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Laura Bow in the Dagger of Amon Ra

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Items#

  • 0 - Coupon
  • 1 - Claim ticket
  • 2 - Notebook
  • 3 - Sandwich
  • 4 - Baseball
  • 5 - Desk key
  • 6 - Press pass
  • 7 - Pocket watch
  • 8 - Skeleton key
  • 9 - Meat
  • 10 - Wire cutters
  • 11 - Dagger of Amon Ra
  • 12 - Work boot
  • 13 - Smelling salts
  • 14 - Snake oil
  • 15 - Lantern
  • 16 - Cheese
  • 17 - Garter
  • 18 - Dinosaur bone
  • 19 - Snake lasso
  • 20 - Ankh medallion
  • 21 - Pippin's notepad
  • 22 - Magnifying glass
  • 23 - Lightbulb
  • 24 - Watney's police file
  • 25 - Warthog hairs
  • 26 - Bifocals
  • 27 - Red hair
  • 28 - Water glass
  • 29 - Carbon paper
  • 30 - Yvette's shoe
  • 31 - Grapes
  • 32 - Evening gown
  • 33 - Charcoal
  • 34 - Wire
  • 35 - Mummy

Rooms#

  • 18 - Egypt quiz copy protection
  • 26 - Act title
  • 28 - Speed room
  • 29 - Debug
  • 99 - Death room
  • 100 - Start menu
  • 105 - Sierra logo (logo.src)
  • Intro (region script #92)
    • 110 - Carrington's murder
    • 120 - Disembarking ship
    • 140 - Train station farewell
    • 150 - Train travel
    • 155 - Talking with Irmgaard
    • 160 - Disembarking train / stolen luggage
    • 180 - New York streets
    • 190 - Entering newspaper office
  • New York City (region script #91)
  • 210 - Street outside news office
  • 220 - Mr. Augustini's office intro scene
  • 230 - News office
  • 235 - Desk close-up
  • 240 - Docks
  • 250 - Taxi
  • 260 - Outside laundry
  • 270 - Laundry shop
  • 280 - Outside police station
  • 290 - Police station
    • 295 - O'Riley meeting
  • 300 - Outside speakeasy
  • 310 - Speakeasy
  • 320 - Speakeasy bathroom
  • Leyendecker Museum (region script #90)
    • 330 - Outside
    • 335 - Front entrance
    • Rotunda (region script #93)
      • 340 - Party conversations (testRoom.sc)
      • 350 - Central (pharaoh bust)
      • 355 - Central rotunda for Act 3 intro
      • 360 - West
      • 370 - East
      • 400 - Gift shop
    • 420 - Dinosaur exhibit skeletons
    • 430 - Dinosaur exhibit pterodactyl
    • 435 - Pterodactyl victim close-up
    • 440 - Medieval armor exhibit south
    • 448 - Medieval armor exhibit north
    • 450 - Ancient Egypt exhibit east
    • 454 - Ancient Egypt exhibit west
    • 455 - Sarcophagus corpse close-up
    • 456 - Rosetta Stone close-up
    • 460 - Storage room
    • 480 - Dinosaur exhibit t-rex
    • 490 - Life mask exhibit
    • 495 - Mask corpse close-up
    • 500 - Art gallery
    • 505 - Statue corpse close-up
    • 510 - Statue gallery
    • 520 - Dr. Olympia Myklos' office
      • 521 - Olympia finds corpse scene
    • 525 - Desk victim close-up
    • 530 - Spiral staircase
    • 550 - Dr. Yvette Delacroix's office
    • 560 - Dr. Archibald Carrington's office
    • 565 - Desk corpse close-up
    • 600 - Downstairs hallway (lantern)
    • 610 - Alcoholic preservation laboratory (big green vats)
    • 620 - Vat fishing close-up
    • 630 - Mammalogy laboratory (crates, flesh eating bugs)
    • 640 - Ernie Leach's office
    • 650 - Security chief Heimlich's office
    • 660 - Elevator
    • 666 - Secret passage
    • 700 - Mummy storage room
    • 710 - Sacrificial chamber west
    • 715 - Sacrificial chamber east (sphinx)
    • 720 - Furnace room
    • 730 - Tunnel from furnace room west (snakes)
    • 740 - Tunnel east (rats)
  • 750 - Coroner's inquest
  • 760 - Laura's front page news
  • 770 - Prison scene
  • 780 - Credits
  • 790 - Laura murdered in bed ending scene (yikes!)
  • 94 - Pursuit region

Flags#

To do:
finish regular flags

  • 1 - Pippin murdered
  • 2 - Ziggy murdered
  • 3 - Watney murdered
  • 4 - Ernie murdered
  • 5 - Yvette murdered
  • 6 - Countess murdered
  • 7 - Gave sandwich to cop
  • 8 - Moved guy sleeping in front of police station
  • 9 - Met Steve at docks
  • 10 - Broke lantern compartment glass
  • 11 - Disarmed Heimlich's trap
  • 12 - Put meat in trunk
  • 13 - Trunk is open
  • 14 - Fridge door is open
  • 15 - Related to Ernie kicking Laura out of his office???
  • 16 - Ferret in downstairs hallway
  • 17 - Overheard intercom in Ernie's office, prior to finding dagger
  • 18 - Entered Ernie's office. Clears after 11:15pm and 1:45am events
  • 19 - Ernie's toolbox open
  • 20 - Searched vat 1st time and inhaled fumes
  • 21 - Searched vat 2nd time and inhaled more fumes, dead next time
  • 22 - Got dagger
  • 23 - Gave press pass to Heimlich to enter museum
  • 24 - Entered speakeasy bathroom 1st time and got hit on
  • 25 - Entered museum central rotunda from south
  • 26 - Entered dirty taxi 1st time
  • 27 - Got laundry claim ticket
  • 28 - Saw sandwich vendor while holding coupon
  • 29 - Unlocked Laura's desk drawer
  • 30 - Sitting at Laura's desk
  • 31 - Basement stairs secret door open
  • 34 - Passed copy protection test
  • 35 - Used charcoal on Pippin's notepad
  • 36 - Saw O'Riley & Heimlich scene at life mask exhibit
  • 37 - Tried to pick up life mask head? Saw close-up?
  • 39 - Opened window above employee storage room door
  • 44 - Got wire
  • 46 - Tossed cheese into tunnel exit on right, leading rats into t-rex mouth
  • 48 - Tried to get snake oil and Olympia intervened
  • 51 - Pushed Olympia's intercom button and overhead conversation
  • 52 - Pushed Yvette's intercom button and overheard conversation
  • 53 - Pushed Ernie's intercom button and overheard conversation between Ziggy and Ernie
  • 57 - Heard intercom message (from Olympia?) in Heimlich's office
  • 62 - Entered Olympia's "meanwhile" scene
  • 64 - Got light bulb
  • 67 - Saw Ernie's corpse close-up
  • 70 - Tried to leave museum going south in rotunda
  • 71 - Kicked out of gift shop by Heimlich
  • 72 - Saw Ziggy's corpse close-up
  • 80 - Put cobra back in cage
  • 85 - In Act 3: entered art gallery from north after 2:15am ($2140) and told gang about Ernie's murder
  • 91 - Related to seeing Act 3 intro?
  • 92 - Saw first part of Olympia's "meanwhile" scene
  • 116 - Moved chair in front of employee storage room door
  • 118 - Told Ziggy that Crodfoller sent you
  • 119 - Pushed button in Ernie's office, secret passage is open
  • 120 - Emerged from behind tapestry and greeted Countess after spying on her

Points#

To do:
update list and point values

1000 total:

  • 128 - Get press pass (1)
  • 129 - Trade baseball with kids for magnifying glass (1)
  • 130 - Meet Steve at the docks? (1)
  • 131 - Talk to Ziggy at speakeasy (1)
  • 132 - Put on evening gown (1)
  • 133 - Smooch Steve (1)
  • 134 - Find Pippin's body and see close-up (1)
  • 135 - Get Pippin's notepad (1)
  • 136 - Use magnifier on ankh medallion
  • 137 - Use magnifier on Rosetta Stone in Egypt exhibit
  • 138 - Push button to hear Rex talk (1)
  • 139 - Get dinosaur bone (1)
  • 141 - Get snake lasso (1)
  • 142 - Flip Thinker statue switch (1)
  • 143 - See pterodactyl corpse close-up (1)
  • 144 - Find life mask corpse and exit close-up, or see following scene with O'Riley and Heimlich
  • 145 - Get wire cutters (1)
  • 146 - Get skeleton key (1)
  • 147 - Look inside trunk (1)
  • 148 - Get pocket watch (1)
  • 149 - Overhear Countess meeting (1)
  • 150 - Get or look at boot (1)
  • 151 - Catch O'Riley with Rex (1)
  • 152 - Get cheese (1)
  • 153 - Get garter (1)
  • 154 - Use glass to eavesdrop on Ernie's office (1)
  • 155 - Get Dagger of Amon Ra (1)
  • 156 - Correctly answer 1st riddle (1)
  • 157 - Correctly answer 2nd riddle (2)
  • 158 - See Ernie's corpse (1)
  • 159 - Get warthog hairs (1)
  • 160 - Get red hair (1)
  • 161 - Use bone to smash statue plaster (1)
  • 162 - Get bifocals (1)
  • 163 - Examine Countess' corpse to enter close-up
  • 164 - Use snake oil and lasso to put cobra back in cage (1)
  • 165 - Get grapes (1)
  • 166 - Get smelling salts (1)
  • 167 - Replace light bulb (1)
  • 168 - Get pocket watch and trigger 1:45am (1)
  • 169 - Examine bloody paper cutter (1)
  • 170 - Use lit lamp to read carbon paper (1)
  • 171 - See Watney's corpse (1)
  • 172 - Get Watney's police file (1)
  • 173 - Examine Carrington's desk calendar (1)
  • 174 - Read diary in Carrington's safe (1)
  • 175 - Get coal (1)
  • 176 - Walk in on O'Riley and Yvette in her office (1)
  • 177 - Walk in on backup in Yvette's office (1)
  • 178 - Get Yvette's shoe (1)

Times#

These are events when (usually) the clock appears on screen, and are basically used as flags.

  • $0001 - Entered sacrificial chamber west, OR got press pass in Act 1
  • $0002 - Met Steve at docks, overheard Carter & Tut convo in Act 2, OR caught O'Riley in Act 5
  • $0004 - Got magnifying glass
  • $0008 - Talked to Ziggy, OR step outside the museum with Steve in Act 2
  • $0010 - Changed into gown, overheard O'Riley & Tut convo during Act 2, OR got grapes in Act 4 or later
  • $7001 (7:00pm) - Gave press pass to Heimlich
  • $7204 (7:30pm) - Examined real dagger in gift shop
  • $8120 (8:15pm) - Found sarcophagus corpse
  • $a000 (10:00pm) - Began Act 3
  • $a101 (10:15pm) - Used charcoal on notepad, then entered east Egypt exhibit during Act 3
  • $b102 (11:15pm) - Found pterodactyl corpse during Act 3, OR looked at life mask corpse after seeing body
  • $c304 (12:45am) - Found Carrington's office corpse in Act 3
  • $1008 (1:00am) - Eavesdropped on Countess in armor exhibit in Act 3
  • $1310 (1:45am) - Got Carrington's pocket watch
  • $2020 (2:00am) - Eavesdropped on Olympia in armor exhibit in Act 3
  • $2140 (2:15am) - Found mammoth skeleton corpse in Act 3
  • $0080 - Got dagger in Act 3
  • $2301 (2:45am) - Saw Steve & Yvette's meeting in statue gallery in Act 4
  • $3002 (3:00am) - Left vat room in Act 4
  • $3104 (3:15am) - Used bone to smash plaster on statue corpse in Act 4 or later
  • $4108 (4:15am) - Found Olympia's office desk corpse
  • $001f - Entered Olympia's office holding grapes in Act 4

Global#

  • 12 - gPrevRoomNum
  • 110 - Debug on
  • 111 - Conversation state. Sets which (usually) non-essential events you see or overhear throughout the museum
  • 123 - gAct (0-5)
  • 124 - gMustDos, tracks clock event state
  • 125 - gClockTimeMustDos, related to clock events
  • 128 - States of groups of partygoers during Act 2. Increments by 1 after each eavesdrop
  • 145 - Death message number