This is a simplified guide on helping you identify clues, creating portraits & ultimately making the right deductions to solve the case. Please note that this guide is not a step-by-step walk-through of the entire case in detail and also note that this guide obviously involves spoilers in regards to solving the case. Play the game your way first, make all the moral decisions you feel are right and refer to this guide if you are stuck and maybe want to start the game over and hunt all the achievements or if you are unsure on your current decision making.
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Guide to Prey Tell Case
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Summary of The Case
In Pray Tell, Holmes is visited by a boy named Tom Hurst, whose father, George Hurst, has gone missing. Holmes connects the case to a rich philanthropist named Lord Marsh, who is running a charity which helps lower income people.
Holmes discovers that, through his charity, the lord and his friends have been hunting recipients of his charity in the Epping Forest. Holmes also learns that Lord Marsh is sick with tuberculosis and is close to death. When Holmes goes to the forest, Lord Marsh attempts to hunt him down.
Ultimately, Holmes can choose to let Lord Marsh be murdered by a vengeful Mr. Hurst, let Lord Marsh die of tuberculosis, or he can sentence Lord Marsh to death.
Portrait of Tom
Alice De’Bouvier, your neighbour, will knock on your door and bring in a child named Tom who wants your help. You will be given the option to “Create a Portrait” of Tom, which will help you deduce information about him when you question him.
While creating a portrait, you will need to identify a few things about the person in question, these can range from jewellery to marks on the body. If you look closely on the right side of the screen, you will notice a few words and phrases blurred out. These are the things you are trying to deduce from the portrait.
When you find some of the items, they will automatically be listed, however some of them will give you two options, if you read them and compare them to the blurs, you can figure out the correct answers listed below.
- Red Eyes – Recently Weeping
- Chin/Neck – Malnutrition
- Necklace – Tom is 8 years old
- Patching near his shoulder – Caring parents
- Lame Arm – Malformation
- Paper in his lower coat pocket – Can read and use a map
Portrait of Lord Marsh
Once you have progressed further in the case you will discover that the Coat of Arms that Wiggins drew is that of the Marsh family. Open your Casebook and fast travel to Lord Marsh’s House.
- Red Eyes – Feels unwell
- Ring on his hand – Man of wealth
- Blanket on him – He is ill
- Box on the table next to him – Strong painkiller
- Notebook to the left of the men – Lord Marsh’s personal assistant
- Emblem on the assistant’s vest – Member of a hunting club
- Assistant’s Stethoscope on his shoulder – Physician
Clues & Deductions
Below I will list the clues that need to be connected together and what they become, as well as the specific choices you need to pick if you are offered more than one.
- Pauper’s List (Clue) + Newspaper Article (Clue) = Information (Deduction)
- Hurst’s Special Job + Special Education Programme = Connection
- Hurst’s Special Job + Farewell Letter = Last Chance
- Hurst’s Special Job + Preparations = Violence
- Pauper’s List + Refused = Sneak into Lord Marsh’s House (required to progress the Story)
- Pauper’s List + Missing = Missing
- Facts will combine to create a large Deduction Bubble = “Mr. Hurst Knew”.
- Lovat Scouts + Wound = Really Lovat
- “Quatermain” Club + Inveterate Hunter = Hunters
- Map + Invitation = Meeting (Unlocks Epping Forest Fast Travel!)
- Epping Forest will be added to your fast travel section, so travel there.
- Lord Harrington’s Body + Pauper’s Body = Dead Bodies
- Click the double bubble = Lords Hunt
- Revenge + Impingement = Revenge
- Marsh hunts down people
After progressing throughout the case and making all the deductions available and tying everything to each respective clue, you will solve the case and receive the The Hunter Becomes the Prey achievement.
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