Dan already linked to my Variegated Court roundup, but it might be helpful to have it here! I’ll change it so it starts with the room and spoilers the color. Usually the information will be found in items that can be taken from these rooms. In those cases I’m not going to give the solutions for how to get those items.
Milkweed
To find the color:
read the postcard of Big Ben
Color is:
To find the familiar:
read the diary of Phyllis Cragne
Familiar is
Under The Bridge:
Color/familiar:
read graffiti until you get a phone number. Dial the number (using the coin you found there and stuff). Something dramatic will happen that prompts you to look at the water, which I think you do in the reflection of the payphone. This will reveal the color and give you a glimpse of the familiar.
The first time I did this in this save, the first phone number I got was a red herring. Not sure why. The one you get should be an upside-down cross.
Color:
Familiar is:
Family Crypt:
color can be found:
I think on the plaque or inscription or something on the coffin?
Color is:
familiar:
Familiar is:
Padded Room:
color/familiar:
examine the trophy you got there
color is
familiar is
Outside the Pub:
Color/familiar can be found:
In the newspaper you got from the newspaper machine (“some yellowed newspapers”). (As someone pointed out in the slack, one of the incongruities is that the VC usually seems pretty secret, but here it’s just straight-up in the newspaper.
Color is:
Familiar is:
Meatpacking Plant Office:
Color can be found in:
Color is:
Familiar can be found in:
the newspaper article you got there, about the dreadful conditions in the plant
Familiar is:
Locked Office (above the basement/tunnel entrance)
Color can be found in:
Journal of Luther Cragne (tiny leather journal you get out of the puzzlebox you find in the locked office
Color is:
Familiar is a bit tricky (that is, I totally needed someone to explain it to me):
also found in the journal
but not in the text of the journal
examine the journal. Any other part of it you can examine?
Examine the embossed design.
Familiar is:
Music Room:
Color can be found in:
Uh, so this one’s super complicated. If you’ve totally finished this, got a message from Francine and everything, and done everything you’ve needed to do in the whole complex including L’Oreille, then you have this. If not, post if you need more hints.
Color is:
Familiar can be found in:
Again, you have to do lots of stuff to get here…
Have you helped Francine and got a message from her?
Read the police report and keep in mind what she says about her familiar.
The first funeral is the forest you get to if you press all buttons.
The familiar shows up if you visit it after freeing her, I thnk.
Familiar is
Cold storeroom with the peaches and the eyeball
Color and familiar can be found
By reading the message on the wall after finishing the room.
Color is:
Familiar is:
Cat (or bat, but it’s a cat figurine. At least in my save! Maybe it’s a bat sometimes. Its name is Nifty)
Meatpacking plant bathroom
Color and familar can be found in:
Color is:
Familiar is:
Dark Recess of the woods (Jacqueline’s room)
Color can be found in:
…which is in the locket you got.
Color is
Familiar can be found in:
Well, it was the thing that grabbed you. Also it’s on the locket, I think. Also it shows up with the color any time you examine yourself in a room where the author didn’t write an “Instead of examining yourself in…” rule.
Familiar is:
Upstairs hall, north end
Color can be found in:
journal you found in the armoire, or Carolyn’s JogMaster you can get by trying to go northeast when the bricked doorway disappears
Color is
familiar can be found in:
either of the same places (I think both will clue you in to both color and familiar
Familiar is