The Sinking City 2: All Evidence, Clues, and Key Items

A whale blocks the route to the Devil’s Reef Hotel. The crane can lift it away, but the machine is missing fuel and a gear.

The Custom “Red” Franklin Press operates only with peculiar double-sided plates. A print made with the silver side gains Dreamlands essence, while the golden side provides a strong offensive boost.

The passage lever has been locked to stop unchecked traffic. Its number is “the year of the bell.”

Fuses act as connectors between wires of the same color. Mixing the wire colors prevents the evacuation gates from working.

The floodgate panel uses renewable radio fuses that can burn out quickly. Spare fuses are kept in the shop across the street.

Cecil entered the Printing House for the latest Weird Wonders, found an ornate silver plate, and withdrew after encountering creatures.

Peter directs Jeffrey toward machine parts in the church graveyard and leaves him a key to access them.

A sermon calls on believers to free the Spirit of the Star, release the Trident from its elevated prison, bring it to the Star’s shrine, and invoke the beings that imprisoned the Star.

The writer interprets “Stand resolute before the Star’s Gaze” as a trial requiring the penitent to remain steadfast through three gazes.

The old bell was reinstalled and wired to an apparatus without being damaged. Its construction and installation occurred half a decade after the church was built.

The Star identifies the marks of Gyrh, Tsog-Nar, Yig, and Cthylla, then describes the Trident waiting beneath the Star’s gaze to be blessed and lead the way to its light.

The Tyde Runners remember Old Freddie as a singer who guided sailors through deadly waters. His masterpiece is The Fisherman’s Love, and his cleaned bones are sealed behind his holy face.

An April 1915 staff notice orders that all ammunition brought by guests must be placed in the Game Room safe.

The Staff Key must remain at the front desk. Tokens for Lorelei’s event are stored in the Staff Room under the care of Heloise and Eel-Boy.

Three chests are scattered throughout the hotel. Each requires a Lorelei token and contains one part of the key needed to meet Queen Lorelei.

A basement fresco honors Old Freddie of the Tyde Runners and describes his heavenly song as a guide to salvation.

Heloise tells Eel-Boy that extra firepower is inside the safe. Its code comes from Baby, One More Tide, with the added hint that “the beasts with eight have three.”

The note describes captives being fed to Grindmaws so gold objects can gain power. Its postscript corrects the safe’s final number: it is 6, not 16.

The numbered punishments are: I, Confined to Ship; II, Forfeiture of Pay; III, Bread and Water; IV, Deprivation of Alcohol; V, Mast-heading; VI, Gagging; VII, Caning; VIII, Clapping in Irons; IX, Tar and Feathering; X, Imprisonment in the Brig; XI, Flogging with Rope; XII, Flogging with Cat o’ Nine Tails; XIII, Flogging Around the Fleet; XIV, Marooning; XV, Hanging from the Yardarm; and XVI, Keelhauling.

The song mentions a bat’s wings, a curled tail, fearful octopus hearts, and the rising tide. Those creature details provide the imagery for the linked code.

Clarence Holloway’s 1822 biography praises his father Bertrand, recalls his cavalry charge at Cowpens on January 17, 1781, and mentions the portrait, uniform, and pistol associated with him.

A portrait depicts Catherine Holloway, wife of Alastair Holloway.

The Red Idol riddle invokes a sanguine heart, shattered limbs, a mother’s prayer, the unyielding sea, a kneeling god, time, sacrifice, a held spark, and a sister in ice.

A pregnant Holloway woman records unexplained pain and bruises while tracing the wives who came before her, including Catherine and Sylvia Holloway.

A manor resident asks Mr. R. for help with a hereditary curse and something stirring beneath the house, offering access to the family collection in return.

A maid describes the master wandering at night after a tragedy, speaking as though someone answers him and rearranging furniture because he believes his fate can still be mended.

The medium warns that contacting the dead can open a lasting door. The ritual requires an untouched spirit board, a likeness of the departed, and candles arranged according to the supplied instructions.

Ezra Holloway refuses to sell a late-18th-century cane with a silver handle because it has passed from father to son since Alastair Holloway.

The staff must remove every candle used when Lady Holloway attempted to summon Catherine. The notice says the ritual stirred a presence that now watches the household.

Alastair Holloway pledges his bloodline to Mother Ulmata. The covenant promises strength and freedom from pain to the sons while demanding the sacrifice of those who bear them.

Dorian Holloway’s 1845 diary rejects the official account of Clarence’s supposed suicide. Clarence’s body was never found, and he had become obsessed with a mirror belonging to Dorian’s mother.

Ezekiel refused to reveal the guarded buoy’s code. He repeatedly said that the eel and lantern come first, although he sometimes confused their order.

JM orders most of the group to leave while a rearguard protects the market. The unstable Eye is allowing strange creatures through, so a security system has been installed around it.

The note asks whether all jars were recovered from Harcourt’s former second-floor shop in the East Wing near the pub. A melodic magical ward now blocks that shop.

Ezekiel suffers visions, sleepwalks, and speaks of fish giving instructions. He says the Angler has the last word and links the Coelacanth to marked trophies.

A hostile-looking sea-creature statue stands in Cold Storage with its chest split open, as if someone attempted to damage it.

J. orders the market kept secure and says the Snowflake key will be kept in the auction room.

A melodic barrier blocks a second-floor office. Faye believes a song can break it and suggests finding the renowned person capable of composing music with that power.

The letter recalls experiments in which Leyden Jars acted as polarity catalysts, bridging a creature’s hemispheric nervous pathways and triggering motor activity in selected tissue.

The Eye is described as a portal and energy source through time and space. Jewelry dipped in blood before it gains power, but the portal is unstable and its devices must remain active.

Starfish devices lock restricted doors and cannot be dismantled. Only Leyden Jars open them, and depleted jars can be recharged on the electric table.

A survivor describes shooting worm clusters from Gerda’s body, triggering an explosive head mutation and red-bile attack before discovering swollen pustules across her back.

A hostile message declares that everything is ready and states plainly that eight comes last.

The radio broadcasts messages about the Timeless Dawn, the correct frequency, and the origin of the flood. Faye proposes investigating the Wireless Room.

A witness warns that the Head Surgeon is not human and describes an unnatural buzzing. A hand-drawn zero appears on the side of the note.

The writer condemns Thaddeus Lowe’s obsession with his supposedly valuable brain. A hurried addendum states that 3 occupies the second position.

A blue symbol appears etched into reality, forming an impossible connection between beings and objects.

Power loss or Prism removal pauses the Eye. A full reset requires charging the Prism at all three colored Stations, reinserting it at the Eye, and waiting for the protective barrier to shut down.

The Hospital map marks the Treatment Room, Chapel, and Basement as Stations. The Anatomical Theater is labeled The Eye.

Insert the Prism, align one symbol on each of a Station’s three rings with the illuminated triangle, and let energy flow into it. The manual connects nearby glowing runes to the Station system.

Pence puts the primary frequency between 10 and 20 Hz, associates it with Friday bad luck, and says the tertiary frequency is double the sum of the first two. He calls Dunwich half-correct.

Wright says the secondary frequency exceeds the primary, puts the primary above 20 Hz, and warns against believing Pence.

Dunwich says to round the primary frequency to the nearest ten and halve it to obtain the secondary. He places the tertiary below 30 Hz and calls Wright consistently wrong.

The Phorcys is bringing allies from the sea. When it arrives, the cages and living captives must be moved inside while jewelers continue producing crowns and bracers.

A starving resident confronts Carruthers and discovers that his wardrobe conceals a marked supply box containing pills.

A captive describes Grindmaws killing people while blood is poured over jewelry. When a bracer breaks, the creatures kill the jeweler brought in to repair it.

The expedition must wait for a lake to drain before crossing a portal. Worms and unstable terrain have complicated the journey, but the writer urges Wilmarth and Carter to continue.

Robert is sent to the surface to collect a diving suit from Alan at the Fish Market after a professor nearly drowned while crossing an alien gate.

A telegram from the City Below describes an impassable abyss beyond the diving-suit route, a possible temple, falling temperatures, and a request for gear from Dyer’s Antarctic expedition.