Notes:Laura Bow in the Dagger of Amon Ra

This page contains notes for the game Laura Bow in the Dagger of Amon Ra.

To do: flags

Items

• 0 - Coupon
• 1 - Claim ticket
• 2 - Notebook
• 3 - Sandwich
• 4 - Baseball
• 5 - Desk key
• 6 - Press pass
• 7 - Pocket watch
• 8 - Skeleton key
• 9 - Meat
• 10 - Wire cutters
• 11 - Dagger of Amon Ra
• 12 - Work boot
• 13 - Smelling salts
• 14 - Snake oil
• 15 - Lantern
• 16 - Cheese
• 17 - Garter
• 18 - Dinosaur bone
• 19 - Snake lasso
• 20 - Ankh medallion
• 21 - Pippin's notepad
• 22 - Magnifying glass
• 23 - Lightbulb
• 24 - Watney's police file
• 25 - Warthog hairs
• 26 - Bifocals
• 27 - Red hair
• 28 - Water glass
• 29 - Carbon paper
• 30 - Yvette's shoe
• 31 - Grapes
• 32 - Evening gown
• 33 - Charcoal
• 34 - Wire
• 35 - Mummy

Rooms

• 18 - Egypt quiz copy protection
• 26 - Act title
• 29 - Debug
• 99 - Death room
• 100 - Start menu
• 105 - Sierra logo
• 210 - Street outside news office
• 220 - Mr. Augustini's office intro scene
• 230 - News office
• 235 - Desk close-up
• 240 - Docks
• 250 - Taxi
• 260 - Outside laundry
• 270 - Laundry shop
• 280 - Outside police station
• 290 - Police station
• 300 - Outside speakeasy
• 310 - Speakeasy
• 320 - Speakeasy bathroom
• Leyendecker Museum
  • 330 - Outside
  • 335 - Front entrance
  • 340 - Party conversations (testRoom.sc)
  • 350 - Central rotunda (pharaoh bust)
  • 355 - Central rotunda for Act 3 intro
  • 360 - Rotunda west
  • 370 - Rotunda east
  • 400 - Gift shop
  • 420 - Dinosaur exhibit skeletons
  • 430 - Dinosaur exhibit pterodactyl
  • 435 - Pterodactyl victim close-up
  • 440 - Medieval armor exhibit south
  • 448 - Medieval armor exhibit north
  • 450 - Ancient Egypt exhibit east
  • 454 - Ancient Egypt exhibit west
  • 455 - Sarcophagus corpse close-up
  • 456 - Rosetta Stone close-up
  • 460 - Storage room
  • 480 - Dinosaur exhibit t-rex
  • 490 - Life mask exhibit
  • 495 - Mask corpse close-up
  • 500 - Art gallery
  • 505 - Statue corpse close-up
  • 510 - Statue gallery
  • 520 - Dr. Olympia Myklos' office
  • 525 - Desk victim close-up
  • 530 - Spiral staircase
  • 550 - Dr. Yvette Delacroix's office
  • 560 - Dr. Archibald Carrington's office
  • 565 - Desk corpse close-up
  • 600 - Downstairs hallway (lantern)
  • 610 - Alcoholic preservation laboratory (big green vats)
  • 620 - Vat fishing close-up
  • 630 - Mammalogy laboratory (crates, flesh eating bugs)
  • 640 - Ernie Leach's office
  • 650 - Security chief Heimlich's office
  • 660 - Elevator
  • 666 - Secret passage
  • 700 - Mummy storage room
  • 710 - Sacrificial chamber west
  • 715 - Sacrificial chamber east (sphinx)
  • 720 - Furnace room
  • 730 - Tunnel from furnace room west (snakes)
  • 740 - Tunnel east (rats)
• 750 - Coroner's inquest
• 760 - Laura's front page news
• 770 - Prison scene
• 790 - Laura murdered in bed ending scene (yikes!)

Flags

To do: finish regular flags

• 1 - Pippin murdered
• 2 - Ziggy murdered
• 3 - Watney murdered
• 4 - Ernie murdered
• 5 - Yvette murdered
• 6 - Countess murdered
• 7 - Gave sandwich to cop
• 8 - Moved guy sleeping in front of police station
• 9 - Met Steve at docks
• 10 - Broke lantern compartment glass
• 11 - Disarmed Heimlich's trap
• 12 - Put meat in trunk
• 13 - Trunk is open
• 14 - Fridge door is open
• 15 - Related to Ernie kicking Laura out of his office???
• 16 - Ferret in downstairs hallway
• 17 - Overheard intercom in Ernie's office, prior to finding dagger
• 18 - Entered Ernie's office. Clears after 11:15pm and 1:45am events
• 19 - Ernie's toolbox open
• 20 - Searched vat 1st time and inhaled fumes
• 21 - Searched vat 2nd time and inhaled more fumes, dead next time
• 22 - Got dagger
• 23 - Gave press pass to Heimlich to enter museum
• 24 - Entered speakeasy bathroom 1st time and got hit on
• 25 - Entered museum central rotunda from south
• 26 - Entered dirty taxi 1st time
• 27 - Got laundry claim ticket
• 28 - Saw sandwich vendor while holding coupon
• 29 - Unlocked Laura's desk drawer
• 30 - Sitting at Laura's desk
• 34 - Passed copy protection test
• 35 - Used charcoal on Pippin's notepad
• 36 - Saw O'Riley & Heimlich scene at life mask exhibit
• 37 - Tried to pick up life mask head? Saw close-up?
• 39 - Opened window above employee storage room door
• 44 - Got wire
• 46 - Tossed cheese into tunnel exit on right, leading rats into t-rex mouth
• 48 - Tried to get snake oil and Olympia intervened
• 51 - Pushed Olympia's intercom button and overhead conversation
• 52 - Pushed Yvette's intercom button and overheard conversation
• 53 - Pushed Ernie's intercom button and overheard conversation between Ziggy and Ernie
• 57 - Heard intercom message (from Olympia?) in Heimlich's office
• 62 - Entered Olympia's "meanwhile" scene
• 64 - Got lightbulb
• 67 - Saw Ernie's corpse close-up
• 71 - Kicked out of gift shop by Heimlich
• 72 - Saw Ziggy's corpse close-up
• 80 - Put cobra back in cage
• 85 - In Act 3: entered art gallery from north after 2:15am ($2140) and told gang about Ernie's murder
• 91 - Related to seeing Act 3 intro?
• 92 - Saw first past of Olympia's "meanwhile" scene
• 116 - Moved chair in front of employee storage room door
• 118 - Told Ziggy that Crodfoller sent you
• 119 - Pushed button in Ernie's office, secret passage is open
• 120 - Emerged from behind tapestry and greeted Countess after spying on her

Points

To do: update list and point values

1000 total:

• 128 - Get press pass (1)
• 129 - Trade baseball with kids for magnifying glass (1)
• 130 - Meet Steve at the docks? (1)
• 131 - Talk to Ziggy at speakeasy (1)
• 132 - Put on evening gown (1)
• 133 - Smooch Steve (1)
• 134 - Find Pippin's body and see close-up (1)
• 135 - Get Pippin's notepad (1)
• 136 - Use magnifier on ankh medallion
• 137 - Use magnifier on Rosetta Stone in Egypt exhibit
• 138 - Push button to hear Rex talk (1)
• 139 - Get dinosaur bone (1)
• 141 - Get snake lasso (1)
• 142 - Flip Thinker statue switch (1)
• 143 - See pterodactyl corpse close-up (1)
• 144 - Find life mask corpse and exit close-up, or see following scene with O'Riley and Heimlich
• 145 - Get wire cutters (1)
• 146 - Get skeleton key (1)
• 147 - Look inside trunk (1)
• 148 - Get pocket watch (1)
• 149 - Overhear Countess meeting (1)
• 150 - Get or look at boot (1)
• 151 - Catch O'Riley with Rex (1)
• 152 - Get cheese (1)
• 153 - Get garter (1)
• 154 - Use glass to eavesdrop on Ernie's office (1)
• 155 - Get Dagger of Amon Ra (1)
• 156 - Correctly answer 1st riddle (1)
• 157 - Correctly answer 2nd riddle (2)
• 158 - See Ernie's corpse (1)
• 159 - Get warthog hairs (1)
• 160 - Get red hair (1)
• 161 - Use bone to smash statue plaster (1)
• 162 - Get bifocals (1)
• 163 - Examine Countess' corpse to enter close-up
• 164 - Use snake oil and lasso to put cobra back in cage (1)
• 165 - Get grapes (1)
• 166 - Get smelling salts (1)
• 167 - Replace light bulb (1)
• 168 - Get pocket watch and trigger 1:45am (1)
• 169 - Examine bloody paper cutter (1)
• 170 - Use lit lamp to read carbon paper (1)
• 171 - See Watney's corpse (1)
• 172 - Get Watney's police file (1)
• 173 - Examine Carrington's desk calendar (1)
• 174 - Read diary in Carrington's safe (1)
• 175 - Get coal (1)
• 176 - Walk in on O'Riley and Yvette in her office (1)
• 177 - Walk in on backup in Yvette's office (1)
• 178 - Get Yvette's shoe (1)

Times

These are events when (usually) the clock appears on screen, and are basically used as flags.

• $0001 - Entered sacrificial chamber east, OR got press pass in Act 1
• $0002 - Met Steve at docks, overheard Carter & Tut convo in Act 2, OR caught O'Riley in Act 5
• $0004 - Got magnifying glass
• $0008 - Talked to Ziggy, OR step outside the museum with Steve in Act 2
• $0010 - Changed into gown, overheard O'Riley & Tut convo during Act 2, OR got grapes in Act 4 or later
• $7001 (7:00pm) - Gave press pass to Heimlich
• $7204 (7:30pm) - Examined real dagger in gift shop
• $8120 (8:15pm) - Found sarcophagus corpse
• $a000 (10:00pm) - Began Act 3
• $a101 (10:15pm) - Used charcoal on notepad, then entered east Egypt exhibit during Act 3
• $b102 (11:15pm) - Found pterodactyl corpse during Act 3, OR looked at life mask corpse after seeing body
• $c304 (12:45am) - Found Carrington's office corpse in Act 3
• $1008 (1:00am) - Eavesdropped on Countess in armor exhibit in Act 3
• $1310 (1:45am) - Got Carrington's pocket watch
• $2020 (2:00am) - Eavesdropped on Olympia in armor exhibit in Act 3
• $2140 (2:15am) - Found mammoth skeleton corpse in Act 3
• $0080 - Got dagger in Act 3
• $2301 (2:45am) - Saw Steve & Yvette's meeting in statue gallery in Act 4
• $3002 (3:00am) - Left vat room in Act 4
• $3104 (3:15am) - Used bone to smash plaster on statue corpse in Act 4 or later
• $4108 (4:15am) - Found Olympia's office desk corpse
• $001f - Entered Olympia's office holding grapes in Act 4

Global

• 12 - gPrevRoomNum
• 111 - Conversation state. Sets which (usually) non-essential events you see or overhear throughout the museum
• 123 - gAct (0-5)
• 124 - gMustDos, tracks clock event state
• 125 - gClockTimeMustDos, related to clock events
• 128 - States of groups of partygoers during Act 2. Increments by 1 after each eavesdrop
• 145 - Death message number