Quest
These are the story/quests featured in Hidden City. There is a vast number of stories, and please note that the order and categories are unorganized, so it might be a bit difficult to navigate. Thank you for your understanding.
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Milk Chocolate
Martha
There were other sweets in the box made of milk chocolate. The filling is yogurt and strawberry. I hope the thieves have not eaten them yet - hurry up.
I'm really happy that the milk chocolate candy wasn't eaten.
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Black Chocolate
Martha
There were all sorts of sweets in the missing box. Here's one made of pure black chocolate with a rum cherry inside. An unforgettable taste.
Oh, a sweet made of bitter black chocolate! Thanks for helping so quickly.
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Poisonous Butterfly
Detective
I was looking through the Collector's records and I found an interesting recipe. The manuscript speaks of a "Panacea against poisons." This sort of item would be bery useful for us considering the many venomous monsters in the City. Will you be able to find the ingredients we need? Really? Well then, we'll first need the poison of the Morpho Hecuba butterfly.
Isn't it a pretty butterfly? It was named after the wife of King Prima, who was famous for her revenge.
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Audacious Theory
Detective
All these inventions by the Collector are really suspicious. It's unbelievable that a single person could know so much. I've read about a secret organization of Knowledge Keepers that existed in the City and I'm almost sure that our Collector was one of them. Alas, without evidence, it's just a theory. But these Keepers had special headwear that doubled as passes into their secret meetings. If the Collector has one of them, we'll definitely find it here! Will you help me find it?
You found a Master's cap! Look at this strange symbol that's drawn on it. It seems, my theory is right!
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Soul of Iron
Detective
The robot will be just a useless pile of metal until we find his heart. Find the heart of the machine in the Collector's House, where the creator hid it.
Do you think there's really a soul inside the heart on the mechanical man? Who knows. But I can say this: the Collector was a genius inventor.
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Clock with a Secret
Detective
I'm sure the Collector hid a part of his brain's creation in the Room of Fate. This is the place where the fabric of the world is thinnest and where Martha often speaks with spirits. We have to disturb our medium, but I'm sure she will be understanding and forgiving. Find the last part of the mechanical man.
See, I was right! The Collector hid the moving mechanism in an old self-winding clock in Martha's room. He knew that the clock is impossible to break, so the mechanism would be completely safe inside it.
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Obliging House
Detective
Fog thickens over City Hall, penetrating even locked doors and windows. It's hard to discern objects, only their outlines are visible. Citizens call this Silhouettes. And in this gloom, I see the outline of a mechanical man's head - hurry and find it.
A steel head was cleverly hidden inside a knight's helmet that was adorning the wall in City Hall. Did you notice the inscription on the back of the helmet? 'A head is a part of a body. Where there is one, another will be close by.' One more riddle, that old Collector was one crafty fellow.
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A Code Again
Detective
Where should we look for the rest of the mechanical man? There are mysterious symbols scratched into the back wall of locker number 13. This must be a code, but we won't crack it without another on of the Collector's inventions - the Deciphering Globe. We need this sophisticated device.
Deciphering... Just as I thought, this is another clue to the next part's whereabouts. And yet another puzzle, listen... 'A house of a thousand books that keeps order in the City.'
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Legs and a Journey
Detective
The Collector's note says, "Steel footsteps are heard where the unknown beckons a traveller." I bet you anything, it's talking about the Station. Every time I'm there I feel the urge to go travelling myself. I'm sure we'll find another part of the mechanical man at the Station of Forgotten Dreams.
Steel legs were in the locker room inside locker number 13. The Collector sure is sly; most citizens of the City are so superstitious that they wouldn't risk peeking in a locker with the number 13.
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Unique Body
Detective
According to the Collector's blueprints, this mechanical man primarily consists of five parts. I have no idea where to look for the other parts, but I saw something resembling a pair of hands at the Conductor's Station Find the first part of the robot.
These steel hands are so strong. I'm sure they're the ones drawn on the blueprints. I've no doubt now - we've obtained the first part of the mechanical man. But where should we look for the remaining parts?
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Mechanical Evidence
Detective
What kind of a clue can be in the Collector's House? The Collector is one of the City's most famous and mysterious figures. But there's a hitch - he disappeared many years ago, and the door to his house is firmly locked. Then how can he be connected to your friend's disappearance? Questions on top of more questions... I desperately need some new data about this mysterious Collector. We should look for his records in City Hall.
What an interesting note you've found in City Hall... it's all about the Collector. He is described as an eccentric man of wealth, a researcher and relentless collector of secrets and mysteries of the City of Shadows. The Collector invented and created dozens of amazing devices. The blueprints for one of his inventions, a mechanical man, was attached to the records. A robot created at the end of 19th century? Is it even possible?
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Conductor's Device
Conductor
Now we have all three things that belonged to your friend. If we do this right, the device will point out the coordinates of the place where Jacob is now. Hurry, activate the machine.
The device is working... do your hear it humming? It shows coordinates... Jacob is in the centre of the City. But it's impossible to get there. The centre has been surrounded by a dark fog many years! Hey, what's wrong with you? Everything is hazy... Hey, wake up! What happend to you? It was a vision? Your friend was in the hazy mist, calling for help? And his last words were, 'Look for a clue in the Collector's House?' This is just what Jacob said in my vision
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Mysterious Artifact
Juliette
While you were bravely fighting the gargoyle, a mysterious stranger passed me this note. "Look for a fang on the border between worlds. Signed L." Jacob was wearing a fang around his neck, you say? But I don't get what "border between worlds" means. Maybe it's the Station? Since all newcomers to the City of Shadows appear there. Explore the Station of Forgotten Dreams.
This is a Gargoyle fang - an artifact from the City of Shadows! Where did your friend get it from? If it was on him before you two even ended up in the City, then how did Jacob come across it? Like the photo, this fang is confirmation that your friend is connected to the City and the House with red Windows.
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Thieving Gargoyle
Juliette
Are you looking for your lost friend's stuff? I saw sunglasses... Jacob dropped them when the dark shadows dragged him across the square. His glasses were there for just a second before a huge gargoyle swooped down from a roof and took them. Are you brave enough to take Jacob's sunglasses from gargoyle? She won't part with them easily. Look for Thor's Hammer, it's a weapon that every stone beast fears.
You found the second item quite fast and are close to your goal. Maybe someday you'll help me reach the center of the city and the House with Red Windows? Legend says the house grants wishes... I've tried to get there several times, but the fog wouldn't let me. It rolls in from the central districts, carrying new items, sometimes bodies! Not always human...
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This Music Will Play For All Eternity...
Conductor
I know you're looking for your friend Jacob, and Martha told you to ask me. I've got an old machine that can show the location of a newcomer in the City. But to make it show Jacob's location, we need three things that belonged to him. I heard music playing in the City Hall, some well-known tune... It wasn't there before. Must be a music player there somewhere. Did your friend have a music player?
You've found the first of Jacob's belongings. Find two more - they are necessary for pinpointing his location with the device.
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Rite
Martha
Just who is Jacob and how is he connected to the City of shadows' past? You've made me curious. I'll help you perform a special ritual with this picture. Spirits can see things beyond a human's perception, but I'll need ghostly essence for the ritual. Find some, please.
Now I can conduct the ritual. Jacob is alive, I feel it... It's dark around him, foggy, with strange shadows surrounding him... Your friend is very far away; as if in another time or dimension. I don't see anything else... Sorry! Talk to the Conductor, he lives at the Station of Forgotten Dreams and welcomes new arrivals. He has a device that helps find lost people.
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Important Recordings
Detective
I think the spirits took the notebook to the City Hall. Hurry up and find it. Then I'll help you investigate your friend's disappearance.
Great!
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Mysterious Photo
Juliette
I'm intrigued by the clue that City Hall has given you. It's a fragment of an old photo. But who is that in it, and how is it related to you and your friend Jacob? You have to find the second fragment of the photo to understand this clue's meaning and find your friend. If I were you, I'd return to City Hall and look for it there.
You've found the second photograph piece, you say? Grea, now we can see the whole photo. Look, it's your friend! Has he been to the City before? Haven't you just arrived at the City of Shadows? This is too confusing. Let's show the picture to the Detective, he's a good friend of mine and he can help us.