Day 3 · Afternoon / Kitchen

Servant of the Lake: Preparing Dinner

Cook the soup, cake, and potato, then survive the lake hallucination sequence.

Last verified 16 Aug 2026Community reported
Dinner prepSeasoning the Soup
Quick answer

Start with step 01 below. This page only covers preparing dinner; return to the card index when you reach the next task.

Focused walkthrough

6 steps for this task

  1. 01Collect the ingredients.Take the knife and firewood. From the large cupboard take onion, potato, and shrimp. Open the window for William and take the mushroom he gives you. Take the tomato from the hanging cupboard.
  2. 02Make oil and the cake.Solve the liquid-transfer puzzle for oil. Solve the cake puzzle by covering every hole with the filling and take the cake piece.
  3. 03Complete the soup check.Optional achievementKill the fly above the cake with the knife and add it to the soup. The optional achievement triggers during the later soup-and-mushroom hallucination.
  4. 04Cook the meal.Slice the tomato, shrimp, and onion. Burn the firewood, bake the potato, then combine oil, onion, shrimp, tomato, and mushroom in the pot.
  5. 05Serve Aldous.Ring Kate's bell. Give Aldous the potato, starting with the center piece and then matching each new body mutation. Give him the cake, take the spoon, and give him soup.
  6. 06Survive the lake sequence.Click the lake until Aldous appears; identify William by voice and click his silhouette; click hat, coffee, bottle, book; identify Alexandra, click until her buttons open; click the coach silhouette; raise the moon; click the basket and James; follow Aldous to the stolen elixir, then Kate to the blood and Aldous on the ground. Return to the manor.
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Reviewed 16 Aug 2026