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Disco Elysium

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Navigate the Wrecked Hotel Room and The Lobby in Disco Elysium. Learn how to find key items, pass crucial skill checks, and interact with characters like Kim Kitsuragi to progress.

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Navigate the Wrecked Hotel Room and The Lobby in Disco Elysium. Learn how to find key items, pass crucial skill checks, and interact with characters like Kim Kitsuragi to progress.

Walkthrough
  1. 1
    Wrecked Hotel Room:
    • Awaken after dialogue with Ancient Reptilian Brain and Limbic System.
  2. 2
    Go to the bathroom, put on the White Satin Shirt.
  3. 3
    Interact with the mirror: wipe it, react to your appearance, check for pulse (+5 XP).
  4. 4
    Attempt an Encyclopedia (14) check to learn the source of "The Expression" and unlock the Guillaume Le Million thought.
  5. 5
    Quick save before interacting with the ceiling fan. Pull on the fan to make the Savoir Faire (11) check easier.
  6. 6
    Grab the Horrific Necktie from the fan.
  7. 7
    Pick up the Disco-Ass Blazer from the sofa and the Flare-Cut Trousers from the floor to find the room key.
  8. 8
    Search the floor near the reel-to-reel tape player for an Empty Cassette Case.
  9. 9
    Retrieve a Green Shoe (Left Foot) from the coat hooks.
  10. 10
    Quick save before investigating the broken window. Make a Visual Calculus (10) check to learn it was broken from the inside.
  11. 11
    Assess the impact size to realize your other shoe broke the window. Select "I should go and get that shoe" to initiate Find your other shoe (+5 XP).
  12. 12
    Head outside, ignore Klaasje. Examine the calendar (March '51).
  13. 13
    Backtrack along the balcony, search the counter for 0.34 reál.
  14. 14
    Head out the nearby door to the outside of the hotel. Find your other shoe outside the broken window.
  15. 15
    Pick up the shoe to obtain Green Snakeskin Shoes. Click the yellow thought orb for 15 XP.
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    Head back inside and downstairs to the lobby.
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    The Lobby:
    • Inspect the music stand, microphone, and speaker.
  18. 18
    Click the purple thought orb to initiate Sing Karaoke.
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    Speak to Garte, the Cafeteria Manager. Pass an Empathy check to learn he dislikes you.
  20. 20
    Search the table with the water cooler for Nosaphed.
  21. 21
    Check other lobby items, including two locked doors.
  22. 22
    Ignore the old lady in the wheelchair.
  23. 23
    Speak to Kim Kitsuragi (in the black bomber jacket).
  24. 24
    Shake his hand (optional).
  25. 25
    If you fail a Conceptualization (11) check when asked for your name, you will be named Raphaël Ambrosius Costeau.
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    Exhaust Kim's conversation options to unlock: Interview cafeteria manager and Inspect victim's body.
  27. 27
    Kim will ask if you have a badge, initiating Report your badge missing.
  28. 28
    Speak to Kim again. Ask about himself. Reply "You're right. What's there to know about a lame binoclard?" to trigger the Baddest of the Bad Cops dialogue.
  29. 29
    Get Kim to brief you on the case (+15 XP).
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    Tell him you can't remember anything and lack basic information to initiate End-of-day debrief with Kim.
  31. 31
    Tell Kim you had no idea who you were in the mirror and insist on major brain damage to initiate Call your station's lazareth.
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    Head outside to Kim's car (Coupris Kineema). Ask what it is. Tell him it's what woke you up (+5 XP).
  33. 33
    Grab the prybar, chaincutters, and flashlight from the car.
  34. 34
    Equip the prybar and head to the yard behind Whirling-in-Rags.
  35. 35
    Inspect the trash container to initiate Open trash container. Attempt (and fail) the Physical Instrument (15) check. Kick the container.
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    Return to Whirling-in-Rags and speak to the woman in yellow outside. Ask who she is and what she's doing. Ask to borrow her gloves to obtain the Yellow Gardening Gloves.
  37. 37
    Go back inside and speak to Garte. Introduce yourself as "The harbinger of ruin" and speak apocalyptically.
  38. 38
    Kim will ask if Garte made the call to the RCM, initiating Who made the call reporting the crime?.
Tips
  • Quick save before interacting with the ceiling fan and the broken window to ensure success on the associated skill checks.
  • Pay attention to the calendar date (March '51) as it may be relevant later.
  • Interacting with the mirror and checking your pulse provides a small XP boost early on.
  • The Guillaume Le Million thought is unlocked by succeeding on an Encyclopedia check after interacting with the mirror.
  • The Green Snakeskin Shoes are obtained by finding your missing shoe outside the hotel, which is linked to the Visual Calculus check about the broken window.
  • Speaking to Kim Kitsuragi and exhausting his dialogue options is crucial for unlocking new tasks and progressing the main investigation.
  • The dialogue choices with Kim regarding your memory loss and potential brain damage are key to initiating the Call your station's lazareth task.
  • Remember to grab the prybar, chaincutters, and flashlight from Kim's car before proceeding.
  • The Yellow Gardening Gloves can be obtained from the woman in yellow sitting outside the Whirling-in-Rags.
  • XP for various skill checks and actions.
  • Unlock of the Guillaume Le Million thought.
  • Initiation of several key quests: Find your other shoe, Sing Karaoke, Interview cafeteria manager, Inspect victim's body, Report your badge missing, End-of-day debrief with Kim, Call your station's lazareth, Open trash container, Who made the call reporting the crime?.
  • Key items: White Satin Shirt, Horrific Necktie, Disco-Ass Blazer, Flare-Cut Trousers, Empty Cassette Case, Green Shoe (Left Foot), Green Snakeskin Shoes, Nosaphed, prybar, chaincutters, flashlight, Yellow Gardening Gloves.

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