Let Me Into Your Womb

Riccardo, the mansion's hooded, armed butler, starts chasing Fiona from the Homunculus Room.

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Run, ordering Hewie to attack him, to a locked door that connects back to Daniella's territory, and hide under the table you find there.

Back in the Decomposer Room, send Hewie through the hole you left ready. Don't call him until he's on the other side, or you'll have to repeat the process. Climb the stairs in the Curved Corridor; if you hear barking behind a locked door, it's Hewie — tell him "Come on!" to have him open it.

From the Mansion West Alcove (save there), cross the Curved Balcony into the Red Dangerous Corridor — a row of caged doors, with no music because of a nearby Homunculus, making it hard to tell whether Riccardo is closing in. At the end, enter the Cemetery (part 2) and pick up the Prima Materia near some rocks; if Riccardo shows up, the nearby Crypt is still safe ground.

Transform the Prima Materia in four steps, using the matching machines scattered through the underground castle to purify it all the way:

Use the Red Godstone on the Scales of Justice statue to open the huge doors to the Chaos Forest (remember to pick it back up after using it — it's useful later). Save at the clock next to the doors before moving on.

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As you enter the forest, Hewie picks up on something strange and runs ahead to investigate, leaving Fiona alone for a moment. Follow the path left to a cliff; further along you find him injured and lying under a tree.

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You can go to him before continuing, which raises his friendship with you but triggers an extra Riccardo chase on the way back; or head straight to the cliff without him. Either way, you end up captured, waking in a cell in the Water Tower.

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There's a map of the Water Tower and a note from Lorenzo in the cell. Order Hewie toward the key you see on a table out of your reach — he brings it back and frees you.

Riccardo chases you here, now invisible — Hewie can still sense him, so keep ordering him to attack. Kick the pipe to knock loose the Wooden Miniature, and look for the Silver Disc set into a nearby wall.

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Climb the spiral ramps winding around the tower, pulling any levers you find to open the way to the next level. Riccardo appears and vanishes in stretches — when he does, order Hewie to attack him and keep moving until the normal music returns.

Halfway up, a room with a save clock called the Planetarium blocks the way — Riccardo can't follow you in here. There are eight discs set into the floor and only one starts lit; stepping on a lit disc lights up a new one nearby, and the goal is to light all eight at once using Fiona and Hewie together:

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Save again once the staircase appears, and heal Fiona or Hewie here if either needs it before climbing on.

At the top of the tower, close the door behind you so Hewie doesn't wander off, then kick down the three crumbling walls around the rim of the room — this is mandatory prep, not just a fight tactic, since Riccardo can't be beaten at all until they're down. Use the Wooden Miniature on the Diorama facing the door, slotting it into the gap in the middle, to finish assembling the mechanism.

With Riccardo out of the way, head down to the tower's first floor and pull the lever on the ramp with the Luminessant-filled jar to reach the bottom. Save your game and cross the new stone bridge to the house that appears on the other side — the entrance to Lorenzo's territory.