Secret Notes

Secret notes are hidden documents in *The Sinking City*, there are 10 notes scattered around Oakmont, plus one last bonus note. Player can start searching for these notes at any point during the game after meeting with Victor, the owner of the Devil's Reef Hotel, for the first time. All the collected notes can be read in the 'Documents' section under the 'City Lore' tab.

These secret notes are similar to those in Letters From Oakmont, many of them are not related to any cases in the game. However, they provide deeper lore and backstories about the situations in the city and the people who left these notes behind. Player needs to search for them on their own without any hints provide in the game, by looking for any door with a crooked H-shaped indicates that it is an accessible building, or a place on sunken roads with a pier and accessible hole on the wall. These locations will spawn wylebeasts inside.

All 11 notes include;

1. For your eyes only
2. I accept fire
3. Instructions for the needy
4. Nowhere to run
5. Ocean
6. Shapes
7. Sheet music with notes
8. Sid the Liar
9. Smudged scribbles
10. The last message
11. I see you

## For your eyes only

This note is located in a flooded factory on Sunset Avenue in Salvation Harbor, between Marsh Avenue and Maple Lane. After enter the building, Reed will find the note placed on a pillow next to a woman's dead body lying on the desk at the upper floor.

> *Mr. O,*
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> *After years of faithful service I cannot keep silent. I have noticed Mr. C and your lovely wife conspire after dark when you are away on business. Were I you, I would watch them.*
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> *I know this city well, dearest Mr. O, and I do not wish you to be harmed due to your admirable selflessness alone.*
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> *Your faithful servant,*
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> *Iago*
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## I accept fire

This note possibly related to the final main case Into the Depths where Charles encounters the fire worshipers, as there is a human skeleton in a pile of ashes with several gas cans around it. It is located in the basement of an office building on Bourbon Road, between Darwin Street and Yellow King Avenue in western Reed Heights, north from Oakmont University. There is no wylebeast spawn at this location.

> *I used to be a skeptic, a man of rational thought. But one meeting with Father Nicholas changed everything.*
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> *He led me into a Zetetic room below his church. Laying there, near a Monolith wall, I felt myself falling into an endless pit underneath the city. There, at the very bottom, I met the gaze of something ancient, something cold and alien...*
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> *...it broke me. I cannot think. I cannot eat. I cannot write about live like this.*
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> *Father Nicholas told me a way out. Fire will cleanse my body, marshal me into the next era and burn away those terrible memories.*
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> *I was not a man of faith once.*
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> *But now, I accept fire.*
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## Instructions for the needy

The note is located in an flooded office building on Whisper Street in Grimhaven Bay, between Central Street and Deepshore Road. The same location with Omega-Two in side case Defunct Brain Cylinders. It is on the desk hidden under the craft item in the room on the right after Reed enter the building.

> *If you feel you can't stand the hunger, pain, and diseases pf this world, accept my gift. The blue pill you've got in your hand is my answer to your prayers.*
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> *Take it and you'll be fed. Take it and the pain will go away. The next hour of your life will be blessed.*
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> *One pill and you'll be happy till the end of your life. I promise.*
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> *Bluebird.*
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## Nowhere to run

This note is located in an office building on Hubert Avenue in Coverside, between Asher Road and Roosevelt Street, just to the east from Oakmont Police Department. The notebook is on a middle desk facing the front of the building on the second floor.

> *There is no point running away. That blasted hollow-eyed freak always catches up, with his grin, his long black coat, and those thin crooked fingers clutching a gun. He's got a bullet with my name on it. I dodged it once. There won't be a second time. Kay, help me.*
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## Ocean

This note is located on the top floor of an apartment building on Derry Lane near Asher Road in Coverside, just before the danger zone barricade. Reed will find the notebook on a desk at the very end of the apartment.

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> *What if the ocean isn't just a mass of water? What if there is an intelligence to it?*
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> *There has to be a reason the water has taken such a toll on us. Perhaps we have angered it?*
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## Shapes

This note is located in an office building on Landing Avenue in Coverside, just across the park from St. Mary's Hospital. The notebook is on the desk behind the green locker on the second floor.

> *The shapes! The angles! Why must everything be so straight, so precise, so... sickening! I cannot even return to my own home - I'd have to pass far too many of those unnatural portals.*
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> *Two parallel lines times two and crossing each other. The symmetry! But symmetry is NOT our friend.*
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> *Is this a plan? Is this all a setup for some malevolent force to exploit?*
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## Sheet music with notes

This note is located in an flooded apartment building on Central Street in Coverside, between Lincoln Street and Roosevelt Street. Reed will find a notebook on a desk in the middle of the upper floor apartment. Similar to the Red Queen's crash site, if Reed stays too long in the apartment, his sanity level will gradually deplete.

> *Don't open the window - there's a void behind it. Don't listen to the music from outside. Don't stop playing or it'll engulf your thoughts. Be loud. As loud as you can.*
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> *You're alive until you stop making sounds.*
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> *(The sheet music is an extremely complex overture for violin. It's doubtful that anyone would be able to play it.)*
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## Sid the Liar

This note is located on the top floor of an apartment building on Victory Lane in Coverside, across from the Asylum parking lot. Reed will find it on a desk at the very end of the living room.

> *So empty here without Sid the Liar. Feels like he was just there yesterday, with that unmistakable smirk of his.*
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> *Sometimes when I'm listening to the radio, I feel like I can hear his voice. Might be just white noise - it's all garbled, after all.*
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> *Come to think of it, I hear Sid every time I'm switching stations. Weird. I hope it's not about those twenty bucks I ended up owing him.*
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## Smudged scribbles

This note is located in an infested area on Inner Shine Street in western Shells. It is a first house on the left when entering danger zone from the pier on Justice Street, just before the 'House in Shells' for the case Open House which is nearby on Hawking Lane. Charles will find the note on a coffee table in the first bedroom on the upper floor.

> *IT GOT ME FIRST*
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> *I DIED*
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> *THEN I SAW I WAS IN IT*
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> *THE BLACKS ARE RIGHT*
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> *STRANGE POWERS IN NATURE*
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> *NOW I WILL DROWN WHAT IS LEFT*
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## The last message

This note is located at a flooded house on Moorland Road in The Shells, between C. Smith Avenue and Powderhouse Street, right across from the hidden lab from the case Fleeing Phoenix. The note is on the dinning table in the very first room Reed enters.

> *I can't take anymore of this. My heart is breaking when I look into the hungry eyes of my family. They are still trying to smile, saying that someday this horror will end. But I know the truth. I think they also understand this - there's no salvation.*
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> *I've stashed a bullet for each of us. There's no need for them to know what I'm going to do.*
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> *Goodbye, my beloved. I hope you'll forgive me.*
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This is a completely difference note from the one by the same title written by Jimmy Price in Into the Depths case at the Coastal Monolith.

## I see you

After Charles has collected all the 10 notes above, there will be the final 11th note posted on Charles's room door at the Devil's Reef Hotel, greeting him with an intimidating message.

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> *You look so silly in that hat, newcomer.*
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> *I think I'll keep it. Along with your scalp.*
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