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How can I get all the thugs to leave the office?

  • 1 of 12: Nothing's apparent yet, so drop back down to the ground and go exploring around the accessible factory areas for possibilities.
  • 2 of 12: There's a door that's open now that wasn't before. Maybe there's something useful in the area(s) past it.
  • 3 of 12: Go all the way back to the first factory area, where dead pigs are hanging from a semi-circular conveyor machine, then use the path to the left of that machine to get to a shutter-style door near the room's back corner.
  • 4 of 12: It's open now, so go through it and down some stairs to find yourself in a new room to explore.
  • 5 of 12: It has some big log stacks and several doors, one of which is very hot to the touch.
  • 6 of 12: Enter the room past the door to find that it's a meat-smoking area.
  • 7 of 12: With "smoke" being the key word here.
  • 8 of 12: Maybe you could use something here to smoke those thugs out of their office. That sounds like a plan!
  • 9 of 12: You'll need to implement Operation Smoke-Out in three stages.
  • 10 of 12: Stage 1 is finding an item to generate the smoke.
  • 11 of 12: Stage 2 is putting your smoking item somewhere so that the smoke will go into the office you're trying to clear.
  • 12 of 12: Unfortunately, your smoke gimmick won't generate enough smoke to be noticed inside the office, so Stage 3 is getting it to put out more smoke.