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Obsidian Hints

Where is the "Standard Damage" document?

  • 1 of 8: First, you need to find the Records Face.
  • 2 of 8: To save you the trouble of looking, I'll warn you now that you shouldn't look under "Standard" to find the document.
  • 3 of 8: They have a weird way of filing documents with two words in their title.
  • 4 of 8: If you know the filing system, you're almost there.
  • 5 of 8: Try to make the longest possible word out of the letters "Standard" and "Damage".
  • 6 of 8: If you need help, ask the computer.
  • 7 of 8: Ask it to play Word Mixer, and give it those two words as input.
  • 8 of 8: The answer is "tradesman".  Look under "tradesman" for the document you need.