A Sceptic's Guide to Magic

A Sceptic's Guide to Magic

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A Sceptic's Walkthrough and Achievement Guide
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Basics
In case you don't want everything handed to you:

Look at the things in your inventory for a description
Read Lester's journal
The spells give a somewhat vague clue about the apparatus needed

Five achievements are missable, I put a SAVE HERE warning in these cases
Chapter One
Go inside
Use your camera on the wand

Go to the back room
Leave the shop, get on your bike

Jump over the tape
Talk to the policeman
Grab the violet flower (left side) and red dock leaves (right) by using the crescent knife on them
Pick some honeysuckle berries (bush top right)
Craft the Compliance spell and cast it
Apparatus: Cord

Achievement: Manipulator

Talk to the policeman
Interact with the evidence markers

Pick up the phone
Go to the elevator

Move towards the broom, use it
Interact with the shards you made
Chapter Two
Talk to Peter by interacting with the cash register
"Show me what you have for sale", buy the crescent knife and the mortar/pestle
Go outside, travel to the Central Police Station

Enter the building and go down the stairs on the left
Talk to the man at the desk
Go upstairs to the floor with the toilets and look at the alarm bell on the wall
On the same floor enter the room to the right and open the folder on the desk
Down to the ground floor and take the business directory from the table
Look at the directory in your inventory
Leave the station and travel to Smith Motors

Enter the shop, take the oily rag from the workbench bottom right
Talk to the worker
"Show me what you have for sale", buy the blow torch
Exit, travel to Fi's flat

Use the blow torch on the propane tank next to the grill
Travel to the Central Police Station

Enter the men's room and put the oily rag in the bin
Burn the rag with the blowtorch
Go to the evidence room and take pictures of the book on the left table
Leave the building and travel to the Forensic Lab

Enter the darkroom and use your camera on the desk below the wall clock
Leave the lab and travel to the Magic Circle

Show Val the photographs
Exit the building and travel to the Lodge

Go to your room

Open the spellcraft menu and craft a Portal spell
Use the spell on the garage door at the top of the screen
The apparatus is Fi's flat key

Achievement: Wayfarer

Enter the portal

Grab the mop next to the garage door
Use it on the cobwebs also next to the garage door
Craft a Shadow Wine spell and use it
The apparatus is the cobweb

Achievement: Shadow Walker

Craft a Contact spell and use it on Jason's body
The apparatus is the music album

Achievement: Medium

Leave the bathroom
Grab your clothes from the wardrobe
Use the elevator
Chapter Three
Leave the Lodge, travel to Smith Motors

Enter the shop, go through the back door
Leave the shop and travel to the Green Man

Enter the pub, try going through the door next to the bar
Travel back to Smith Motors

Talk to the guy outside, "are you a biker?", "do you need some help?"
Travel to the Green Man

Ask the barkeeper, "what's the strongest drink you've got?"
Travel to Smith Motors

Give the vodka to the guy outside
Move him over once he's out cold
Use the crescent knife to cut off his patch
Take his helmet
Go inside and to the back room
Ask Val, "can you sew this patch on my jacket?"
Grab the sewing kit from the table and give it to Val
Ask Fi, "can I borrow your bike?"
Leave the shop, get on Fi's bike, and travel to the Green Man

Enter the pub and go through the door
Leave, and travel to Smith Motors

Enter the shop
Leave, and travel to the Dell

Talk to Val
Travel to the Forensic Lab

Enter the building
Take the empty
beaker and stirring rod from the table up top
Leave, and travel to the Dell

Show the stirring rod to Val
Collect the ingredients for the Initiate's Brew
Cut off the archangel flower with your crescent knife, pick some bilberries, and collect ivy dew with your beaker
(Click picture to enlarge)

Craft the brew and drink it
The apparatus is the stirring rod

Achievement: Initiate

Go up to the next screen
(Talk to the woman with the dog)
Cross the bridge
Enter the cave
Use the blowtorch on the left and right braziers
Go up
Chapter Four
Answer the phone
Leave the room, pick up the thermos and sandwiches
Leave the Lodge, travel to Fi's flat

Go towards the apartment door
Look up Belladonna in the business directory
Travel to Belladonna

Enter the house
Leave the house, travel to the Magic Circle

Enter the shop, talk to Peter
Eat the sandwich
Leave the shop, travel to Smith Motors

Enter the shop, buy silicon grease
Leave, travel to the Central Police Station

Enter the building, open the first aid kit on the wall
Leave, travel to Belladonna

Enter the house
Talk to Donna, "show me what you have for sale"
Buy plantain leaves
Craft the Spontaneous Regeneration spell
Use it on the broken glass
The apparatus is bandages

Achievement: Healer

Leave the house, travel to the Black Patch

Talk to the man sitting in front of the tent
Cut the white plant on the right with the crescent knife)
Travel to the Forensic Lab

Enter the building
Take a lens from the microscope top left
Leave, travel to Belladonna

Cut the plant to the left of the entrance with the crescent knife
Enter the house, buy yarrow tea
Craft the Psychoscopic Perception spell
Use the spell
Apparatus is magnifying lens

Achievement: Psychometrist

Examine the dog collar in the inventory
Leave, travel to the Central Police Station

Enter the break room, take the dog treats between the flower and the policeman
Leave, travel to the Shadow Factory

Go up, interact with the dog
Give the dog some treats
Travel to the Black Patch

Talk to the man in front of the tent
Travel to the Central Police Station

Enter the right building
Go up the stairs and into the courtyard
Talk to the man on the left
Leave, travel to the Green Man

Enter the pub, talk to the woman at the bar

Go to the bedroom
Take a nap
Chapter Five
Go right to the parking lot and travel to the Dell

Harvest the orange-red marigold flower with your crescent knife
Travel to Sheldon Retail

Drink the tea from your thermos and then fill it with fuel from a pump
Enter the 24/7 market and talk to the clerk
Buy sunflower oil, red wine, cigarettes, and batteries
Leave the store and travel to Smith Motors

Buy the steel square and the bike horn
Leave, and travel to the Magic Circle

Buy saltpeter and the witch stone
Leave, and travel to Belladonna

Buy rosemary and great mullein
Leave, and travel to the shadow factory

Scare the black birds sitting on the tree with the bike horn
Pick up the black feather
Take the tobacco out of the cigarettes
Craft the Impermanent Dematerialisation, Luminous Personage, and Veracious Compulsion spells
Try opening the factory door
Cast the Impermanent Dematerialisation spell
Apparatus is the witch stone

Achievement: Destroyer

Go down
Go down again
Pick up bottles on the floor behind the guard
Flip the switch top right
Place the bottles on the conveyor belt
Flip the switch again
Take the can of red paint
Give the paint to Fi
Talk to Fi
Go through the door
Cast the Luminous Personage spell
Apparatus: Batteries

Achievement: Beacon

Lester casts the Veracious Compulsion spell automatically
Apparatus: Steel Square

Achievement: Interrogator
Chapter Six
Travel to Stechford Police Station
Enter the building, talk to Karen
Exit the building, get in your car

The following section consists of two spells helping you to gather ingredients for the one main spell you need to progress, so maybe the thing you are stuck on can be found somewhere in the middle of it

Leave the Lodge, travel to the Magic Circle

Buy the saturniid cocoon and the voodoo doll
Leave, travel to Belladonna

Pick up the pruning shears in the garden
Enter the shop
Interact with the soap box to the right of the cash register
Ask Donna, "do you have any lye?"
Buy white heather, monkshood, and dill tea
Leave, travel to the Forensic Lab

Enter the building, take pig's blood out of the blue fridge
Leave, travel to the Central Police Station

Enter the break room and put the blood in the microwave
Leave, travel to Black Patch

Give the voodoo doll to the red-haired woman on the right
Travel to Sheldon Retail

Pick up the coin on the ground next to the payphone
Craft the Beneficial Fortuity spell
Enter Lucky Amusements
Cast the Beneficial Fortuity spell
Apparatus: The penny you found

Achievement: Lucky Charm

Play the green arcade cabinet top right
Leave, travel to the Green Man

Enter the pub, ask the barkeeper, "do you have any absinthe?"
Leave, travel to the Lodge

Craft the Spontaneous Deconstruction spell
Enter the reception area, cast the spell on the deer head
Apparatus: Bike horn

Achievement: Deconstructor

Pick up both antlers
Go to Lester's room
Cut Karen's hair with the pruning shears
Craft the Constitutional Transmogrification spell
Leave the Lodge, travel to Stechford Police Station
Cast the Constitutional Transmogrification spell
Apparatus: Antlers

Achievement: Mimic

Enter the station
Go through the door in the reception area
Enter the rightmost room
Grab the book from the table
Leave the station
Travel to the Guardians, enter the house
Chapter Seven
Go behind the counter and interact with the stuff on the wall behind the cauldron
Go upstairs and change the masks eyes so that the red mask has red eyes and the green mask has green eyes
  • Touching the left eye of the red mask also changes the right eye of the green mask
  • Touching the right eye of the red mask also changes the left eye of the green mask
  • Touching the left eye of the green mask also changes the left eye of the red mask
  • Touching the right eye of the green mask also changes the right eye of the red mask
If you haven't fiddled with the masks yet, the fastest way to get there from the starting position is
hitting the left eye of the green mask once and the right eye twice
Pick up the pages from inside the opened clock

Take the clock's hands
You can still buy stuff from the Magic Circle, even with Peter gone, just open the chest behind the counter
Buy the amber fossil
Travel to Sheldon Retail

Buy the vaseline and a fish from the 24/7 market
Leave, travel to Belladonna

Give the fish to the cat
Pick up the lily pad close to the shore of the pond
Craft the Hydrophobic Locomotion spell
Cast the spell, apparatus is the amber fossil

Achievement: Messiah

Cut the plant on the other side of the pond with the crescent knife
Go inside, buy the frankincense oil
Leave, travel to the shadow factory

Use your crescent knife cut some bark off the tree
Travel to the derelict house

Craft the Horologist's Hindsight spell
Go inside
Lester automatically casts the spell, apparatus: The clock hands

Achievement: Time Traveller

Go right
Go down the stairs and to the right
Mine five small dark crystals with the pick-axe
Go back to Physis

Look at the business directory
Leave the house, cut the hemlock left of the path with the crescent knife
Travel to Smith Motors

Buy glue
Leave, travel to Club Wicked
Chapter Eight
Go inside
Talk to the guy guarding the door
Take some knotweed from either plant on the counter
Cut the woman top right loose with your crescent knife
Craft the Perdurable Binding spell
Use the cord on the bouncer
Cast the spell
Apparatus is the wedding ring

Achievement: Captor

Go through the door
Talk to Devil Dog
Leave the club, travel to Warstone Tower

Talk to the person in front of the graffiti
Enter the building
Use the elevator

SAVE BEFORE YOU ENTER THE APARTMENT

Go to the door on the right
Enter

Go back in
Interact with both lamps, the TV, the fridge, the hot plate, and the dishes next to Jade (in any order)
Leave the room, go left
Choose Death for an ending and an achievement

Achievement: Conclusion: RIP

Choose Life to keep playing
Leave the building
Talk to the woman
Jump into the picture
Talk to the woman again
Cut the moly, the aglaophotis, and the silphium with your crescent knife
Pick up the axe
(Click picture to enlarge)
Leave the stone circle
Travel to the Guardians

Enter the building
Chapter Nine
Go upstairs
Pick up the bottle of ectoplasm top center, the golden apple top left, and the silver branch at the bottom
Leave, travel to the Lodge

Enter Lester's bathroom
Put some mould from the bathtub into the beaker
Leave, travel to Sheldon Retail

Enter the 24/7 market, buy eggs
Get ice from the frozen food section (glass doors)
Craft the Temporal Glaciation spell in here or you have to come back to get more ice
While you're at it, craft the Dispel Transparency and Harmonious Diffusion spells
Leave, travel to Stechford Police Station

Enter the station, take a picture of Karen
Leave, travel to Club Wicked

Enter, take a black candle from one of the candelabras
Leave, travel to the Forensic Lab

Go to the darkroom, develop the picture
Leave, travel to the abandoned cinema

Smash the door with the axe ("once and future lumberjack")
Go through the door on the right
Down and through the brown door
Pick "A Farewell to Arms" film canister to proceed (the movie clips are saved as .webm in the game directory if you want to watch them)
Put it in the projector
Go back to the first room of the cinema and take the double doors
Jump into the image on screen
Cross both bridges, try going through the door

SAVE HERE

Go through the door and towards the back of the room
Don't cast anything, or if you do, use the wrong apparatus

Achievement: Fallen Warrior

Make sure you have all the spells crafted and are in possession of the needed apparatuses (apparati?)
Go through the door
Step forward a bit
Cast the Dispel Transparency spell
Apparatus is the black candle

Achievement: Seer

I suggest proceeding through the dialogue with the ESC key so you can reach your inventory quickly enough, cast the next spell while the previous animation is still going

Cast the Temporal Glaciation spell
Apparatus is the amber fossil

Achievement: Chronomancer

Cast the Harmonious Diffusion spell
Apparatus is the photograph of Karen

Achievement: Pacifist

Pick a fate for Peter
Corresponding to the decisions from left to right:

Achievement: Conclusion: Yes, Officer
OR
Achievement: Conclusion: Broken
OR
Achievement: Conclusion: Outcasts
OR
Achievement: Conclusion: Mercy
Bonus Chapter
Don't save over a slot you want to keep using

The dialogue with Devil Dog is different depending on the ending you chose to create the bonus savegame from

I tried my best to describe where to find stuff in the outside area but also included screenshots at the end of this chapter's walkthrough

Follow the upper paved way until you find a reddish tree
Harvest some bark with the crescent knife
Go right until you reach the house
Cut a piece of the golden bush in front of it with the crescent knife
Enter the house
Take some tea from the jar left of the sink
Pick up the kettle right of the sink
Use the sink to fill the kettle with water
Put the kettle on the stove
Grab the white mug from the table
Pour hot water from the kettle into the mug
Grab the black object (a walkman) from the table
Take the tape out of the stereo between the two doors
Look at the tape in the inventory to let Val combine it with the walkman
Craft the Astral Projection spell
Leave the house
Step on the ice
Cast the spell
Apparatus: Walkman with tape inside

Achievement: Astral Traveller

Go left and take carrot and coal from the snowman's face
Left of the house are three firs, pick up the cone lying next to the middle one
Examine the cone in the inventory
Enter the building
Take a piece of the holly wreath
Go to the bathroom
Take the bottle with the red cap next to the sink
Craft the Bloom spell
Go outside and downwards
The linden tree is a small one between the ice and the lamp post
Cast the Bloom spell
Apparatus is the carrot

Achievement: Herbalist

Harvest a linden flower with your crescent knife
Go to the top left of the outside area and cut the reddish bush with your crescent knife
Step on the jetty and go all the way right
Look right and interact with the ice in front of you
Take some of the broken ice
Craft the tranquility spell
Val casts the spell automatically
Apparatus: Coal

Achievement: Wolf Whisperer

(Bloody dogwood location, click picture to enlarge)

(Cherry and fir locations, click picture to enlarge)

(Snowman and jetty locations, click picture to enlarge)

Linden and witch hazel locations, click picture to enlarge)
List of Spells
Compliance
Ingredients
Violet Flower (derelict house)
Red Dock Leaves (see above)
Honeysuckle Berries (see above)
Apparatus
Cord (inventory)
Portal
Ingredients
Hare's Ear (inventory)
Fern (see above)
Way Thistle (see above)
Apparatus
Flat Key (inventory)
Shadow Wine
Ingredients
Anemone (inventory)
Amaranthus (see above)
Nightshade (see above)
Apparatus
Cobweb (morgue wall)
Contact
Ingredients
Sandalwood (inventory)
Willow Bark (see above)
Blue Throatwort (see above)
Apparatus
Album (inventory)
Initiate's Brew
Ingredients
Ivy Dew (the Dell)
Bilberries (see above)
Archangel Flower (see above)
Mind's Eye (inventory)
Apparatus
Stirring rod (Forensic Lab)
Spontaneous Regeneration
Ingredients
Plantain Leaves (Belladonna shop)
Silicon Grease (Smith Motors)
Lettuce (sandwich in front of Lester's door)
Apparatus
Bandages (Central Police Station first aid kit)
Psychoscopic Perception
Ingredients
Eyebright (Black Patch)
Mugwort (Belladonna garden)
Yarrow Tea (Belladonna shop)
Apparatus
Microscope Lens (Forensic Lab)
Impermanent Dematerialisation
Ingredients
Saltpeter (Magic Circle)
Tobacco (Sheldon Retail)
Petrol (Sheldon Retail)
Apparatus
Witch Stone (Magic Circle)
Luminous Personage
Ingredients
Great Mullein Leaves (Belladonna shop)
Marigold Flower (the Dell)
Sunflower Oil (Sheldon Retail)
Apparatus
Batteries (Sheldon Retail)
Veracious Compulsion
Ingredients
Rosemary (Belladonna shop)
Black Feather (shadow factory)
Red Wine (Sheldon Retail)
Apparatus
Steel Square (Smith Motors)
Beneficial Fortuity
Ingredients
Dill Tea (Belladonna)
White Heather (Belladonna shop)
Four-Leaf Clover (Black Patch)
Apparatus
Currency, found (Sheldon Retail)
Spontaneous Deconstruction
Ingredients
Monkshood (Belladonna shop)
Lye (Belladonna)
Boiled Blood (Forensic Lab)
Apparatus
Bike Horn (Smith Motors)
Constitutional Transmogrification
Ingredients
Human Hair (Lester's place)
Absinthe (Green Man)
Saturniid Cocoon (Magic Circle)
Apparatus
Antlers (Lodge)
Hydrophobic Locomotion
Ingredients
Lily Pad (Belladonna garden)
Fish Bones (Sheldon Retail)
Vaseline (see above)
Apparatus
Amber Fossil (Magic Circle)
Horologist's Hindsight
Ingredients
Foxglove (Belladonna garden)
Yew Bark (shadow factory)
Frankincense Oil (Belladonna shop)
Apparatus
Clock Hands (Magic Circle)
Perdurable Binding
Ingredients
Hemlock (derelict house)
Knotweed (Club Wicked)
Glue (Smith Motors)
Apparatus
Wedding Ring (inventory)
Dispel Transparency
Ingredients
Ectoplasm (Guardians)
Golden Apple (see above)
Molyroot (stone circle/Warstone Tower)
Apparatus
Black Candle (Club Wicked)
Temporal Glaciation
Ingredients
Mould (Lester's bathroom)
Eggs (Sheldon Retail)
Ice (see above)
Apparatus
Amber Fossil (Magic Circle)
Harmonious Diffusion
Ingredients
Silver Branch (Guardians)
Aglaophotis (stone circle/Warstone Tower)
Silphium (see above)
Apparatus
Photograph of Karen (Stechford Police Station)
Astral Projection
Ingredients
Valerian Tea (building, main room)
Witch Hazel (in front of house)
Cherry Bark (along the upper paved path)
Apparatus
Walkman with cassette tape (building, main room)
Bloom
Ingredients
Seed (firs next to house)
Evergreen (building, main room)
Epsom Salt (building, bathroom)
Apparatus
Carrot from snowman (bottom left, outside)
Tranquility
Ingredients
Shard of Ice (end of jetty)
Bloody Dogwood (top left, outside)
Linden Flower (bottom right, outside)
Apparatus
Piece of coal from snowman (bottom left, outside)
8 条留言
MeteorRed 2021 年 8 月 17 日 上午 12:52 
Of course awardede this!
Rhyming_Rogue 2021 年 3 月 19 日 上午 1:38 
Thanks for the guide. I liked the game, but some items weren't easy to find.
XBL Laberbacke  [作者] 2020 年 11 月 25 日 下午 8:47 
Please ask on the forum. It's been over a year since I last touched this game and you won't get anyone else's reply here.

Everything works exactly as described above when you follow all steps to the letter, I can guarantee that.
stץŁꝇŊ' ๖ۣۜꝣꝘ 2020 年 11 月 25 日 下午 12:07 
Stuck on Chapter 6...
Karen does not show up at Lester's for me cut her hair. I retraced steps and tried checking every vendor. Also not sure what comes of the Lye... I had asked this question in a previous chapter and it's not available after checking the soap in Belladonna. Please help! Thank you!
wyrdplace 2019 年 8 月 31 日 上午 10:46 
This is awesome! I never would have found some items, if I hadn't used it. Thanks!
Yan17 2019 年 8 月 29 日 上午 11:18 
Thanks for the great guide!
Pilgrim Adventures  [开发者] 2019 年 8 月 24 日 下午 11:44 
Nice job!
Jersie 2019 年 8 月 24 日 下午 7:35 
Bless your heart