Finding the explosive | Mission 1 - Dishonored Dishonored Guide

Last update: 11 May 2016

New Main Quest: Take a weapon

Use the key that you have just acquired to open the cell door. After you leave the cell, approach the table located right in front of you and collect gold and city watch sword.

New Main Quest: Fight or sneak your way to the footbridge

Enter the sneak mode ("C" key) and go left. Stop at the entrance to the new room and wait for guards to dissipate. You definitely should not try to fight your way through, especially that, as of now, you do not have any pistol and you'd have to fight four guards. It is better to stay hidden.

Warning - I recommend saving your progress, as often as possible, by selecting the appropriate option after you pause the game, or by hitting the "F5" key regularly.

Carefully, approach the first guardian. You could kill him (left mouse button) but it's better to go for a more stealthy variant and knock him unconscious. You do this by pressing, and holding down, the left CTRL key (the above screenshot). After you either kill or knock the guardian down, lift the body and carry it over near the area where you have started. I recommend developing the attitude of hiding bodies in dimly lit places, which will decrease the risk of alarm being sound later on.

Approach the room with guards again. You may behave two different ways here. If you want to dispose of the guards, I recommend following the one that went to the neighbouring room (the above screenshot). Only after you deal with him, turn your attention to the other one. In both cases, I recommend that you loot the guards gold, by pressing the "F" key (you need to be sneaking behind the looted person).

The other way is to avoid both of the guards without eliminating them. I recommend that you use the pillars if you chose to do that. Since the pillars do not ensure maximum cover, position yourself as close to them as possible. In this case, leaning from behind the pillars ("Q" and "E" keys) helps.

In the second room, in which one of the guards used to stop, you can find two valuable items, i.e. Sokolov's health elixir and a pistol. Move to the next room, position yourself in the spot shown in the above screenshot and start climbing. You do this by approaching walls or interactive objects and pressing the "SPACE" key after an appropriate icon appears.

New Main Quest: Proceed across the walkway to the Interrogation Room

After you reach the upper level, search the area for gold, food (it is consumed on the spot, so you will gain nothing if you've lost no health points), pistols (Corvo only replenishes his ammo) and another two Sokolov's health elixirs. Approach the door that leads to the footbridge. If you are still sneaking, it is a good idea to peek through the keyhole (by pressing and holding down the "F" key), to make sure that the guard is not facing you.

Open the door and explore the area for gold and carefully approach the guard. Steal from him the yard walkway key. I recommend that you additionally neutralize him (it's up to you how), although you can leave this place if you do not want to eliminate anybody. In order to do that, you need to walk through the gate on the left (the above screenshot) and use the key to open it (you may ignore the stairs to the right. Everything you would find there is a small room with rats in it). This way, you will reach Yard Walkway.

New Main Quest: Enter the Interrogation Room

Collect gold and follow the narrow passage. Watch out for the guard that will appear in front of you out of a sudden. Look around for a gold pouch and follow the abovementioned enemy. Depending on what you like, you may either neutralize the guard (the above screenshot) or avoid him carefully, and wait for him to move towards the walkway again. Regardless of whitch path you choose, go down (or jump down) downstairs, collect gold and choose the door to the interrogation room.

New Main Quest: Pick up the explosive

I recommend that you start by exploring the first room of the interrogation area carefully. Interact with the device shown in the above screenshot to acquire the first Audiograph - Interrogation of the Royal Protector. Apart from that, you can also find gold and duty officer's report.

Go now to the other room. In here, you can find gold and a book (The Trials of Aptitude). Finally, open the safe and collect the clockwork explosive.