Key & Compass presents:
Guttersnipe: St. Hesper's Asylum for the Criminally Mischievous
by Bitter Karella

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• Walkthrough
• Extras
  • Characters, Inventory
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Map

Walkthrough

A cell (yours)

> x me. x Percy. x pot. x cot.

> x clipboard. ask Percy about clipboard.

> e.

Walkway (outside your cell)

> x poster. ask Percy about poster.

> ask Percy about Nasty Mac.

> ask Percy about urchinfinder.

> x panopticon.

> s.

Walkway (by west bridge)

> x fingerprint-o-matic. e. (Need a staff member's fingerprint.)

> s.

Walkway (outside therapy room)

> x poster. read poster. (Ad for Onion Brine.)

> w.

A therapy room

> x Violet. x Jeremiah. x teapot.

> speak to Violet. speak to Jeremiah.

> ask him about Violet. ask him about Himself.

> ask him about doctor. ask him about therapy.

> ask him about tea.

> take teapot.

> e. s.

Walkway (southwest corner by matron)

> x matron. x desk. x mug.

> speak to matron. (Her name is Matrushka Krellkin.)

> ask her about control room. ask her about herself.

> drink postum mug. (Matron needs it to calm her coffee nerves.)

> ask Percy about postum. (It's a coffee substitute.)

> s.

A kennel

> x dog. pet dog. x box. take box.

> x cage. read cage. (Schrodinger, a cat, only eats live chickens!)

> n. e. s.

A staff lounge

> x projector.

> x magazine. take it.

> x machine. drink postum. (The machine is now empty.)

> x ice box. open it.

> x chicken. x coffee. x block.

> take chicken.

> take coffee. put coffee in machine. drink coffee.

> n. e.

Walkway (at south bridge)

> x poster. read poster. ask Percy about summer complaint.

> s.

A records room

While on a coffee high, you can search the folders.

> x folders. search folders. take papers.

> n. e. s.

An electrotherapy room

> x table. x machine. x wheel.

> ask Percy about machine. (Reminds him of Frankenstein.)

> put chicken on table. turn wheel. (It's alive!)

> take carcass.

> n. e.

Walkway (southeast corner)

The cat blocks your way until you get rid of it with the chicken.

> x cat. pet cat. ask Percy about cat.

> give carcass to cat. (The cat chases the chicken.)

> s.

An incinerator room

> x incinerator. (Something's in there.)

> x gurney. x sheet. look under sheet.

> x clipboard. read clipboard.

> x plaque. read plaque. (Incinerator switch is in the control room.)

> n. e.

A morgue

> x Caroline. x hook. x jars. x gurney. x sheet.

> speak to Caroline.

> ask her about herself. ask her about hook.

> ask her about morgue. ask her about gurney.

> ask her about intangible squirms.

> ask her about jars.

> ask her about Belladonna.

> ask her about matron.

> w. n. e.

A surgery theater

> x table. x red substance.

> x cabinet. open it.

> x trephine. (A hand drill for the skull.)

> x guillotine. x scarificator.

> x lithotome. x ecraseur.

> take trephine. close cabinet.

> w. n. e.

Walkway (at east bridge)

> e.

A hypnotherapy session room

> x rigatoni. x tuffet.

> speak to rigatoni. ask rigatoni about hypnotherapy.

> ask Percy about hypnotherapy.

> sit on tuffet. (He puts you to sleep! You wake up in...)

A cell (yours)

> e. n.

Walkway (northwest corner)

> read sign. (North door is supposed to be locked!)

> n.

A cell (Virginia's)

> x Virginia. (Lots of pointy teeth. In straightjacket. Shackled.)

> read clipboard. (Virginia's into butt stuff.)

> speak to Virginia. ask Virginia about herself.

> ask Percy about Virginia.

> x footstool. (She's sitting on it.)

> take footstool. (She wants something naughty in trade.)

> give magazine to Virginia. (You take the footstool.)

> s. w.

A cell (Tobias's)

> x Tobias. x wire mom. x carpet mom.

> speak to Tobias. ask Percy about Tobias.

> take milk. (You put it into the teapot.)

> e. e. n.

A cell (Eustace's)

> x Eustace. x pentagram. x pedestal. x stocking.

> speak to Eustace. ask him about Santa.

> ask him about pentagram. (Needs milk and cookies.)

> ask him about stocking. take stocking. (Can't just yet.)

> give teapot to Eustace. give biscuits to Eustace.

He quickly falls asleep, in accordance with his Santa-ic ritual.

> take stocking.

> s. e.

Walkway (at north bridge)

> x button. e.

Walkway (outside play room)

> x poster. read poster. (Another ad for Onion Brine.)

> ask Percy about onion brine.

> n.

A play room

> x bag. punch bag.

> x clock. take clock. (Too high up.)

> stand on footstool. take clock. (The footstool vanishes.)

> x doll. take doll. (Too heavy to take.)

> x wagon. (Carry stuff in it.)

> pull wagon. (It's now in your inventory.)

> take doll. (You put it into the wagon.)

Uh, let's give the doll to Tobias. You have no reason to, but why not?

> s. w. w. w. w.

A cell (Tobias's)

> give doll to tobias. (Tobias is happier; the wagon vanishes.)

> e. e. e. e. e. n.

A library

> x film. read film. take it.

> x textbook. read textbook. (Ask textbook about topics.)

> ask textbook about onion brine.

> ask textbook about intangible squirms.

You might want to jot down exactly which symptoms are associated with the intangible squirms. There might be a quiz later.

> s. e.

An office

> x Alfie. x longue. speak to Alfie.

> ask him about himself. ask him abotu psychiatry.

> ask him about matron. ask him about belladonna.

Remember that the textbook says intangible squirms is characterized by persistent ennui, thwarted expectations, brain leakage, and tongue spasms. Click yes for these symptoms and no for any other symptoms.

> sit on longue.

...thwarted expectations? 1

...cryptomania? 2

...irrational exuberance? 2

...tongue spasms? 1

...persistent ennui? 1

...irresistable urges? 2

...brain leakage? 1

He gives you a prescription for Onion Brine.

> x prescription.

> w. s. e.

A pharmacy

> x pharmacist.

> x poster. read poster.

> x pamphlets. take pamphlets.

> read pamphlet. (Oddly, Onion Brine isn't made from onions at all.)

> speak to pharmacist.

> give prescription to pharmacist. (He gives you a dropper bottle.)

> x bottle.

> w. s. e.

A hypnotherapy session room

> ask Rigatoni about pocketwatch.

> give clock to Rigatoni. (You take his pocketwatch.)

> hypnotize Rigatoni. (He's built up an immunity.)

> w. s. s. w. w. w. s.

A staff lounge

> use film on projector. (Cartoon where a tree hypnotizes flapper Great Gams Googie.)

> n. w.

Walkway (southwest corner)

> use bottle on mug. (Matron leaves.)

> w.

A Control room

> x switch. (Percy warns it's high voltage.)

> wear stocking.

> pull switch. (It's pulled. The stocking is destroyed.)

> e. e. e. e. e. s.

An incinerator room

> x incinerator. x hand. take hand.

> n. w. w.

Walkway (at south bridge)

> use hand on fingerprint-o-matic. n. n.

Panopticon

> x doctor. x telescopes.

> look through telescopes. (See a random scene.)

> x desk. x papers. x stamp.

> hypnotize doctor. (with pocketwatch)

> give papers to doctor. (She signs them.)

> ask doctor about herself. ask doctor about me.

> n. n.

Walkway (at north bridge)

> ask Percy about elevator.

> use Trephine. (The elevator doors open.)

> n.

An elevator

> x operator. speak to operator. ("Speedy's the name!")

> give papers to operator.

The asylum is a tower on a tiny island off the Maryland coast. You're free! Time for a swim!

*** Game Over ***

Extras

Characters

• Percy is your rat pal; you take him everywhere. He went to Oxford, so he can read stuff for you.
• Dr. Belladonna Caligazzi is the asylum director. She explains your situation at the beginning of the game, then monitors you from the panopticon for the rest of the game.
• Dear Little Tobias is a boy in his cell with mother issues. (Did you know wire mothers were an actual thing? Research Harry Harlow's experiments on rhesus monkeys and be horrified.)
• Virginia O'Possum is dangerous girl in her cell with too many sharp teeth and a fondness for squeezing people's butts.
• A cat named Schrodinger escaped from the kennel and blocks off almost half of the locations. The cat guards both the walkway outside Eustace's cell and the walkway outside the morgue. Yes, it's somehow in two locations at once. The cat only eats live chickens.
• Good Little Eustace is a boy in his cell. He seems to have confused Santa Claus with Satan.
• Precious Violet is a girl in the therapy room. This place seems to have broken her mind.
• Darling Jeremiah is a boy in the therapy room. He's a bit more talkative than Violet.
• A matron named Matrushka Krellkin bars your way into the control room.
• Buddy the Dog is a friendly dog in the kennel.
• A psychiatrist named Dr. Alfie Deckchair is new to his job. He's a bit nervous.
• A pharmacist mans his pharmacy. He regards you with contempt.
• The Amazing Rigatoni is the asylum's hypnotist.
• Caroline Cadaver is the asylum's coroner. She's in the morgue and enjoys her work perhaps a bit too much.
• An elevator operator named Speedy is in the elevator. He's friendly, but he's also your last barrier between you and freedom.

Inventory

• Percy. You're carrying him. He has two main functions: he will read things for you and you can ask him about any topic. His comments often contain very helpful clues for solving the game's puzzles. To get him to read specific topics in the library's textbook, use the syntax ask textbook about TOPIC.
• teapot. It's in the therapy room. Just take it; Jeremiah will object, but he can't stop you. Go to Tobias' cell and take some milk from the wire mom; the milk will go into the teapot. Then give the teapot full of milk to Eustace in his cell.
• box of dog biscuits. It's in the kennel. Give the biscuits to Eustace in his cell; they count as "cookies".
• sweat magazine. It's in the staff room. Give it to Viriginia, and she'll let you take her footstool.
• canned coffee. It's in the ice box in the staff room. First, drink the postum from the postum machine to empty it. Put the canned coffee into the machine to make it a COFFEE machine. Drink the hot coffee. Now you have enough energy to search the manila folders in the records room.
• cold roast chicken. It's inside the ice box in the staff room. Take it to the electrotherapy room and put the chicken on the table, then turn the wheel. This will bring the chicken back to life à la Frankenstein; it's now an ambulatory chicken carcass. Give the carcass to the cat who is in both the north walkway and the southeast corner of the walkway simultaneously. The cat will chase it and stop blocking your way past its locations.
• folding metal footstool. Virginia's sitting on it in her cell. Get the footstool by giving the sweat magazine to Virginia. In the play room, stand on the footstool, then take the cuckoo clock.
• stocking. It's in Eustace's cell. First, give milk and cookies to Eustace; see the teapot and the box of dog biscuits. Take the stocking while Eustace is sleeping. In the control room, wear the stocking (to protect yourself from the leaking electricity) then pull the switch there to turn off the incinerator.
• cuckoo clock. It's in the play room, high on the wall. Stand on the footstool, then you can take the clock. Go to the hypnotherapy session room. After talking to Rigatoni about his pocketwatch, give the clock to Rigatoni. You'll take his pocketwatch in exchange.
• radio flyer wagon. It's in the play room. Pull wagon to take it. Now you can take the gargantuan terror doll.
• gargantuan terror doll. It's in the play room. First, pull the wagon so you have something to put the doll in. Then take the doll; it falls into the wagon. Go to Tobias' cell and give the doll to him. This doesn't help you any, but it's still a good thing to do.
• film reel. It's in the library. Use the film on the projector in the staff room to watch an inkblot cartoon. The cartoon contains another hint that pocketwatches can be used to hypnotize people.
• pamphlet. There's a pile of pamphlets in the pharmacy. It's yet another ad for Onion Brine. You don't actually need the pamphlet.
• pocketwatch. The Amazing Rigatoni has a pocketwatch in the hypnotherapy session room. Ask Rigatoni about the pocketwatch, then give the cuckoo clock to him. You'll take the pocketwatch in exchange. Now you can try to hypnotize people. Hypnotize Dr. Belladonna Caligazzi in her panopticon, then give the discharge papers to her. She'll sign them.
• Trephine. It's inside the cabinet in the surgery theater. Go to the north walkway where the broken elevator button is and use trephine to open the elevator doors.
• discharge papers. They're hidden amongst the folders in the records room. First, drink the hot coffee you can make in the staff room, then search the folders to reveal the papers. Take the papers. In the panopticon, hypnotize the doctor (with the pocketwatch) then give the papers to the doctor to get her to sign the papers. Finally, give the signed papers to the elevator operator. You're free!
• prescription. You can get one from the psychiatrist in his office. First, you'll want to visit the library and ask textbook about intangible squirms to learn its symptoms. Sit on the longue and answer the psychiatrist's questions, saying yes to the correct symptoms and no to the wrong symptoms. Give the prescription to the pharmicist in the pharmacy to get a dropper bottle of Onion Brine.
• dropper bottle. Give the prescription to the pharmacist in the pharmacy to get the bottle. The bottle contains the Onion Brine advertised on almost every poster in the game. Use the bottle on the matron's postum mug. She'll make a quick exit, and you can now enter the control room.
• charred hand of glory. It appears in the incinerator room after you've turned off the incinerator. Turn off the incinerator by pulling the switch in the control room; see dropper bottle and stocking. The hand is the coroner's. Use the charred hand on any fingerprint-o-matic to gain access to its bridge to the panopticon.

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