The Sexy Brutale

18 Achievements

8-10h

Steam

Out of the Frying Pan…

Details for this achievement will be revealed once unlocked

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How to unlock the Out of the Frying Pan… achievement in The Sexy Brutale - Definitive Guide

CitrineWorm138

TrueAchievements

04 Sep 2017 03:42

Story related, cannot be missed. I have put the necessary steps below in the spoiler tags for anyone having difficulty with the puzzle.

Overview:
This achievement requires you to prevent the murders of Aurum and Thanos. These two perish at around 11pm after entering the secret lift to the basement, which doubles as a furnace. To prevent this from happening, you will need to ensure that four statues display the Hearts suit - each statue's display will glow green when you have done this. The four statues can be found at the following locations:

Statue #1: In the entrance hall of the mansion, where you begin the game after the tutorial. It will be set to Hearts by default.
Statue #2: In the room with the ghostly band behind the What's Your Poison? Bar. You will have to change this to Hearts after Aurum changes it to Spades.
Statue #3: Located in the Heaven and Hell area. You will need to find and reattach its missing arm before changing it to Hearts.
Statue #4: In the corridors west of the Ballroom, where Aurum passes through on his way to meet Thanos. You will have to change this to Hearts after he changes it to Spades.

Preparation:
- After saving Redd and Greyson, you'll wake up back at the clock in the Theater area. Enter the cage where Greyson was trapped, use his lockpick power on the trapdoor in the upper corner, and you'll enter the basement. Follow the path through a series of rooms - you'll eventually find a ladder to climb that takes you back to the bar via a secret entrance behind a portrait. You'll now view the screen revealing Thanos and Aurum as your next targets to save.
- Head west through the Ballroom, west into its adjoining room, then south into the room with Statue #4, before heading west again into a room with a locked door on its north wall.
- Use Greyson's power to unlock this door and head north into the first room of the library, unlocking:

The Secret Achievement achievement in The Sexy Brutale worth 42 pointsContinue playing to unlock this secret achievement

- Continue north into a large room with four free standing book shelves and a red chandelier hanging from the roof. We need to find a secret passage in this room to proceed.
- Exit through the door in the bottom right of the room, then head up the stairs in this next room. Take the only door in the room at the top of the stairs, then take the other door on the north wall of the corridor you find yourself in.
- You are now back in the room with the chandelier, on the upper balcony. Stand level with the chandelier, and use Tequila Bell's power to shatter it, causing a candle to fall onto the table below and unlocking:

The Secret Achievement achievement in The Sexy Brutale worth 21 pointsContinue playing to unlock this secret achievement

- Exit back to the corridor, and enter the door on the south wall to find the Library Winding Key in the room here. Return to the corridor and retrace your steps back to the ground level of the chandelier room.
- Light the candle, then talk to the ghost to discover the secret passage in this room. Interact with the bookshelves in the northern alcove of the room to open the passage, and walk through the rooms until you find the clock. Interact with it with the Library Winding Key active, then synchronise with it using the pocket watch and restart the day (

).
- Exit through the door in the south wall of the clock room, then take the door on the east wall of the next room. You may need to wait at this door until the henchman has walked out of the next room.
- Once you can enter the next room, head through the green door on the left side of the east wall to find the dining room. Interact with the curtain on the right side of this room to reveal a peephole.
- Exit the dining room. You need to enter the room next to the dining room through the right door on the east wall of this room. However, a henchman will walk through the room you're currently in and the one you need to enter. You can try to get past him by a) waiting outside the room you're currently in until he enters it, then running past him into the room you need to go next, or b) looping around and entering the room on the other side of the peephole from the south (check your map if you get lost).
- Either way, you need to end up in the room adjacent to the dining room and watch through the peephole to reveal where the henchman hides the statue's arm at around 2:15pm. If you exit this room to the south, you'll find Statue #3 - remember this for later.

Preventing the Murders:
- Return to the clock in the entrance hall, and restart the day. Statue #1 will be here and set to hearts, so you do not need to do anything further with this statue.
- Go to the bar. Interact with the gramophone player to pick up the record, light the candle to reveal the ghosts, and then hide in the wardrobe in the bottom left corner of the room.
- Aurum will enter the room after his conversation with Thanos in the main ballroom area. In the following dialogue, one of the ghosts will reveal that the password to the room behind the bar is "Eleanor".
- Wait until Aurum goes through this door, then exit the wardrobe and approach the ghost blocking the door to tell it the password. Aurum will pull the arm of Statue #2, then exit to a private bar, where he has a conversation with one of the staff. While he is doing this, interact with statue #2 until it shows Hearts (should be three times), then leave the room.
- Now head back to the area with Statue #3. It should be after 2:15pm, so go to the dining room and collect the statue's arm from the hidden dumbwaiter compartment.
- Go back to Statue #3 (two rooms down from the dining room), replace its arm, and interact with it until it also shows Hearts.
- Now head to Statue #4, and wait in the wardrobe in the room until Aurum walks past and changes the statue to spades. Once he's left the room, interact with the statue three times so that it also shows Hearts.
- You should now view a short scene of dialogue, and the achievement will unlock.

04 Sep 2017 03:42

UKGN_Teru

TrueTrophies

16 Apr 2017 08:54

Part 6 of UKGN's Walkthrough

16 Apr 2017 08:54

Illusionary

PlaystationTrophies

Story-related and unmissable. You’ll earn this trophy after preventing the sixth murder, that of Aurum Runes and Thanos Gorecki.

To prevent this murder, you’ll need to take the following steps (please be aware, these provide an explicit solution to the scenario):

First, you’ll need to get yourself back to the main area of the mansion. Enter the theatre area and, within the cage, use Greyson’s mask’s power to unlock the trapdoor. Travel through the basement and you’ll find yourself back at the bar, via a secret entrance.
Now, some setup – you need to get into the Library area. In the rooms to the west of the ballroom, you’ll find a locked door to the north, which you can now unlock to reach the library. Entering here, you’ll earn the Stories and Studies of Strange Things trophy.
Go through the library’s rooms until you find a set of stairs to climb. Now, progress through the following hallway and re-enter the library, now on its balcony.
Here, you can use Tequlia’s masks power to shatter the chandelier, dropping a candle into the room below. This will also earn you the The Light Fantastic trophy.
Retrace your steps to the library’s ground floor, light the candle here and interact with the ghost who now appears. You’ll learn about a secret exit to the library.
At the back of the library, interact with the bookshelves to open the secret exit and leave the room.
Go south two rooms. In this room, exit through the door to the east – you’ll find that this takes you through a previously-unrevealed hidden passage, which will now be usable going forward.
Return through the secret passage and continue through these new rooms until you reach the grandfather clock. Wind it, synchronise your pocketwatch here and reset time.
Now, go one room north, two east and then again east through the northern door. Open the curtain and leave the room.
Next, go through the southern door (there’ll be a butler to avoid at some point around here) and interact with the mask to look through it into the room that you were just in. Watch as the butler hides a statue arm in the dumbwaiter, at about 2.15pm.
Return to the mansion’s main entrance, synchronise your pocketwatch here and reset time.
Now you’re ready to prevent the murders. The following steps will benefit from a brief introductory explanation – what you’re aiming to do here is to set the card suit displayed on each of four statues to show hearts. The first of these is in the mansion entrance, and should already be showing hearts.
Quickly travel to the bar. Here, remove the record, light the candle and leave the room.
Look back into the bar and watch as Aurum enters. Listening to the ghosts, you’ll learn the password that allows you to pass through the previously-locked door here.
Once Aurum leaves, talk with the ghost to gain entry to the following room and watch as Aurum passes through, pulling the statue’s lever. Once he leaves, enter the room and pull the lever yourself, until it shows as hearts.
You now need to go back to the south-western area of the mansion, where you saw the butler hiding the statue arm. Retrieve the arm from the dumbwaiter.
Travel to the room two south from here, replace the statue arm and interact with it again until it displays hearts.
Finally, travel back to that new secret passage that you discovered, pass through here and one room further east. You’ll find the final statue here.
Aurum will pull this statue’s lever once himself, so after he’s passed through this room (around 8.45pm), pull the lever yourself. Once it displays hearts, you’ll have solved this scenario.

If you prefer a video guide, please refer to the video in Sixpence None the Wiser.

Illusionary

XboxAchievements

Story-related and unmissable. You’ll unlock this achievement after preventing the sixth murder, that of Aurum Runes and Thanos Gorecki.

To prevent this murder, you’ll need to take the following steps (please be aware, these provide an explicit solution to the scenario):

First, you’ll need to get yourself back to the main area of the mansion. Enter the theatre area and, within the cage, use Greyson’s mask’s power to unlock the trapdoor. Travel through the basement and you’ll find yourself back at the bar, via a secret entrance.
Now, some setup – you need to get into the Library area. In the rooms to the west of the ballroom, you’ll find a locked door to the north, which you can now unlock to reach the library. Entering here, you’ll unlock the "Stories and Studies of Strange Things" achievement.
Go through the library’s rooms until you find a set of stairs to climb. Now, progress through the following hallway and re-enter the library, now on its balcony.
Here, you can use Tequlia’s masks power to shatter the chandelier, dropping a candle into the room below. This will also unlock the "The Light Fantastic" achievement.
Retrace your steps to the library’s ground floor, light the candle here and interact with the ghost who now appears. You’ll learn about a secret exit to the library.
At the back of the library, interact with the bookshelves to open the secret exit and leave the room.
Go south two rooms. In this room, exit through the door to the east – you’ll find that this takes you through a previously-unrevealed hidden passage, which will now be usable going forward.
Return through the secret passage and continue through these new rooms until you reach the grandfather clock. Wind it, synchronize your pocket watch here and reset time.
Now, go one room north, two east and then again east through the northern door. Open the curtain and leave the room.
Next, go through the southern door (there will be a butler to avoid at some point around here) and interact with the mask to look through it into the room that you were just in. Watch as the butler hides a statue arm in the dumbwaiter, at about 2.15pm.
Return to the mansion’s main entrance, synchronize your pocket watch here and reset time.
Now you’re ready to prevent the murders. The following steps will benefit from a brief introductory explanation – what you’re aiming to do here is to set the card suit displayed on each of four statues to show hearts. The first of these is in the mansion entrance, and should already be showing hearts.
Quickly travel to the bar. Here, remove the record, light the candle and leave the room.
Look back into the bar and watch as Aurum enters. Listening to the ghosts, you’ll learn the password that allows you to pass through the previously-locked door here.
Once Aurum leaves, talk with the ghost to gain entry to the following room and watch as Aurum passes through, pulling the statue’s lever. Once he leaves, enter the room and pull the lever yourself, until it shows as hearts.
You now need to go back to the south-western area of the mansion, where you saw the butler hiding the statue arm. Retrieve the arm from the dumbwaiter.
Travel to the room two south from here, replace the statue arm and interact with it again until it displays hearts.
Finally, travel back to that new secret passage that you discovered, pass through here and one room further east. You’ll find the final statue here.
Aurum will pull this statue’s lever once himself, so after he’s passed through this room (around 8.45pm), pull the lever yourself. Once it displays hearts, you’ll have solved this scenario.

If you prefer a video guide, please refer to "Sixpence None the Wiser".