Loco Motive Walkthrough – Part 2: Burden of Proof

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Walkthrough Table of Contents

1. Prologue: Adversary Proceeding & Part 1: The Late Lady Unterwald
2. Part 2: Burden of Proof
3. Part 3: The Curious Case of Mr Liu (In progress!)
4. Part 4: Contributory Negligence (In progress!)
5. Part 5: Family Division (In progress!)
6. Part 6: False Pretences (In progress!)
7. Finale: Dispute Resolution (In progress!)

Welcome to the Into Indie Games walkthrough for Loco Motive.

This is a point-to-point walkthrough that takes you through the critical path to completing the game. Loco Motive has a lot more to offer apart from the steps outlined in this walkthrough, so we highly recommend that you explore and interact with its world as much as possible.

For more information on Loco Motive beyond this walkthrough, check out the official website here.

Part Two: Burden of Proof

• Begin by talking to the fashionable woman in white, Diana Osterhagen.
• In your inventory, inspect the napkin you received to find that it’s written in invisible ink.
• There’s nothing we can do about it for now, so head back to Lady Unterwald’s quarters.
• After talking to Dr Hirsch, investigate the rug on the floor.

• Talk to Dr Hirsch about his missing briefcase. Continue asking about the briefcase, and then the red curtain.
• Ask about the secret society, and how you can become a member. Then, ask if Dr Hirsch can teach you the handshake.
• This done, exit the quarters and go to the casino carriage.
• Notice the red curtains between the two goons and interact with them.

• Respond in any way to be rejected from the secret society (for now).
• Now go to the dining carriage. Talk to the artist here.
• Ask him about finding a new muse and continue to ask about work for hire.
• Return to the casino carriage and talk to the cashier at the right-hand-side end of the carriage.
• Grab your cash and return to the dining carriage.
• Give your cash to the artist.

• After the sequence, return to Lady Unterwald’s quarters and give the sketches to Dr Hirsch.
• After learning the responses, return to the red curtain in the casino carriage.
• Interact with the red curtain and use the right rhyming response. After getting all four right, you’ll enter the secret society area.
• Talk to the hooded club member reading the yellow book, and ask about the book.

• Head to the sleeper carriage, and enter Don’s room through the broken door.
• Grab the yellow book of poetry on the bed, and then return to the secret society.
• Use the poetry journal on the invisibility book to swap them.
• In your inventory, read the book you’ve acquired to learn that you need to apply gentle heat to the napkin to reveal its message.

• Now talk to the waiter here and ask about the kitchen and the doctor’s briefcase.
• Talk to Mr Masson, the bearded man on the green sofa. Ask him about the briefcase.
• Talk to the waiter again and ask about Mr Masson. Continue to ask about what Mr Masson has been drinking and how you can acquire it.

• Return to Lady Unterwald’s quarters and grab the rose petals from the bed on the right side of the screen.
• Exit to the lounge carriage and talk to the twins standing to the right of the stage.
• Mention that Lady Unterwald must have spoken highly of both.
• When their mother approaches them, grab the hearing horn she leaves on the table, while she’s away.

• Return to the dining carriage and pick up the ‘recorker’, which is sitting on the bar next to the barkeep.
• In your inventory, use the recorker on the ‘ear trumpet’.
• Hand over the petal leaves from your inventory to the bartender.
• Then, hand over the perfumed letter to him.
• Once you get your Bud Lite, use it on the corked hearing horn.

• Now go to the sleeper carriage and enter your own quarters.
• Inspect the blue mouthwash next to the sink.
• Take the mouthwash and in your inventory, combine it with the hearing horn.
• Open your inventory again and drink the Rosebud.
• Once you’re in the secret society area again, talk to Mr Masson.
• Ask him about the briefcase to get the storage room keys and then exit the room.

• Now head over to the sleeper carriage and use the storage room key on the storage room door.
• Pick up the briefcase on the floor to the left.
• Exit the storage room and go left to find the twins trying to get into Herman’s room.
• Give them the briefcase.
• In your inventory, inspect the medical records to find Lady Unterwald’s date of birth: 13/06/35.

• You can use this date on Lady Unterwald’s safe to clear the first lock, if you’d like to do that now.
• Next, to solve the mystery of the invisible ink, go to the kitchen.
• Talk to the chef to the far left, near the grill.
• Then, enter the pantry to the left of the kitchen.
• Break off a piece of the cheese on the left of the screen.

• Return to the kitchen and pick up the oven gloves that were formerly blocked by the chef by the grill.
• Now we need to plug up all the rat holes in the train.
• First, use your recorker on the hole to the right of the kitchen.

• Second, go to Don’s Quarters in the sleeper carriage and plug the hole below the light switch.
• Third, go to the secret society room and plug the hole to the left of the table.
• Head to the storage room and use the cheese on the chewed up fence.
• Then, while the mouse is eating the cheese, use the oven gloves on the mouse.

• Now go to the grill in the kitchen and use the napkin from your inventory on the pan on the stovetop.
• Head back to the sleeper carriage now and use the lightly toasted note on the door to Room 306 (leftmost door in the carriage).
• Talk to Diana thoroughly.

• Then, ask her about the wire reels on the table to get one.
• Exit and go to Don’s Quarters, where you’ll find the recorder on the floor. Grab it.
• Use the empty wire reel from Diana’s room on the recorder.

• Exit Don’s Quarters and go to the far right of the sleeper carriage to find an onboard telephone.
• Use the recorder on the telephone.
• You’re now ready to open the safe, so go back to Lady Unterwald’s quarters.
• Examine the locks on the safe.
• Here, enter Lady Unterwald’s date of  birth as the code: 130635.
• Then, use the recorder from your inventory on the voice lock.
• After several sequences, you’ll be in Herman’s room. Open the window here.

• In your inventory, combine the broken wire hanger with Lady Unterwald’s cane.
• Then, use the cane on the lost will.

• After the sequences that follow, Part 2 will conclude.

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