What do I do about the clock?
1. Have you noticed a little hole under the twelve?
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2. What could go there?
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3. Have you met Loren yet?
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4. Have you opened the herb box?
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5. Insert the winding key in the hole to open the clockface.
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6. That's a strange-looking mechanism. There are doors in the middle, but how can you get them open?
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7. Notice a message carved on the side?
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8. Could that be a misspelled hint?
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9. It can't be the newspaper. It's gone. Must be something else.
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10. Try breaking it down.
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11. Like this: NE W SE.
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12. North East, West, South East.
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13. That’s the position the swinging clock gears must be in for the doors to open.
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14. Wait for the gears to reach the correct position, then tap the doors.
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15. They stop moving for a second, but nothing else happens. There's something more you need to do.
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16. How can you stop them swinging for good?
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17. How many key cards have you got?
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18. You need three.
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19. If you have three key cards, tap the door to stop the gears when they're in the correct position, then insert the cards in the slots to stop them moving again.
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20. The doors are now open, and all you have to do is reach inside.