Items

Items in The Mortuary Assistant are used to advance through a shift by completing embalming tasks and attempting to banish the demon that's attempting to possess Rebecca. There are multiple categories for items, which determine how they interact with the Inventory and/or Quick Inventory.

Many items are closely related to the various mechanics of the game.

**Large Items** - Items which must be held in the hands and will not fit in the pockets, which allows a maximum of 2 to be carried in the inventory at any time. Typically, one large item slot will be occupied by the clipboard, to assist in tracking shift tasks. Large Items will always occupy the top two slots of the Quick Inventory.

* Clipboard - Rebecca's method of tracking progress through tasks related to embalming cadavers.
* Embalming Report - Printed out after entering a cadaver's identifying marks into the Record System, then needs to be taken to the filing area near Zoey's desk before the embalming process can begin.
* PVC Tubing - Used along with the Scalpel and Forceps to drain the body of its fluids and replace them with the embalming mixture.
* IV Reservoir Bag - To be filled with Cavity Fluid, which is injected into the abdomen with the Trocar.
* Cleaner Base - Stored in the bathroom closet and mixed with the stationary tank to the left to create Tank Cleaner.
* Moisturizing Pad - The final step of the process before placing a cadaver back into cold storage. It is used on the cadaver's face.
* Baleful Reagent - Added to the embalming mixture during night shifts. Raymond explains that this assists in the process of binding a demon to a cadaver in order to effectively banish it. It is abundant and must be added to every cadaver's embalming mixture in order to proceed.
* Mark - A clay tablet that is used to spell the demon's name by filling the four recesses with the smaller pieces in the old cabinet. Placing it on a cadaver's chest will attempt to bind the demon to that cadaver prior to incineration in order to complete banishment. Succeeding or failing with this choice determines what ending will be achieved after incinerating the body. See the Mark and/or Endings page for additional details.

**Small Items** - Items which will fit in pockets. A maximum of 8 small items can be held at the same time.

* Needle Injector - Used to drive Setting Needles into a cavader's skull in order to wire its mouth permanently shut.
* Setting Needles - Used along with the Needle Injector for the first step of embalming a cadaver.
* Eye Caps - Placed on the cadaver's eyeballs to permanently keep the eyelids closed.
* Scalpel - Used to create an incision in the carotid artery and jugular vein so the cadaver's fluids can be drained and replaced with the embalming mixture.
* Artery Forceps - Used prior to attaching the Tubing as part of the fluid draining/replacement process.
* Trocar - A tool that is inserted into a cadaver's abdomen in order to fill it with Cavity Fluid from an IV Reservoir Bag.
* Cremation Bag - Used to gather Ashes from the base of the Retort.
* Ashes - Placed on the torso of a cadaver and ignited with the Match Box. It is only possible to use Ashes once per night shift.
* Match Box - When used on a cadaver with Ashes on its torso, will combust into a symbol of one of the three demon houses. This may assist in identifying the correct cadaver to incinerate by either matching the house of the demon that is attempting to possess Rebecca or eliminating one of the cadavers by revealing an incorrect house.
* Pencil - [Tutorial only] Serves as an intro to the Quick Inventory. It is only used to sign the paperwork that lets Rebecca into the examination room for her assessment shift.

Special Items - Items that either do not take up space in the inventory after being picked up or are simple lore objects and cannot be picked up.

* Pencil and Paper - Used to assess Rebecca's possession level. It occupies a dedicated space in the top left of the inventory screen.
* Letting Strip - A small piece of paper used to locate and determine the sigils of the invading demon's name.
* Mini Cassette Tapes - Three tapes recorded by Raymond in order to convey information about demonic possession and banishment. They can be replayed from the bottom left corner of the inventory.
* Red Vase - Sits on a table in the front room before Zoey's Desk. It can be interacted with to pick it up, drop it, and throw it. Throwing it a certain distance grants the Throw the Vase achievement.
* A Small Photo - Found stuck in the bathroom mirror during an interruption haunt.
* Extra Keys - Found in Raymond's Personal Belongings Drawer.
* Access Card - Found in Rebecca's Personal Belongings Drawer. Shows that she has received full access to the mortuary as an employee.
* Mr. Delver's Business Cards - Item in the front room that shows the mortuary's establishment date, 1970, as well as the fact that it's (fictionally) located in Milford, Connecticut.

Notes - (Temporary Section)

* Raymond, I really need a key to the hatch outside. Cleaner is low and you mentioned having some down there before. I know don't trust anyone to go down there but having a copy of the key would make things a lot easier for everyone. -Zoey