, so switch on flashlight the moment you walk in.

How do I open the locked storage room?

The key breaks in the door, so use break door with club instead of unlocking it. Go north and search crate to take the black briefcase. Walk back out the way you came, s w n n u e e takes you back to the office.

What does Coffey give me?

Give him the briefcase by typing ask coffey about briefcase. He hands you a spellbook, and ask coffey about dennison explains who Erick Dennison is and what he is trying to do. The book is how you learn spells in the spells guide.

How do I get back to my apartment?

From Coffey’s office type the long route below. It ends at the entrance of your apartment building, the Severn.

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w w w w n w w n w n e

You pass the Washington Monument roundabout and the park with the stone fountain. For the rooms of the library see the George Peabody Library page. Chapter 4 starts in the Severn lobby.