Mind Your Elders

Story quest in Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School featuring Alistair Bell. Completing it unlocks the achievement of the same name; it cannot be missed since it is part of story progression. The level involves collecting colored keys from statues, using a cannon to breach a wall, riding a zipline, and l

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Mastering the "Mind Your Elders" quest in Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School is essential for progressing through the campaign [src-aa17351cd6]. This story-driven level tasks players with solving environmental puzzles, utilizing specialized keys, and operating heavy machinery to clear the path [src-0dc02cf791]. Because it is part of the core narrative progression, this quest cannot be missed [src-aa17351cd6].

How to Complete

To clear "Mind Your Elders", you will need to methodically collect unique keys from statues, operate a cannon, and manipulate bridge locks based on numerical edge counts [src-0dc02cf791]. Careful management of your inventory items—including the Blue Key, Green Key, and various uniquely shaped Red Key variants—is required to bypass each obstacle [src-0dc02cf791].

Step-by-Step Walkthrough

• Pick up the Blue Key and the Red Key from the statues' hands [src-0dc02cf791].
• Use the Blue Key on the box with a blue square and take out the Cannonball [src-0dc02cf791].
• Pick up the Blue Key again, open the chest with a '1' on it using the Blue Key, and take the Lighter. Retrieve the Blue Key afterward [src-0dc02cf791].
• Use the cannonball on the Cannon and light the fuse with the Lighter to blow a hole in the wall, then go through [src-0dc02cf791].
• Investigate two more statues and take the two Red Keys [src-0dc02cf791].
• Pick up Reina Wym's Final Words (1/4) from a pedestal [src-0dc02cf791].
• Interact with the sign to use the zipline [src-0dc02cf791].
• At the first raised bridge (number '9'), use two keys whose edge counts sum to nine: the Blue Key and the Red Key shaped like two diamonds [src-0dc02cf791].
• Cross the bridge and jump across to the bandstand on the left; take the second part of Reina Wym's Final Words from one statue and a Green Key from the other [src-0dc02cf791].
• Note the second bridge here equals 13 and cannot be lowered yet [src-0dc02cf791].
• Return to the first bridge, remove the two placed keys, and instead use the Green Key and the Red Key shaped like two triangles [src-0dc02cf791].
• Go back to the second bridge and use the Red Key with two diamonds and the Red Key with 5 sides to lower it [src-0dc02cf791].
• Go up the stairs [src-0dc02cf791].

Puzzle Solutions

• First Bridge (Number 9): Use the Blue Key and the Red Key shaped like two diamonds, as their edge counts sum to nine [src-0dc02cf791].
• Second Bridge (Number 13): Use the Red Key with two diamonds and the Red Key with 5 sides [src-0dc02cf791].

Collectibles

• Reina Wym's Final Words (1/4): Found resting on a pedestal early in the exploration phase [src-0dc02cf791].
• Reina Wym's Final Words (Part 2): Found on a statue located at the bandstand after crossing the first bridge [src-0dc02cf791].

Rewards

• Unlocks the Mind Your Elders achievement upon successful completion [src-aa17351cd6].

Details

type

Story quest

missable

Can't be missed (story progression)

walkthrough

• Pick up the Blue Key and the Red Key from the statues' hands.
• Use the Blue Key on the box with a blue square and take out the Cannonball.
• Pick up the Blue Key again, open the chest with a '1' on it using the Blue Key, and take the Lighter. Retrieve the Blue Key afterward.
• Use the cannonball on the Cannon and light the fuse with the Lighter to blow a hole in the wall, then go through.
• Investigate two more statues and take the two Red Keys.
• Pick up Reina Wym's Final Words (1/4) from a pedestal.
• Interact with the sign to use the zipline.
• At the first raised bridge (number '9'), use two keys whose edge counts sum to nine: the Blue Key and the Red Key shaped like two diamonds.
• Cross the bridge and jump across to the bandstand on the left; take the second part of Reina Wym's Final Words from one statue and a Green Key from the other.
• Note the second bridge here equals 13 and cannot be lowered yet.
• Return to the first bridge, remove the two placed keys, and instead use the Green Key and the Red Key shaped like two triangles.
• Go back to the second bridge and use the Red Key with two diamonds and the Red Key with 5 sides to lower it.
• Go up the stairs.

collectibles

Reina Wym's Final Words (1/4) is found on a pedestal; the second part is found on a statue at the bandstand.

puzzleSolutions

• First bridge (number '9'): use the Blue Key and the Red Key shaped like two diamonds (edge counts sum to 9).
• Second bridge (number '13'): use the Red Key with two diamonds and the Red Key with 5 sides.

items

• Blue Key
• Red Key (two diamonds)
• Red Key (two triangles)
• Red Key (5 sides)
• Green Key
• Cannonball
• Lighter

Sources

• Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School walkthrough - Full guide and puzzle ...
• Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School - Achievement & Trophy Guide