The Bachelor's Route

This page is a summary of the actions taken by the Bachelor in his route. It assumes that all quests are completed successfully; however, quests do not necessarily need to be completed in the order presented here.

As this page is essentially walkthrough of the Bachelor Route, there will be heavy spoilers throughout.

Day 1
The Bachelor arrives in Town after receiving a letter from his mentor, Isidor Burakh, who suggested that he go there as he may find information that could help him in his quest to defeat death. He receives temporary lodging from Eva Yan who lives in the Stillwater. The Bachelor begins the day upstairs before heading down to speak with Eva. She tells him that she heard some noises coming from outside and that there are men in her yard and he agrees to investigate for her. He asks her about where he can find Simon Kain and learns that he must first meet with Georgiy Kain.

When the Bachelor leaves, he will see an Executor and a Tragedian standing at Eva's gates. He may choose to speak with them and they will offer him advice on how to survive in the town and the ways of the townsfolk. However, they are not the source of the noises Eva heard. Upon further searching, he will find a Worm and a factory man huddled around a fire in Eva's backyard. He may ask them what they are doing there and then leave them alone. If he chooses to be aggressive or threatening, they will fight him.

The Bachelor then goes to Georgiy's house, where he learns that Simon had just been murdered.

Main Quest: "In Pursuit of a Killer
After speaking with Georgiy about is to be done now that Simon's dead, he is sent to meet Victor Kain and Victor's daughter Maria Kaina for more information about the supposed killer. Victor will suggest that he visit the home of Isidor Burakh, as Isidor was the last person known to be in contact with Simon. Maria tells the Bachelor about her vision and hands him a list of people, saying that they are his Bound. When the Bachelor leaves Maria's home, he will find another Executor and Mask standing at her gates. He may choose to speak with them and they will offer more advice on living in the town and how he should proceed in the upcoming days.

When the Bachelor crosses town to the house in question, he discovers that it is guarded by patrolmen who forbid his entrance and they tell him that Isidor has also passed away. He will have to speak with Alexander Saburov at the Rod to learn more about the investigation into the murderer. Saburov will direct the Bachelor to Yulia Lyuricheva and mentions that some of his patrolmen have been sent to a nearby waste-ground where several citizens wish to burn a suspect at the stake.

The Bachelor may head to the Bone Stake Lot located south of Isidor's home in an attempt to intercept the mob, but will not be able to prevent the killing. Upon inspection of the stake, he discovers the body of two guards along with a Revolver and Revolver Ammo.

He speaks with Yulia who tells him about the Olgimsky family, with whom Isidor had many dealings and apparently met before his death. The Bachelor heads to the Lump to speak with Vlad Olgimsky Sr. Big Vlad is reluctant to offer any useful information and lets slip that he has a son, Vlad the Younger, has more direct contact and interactions with the members of the Kin. It becomes apparent that his son might be a far more useful source of information. Upon exiting the Lump, a Worm will appear and run by the Olgimsky's home. The Bachelor follows the Worm to a locked up house, but the Worm will notice him upon arrival and attack.

The Bachelor speaks to Vlad Jr who will tell him more information about the Termitary. Vlad Jr reveals that the Termitary was boarded up due to suspicion that an illness may be spreading, and it is highly likely that both Isidor and Simon were victims of said disease rather than murdered. The Bachelor recalls that a man named Stanislav Rubin was scheduled to examine Simon's body that evening at 21:00 and quickly returns to the Kains to warn him. He will find Rubin in Victor's home and the two will discuss the possibility of a plague and what can be done.

Side Quest: "The Many-Legged Fugitive"
While speaking with Yulia, the Bachelor may learn about a woman named Lara Ravel who lives nearby in the Shelter. He goes to meet with Lara and she tells him about her concerns that the children of the Town are playing a dangerous game. She tells him about the Shmowders that the children invented and how deadly they can be and asks him to find their stash.

The Bachelor will find the house that used to contain the stash next to a Stairway to Heaven located in the Spleen district. He may speak to the children inside to learn about their game and what the Shmowders do. There will be a single Shmowder left upstairs. He then returns to Lara and can choose to either keep it or give it to her. If he keeps it for himself, she will not give him a reward. If he gives her the Shmowder, she will give him 1000 money.

Side Quest: "The Blood-Covered Fugitive"
While speaking with Yulia, the Bachelor may learn of a woman named Anna Angel who lives in the Willows. He meets with Anna and discovers a dead man inside of her home. She tells him that the man crawled to her house already bleeding and died. She asks for his help in removing the dead man's body. If he agrees, she will send him to the Cemetery to speak with the grave-keeper Grace.

When the Bachelor arrives at the Cemetery, he finds that Grace is not there. Instead, there are two men inside her lodge. He speaks to them about disposing of the body. The men will only remove the body from Anna's home if the Bachelor is able to pay 2000 money. After the Bachelor pays, he returns to Anna to let her know the body will be removed. She offers him a 1000 money, a Bone Necklace, a Bronze Bracelet, a Gold Ring, and a Silver Ring as a reward.

Side Quest: "The Beastlike Fugitive"
The Bachelor may be asked to look for a fugitive by either Eva or Vlad Jr.

While speaking with Vlad Jr, he tells the Bachelor that there is a Butcher who managed to escape the Termitary's lockdown. He asks the Bachelor to kill the Butcher for him. The Butcher will be found in the basement of Aspity's Hospice. If he kills the Butcher, Vlad Jr will give him 2000 money.

If the Bachelor refuses to kill the Butcher, he should reject Vlad Jr's request and speak with his host, Eva. She will tell him about the fugitive as well and ask him to help the Butcher escape. He must then speak with Aspity and convince her to help the Butcher escape. He returns to Eva to tell her the good news and she rewards him with a Bronze Bracelet, a Gold Ring, and a pair of Earrings.

Day 2
On Day 2, the Bachelor will head to The Rod to speak to Alexander Saburov about the threat posed by The Sand Plague. He believes The Bachelor's theory, but needs proof before he is comfortable informing the public. The Bachelor must visit Anna Angel in The Willows, who will suggest he speak to Capella Olgmisky about rumors the local children have been spreading. To find her, enter The Lump by the side door.

Capella will tell the Bachelor of a child named Sticky who can show him the way to an infected house in search of evidence.

Sticky lives in the very northeast of the map, and will tell The Bachelor that there is an infected house "just across the yard." He is talking about Isidor Burakh's house, which, when visited will now have obvious markings of dried blood as described by the local children. The Bachelor should put on as much protective clothing as possible before entering.

There will be a lady within who can be spoken to. She reveals that she is infected and gives The Bachelor a key to Isidor's house, warning him to run from her sisters. On the way out, two additional infected ladies will chase The Bachelor so he must exit quickly. The Key will suffice as evidence for Saburov, so The Bachelor should bring it to him immediately.

Saburov will stress that although he must urgently declare a state of emergency, he needs permission from the other two ruling families to do so, lest he cause a feud. He will ask that The Bachelor speak to Georgiy Kain and Vlad Olgmisky Sr. to gain their permission. Both will allow Saburov emergency power to deal with the epidemic. The Bachelor will return to Saburov with this news and receive a revolver and some ammo for his trouble.

Next, The Bachelor should speak to Lara Ravel who will divulge her plans to set up a safehouse where she and her friends can safely wait out the Plague. However, she needs to stock up on supplies and the streets are too unsafe for her to venture out. The Bachelor can offer to gather supplies for her, to be paid for with donations from three supportive townsfolk; Yulia Lyuricheva, Vlad the Younger and Maria Kain. If the first quest (finding evidence of the Plague for Saburov) is complete, Victor Kain will also have a donation to make.

The minimum requirements to complete the quest are 3 loaves of bread, 3 pieces of smoked meat and 3 pieces of dried fish.

The Bachelor brings the supplies to Lara and she will show him the house she has decided upon for her shelter. He is to deliver the foodstuffs here.

However, upon arrival he is greeted by the Executor who tells him that everyone in the house is dead. He should return to Lara with this sad news, which will prompt her to set up her shelter in her own home instead. She promises the Bachelor bed and board henceforth, as well as rewarding him with some assorted nuts and a lens.

The Bachelor returns to Eva Yan, who expresses a desire to flee the town before the Plague reaches her or her lover, Andrey Stamatin. She sdsays that Andrey may be able to bargain with Gugong, the deaf and dumb Odongh who operates the monthly train from the town station.

The Bachelor travels to Andrey's pub and recognizes him from college. They reunite happily and Andrey expresses enthusiasm for Eva's plan, but says that he cannot leave without his twin brother Peter Stamatin.

The Bachelor travels north to Peter's studio and tries to convince him to leave also, but Peter is not willing to leave behind his most prized architectural work - the town Polyhedron, and access to Twyrine to which he is addicted. The Bachelor returns to Andrey, who tells the Bachelor to pass on to Eva that he cannot leave without his twin.

Instead of going directly to Eva, The Bachelor should visit Maria Kaina, though avoid asking directly about the Stamatins' leaving. She will reveal that Alexander Saburov has harboured a grudge against Peter Stamatin for a long time. The Bachelor should reveal to Peter that tomorrow, Alexander will receive emergency power status over the town. This will change his mind.

The Bachelor reports to Andrey that Peter's mind has been changed, and he will instruct The Bacheor to visit Bad Grief to receive a free revolver. The Bachelor returns again to Andrey who schedules the escape for 22:00.

Upon reaching the train station the Bachelor will discover that it has been closed off as a quarantine measure. Speaking to the main guard, the Bachelor can decide to either call off the escape or kill the guards. In any case, the others will not show up. The Bachelor can ask them about this, if he pleases.

Day 3
Today, the Skinners district will fall to infection.

Starting today, The Bachelor can purchase a map of infected areas from Vlad the Young for 1000 coins. He may speak to Lara Ravel for some free milk and bread.

The Bachelor will receive a letter this morning from Georgiy Kain, asking to visit him as soon as possible. He tells The Bachelor that Rubin's house has fallen pray to The Plague, and that both Rubin and Simon Kain's body are missing. He asks for The Bachelor's aid in finding the body and suggests that Victor might have more helpful information.

Victor tells The Bachelor to speak to Vlad the Young, especially regarding the silence from The Termitary, which he suspects is linked to the outbreak.

Vlad Jr. will refuse to disclose several possible locations for the bodies unless the Kains remove pressure from the Olgmiskys surrounding the Termitary lockdown. He argues that the lockdown began a day before the quarantines and that to reopen it would put those inside at risk. When pressed, he urges The Bacherlor to investigate the Polyhedron before speaking with Victor again.

Returning to Victor, The Bachelor relays the message from Vlad Jr. that they have no reason to believe the situation in the Termitary is any different from that in the Polyhedron. This forces Victor to withdraw pressure from the Olgmiskys for the time being.

Victor also discloses that a stranger known as The Ripper has arrived in town and that fragments of human bodies have been found. He suspects that the person responsible is Isidor Burakh's son, and that he is also the body thief.

The Bachelor can now climb the Polyhedron, where he will be greeted by a Doghead child, who warns that the structure will topple if he enters. However, if The Bachelor says that he is a friend of the Kains, here to see Khan, the child relents. "Come in," he says "but don't try to get inside. You don't want us all to perish, do you?"

Khan is stern with The Bachelor, but admits that he knows your intentions are good. He reassures The Batchelor that all is well within the Polyhedron, and that if this changes, The Bachelor will be the first to know.

Returning to Vlad the Younger, The Bachelor relays that the Kains will no longer investigate the Termitary. Vlad Jr. marks the location of a house in the Spleen district where he thinks the Ripper may be hiding Simon Kain's body.

Heading upstairs in this house will reveal two hostile Butchers, who are indeed harbouring a body, though it cannot be identified. Once they have been neutralized, The Bachelor should return to The Horns and speak to Georgiy of his findings. Georgiy will reward The Batchelor with 4000 coins.

Shortly after completing this quest, The Bachelor will receive a letter from Rubin asking that he obtain a sample of infected tissue for research. Rubin also discloses the location of his secret prosectorium, and it turns out that he also has Simon Kain's body - it seems the one The Bachelor found was not Simon at all.

Visiting the Prosectorium, The Batchelor confirms that Rubin is alive and well. Rubin warns The Bachelor to ask Saburov's permission before dissecting any plague victims, as Steppe tradition prohibits this.

Saburov insists that he has no authority to allow you to violate Steppe tradition, but suggests paying a visit to Aspity's hospice, where she is harbouring fugitive butchers, who would have the traditional right to carry out a dissection.

Aspity is willing to ask the Butchers to help The Bachelor, but only if he can convince Vlad Olgmisky Sr. to stop prosecuting the runaway Butchers.

When The Bachelor has convinced Vlad Sr. to stop pursuing the Butchers, Aspity sends three Butchers to the infected Skinners district. She tells The Bachelor to meet them there in an hour.

Sadly, all three Butchers will die. The Bachelor can find their remains in the following places: Speaking to a guard nearby will reveal that the body is being taken to the cemetery, which is at the southeasternmost corner of the map. There will be a cluster of guards against the far wall of the cemetery who will demand 10,000 coins for the body. Alternatively, fight them for it and lose significant reputation, as well as receiving a ban from the cemetery. In either case, The Bachelor collects Corpse Blood from the body, and returns to Rubin. He will allow the Bachelor to use his microscope to examine the sample.
 * The Bone Pole Wasteground south of Isidor Burakh's house - where the Steppe Bride was burnt to death on Day 1
 * Directly behind Isidor Burakh's house
 * In the garden of Sticky's house

The Bachelor discovers that all bacteria is dead, and that therefore the disease cannot linger in dead bodies. Additionally, that it contaminates the blood, most likely causing a stroke in victims.

There is a side quest today where if The Bachelor speaks to Capella, she will ask him to test out some of the powders that children have been making as part of a game they call "Epidemic."

The Bachelor needs to go to the house next to Sticky's, directly southeast. At an inlet in the wall, there will be a small child called Loafer. Taking the Shmowder from him will immediately give the Bachelor 50% infection. Using the schmowder will remove all disease, but severely damage The Bachelor's health. Return to Capella to finish the quest.

Day 4
N.B. It is recommended to start this day with Vlad Olgmisky Jr. as he will provide The Bachelor with a side quest, the objectives of which line up conveniently with the main quest.

Today's quest begins at The Lump. The Bachelor speaks to Vlad Olgmisky Sr about the progress with setting up a hospital. Big Vlad reveals that the hospital is to be constructed in Lara Ravel's house, which The Bachelor must inspect and approve. He also mentions that Alexander Saburov needs to speak to The Bachelor regarding closed off districts. The Bachelor visits Lara Ravel, who insists that for the sake of her reputation, she must allow her home to be used for the hospital site. She says however that they are out of water and asks The Bachelor to speak to Vlad the Younger about fixing the water supply.

Vlad the Younger mentions the Sugagh Khadugh Spring as a possible source of water. He recommends The Bachelor secure The Cathedral and The Theatre first as these buildings have access to water from the spring. First, The Bachelor should inform Big Vlad of the sabotage to the water system. He asks The Bachelor to examine the Cathedral and Theatre and see if instead either of these might do for a hospital. The Bachelor will have to retrieve the keys to each. Starting at the Cathedral, a townslady will tell The Bachelor that a relative of hers has the keys and mark an approximate location on the map. At the Theatre, the Executor will tell The Bachelor where to find the keeper of the keys also.

The Bachelor must find these two individuals and lead them safely out of infected districts to obtain the keys.

Visiting Aspity regarding the water supply, she will confide to The Bachelor that she is sure Lara Ravel herself was responsible for the destruction of the water supply.

Returning to Vlad Olgmisky Sr. he will confess to The Bachelor that the disease has indeed infected the Termitary.

Speaking to Alexander Saburov, he will tell The Bachelor that he is concerned about the rising crime rate in formerly infected districts. He asks you to speak with Bad Grief about keeping his bandits under control.

However, when confronted, Grief will deny that his men are responsible. He has banished any of the offenders, and tells The Bachelor that their new leader is a man called Barley. Grief requests that The Bachelor do away with Barley, so that Saburov's patrols will stop harassing him.

The Bachelor returns to Saburov with this intel, who sends patrols to find Barley's hideout. The Bachelor should head to this location well armed, as he will have to kill approximately 7 bandits in an enclosed space. Once they have been neutralized, The Bachelor can return to Grief and Saburov for his rewards.

There is also an optional quest today given by Victor Kain, to inspect the Skinners district now that it is no longer infected. The Bachelor must speak to Victor, then enter any house in the Skinners district and kill one looter, bringing their crowbar back to Kain as proof.

Day 5
Today's mission is given by Rubin, and is an unpleasant one. The Bachelor is to bring Rubin the beating heart of an infected person. For this, he will need to request the help of The Haruspex, Artemy Burakh.

The Bachelor will also receive a letter from Anna Angel, requesting a visit.

The first step is to speak to Big Vlad, as he knows where to find The Haruspex. It transpires that he has been arrested by Saburov on unfounded suspicion. Speaking to Lara Ravel, she will tell The Bachelor that Burakh is being kept somewhere in The Works.

He is being kept in Factory Building #3, The Butchering Room. The Bachelor speaks to the guards but they will not be fooled into letting Artemy go. The Bachelor seeks help from Bad Grief and his thugs, at a price of 10,000 coins.

When The Bachelor returns to the Butchering Room, a cutscene is triggered. Grief's men successfully kill two of the three guards, but The Bachelor will have to kill the remaining one himself for a reputation drop. He should loot the key from the guard's body and release The Haruspex.

Artemy agrees to help The Bachelor obtain a specimen for Rubin and arranges to leave the prepared body in The Silent Yard (the garden of Isidor Burakh's house) at 9pm.

This tragically coincides with Anna Angel's quest, whereby The Bachelor must try to reunite her former partner The Hunchback with his daughter for a large reward. There is no way to save the girl, as she has already been infected and therefore serves as Artemy's subject.

The Bachelor returns to Rubin with the heart and Rubin promises to have a vaccine ready by morning, to produce to the Inquisitor.

Day 6
Shortly after midnight, The Bachelor receives a letter from Rubin to say that the vaccine is ready. When The Bachelor collects it, Rubin will disclose his need to turn himself in to Georgiy Kain for desecrating the body of Simon. The Bachelor can head to The Horns to plead with Georgiy to forgive Rubin his crimes, for his intentions were only to save many other lives. Georgiy's replies are cryptic, he speaks of a lens to "focus" his brother, whom he considers to be "still living." He also speaks of Clara, The Changeling. Although he is not interested in finding her, he claims that she is in grave danger, should The Bachelor feel obligated to step in.

The Bachelor can now speak with Vlad Olgmisky Sr. who will tell him that although the Inquisitor sent to check on the town is one of the more fearsome, he approves of The Bachelor's work so far and will be happy to give him credit.

In the morning, The Bachelor receives a letter from Victor Kain about an outbreak of disease inside the Cathedral. It seems an infected person snuck in overnight and spread the Plague to all within. He should speak with Kain promptly.

The Bachelor can speak to Capella, who will warn him not to make rash decisions in persecuting the person responsible for the outbreak. Speaking to her again will prompt a side-quest to save the Termitary from arsonists led by The Hunchback from yesterday. To continue with this quest The Bachelor can speak to Young Vlad and Big Vlad in turn, and arrange to intercept the attack on the Termitary at 10pm.

To start today's quest, speak to Big Vlad and then to Saburov. The Bachelor will be tasked with examining blood samples for abnormalities, to identify the infector of the Cathedral.

Speak to Anna Angel, as she is one of the suspects. She will tell The Bachelor that Clara is also a likely suspect. Speak to Katarina Saburova who will tell The Bachelor that there is a changeling impersonating her foster-daughter, the real Clara, who is the actual culprit. She sends The Bachelor to speak with Grace.

Grace tells The Bachelor to search in the Train Station. He should speak to Murky in the carriage with an entrance porch made of crates. It is marked red on the map. Murky tells you that the doppelgänger of Clara cannot speak, only murmur and spit. This is how to tell the two apart. Clara will now be waiting for The Bachelor at Eva Yan's house.

The Bachelor must take a sample of her blood, or he will fail the quest and doom Georgiy Kain to sickness.

Upon inspecting Clara's blood with the microscope upstairs, it becomes clear that she is not guilty either.

Day 7
The Bachelor should start today by visiting Eva Yan's house after 7am. Eva will not be there, and instead The Bachelor will find a Steppe Bride called Ayan, sent by Andrey Stamatin to fetch him. She tells The Bachelor that Eva has gone missing, possibly taken by Worms as a replacement for the Steppe Bride killed by The Haruspex on Day 5.

Visiting Andrey Stamatin's pub, The Bachelor will not find Andrey himself, but two other men who tell him that Andrey has gone into the marsh looking for Eva. They mark a location on the map and ask The Bachelor to go after him.

There will be three Butchers and three Worms, hostile, outside a Ger with Andrey and a single Steppe Bride. Once The Bachelor has neutralized the hostiles, Andrey will confess that he was wrong about blaming the Worms for Eva's disappearance. In reality, Eva committed suicide by leaping from the roof of The Cathedral.

The Bachelor will receive a letter today from Big Vlad, informing him that the Termitary is now open. He will also receive a letter from The Inquisitor, who wishes to meet him at The Cathedral.

The Inquisitor has surprising news. She believes The Bachelor's presence in the town at the time of the outbreak was orchestrated by The Powers That Be, to some contrived end, and that the deployment of military regiments into the town under a Commander Alexander Block is part of this plan.

She tells The Bachelor that she believes The Powers That Be have three informers currently in the town, and that one of these has been responsible for some of the letters received by The Bachelor.

She will give The Bachelor three possible locations for these informers, and order him to find the The exact locations can be seen in the screenshots provided.

When The Bachelor returns with the papers, The Inquisitor will tell him that their accounts are inconsistent, and urges him to quickly catch the traitor.

He can question each in turn, on the premise that one will always lie, one will always tell the truth, and one will tell a mix of both.

In any case, the traitor is The Knots informer, behind the Theatre.

Later today, The Bachelor will receive a letter from The Haruspex, who requires an Executor uniform. He warns The Bachelor not to give the items to The Changeling, should she make the same request of him. The first step in obtaining the costume is to speak to Mark Immortell at the Theatre.

The Executor uniform consists of a cloak and a mask.

The cloak can be found on a body beside the corpse pit, between Aspity's Hospice and The Graveyard.

The mask can be obtained by speaking to Alexander Saburov, then to Peter Stamatin. Saburov's grudge against Stamatin has prompted him to appoint Peter the task of dealing with the infected dead, which will almost certainly result in his infection. Because of his position, Peter has access to the mask The Bachelor needs, but pleads with The Bachelor to buy him three days of protection from performing the work in exchange for it.

The Bachelor can ask the Inquisitor to pardon Peter Stamatin from his duties. She will do so, but also asks The Bachelor for help with a family matter. In the meantime, The Bachelor can return to Peter, collect the mask and wear both items for an achievement.

The Inquisitor tells The Bachelor that she has a troubled past with Maria Kaina, who is a dear niece to her. However, Maria does not feel so fondly towards The Inquisitor. The Inquisitor asks The Bachelor to broker peace between the two of them, and gain her the opportunity to speak with Maria.

When questioned, Maria expresses fear of The Inquisitor and is not enthusiastic about meeting her. She threatens to leave, and The Bachelor can threaten to tell her father that she intends to venture into the dangerous streets.

Speaking to Victor Kain, he says will probably visit Peter Stamatin as she was concerned about The Polyhedron.

The Bachelor can tell The Inquisitor at this point to seek Maria in Stamatin's house.

Travelling there to observe the reunion will result in The Bachelor being greeted in the doorway by a furious Maria. The Inquisitor will be upstairs, seeming far less perturbed. Despite the reunion not going to plan, she will give the Bachelor his choice of three rewards: a more powerful weapon, some potent antibiotics, or a White Vaccine.

Day 8
Today begins with a letter from Vlad Olgmisky the Younger. The Bachelor can visit him, and he will tell of a "false panacea" being manufactured inside The Termitary.

He says that whoever is responsible has been using The Bachelor's name to back up their product, so it is in his best interests to help put an end to the scam.

He has heard that the source of production is in the Long Block of the Termitary.

Heading inside the Termitary block, the Bachelor should seek out The Haruspex, who will be on the ground floor. Turn right at the entrance, enter the first door on the right, and continue through a series of 3 rooms to reach him.

He has a side quest for The Bachelor, and will also tell him that he saw some Worms boiling something upstairs. They can be found up one flight of stairs, in the corner across from the entrance.

When the Bachelor asks the Worms about this, they confess to making a false cure for the plague, but claim that where they are guilty, Vlad the Younger is worse. They were simply having fun, but Vlad the Younger has bought out the real vaccine to sell it at an extortionate price.

The Bachelor returns to Vlad Jr. and when questioned, he confesses that while he did intend to monopolize the market, he has had a change of heart and instead decided to distribute it at a minimal fee.

The Bachelor should verify with Mark Immortell, Lara Ravel, Anna Angel and Yulia Lyuricheva that they received the treatment for a reasonable price.

To complete The Haruspex's side quest, The Bachelor should accept the blood sample, check it under a microscope and return. The Haruspex will reward him with a vial of serum, a supposed cure, to use as he wishes.

Around midday, The Bachelor will receive a letter from Ayan. Returning to The Stillwater, he will find several doghead children who are convinced he is meddling with the Polyhedron. The Bachelor decides to speak to Capella. She will give him some antibiotic tablets for a child called Taya Tycheek, who can be found in The Termitary. She is two floors up, down the torch lit hallway, through a closed door on the right. She will only take the tablets if Capella's name is mentioned.

Later, The Bachelor receives a letter from The Inquisitor. He should meet her at The Cathedral for the quest of the day. She reveals that sadly, all of his research back in the Capital has been destroyed.

She urges him to keep trying to find the source of the plague. The first step is to visit Young Vlad Olgmisky and confront him about his well. He will refuse to answer, so The Bachelor should question his rival, Aspity. Aspity will give The Bachelor valuable information about Vlad's role in the Termitary lockdown. Confronting Vlad Jr. once again with this new intel, he will confess that he suspects the bacteria originates from the ground.

Next, The Bachelor needs to investigate The Abattoir, which will take all night so any other quests should be completed first.

The Bachelor needs to speak to Taya Tycheek in The Termitary again, and request that she open the labour entrance. She will agree on the condition that the man responsible for The Termitary lock-up be turned in for his crimes. Vlad Jr. is one of The Bachelor's adherents, so it is not wise to turn him in. Instead, The Bachelor can offer to retrieve Taya's toy bull in the same house that was proposed as the location for Lara Ravel's shelter on Day 2. It is upstairs, on top of a bedside locker and somewhat resembles a small rocking horse. Ensure there is room in The Bachelor's inventory for it.

Once The Bachelor returns with Taya's toy, she will allow him entrance to The Abattoir, at 11:30pm.

Day 9
The Bachelor wakes up at 2pm in the Town Hall, under the protection of Commander Block. A letter from The Inquisitor instructs him to speak to The Haruspex, but if he visits her in the Cathedral she will tell The Bachelor that Artemy is in fact missing, has not returned from The Abattoir. She will ask The Bachelor to enquire after him. The Bachelor should also ask The Inquisitor about The Polyhedron. She will request that he gather some data for her.

The Haruspex can be found in the Termitary, in the same room where the Worms were brewing a false panacea.

Several letters, from Anna, Yulia, Lara and Victor arrive also. The Bachelor should visit these first.

Lara will tell The Bachelor she wants a pistol. Yulia will tell him that Lara's reason for wanting such a thing is to assassinate The Commander, and ask The Bachelor to turn her in instead of Lara. Anna will provide the pistol, should The Bachelor decide to allow Lara to attempt the assassination.

Alternatively, he can head to the town hall and tell The Commander that it is Yulia who is responsible for the planned hit, and he will send soldiers to collect her. However, the soldiers rebel and attack The Bachelor on site once he reaches Yulia's house. Their bodies are a good source of rifles for a later mission.

Speaking to Victor Kain, he reveals that he believes the whole Kain family is fated to die very soon. He begs The Bachelor to guide his son, Khan, wisely and to prevent him from angering the soldiers that have taken over the town.

At the summit of the Polyhedron, The Bachelor is greeted by three doghead children. Once inside, Khan will ask for 5 rifles in exchange for permission to enter the Polyhedron. The Bachelor can purchase one rifle from Bad Grief, and if he needs more, he must infiltrate a heavily guarded train carriage at the station.

Returning to Khan with 5 rifles, he will allow The Bachelor entry.

Inside, there are many children, with whom The Bachelor cannot interact. He must simply climb the stairs and exit. The visit confirmned that the Polyhedron is free of disease. The Bachelor should relay this to The Inquisitor before the day is through.

Day 10
At midnight, The Inquisitor writes to The Bachelor. She needs the blueprints for The Polyhedron for her reports. She suggests The Bachelor speak to The Kains about it, but The Bachelor knows that Peter Stamatin was the architect who designed the structure, and so decides to speak to him instead.

Upon arrival at Stamatin's home, The Bachelor finds it overrun with soldiers, but no Peter. He is accused of murdering disinfectionists. Speaking to Peter's brother Andrey, it becomes clear that it was Andrey who attacked the disinfectionists. He says that Peter is searching for something in The Chine, near a staircase to the sky. There, The Bachelor will find him in an Executor's robe and mask. He expresses that he wishes to burn himself in twyrine. He waxes lyrical about his designs, and how Nina provided him with a tangible canvas on which to construct his Polyhedron. He requests five bottles of twyrine, in exchange for giving The Bachelor his blueprints "as a keepsake."

When The Bachelor returns with the twyrine, he remind's Peter that his brother needs help, as he has been arrested trying to save Peter. Although Peter is not enthusiastic about helping his brother, after some conversation The Bachelor can convince him to delay his suicide. The Bachelor can now bring the blueprints to The Inquisitor.

At 2pm today, The Bachelor will receive a letter from Mark Immortell, requesting an audience. Heading to the Theatre, Mark will warn The Bachelor of another sacrifice taking place at the Bone Stake. The Bachelor should travel there and speak to the shopkeeper in the centre of the crowd. He will speak some gibberish to the effect that the crowd want to "Purge the Monsters" and threaten the lives of some townsfolk. The Bachelor should return to Mark and the Theatre, and together they will decide that the Army would be of help in shutting down the mob.

Visiting the Town Hall, The Bachelor enlists the help of Block, who sends flamethrowers to the area. The day is now complete.

Day 11
This morning, The Bachelor will hear from The Inquisitor and should visit her for updates. She tells The Bachelor that she is concerned The Polyhedron might be connected with the epidemic. For more information, The Bachelor heads to Andrey's Pub only to find a distressed Steppe Girl who informs him that Andrey has been taken away by soldiers. When confronted at the Town Hall, Commander Block insists that the order was not his to arrest Andrey and agrees to help The Bachelor recover him.

At this point, The Bachelor may also choose to speak to two children inside the door to the Town Hall, who will request help rescuing their father from a firing squad. Should The Batchelor wish to oblige, the father can be found south-west of The Cemetery. Upon finding him The Bachelor must quickly interrupt so that the man is not shot, and kill the soldiers before returning to the Town Hall to tell the children of his success.

The rogue soldiers can be found at the very far end of the railway tracks surrounding a carriage. The Bachelor will have to fight off large numbers here so he should come prepared. When spoken to, the leader will mistake him for Andrey and at the conclusion of their conversation will hit The Bachelor with the butt of his rifle, knocking him unconscious.

The Batchelor will awaken in the Cemetery, stripped of weapons and rations, and surrounded by hostile dogs. He can easily kill these by standing on the gravestone for safety and punching from above. Running to Grace's house, the Batchelor can ask for medical supplies and a knife. She will tell him that there are more soldiers standing guard behind the wall. The Batchelor should kill these two, then return to the train carriage to get revenge on the soldier who looted him. All of The Batchelor's belongings can be recovered from the soldier's body.

Fortunately for Andrey, the soldiers have now been dealt with which means he is safe. The Batchelor can return to his pub and speak with him to obtain more Polyhedron blueprints.

When The Bachelor brings The Blueprints to The Inquisitor, concluding that The Polyhedron's underground base is responsible for the outbreak of plague, she thanks him and asks him to investigate The Kains, Maria in particular whom she feels had something to do with the bull sacrifice at the Bone Stake lot the previous day. She asks him to take a panacea to Khan in The Polyhedron in exchange for information.

He will refuse the panacea and insists that Maria Kain had nothing to do with the Bone Stake riot. He does however mention that she was responsible for the suicide of Eva Yan. He suggests The Bachelor ask Vlad Olgmisky the Younger about the Bone Stake riot.

When The Bachelor arrives at the house where Vlad Jr. has been hiding, there will be a bandit outside whom The Bachelor can kill for a bandage kit among other loot. After speaking with Vlad and leaving the house, The Bachelor will have to fight one more bandit and two hostile civilian men.

At 12 noon, The Bachelor will receive a letter from The Kains with a vague messge about the town's "new mistress." In response to this, The Bachelor can speak to Victor who will explain that Maria is unconscious as part of her transition to Mistress and needs to be brought tokens of acknowledgement from the "future mistresses" of the town. He requests that The Bachelor speak to one of these, Capella, at The Lump and also ask her about the other successor.

Capella will respond with great maturity to the news that Maria is rising to her position - she is not jealous nor worried. She says it is for the good of the town and that a "dark mistress is better than no mistress at all." She agrees to acknowledge Maria's power and gives her mother's beads as a token.

She doesn't commit to thinking Clara is the other successor but this is all The Bachelor has to go on, so he should speak to Clara at the Town Hall. Clara will be less diplomatic about relinquishing authority to Maria, but can be convinced. She offers her foster mother's ring as a token.

Both tokens can now be brought to Maria at The Crucible. However, outside the door to Maria's mansion a crowd will have gathered. Speak to the gentleman at the front and he will suggest that because Maria is still unconscious and Nina is still the current Mistress, the relics should be brought to her tomb, at the very tip of the peninsula where the Gorkhon diverges into the Guzzle.

Inside, a vision of Maria will appear to The Bachelor, to whom he should offer the tokens.

Later in the evening, The Bachelor will receive a letter from Artemy Burakh, urgently requesting an audience. He can be found in Factory Building #3 (The Butchering Room) at The Works.

He tells The Bachelor that he has found the source of the underground clot causing the plague, but that unfortunately it seems to sprawl all over the town. He says that he can put an end to the plague by destroying The Polyhedron but only if The Bachelor's adherents are still alive. Therefore, The Bachelor should double check before sleeping that all of his allies are well and distribute panacea to anyone who has fallen ill.

The Bachelor may well wonder about Eva Yan's death and how this will affect circumstances. However, in the morning on Day 12 he can ask The Executor outside the Cathedral about this. It seems in Eva's letter she already vouched for The Bachelor before she died.

Day 12
If the Bachelor wishes to see the last Theatre performance, he should do so before 7am today as the Theatre will be locked after this. There will be a noticeable change in the air today, and the town will be far cleaner. If any are sick, The Bachelor will receive letters from The Haruspex and The Changeling, asking for their own adherents to be healed. The Bachelor should check on his own adherents first to be sure before giving any panacea to the others. If at least two groups of adherents are safe - The Bachelor's own and one other, shortly after 8am The Bachelor should receive a letter from the Powers That Be, summoning him to the Polyhedron with specific instructions.

When The Bachelor arrives, he should step on the floor markings to travel inside the tower, right to the bottom and then step on another floor marking to access a new room - a gated garden with a stone model of the town in the centre. There are two children inside whom The Bachelor should speak to before returning.

At this point, if The Adherents were saved, The Bachelor will receive an invitation from The Theatre. He should speak to the Executor at the door prior to entering. A short cutscene will play, after which The Bachelor can speak with the two masks on the stage.

At 7pm, The Bachelor should head to The Cathedral to make his choice.

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