Tome Alone is the second case in The Darkside Detective (Season 1) by Spooky Doorway. Kongregate(free demo). Steam (paid full).
To get a better understanding or just for fun, you can read all the dialogues but the ones listed below are (mostly) those necessary to solve the case.
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Dooley suggested a visit to the library. He must have seen the strange storm gathering over it.
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Outside
After the dialogue, click the door to go inside.
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First Floor
Lobby
Librarian
What were you saying about ghosts?
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Office
Interact
– Office Supplies, on table between the computer and the officer (+Scissors)
– Coat Rack, next to the door to Lobby (+Button)
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Second Floor
Sci Fi/Fantasy (take the elevator in the lobby to 2nd floor)
Interact
– Library Card, the blue rectangle with a white pixel on the ground by the book shelf on the left (+Old Library Card)
– Rocket, left side of the room, on the wall above the book shelf (+Metal Strip)
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Children’s Section
Interact with the Viewmaster next to the blue Dinosaur (+Viewmaster)
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Third Floor
Microfilm Room (Reading Room → Microfilm Room)
Use (drag item from top left corner to the desired location)
– Scissors on Box of Microfilm
– Viewmaster on Cut Up Microfilm (same box)
Interact
View the microfilms (click right arrow once you’re ready to move to the next)moshimushi.wordpress.com
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Reading Room
Talk to Yeats
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Microfilm Room
Talk to Crowley
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Reading Room
Talk to Raxa (+Admin Password)moshimushi.wordpress.com
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Microfilm Room
– Use Admin Password on Computer
– Talk to Crowley
Reading Room
Talk to Yeats and he’ll reveal, “One of the books in the L section is a lever.”
Hobby/DIY
– Take the glue on the table (+Glue)
– Use Metal Strip on Button (+Conductive Button)
– Use Button on Gail, he will help fix the elevator button
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Fourth Floor
Horror
After Poe and Lovecraft’s argument, talk to Poe.
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Second Floor
Children’s Section
Talk to Blyton
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First Floor
Office
– Use Glue on Old Library Card (+Sticky Library Card)
– Interact with the photocopier (+Photocopy)
– Use Photocopy on Sticky Library Card (+Fake Library Card)
Lobby
– Use Fake Library Card on Librarian (+Trashy Novel)
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Fourth Floor
Horror
Use Trashy Novel on Poe or Lovecraft.
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Second Floor
Children’s Section
Talk to Blyton (+Lovecraft Novel)
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Fourth Floor
Horror
– Place Lovecraft Novel in the middle bookshelf
– The lever is roughly in the middle section (what used to be K-L section) of the middle bookshelf. Pull it.
– Enter Spooky Doorway
Hidden Room
– Take the skull next to Shelley and the books (+Skull)
– Drop Skull into Crawl Space, the vent next to Shelley
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Second Floor
Children’s Section
The skull landed here. After the dialogue (+Roof Key)
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Fourth Floor
Hallway
Use Roof Key on window.
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Outside
Balcony
Climb up the ladder.
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Roof
Interact with the Junction Box. You need to reroute the power. Click to move the tiles in the order shown below. (There may be a shorter method but anyway this is what I did.)
You should end up with this:
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Fourth Floor
Hidden Room
Close the book.
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Case Closed: He did not see the storm. I did get to meet some personal heroes and get a kid’s life back on track, however. That’s why I do this job. That and keeping the forces of evil at bay, I guess.
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