A Wing Before Lunch

A Wing Before Lunch, a deliberate attempt. The game describes it as: Solve every required puzzle of one chapter within twenty minutes of first entering it.

Narrated guide

Narrated video coming soon

What the game counts

For any one chapter, the time from your first step into any of its puzzle rooms (optional ones included) to the moment its last required room settles must be 20:00 or less on the journey clock (a provisional threshold). Halls, passages, the refectory and the buttery do not start the timer. Each chapter's start is recorded once per journey and never reset, so the attempt is the first time you enter that chapter. Pausing stops the clock. Any single chapter is enough.

Before you start

• Chapter 1 suits a deliberate attempt: one loadout of four spells covers all six rooms, there is no rebinding, and the longest wait is seven seconds.
• On a new journey, finish the lessons and starters first (they start nothing), then in the buttery bind Heat, Draw, Tether (Will, Growth, Growth) and Orient (Will, Will, Water).
• Do not look into any chapter 1 room before you are ready: the first step into one starts the twenty minutes.
• If chapter 1's chance has gone, chapter 5 is the next best: its six rooms open off one hall, close together.

The route

1. Through the refectory's west arch, enter the Shelf passage. Turn the Folio with X, cast Draw on it, wait about three seconds, Handle it and carry it to the Receiving bench.
   Edge-on, the folio fits the slot and the pull slides it out.
   What you see: "The folio rests on its conservation receiving bench." The twenty minutes are now running.
2. Go north into the Vent antechamber. Cast Orient on the Hood, Handle the Door and walk through onto the landing.
   Turned once, the hood breathes its draft up the wall instead of onto the door, so the door stays where you push it.
   What you see: "Vent antechamber settled."
3. Cross the Entrance court to the east arch. In the Counterweight repair room cast Tether on the Connector, then Handle the Service shelf lever, the Brake, the Catch up the steps, and the Supplies.
   The tension link joins the weight's broken eye to the car's line again, so once the shelf and brake let go the counterweight lifts the car to the catch.
   What you see: "Counterweight repair room settled."
4. Continue to the Bell chamber. Cast Heat on the Bearing, wait about seven seconds, Handle the Pull.
   Hot resin runs out of the pivot, so the pull can swing the clapper.
   What you see: "Bell chamber settled."
5. Back through the court to the north arch: the dark frieze. Swap the ornaments by hand, turn the Diamond twice and the Ring three times with X, Handle the Archive latch.
   No spell is needed; the plaques and cards give the order.
   What you see: "The aligned followers pass through and release the archive latch."
6. Through the raised gate and up the winding stair to the sagging gallery. From the floor cast Draw on the Cart, climb while it rolls to the near pier, cross the beam and Handle the Return latch.
   The parked cart's weight sits on sound stone, so the cracked beam carries you.
   What you see: "The sagging gallery settled." Chapter 1 is complete.

Chapter 1 sweep (estimates, not measured runs)

Watch for

• The timer includes optional rooms: stepping into the upper shelf at the west end of the gallery starts nothing new, but counts as chapter 1.
• In the sagging gallery stay off the cracked middle until the cart has stopped, or the room fails and you lose the time.
• For chapter 5, bind Supply liquid, Span, Suspend and Orient for the cistern, quench the blossoms first, and do the thermal latch vestibule and drip-ladder passage while the student walks out.

What breaks it

• More than 20:00 between your first step into a chapter's puzzle room and that chapter's last required room settling.
• An earlier glance into one of the chapter's rooms: its start time was recorded then.

Rooms involved

Shelf passage, Vent antechamber, Counterweight repair room, Bell chamber, The dark frieze, The sagging gallery.

Spells

Heat, Draw, Tether, Orient.