Hillthorn walkthrough

You start in a familiar corridor and a dusty office. Investigate the pocket watch in the desk drawer. Abigail knocks with a case about Olivia and Jeremiah. Accepting it opens Mount Hillthorn. If you advance the watch to 9pm and ignore the knocking, the Out of Office achievement fires. That is optional and easy to miss if you answer the door.

At the entrance you meet the idea of the Ranger, Jeremiah, and the path forward. Explore Mount Hillthorn, then cross the threshold. Winding Trails is the hub after that. Direction cards and shortcut cards live here, including the Konami input covered on the easter eggs page.

Shops and the inn are useful from 2pm to 6pm. The church sermon runs from 6pm to 9pm. Buy beer from the innkeeper with coins, talk to the tipsy patron, and pick up the dropped key. The key opens the locked door in the lonely house, and the axe is on the bench. You need that axe for the flimsy door. While the mother is in church, talking to the kid in the school is the Troublemaker achievement.

The manor wants a mask and an invitation at the gate. The mask comes from Jeremiah's house. The invitation comes from the quarry cabin window, broken with the axe. A direction clue found inside the manor points to the Suspicious Spot, rather than to the manor gate. Read it as one path of arrowheads: Left, Forward, Right, Forward, Left, Forward from Winding Trails. The completion guide identifies the destination and its antidote/paralytic cache. The full warning is on manor directions. Inside, the 6pm sermon changes who is home. The cellar lock is part of The Masquerade achievement. Matches for later fires are on the cellar shortcut after the first visit.

The quarry directions are two halves: one in the church basement, one on a table in a village house. Together they read Right, Forward, Left, Back, Left, Back from Winding Trails. See quarry directions. The cabin can ambush you; the escape lock cited by the achievement guide is 2-8-4. The suspicious spot cache holds the antidote and the paralytic. The cave route opens from here.

Bring a lit torch down the dark path. At the altar the public routes split six ways: rescue Olivia with the antidote, leave alone, join with the necklace, kill Olivia and open the ranger's trunk, save Jeremiah on a later cycle, or build the paradox. The endings page keeps those triggers apart. The scaly wall next to the altar reacts only to the axe, and only as a visual. That is one Steam thread, so I do not treat it as a seventh ending.