Carlson heads straight to the Conkling’s cabin to tell him about the meeting with the Hackers when Beatrix, Conkling’s wife and the mysterious lady from the Smoking Room, enters. Conkling sends Carlson to meet with Miss Hacker. On his way to the third-class cabins forward, Carlson bumps into Max again, spouting about WIllie von Haderlitz’s “gal”. In Scotland Road, Carlson bumps into the Reverend Troutt. Rev. Troutt, a second-class passenger in the third-class Scotland Road, begins complaining about a “young German” who is mixing classes. Miss Hacker goes on to tell Carlson a story about how the Conklings used her in a most unpleasant way. Carlson leaves and goes to find Smethells to receive his message. Smethells tells Carlson that Willie wishes to meet with him. With many tasks still before him, Carlson goes to meet WIllie. Perhaps he will come to know more about this contorted and confusing scheme.
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Trying to kill a number of birds with one stone, Carlson has checked the Cargo Hold for the painting while on his way to the meet Miss Hacker, and then plans to tell Penny he did not find the painting. He makes for the Poop Deck via Scotland Road. He meets Shailagh and her brother Jack. Giving the smallest amount of information possible, they send you back to bargain with Conkling. On his way to Penny’s cabin he sees Georgia. She explains more about her situation, referencing the diamonds she gave Carlson. After Georgia leaves, Carlson makes his way to F-34 to talk to Penny. She is disappointed that he did not get the painting but then sends him to find Smethells, who has a message. Carlson makes his way back to first-class where he meets Lord Lambeth. Charles takes Carlson to the Smoking Room and, under the influence, informs Carlson of all the dark and sinister plans he and Sasha have concocted for Georgia. On his way to the Grand Staircase, Carlson returns Officer Morrow’s binoculars and enters the Bridge. After trying the steer the Titanic, he enters the Wireless Room to snag a telegram.
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Carlson heads into the B Deck cabin areas to meet with Mr. Conkling and Georgia. Since Carlson has not yet met with Miss Hacker, Conkling brushes him off. Before he heads out the door, Carlson pokes around the room, picking up details not featured in the identical cabins of the Burns’s or the Lambeths. Carlson goes to Gerogia room, where she substantiates his concerns that Sasha is involved in some sort of Serbian group. Georgia informs him that they are “looking for guns, for bombs!” Georgia’s husband interrupts, kicking Carlson from the room. Carlson returns to the Purser’s Office, in hopes of picking up keys for the car, to enter the Cargo Hold with. Instead, he is sent on a mission to find a cuff-link for Mr. Strauss. Remember when Max told us he was in the Reception Room? While there, Zietel offers some ominous warning about Germany knowing British and American plans to stop Germany’s advances in the coming years. Carlson returns the cuff-link, snatches the keys, and heads to the Cargo Hold. There, he finds a blue 1912 Renault Type CB Coupe de Ville, and a crate labelled “Lamke and Buechnor,” but no painting. The seaman offers a hint: “A young German gentleman, he came here not long before you did…Wanted to get a painting. Got it too, carted it off somewhere.”
“Historical Note: The 1912 Renault Type CB Coupe de Ville on the Titanic was actually red (as seen in James Cameron’s film) and *may* have been crated. Also, the layout of the cargo area is very incorrect. I would guess this is done to simplify things, but incorrect nonetheless.
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Carlson returns to his cabin to decode the telegram he has picked up. Before doing that, he takes the time to read the report Penny mentioned to him earlier in the evening. He decodes the message, revealing that Zeitel has a contingency plan despite the Rubaiyat’s disappearance. He returns to the Purser’s Office to tell the Purser that the telegram from Mr. Thayer has been sent. While the Purser is out, Carlson sneaks a peak at the cargo manifest, noting an entry for a painting from Lemke & Buechner Shipping for one painting, signed Sasha Barbicon. One of the photos Carlson developed had Sasha holding a case with that label on it. Carlson leaves the Purser’s Office. Not sure how to proceed without the Purser, he wanders to the C Deck cabin where he meets Daisy again. Going aft, he knocks on the Burns’ door, where Eric Burns shows him a photo of Lord Lambeth and Andrew Conkling together. This reminds Carlson of his other obligations, and he is off to visit the B Deck cabins.
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Part Nine starts with Carlson making his way to the Cargo Hold in search of a painting. Cue one of the best and creepiest songs in the game. He can’t go into the Cargo Hold, but the seaman drops the hint that the Carters’ have a car aboard that they are allowed to go into the Cargo Hold…provided they show prove of ownership by presenting the automobile’s keys. Being unable to find it, he returns to his previous mission, sending Mr. Thayer’s telegram. Carlson talks his way past [fictional] Third Officer Morrow with an interesting conversation which suggests a parallel between Morrow’s experience during the Boer War and this night, April 14, 1912. The connection? No moon. and gains access to the Wireless Room. He send the telegram and picks up one of Zeitel’s coded messages, which he pockets. While walking aft along the Boat Deck, Penny stops him and tells him to attempt to listen in on a private conversation between Zeitel and Sasha. While attempting to do so, Carlson discovers a pair of binoculars on the aft-most deck-house, no doubt, they belong to Officer Morrow. While he realizes he cannot listen in on their conversation while he is visible to them, Carlson descends to the A Deck Promenade. There, he hears their conversation.
Hot on the trail of Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat, Carlson bolts for Boiler Room Three to give Vlad his package from the Serbian Sasha. Vlad almost asks for help to find another object which it seems he cannot find, but opts not to ask. Carlson heads down the ladder from the catwalk and snatches the Rubaiyat from a coal hatch. Now that he has the book safely in his possession, he pages through the book. Cyberflix took the effort to actually reproduce the passages for the game. Then Carlson takes a moment to talk to a rather snooty stoker. Here, the new Titanic novice can learn a few facts about the Titanic’s construction. The stoker talks about visiting a passenger on F Deck, a Miss Shailagh Hacker, reminding Carlson he still needs to meet with her on the Poop Deck for Conkling. Carlson returns to F-54 to talk to Penny. They make an important connection between Sasha and Zeitel by using one of the photos Carlson developed. Zeitel intended to exchange the Rubaiyat for a painting which Sasha was to provide. Carlson heads to the Purser’s Office to drop off the Rubaiyat. The Purser is more preoccupied with a telegram to be sent for real Titanic passenger, Mr. John Thayer. Carlson volunteers to send the message and finds his way to the Cargo Hold to search for this painting.
*Historical Note: The Purser’s Office was in fact a place where passengers could leave telegrams to be sent. However, the Purser would not have relied on others (especially other passengers) to get them to the Marconi Office. The Purser’s Office was equipped with a pneumatic tube which the Purser could send the telegram in (see the deleted scene “Wireless Room/The Californian” from James Cameron’s film “Titanic” for an example of what they would have looked like). For sake of the game, we will assume the tubes malfunctioned and the Purser was very desperate to get the telegram out.
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After a little time neglecting the blog and Youtube (we’ll chalk it up to school, moving, a community theatre play, work, and other Titanic pursuits), I am back with Part Seven of the Complete “Titanic: Adventure Out of Time” . I promise the following few parts will come in rapid succession to make up for my absence.
Part Seven picks up with Carlson making another round to the Lift Attendant for directions. This time, he needs to know how to get to the boiler rooms. He races back to snatch the Rubaiyat before it has a chance to disappear. Before he can get into the boiler rooms though, he has to prove his know-how with the Titanic’s mighty turbine. Something is malfunctioning so, with a little help from the manual which the seaman does not seem to understand, he successfully fixes the turbine. Carlson passes between the two sets of cylinders which make Titanic’s reciprocating engines. While in Boiler Room 3, he meets a suspicious stowaway, Vlad, who politely asks him to fetch a package from a man in first class. Carlson agrees, but does not go for the package without first stealthily shifting the Rubaiyat from one chute to another. Carlson quickly makes his way back up six decks to A-14 where he meets a Vlad’s friend. Interestingly enough, this is the same Sasha Barbicon Carlson had heard Georgia talking about earlier. While on the subject of Georgia, Sasha tells Carlson to be the judge when it comes to trusting her and explains in part his Serbian heritage and connections with Vlad. Sasha hands Carlson the package and tells Carlson not to believe what Lady Georgia says (which is a bit of a switch from when they started talking). Carlson takes the bound package and races down the decks in hopes of finding Vlad and the Rubaiyat, hopefully not together.
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Part Six starts with Carlson heading from the Burns’ cabin to the Turkish Baths, as per Mr. Trask’s instructions from before. What he is supposed to find, he does not know. Meeting Daisy along the way, he explores the Turkish Baths then moves into the room with the Electric Bath. After exhausting nearly all of his options, he turns on the water faucet, steaming up the room. He looks at the mirror on the far end of the room to read a secret message from Zeitel to someone named Sasha. Perhaps the Sasha Lady Georgia was talking about. The message reveals that the Rubaiyat is in a Boiler Room and sets off to fetch it, finding Reverend Troutt again and meeting with Mr. Andrew Conkling on his way to find directions to the Boiler Rooms from the Lift Attendant.
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