Locate all 122 audio diaries in BioShock's Rapture. This guide details each diary's speaker and exact location, helping you earn the Historian achievement.
This section contains lists of audio-diaries, plasmids, gene tonics, and other important items which can be found in Rapture.
A. LIST OF AUDIO-DIARIES
There are a total of 122 audio-diaries in Rapture. If you collect them all you will earn the Historian achievement, which is worth 50 GP. All the audio-diaries are listed in this section, along with their speaker and where to find them.
WELCOME TO RAPTURE (2)
- New Year's Eve Alone (Diane McClintock) - on the table in the pool of water in the basement of the Kashmir restaurant.
- Hole in Bathroom Wall (Steve Barker) - on the rubble at the back of the women's bathroom in the Kashmir restaurant.
MEDICAL PAVILION (17)
- Released Today (Diane McClintock) - on the receptionist's table in the foyer of the Medical Plaza.
- Adam's Changes (Dr. Steinman) - on the desk past the first corner in Emergency Access.
- Higher Standards (Dr. Steinman) - on the wall at the entrance to the Medical Pavilion, past the door with the ghost scene.
- Limits of Imagination (Dr. Steinman) - on the south wall of the main area of the Medical Pavilion.
- Love for Science (Tenenbaum) - on a storage crate next to the medical station in the main area of the Medical Pavilion.
- Parasite Expectation (Andrew Ryan) - on the desk behind the wall immediately in front of you as you enter the main Medical Pavilion area.
- Vandalism (Andrew Ryan) - in the alcove on the north side of the main Medical Pavilion area, sitting on a chair next to a vending machine.
- Freezing Pipes (McDonagh) - in the ice pile at the entrance to Dental Services.
- Surgery's Picasso (Dr. Steinman) - hanging underneath the photograph to your left as you enter the Eternal Flame crematorium.
- Useless Experiments (Tenenbaum) - on the floor in front of the door to Dandy Dental in the Dental Services area.
- Testing Telekinesis (Dr. Suchong) - at the control panel for the tennis machine in the Dandy Dental clinic.
- Plasmids are the Paint (Dr. Suchong) - on the desk in the SE corner of the Painless Dental operating room in the Dental Services area.
- Enrage Trial (Dr. Suchong) - in the back room of the Kure-All clinic in the Dental Services area.
- Symmetry (Dr. Steinman) - on the wall next to the corpse in the wheelchair immediately past the debris blocking the area into Dr. Steinman's area.
- Aphrodite Walking (Dr. Steinman) - on the cabinet next to the operating table in the side room down the hall to the Dr. Steinman encounter.
- Not What She Wanted (Dr. Steinman) - on the corpse on the operating table in the room where you fight Dr. Steinman.
- Gatherer Vulnerability (Dr. Steinman) - leaning against a briefcase by the Gatherer's Garden machine after your first little sister encounter.
NEPTUNE'S BOUNTY (19)
- Bathysphere Keys (Sullivan) - behind a turret underneath the wharf at the south end of the lower wharf area.
- Timmy H. Interrogation (Sullivan) - in the interrogation room underneath the Fontaine Fisheries sign - see the walkthrough for more details.
- Fontaine Must Go (Andrew Ryan) - in a crawlspace underneath the hallway leading up to the upper wharf.
- Finding the Sea Slug (Tenenbaum) - on a fish cleaning table across from the door to the upper wharf, near where you find the third little sister.
- Masha Come Home (Mariska Lutz) - on the floor on the west side of the first upper wharf room, beneath the hole where the little sister crawls out of.
- Picked Up Timmy H. (Sullivan) -
- Watch Fontaine (Andrew Ryan) - near the vending machine at the foot of the stairs on the way to the wharfmaster's office.
- Have My Badge (Sullivan) - in the room through a crawlway in the jail in the wharfmaster's office.
- ADAM Discovery (Tenenbaum) - on a crate on the west wall of the room you jump down to from the wharfmaster's office.
- Eden Leaking (McDonagh) - right through the door past the sign to Fighting McDonagh's/Jet Postal, near the last diary.
- Fontaine's Smugglers (Tenenbaum) - on the bench underneath the security camera in the tunnel to Fighting McDonagh's/Jet Postal.
- Death Penalty in Rapture (Andrew Ryan) - on a desk immediately to the left of the entrance to Jet Postal.
- Smuggling Ring (Sullivan) - on a table underneath the 123 Beer sign in the Fighting McDonagh's.
- Working Late Again (Andrew Ryan) - on a table near the window in the Fighting McDonagh's.
- Rapture Changing (McDonagh) - in the basement of the Fighting McDonagh's bar.
- Meeting Ryan (McDonagh) - in the crawlspace behind the bar in the Fighting McDonagh's.
- Saw Masha Today (Mariska Lutz) - in a room on the top floor of the Fighting McDonagh's.
- Arresting Fontaine (McDonagh) - in a room on the top floor of the Fighting McDonagh's.
- Putting the Screws On (Peach Wilkins) - in the east room of the basement of the freezer after the Peach Wilkins fight, next to a safe.
SMUGGLER'S HIDEOUT (3)
- Meeting with Fontaine (Peach Wilkins) - in the storage cave, leaning against some crates by the turret.
- Kraut Scientist (Frank Fontaine) - in a side room in the staircase leading from the control room to the main submarine bay.
- Offered a Deal (Peach Wilkins) - in the hallway leading to Arcadia.
ARCADIA (16)
- Seeing Ghosts (McDonagh) - next to a park bench in the entrance area.
- Big Night Out (Dieter Sonnekalb) - next to a park bench in the Arcadia Glens antechamber area.
- Mass Producing ADAM (Tenenbaum) - next to the chair and knocked over table in the Arcadia Glens antechamber area.
- Arcadia Closed (Julie Langford) - in the gardener's supplies storage area where you fight the first Houdini splicer, on a table by the Gene Bank.
- The Market is Patient (Andrew Ryan) - on a park bench near the entrance to Waterfall Grotto.
- Offer a Better Product (Andrew Ryan) - on a brick in the flooded area at the bottom of Waterfall Grotto.
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