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Picking Up After Yourself

Picking Up After Yourself

You have found every manuscript page in Normal mode.

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How to unlock the Picking Up After Yourself achievement in Alan Wake - Definitive Guide

Realistically, you cannot follow a video guide or individual item type list for your "collectibles" run through this game. There's just too many things to watch for. You'll need to follow a sequential guide, and it will most likely ruin the experience, but it sucks to miss one of these bad boys and not know which chapter it's in. The ones you miss WILL show on another run-through, though.

Tyger7 has a great walkthrough available in a zipped doc here: http://www.xbox360achievements.org/forum/showthread.php?t=23...
I recommend using Dropbox or email to send this doc to your iPad/mobile device, so you can play in the dark!

There are 91 pages in normal/hard mode. Do yourself a favor and follow a guide.
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Manuscript pages, even the ones you collected, will show on all play-throughs (though more are added on nightmare mode) whether you collect them or not (same with supply chests). Thermos bottles will show in all modes until you collect each once and hit a checkpoint. After each is saved, you'll never see each in its respective location again.
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By on 08 Jun 2010 16:43
Do you have to get all of the normal manuscript pages before starting your new nightmare playthrough? Or can you pick up all of the items you missed (coffee thermos', etc.) in nightmare mode as well?
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By Gumbeaux Jr on 08 Jun 2010 15:01
I refuse to do this achievement. Game designers need to figure out that for collectibles we need chapter %s and some sort of compass or guide to help us find them without resorting to staring at a sequence guide. Good tip about transferring the document to your cellphone, however.
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By ChernobylCow on 08 Feb 2011 03:39
Here's a link to an achievement hunter video for chapter 1 for ALL collectibles in the game. Worth a look if you like your points like me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpNoOC7wjkk
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By HolyMollster on 09 Mar 2011 15:31
The list is the best method I have found, but all collectables show up again. I re-started a check point and ended up collecting them all again, even though they didn't count (as they were already included in my states page).
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By Govo12 on 21 Jun 2011 18:46
If you fail to collect all manuscript pages during 'normal' game mode, do you then need to re-play 'normal' game mode in order to get this achievement?
Can you get this achievement by collecting all manuscripts during the 'nightmare' mode play through if you miss some the first time around?
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By Webby648 on 08 Jul 2012 15:18
Yes. ("The ones you miss WILL show on another run-through, though.")
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By on 09 Jul 2012 16:44
Can confirm: if your first playthrough is on Normal, you do not need to replay the game twice on Normal, should you happen to miss any manuscript pages. The achievement popped for me when I got my last regular page on my second (Nightmare) playthrough.
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By Garnitoro on 16 May 2021 11:02
May I just load up any episode for the missing pages instead of having to go through the Nightmare run immediately?

Thanks in advance for answering! toast
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By PizzaIn2Neek on 22 Sep 2021 16:31
^ I would like to know the same. I missed a manuscript page in my haste to get the "Meet the Deadline" achievement (which I incidentally also missed).
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By Octobot Super on 31 Aug 2022 20:43
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Manuscript pages are glowing pieces of paper scattered about. There are 106 pages total, but 15 of those can only be obtained on Nightmare difficulty. You have to collect all 91 pages in Normal(or Hard) for this achievement.

Here's a list of all the manuscript pages in case you can't figure out which one you're missing.

Episode 1: Nightmare
The Title Page of the Manuscript
Wake Attacked By a Shadowy Murderer
Wake Fights a Taken with Light
The Dark Presence Wakes Up *
Wake Attacked by Birds
Wake Finds Pages
TV in the Gas Station
Wake Lies to the Sheriff
Stucky Taken
Rose Daydreams About Wake
Barry's Arrival
Toby the Dog *
Rose is a Fan *

Episode 2: Taken
The Sudden Stop 1
The Sudden Stop 2
The Dark Presence in the Diner
Wake at Lovers' Peak
Alice Sees a Shadow
Barry Doubts Wake's Sanity
Rusty Dying
Rusty Attacked by the Dark Presence
Wake Reaches a Safe Haven of Light
Rusty's Final Thoughts
Wake Sees the Torch Symbol
Nightingale's Arrival
Alice's Fear of the Dark
Wake Hears a Chainsaw
Barry in Elderwood
Nightingale Fires at Wake
Wake at the Dark Presence's Mercy *
Rose and Rusty
Barry Meets Rose
Sarah Thinks About Wake
Deputies at the Logging Site
Wake Feels the Dark Presence
Wake's Despair

Episode 3: Ransom
Randolph Calls the Police
The Dark Presence Sleeps
Nightingale in the Radio Station
Sarah Distrusts Nightingale
Wake Attacked by a Possessed Object
Wake and the Dark Presence in the Lodge
Wake Attacked by the Dark Presence
Rose Visited by the Dark Presence
Rose Touched by the Dark Presence
Walter Fights Danny
Wake Attacked by a Bulldozer
Wake and Night Springs *
Sarah in the Radio Station
Thomas Zane in Love with Barbara Jagger
Wake Touched by the Dark Presence
Wake and Barry in the Cell
Wake and Casey
Nightingale in the Majestic
Mott at Cauldron Lake
Wake Wakes Up in the Lodge
Mott on the Ferry
Hunters Taken
Doc Examines Barry and Rose *
Wake Reads a Page *
Tor Hits Nurse Sinclair

Episode 4: The Truth
Thomas Zane's Writing and Assistant
Barry in the Lodge
Hartman Watches Wake Fall
Hartman's Mission
Wake Sees the Old Gods Stage
Barry Attacked by a Taken
Mott in Charge
Mott Fails Hartman
Hartman and the Power Failure
Hartman Sedates Wake
Nightingale Arrests Wake
The Patients Escape the Lodge
The Dark Presence at Large
The Anderson Brothers in the 70s
The Mystery of the Missing Week
Walter at the Anderson Farm
Hartman During the Missing Week *
Hartman Considers Mott and Wake
Mulligan Questions Nightingale's Orders
Nightingale Finds the Manuscript

Episode 5: The Clicker
Nightingale Reads the Manuscript
Nightingale Attacked by the Dark Presence
The Dark Presence Set Back
Cynthia's Work
The Dark Presence Hunts Wake
Alice Trapped in the Dark
Barry in the Sheriff's Station
Barry in the General Store
Wake's Plan
The Falling Helicopter
Zane's Shoebox
Cynthia on Her Way to the Dam
The Poet and the Muse Lyrics 4 *
Children of the Elder God Lyrics 1 *
Children of the Elder God Lyrics 2 *

Episode 6: Departure
The Dark Presence Wants to Stop Wake
The Trail of the Dark Presence
Thomas Zane's Last Dive
The Dark Place
The Way through the Dark Place
The Poet and the Muse Lyrics 1 *
The Poet and the Muse Lyrics 2 *
The Poet and the Muse Lyrics 3 *
Sarah and Barry in the Well-Lit Room
Zane's Poem *

* Find this page in Nightmare difficulty mode

Getting this achievement will also get you:
Alan WakePaging Mr. WakeThe Paging Mr. Wake achievement in Alan Wake worth 23 pointsFind 25 manuscript pages.


I've included these videos by steve0384 from YouTube. They're not my videos, but they're very helpful.
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Thank you! The written out names of each manuscript page was a big time saver. I only needed a few more after my first play through. It was perfect for cross-referencing and using a location list to figure out which one I was missing and where it was. Cheers!
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By Lukaztro on 02 Feb 2016 02:03

There are 91 manuscript pages to collect in normal mode. Some are on the main path, others are off the beaten path. For a full list of where you can locate what, check out the collectibles thread here.

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