Shadows Over Loathing – Dauphine House Quest Guide

This is a guide to help you navigate the Dauphin House quest. I couldn’t find a complete guide for it anywhere so I decided I’d make one. I hope you find it helpful!

How to Complete Dauphine House Quest

All credit goes to Fifi!

Spoiler Guide to Complete the Dauphin House

You unlock this location by going to the Sunken Boxcar location and talking to Pepperidge Dauphin. You’ll need a Wire Coat Hanger or the cursed key. However, you will find a Wire Coat Hanger while going through the rooms in this questline so it isn’t necessary to bring one, but using the cursed key is an option (as there are 6 instances in which a hanger is required to open something but there are only 5 hangers in the game that I know of, please correct me if I’m wrong). Here are the steps for the Dauphine House:

• Look in the tree hole to get the “mossy” key. Go inside to the Kitchen (first door on right side). Fish the sink then “Rifle Through It” to get a padlock. Use the “mossy” key to unlock the fridge which gives you a padlock and a key in a block of ice. Look in the cupboard which gives you a “can of fruit cocktail” which gives +1 to each “M” stat (you may want to save this item for end game).
• The room next to the kitchen is flooded. If you retrieved the Diving Helmet from outside the S.I.T Fission Chips location (requires Muscle stat), equip it and go in. You don’t get any keys or padlocks here but you do get several items including a “pile of silver bars” which sells for 1000 meat and a scarf accessory that gives +5 Hot armor.
• Go to the Bathroom which is the left-most door and thaw the key in the bathtub to get a “cold” key which will unlock the medicine cabinet in that bathroom which will give you another padlock and combat/potion items. Equip a fishing pole and fish the toilet. Then flush it to find that “something’s wrong”. Check it out to get the “wet” key, which unlocks the middle (non-flooded) door giving you both a padlock and access to the 2nd floor. Don’t forget to flush the toilet a second time to get “flush” credit towards that achievement.
• When on the 2nd floor go in the right side door to the Right Bedroom. Look in the wardrobe to get some pants and a Wire Coat Hanger. Check under the pillow to get the “shiny” key which unlocks the Left Bedroom and gives you a padlock.
• After unlocking the Left Bedroom with the “shiny” key, go inside and check the table where the lamp is for a nice item. Look in the vanity drawers to get items. Search the nightstand to find items and a “disappointing” key which unlocks the Attic (middle upstairs) door and gives you a padlock.
• After unlocking the Attic door with the “disappointing” key, go up and pick up the “Handmade Radio” from the table. It is automatically “equipped” and can be used by pressing the space bar. About the Handmade Radio… use it in every single room you go into. Use it by pressing the space bar. Listen to the clues, all of them, each place you go… otherwise certain necessary key location “prompts” will not be unlocked, which will prevent you from finding the keys needed to complete the quest.
• When you leave the Attic and are in the upstairs hallway, press the spacebar, listen to the clue and then walk to the far right where an empty pot sits and you will get a prompt allowing you to Look Inside it where you’ll find the “dirty” key which unlocks the nightstand in the Right Bedroom.
• Go into the Right Bedroom. Be sure to press the space bar while in there and listen to the clue. The nightstand gives you another padlock and some items.
• Go into the Left Bedroom, press the spacebar and listen to the “painting” clue then head downstairs to the main area and you should get a prompt when you are close enough to the “eye-patch” portrait to look behind it where you will find the “sticky” key which will unlock the tool case in the garage. Press the spacebar and listen to the clue.
• use a Wire Coat Hanger or cursed key to open the car, get the “tarnished” key which unlocks the garage and gives a padlock.
• Go into the garage and press the space bar to listen to the clue. Use the “sticky” key to unlock the tool case which gives you another padlock and a weapon (“handsaw”) as well as a “rusty” key for the China Cabinet. Stay in the garage and go over to the workbench towards the left. If you listened to the clue you should get a prompt that has you look under the work bench where you will get the “loose” key that opens the cedar chest upstairs in the Left Bedroom.
• Go back into the house, unlock the China Cabinet on the main floor and the cedar chest in the 2nd floor left bedroom for your final two padlocks.