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Mystery Case Files: Dire Grove Hints
Journal Page Triggers
1. Start the game.
2. Pick up the note in the abandoned car.
3. Enter the hotel.
4. In the hotel sitting room, pick up the newspaper article on the sleeping bag by the fireplace.
5. Enter the hotel bathroom.
6. Solve the trunk puzzle in the nautical bedroom.
7. Enter the manager's office in the hotel.
8. In the hotel library, assemble the two torn pieces of paper.
9. Find the first student.
10. In the hotel, enter the locked bedroom and pick up the letter on the floor by the window.
11. Enter the cemetery via the locked bedroom.
12. Enter the covered bridge.
13. Encounter the downed power line.
14. In the store, open the filing cabinet and read the diary.
15. Enter the hunting lodge.
16. Find the second student.
17. Enter the museum.
18. In the museum gift shop, pick up and read the book by the local author ("Legend of Lies")
19. Find the third student.
20. In the museum office, read the letter from Alison on the desk.
21. Try to climb the hill past the downed power line (if you do not have the snowshoes in inventory).
22. Encounter the farmhouse (from the outside).
23. Find the fourth student.
24. Listen to the reel of tape on the tape recorder in the tent.
25. Encounter the ruins.
26. Open the portal using the four relics.
27. Discover that the ladder is gone.
28. Observe the four students at the portal.
29. Enter the banshee's chamber.
30. Find, recharge, and access Alison's cell phone.
31. Open Alison's suitcase.
32. Solve two of the altar riddles in the banshee's chamber.