Solve Gordon and Gus problems | Act one Shardlight Guide

Last update: 11 May 2016

Leave market and go to Pop's farm. Talk with Pop about farm's situation. Don't forget to tell him the rebels password. Notice dead sheep and ravens. Take a gas mask from scarecrow.

Come back to the market (if you choose Market District West, you will come near Gordon's stand) and give Gordon the gas mask. Because the mask's filter is empty, Amy will promise to solve this problem too. Gordon will give you a slightly damaged pistol with no bullets, luckily its flintlock mechanism is in working order, what makes it useful to light anything on fire.

Go to the well and talk with Nelson. Don't forget to tell him the rebels password. Ask about science book. Read it and notice information about filters. If you want to get the Educated achievement, ask him about history, art, and philosophy books and read them.

Return to the market and talk to Marichka. Ask her about salt (she will tell you to ask Gus), and about harvest, and weeds. You will get to know that there is a plant with blue flowers which grows really fast. Don't forget to tell her the rebels password.

Ask Gus about salt, he will tell you about place called salt flats (new location on the map). Go there.

Go to the left. From the excavation take a little bit of salt. Leave salt flats (exit is near train; notice the train logo) and go to Amy's home. Notice a plant with blue flowers which is growing in the closed phone box. Use the plank to break the glass and pick the flower. If you don't have plank in your inventory, go to the Centrex factory, and take the plank from the pile on the left.

Go inside your flat and take a bucket (in the middle of the room). If you want to know something about Amy, look around, especially notice two photos hanging on the pillar.

Get outside. If you want to get the Child At Heart achievement, talk with one of the playing girls - with redhead Tina - and ask her about everything, then ask her if you could have a turn. Chant all four jump-rope rhymes. Then choose on the map the Centrex Factory. Get inside and talk with Denby. Don't forget to tell him rebels password. If you want to get the Chalk It Up To Kindness achievement, give him the chalk back.

Now put the plank into the bucket (in the inventory) and pour the salt into it. Put the bucket into the furnace (on the right). Turn the valve on the left pipe and use the pistol on the furnace. Turn the valve and take out the bucket. Amy will get an activated carbon.

If you want to get the Smartass achievement, you need to stay in the factory a little bit longer to listen to all Denby's commentaries. To do this click LPM and PPM on: one of the hanging artworks, one of the drawings on the bottom, sketch (twice PPM and once LPM), drain on the floor, glass horse (on the right), burnt drawings near the furnace, and the furnace. Try to light the fire in the furnace (by using the pistol) before turning on the gas. Try to put only the plank into the furnace, try to put only the salt into the furnace. Try to put any of your objects (except the bucket) to hear Denby saying 'liberate yourself'. Look at the valve, turn it and try to leave the factory. Light the furnace and look at the fire (click the opening). Try to put the plank into the fire. Turn the gas off and put the bucket with only the plank into the furnace, turn the gas on and light the furnace. Turn the gas off and take the bucket with burnt plank. Go outside and take another plank from the pile. Put the bucket with plank and salt. Turn the valve, light the furnace by using the pistol and try to take the bucket from the furnace while the fire is still on. Turn the valve and take the bucket with carbon.

Leave the factory, and go to the farm where give Pop the plant with blue flowers. Then go to the market and give the carbon to Gordon.

Finally, go to the alley and to the resistance hideout. Talk with Danton about your next mission.