【Tales of the Neon Sea Walkthrough and Guide】Chapter 2.1：The Art of the Hangover Cure

[b]The Art of the Hangover Cure

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You'll find yourself back in your apartment, with a hangover. BB-X is still incapacitated, which means you'll have to find a way to cure your hangover yourself.

Move to the left, and examine your bookshelf. You'll find a missable Text & Image File, so be sure to do this.

Move to the right, next to your creepy red-and-black plague doctor costume. Examine the mini-fridge, and you'll find that you're out of hangover medicine.

You'll remember that you've put a copy of the recipe on the wall by the stairs, but first enter the Bathroom. Examine the locker at the far right side twice to unlock another File.Exit the Bathroom and head back into the 2F Corridor, then move to the right.

Here, you'll find a giant poster with the recipe on it. This is another Text & Image File, so you can consult the recipe wherever and whenever you need to.

First off, you'll have to search for Worry-Free Herb.

Start by heading downstairs. Enter the Living Room, and you'll find...something odd happening.

Anyway, move over to the left. On the ground under the 'wanted' poster, you'll find the place your Worry Free Herbsshould be...but they're gone. With bite marks...

Continue left and examine the photo on the bookshelf. This is another missable Text & Image File.

Head through the noren curtain doorway to enter the Kitchen, where you'll find your ol' pal Falkenburg sleeping next to the washer/dryer combo! This sleepy cat has your Worry-Free Herbs, but you'll need to rouse him from his deep slumber yet again.

Head back out to the Living Room and examine a new hotspot in front of the fireplace (in the center of the spicy catnip action) to grab some Cat Food.

Go back to the Kitchen and use the Cat Food on Falkenburg.

The fresh Worry-Free Herb is now yours for the taking. Grab it, then head back upstairs to the Workshop in the attic.

To the far right of the room, past the suit of armor, you'll find another missable Text & Image File.

To the left, feel free to interact with BB-X. He'll attempt to restart, but will fail (also, he's still smoking. Hasn't it been a full day now?).

A bit past BB-X, you'll find a Chemistry Lab where you can mix up the drugs.

Interact with it to start mixing!

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Mixing the Drug[/b]

The lab contains three instruments: Mortar and Pestle, Funnel, and Burner. When you interact with any of these, you can choose any of your available ingredients below (starting with Powder E, Solvent M, Normal Saline and Worry Free Herb) to add to the instrument. If you choose correctly, you will often trigger a simple minigame that you can complete to produce new ingredients that will ultimately create... the Sobering Drug.

You'll find the recipe below, to use as a reference. If you need any help, you'll also find some instructions written below.

1.Interact with the Mortar and Pestle (the thing on the left) and add Worry Free Herb to it.

2.Interact with the Mortar and Pestle again to make a gauge appear. Repeatedly press the Confirm hotkey until the cursor reaches past halfway into purple area of the gauge. You should receive some Powdered Worry-Free Herb.

3.Interact with the Funnel and add the Powdered Worry-Free Herb and Normal Saline. Interact with the Funnel again to receive the Worry-Free Herb Blending Agent.

4.Interact with the Funnel and add Solvent M and Powder E. Interact with the Funnel again to receive the EM Mixture.

5.Interact with the Burner and add the Worry-Free Herb Blending Agent and EM Mixture.Interact with the Burner again, then press and Hold down the Confirm hotkey until the mercury level in the thermometer reaches the top.

With that, you'll have your Sobering Drug, and Rex will immediately take it. 

You'll get a phone call from Royde, then a text message from Brayden (whom you spoke to inside the Washroom at the Fantasy Jellyfish Bar last night). Read through the entire message, then exit when finished 

Watch the scenes. When you regain control of Rex, examine the Parcel now sitting before you, then examine the mysterious object you find inside. After a short scene, you'll have the option of heading straight to the Repair Shop, or sticking around the Mist Detective Agency to wrap up any loose ends. We highly recommend you choose to stick around first!

To the left, you'll find another missable Text & Image File on the ground.

You should notice that the previously-covered whiteboard to the right of BB-X is now fully exposed. Be sure to Examine it for another File!

Feel free to read all the reports on the whiteboard if desired for some background story on the serial killer Noa. See if you can spot the cameo of a certain go-go-gadget-powered Inspector!