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Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened Hints
Holmes stops just short of the crevice and says it's too dark!
1 of 16: Forgetting something, are we?
2 of 16: You could approach the crevice safely before because you had your storm lantern with you. Where is it now?
3 of 16: Return to the main cavern and use the control on the wall to lower your lantern back to where you can reach it.
4 of 16: Take it and then return to the crevice with it ... if you can!
5 of 16: Unfortunately, the planks past the rubble will always break the next time you try to cross them with the lantern, and it'll get smashed. You'll need to rig up an alternative light source.
6 of 16: Due to the primitive conditions down here, the best you could hope for is a torch.
7 of 16: Near the crevice area is a small side cave where you can grab some bones from the floor to serve as torch "bodies."
8 of 16: Now you need to find a way to make the torches burn for more than a few seconds after you light them.
9 of 16: It's fairly obvious that you need to use the rags with the bones in inventory, but what's to keep the rags from burning up too fast or refusing to burn at all?
10 of 16: After putting a rag on a bone, you need to soak the rag in alcohol.
11 of 16: Considering how these pirates destroyed themselves with drink, that shouldn't be too hard to find.
12 of 16: Go back to the good old still room and look around for some alcohol.
13 of 16: Check near the pirate skeleton.
14 of 16: There's a hip flask with some strong rum in it next to the pirate's left hand.
15 of 16: Take that and use it with your "rags around a bone" item to create a bone torch.
16 of 16: Then all you have to do is light it by using the matches on it.
