Difficulty - Expert
You start in a passageway, facing out towards a courtyard. Walk over to the bookstore on the left. Pick open the door, go in and around behind the counter. Underneath it you'll find a pair of eyeglasses, worth 50g., and a cash box that contains a gold coinstack, worth 25g. (75). Climb the ladder closest to the counter and frob a book off to the right at the top. The picture on the wall beside the entry door slides aside to reveal a hidden stash that consists of a message for Garret, four water arrows and two fire arrows. Climb a ladder up to the second floor, where you'll find a cigarette package, worth 5g. (80), sitting on a table.
Leave the book shop, turn right and go up the stairs that are on the far side of the courtyard, near the corridor where you began the mission. Follow the passageway to a street and walk across to the big gated doorway, which is the entrance into Lady Helena's estate. Pick up the letter lying on the ground in front of the gate and read it. It's from Leon and he wants you to meet him at Lady Helena's side entrance after you've dealt with her. He also says that her husband will probably be found at the Hotel Maritime and that he has a copy of the key to her main gate. This triggers a new objective to go and meet Leon when you're done.
Continue on down the street, past the well and around the corner. To the right, there's a door that opens into a courtyard where there are two burricks. There is a torch you can frob on the wall that opens a secret door to a tower, but there's nothing up there. A bit farther along the street to the left, there's a set of stairs leading down to a wood door. Pick it open, go in and you'll be in the Inn kitchen.
Hotel Maritime
You'll find 3 healing fruit on the shelf and three water arrows in the sink. There are two spice bags, worth 80g. (160), and a plate, worth 10g. (170), sitting on the counter. Go out the kitchen door to the base of a set of stairs leading up. To your left, there's a bookcase that looks rather suspicious. Head to the right out into the main room and look on the back of the reception counter for a lever. Flip it and go back to the bookcase. You'll see that it has swung out from the wall. Inside the room behind it, you'll find 2 chests. One holds twelve broadheads and the other, a flashbomb. Return to the front desk and check the wall shelves behind the counter. You'll find a purple urn, worth 100g. (270), a purple vase, worth 50g. (320), a pair of dice, worth 50g. (370), and a statue, worth 15g. (385). The glass doors on the right side of the foyer open into the dining room where you'll find 3 plates, worth 15g. (400), a purple urn, worth 100g. (500), and 3 candlesticks, worth 150g. (650).
Head back to the reception room, over to the right of the desk and down the stairs to the basement gambling room. The man that walks up the stairs, then back down into the gambling room is wearing the "Hotel key". The man standing in the gambling room, wearing a brown tunic, is Lady Helena's husband and he has the "Front Door" key that opens Lady Helena's Estate. You'll find 2 fine wine bottles, worth 100g. (750), and 2 purple cups, worth 30g. (780), sitting on the bar. On the shelves behind it, you'll find 6 green bottles, worth 72g. (852), 4 white bottles, worth 48g. (900), 2 cigarette packs, worth 10g. (910), 5 gold cups, worth 125g. (1035), and 4 purple cups, worth 60g. (1095).
Return to the front desk then head upstairs to the second floor.
The first room on the right (all the doors open with the Hotel key) is a bedroom, where you'll find a purple cup, worth 15g. (1110), sitting on the coffee table and a gold urn, worth 100g. (1210), beside the fireplace. Head back out to the hallway and down to the next room on the right. Here you'll find a plain plate, worth 10g. (1220), sitting on the table by the chair, a gold candlestick, worth 50g. (1270), on the mantelpiece and a plate, worth 10g. (1280), mounted on the wall above it. Go through the glass doors to the balcony and along to the next set of glass doors into another room. You'll find a candlestick, worth 50g. (1330).
Return to the hallway (the other room on this hall contains nothing of value), walk up around the corner and through the door on the right, which leads into a bathroom You'll find a mask, worth 50g. (1380), hanging on the wall as well as 2 fine wine bottles, worth 100g. (1480), and a gold cup, worth 25g. (1505), sitting on the side of the tub. Back out in the hallway, the next door on the right opens into another bedroom, occupied by a man. In here, you'll find a candlestick, worth 50g. (1555), on the mantel. That leaves only the double doors, labelled "Private", to open.
Unlock them with the "Hotel" key then walk up the stairs to the top floor. Go through the first archway on the right which leads to a bedroom. Open the chest where you'll find a purse, worth 100g. (1655), then go through the other door to a sitting room. You'll find a fine wine bottle, worth 50g. (1705), and a purple cup, worth 15g. (1720), sitting on a table. Back out in the hallway go through the wood door to the bathroom. You'll find 2 water arrows in the tub then leave and go through the second archway in the outer room. This takes you into a large sitting room. Behind the sofa, to the right, you'll find 2 moss arrows. Pick them up, then go back down and leave the Hotel by the same way that you entered.
Lady Helena's Estate
Head back to the gate to Lady Helena's estate and look through the bars at the back wall. You'll see a button that you have to hit with an arrow to open the gate. Enter, walk to the end doors and unlock them with the "Front Door" key that you found in the Hotel. Cross the grounds to the mansion doors, enter and just inside to the right, there's a small room behind a red curtain where you will find a gold candlestick, worth 50g. (1770). You'll find another candlestick, worth 50g. (1820), in the other small room opposite this one. There's a chest, containing a purse, worth 100g. (1920), and a gold candlestick, worth 50g. (1970), sitting on a table in the main foyer.
The door to the right leads into a small hallway with two doors. The door on the left opens into the servant's quarters, where you can find a coin, worth 20g. (1990), sitting on top of the bookcase. The second door opens onto a hallway to the kitchen. The kitchen servant is wearing a red key. In the cupboards, you'll find an invisibility potion, 2 spice bags, worth 80g. (2070), and a healing potion. On the shelves, you'll find 2 plates, worth 20g. (2090), and two purple cup, worth 30g. (2120). There's another plate, worth 10g. (2130), lying in the sink.
Return to the foyer and cross to the far side. The door closest to the front doors leads into the guards' quarters. There are 2 packs of cigarettes, worth 10g. (2140), sitting on the table in the common room and 3 other doors. The left door opens into a bedroom, where there's a pack of cigarettes, worth 5g. (2145), and a bronze coinstack, worth 5g. (2150), sitting on the table by the bed. There are two flashbombs and a gas arrow in the two chests. The door on the back wall opens into a bunk room, where you'll find three water arrows and a silver nugget, worth 50g. (2200), inside the chests. The last door opens into a bathroom where there is nothing of value.
The second door on this side of the foyer opens into a small sitting room, which has a door into a library. There's a small switch on the wall beside the table in the library that opens a secret door. Inside there's a desk to the right, where you'll find a fine wine bottle, worth 50g. (2250), a gold plate, also worth 50g. (2300), and a gold cup, worth 25g. (2325). There is also a small feather in a cup beside a book. Pick up the feather then look on a shelf at the far end of the hallway for a purple vase, worth 100g. (2425).
There's a picture on the wall between the two bookcases that lights up. Use the red key that you found to unlock it and it moves up to expose a switch. Flip the switch and a bookcase at the far end of the room opens. Behind it you'll see a black chest that unlocks with the feather. Inside, you'll find Constantine's Sword, which completes an objective. Return to the main room and climb the stairs to the first landing. In a niche in the wall, you'll find a statue, worth 15g. (2440), then continue up to the top floor.
The double doors directly across from the stairs lead into a music/sitting room where there's a chest containing a gem, worth 100g. (2540), a pack of cigarettes, worth 5g. (2545), 2 gold candlesticks, worth 100g. (2645), on the mantel, and a clock, worth 10g. (2655). The large display case (break the glass to pick up the contents) holds a picture, worth 50g. (2705), a gold urn, worth 100g. (2805), a blue gem, worth 100g. (2905), a blue cup, worth 100g. (3005), 3 small silver dishes, worth 150g. (3155), a large silver dish, worth 100g. (3255), a blue chest, worth 50g. (3305), opera glasses, worth 50g. (3355), a silver bracelet, worth 50g. (3405), a large purple vase, worth 100g. (3505), two small purple vases, worth 100g. (3605), a clock, worth 50g. (3655), and a globe, worth 50g. (3705).
Walk through the glass doors to the conservatory and search through the plants for a couple of moss arrows then head back out to the hallway at the top of the stairs.
To the left, through the next set of double wood doors, there's a dining room. In here, you'll find a statue, worth 15g. (3720), over the fireplace, and 2 gold candlesticks, worth 100g. (3820), on the mantel. Displayed on the open shelves, there's a plate, worth 10g. (3830), that holds five healing fruit, a green bottle, worth 12g. (3842), 6 more plates, worth 60g. (3902), 9 fine wine bottles, worth 450g. (4352), 10 gold cups, worth 250g. (4602), and 10 purple cups, worth 150g. (4752). The glassed in shelves hold a purple gem, worth 12g. (4764), a black chest, worth 12g. (4776), a book, worth 12g. (4788), 2 trophies, worth 24g. (4812), a picture, worth 12g. (4824), and a vase, worth 12g. (4836). The next room on the left is an office. There's a green safe, which is unlocked, that contains a purse, worth 100g. (4936). Hidden on top of the tall shelves to the left you'll find a tiara, worth 125g. (5061). This completes the Expert loot objective of 5000g. Continuing left around the hallway to the next door, you come to a small sitting room, where you find a pack of cigarettes, worth 5g. (5066), sitting on a small table and, on the floor beneath the table, there's a fine wine bottle, worth 50g. (5116), and a gold cup, worth 25g. (5141).
The next door on the left leads to a bathroom, where you find a small gold ring, worth 100g. (5241), sitting on a windowsill. Farther down the hall to the left is a bathing room with a large bathtub full of fish. On the side of the tub, you'll find a green bottle, worth 12g. (5253). The last set of doors off of this hallway leads into the Master bedroom. In here you'll find a purse, worth 100g. (5353), in a chest, a small statue, worth 15g. (5368), 2 gold candlesticks, worth 100g. (5468), and a mask, worth 50g. (5518). There's a picture on the mantel that tilts to open a secret compartment on the wall over the table. Inside the compartment there's a switch that opens a secret room behind the stained glass window where there's a reddish cloud and a switch on the back wall. Step in, throw the switch and you are teleported to another identical small room.
In the adjacent room, you'll see Lady Helena and a fire elemental. Use a water arrow to douse the elemental and then kill Lady Helena which completes an objective. Take the "Side Entrance" key that she is wearing. There's a mask, worth 50g. (5568), a silver bracelet, worth 50g. (5618), a dish, worth 50g. (5668), a purple urn, worth 100g. (5768), 3 gold candlesticks, worth 150g. (5918), a purple vase, worth 50g. (5968), another dish, worth 50g. (6018), 2 gold urns, worth 200g. (6218), and a statue, worth 15g. (6233), sitting on a ledge against the wall. On the coffee table, you'll find an ornate, stained glass vase, worth 50g. (6283), and in the black chests, you'll find a tiara, worth 125g. (6408), a torc, worth 350g. (6758), and a silver fire poker, worth 200g. (6958).
Step back into the room with the red cloud and pull the lever to be transported back to the Master bedroom. Leave the house, walk back towards the gate where you entered the estate and about halfway down the passageway, on your left you'll see a locked metal door. Unlock it with the "Side Gate" key, go in and Leon is standing there, waiting for you. The objective to meet him ticks off and the mission ends.
(total loot: 6958/6958)
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by Nightwalker source