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How can I find Grout in his mansion?

  • 1 of 16: Despite being rather confusing at times, this whole place is actually pretty linear, with a bunch of puzzles thrown in to impede your progress. There are also a bunch of amusing recordings where you can listen to Grout fall deeper into insanity and general paranoia.
  • 2 of 16: This place is also great for stealthy characters, as you can stealth-kill almost all of the crazy knife wielding girls, as they are always facing away from you.
  • 3 of 16: It's pretty hard to get lost in here, as the only unlocked doors are the ones you have to go through to progress, so getting through the area should be easy other than solving the puzzles.
  • 4 of 16: The first puzzle you run into involves pulling some candlesticks in a certain order so that a door will open.
  • 5 of 16: In the room the opened up after solving that puzzle, you'll need to find another, lone candlestick and pull it.
  • 6 of 16: It's on the wall made by the large staircase. Pulling it opens the ceiling above the stairs.
  • 7 of 16: After a bunch of rooms and spiraling staircases, you reach an apparent dead end in a room with a fireplace.
  • 8 of 16: Look through the mirror to see that all may not be as it seems.
  • 9 of 16: Push the panel in the middle of the fireplace, and crawl through the passage to proceed.
  • 10 of 16: You'll find yourself back in the library, but on the top floor this time. You'll have to solve another candle-pulling puzzle to proceed.
  • 11 of 16: After going through the bookshelf, you will soon come to a somewhat annoying room filled with electricity.
  • 12 of 16: Once you get through the room, be sure to flip the switch to unlock the last locked door in this area, and open the way to Grout's inner sanctum, back in the red lit room near the entrance.
  • 13 of 16: The inner sanctum is also pretty linear, but if you go into the first room on your left you can find a refrigerator key. Use it on the fridge in the middle room to get some packs of Elder Vitae, which will completely heal you and refill your blood pool.
  • 14 of 16: Eventually, you'll reach a room with a bunch of display cases.
  • 15 of 16: Just play the Gramophone to open the double doors at the other end.
  • 16 of 16: Go through the doors, and you have found Grout at last. Too bad he's dead.