The House on the Beach
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| Category: Main Route
Location: Area of Deprivation Fast travel: Yes |
| ▪ Bull-Shaped Key
▪ Crowbar |
| ▪ Worker - I am alive |
| ▪ Locate the Landmarks
▪ Explore The House on the Beach ▪ Open the "Bull Door" (continuation) |
| ▪ Melee militiamen (4)
▪ Rats |
The House on the Beach is a ruined three-stories house located east of The Well. The house was inhabited by a family with children until 1989, when they all moved to The Village by order of Brother Number 1. The basement of the house is now used as a kennel by the militia under Brother Number 3's supervision. This is one of the key locations of the game, since the Bull-Shaped Key - the key that opens the Bull Door at The Gate - can be found inside the main cage of the kennel.
Ground Floor
To get inside the house, the first time you'll need to jump on the balcony on the southern side of the building. The are four Melee militiamen patrolling the beach, but the southern path that lead to the house is unguarded. So, jump on the rocks and use them to jump on the balcony on the second floor. Climb over the wooden boards blocking the doorway and you are in. Go in the room on the left, jump on the table and climb the wardrobe. Use the platforms of the crumbled upper level to go around the room, and jump in the doorway in front of you. Go down the stairs on your right. The main door of the house is closed (the key is in the Basement), so turn back towards the open drawers. Grab the document ("Old unsent letter") and go right. There's a table with a Crowbar and a document ("Worker - I am alive") on it. Apparently, someone was brutally attacked in the room. Follow the blood tracks to a wooden door. This is the entrance for the basement.
Basement
Go down the stairs an you'll find yourself in a creepy dark U-shaped corridor. Walk in until another set of stairs lead you to a larger room with a disemboweled corpse hanging upside down behind a chain-link fence. Inside the cage there's a dog barking. Go right in the side-room and pick up the Kennel Key on the desk. There's also a Dog Breeding Report, which explains how suitable dogs are selected for training in the militia.
Walk the corridor between the two rows of cages and reach the main cage door. The Bull-Shaped Key is visible on the ground, but the aggressive dog on the other side of the fence prevents Daphne from grabbing it. A "dog bowl" icon suggests that you can feed the dog. You can try to feed him using Canned Food (there's a crate full of Canned Food in the other room), Meat or even Dead Rats, but the dog will just devour them without getting any friendlier. Eventually, Daphne suggests that she should try with something more "spicy". So, craft a Poison Bait (the recipe is in the shed at The Pinewood), equip it, and feed the dog with that in you hand. The dog will start to feel sick and you can now safely pick up the Bull-Shaped Key.
Now, go back explore the rest of the house.
