House of the Damned — Sker Ritual

Power, then three branches

Pay 500 to open the upstairs door and start the task. In the first-floor kitchen, restore gas by killing five hags inside the ring, break white-X walls with melee, and throw the gas levers on both floors. After the meter puzzle, the numbered pads sit in a fixed order the guide lists from the lounge through the basement. Open the furnace, read the mannequin-room symbols, feed it guts, and the house powers up.

• Well: cross onto the coffin, shoot the glowing urns, bomb the well, take Corpse Grinder, grind three marked hearts into the bowl.
• Tomb: Mother’s Head lantern. A downed ghost can read the secret book and revive free if you have a self-revive. Match three symbols and take the Book of the Dead.
• Family photo: kill Abraham, Isaac, and The Stranger for the shards, charge the portrait, place it at the ritual site.

Gas gauge and numbered-pad puzzle

After killing the Kitchen Hags in the ring, melee the white-X walls and operate the exposed gas levers. Read the Basement main gauge, then compare the subsidiary gauges to find the required total. The community walkthrough records 35 in the first-floor Kitchen, 42 in the second-floor Bathroom and 73 beside the main gauge; do not replace the current target display with a hard-coded total.

The big red lever displays three numbers. Press the corresponding numbered pads in that order. The guide indexes them as: 1 Lounge/Hanging Man; 2 first-floor Living Room under the stairs; 3 second-floor Master Bedroom opposite the bed; 4 second-floor Music Room beside the jukebox; 5 Basement beside Swift Death; 6 first-floor Hallway outside Hanging Man.

Press the red button in the Sub Basement Mannequin Room to reveal its symbols under purple light. Enter those at the Basement Furnace, collect and feed the required guts, and finish powering the house before continuing outside.

Book of the Dead: the ghost step

Take Mother’s Head from the Tomb/Mausoleum branch. Interact with the blue door in the middle of Basement Tunnel. The community route requires a downed ghost to enter the hidden room and read its book, with a revive available for the return; do not attempt this without checking that recovery requirement in the current difficulty.

Use Mother’s Head to reveal the three symbols: left of Basement Furnace, beside the first-floor Living Room stairs, and opposite the second-floor Closet. Complete the symbol step and take the Book of the Dead. Keep Mother’s Head: it is also needed to see The Father during his escort.

The Father and the seal

With all three items placed, only the Mother’s Head lets you see the Father. The escort runs mausoleum, hanging man, mutilated pig, mannequin room, ritual site, then Canwyll Corph. The seal is a separate green portal outside the boss arena: demon lambs, the pig head on a timer, animal-call counts under tomb masks, and a lamb escort back to the ritual site. Music starts by burning the roof chimney with a Molotov.

Hidden story after Canwyll Corph

This route is separate from the four launch-map God Killer seals.

• Use the green portal in the graveyard outside the arena. Check the demon-lamb candidate areas: Tomb roof, second-floor Master Bedroom, Corpse Grinder room and Mannequin Room.
• Shoot the second-floor Mutilated Pig with Corpse Grinder, then reach and interact with the Basement pig head before the timer expires. Repeat the pig trigger for the outdoor head beside the Difficulty Sword.
• Count the pig, dog and goat calls at the second-floor pig, outside the Tomb and in the Basement. Enter those counts under the matching Tomb masks.
• With Mother’s Head, find the Lamb’s Seal at one of the documented candidate locations: the stump between Tomb and House, the second-floor/Basement stair wall or behind the Basement stairs. Place it beside the Basement Corpse Grinder area and charge it with nearby kills.
• Open the Lamb Box beside the Sub Basement stairs, escort the lamb to the Ritual Site and complete the returning Canwyll Corph fight. For the chimney and blue-flame song, follow the House music route. Doll and note locations are not claimed as a complete checklist here.

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