The Colonel's Bequest

This page contains notes for the game The Colonel's Bequest.

Items#

• 0 - Necklace
• 1 - Monocle
• 2 - Lantern
• 3 - Oilcan
• 4 - Rolling pin
• 5 - Skeleton key
• 6 - Poker
• 7 - Crowbar
• 8 - Cigar butt
• 9 - Broken record
• 10 - Notebook and pencil
• 11 - Crackers
• 12 - Soup bone
• 13 - Valve handle
• 14 - Bullet
• 15 - Derringer
• 16 - Matches
• 17 - Carrot
• 18 - Brass key
• 19 - Lillian's diary
• 20 - Crank
• 21 - Cane
• 22 - Pouch of gems
• 23 - Handkerchief

Rooms#

• 1 - Dock
• 2 - Graveyard
• 3 - Bell tower
• 4 - Outside back door
• 5 - Heart-shaped garden
• 6 - Outside Celie's cottage
• 7 - Broken arched bridge
• 8 - East bayou border (crocs)
• 9 - Outside chapel
• 10 - House entrance northwest (outside Colonel's study)
• 11 - Shadow moving outside windows scenes
• 12 - House entrance northeast (outside kitchen), dog house & cellar entrance
• 13 - Outside barn
• 14 - Outside playhouse
• 15 - House entrance northwest (outside billiard room)
• 16 - Front door
• 17 - House entrance northwest (outside parlor)
• 18 - Outside hedge garden
• 19 - Outside???
• 20 - Outside carriage house
• 21 - West driveway
• 22 - Front of house / statue
• 23 - East driveway
• 24 - Gazebo
• 25 - South fence west bayou edge
• 26 - South fence west, south of carriage house
• 27 - South fence center west
• 28 - Fence entrance from dock
• 29 - South fence east
• 30 - South fence east bayou edge
• 31 - Colonel's study
• 32 - Library
• 33 - Back downstairs hallways
• 34 - Dining room
• 35 - Kitchen
• 36 - Billiard room
• 37 - Front downstairs hallway
• 38 - Parlor
• 39 - Secret room downstairs east
• 40 - Secret room downstairs west
• 41 - Dr. Wilbur C. Feels' room
• 42 - Colonel Henri Dijon's room
• 43 - Back upstairs hallway
• 44 - Laura & Lillian's room
• 45 - Ethel's room / nursery
• 46 - Gloria & Gertie's room
• 47 - Front upstairs hallway
• 48 - Rudy & Clarence's room
• 49 - Secret room downstairs west
• 50 - Secret room downstairs east
• 51 - Fountain secret passage stairway
• 52 - Sealed basement
• 53 - Jeeves' cellar room
• 55 - Underground tunnel
• 56 - Secret stairway to crypt
• 57 - Crypt
• 58 - Chapel
• 59 - Celie's cottage
• 61 - Carriage house
• 62 - Spying through portrait POV
• 63 - Playhouse
• 64 - Fifi's closet scene
• 65 - Hedge garden
• 66 - Elevator lever close-up
• 67 - Fifi & Colonel at dining room table scene
• 69 - Stable
• 70 - Well
• 71 - Shower death scene
• 73 - Bathroom
• 74 - Fifi's attic room
• 75 - Attic east
• 76 - Attic west
• 77 - Knife in will title scene
• 78 - Tulane University intro scene
• 79 - Bayou boat intro scene
• 80 - Front door Jeeves intro scene
• 83 - Bayou boat ending scene
• 84 - Steamboat ending scene
• 85 - Laura, Colonel, & Celie ending scene
• 86 - Ending notebook review
• 87 - Ending sleuth-o-meter

• 304 - Scene 38e
• 320 - Scene 32a
• 324 - Scene 36c
• 334 - Scene 48f
• 350 - Scene 42a

Flags#

• 1 - Used crowbar to pry floorboard in chapel
• 2 - Used crowbar to open (any?) crypt vault
• 3 - Read Lillian's diary
• 4 - Used monocle on footprint on southwest island edge
• 5 - Used monocle to read sleeping powder bottle label
• 6 - Used monocle to examine handkerchief
• 7 - Used monocle to examine rolling pin
• 8 - Used monocle to examine poker
• 9 - Used monocle to examine broken record
• 10 - Used monocle to examine glass on bar in parlor
• 11 - Used monocle to examine decanter in Fifi's room
• 12 - Used monocle to examine Lillian's diary fingerprint
• 13 - Looked at Clarence's or Colonel's cigar
• 14 - Read hidden bible
• 15 - Complicated.... need to review ????
• 16 - Spied on Clarence & Gertie (scene 38a) or Clarence & Doc Wilbur (scene 34b) to learn about racehorse...???
• 17 - Spied on Clarence & Doc Wilbur (scene 34b) or saw racehorses in Wilbur's magazine
• 18 - Spied on Clarence & Gertie (scene 38a) or Clarence & Doc Wilbur (scene 34b), or... something else complicated???
• 19 - Spied on Clarence & Doc Wilbur (scene 34b)
• 20 - Saw Fifi primping in mirror in Act 1???
• 21 - Spied on Clarence & Gertie (scene 38a)
• 22 - Saw Fifi & Jeeves kissing, or found their corpses, or something else???
• 23 - Spied on Rudy & Gloria (scene 36a), or Clarence & Doc Wilbur (scene 36b), or Rudy & Clarence (scene 48c)
• 24 - Spied on Rudy & Gloria (scene 36a), or walked in on Doc Wilbur & Gloria in ????, or something else???
• 25 - Examined or interacted with derringer case before Act 6
• 26 - Examined or interacted with derringer case in Act 6, and saw it's gone
• 27 - Examined or tried to get dagger before Act 5
• 28 - Examined or tried to get dagger in Act 5 or later
• 29 - Examined or interacted with decanter in parlor
• 30 - Examined decanter in attic
• 31 - Saw doctor's bag in Doc Wilbur's room
• 32 - Saw doctor's bag in Colonel's study
• 33 - Witnessed Colonel & Rudy fighting in attic
• 34 - Spied on Colonel (scene 42c) poking fire in study
• 35 - Closed murphy bed in Doc Wilbur's room
• 36 - Saw....something in Colonel's study in Act 6???
• 37 - Saw Colonel missing from chair in Act 4??
• 38 - Spied on Colonel & Lillian (scene 42e or cololill.sc)
• 39 - Went outside for 1st time and got creeped out
• 40 - Returned inside for 1st time
• 41 - Got Daddy's advice on asking questions
• 42 - Got Daddy's advice on telling people information
• 43 - Got Daddy's advice on showing items
• 45 - Saw Clarence & Rudy fighting in front of house
• 46 - Examined contents of Colonel's trunk??? Cleared by entering attic?
• 47 - Glass gun cabinet is open. Sets when switching to Act 5
• 48 - Used valve handle to turn on fountain
• 49 - Examined Beauregard the dog for 1st time
• 50 - Related to seeing or skipping intro scenes???
• 51 - Told someone about corpse???

MustDo flags#

Actions & events required to trigger the clock and new Acts. When gMustDos = 15, then +1 gAct. Set $0001, $0002, $0004, and $0008 (15 total) to go to next Act.

• $0001:
  • Saw Gloria & Rudy arguing in billiard room (Act 0, region 232)
  • Spied on Rudy & Gloria in billiard room (Act 0, room 321, scene 36a)
  • Saw Clarence and Doc Wilbur outside Colonel's study (Act 1, room 10)
  • Saw Lillian reading to dolls (Act 2, region 257)
  • Saw Rudy & Clarence fight in front of house (Act 3, room 22)
  • Saw Rudy wandering outside (Act 3, minute 3, room 10)
  • Saw Rudy eating dessert in dining room (Act 4, region 403)
  • Spied on Rudy eating dessert in dining room (Act 4, room 306 / scene 34e)
  • Entered Celie's (Act 5)
  • Knocked on Celie's door (Act 5)
  • Read Clarence's diary (Act 6)

• $0002:
  • Saw Gertie & Clarence arguing in parlor (Act 0, region 217)
  • Spied on Clarence & Gertie discussing buying land (Act 0, room 301 / scene 38a)
  • Saw Clarence & Doc Wilbur playing billiards (Act 1, region 245)
  • Saw Fifi slap Rudy in her room (Act 2, region 261)
  • Saw Lillian inspecting weapon closet (Act 3, region 264)
  • Spied on Lillian writing in diary (Act 3 or 5, room 335 / scene 44f)
  • Spied on Gloria dumping Clarence (Act 1, room 323 / scene 36b)
  • Saw Lillian & Colonel arguing in his room (Act 4, region 270)
  • Spied on Lillian & Colonel (Act 4, room 354 / scene 42e)
  • Saw Lillian writing in diary in bedroom (Act 5, region 274)
  • Saw Lillian reading to dolls in playhouse (Act 6, region 282)

• $0004:
  • Saw Gertie sleeping in her room (Act 0, $0002 set, gSpyFlags $0002 set, region 225)
  • Saw Lillian & Celie talking while baking bread (Act 1, region 236)
  • Saw Rudy & Clarence arguing (Act 2, region 259)
  • Spied on Rudy & Clarence talking about Gloria (Act 2, room 333 / scene 48c)
  • Saw Ethel wandering drunk in room 10 (Act 3, minute 3, region 202)
  • Spied on empty Colonel's room (Act 4, room 355 / scene 42f)
  • Enter room when Colonel's gone (Act 4, minute 3)
  • Saw Rudy with dog (Act 5, region 277)
  • Saw Rudy searching Lillian's stuff (Act 6, $0002 set, region 385)

• $0008
  • Saw Fifi kissing colonel in his room (Act 0)
  • Spied on Fifi kissing colonel (Act 0 or 2, room 350 / scene 42a)
  • Spied on Doc Wilbur reading magazine??? where is spy on doc and and clarence (Act 0 or 1, room 320 / scene 32a)
  • Saw Doc Wilbur reading in library (Act 1, region 402)
  • Saw Gloria smoking in billiard room (Act 2)
  • Spied on Gloria listening to Victrola (Act 2, room 324 / scene36c)
  • Saw Clarence wandering outside (Act 3)
  • Saw Rudy and Clarence fighting in front of house (Act 3, 2 methods)
  • Saw Clarence drinking in parlor (Act 4, room 304 / scene 38e)
  • Spied on Clarence drinking in parlor (Act 4)
  • Spied on Clarence writing at desk (Act 5, room 334 / scene 48f)
  • Saw Clarence writing at desk (Act 5)
  • Saw Celie praying in chapel (Act 6)

Spy flags#

• $0001 - Spied on Rudy & Gloria (scene 36 or 36b)
• $0002 - Spied on Clarence & Gertie (scene 38a or 38b)
• $0008 - Spied on Rudy & Clarence (scene 48c), or Clarence sleeping, or Rudy trying to kiss Fifi (kissact3_261)
• $0020 - Spied on Fifi & Jeeves (scene 34d)
• $0040 - Spied on Colonel & Fifi (scene 42a). Triggers twice? Or spied on Colonel (scene 42c) poking fire in study, or spied on Lillian & Colonel (scene 42e)
• $0080 - Spied on Lillian & Ethel (scene 44a)

Corpse flags#

Triggered when entering room with corpse (with some exceptions).

• $0001 - Gertie, Act 1 or later (outside billiard room)
• $0002 - Wilbur, Act 2 or later (stable or chapel)
• $0004 - Gloria, Act 3 (well or gazebo)
• $0008 - Ethel, Act 4 or later (carriage house or heart-shaped garden)
• $0010 - Fifi & Jeeves, Act 5 (Fifi's room)
• $0020 - Clarence, Act 6 (Doc Wilbur's room or bathroom)
• $003f - Everyone but Lillian (sealed basement)
• $0040 - Lillian, Act 7 (hedge garden)

Global#

• gCycleTimers??
• 111 - Elevator current room
• 116 - Got hint from parrot this Act
• 117 - Attic door unlocked this Act
• 118 - gMustDos:
• 123 - gCorpseFlags
• 125 -
• 161 -
• 165 - gAct
• 172
• 173 - gSpyFlags
• 178
• 179
• 180
• 185 - Derringer loaded
• 187 - gMinute: location of minute hand (0-3)
• 190 - Saving and loading disabled
• 193 - Colonel is in his room
• 198 -
• 199 -
• 211
• 212
• 216 - (0 or 1) Related to entering any room...? Set on main.sc
• 223 - gDetailLevel
• 368 - gCycleTimers???