Suspicious Event
The following page is dedicated to an optional event only available in ACT 4 of In Stars and Time unofficially deemed the Suspicious event. It awards Memory of A Secret and the Kinda sus... achievement. Furthermore, it unlocks additional dialogue for Odile in ACT 6.
Summary
As Siffrin continuously acts suspicious and Odile learns about both Time and Wish Craft, Odile arrives at the conclusion that Siffrin has been looping in time. She confronts him in the last room, though time rewinds before Siffrin can face any consequences.
Guide
Requirements
- Enter ACT 4.
- Read the book on Time Craft in the Candle Dorm on Floor 1.
- Read the books on Wish Craft in the locked Storage Room on Floor 1 and inside the Secret Library on Floor 2
- Obtain at minimum 15 Weird Points.
- Talk to Odile during the last snack break.
- Talk to Odile in the final room.
This event can also be obtained on loops with all Friendquests completed. The ability to read all books on Wish Craft requires some amount of story progression. For details, see ACT 4/Walkthrough.
Weird Points
Weird Points are an internal count kept by the game when performing suspicious actions. Obtaining a Weird Point is signified by a sound cue, a short dark flash across the screen, and typically either Odile or Isabeau looking confused.
Weird Points are stored separately per location and are only reset when looping to an earlier save point (e.g. looping to Floor 1 does not reset Weird Points for Dormont, only for Floor 1). It should thus theoretically be possible to get the special event even when looping to the King, as long as sufficient Weird Points (+ Wish and Time Craft books) were acrued beforehand.
The final check whether the player has obtained 15 Weird Points occurs when talking to Odile during the last snack break at the end of Floor 3.
Signifiers
Several key dialogue changes occur when meeting the requirements for the event. They let the player confirm whether they have obtained sufficient Weird Points and met the other requirements before the final check.
When talking to Odile during the first snack break, she remarks on both Time and Wish Craft, thus confirming that the required books have been read. Her dialogue is altered if the player has 4 Weird Points or more.
When talking to Odile during the second snack break, her dialogue is altered if the player has 4 Weird Points or more.
When talking to Odile during the last snack break, her dialogue is altered if the player has 15 Weird Points or more.
If the player has 14 or more Weird Points when entering the bathroom on Floor 3, a special conversation between Odile and Isabeau occurs, though this is not required for the event to trigger.
Actions that award Weird Points
This list does not claim to include all actions that award Weird Points, and only includes options available in ACT 4.
Though many actions only award weird points once, they are not required to unlock the event, as more than enough other Weird Points are available.
Dormont
- Choose "(Stay silent.)" when talking Bonnie in Dormont. (+1)
- Choose "(Stay silent.)" when talking to Odile in Dormont. (+1)
- Choose "(Stay silent.)" when talking to Mirabelle in Dormont. (+1)
- Choose "(Stay silent.)" when talking to Isabeau in Dormont. (+1) If this is the exact loop on which Memory of Puns is obtained, awards +2 Weird Points instead of +1.
- Head straight for the Small Boulangère before talking to the Big Boulanger when completing Odile's Friendquest. (+1)
- Ask Isabeau "What's up with the big tree?" after already telling him to leave. (+1)
Floor 1
- Choose "(Stay silent and skip.)" during the Tutorial. This option only becomes available after the Tutorial special event. (+1)
- After starting the normal Tutorial, avoid the two Sadnesses and exit the next hallway without battling. (+1)
- When picking up the Circle Key, choose "What's up with the circles?" and then "The Universe." (+1)
- Activate the switch in the Death Corridor. (+1)
- Enter the right side hallway on the first floor proper with Siffrin 20 or more levels above the rest of the party. (+1)
- Interact with the first tear in the right side hallway. (+1)
- Interact with the dictionary in the locked Storage Room. (+1)
- Bump into the counter in the Kitchen after already bumping into it five times in previous loops. (+1)
- Choose "(...)" when interacting with the Boulangerie's poster in the Kitchen. (+2)
- Interact with the cutlery closet in the Break Room in a loop without Odile's Friendquest completed. (+1)
Floor 2
- Eat plantain chips during the snack break after looping using the banana in Dormont 10 or more times. (+1)
- In the right side hallway at the row of tears, choose either the Age Alliance or the Beauty Alliance. (Either option awards +1)
- When reading the Sparkly Diary in the Library, choose "But can you try and say it anyway?" (+2)
- Interact with the Heavy Book in the Library after already having it. (+1)
- Choose "Wow, a secret passage~!" when opening the path to the Secret Library. (+1)
- Interact with the list of checked out books in the Secret Library after already completing Odile's Friendquest. (+2)
- Interact with the book on shields on the very right bookshelf in the Secret Library. (+1)
- Interact with the book on Wish Craft in the Secret Library (+2)
- Interact with the Head Housemaiden's papers in her office after reading the book on Wish Craft in the Secret Library for the first time. (+3)
Floor 3
- Talk to Isabeau during the second snack break on a loop without his Friendquest completed. (+1)
- During the second snack break, choose "Your 'research'?" when talking to Odile on a loop without her Friendquest completed. (+1)
- Interact with the clothes closet in the Changing Room and choose "Spoken like a true clothing designer, huh?" Only available when interacting with the clothes closet for the very first time in the entire game. (+1)
- Interact with the clothes closet in the Changing Room for the first time in ACT 4. (+3)
- Open the star-shaped door using Memory of Memories. (+1)
- Interact with the orrery in the room behind the star-shaped door on the same loop as looking at the newspapers in the Writing Dorm on Floor 1. (+1)
- Interact with the hair-covered door before obtaining the KeyKnife. Only available when interacting with the door for the second time onwards. (+1)
- Talk to Odile during the last snack break with over 14 Weird Points. (+1)
- Choose "Blood on your hands!" when finishing the orange poem in the Writing Room behind the right side row of tears. (+1)
Floor unspecific actions
- Interact with spaces that held already obtained equipment 4 times (+1)
- Use the Shiny Piece of Glass from the locked room on Floor 2. The option only unlocks after picking it up for the second time. (+2)
Rewards
Memory
Memory of A Secret
Description: Too perceptive. [+50 ATK]
Memory of A Secret is a memory that can be equipped by Odile. It increases her attack by 50 and offers no further effects.
Unlike most memories, Loop does not describe its effects, and it simply appears in the player's inventory. This trait is also shared with Memory of Touch, Memory of Ghosts, Memory of Emptiness and Memory of A Journey.
Achievement
Kinda Sus... is the achievement awarded for the event above. Internal files refer to it as "odilequest_sus".
It activates toward the end of the conversation with Odile in the final room.
Trivia
- The name of the achievement, Kinda Sus..., may be a reference to the game Among Us, in which players attempt to find an imposter among themselves and accuse each other of behaving sus, short for suspicious.
- Some interactions do not award Weird Points despite playing the appropriate audio and visual cues, such as picking "It brings back bad memories." when interacting with the croissants in the locked Break Room on Floor 2.
Gallery
Odile confronting Siffrin.
Kinda sus... achievement icon.
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