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Ankh Hints
What can I use to pick the lock?
1 of 10: Check your inventory. What might work?
2 of 10: That clothes hangar looks promising, but it won't work like it is.
3 of 10: Assil doesn't know how to bend it into a lockpicking shape, but maybe someone else nearby does.
4 of 10: Have you talked to Gemotep through the hole in the left wall yet?
5 of 10: After you talk to him about the curse and Osiris, use the hangar on the hole to pass it to him.
6 of 10: He refuses to help until you give him something that he'll like.
7 of 10: What might a prisoner like that's "rare in the clink?"
8 of 10: How about some wine?
9 of 10: Click the wine bottle on the hole, then click the hangar on it again.
10 of 10: Gemotep will turn the hangar into a Versatool(TM), which you can use on the prison door to unlock it.