Play-through 2 | Anchorhead

Names

Sgt. Biedermeyer (police)
- died October 28, 1956
Sgt. Ronald Franklin (police)
Walton Radcliffe (auctioneer)
Dr. Timothy Rebis (obstetrician)
Bernard Talbot (chairman of hospital)
Joseph Corbin (anthropologist)
- J. Arnsworth Frazer (teacher and friend)
Aleister Crowley
Donald Brown (fire inspector)
Missing children
- Daryl Beasley
- Tara Luffington
- Christopher Till-worth
- Jeffrey Greer

Took faculty card from Michael’s pants
Took silver locket from jewelry box
Took The Compleat Manual of Wardes and Seales
Took family album
Took journal from dining room
- Safe combination: 47-27-59 (this is randomized)
Took puzzle box and flute from safe
Got iron key from cellar
Read newspaper clippings
Gave whiskey to bum and heard his story
Showed skull to bum
Get newspaper from town square
Went to Cauldron
- Got amulet
- Opened puzzle box and got disk
Gave amulet to bum
- Got small copper key
Read Michael’s book in library
- “born-died same date? have to chk. records”
- Croseus died the day his son was born
- Misquat Indians used masks and 7-holed flutes
- The obelisk is a beacon to summon a deity
- Want to check records, but courthouse is closed
Read Cryptical Haermoniacon in the study
- “Attune ye Pillars to ye Resonant Haermonicae”
Unlocked Michael’s computer and read his journal
- Tomorrow he’s going to the cellar, so I need to watch him

New territory here. I’m going to avoid talking to Michael to keep him in the house
Spied on Michael in the cellar from narrow corridors
Michael did something with the wine bottles, and the wall opened
Mapped out Narrow Corridors
Put disk in telescope and got name
- Ialdabaoloth
Just realized I forgot to go under the bridge with the bum’s key
Five bottles with fingerprints
- Pinot Noir 1651. W
- Cabernet Sauvignon 1734. H
- Cheval Blanc 1886. M
- Torn label. E
- Faded label (Merlot). C
- Croseus -> Wilhelm -> Heinrich -> Elijah -> Mordecai
Twisting the bottles here was intuitive, since I had already twisted the spheres
Trapped!
Found the door at the bottom of the stairs. Do I say the name?
- (of course I do)
Obelisk hieroglyphs
- A circle of stick-men, dancing around a mound
- A fiery star rains fire and death
- Sacrifice on altar
- Building tower as star watches
These are the columns I attune to ye Resonant Haermonicae
I played my flute, but nothing happened
Back to under the river
- Still couldn’t do much. Oh well.
Oh my goodness I died again. Can’t waste any time when the monster comes.
- At least my last save was not too long ago, at the harmonic columns.
DIED 37/100

No wasting time this time. Jump into the well, hide in the bones, and wait
- This monster is William?
Got Jeffrey’s teddy bear
Men attack me, forcing me to the church
I use the meat hook to break the padlock and enter the cellar
Jump into the stairs, climb out
This robe looks good for a disguise, but I have to take off my trenchcoat and lose my pockets
Decided not to read tome

I think I am stuck. I think I have to go back into the temple, but my flashlight died. I can’t go to the pub to get a lantern.

Never mind, I used matches to get through the passageway, and luckily the burial mound has light.

I would have never come up with “cover hole N” to play different notes on the flute. In retrospect it makes sense, but.
Don’t play the flute on the altar, because you will be sacrificed! That’s a cute touch.
I’m not sure what playing the flute did, but hopefully it helped.

Now I have no more light. And I can’t get the lantern because I can’t reach the pub. Looks like this is the end of this run.

February 3, 2026