That Rings a Bell

A story-progression quest in Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School, reached after opening the roof door (password STAY AWAY) and climbing to the top of the roof. It is a multi-stage puzzle involving a coloured star/rope lock, a telescope constellation, cog and arrow puzzles, a planet-ordering puzzle, and

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That Rings a Bell is a story-progression quest in Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School [src-96265dfaea, src-aa17351cd6]. Reached after opening the roof door with the code STAY AWAY and climbing to the top of the roof [src-0dc02cf791], this multi-stage puzzle room challenges players with rope locks, telescopes, cogs, planet models, and cipher tables [src-0dc02cf791]. The achievement associated with this quest is unmissable as part of normal progression [src-aa17351cd6].

How to Complete

To tackle "That Rings a Bell", you must first open the roof door using the password STAY AWAY, climb to the roof, and interact with the door at the top [src-0dc02cf791]. Once inside the puzzle room, you will need to navigate a series of intricate physical and observational puzzles involving coloured star counts, symbol threading, constellations, cogs, shape stacking, and a cipher table [src-0dc02cf791].

Step-by-Step Walkthrough

• Coloured Rope-Wheel Lock: Examine the colourful combination lock on the rope wheel near the door. Locate the coloured stars around the room, each with a different number of points, and match the star point counts to the colours on the lock to free the rope [src-0dc02cf791].
• Threading Puzzle: Look at the four printed symbols on the wall, then thread the rope through the matching handles [src-0dc02cf791].
• Constellation Lock: Look through the telescope. The rope forms a constellation matching one of the eight printed on the wall—specifically resembling a CAMEL [src-0dc02cf791]. Input CAMEL into the wall lock to access a lever, then pull it to release a ladder and climb up [src-0dc02cf791].
• Cogs Puzzle: Collect the three cogs scattered around the room: a Small cog, Medium cog, and Large cog [src-0dc02cf791]. Place them on the wall and turn them so that all the arrows line up [src-0dc02cf791].
• Arrow Order: Note the order of the arrows: right, down, up, left, right, down [src-0dc02cf791]. Go to the cog with a crank and input this arrow order to open it up, creating a new ladder to climb higher [src-0dc02cf791].
• Planet Model and Shapes: Look through the telescope again and note the order in which the shapes are stacked: pentagon, triangle, circle, hexagon, and square [src-0dc02cf791]. Head to the planet model and order the "planets" from right to left to match that shape stack order [src-0dc02cf791].
• Shears and Cipher Table: Take the Shears from the solved puzzle, head back down the ladder, and climb up the boxes to find a cipher table [src-0dc02cf791].

Items Obtained

During the course of this quest, you will acquire several key items necessary for progression:

• Shears [src-0dc02cf791]
• Small cog [src-0dc02cf791]
• Medium cog [src-0dc02cf791]
• Large cog [src-0dc02cf791]

Rewards

• Achievement: Completion awards the That Rings a Bell achievement (Story progression, unmissable) [src-96265dfaea, src-aa17351cd6].

Details

type

quest

completion_achievement

That Rings a Bell

progression_type

Story progression quest; the achievement guide notes its achievement is 'Story progression, can't be missed.'

prerequisite

Reached after solving the preceding roof-door password puzzle (code STAY AWAY), opening the door, climbing to the roof and interacting with the door at the top.

walkthrough_steps

• Coloured rope-wheel lock: examine the colourful combination lock on the rope wheel near the door. Around the room are coloured stars, each with a different number of points; match the star point counts to the colours on the lock to free the rope.
• Threading puzzle: look at the four printed symbols on the wall and thread the rope through the handles that match those four symbols.
• Constellation: look through the telescope; the rope forms a constellation matching one of the eight printed on the wall — it looks most like the one on a CAMEL. Input CAMEL into the wall lock to access a lever.
• Pull the lever to release a ladder, then climb up.
• Cogs: pick up the three cogs around the room (small, medium and large), place them on the wall, then turn them so the arrows line up.
• Arrow order: remember the arrow order right, down, up, left, right, down. Go to the cog with a crank and input that arrow order to open it up, creating a ladder to climb up.
• Shapes: look through the telescope and note the order the shapes are stacked: pentagon, triangle, circle, hexagon, square.
• Planets: on the planet model, order the 'planets' to match that shape order, going right to left.
• Take the shears, then go back down the ladder.
• Climb up the boxes to find a cipher table.

key_solutions

• preceding_door_password: STAY AWAY
• constellation_word: CAMEL
• arrow_order: right, down, up, left, right, down
• shape_stack_order: pentagon, triangle, circle, hexagon, square
• planet_order: Match the shape stack order, going right to left

items_obtained

• Shears
• Small cog
• Medium cog
• Large cog

location

On the roof, reached via the roof door (STAY AWAY password); puzzle room includes a telescope, planet model, cog wall and a cipher table up on the boxes.

Sources

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