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“SHERLOCK HOLMES THE DEVIL’S DAUGHTER – IRON BOBBY CASE” BY LUKE OPENSHAW

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“SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE DEVIL’S DAUGHTER”

“IRON BOBBY” CASE OUTLINE

BY LUKE OPENSHAW

© 2014-2016 Frogwares Games, © 2014-2016 Luke Openshaw

Used With Permission

“This is an early draft proposal for the Iron Bobby case

covering story, scheme, narrative, characters and other

abstractions. Further consideration, iteration and polish

required. Not all of this content made the final game.”



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OVERVIEW / TIMELINE

START AT 221B BAKER STREET

A CURSED VISITOR

Holmes is at home impressing Watson with an elaborate experiment, when they are

visited by SIR SYNDEY HASKELL a venerable member of the Empire and owner of

HASKELL IRON MILL that casts royal, government and military statue commissions for

London.

Haskell commissions Holmes on a mysterious but troubling case and says HE HAS

BEEN CURSED and shows a GOLD COIN INLAID WITH AN OPAL GEM, which he found

on his office desk THIS MORNING, which he gives to Holmes. Haskell even offers to

cast a statue of Holmes if he can solve the case!

ARCHIVE GAMEPLAY

ARCHIVE: Sydney Haskell is the owner of HASKELL IRON MILL, member of the Royal

Geographical Society/or relative organisation (more research required).

Haskell was a member of various SPONSORED EXPEDITIONS for the HISTORY MUSEUM

during 1875 to 1885 before he was promoted to an Expedition Team Leader. Haskell

was knighted in 1895.

Haskell leaves 221B.

THE OPAL GEM

LAB: Holmes uses his laboratory to examine the gold coin with inlayed Opal gem,

which reveals intricate HIEROGLYPHS on the edge.

LESTRADE

LESTRADE arrives at 221B regarding a fresh case that requires Holmes’s exacting

assistance at once at the X BOWLS GREEN.



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ARRIVE AT THE BOWLS GREEN

• INSPECTOR LESTRADE is present and says he will transfer the body to the Yard once

Holmes is finished.

THE CRIME SCENE

Holmes sees that an IRON STATUE of a MAN on HORSEBACK has collapsed onto a

person, DOCTOR OSWALD DAVIES, piercing him through the heart and impaling him

face-down to the bowls green!

THE STATUE

The statue depicts the legendary SIR GARNET WOLSLEY (the greatest soldier of the

Victorian era) riding his HORSE with his sword aloft, a striking pose for his various 1882

Egyptian War inspired statues.

The STATUE bares the brand of HASKELL IRON MILL LONDON.

THE GREENKEEPER

The BOWLS GREENKEEPER is BILL GORHAM, who was horrified to discover the body

this morning. Bill Gorham is a short thin middle-aged man.

BILL GORHAM STATEMENT: Doctor Davis was a lovely guy who played bowls here

often when relaxing from his stressful work at STONE HOUSE MENTAL ASYLUM.

THE BODY (SOME ELEMENTS COULD BE SCOTLAND YARD)

Holmes and Watson examine the body/statue to reveal a series of curiosities:

o The Doctor is skewered face-down on the Bowls Green.

o The toppling of such a vast and heavy statue seems unfathomable.

o TRIGONOMETRY (requires Holmes and Watson to use string and stakes to

calculate on the grass) measures the angle of the statues fall and the positioning

of the Doctor’s body in order to be skewered so precisely was an

ASTRONOMICAL CHANCE.

o Appears to be a single sword thrust through the heart/chest.

o The plinth seems undamaged. The reason for its movement seems inexplicable.



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o The front legs of the horse are broken, suggesting the unbalanced weight caused

it to topple forward onto the Doctor. Perhaps a flaw in the design or casting

process?

TIME OF DEATH: Watson’s examination approximates the TIME OF DEATH to be

around midnight.

What are the chances of the Doctor standing exactly where he was and at this time of

night?

The Doctor’s FIST IS CLENCHED (rigor-mortis suggests Watson).

BUTTON

Holmes finds a DISTINCT CLOTHING BUTTON in the BOWLS GREEN GULLY.

ARRIVE AT SCOTLAND YARD

THE MORGUE – DOCTOR DAVIES AUTOPSY

GAMEPLAY: Holmes performs the autopsy on Doctor Davies’s body and must FORCE

OPEN THE CLENCHED FIST to reveal that it is grasping a RUBY, which Holmes deduces

was a LURE placed precisely where the target/victim would stand/examine before the

fatal blow was struck.

Discolouration/bruising of the lips shows that something has been placed/forced into

Davies’s mouth. Using tongs to open the mouth and forceps to reach in, Holmes

plucks out a strange PIECE OF FLESH?! How very macabre and strange, says Watson.

Perhaps Davies bit off part of his tongue during the struggle? Holmes says he must

study the piece of flesh and Ruby at his LABORATORY.

ARRIVE AT 221B BAKER STREET

DOCTOR OSWALD DAVIES

ARCHIVES: Doctor Oswald Davies is a WEALTHY DOCTOR who earned his wealth and

authority after collaborating on a series of expeditions for the Royal Geographical

Society (RGS), which saw him travel to various regions of the world.

Davies specialities were medicine, psychiatry and the history and the application of

such in cultures.

Doctor Davies operated as Warden/Doctor of the LONDON STONE HOUSE ASYLUM.



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THE RUBY

LABORATORY: Holmes examines the GOLD COIN inlayed with a RUBY and finds

HIEROGLYPHS on the edge of the coin of this exquisite piece.

THE STATUE

ARCHIVE: Holmes studies the significance of the horseman statue that collapsed on

Davies and finds XYZ (information to be determined), although it DID HAVE A HASKELL

IRON MILL STAMP.

THE PIECE OF FLESH

Holmes examines the piece of flesh found in Davies’s mouth under his microscope and

uses chemicals to analyse it – and discovers it is AN UNSPECIFIED ANIMAL FLESH, BUT

DOES NOT BELONG TO DAVIES.

How disgusting, someone placed a piece of animal flesh in Davies’s mouth?! Probably

post-mortem.

THE BUTTON

Holmes examines the button and finds it to be expensive and ornate.

OPTIONS: INVESTIGATE STONE HOUSE ASYLUM OR HASKELL IRON MILL?

ARRIVE AT STONE HOUSE ASYLUM

PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE

Holmes visits the Asylum where Doctor Davies worked/managed, and speaks with a

NURSE about the late DOCTOR DAVIES. “Poor Doctor Davies, what a great and kind

man” is the general response.

Outside Doctor Davies Office are flowers and cards paying respects to his death.



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DOCTOR DAVIES’S OFFICE

Holmes accesses Davies office and searches to find medical files, various photos and

certificates.

MAGNIFYING GLASS: Holmes notices that SOMEONE HAS TRIED TO FORCE THE SAFE.

HOLMES SAFE CRACKS: Inside amidst other things he finds a PHOTO OF DAVIES

HORSE-RIDING WITH ANOTHER ‘UNKNOWN’ MAN. On the back of the photo is a note:

WOLSLEY BOWLS GREEN, MIDDNIGHT.


MAN IN THE PHOTO WITH DAVIES

MAGNIFYING GLASS: Holmes examines the HORSEBACK PHOTO featuring DAVIES and

the UNKNOWN MAN and spots a DISTINCT LAPEL BADGE on the UNKNOWN MAN’S

JACKET.

ARCHIVES: Holmes then uses his archives to match the type of BADGE to an

INSTITUTION and finds that it is the HISTORY & ANTHROPOLOGY MUSEUM (a

SPECIALIST REPOSITORY/overspill) of the LONDON BRITISH MUSEUM, and that the

man is in fact the CURATOR, PROFESSOR WARREN SNELL.

ARRIVE AT HISTORY MUSEUM

ABOUT THE MUSEUM

The museum is reasonably small and specialises in historical artefacts from the

Egyptian regions (surely no coincidence), and is in fact a SPECIALIST REPOSITORY of

the LONDON BRITISH MUSEUM.

MEETING PROFESSOR WARREN SNELL

Holmes speaks with WARREN SNELL, the CURATING PROFESSOR whose specialty is

Egyptian archaeology. (His lapel badge is of the museum).

Snell says he is sorry to hear about the unfortunate death of Doctor Davies, who was

once a good friend, but Davies personality was somewhat polarising, and we did not

speak in the last ten years!



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Holmes asks that “if they were not friends then why would Doctor Davies keep a

PHOTO OF HE AND SNELL HORSERIDING in his safe?”

Snell says he doesn’t know or care, the past is the past.

SCAN SNELL: Holmes surreptitiously scans SNELLS clothing and sees that his JACKET

BUTTONS MATCH THE DISTINCT BUTTON FOUND AT THE BOWLS GREEN CRIME SCENE

and SNELL HAS SEWN AN ORNATE BUT ODD BUTTON IN PLACE OF A MISSING ONE.

Snell can’t recall when he lost the button.

THE RUBY

Holmes shows the OPAL/COIN (given to him by Haskell) and RUBY/COIN to Snell who

finds them exquisite and dates the pieces to the earliest Pharaohs, when he suggests

that he has such items in one of his collection EXHIBITS.

THE SUTEK EXHIBIT

Professor Snell shows Holmes to the specific EGYPTIAN EXHIBIT of “SUTEK” (a

Pharaoh-like Egyptian god) where a YOUNG 20 YEAR OLD ARTHUR is cleaning.

Holmes examines the Sutek statue to discover it has been breached. Professor Snell is

alarmed that 3 JEWEL-STONE COINS (just like those found by Holmes) HAVE BEEN

REMOVED/STOLEN. Snell turns his alarm into fury against Arthur who he blames for

his carelessness!

Snell states that the translation of the HIEROGLYPH ON THE EDGE OF THE SUTEK

EXHIBIT COIN-GEMS (of which Holmes has two), merely refer to elements, very

generic in Egyptian language.

Snell confirms that the THIRD MISSING COIN-GEM is an OBSIDIAN.

ARTHUR SNELL

HOLMES SCANS ARTHUR: Son of Professor Snell, is an ANTHROPOLOGY STUDENT at

the museum.

Speaking to Arthur suggests to Holmes that he is a kind and gentle soul under pressure

from his father to be interested in anthropology but is far more interested in

becoming a DETECTIVE OF A DIFFERENT SORT – JUST LIKE SHERLOCK HOLMES. Arthur

is in awe of meeting the great Sherlock.



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THE EGYPTIAN SUTEK EXHIBIT

ARCHIVES – SUTEK EXHIBIT: Holmes studies its history and discovers that the 3

MISSING GEMS are RED RUBY (recovered), and WHITE OPAL (missing) and OBSIDIAN

(missing).

But the exhibit was recovered during a British Empire funded expedition to Egypt in

1885 led by none other than SIR SYDNEY HASKELL (the very man who hired Holmes for

this case) and the expedition team which included DOCTOR OSWALD DAVIES and

PROFESSOR WARREN SNELL.

And of course Sydney Haskell runs HASKELL IRON MILL.

ARRIVE AT IRON MILL

THE HASKELL INC IRON MILL

The mill is small but professionally run and CASTS IRON STATUES for the city of

London. The store room contains many interesting iron sculpture castings of

HUMANOID HEROES, ANIMALS, BIBLICAL CREATURES and FEATURES. Many of the

statues are Royal, Government or Military commissions.

The intense molten heat/light casts a warm aura in the room and so at a glance the

host of figures look real and cast haunting shadows (perfect for some ATMOSPHERIC

TENSE GAMEPLAY LATER).

Holmes sees the prestigious HONOUR PLAQUE FROM THE QUEEN.

MEETING SYDNEY HASKELL AGAIN

Holmes meets HASKELLS ASSISTANT, a MUTE MUSCULAR MAN called “MERCER”

before meeting SIR SYDNEY HASKELL, the owner of the Iron Mill.

Haskell is distraught at the death of his friend Doctor Oswald Davies. Haskell seems

worried and says he was RIGHT ABOUT THE CURSE! It has put Haskell on edge and

forced him to hire a BODYGUARD (the mute MERCER who is ARMED).

Haskell gets ANGRY AT HOLMES for allowing his friend to die! As if Holmes had a

choice.



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RELATIONSHIP WITH SNELL AND DAVIES?

Haskell says that there was a certain chilling of friendships between Snell and Davies

many years ago, a polarising difference of opinion.

Haskell does not speak with Professor Snell either because the man is an ALCOHOLIC

BULLY who oppresses his weak cowardly son, Arthur. The boy has no life but the

museum.

But Haskell and Davies maintained a friendship.

THE BOWLS GREEN STATUE

Haskell’s company CAST THE IRON HORSE STATUE (many years ago) THAT KILLED

DOCTOR DAVIES! It has no significance, apart from Davies frequented the bowls green

to relax.

Haskell says he is in the process of REPLACING THE DAMAGED BOWLS GREEN STATUE

with a NEW MILITARY COMMISSION and so must leave on business, but permits

Holmes to look around the mill but NOT HIS PRIVATE OFFICE.

PRIVATE

GAMEPLAY: And so Holmes moves around the mill, examining the layout, SMELT

MOULDS, molten iron vats, and the MAZE OF STATUES and tries to access HASKELLS

LOCKED OFFICE, but MERCER (the heavy) intervenes and says it is OUT OF BOUNDS.

So Holmes must now sneak about the maze of statues to deliberately lose Mercer and

then sneak back to the office and PICK THE LOCK.

HASKELL’S OFFICE

Haskell examines the PRIVATE FILES that reveal several STATUES and PARTS OF

STATUES have been STOLEN over the last YEAR from the mill. Sometimes it is

employees who steal.



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MORE RESEARCH

ARCHIVES - NEWSPAPER: Holmes discovers that HASKELL WAS A MEMBER OF THE

HISTORY MUSEUM SPONSORED SUTEK EXPEDITION TO EGYPT IN 1885 (20 years ago),

along with PROFESSOR SNELL, DOCTOR DAVIES and a man called MALCOLM JONES (a

linguist and translator).

The expedition ended in the TRAGIC DEATH OF MALCOLM JONES and an EGYPTIAN

GUIDE when the TOMB THEY WERE EXCAVATING COLLAPSED during a LOCAL

UPRISING.

Many SUTEK TREASURES were retrieved for the EMPIRE and in turn the 3 SURVIVING

MEMBERS, HASKELL, SNELL AND DAVIES WERE RICHLY REWARDED. Holmes needs

information from the museum.

ARRIVE AT MUSEUM

EVASIVE SNELL

TIMING GAMEPLAY: Holmes speaks with Snell who is busy berating Arthur about the

damaged EGYPTIAN EXHBIT (moaning about dust and missing coin-gems) and

generally belittling the Arthur.

Snell leaves, grumpy as ever.

Holmes requests access to the MUSEUMS PRIVATE FILES so he can STUDY THE 1885

EGYPTIAN TRAGEDY, which seems to agitate Snell, who SAYS THE 1885 SUTEK FILES

WERE LOST DURING THE EXBITDETION. Snell declines access to the private files and

leaves.

HOLMES PERSUASION

Holmes approaches Arthur and persuades him to allow access to the PRIVATE FILE

ROOM even against his father’s wishes. Holmes can offer to TRADE A MISSING COIN-

STONE (that Holmes has in his possession) in return for the PRIVATE FILES KEY to make

Arthur appear competent.

Bottom line is that Arthur is an especially courteous and intelligent young man who

holds Holmes and Watson in esteem. Arthur says he WANTED TO BECOME A

POLICEMAN but dad said it was too menial! We get to like this young man who is

trying to escape his father’s imposing shadow.



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MUSEUM PRIVATE FILES

• Holmes discovers PRIVATE DETAILS ON THE SUTEK EXPEDITION OF 1885 that a team of

4 ‘experts’ were commissioned by the HISTORY MUSEUM to explore, exhume and

bring back artefacts of interest for the Empire, from the Egyptian tomb of SUTEK.

• The team comprised of MALCOLM JONES (anthropologist), Sydney Haskell

(geologist/engineer), Professor Snell (history/archaeology) and Doctor Davies

(psychology/culture/chemistry) with their EGYPTIAN PORTORS and an EGYPTIAN

GUIDE, SALEEM MOHALED.

• After much tension, drama and hard work the dig reached the prized INNER CHAMBER

of SUTEK’S TOMB, which contained ARTEFACTS, including the SUTEK EXHIBIT (statue

with the missing GEM-COINS).

PHOTO OF SUTEK EXPERTS

Holmes finds a copy of the Sutek expedition photo with MALCOLM JONES, SYDNEY

HASKELL, WARREN SNELL, OSWALD DAVIES and various Porter’s and the GUIDE,

SALEEM MOHALED, posing.

THE OFFICIAL MUSEUM REPORT OF INCIDENT

Malcolm Jones and the Guide, Saleem, used his LANGUAGE SKILLS to deal with the

ANGRY LOCALS surrounding the Sutek Tomb dig, while Haskell, Snell and Davies

expedited the dig excavations.

The locals were getting restless and trying to sabotage the expedition which resulted

in Sutek’s tomb collapsing onto MALCOLM JONES and SALEEM, BURYING THEM ALIVE.

Horrific deaths.

Malcolm and the Guide were CLASSIFIED DEAD. A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT as result of

local aggression.

REWARDED SURVIVORS

Haskell, Snell and Davies returned to England and deliver much of their ARTEFACT

DISCOVERIES to the British Museum/HMS/RGS (or respected related society) who took

many of the artefacts but also DONATED the SUTEK EXHIBIT to the HISTORY MUSEUM.



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Snell, Davies and Haskell received credit, promotions and reward for the ‘successful’

expedition. Each are honoured, rewarded financially and their reputations and

authority bloomed over the next 20 years, high status, fame, respect and Haskell was

even knighted.

Malcolm Jones his POSTHUMOUSLY HONOURED with a full CHRISTIAN BURIAL (he was

a religious man).

MALCOLM JONES’S WIDOW

Malcolm Jones’s widow, NANCY JONES, who was distraught at her then husband’s

death, was cared for by Sydney Haskell because Haskell and Malcolm.


DEDUCTION

Holmes pieces together the case so far:

o Murder of DOCTOR OSWALD DAVIES on the BOWLS GREEN, killed by a STATUE

CAST BY HASKELL IRON MILL’S owned by SIR SYDNEY HASKELL who was part of

an EGYPTION ARCHAEOLOGY EXPEDITION 20 years ago to locate and retrieve

ARTEFACTS FROM THE TOMB OF SUTEK.

o The expedition also included MALCOLM JONES, a cultural/linguistics expert, who

was tragically killed during a local uprising, BURIED ALIVE IN THE TOMB.

o The 3 surviving friends had/have a tenuous relationship.

o The widowed Nancy Jones (wife of Malcolm Jones) was cared for by Sydney

Haskell.

o Finally, PROFESSOR WARREN SNELL of the HISTORY MUSEUM was a member of

the expedition and is now curator of the SUTEK EXHIBIT at his London Museum.

o 2 golden coins, inlayed with a Ruby and Opal respectively, have been found

during the investigation. The Ruby-Coin on Davies’s body and the Opal-Coin had

been mysteriously given to Haskell by someone.

o Holmes discovered that the Sutek statue exhibit at the History Museum had

been tampered with and 3 valuable Coin-Gems were missing.

o Professor Snell informed Holmes that the third unaccounted for coin-gem was

inlayed with an OBSIDIAN stone.

o Each coin has a hieroglyph engraved on the edge, which Professor Snell

translated as generic elemental words.



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MRS NANCY JONES – MALCOLMS WIFE

ARCHIVES: Holmes discovers a NEWSPAPER ARTICLE on MALCOLM JONES’S WIFE,

NANCY JONES, being MENTALLY TRAUMATISED by her husband’s death and despite

Sydney Haskell’s care, she required ‘CONSIDERABLE MEDICAL HELP’, which was

provided by DOCTOR OSWALD DAVIES at the STONE HOUSE MENTAL ASYLUM. The

poor woman had a violent breakdown.

ARRIVE AT ASYLUM

NANCY JONES – PART 1

Holmes attends the Asylum and examines the PATIENT LIST to LOCATE NANCY JONES

(Cell 13A), Malcolm Jones’s wife and discovers that DOCTOR OSWALD DAVIES was

stated as Nancy’s case Doctor and the PATIENT APPLICATION was sign-off by SYDNEY

HASKELL.

Holmes locates Nancy’s cell/dorm to find her in a shabby patient overall and HEAVILY

DRUGGED (maybe even straight jacketed). The record says NANCY IS VIOLENT/CRAZY

MENTAL BREAK and under HEAVY MEDICATION. Holmes tries to ask Nancy questions

but she is too drugged to respond.

Time to question Haskell again.

ARRIVE AT IRON MILL

Holmes tries to meet Haskell at the Iron Mill but word is HASKELL is OVERSEEING THE

ERECTION OF THE REPLACEMENT STATUE AT THE BOWLS GREEN.

ARRIVE AT BOWLS GREEN – GETTING DARK

NEW STATUE

Holmes attends the Bowls Green to find Haskell overseeing the REMOVAL OF THE

BROKEN HORSE STATUE to PREPARE THE PLINTH FOR A FRESH STATUE, which is

STOOD NEARBY UNDER A SHEET.



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QUESTIONS

Holmes discusses Nancy Jones with Haskell who says that after the sad death of her

husband Malcolm that she needed support and a shoulder to cry on, and so as

Malcolm’s life-long best friend I agreed to take her under my care and supervision.

Holmes asks Haskell why he applied to have Nancy Jones condemned to the Stone

House Asylum.

Haskell is very defensive of his ‘poor, poor Nancy, a beautiful but troubled women’,

who suffered a SEVERE MENTAL BREAK, but common in her family genealogy.

Doctor Davies agreed to take care of her and provide the best medication.

Haskell suggests that Professor Snell was responsible for her final break in her already

frail condition when he attempted to seduce the poor woman a few years after

Malcolm’s death. Typical Snell was drunk and very aggressive and abusive in his

language. This is what pushed poor Nancy over the edge and into a mental

breakdown.

“And that is also why Doctor Davies and I no longer associated with Professor Snell, his

drunken debauchery and ill manners.”

Haskell says he is busy with the statue erection and cannot answer any more

questions.

ARRIVE AT MUSEUM

MOVING SHADOWS

• Holmes arrives at the museum AT NIGHT and finds the place to be rather spooky with

the EXHIBITS TAKING ON A HORRIFIC MOOD in the dim light.

• The RAIN OUTSIDE is causing a RIPLING SHADOW EFFECT on the floor and walls of the

museum, so that Holmes cannot quite see illusion movement from real movement.

• Holmes can see FLICKERING TORCHLIGHT IN THE DARKNESS, when suddenly there is a

GUNSHOT.

• Holmes races towards the commotion, USING THE SHADOWS to stay out of sight as he

SEES PROFESSOR SNELL, DRINKING FROM A WHISKY FLASK and WILDLY SHOOTING AT

THE EXHIBIT STATUE OF SUTEK and screaming “I WILL NOT BE CURSED” and WEEPING.



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SHADOW STALKER

• Holmes spots a FIGURE CREEPING IN THE SHADOWS and attacks for an EXCITING QTE

COMBAT but suddenly the SHADOW IS SHOT, SCREAMS, and falls into Holmes’s arms,

IN THE LIGHT, revealing ARTHUR SNELL (the Professor’s son)!

• Professor Snell rushes over to the commotion with the gun and sees that he has SHOT

ARTHUR, his own son. Professor Snell collapses to his knees and screams in hysterical

horror at what he has done.

SAVING ARTHUR

• GAMEPLAY: Holmes TRIES TO STEM THE BLOOD FLOW (can he be saved?) as a POOL

OF BLOOD FORMS AROUND the young man. Arthur says with his agonised breath that

he “MY FATHER LIED ABOUT THE TRANSLATIONS...” THEN ARTHUR DIES.

• Holmes’s hands are covered in blood. Snell is hysterical that he has killed his own son,

Arthur!

SNELL’S OFFICE

• GAMELAY: Snell puts gun to his head, considering SUICIDE, but Holmes can TALK

SNELL DOWN.

• Is there a chance of failure? SNELL IS ARRESTED BY LESTRADE.


EXAMINE ARTHUR SNELL’S BODY

• GAMEPLAY: Examining Arthur’s body reveals that he was SHOT AT MEDIUM RANGE.

• Holmes sees discolouration in Arthur’s mouth so examines with FORSEPS and TONGS

to pull out a PIECE OF FOREIGN FLESH from his throat! How on earth did that get in

there?! Probably post-mortem.

• Holmes knows he must compare this piece of flesh with piece found earlier in Doctor

Davies’s throat!

• Holmes concludes that without a doubt these murders are linked and with a very

personal message.



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PROFESSOR SNELLS POSSESSIONS

• Holmes moves into the EVIDENCE ROOM and examines Snell’s possessions amidst

which is a BEVERAGE FLASK (containing whisky), REVOLVER and THE JACKET WITH THE

DISTINCT BUTTONS.

• THE GUN: Holmes compares the BULLET CALIBRE TO THE GUN and they MATCH

(perhaps Watson is the one to verify this with his military knowledge).

• JACKET: Holmes examines the jacket further and discovers that ONE OF THE DISTINCT

BUTTONS IS IN FACT THE OBSIDIAN COIN-GEM from the Sutek exhibit statue! Holmes

is also sure (from memory) that the GOLD/OBSIDIAN button was not there when he

SCANNED PROFESSOR SNELL EARLIER! Someone has attached this button since.

GUILTY PROFESSOR SNELL?

GAMEPLAY – INTERROGATION: Holmes interrogates Snell who still has Arthur’s BLOOD

ON HIS HANDS. Snell is weeping and crying like a mad man in the jail cell, sobbing that

“I KILLED MY SON – THE STATUE CURSED ME AND MADE ME KILL MY SON, THE

SHADOWS WERE ALIVE, THE STATUE AND THE SHADOWS! CURSED! CURSED!”

Holmes questions Snell about the Obsidian Button, which Snell says is nonsense,

because he would know his own relics and why steal from his own collection!!!

The button found at the Bowls Green in the beginning places Professor Snell at both

murder locations. Plus Snell surely shot Arthur, was found with Arthur’s blood on his

hands, the revolver in hand.

Lestrade/Watson propose SNELL IS GUILTY and trying to DISGUISE MURDER AS AN

ACCIDENT.

When asked what drove him to alcohol, Snell says working with ruthless bastards like

Haskell and Davies! Someone had to put them in their place, I’m glad Haskell’s dead!

They killed my son!

Basically Haskell’s hysterical ravings sound like a madman and is left in the jail cell.


LAB - ANALYSIS

• Holmes uses his lab to compare the two pieces of flesh extracted from the dead

bodies Davies and Arthur’s mouths. Analysing the flesh using his MICROSCOPE and

CHEMICALS confirms BOTH PIECES ARE LAMB, BUT DO NOT BELONG TO DOCTOR

DAVIES or ARTHUR SNELL.



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ARRIVE AT HISTORY MUSEUM

Holmes returns to the museum to inspect the crime scene with Watson.

FOOTPRINT IN THE BLOOD

• White chalk outlines where Arthur’s dead body was and there is the POOL OF BLOOD.

• MAGNIFYING GLASS: Holmes sees an ANOMOLOUS FOOTPRINT BELONGING TO

ANOTHER PERSON.

• GAMEPLAY: Holmes measures/compares the FOOTPRINT SIZES with Arthur’s body and

SNELL’S SHOES IN HIS OFFICE to discover the BLOOD FOOTPRINTS ARE MUCH

SMALLER – ANOTHER SHADOW OPERATIVE?

OPERATING IN THE SHADOWS

GAMEPLAY: Holmes and Watson work together to find the position that the OTHER

SHADOW FIGURE was standing in when Arthur was killed and Snell was shooting

wildly. Their triangulation and tests of whether Holmes can be seen in the shadows at

certain positions by Watson, determine that the OTHER SHADOW FIGURE must have

been standing behind Holmes during the incident.

SHOOTING RE-ENACTMENT

• GAMEPLAY – IMAGINED RE-ENACTMENT: Holmes’s visualises Snell is in his dimly lit

office working on papers when he HEARS A NOISE IN THE MUSEUM. Snell explored the

museum with a TORCH, when he believes the SUTEK STATUE CAME ALIVE (surely the

other Shadow Figure because Arthur came past Holmes on the opposite side of the

museum).

• SNELL SHOOTS, hitting the SUTEK STATUE TWICE then hearing the commotion

between Holmes and Arthur, turns and SHOOTS ARTHUR in the shadows.

• The result of the re-enactment says Snell could be innocent.



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LAB: ANALYSE THE COIN-GEMS

Holmes examines the third Coin-Gem (one of Professor Snell’s buttons), gold inlayed

with OBSIDIAN, with hieroglyphs on the edge.

3 different coin-gems: red ruby, black obsidian and white opal.

SELF-TRANSLATE: Holmes attempts his own translation of the Egyptian hieroglyphs

and to his shock discovers that each of the coins translates DIFFERENTLY TO WHAT

PROFESSOR SNELL SAID:

o Holmes translates: CONQUEST, WAR and FAMINE respectively.

ARCHIVE - BIBLE: Holmes studies the Bible Chapters on the FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE

APOCALYPSE and confirms that each Horseman rode a distinctly coloured horse,

WAR/RED/RUBY, FAMINE/BLACK/OBSIDIAN and CONQUEST/WHITE/OPAL.

All that is missing is the embodiment of DEATH and the PALE HORSE?

But why kill Arthur? Davies and Snell and Haskell were connected to Egypt, but not

Arthur?

Holmes compares the biblical references and discoveries with the 1885 Expedition

Photo featuring Haskell, Snell and Davies on horses discovers (but the PHOTO IS BLACK

AND WHITE).

With Snell hysterical in jail, IS HASKELL IN DANGER?

ARRIVE AT IRON MILL

POLICE PROTECTION

Holmes arrives to meet Haskell in his office who is disturbed by the murder of young

Arthur Snell (even if he disliked his father who shot him).

MERCER IS PRESENT.

THE PHOTO

Holmes questions Haskell about his relationship with NANCY JONES and why he put

her in the Asylum?



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CHOICE

Holmes can choose to USE HASKELL AS BAIT (at the Iron Mill to draw out the killer) or

PUT HASKELL INTO PROTECTIVE CUSTODY (Watson stays with Haskell as defence),

which HASKELL REFUSES TO LEAVE HIS IRON MILL because he will not see his business

ruined by a ghost!

ARRIVE AT THE ASYLUM

WAKING NANCY – PART 2

Holmes returns to the Asylum to speak with Nancy Jones.

• GAMEPLAY - CHEMISTRY: Watson must administer the CORRECT CONCOCTION OF

DRUGS to MAKE NANCY LUCID.

NAMING THE FOUR HORSEMEN

Holmes shows Nancy the 1885 EGYPT EXPEDITION PHOTO and she says that SHE

CALLED THEM THE FOUR HORSEMEN. Nancy says that greed caused one of them to

betray Malcolm in Egypt.

RELIGEOUS MAN

Nancy says that Malcolm was a man who had recently found God, and was

questioning his and the British Empires intrusions into the religions of others and

desecrating other countries cultures.

ABUSE

• QUESTIONING: When Nancy received the tragic news of Malcolm’s death, she was

WIDOWED, but the ever charming SYDNEY HASKELL provided a sympathetic ear.

• Nancy sobs and tells Holmes that Haskell was JEALOUS OF MALCOLM, and when she

turned down multiple romantic approaches by Haskell she believes Haskell had her

condemned to this Mental Asylum to silence her and punish her. No one turns him

down.



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• Nancy says that MALCOLM AND HASKELL USED TO PLAY BOWLS ON THE GREEN

TOGETHER when they were growing up, which is where they met DOCTOR DAVIES. It

was then Davies who introduced them t PROFESSOR SNELL. The 4 ‘friends’ played one

final bowls match in celebration before traveling to Egypt in 1885.

THE FOREIGN VISITOR

GAMEPLAY – HOLMES PENCIL SKETCHES DESCRIPTION: Nancy says that SINCE

DOCTOR DAVIES ‘WENT AWAY’ she has been visited by ANOTHER DOCTOR who she

describes: dark skin, short, very thin, male, pocked face, dark eyes, calling himself

DOCTOR SUTEK.

Holmes recognises this description as the BOWLS GREENKEEPER, aka BILL GORHAM!

GAMEPLAY – DETRMINE WHO NANCY IS DESCRIBING: Holmes shows Nancy the

PHOTO FROM THE 1885 EGYPTIAN EXPEDITION and she points out the GUIDE, SALEEM

MOHALED as DOCTOR SUTEK (not Malcolm Jones as expected!). Saleem was also

buried alive with Malcolm Jones in the tomb of Sutek.

Just then MERCER (Haskell’s heavy) interrupts and ends the conversation.

Holmes is BANNED FROM THE ASYLUM by officials.


THE SEWER MAP

ARCHIVES: Holmes’s studies the BOWLS GREEN LOCATION AND HISTORY, which

unearths information on a sewer map schematic that shows a MANHOLE COVER

directly where the statue had been erected. What a strange place to put a statue?

The archive provides Holmes with mathematical measurements of where the manhole

should be. Holmes now has a great deal of suspicious factors to consider and before

he focusses attention on the now prime suspect Sydney Haskell, Holmes wants to

examine the Bowls Green once again.

ARRIVE AT BOWLS GREEN

THE SECRETS – TOBY THE DOG OPTIONAL

• NIGHT TIME, FULL MOON, RAIN



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• Holmes and Watson arrives to see that Haskell’s team have REPLACEMED THE STATUE

of a BLACK IRON SOLDIER (with a BAYONET RIFLE, under construction) on the plinth

where the horseman once was. There is a CORDON AROUND THE PLINTH.

• OPTION: HOLMES USES TOBY TO SNIFF OUT A SCENT TO DISCOVER THE SECRET

MANHOLE or HOLMES USES MEASUREMENTS AND SEWER MAP SCHEMATIC to

pinpoint a MANHOLE COVER beneath the statue plinth.

• Beneath the plinth is indeed a DISGUISED MANHOLE COVER very precisely

camouflaged into the stone/metal plinth (imagine the statue was place on this

seamless/hidden plinth/manhole cover).

• Holmes suspects the statue was placed here strategically by someone, but who?

• Holmes and Watson work together with a POLE AS LEVERAGE (gameplay for Holmes

and Watson to work together) to pry up the manhole cover and climb down the shaft.

• WATSON STAYS TOPSIDE ON THE BOWLS GREEN.

THE HIDDEN WORKSHOP

Holmes reaches the bottom of the manhole to find a SMALL WORKSHOP and VARIOUS

ITEMS such as tools, food, clothes and more. Someone lives and operates here.

Chalked on the walls are the faces of moody statues (STOLEN FROM THE IRON MILL), a

throwback memory to the horror of Egypt.

THE NAME ON THE BOWLS TOMB

In the corner of the workshop is a resting place, bed, privates, and a MAKESHIFT

SHRINE with A PHOTO OF MALCOLM JONES CENTRAL (a photo and candles), with a

CHRISTIAN HOLY CROSS hung upon it.

THE IRON SUIT

The statue casting plates stolen from the Iron Mill are stashed here and metal has

been shaped into various shapes. This place was/is the secret base of operations of

the murderer.

Holmes finds architectural pen patterns indented on some paper fragments and using

a forensic technique (or even the classic pencil on paper method) Holmes reveals a

DESIGN SCHEMATIC for a SUIT OF IRON (perhaps copper due to the weight), painted

black, to be WORN BY A MAN. Ingenious.



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STATUES

Holmes uses his MAGNIFYING GLASS on various statue parts to see that they have the

HASKELL IRON MILL BRAND. Stolen or traded?

THE MECHANISM

Holmes sees an incomplete MECHANISM which he assembles using available but

scattered COGS, LEVERS and CABLE to activate the mechanism which puts upwards

pressure on the underside of the statue plinth above and which tilts it to topple the

statue.

THE PASSAGE

Holmes follows a short passageway that emerges inside the FLOWER/TOOL SHED

beside the bowls green (SECRET HATCH) which Holmes opens and rises from. BILL

GORHAM is now a prime suspect and is either SALEEM MOHALED or MALCOLM JONES

incognito.

THE BOWLS GREEN AT MIDNIGHT, FULL MOON, RAIN

• On the bowls green finds WATSON UNCONSCIOUS BESIDE THE STATUE PLINTH.

• QTE GAMEPLAY: Suddenly the NEW SOLDIER STATUE COMES ALIVE (a living statue)

behind Holmes and attacks him because Holmes is getting to close. QTE

combat/dodging the RIFLE FIXED WITH A BAYONET.

• After an intense QTE action sequence, the SHADOW FIGURE STATUE overpowers

Holmes and puts him on his back on the bowls green and LOOMS OVER HIM

(atmospheric moment, rain streaming down, lightning in the background, thunder).

The scary black statue is only in silhouette as it hovers over Holmes, the bayonet rifle

at his throat. Lightning highlights the statues black metal human form.

WATSON TO THE RESCUE

• Suddenly Watson regains consciousness and opens fire on the living statue, but the

bullets ricochet off the statue with a METALIC CLINK (armoured?).



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POLICE RANSACK THE BOWLS GREEN

Lestrade is present with Watson and Holmes. Watson has a bandaged head, Holmes

has bruises. Lestrade is incensed and says that the Bowls Green and Workshop is being

torn apart by his police force for every scrap of evidence and clue.

Lestrade informs Holmes that PROFESSOR SNELL HAS BEEN TRANSFERRED TO STONE

HOUSE ASYLUM after trying to take his own life in the Yard cell.

HOLMES VISUALLY RE-ENACTS EGYPT

THIS IS A POSSIBLE TRUTH (Holmes could get it wrong).

GAMEPLAY: AN EGYPT VISTA FADES IN (imagine the Star Trek holodeck, which is

Holmes’s imagination). Holmes re-enacts the EGYPTIAN DIG AT THE SUTEK TOMB,

then locals attacked, HASKELL, SNELL AND DAVIES ESCAPE WITH TREASURES, before

the TOMB CAVES-IN, burying MALCOLM JONES and the GUIDE, SALEEM MOHALED

ALIVE.

Holmes recreates in his mind: ENTOMBED IN NEAR DARKNESS FOR WEEKS MALCOLM

JONES had a few LANTERNS/TORCHES, some FOOD AND WATER, COPY OF THE BIBLE

TO READ and the DEAD BODY of SALEEM THE GUIDE.

Trapped inside the tomb for many weeks, Malcolm rationed his own food and water

and the torches, to survive on will alone. But the TORCHLIGHT FADES and soon he is

trapped in darkness haunted by noises of the tomb, scurrying creatures, beetles and

other nightmares.

MALCOLM CANNIBALISED SALEEM TO SURVIVE (hence the Lamb flesh in the bodies –

the Lamb was the divine Jesus), which combines to make Malcolm GO INSANE with

rage and vengeance, feeling BETRAYED BY HIS FRIENDS.

Malcolm used his horrific experience to exact a divine revenge and justice on the 3

other ‘Horsemen’, Snell, Haskell and Davies.

DEDUCTION OF THE MURDERS

Holmes deduces the state of affairs and truth of the 1885 Egyptian Expedition:

After recovering from the experience of being buried alive, plotting his revenge and

returning to England to form a cover story/job took 20 years! (This element rightly

creates suspicion of the deduction – why would Malcolm take 20 years to return?)



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Malcolm lured the victims to the TARGET LOCATIONS with the COLOURED EGYPTIAN

COIN-GEMS (stolen from the Sutek Exhibit) and WHISPERS OF THE CURSE then

kills/traumatises them (Haskell, Snell and Davies) with the STATUE ASPECTS to strike

divine fear in them as per Malcolm’s suffering).

THE PLAN

GAMEPLAY: Holmes must instruct who of Watson and Lestrade (player chooses) must

OVERSEE the MUSEUM and the ASYLUM while HOLMES TAKES THE IRON MILL ready

for the killers attempt to strike the final target - HASKELL. Holmes heads to the Iron

Mill.

ARRIVE AT IRON MILL

EVIL HASKELL CONFESSION

• INTERROGATE: Holmes reaches Haskell and interrogates/persuades him to confess

about Malcolm Jones in Egypt, Sutek’s tomb in 1885?

• Haskell confesses that he, Snell and Davies wanted to retrieve the treasures as per the

Museum Sponsorship Deal but Malcolm refused to follow the agreement, trying to be

so damned benevolent and protect the local culture and integrity.

• So when Haskell, Snell and Davies did steal considerable artefacts from the locals

attacked and caused the cave in which entombed Malcolm and the Guide, Saleem.

• Haskell believes he/they DID NOT BETRAY MALCOLM, before they fled the country

with the treasures and they did not kill Malcolm or Saleem!

• Holmes states that Haskell was jealous of the relationship/love between Nancy and

Malcolm, and so tried to become her trusted sympathetic confidante after Malcolm’s

“death”. But Haskell tried to seduce Nancy and failed! Haskell’s ego would not allow

such a woman to spurn him so sent the innocent woman deliberately to the Stone

House Asylum! Haskell denies this and says she was ill!

THE IRON MAN ATTACKS

• An IRON SUITED person, painted black, attacks the Iron Mill wielding REVOLVERS (built

in the Bowls Green secret workshop).

• Mercer shoots at the armoured man but the bullets ricochet off the armour before

MERCER IS KILLED.



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• GAMEPLAY: Holmes with Haskell must run, evade and BARRICADE/BOLT DOORS

behind them as the Iron Man pursues with GUNS BLAZING.

STATUE CHAMBER

• QTE/SUSPENSE GAMEPLAY: Holmes leads the pursuit to the CHAMBER OF

STATUES/FIGURES (kind of like Bruce Lee in Enter the Dragon with the mirrors) where

Holmes and Haskell SET A TRAP to catch the Iron Man in the SMELT.

SMELT CHAMBER – TRAP

GAMEPLAY: Holmes must protect Haskell while SETTING A TRAP for the Iron Man

using various ITEMS and MECHANISMS in the smelt chamber.

Holmes must ACTIVATE THE TRAP AT THE RIGHT MOMENT to SUCCESSFULLY TRAP

THE IRON MAN IN THE SMELT MOULD, right where Holmes wants him for questioning.

But BITTER HASKELL ACTIVATES THE SMELT CONTROLS to begin lowering the mould

into the MOLTEN IRON. Haskell is cackling like a man possessed.

HOLMES’S CHOICE

CHOICE: Does Holmes want to stop this execution by intervening to STOP THE SMELT

or ALLOW THE EXECUTION if he is certain of the murderer’s guilt? Would he even

allow such an execution, no matter the evil of the criminal?

HOLMES INTERVENES

Holmes intervenes with Haskell’s sadistic execution and SWITCHES OFF THE SMELT,

preserving the trapped Iron Man, but infuriating HASKELL WHO TURNS HIS GUN on

Holmes and says Malcolm Jones must face true justice!

But who is the criminal here ASKS THE IRON MAN (speaking for the first time) and the

STRANGE VOICE – is it REALLY MALCOLM BEHIND THE MASK? Who else could it be?

FINAL DEDUCTION BOARD

There are several options for the final deduction so players can be wrong.



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A gun in his face and with two/three possible criminals, Holmes must deduce who is

guilty and for what, and his life depends on it.

The evidence points to the fact that MALCOLM JONES could be the killer or even

SALEEM MOHALED (the Guide) or even BOTH MEN WORKING TOGETHER.

We also have Haskell’s guilt to consider – deliberately drugging and imprisoning a

woman in the Asylum against her will, TORTURED NANCY FOR 15 YEARS! Haskell’s

ruthless business manner and icy cold demeanour also suggests that he could have

even DELIBERATELY MURDERED MALCOLM AND/OR SALEEM IN EGYPT!

THE TRUTH?

Decide how we conclude/show this.

Holmes’s deduction reveals the IRON MAN TO BE SALEEM MOHALED, the EGYPTIAN

GUIDE and sympathetic friend of Malcolm Jones.

SALEEMS GUILT:

o The Iron Man is actually NOT MALCOLM JONES, but the GUIDE, SALEEM

MOHALED, who survived the caved-in tomb by using what little resources there

were and even CANNIBALISED MALCOLM JONES to survive.

o Saleem and Malcolm had become friends during the expedition.

o Saleem (possibly with Malcolm’s dying breath input) sought revenge on those

responsible for the MADNESS INDUCING BETRAYAL that saw him betrayed and

buried alive for weeks/months in Sutek’s tomb.

o Although an intelligent and resourceful man (knowing multiple languages and

educated) Saleem’s vengeance took 20 years because he was a foreigner and

had to learn so much more to come to England and exact his revenge.

o Saleem only visited Nancy Jones at the asylum to extract information from her

and deliver a LAST MESSAGE FROM her dying HUSBAND MALCOLM, “I love you

xxxxxx”.

o In the Four Horsemen scheme, Saleem was to be Death riding in on his Pale

Horse and Malcolm (who had died so that Saleem could survive to exact justice)

is the Lamb/Jesus.

HASKELL’S GUILT: HOLMES DEDUCES SYDNEY HASKELL IS GUILTY OF OTHER VILE CRIMES:

o Malcolm and the Guide, Saleem, got on very well and had an AGREEMENT WITH

THE EGYPTIAN LOCALS NOT TO RANSACK/STEAL EXCESSIVE ARTEFACTS FROM

SUTEKS TOMB. However, Haskell, Snell and Davies disagreed and instead STOLE



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EXCESSIVE TREASURES, stating that the British Empire can claim what it wants

for HMS.

o After Malcolm’s death, back in England, Nancy was initially romanticised by the

‘sympathetic and powerful’ Sydney Haskell, who was envious towards Malcolm’s

extraordinary wife, Nancy, who he wanted and would do anything to get her!

o Nancy refused Haskell’s romantic advances, which made him angry enough to

deliberately condemn her to being a PATIENT AT DOCTOR DAVIES’S ASYLUM,

pumping her full of drugs to silence/punish her.

o Haskell deliberately caved in the Sutek Tomb to bury the meddling Malcolm

Jones (and murdered him) and Saleem. Greed and arrogance of EMPIRE!

o Did Snell and Davies know about the betrayal? If so, both have been punished.

OUTCOME

So now that Holmes has two dangerous criminals before him, but with different

motives and mentalities, he must decide what to do next – EXECUTE or ARREST or

TALK DOWN or SPARE.

EPILOGUE

Nancy Jones is the innocent living party who is freed from Stone House Asylum.



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CHARACTERS AND LOCATIONS

MAIN CHARACTERS

SIR SYDNEY HASKELL

DOCTOR OSWALD DAVIES

PROFESSOR WARREN SNELL

MALCOLM JONES/SALEEM/BILL GORHAM – THE GREENKEEPER

NANCY JONES (MINOR)

ARTHUR SNELL (MINOR)

LESTRADE

*MERCER (optional character, mute) – HASKELLS HENCHMAN

MAIN LOCATIONS

ARRIVE AT HASKELL IRON MILL

o HASKELLS OFFICE

ARRIVE AT HISTORY AND ANTHROPOLOGY MUSEUM

o FILE ROOM

ARRIVE AT STONE HOUSE ASYLUM

o DOCTOR DAVIES OFFICE

ARRIVE AT BOWLS GREEN

o BOWLS GREEN

o WORK SHOP/SHED


o MORGUE

o EVIDENCE ROOM


o HOME/LAB/ARCHIVES/BEDROOM

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