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Dark Tidings: Enter and Clear the Second Chamber
Enter and clear the Second Chamber in Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School with beach landmarks, tile clues, constellation answers and the statue solution.
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The Route to the Second Chamber
Complete Von Boyage, then approach Kira and Reed on the beach and choose to wait for night to begin Dark Tidings. Use the special glasses from Eyes on the Prize to find the Alchemical Tiles and entrance clues, then solve the chamber’s portrait, floor-pattern and statue puzzles.
Meet Kira and Reed After Von Boyage
The beach search takes place after Von Boyage during Chapter 6. Have the special glasses acquired during Eyes on the Prize ready: they reveal the glowing tiles and the constellation clues used along this route.
- Complete Von Boyage before starting the beach meeting for Dark Tidings.
- Approach Kira and Reed on the beach to begin the meeting.
- Choose to wait for night so you can continue the search.
- Equip the special glasses from Eyes on the Prize to reveal the hidden clues.
Find the Glowing Alchemical Tiles
With the glasses equipped, search the rocks on the left, beneath the pier and along the far beach for six glowing Alchemical Tiles. Their placement uses mirrored numerical order, so examine the markings with that idea in mind before arranging them.
- Search the rocks on the left of the beach for glowing Alchemical Tiles.
- Search underneath the pier for more of the glowing tiles.
- Search the far beach to collect the remaining Alchemical Tiles.
- Place all six tiles in mirrored numerical order, from 1 through 6, to reveal the chamber entrance.
Open the Constellation Door
Use the glasses to identify the constellations, then match them to the animals on the entrance door. The revealed constellations are Taurus, Cancer and Leo, which correspond to the bull, crab and lion.
- Select the bull, crab and lion on the entrance door to open the way into the Second Chamber.
Solve the King’s Portrait and Scales
Inside, use the king’s portrait to identify the objects relevant to the scales puzzle. The portrait’s combination involves the crown, scepter and two apples; work from those objects before checking the exact answer below.
- Examine the king’s portrait to identify the crown, scepter and two apples used by the weight clue.
- Use the scales to determine the weights needed for the portrait’s combination.
- Enter 3440 as the answer to the weight puzzle to continue through the chamber.
Follow the Club Floor Pattern
- Reproduce the club floor pattern to continue the chamber’s clue chain.
- Retrieve the mysterious coin for the next part of the chamber puzzle.
- Use the mysterious coin to continue toward the statue puzzle.
- Retrieve the invitation before completing the central statue’s text.
Complete the Central Statue
The final text selections are GROWING OLD, FALL APART, SCIENCE, THE BRAIN STORM and AN INVENTION. Check the wording carefully, particularly THE BRAIN STORM, before using the lever.
- Fill the central statue’s text with GROWING OLD, FALL APART, SCIENCE, THE BRAIN STORM and AN INVENTION.
- Pull the statue’s lever after completing the text to finish the chamber sequence.
Your completion check is finishing The Second Chamber, which is the requirement for the Dark Tidings achievement. Revealing the beach entrance is only part of that route.
