| Bishop Cathedral | |||||||||||
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| Basic Info | |||||||||||
| Japanese Name(s) |
ビショップの階段 | ||||||||||
| Effects | None | ||||||||||
| Collectibles | |||||||||||
| Events | Bishop's Death | ||||||||||
| Notable NPCs | Bishop Florent | ||||||||||
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| Connecting Areas | Monochrome Feudal Japan Board Game Islands 🍀 ✨ | ||||||||||
| BGM | 🔇 Kong_Illusion_Fortress – Main area 🔇 Untitled 5 – Rose window room 🔇 風 – Solved puzzle 🔇 Untitled 5 (Reversed) – Bishop's death event | ||||||||||
| Map ID | 1605 | ||||||||||
| Version Added | 0.120b patch 4 | ||||||||||
| Primary Author | Kong | ||||||||||
| Contributing Author(s) | Nakatsu | ||||||||||
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The Bishop Cathedral is an area accessible from a passage in Monochrome Feudal Japan.
Features
Bishop Cathedral, as the name implies, is a large blue and white cathedral with the bishop chesspiece as a central theme. The cathedral itself is built around a long looping main hallway with several doorways, which lead to other branches of the building.
As you explore the area, a bell will ring every in-area hour, with each hour being how many times the bell rings. At midnight, a song will be played with the bells. In addition to counting the bell chimes, you can also check the current time by looking at the clocks along the way. By equipping the Grave here, the passage of time will accelerate.
Entering the first door, then going up the stairs and entering the east door of the room full of candles, takes you to another stairway, leading to a room on the top floor. At the end of this room, there is a 1/2 chance determined per dream session, that a yellow door to the Board Game Islands will magically appear. To open the door, you need to have the Child in your inventory, otherwise the door will not open. Once it is opened, enter quickly before it disappears.
By taking the second door you see from the corridor, you can find a set of staircases leading to the Rose Window Hall. Sometimes, this section would not consist of just two sets of staircases, it would give the illusion of being infinite; the key is to keep climbing up until you reach the end. Interestingly, a depiction of the Twin Mountains on the wall can be found here once this happens.
In the hall's proper, you can take a look at the rose window by interacting with the statue just behind the altar.
Spoilers:
By looking at the rose window throughout the duration of the bell's song at midnight, you will hear footsteps of someone placing something on the altar; this is revealed to be a banana that you can obtain.
Spoilers end here.Flower Puzzle
Spoilers: Guide to puzzle follows
Hidden in this world is a puzzle that unlocks Menu Theme #55 when completed. This puzzle consists of placing four plants scattered around the cathedral in their correct jars.
Solving this puzzle starts with going to the cathedral's library, then looking into a bookcase with missing books, By interacting with the gap between the books, you will be shown four vases, containing each of the plants in their respective jars (note that the bases of the jars are striped). After this, find each plant, putting them into the correct jar according the direction these jars are facing, as laid out in the library's hint. Note that you can only hold one plant at a time; the current plant on hand is displayed as an icon on the lower-left of the screen.
Keep in mind: the solution as displayed in the library will differ each time you visit the area.
The locations of these four plants to find and place, with their respective icons, are listed below:
Branch: Found in the main corridor connected to Monochrome Feudal Japan, it is located in the section with four vases.
Bunch of Flowers: Found at the altar in the rose window hall, after passing through the long staircase.
Tulip: The most hidden of the four, it is found by heading west from main corridor, completing three loops. In doing so, a doorway is revealed in the middle of the corridor (the same place where the branch is originally obtained), leading to a room containing the plant.
Bush: Located in the library, this is certainly the first one you would see after looking at the solution of the puzzle.
Upon placing the last plant correctly, you will hear a loud rumble, followed by a jingle played on a pipe organ. Assuming that you did so right near a clock, you will notice that the clock's hands will rotate quickly as well. By heading to the altar where you have obtained the bunch of flowers, the statue of the bishop will be moved, revealing an entrance to the cathedral's inner sanctum. Following the staircase from here leads to a room housing Bishop Florent. Interacting with him will give you the menu theme, If you decide to chainsaw him, the music will stop and a few seconds later the cathedral will collapse on Urotsuki, crushing her. This triggers one more event, which would then wake Urotsuki up with a start.
Spoilers end here.Trivia
- The song played with the bells, played every midnight, is the save theme from Yume Nikki.
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