Universal key

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universal key
universal key

This is a clever combination of skeleton key, lockpick set and safecracking tool. It's not good for opening any particular lock, but if you found some sort of universal lock, you'd be golden.

Cannot be traded or discarded
Quest Item


(In-game plural: universal keys)
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Item number: 6663
Description ID: 875673912
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Recipe

  4 jigsaw blades 4 wood screws 8 blobs of wood glue surgical tape scrap metal
  universal key

Notes

  • When selected at A Perplexing Door:
    You put your universal key in the undulating keyhole at a random moment and give it a turn. They[sic] key instantly morphs into another shape.
     You acquire an item: Jarlsberg's key
    Or...?
     You acquire an item: Richard's star key
    Or...?
     You acquire an item: digital key
    Or...?
  • The morphed key is then used in the door, as if you had selected it yourself.
  • When selected if you have already successfully used all the required keys:
    You can't figure out anything else to do with your universal key.
  • This item is available only during a special challenge path. It will be removed from your inventory when you leave the path, either by breaking the prism to free King Ralph XI, or by dropping the path.