Vlad Circus: Descend into Madness

Arrivals

House

When you hear the knock at the door, wake up Sloth. Use the light switch on the left wall. Pick up the rosary from the vanity, then open the right drawer and take out the key. Pick up the diary from the floor and read through it. Use the key with the door, then open the door and leave the room.

Head through the next door to the left to find a bathroom. Use the light switch on the left, then flush the toilet (1/3). Leave the bathroom again, then go through the door to the far left. Go down the stairs on the right to meet Dr Jasper. Pick up the lamp on the right Let there be light. Continue down more stairs on the left to reach the entrance hall.

Examine the camera in the middle of the room, then continue left past the fireplace. Try to open the first door in the corridor, but it is locked - you can hear a female voice from this bathroom. Go left and head through the next door into a reading room, where you will meet Jake. After talking about everything, examine the puppet case. Leave this room, then go through the double doors to the left to find the recreation room - there is nobody here for now.

Return right twice to the entrance hall, then examine the tall clock to see it is missing a hand. Further to the right you will see Montalbano the monkey. Continue right into another hallway. Take an opera record from a small table, then continue further right through a door to a service area. Go through the first door here to find Ranjit in his bedroom. Leave this room and follow the corridor around to the right until you see the dead cat. Once Dr Jasper joins you, walk right again and the cat will have disappeared.

From now on, you can use your rosary to pray and reduce your stress levels. Make your way back to the entrance hall again, and you will talk to Dominique by the fireplace. Harry will now enter and ask for help. Follow him through the main doors that lead outside.

Garden

Walk down to the fountain to talk to Alessia, and you will carry her back inside.

House

Betsy and Ginger will also come out to the fireplace, and you will be asked to make some tea and restore the electricity.

Making Tea

House

After Dr Jasper leaves your room, wake up. Use your lamp, then leave the room. Continue left, then go downstairs to the entrance hall. Answer the phone, which is over near the clock - you will see someone head out through the gate in the garden. Go out through the main doors into the garden.

Garden

Just to the right, pick up an empty bag. Now continue down, around the fountain, and through the open gate.

North Forest

Try to get into the wagon, but you will only be able to look through the window in the door. Continue along the path heading to the right, and you will run into Vlad. Follow him to the right until you see the body. After seeing that it was another hallucination, use your rosary again to lower your stress level. Continue right and up over a small bridge. Go to the left and pick up another empty bag. Now continue up to the right and pick up a key chain from the ground. Try to go over the bridge here, but it heads to the train station.

Go back down and make sure you look at the colorful flowers. Go down over the first bridge and you will notice a loose board - pick this up. Continue back past where you vomited, and you will automatically pick up a newspaper clipping from the ground. Return down along the path.

Garden

Head around the fountain and through the main doors.

House

You will automatically talk to Dr Jasper and then Ranjit (you will tell him about the flowers). After talking to Dr Jasper again, he will leave. Go outside again.

Garden

Go around the fountain and out to the forest again.

Forest

Head up and talk to Ranjit about everything - he will now follow you along the path. Head right and examine the flowers, then continue up over the bridge and examine some more flowers. Go up further and examine the flowers beneath the hanging lantern. Now head down and left through the forest until you find some rocks near the stream. Place your wooden board on the rocks. Cross over and examine the flowers - these are marigolds. Return all the way back through the forest to the gate.

Garden

Head around the fountain and through the main doors.

House

Head right and you will see Betsy and Ginger chasing some rats away. After a conversation, head right through the door into the service area. Continue around to the right to find some cupboards, where you can pick up a jug. Unlock the door just left of here using your keys, then go through into a pantry. Leave again for now, then return left to the hallway, and left again to the entrance hall.

You will start running out of space to hold everything around now. If you drop items, you can use the Dropped Items tab in your journal to keep track of where they are.

Search the suitcase near the fire and take the tonic. Head all the way upstairs to reach the attic. Use your keys to unlock the door here and go inside. Walk over to see the body on the stairs. Drink the tonic in your inventory Holy water. Now climb up the stairs.

Go up to the Vlad Circus sign and push it, then pick up the small bottle of solvent that is revealed. Look in an open box to the left and take the grindstone. Go right and open the trunk, taking the megaphone from inside. Head back down the stairs to the entrance hall.

Continue left twice to reach the recreation room. Talk to Betsy and Ginger here. Return right to the hallway, then go through the first door into the reading room. You will automatically talk to Dominique and Jake here. After Dominique leaves, look at the gramophone on the left. Put your megaphone on the gramophone. Take the jazz record from the gramophone, then put your opera record on it. Pick up the megaphone again and use it on the gramophone, then turn the gramophone's hand crank. Wait for the crystal jug to break, then pick up the key from the floor. You can drop the jazz record here as you don't need it.

Leave this room, then go all the way right to the service area again. Use your new key to open the door to the right of the cupboards. Head through.

Back Garden

Go left along the wall until you find a knife you can pick up. Continue left until you reach some running water. Use your jug here to collect water. Return right and head back inside.

House

Find Ranjit in the service area and give him the jug with water. Pick up the marigold tea from the table. Go around to the left of this area and enter the bedroom through the left door. You will end up talking to Alessia Envy.

Restoring Power

House

Return out to the service area.

Open the metallic box on the right wall here to see it is a fuse box, and one of the fuses is blown. Return left to the entrance hall and take some more tonic from the bag near the fireplace. Go up the stairs into the attic again, and continue up the stairs to the top section. Drink your tonic to get rid of the creature up here. Go back down the first set of the stairs and head right, then move the furniture to reveal an exposed wire. Take this and return down the stairs.

Head right to the service area and take the blown fuse from the fuse box. Combine this with your copper wire, then put the repaired fuse back into the fuse box. Enter the elevator just to the left and move the lever up, but it will not work.

Making Dinner

House

Return left to the entrance hall. Go up the stairs to the second floor, then make your way back to the second bedroom on the right. Talk to Harry about everything. After he leaves, search his suitcase and take a lock pick. Go back down to the entrance hall and head outside.

Garden

Go around the fountain and out to the forest again.

Forest

Head all the way right and up to the top of the area to see the bridge is burned. You will see Vlad again, and he will ask you to prepare dinner. Go back through the gate.

Garden

Head around the fountain and through the main doors.

House

Head right to reach the service area. Read the recipe that is now on the corner of the kitchen table. Pick up the jug from the table, then head through the door on the right.

Back Garden

Go over to the left and fill your jug with water again. You may want to drink a tonic (from the doctor's bag) to get rid of several monsters here, or you can attack them with your knife. Continue down through a graveyard to find a shed, which is locked with a padlock. Use your lock pick here and enter the shed.

Read the note on the left, then put your grindstone on the table to the right. You can use your knife on this to sharpen it. Pick up the shovel from the left. Go back outside and use your shovel on a mound of soil just up and right from the shed, then pick up the carrots.

House

Return to the service area and pour water from your jug into the pot on the stove, then add the carrots. Enter the pantry to the right and use the light switch. Read the note, then use your knife on the meat to cut a piece. In your inventory, combine the knife and meat to chop it up. Go back out to the service area and put the chopped pork into the pot. Head outside to the right again.

Back Garden

Go straight down and dig in another mound of soil, then pick up the onions. Find another mound of soil further down. Dig here and you will automatically discard the shovel. Pick up the potatoes and head back inside.

House

Add the onions and potatoes to the pot. Now head left to the entrance hall and keep going left until you reach the recreation room. Examine the fireplace on the left. Use a lock pick to open the gate (if you have discarded the one from earlier, go upstairs and get another from Harry's suitcase). Now pick up the firewood.

Return right to the service area and put the firewood in the firebox beneath the stove - now you need matches. Go all the way back to the recreation room and talk to Dominique. Pick up the matches from the coffee table in the middle of the room. Now return to the service area and use your matches on the firebox. You will automatically server dinner Our daily bread.

Circus Wagons

House

Wake up and you will feel sick. Leave the room to talk to Jake. Go down to the entrance hall to see that the camera is missing. Make your way to the service area and then into the pantry. Eat some cheese and you will empty your stomach Gluttony. Look to see there is a ring in the vomit, but you won't pick it up yet. Leave the pantry and head outside to the right.

Back Garden

Starting using your lamp again, and head left and then down out of the garden.

Back Forest

Head left and use your matches to light the kerosene lamp hanging from the tree. Continue left along the path to discover the old hyena cage wagon. You will automatically run up to discover Betsy and Ginger's wagon. Head right from here to discover Mr Petrescu. Talk to him and you will end up in a memory back at the circus In Memoriam. Head straight up and into the circus tent, and Mr Petrescu will be gone.

After discovering your old wagon, go straight up and light another kerosene lamp. Next go down to the left until you find the hyena cage. Go right from here and you will see a boy in the woods. Continue further to the right.

Back Garden

You will hear screams coming from the sewers. Go to the bottom right of this area and climb down into the sewers.

Drain Tunnel

Head right and examine the pipe, removing the rag that is blocking it. Climb back up to the surface.

Back Garden

Return up into the house.

House

Look at the empty sink in the service area and take the rusty key. Make your way back to the entrance hall, then go out the front door.

Garden

Go around the fountain and out to the forest again.

Forest

Approach the wagon straight ahead, and unlock the door with your rusty key. Inside, pick up the rubber strip (engine belt) from the floor. Examine the picture frame on the right, but it is too dirty to see the picture. In your inventory, combine the rag with the solvent, then use the soaked rag on the picture frame. Examine the picture and use it to travel back into your memories. Wander around and collect these memories:

• The photograph (camera)
• The lost key (left wagon)
• The wagon (bottom right)
• Bruto, the bear (behind the left wagon)
• Josef's harassment (inside the circus tent)

Snap out of it to leave the memories. Leave the wagon through the door on the right. Remove the lock from the door here and go inside. Head to the right, and somebody will lock you inside. Head to the far right and remove the blanket.

Wake up again and talk to Dr Jasper. Take the wrench from the table in the middle of the room. Leave this room and go back through the wagon, then down through the gate.

Garden

Head around the fountain and through the main doors.

House

You will automatically talk to Alessia.

The Elevator

House

Go all the way up to the attic. Use the engine belt on the engine. Return down to the entrance hall, then go left and all the way to the recreation room. Talk to Jake about everything. Head right to reach the service area, then use the elevator to move down. Use the light switch just around to the left of the elevator. You will probably want to kill the rats here, as there are lots of them.

Once you are done, pick up the board from the left - Montalbano will then take the elevator up without you. Go up the stairs to the left and you will end up back in the entrance hall. You can return to the basement in the future by going through this door beneath the stairs. Head out the front door.

Keys and Safe

Garden

Go around the fountain and out to the forest again.

Forest

Go through the wagon and out the right door. Head up to the right and use your board on the stones, then cross over the river using the board. Explore up to the right to find an iron cover, but you cannot open it from this side. Return back through the wagon and down through the gate.

Garden

Head around the fountain and through the main doors.

House

Make sure you pick up some more tonic from the doctor's bag near the fireplace. Go to the service area, then out through the door to the right.

Back Garden

Starting using your lamp again, and head left and then down out of the garden.

Back Forest

Go to the far top left of the area to find the wagon belonging to the Siamese twins. Examine the right wheel and you will find a spare key. Use this on the door to the wagon and head inside Lust. Examine the picture and use it to travel back into your memories. Wander around and collect this new memory:

• The handsaw (inside the left wagon)

Snap out of it to leave the memories. Look under the bed and take the handsaw. Leave the wagon, then go far down and right to leave the forest.

Back Garden

Go around the fountain and straight up. Use your handsaw on the padlock on the chain, then head inside the greenhouse. Kill some more rats in here. Look around to see lots of rusty keys on the floor and on a table to the left. Look at Montalbano on the right, who is holding a shiny key. Leave the greenhouse. Head down to the right and climb down into the sewers again.

Drain Tunnel

Drink the tonic to get rid of the burning wagon hallucination here. Go left and use your wrench on the sewer door, then go through. Kill the huge rats and make your way to the left - you will automatically pray after you see a demon. Go left and kill the demon Wrath.

Continue left. Go up along the next tunnel when you can, then kill some more rats. Go right and climb up the ladder to appear out in the forest where you couldn't open the iron cover earlier.

Forest

Head down, through the wagon, and down through the gate.

Garden

Head around the fountain and through the main doors.

House

Grab another tonic from the doctor's bag near the fire, then head back outside.

Garden

Go around the fountain and out to the forest again.

Forest

Go through the wagon and out the right door. Continue left, up over the board, and down into the drain.

Drain Tunnel

Kill the two demons, then go up through the archway and kill another one. Drink your tonic to get rid of the burning wagon hallucination. Go through the opening on the left. Head to the right to see Betsy and Ginger. Wake up again, then go to where you saw the bodies and pick up a pendant. Go back through the sewer door into the drain tunnel. Head up through the first archway, then right and up the ladder.

Forest

You will automatically take note of the boat in the river here. Go down and through the wagon, then down through the gate.

Garden

Head around the fountain and through the main doors.

House

Go right to the service area and out the door to the right.

Back Garden

Continue left and then down out of the garden.

Back Forest

Head to the far left to find the hyena cage, then go up and into the twins' wagon. Use your pendant with the trunk, then take the shotgun and pincers from inside. Wield the gun and reload it, then head back outside. After talk to the boy briefly, he will run away. Go right between the fires until you see the boy in the burning wagon. You need to shoot the hyenas until they stop coming (pick up more bullets and shells as you go). Use your pincers with the boards on the wagon, then head inside. Take the hand from the clock on the left, then go back outside. Make your way back through the forest to the back garden again.

Back Garden

Return up into the house.

House

Enter the pantry and take a banana. Back out of the pantry, then head left to the entrance hall. Put your banana on the table on the right. Use your hand on the grandfather clock. Use the clock, and set the time to 8:00. Montalbano will come to the table and eat the banana. While he is distracted, go right to the service area and head outside.

Back Garden

Make your way left and into the greenhouse. Try to pick up the key from the floor on the right, and some demons will appear. Kill them, then pick up the key. Head back outside, then right and into the house.

House

Leave the service area to the left. Look at Harry in the dining room, then continue left to the entrance hall. Go upstairs to reach the first landing. Use your new key on the locked door here, then go through. The bedroom doors on the right are locked. Enter the bathroom here and flush the toilet (2/3). Go back downstairs to the entrance hall. Go left and through the first door into another bathroom. Flush the toilet (3/3) and you will see the fountain in the front garden drain completely. Go back to the entrance hall and head outside.

Garden

Take the golden key from the fountain, then head back inside.

House

Go up to the first floor landing and through the door. Use the golden key on the bedroom doors to the right, then go through Pride. Examine the safe on the right side of the room. Pick up the cane from the floor on the left. Now head all the way down to the entrance hall and outside.

Garden

Go around the fountain and out to the forest again.

Forest

Enter the wagon and examine the picture and use it to travel back into your memories. Wander around and collect this new memory:

• The safe (inside the right wagon)

Snap out of it to leave the memories. Leave the wagon and go down through the gate.

Garden

Head around the fountain and through the main doors.

House

Go right to the service area and into the pantry. Pick up the ring from the vomit, and you will see the inscription mentions the date 11-15-1855. Head back upstairs to the bedroom on the first landing. Open the safe with the combination 11-15-55. Drop the ring and take the energy tonic from inside the safe. Go back downstairs and talk to Alessia, who needs your help again. Go out through the front door.

Getting the Purse

Garden

Go around the fountain and out to the forest again.

Forest

Go through the wagon and out the right door. Continue left, over the board, and up to where you saw the boat. Drink the energy tonic, then use the cane on the boat to free it. Another boat will appear with Venancio on it. Use your cane on this one as well, and it will start drifting to the right. Run all the way back down through the wagon, then keep running around to the right and up to the stream. You will get into the boat.

Train Station

Drink the energy tonic again. Push the left train to the left, then push the right train to the left as well. Push the left train to the left once more. Now you can drop the cane and pick up the purse from the tracks.

Forest

Run all the way back to the gate and go through.

Garden

Head around the fountain and through the main doors.

House

Go right to the service area and through the first door into the bedroom. Wake up and turn on your lantern again, then drink some more energy tonic. Run back to the entrance hall and go through the door under the stairs. Follow the trail of blood to the right and go through the door here.

Finale

Wake up and you will be outside the circus tent without a ticket. You now need to explore the circus grounds. Start by going down and searching the open trunk to get a revolver. There is another open trunk up to the right containing a shotgun.

Pick up coins and bullets when you find them, and shoot the large baby to avoid getting eaten. Search a puppet case to the far right to get a lot of coins Greed. Once you have found all 666 coins, go to the ticket booth, which is just up and left from the glowing blue wagon. Make your way back to the circus tent and you will be allowed inside. Walk all the way to the right.

Train Station

Talk to the employee, then head up to the right. Follow the path down through the forest. You will pick up the journal in the front garden. Approach the house to see Oliver Pennhurst.