Alpha Polaris pt4/4 (w/timestamps)
0opinion & plot explanation at the end of this box. cause spoilers.
01:18 - pick up bones & hide
07:35 - pick up jerry can
08:05 - add bones, and gasoline to the oildrum right outside the exit door. use your lighter to set it on fire.
08:56 - go to basement and take the sacrficial anode from the heater. (magnesium) - also just saying it took me fucking ages to figure out, i am not really that into the anatomy of oil heaters.
09:53 - use the anode on the grinding machine to get magnesium, use the broom to pick it up from the floor.
10:13 - use your multitool to scrape rust off the barrels, you get rust.
10:58 - go to kitchen pick up frying pan. (aluminium) then use it on the grinder and pick up with the broom like before, and you get aluminium.
12:02 - use your masterkey to let yourself into Al's room. look at the note left on the desk.
13:04 - add magnesium, rust and aluminium in the oil barrel where you left the bones, and light it on fire.
13:05 - go to the 'kitchen side' of the station, where the snowmobile is parked, and find Tully.
21:37 - go to the fuse box (it's located on the side you would pass when going to the polar bear in the start) make a mental note of fuse B2 missing.
21:48 - turn the valve, and return to the fusebox - so you need to restart the generator - and this was a nightmare for me, seriously i almost rage quit, it is very trial and error. so here is the correct sequence so you don't have to turn your coffee mug into a deadly projectile.
Pull the lever down to O
Pull out the choke
Turn the starter knob
Push choke back in
Push the lever up to 1
25:22 - pick up the crampons, they are next to the snowmobile, where you found Tully.
26:07 - pick up the pole you used to administer antibiotic to the polar bear, remember I told you to remember where he put it. in your inventory, click it to dismantle it.
26:38 - at the fusebox, use the syringe to extract antifreeze, it's the box in the top right with a blue dot on. and you get syringe w/antifreeze
27:16 - put on the crampons, and scale the roof. use your antifreeze on the roof hatch.
29:26 - pick up note from Al - super nice of him to make this for us, now that we burned the hide.
29:42 - we saw these before - but not the last two. What we have for now of the story puzzle is
EAST * ISLAND * TRIBE * SHAMAN* THRONE * BOREAS * WENDIGO - we need to figure out the two last ones. consult your articles, and knowledge from conversations with the others.
2 image suggest: HEART - now i struggled with this, not gonna lie, and I am not sure I really get it still, I thought it was a sacrfice, based on the mummy with a hole in it, and the antithesis of the wendigo. i cut out many attempts i made, so in the end I just tried, out from the idea that the hole was located in the chest. If you can explain this to me, please do!
1 image suggest: CAVE - we have no indication on what this could be, as far as I know, besides we know what a mountain looks like - so I thought it looked like an inverted mountain based on the east-west thing with the sun being reverted. So I figured that a mountain going under ground, is a cave.
33:09 - look at the blueprint, and remember that the fuse missing was B2, that is the watertank.
33:42 - on AL's note, 'where is nova' magically appears, and well they are at B2, exept it won't accept that answer, so suggest: WATERPUMP (and not waterpimp, like i did hahaha i left it on cause it made me laugh, reminds me of that dude in carwash with aquarium boots)
34:42 - go to the basement and use the meat hoook on the trap door to open it.
spoilers for the story & ending.
The entire puzzle then is
EAST ISLAND TRIBE = referring to the stories about the terrible people from the east that came and brought cannibalism with them. and urban legends about them.
SHAMAN THRONE BOEAS WENDIGO = Think about it, super meta that this primitive tribe knew this article would be written. that is some insight i must say! And really it makes no sense. But for the story in the game it does, the article talks about the Shaman in Boreas who drives out the Wendigo spirit of someone. So we are really just told that Al is posessed, he disturbed the throne room, maybe even sat in the throne.
HEART CAVE - well it tells us that a human sacrifice is made to the wendigo (don't ask my, i mean who does that?) - but that is probably what happened to the mummy we found. and now the Wendi-Al decided that Nova is a good candidate.
it is absolute nonsense, but good game logic.. so i will let them have it ;) Yay! Wendigo!