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I've been trying to get those items since my last post, and can only find one of them (green security card, from the Nebulon on the second floor of GDC). Completely stuck now.

working out what to do with the Robot's note.

Since my main fear was that going through the blue and green keycard rooms "properly" involved not losing the keycards, or that there was a producive use of the dispatcher and it wasn't just a convenient exit after getting caught by the security guard.

I assembled the golden watch fully. I got the fake ID and the suit, and have everything I need to ensure a flawless victory against the deathbot in the core. However, I still don't have a way to get past the blender, and I've never had any item that prompts dialog from Mumpus. I have never found a use for the Flame Brooch. I don't get insta-killed by junkies at days end, so I'm assuming I haven't made the gamebook unbeatable, but I'm still out of ideas on how to get further.

* The Yellow security card, like the blue and green ones, is single use, and one of its possible uses gives you access to the information needed to properly use the flame brooch.

However, as I said, it's single use, and has 3 different possible uses (so unfortunately you'll have to "guess" correctly...).

the yellow security card can be found...

you'll need to have received your "birthday present". If you haven't yet gotten that, then at least that much is not yet done. As far as I can tell...

I found the yellow keycard. I most assuredly would have never found it had I not been pointed in that direction, having already explored there numerous times. I have to say, I was very disappointed. The solution seems to be that I have to visit features of the lounge in a very specific order, and for some reason the character can't feel a keycard under his butt unless he's sitting down immedately after getting a drink of water. There is no logic to the order of these events, other than purposeful malicious design. I can think of a few other similar examples of this.

I'm still not sure what I was supposed to learn from Mumpus that was crucial to finishing the book (Which I'm starting to think I just glossed over rather than failed to trigger; I've tried all meal combinations at the restaurant), nor how having assembled the watch before visiting Firebrand affected anything. What exactly is the difference between the ending I got and the "best" ending? Either way, I don't think I'll bother shooting for it.

you cant win

to the interaction with Firebrand...

Also, with regards to sequencing of events making a difference, well, that is a recurring pattern in this series of Ulysses' books.


At this stage in the series, having it make a difference what order you do things in should really not come as a surprise...



As for what the difference is in getting the to "best" ending...
Let's see now...

Humans, like the ones in real life that you and I are, can have different moods and opinions depending on what is said and when. That makes sense. While the result of saying certain things is unpredictable, it's intuitive that a conversation can go a different way when you start off differently. I had no problem with these.

We're dealing with inanimate objects. Objects which have no business behaving and interacting the way they do. Turning on a facet of water shouldn't cause a keycard to crawl out of the couch to a spot more noticable. Apparently golden pens are completely invisible unless you view them from just the right angle, even if you're specifically looking them after being told where to look. You also can't seem to find the breathing apparatus after diving unless you've sat by the rocks for a bit first. Maybe it has something to do with your eyeballs being a certain temperature, but I doubt it.

Apparently it's possible to make the book unwinnable by doing too well at dice rolls. By sheer luck, when I went to the gym to get the suit, my character passed all of the Stamina checks, and my reward was 500 GR, no suit, and an unavoidable junkie death later that night.

the severed thumb

(I know There's one in The Golden crate, but if you fail that I think you just have an extra combat). And there's one when you meet the death-bot at the end of this book, I think. Not sure what happens if you fail it as I've never failed it... am guessing it is terminal though.

Killing the giant lizard in The Dead World leads to the scene where the spirit tortoise tells you that you screwed up and need to pick an item and a location to get back on track. If I remember correctly, it has something like 16 skill and 30 stamina, and it was intended that you spent your previous two days obtaining a powerful weapon to kill it with. However, a character brought through from the beginning of the series can have 16 (maybe more) skill too making a victory without a weapon not unfeasible; Meaning you can spend the day disarming the laser instead and make the scene after the fight extremely out of place

Some guys I know playing through the books on a forum board tried to find a way to finish The Golden Crate without time travelling, and they did it, even though it involved fighting the Death-o-saur at full strength.

I did manage to find my way to the lower levels with the mail package which I found out has another card in it, also found another security card, a flame broach and some forms but now I'm stuck
could someone please give me a couple hints on this one?

let's start with security cards... Somewhere along the way, you will need to discover 4 differently coloured security cards - red, blue, yellow and green. The red, yellow and green are in themselves essential to completing the book. The blue is not essential, but when you discover it, at the same time you will find a different item which is required to complete the book.

There are eight levels of the GDC building (G-1-2-3-P, research, manufacturing, storage), all of which you will need to visit for various things in order to finish the book. Then of course there is town, where the gardens, the restaurant and the place where you can view data cubes are probably the main places of interest.

As for exactly what you need to do, well, if you find an amber data cube, that will start to help you work it out...