The Old Gilmore Place

The Old Gilmore Place
Region	Gray County
Unlocked by	Offering to help Wendelin Loogootee at Jasper's Feed and Tack

The Old Gilmore Place is a perfectly safe house where there is nothing to worry about.

Quests

Find a spring for Wendelin

The counterclockwise mainspring is in the third doll parts box you search. (The doll toys box in the bedroom contains a doll-sized chemistry set.)

Find Gilmore in his bunker

Each doll gives a number, revealing the digits of Gilmore's combination lock. The fifth diary page hints at the order:

• Eat breakfast (Gladys): 4 eggs
• Get dressed (Dorothy): 2 socks
• Brush teeth (Velma): 3 minutes
• Exercise (Abigail): 9 reps
• Work on novel (Ruth): 8* pages a day
• Go to bed (Edith): 8 hours

One page also says Ruth is doing double what she's supposed to do. So the digit from her should be 4, not 8.

Enter 423948 to enter the bomb shelter.

Interactions

Outside

• A mailbox with junk mail.
• Find an old ploughshare.
• A diary page tacked to a tree.
• A bomb shelter requiring a 6 digit code.

Inside

• A box of doll parts. An entire crate full of horrible little mouths.
• A box of doll parts. Just a bunch of creepy glass eyes.
• A diary page on the side table.
• A diary page on the wall.
• A barbell you can work out with (requires 5^ish Muscle) for 15 . A doll works out next to you, doing 9 reps.
• A doll writing furiously at a desk writing 8 pages a day.
• Find Scary Stories for Spooky Children on the small table.

Bathroom

Fishing in the toilet
Limit	Once
Items	grubby doll head
Must have a rod equipped

Fishing in the bathtub
Limit	3/day
Items	glob of wet hair handful of clean water handful of dirty water nasty goo soggy used bandage

• Find a new-fangled toilet brush.
• A toilet to flush for and find a grubby doll head with a fishing rod equipped.
• A diary page on the wall.
• A mirror with a creepy doll next to it telling you to brush for 3 minutes.
• A fishing spot in the tub.

Kitchen

• A box of doll parts. Doll legs. Just left ones. They must not be for dancing dolls.
• Find a box of Wafered Corn cereal in the cupboard.
• Find 3 fruity ice pops in the freezer.
• A diary page on the wall.
• A doll throwing eggs, suggesting 4 eggs per day.
• Get Warm Hands from the oven.
• Find junk drawer items in the drawer near the kitchen.

Bedroom

• A box of doll parts. Oh my god, why do dolls even need hearts? This is just pointlessly creepy.
• Find a doll-sized chemistry set in the box of doll toys.
• A doll playing the violin poorly, suggesting 8 hours of sleep.
  • Give her the world's smallest violin in exchange for the world's second-smallest violin.
• A diary page under the bed pillow.

Closet

• A box of doll parts. Just doll arms. Dozens of little awful arms.
• Get fancy dress socks from a doll (with 7^ish Moxie), suggesting to wear 2 socks at a time.
• A diary page in the dirty laundry pile.

Bomb Shelter

• Talk to Gilmore. He was writing a novel about dolls and freaked out.
  • "I'm not a psychologist, but...": You convince him he's just extremely confused and should go back home.
    • Later, you may find a weird stain in his living room, and he's nowhere to be seen. Huh.
  • "I think I've heard enough.": You leave him to his business.
• A shadow rift containing the shadow skullcap.

Diary pages

You find the pages in this order, no matter which location you check first:

Dorothy keeps giving me socks with holes in them. She can't possibly be trying to humiliate me deliberately, but it's far too consistent to be random chance.

Edith's violin is too loud for me to relax at night, but if I take it away she screeches horribly. I wonder if I can find her a smaller one?

Must correct Velma's mechanism so she'll squeeze the toothpaste from the end of the tube instead of the middle. I'm losing a fortune in wasted paste.

Something's defective with Ruth, she's doing twice as much of everything as she ought to be. I must have gotten her gear ratios wrong.

I'm stuck in a rut. Every day is the same routine. Eat breakfast. Get dressed. Brush my teeth. Exercise. Work on my novel. Go to bed. Over and over. Always the same. I thought the dolls would help, but they've only made things worse. I feel like I might go crazy. In fact, that sounds like a pretty good idea. I think I'll start right now.

I don't feel well, I think Gladys put something in my coffee. Not just eggs, like she always does, accidentally. I believe this was purposeful. Perhaps I shouldn't have based their mechanisms on that strange old doll I found. Grace... I wonder where she went...

Abigail loosened the pins on my barbell -- I nearly dropped it on my head! She's definitely trying to kill me. I think they all are. Hellstrom can have the house and main property, I'm going into hiding. First I'm going to tack these pages all over the house to make it clear that I'm insane, and then I'm going to go live in my bomb shelter. Scratch that -- it's a doll shelter now.

People

• R. P. Gilmore

Notes

• If you open Gilmore's shelter without searching the house thoroughly, the narrator notes that it's "Impressive how you figured that out with such a minimal look around the place."

  (Nerdy details: dollhouse_roomvisits ticks up by 1 every time you enter the living room. This message triggers if you open the shelter with dollhouse_roomvisits <= 2.)

• I guess it's not actually safe at all. My mistake.

Gallery

• 

  Gladys

• 

  Dorothy

• 

  Velma

• 

  Ruth and Abigail

• 

  Edith