Vampyr - Pandora's Box Quest & Secret Vault Puzzle Walkthrough

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This is a walkthrough post for "Pandora's Box", a fascinating and complicated quest in Vampyr . It spans through several main missions and is connected with a subsequent brilliant puzzle that opens a secret vault which, in turn, rewards you with a cool weapon, a special collectible and an achievement. Main mission "Unnatural Selection" : after you find your way via the sewers to reach the Temple Church area but before you go to meet Aloysius Dawson, run around the perimeter of the church to locate an underground passage. At the end of this passage, an Indian fortune teller, Usher Talltree, will be sitting surrounded by curios, doing his magic. Talk to him to get one important hint for Aloysius Dawson, and also have him offer you his quest, Pandora's Box, to find his stolen notebook. If you have enough money, you can ask him to "read the cards" and every time you do this, he will give you hints on several residents. I skipped this part, since it is

Assassin's Creed Odyssey - New Game - Hard (Full Playthrough, from Lv1 to Lv 82)

As much as I love replaying Odyssey, in my opinion nothing beats that first time exploration and discovering everything from the beginning. For this reason, I decided to record a playthrough in New Game, where I start from Level 1 and get everything from the start. There is a lot of grinding of course, which for some people may be tiresome or boring, but personally I enjoy it in this kind of games, and Odyssey especially which, moreover, is among the games that I love the most. My intention was to reach Level 99+, but after covering everything (and more), the highest that I managed to achieve was Level 82.

What I cover:

Basically all the stories and everything that is on the map, namely:

-The main Odyssey story

-The modern day story

-The Gates of Atlantis (the four artifacts)

-From The Shadows (the Cultists questlines)

-Legacy of the First Blade

-The Lost Tales of Greece and the two special blue-colored bounties

-The Heir of Memories including the three Underworld episodes (Elysium, Underworld, Atlantis)

-The Korfu addendum

-All the quests that are / appear on the map with the yellow exclamation mark

-A few random extra quests that are triggered after a certain action is done

-All map objectives that are marked with a question mark, including tombs, forts, camps and caves, temples, underwater locations, leader houses and other buildings and points of interest.

-All legendary items including armors and weapons that can be found by killing mercenaries or looting legendary chests.

How I play:

Instead of upgrading stuff, I rather switch to stronger weapons when I find them and regularly dismantle those that I don't use. Same goes for armor pieces, which may result in Alexios having a weird or even funny look at times due to random combinations, but I don't mind that and I also find it a bit entertaining, to be honest. I don't do any engravings, and instead I invest in upgrading the ship, which is vital for the naval battles later on.

Each episode covers one region (or more in a few cases when they are brief), with the necessary occasional backtracking or side-tracking to start or (fully or partly) complete a quest or kill a cultist. Most episodes include several quick backtrackings, but the respective regions are not included in the titles - for instance, Phokis is not listed every time that I return to Daphne, nor is Attika whenever I return to Demosthenes, but usually (if not always) backtrackings of this kind are done at the end of each episode. Sometimes I may intentionally leave out certain areas because I know I will be backtracking there in a later episode. For example, because the Lost Tales of Greece do not become available until after you complete the main quests in Athens, you cannot go for the two of them (Daughters of Lalaia and Socrates's Trial) that take place in Phokis the first time you visit that region. So I ignore some of the map objectives there in order to complete them when I revisit Phokis for those two quests. Because I may pass from areas, however, without going for quests the first time, weird things may happen, like the pirate ships from "A Really Really Bad Day" being destroyed long before said questline is initiated. I guess such goofy things are doomed to happen anyway.


Difficulty level:

I wasn't sure if I should go for Hard or Nightmare for a New Game playthrough, but I finally decided to go with Hard for three main reasons:

-Since it takes a long time to decently upgrade the ship, the Adrestia is quite weak for most part of the main story, which renders certain naval battles a royal pain in the arse when you play in Nightmare.

-There are a few parts in Legacy of the First Blade that are really exhausting in Nightmare, and since this DLC is not my favorite anyway, I didn't want to complicate things further.

-Certain quests in the Atlantis episode, namely hunting down the Dikastes's armor pieces, are extremely difficult because the Isu polemarchs that hold said pieces are insanely strong and resilient, so I needed this to be a bit toned down since Alexios is not super-powerful yet.

Playlist:

Links to individual parts: 

Part #1 - Kephallonia & Ithaka: https://youtu.be/BEFrTFDTmCo
Part #2 - Megaris: https://youtu.be/5eRXJ4l9pnU
Part #3 - Phokis: https://youtu.be/CbC5iw5wljU
Part #4 - Abantis Islands & Andros: https://youtu.be/Vfs7FHxHDi4
Part #5 - Attika: https://youtu.be/BuUN8cYSuQM
Part #6 - Phokis Redux, Malis & Lokris: https://youtu.be/s8-Zu57M36k
Part #7 - Argolis: https://youtu.be/nrmO_qOEjFs
Part #8 - Korinthia: https://youtu.be/O8rTZSs3hz0
Part #9 - Attika Redux & Obsidian Islands: https://youtu.be/kRo9Cu_nTuY
Part #10 - Pirate Islands, Salamis & Athens: https://youtu.be/r0wn5GNDwyc
Part #11 - Naxos & Paros: https://youtu.be/wh8daCATm2w
Part #12 - Makedonia: https://youtu.be/u05-_evhikg
Part #13 - Thera & Kythera: https://youtu.be/8xxRIaAg7PE
Part #14 - Achaia: https://youtu.be/XtJ7Oq0pjFc
Part #15 - Messenia: https://youtu.be/IxH_AsJa3wE
Part #16 - Lakonia: https://youtu.be/g_kuvnpUY-M
Part #17 - Elis: https://youtu.be/OEvsk6POYw8
Part #18 - Boeotia: https://youtu.be/1y4AH1VG_m4
Part #19 - Hephaistos Islands: https://youtu.be/dMBysDPwK58
Part #20 - Arkadia, Sparta & Pylos: https://youtu.be/z6378C6y7fI
Part #21 - Athens & Elis Redux, Amphipolis, Sparta & Boeotia Redux: https://youtu.be/Gx-BKFWxUsA
Part #22 - Krete: https://youtu.be/1kz0QC68YS0
Part #23 - The Silver Islands: https://youtu.be/hOM-xqQcSC8
Part #24 - Petrified Islands: https://youtu.be/IQO7ampWe4I
Part #25 - Thera Redux, Southern Sporades, Serifos, Argolis, Boeotia & Attika Redux: https://youtu.be/q8giP8Xdn1g
Part #26 - Elysium: https://youtu.be/th225IF1uPk
Part #27 - Underworld: https://youtu.be/N9_3EBbiSmY
Part #28 - Atlantis: https://youtu.be/5B78GmrByAU
Part #29 - Korfu: https://youtu.be/Ya5lsgTzfMs

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