Amnesia: The Dark Descent Walkthrough: Prison – Northern Block

You’re in a tunnel. Keep moving forward. You’ll reach a fork in the
tunnel. The left path is blocked, so choose the path to your right. You’ll
find that the exit is blocked by rocks. Grab and throw the little rocks
away and push the bigger one outside. Get out and you’ll be in the main
hallway.

You have two choices, go left or go right. Choose left for now. The sign
on the wall says it leads to the Storage. Keep moving. Go up the stairs
and move along. You’ll find that ahead of you is blocked by rocks, and
to your left is very dark. Move forward and you’ll hear a growl. Turn out
your lantern and hide near the rocks. It could be a monster, or maybe just
sound. Anyway when you’re comfortable again, go into that dark hallway.

The sign above says “Cell Area 3″. Move on. You’ll reach another hall
where you can go left or right. The sign on the wall points to the right
and says “Storage”. Choose to go right into the storage. The hall will
turn left, and then you’ll have two choices. Go straight or go right.
Choose to go right and a flashback occurs. You’ll also notice that there’s
an open door. Go inside that room quickly and turn out your lantern! A
monster will be bursting through the door in front of our room! Just
hide in a corner and wait for the monster to do his own wandering.

After a minute or two, it should be safe again. In the room where you are
currently hiding, check the table. There’s a tinderbox and a note. Grab
the tinderbox then read the note.

The note just states how guilty Daniel feels because everybody he has
approached about the orb has died. Anyway, let’s designate this room as
our hiding place for this part of the game.

Get out of this room then enter the room in front of us.

***WARNING*****************************************************************
If the room in front of us still has its door intact, then the monster is
still there! In order to make the monster go away, just nudge at the door
to get its attention, then run back to our hiding place and hide. You’ll
hear it destroy its door and then it’ll wander around.
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Inside the room where the monster was, is a wreck. There’s another room
inside so go in. There’s a bottle of oil inside so take it. On the far
left corner of the little room is a tinderbox. It’s hard to see because
it’s fallen and near a cloth.

Anyway get out of that room where the monster was and turn right. Move
on and then turn right again and continue. You’ll have two options, move
forward or turn right. To the right is just a door with a strong padlock.
We can’t open it with anything so don’t bother going right for now. Just
go forward and move on.

You’ll have two ways to go again, forward or to the right. Choose to go to
the right and move forward. You’ll find two doors to your left and to your
right. Enter the door to your right. A flashback occurs. It’s just about
a guy who’s now regretting what he’s done in prison. Under the table is
a tinderbox.

Get out of the room and go inside the room in front of you. Yikes! There’s
a dead guy slumped over! He’s naked too! Anyway, go check the floor and
you’ll find a bottle of oil. Grab the tinderbox under the dead guy too.

Get out of the room and turn left then move on straight into the room at
the end of the hall. There’s a note on the ground, read it. It just talks
about Daniel’s meeting with Alexander.

When you’re done reading, face the hall and move forward again. You might
hear a monster growl but don’t worry, there doesn’t seem to be anything
around.

You’ll have two choices again, turn left or turn right. Choose to go right.
Move along the hall and there’s two ways you can go. Forward to the
Storage or right to the Kitchen. Turn right and move on. You’re back
to where there are boulders blocking the path to the left, and you can
only go right. Go right and move on.

Go down the stairs and you might encounter a monster! Turn back and then
go right to the Storage. Go back to the room where we hid in when there
was another monster in the other room and it broke through the door. Let’s
wait here for a minute or two.

Get out of the room that we’re hiding in. Now that the Kitchen monster is
gone, we can find something that we need. From our hiding place, turn
right and move forward.

We have two options, turn left or right. Turn right and head down the
stairs. You’ll find a room. Enter it.

Inside this room, to your left you’ll find a chest. Open it and get one
bottle of oil and two tinderboxes. The shelf on the right also has two
tinderboxes for you. In the middle shelf is big Glass Jar. Take the
Glass Jar.

Get out of the room and go up the stairs. Careful, there might be a
monster. If there’s a monster, just go back down and hide in the room
until it’s gone.

When you reach the top of the stairs, turn left and move on. Turn left
again. Follow the hall and then choose to turn left. You’re back to the
area with rocks on the left.

Turn right and continue forward. Continue down the stairs and move on.
We’re now back to the starting area where there is a hole we crawled out
from. Move forward.

We have two choices, forward or turn right. To the right, we still can’t
open the gate and the door won’t budge, so don’t bother. Move forward
and we’re going to the Kitchen. Move up the stairs and open the door.

We’re now inside the kitchen. Look at the table on the right and there’s
a note. Read it.

The note speaks about Daniel being advised by Alexander on what really is
going on with the orb and the shadow. Alexander tells him that the shadow
is very slow as it hunts Daniel down, but it kills everything and anyone
who’s been in contact with him. Daniel suggests about throwing it away,
but Alexander tells him that he would still be part of the orb and the
shadow will still hunt him.

After reading the note, check the fireplace to the left of the room, you
can take the bottle of oil there. As you approach the center of the room,
you will hear a loud growl! A monster is coming!

Quickly run to where the boiling green thing is at the far end of the room
and turn left. There are pigs hanging from chains again! Quickly crouch
and hide in the corner where the pigs are hanging. The monster eventually
breaks down the door to the kitchen. Just let around a minute or two pass
by as soon as the monster is inside.

Once the monster is gone, you can leave your corner and go to the boiling
green stuff in the drum. Open your inventory and choose the Glass Jar.
Use the Glass Jar on the boiling green stuff in the drum. Now, you have
a Glass Jar of Acid! We’ll be able to weaken the locks and finally leave
this place!

Before leaving the kitchen, check the shelf near the boiling green stuff.
There’s a Laudanum here. Make your way back and check the other shelf
in the middle of the room that you haven’t seen yet. There are two
tinderboxes here.

Get out of the kitchen and move down the stairs. Move forward. Now we
have two choices, forward or turn left. Move forward. Turn right and
move up the stairs.

Turn right and continue on. We’re back to where the rocks are blocking
the way. Turn left and continue. Turn right and continue to the
storage.

We now have two choices again, forward or right. Continue forward. As
we move along, we meet two choices again, forward or right. Turn right
and continue up to the end of the hall where there is a gate. Pick up
the tinderbox on the ground near the gate.

Open your inventory and use the Glass Jar of Acid on the gate. After the
locks are weakened, use the Hammer and Chipper on the gate. As soon as the
lock breaks, a monster will spot you! Quickly open the gate, close it,
then enter the door to the Cistern!