St. Polycarp's Cathedral
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| St. Polycarp's Cathedral | |
Region |
Ocean City |
Unlocked by |
Wandering |
St. Polycarp's Cathedral can be found just east of Plunkett Street in Ocean City.
Quests
Inside, the vicar tells you an urn has been stolen from the catacomb beneath the cathedral.
- Agree to help and head to the catacomb to investigate.
- Check the guest book to learn one Captain Augustus Durch was a recent visitor and add his house to your map.
- (Charles also signed the guest book, and you can ask him about it to obtain a Gargoyle charm. You can also sign the book yourself, though it has no effect on the game.)
Travel to Captain Durch's House. He refuses to let you in just yet.
- Examine a stone toward the right and jot down the date written on it: 11/10/82.
Go to Plunkett Street.
- Look though the newspaper archives for the year 1882.
- You learn Durch was the captain of a wrecked ship, the Porquod, and its only survivor.
- While you're here, buy a pack of cigarettes at Cola Wars Surplus.
Return to the Captain's house.
- Ask him about the Porquod through the door, and he lets you in.
- Have a conversation with the Captain to learn that he regularly talks to the urns, and they talk back.
- Once he finishes talking and falls asleep, have fun speaking with the urns, then talk at the fifth one until it speaks up and asks for a pack of cigarettes.
- Place the cigarettes on the table next to the urn and observe a man emerge from behind Durch's bookshelf, grab the cigarettes, and return to hiding.
- Inspect the bookshelf; the first book a offhand item for you (How To Curse Like a Sailor), while the third book opens a secret passage.
- Talk to the man hiding therein, who admits to stealing the cathedral's urn (Remember the cathedral? It's a quest about the cathedral) so the Captain can believe he's talking to his fifth sailor, whose remains were never discovered.
- Agree to swap it out for another urn for the sake of Durch's peace of mind. (Scout's Honor: "I'll do it. For the captain.")
Travel back to St. Polycarp's.
- Pop into the catacomb and retrieve a spare burial urn, because obviously they just have a whole box of them lying around.
Go to Durch's house once again.
- Take the fifth urn, leaving the spare in its place.
- Tell the guy in the secret room that it's done and receive his thanks.
- You can now pet the Captain's cat, Ishmael, unlocking Ishmael's Boon for +1 Mysticality.
Finally, report to the vicar and give him the urn of cremains. He anoints you with holy water (Haunted: "Ouch! That burns a little!"), granting St. Polycarp's Forehead, a perk for +1 Muscle.
Interactions
Outside
- Hobo glyphs: with 3 Hobo Literacy, find "MEAT STASH, FOUTH TREE TO LEFT OF CHURCH, BACK ROW" on the left pillar in front of the building.
- Find an old wallet in the bushes as hinted at above, but Hobo Literacy is not required to find.
Inside
| Fishing in the font | |
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Limit
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1/day |
Items
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handful of holy water |
- Find an unpleasant hymnal on one of the pews.
- Fish in the font.
- Splash some water on your face in the font.
- While on a certain mob quest, turn a giant ice cube into a giant holy ice cube.
- Bug: The vicar still thinks you want the holy water after completing this, making other interactions with him impossible.
- Talk to the vicar to start a side quest to recover a missing urn.
- On day 5 or later, after visiting Păpuşășcu Homestead and researching Mar 6, 1917 in the The Watchful Eye Office, you can ask the vicar about the funeral. He gives you a strange memorial card.
Catacomb
You can head downstairs after the bishop unlocks it for you:
- With a match you can light the last candle for 3 XP
. - Read the guestbook to unlock Captain Durch's House location.
- Cryptobotanists can collect two eldritch mists from a patch of tomb moss on the wall.
Other Locations
With antique manhole opener, go beneath the catacomb to reach Fishman Casino.
Gallery
View from outside
Inside
The catacombs
