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The Black Mirror Hints
Where can I get a symbol of strife?
1 of 12: Sweat would certainly be a good symbol of that...
2 of 12: ...so would blood.
3 of 12: Of the two, blood is the one that the game wants you to go after.
4 of 12: You can depend on Samuel being too squeamish to get the blood by cutting himself with his chess piece knife, and he certainly isn't going to stab anyone.
5 of 12: Given that Castle Dracula is out of range, where else could you find some real blood in a convenient container?
6 of 12: Is anyone around here likely to have some around?
7 of 12: Richard is a bit of a wacko mad scientist, so he might have some in storage.
8 of 12: However, you won't be able to ask him about it until you discover a bloody little fact about his past work.
9 of 12: Did you thoroughly examine the wardrobe with the secret passage that leads to his lab?
10 of 12: It has some old newspaper clippings posted on the inside of one of its doors.
11 of 12: Read about Richard, then return to Richard to ask for the blood.
12 of 12: He'll say there's some you can use in the little freezer at the right end of his work desk, so click on it to take a bottle of blood.
