Servant of the Lake: Assisting in Alchemy Walkthrough

Solution: The board has four numbers and lots of words to decode. Interact with objects around the room and note the symbols written on them. You’re looking for numbers as well as words, so count things too. The list below follows the order the symbols were found, not the order on the board.

• Number 2: The photo at the bottom right of Aldous shows two fingers held up, so this symbol is two.
• Water: On the right side of the room, use the picture of the water under the siblings.
• Number 3: Click the toy soldier on the table. He bends to the left three times, so the bottom reads three, left.
• Left: Use the same toy soldier. He bends to the left three times, so the bottom reads three, left.
• Right: Click the box on the floor to the right of the table. It shows the symbol for left. Press left twice, then right twice, then left, then once. This uncovers the symbol for right and also gives you Matches.
• Number 5: Click the larger crate next to the small box on the floor and take the Empty Bottle and Water from inside. Take the Water to the left side of the room and keep adding drops until the parrot drinks, which happens at five drops. Water is the symbol on the right, so this sign reads five water.
• Heat: Take the Matches to the table left of Aldous and light the candle on it to get the symbol for heat.
• Number 4: Click the red cabinet under the board. It has four symbols for numbers. You already know 2, 5, and 1, so the new one has to be four. That makes the code 2, 4, 5, 1. Open the cabinets and take the rest of the empty bottles.
• Juice: Look at the grinder on top of the cabinet. The output for fruit (juice) is at the top right of the paper.
• Blood: The output for blood is at the bottom right of the same paper. Putting meat in should give you blood.
• Aldous: On the right side of the room, look at the picture of the siblings. Two of the missing words are Aldous and middle. Aldous stands in the middle, so Aldous equals middle.
• Middle: The second symbol under the siblings’ portrait means middle.
• Acid: Look at the chemistry set in the shadows to the right of Aldous. The two remaining symbols are both on its paper. Click Aldous, then his pocket. You’ll see a danger symbol, with one of the remaining symbols at the start. That one is likely acid, the second symbol on the set.
• Oil: On the same chemistry set, the top symbol must be oil.

Puzzle complete: Board of Symbols Puzzle

Talk to Aldous, and he asks you to make the Elixir by following the recipe. Click the table to his left and open the book.

With the symbols decoded, the recipe reads:

• 1 Juice
• 1 Acid
• 1 Oil
• 3 Blood

The recipe starts with an egg. If you haven’t done it yet, give the Parrot 5 drops of water. Let it drink, then click it, and it drops an Egg. Now gather the rest of the ingredients.

Go to the chemistry station at the back and put one of the Empty Bottles at the end.

Start with oil: press the left pump twice and the middle pump three times. Then hit the tap above the glass to get the oil.

For acid, put in another empty bottle. Press the right pump four times and the left one once. Turn the tap to get the acid.

Go to Aldous. He’s been standing there with a glass this whole time, so fill it up. Pour some Acid into his glass, and he spits out some meat.

Take the meat to the grinder and put in an empty bottle. Pump four times to grind the meat and get blood.

Finally, go to the plant by the Toy Soldier. Give it four drops of water and one drop of blood. Take the Strange Fruit back to the grinder, drop it in, and pump four times again to get juice.

Now you have everything you need for the Elixir. Start with the egg, then add the ingredients in this order: 1x Juice, 1x Acid, 1x Oil, and 3x Blood.

Hidden achievement (Animal testing): Take the Elixir over to the parrot and give it to the bird.

With the Elixir in hand, go back to Aldous and give it to him.

Achievement unlocked: Assisting in Alchemy