The Colonel's Bequest walkthrough
The Colonel's Bequest - A Laura Bow Mystery - solution ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Colonel's Bequest is a bit different from other Sierra Adventure's because it's not really a quest like the other games. It's based on the story and not really on a quest. So this Solution is also a bit different; In fact it's not really a Solution but a list of the events you have to see to solve TCB and a couple of vital hints. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- First of all you have to know all the secret passages in the house. In the back upstairs hallway are two cabinets "PULL CABINET" to open them. Now walk up to the paintings and "LOOK EYES" facing the room you want to look into. Now you can hear the people speaking and another quarter will pass. In the back downstairs hallway are a mirror and a clock which you can also "PULL MIRROR/CLOCK".So to solve TCB just make sure to stare into the following rooms at the following persons at the following times.Of course enter the room if you can't watch the scene through a painting. You don't have to do the thing's in the exact order but you should perform them in that act! (By the way; Henri is the Colonel, Wilbur is the Doctor and you're Laura) TIME PLACE PERSONS * ACT I * - GERTRUDE DIJON WILL BE KILLED 19:00 YOUR ROOM LILLIAN & ETHEL 19:15 HENRI'S ROOM HENRI & FIFI 19:30 PARLOR GERTIE & CLARENCE 19:45 BILLIARD ROOM GLORIA & RUDY GERTIE & GLORIA'S ROOM GERTIE * ACT II * - DR. WILBUR C. FEELS WILL BE KILLED 20:00 DINING ROOM CLARENCE & WILBUR (THIS ONE'S A BIT TRICKY; FIRST GO OUTSIDE THE STUDY, FOLLOW THEM INTO THE STUDY, THE LIBRARY, AND FINALLY LOOK INTO THE DINING ROOM TO LISTEN TO THEIR DISCUSSION.) 20:15 BILLIARD ROOM CLARENCE & GLORIA 20:30 PARLOR ETHEL & POLLY (THE PARROT) 20:45 KITCHEN CELIE & LILLIAN * ACT III * - GLORIA SWANSONG WILL BE KILLED 21:00 CLARENCE & RUDY'S ROOM CLARENCE & RUDY 21:15 FIFI'S ROOM RUDY & FIFI 21:30 BILLIARD ROOM GLORIA 21:45 PLAYHOUSE LILLIAN * ACT IV * 22:00 OUTSIDE STUDY RUDY 22:15 IN STUDY LILLIAN 22:30 BY STATUE OUTSIDE CLARENCE & RUDY (FIGHTING) 22:45 OUTSIDE STUDY ETHEL * ACT V * - FIFI & JEEVES WILL BE KILLED 23:00 PARLOR CLARENCE 23:15 HENRI'S ROOM LILLIAN & HENRI 23:30 DINING ROOM RUDY 23:45 HENRI'S ROOM EMPTY WHEELCHAIR !! * ACT VI * - ETHEL PRUNE WILL BE KILLED 24:00 YOUR ROOM LILLIAN 24:15 CLARENCE & RUDY'S ROOM CLARENCE 24:30 OUTSIDE STUDY RUDY & BEAUREGARD (THE DOG) 24:45 CELIE'S HOUSE CELIE (JUST KNOCK AT HER DOOR) * ACT VII * - CLARENCE SPARROW WILL BE KILLED 01:00 CLARENCE & RUDY'S ROOM CLARENCE'S NOTEBOOK & BLOODSTAINS 01:15 PLAYHOUSE LILLIAN 01:30 CHURCH CELIE 01:45 YOUR ROOM RUDY * ACT VIII * - LAST ACT; LILLIAN PRUNE WILL BE KILLED 02:00 FRONT DOOR (OUTSIDE) BEAUREGARD (THE DOG) FOUNTAIN LILLIAN ATTIC RUDY & HENRI (FIGHTING) Now Note the following: * You should find the body's of the murdered persons and "SEARCH BODY" them. Person Posible Locations body (different each time you play) Gertie outside underneath her window Wilbur Stable/Church find a MONOCLE Gloria Gazebo/Well Fifi & Jeeves Fifi's room Ethel Warehouse/Rose Garden Clarence Wilbur's room/Bathroom find a BOX OF MATCHES Lillian Fountain find a DERRINGER, BULLET & SKELETON KEY * A few other hints : Examine everything you find with the monocle Ask everyone about everyone and everything Show Everything to everybody * You should also perform the following things BEFORE act VII Get oilcan on table in warehouse Get crowbar in carriage in warehouse Oil helmet of armor in front downstairs hallway and open it Get Cane in one of secret passages (You'll find it anyway before act VII) Get bone from fridge in kitchen Give bone to dog and take necklace from his doghouse When you go to Celie's house in act VI give her the necklace and take the carrot from the table in her cabin Give carrot to Blaze (the horse) and open the gate and take the lantern Open the ground in the church with the crowbar and take the bible Ring the bell next to the church with the cane and take the clank This is very very tricky; "RING BELL WITH CANE" and make sure you won't be hit by the falling bell; just save and try * And now for the cliMAX : Go to the fountain where Lillian lies dead (ACT VIII) and "GET DERRINGER" "GET BULLET" "SEARCH BODY" "LOOK SOLE" and stand in front of the statue "INSERT SHAFT" "TURN SHAFT" now walk around the fountain to the back of the statue and "TURN STATUE". Walk around the fountain again and "LIGHT LANTERN" and enter the secret passage! There are all the body's; somebody (Lillian) pushed them trough the laundry chute.Now "INSERT CLANK" "TURN CLANK" and open all the tombs with your crowbar, in one of them is a pouch of diamonds.Now walk back and go up to the attic. Open the attic door with the skeleton key and you'll see Henri and Rudy trying to kill eachother with one of Wilbur's hyperdermic needles. You can solve TCB in two ways "SHOOT RUDY" (correct one) or "SHOOT HENRI" Choose the first and your SLEUTH-O-METER will be better and you (most important) will understand the story. * Epilogue : The colonel is in a better shape then everybody thought and invited all the guests to get to know them better, therefor he spied on them through the paintings, but he didn't see one murder.Lillian had always seen the colonel as her Daddy since her own dad committed suicide.But as you all know (ACT V - LILLIAN & HENRI) Henri didn't want to be her daddy anymore, so she began killiang everyone who she thought stood between her and the colonel.The last one she'd wanted to kill was Rudy, but Rudy killed her in self-defense and thought to himself : "If I kill the colonel I'll get al his money", so he went to the attic and tried to kill Henri but You, Laura Bow, prevented him from such a terrible deed by shooting him. Celie gets all the money, you can keep the diamonds you found in the Crouton Tomb and Rudy is arrested THE END