I know, I know... it's just the demo, but in case you need some help, here's a handy walkthrough for you :)
1. Interact with everything you can in the house (this is a golden rule for PnCs) prior to leaving, including talking to Uncle Clark. There's a little extra thing you can do here which I reckon will likely grant you an achievement in the actual game:
- Go to the kitchen.
- Open the top cabinet to retrieve the cat food.
- Put the cat food into the bowl.
2. Talk to Aunt Jill at the newspaper office next door. You'll then be given a list of things to do in order to write up your very first news piece. There's also a little fun stuff to do here:
- Go to the whiteboard and grab a marker
- Use the marker on the whiteboard to see a secret message ;)
3. Talk to Uncle Clark again to learn about the rivalry between him and Herb in the fishing competition, and that he no longer has his fishing rod. That should check off one of the boxes on your to-do list.
4. Next, head over to the Reservoir Lake using your pickup. Note that you need to click during the "drive scene" in order to bring up the travel options - they appear as road signs.
5. Before you talk to Herb, the ranger, bring up your inventory and Use your camera. Zoom in so that the frame of the camera fits the frame of the picture you're supposed to take. You just need to take a picture of the Lake to check off another box on your todo list.
6. Talk to Herb when you're done. You'll learn about his anger towards Uncle Clark over the last bottle of beer; his lack of enthusiasm for the upcoming fishing competition (because of the lack of a challenge), and the history behind the fishing contest. The history part should check off another box.
7. Now, return to Uncle Clark and talk to him about buying Herb a bottle of beer to make up, but you'll find out that he's equally as stubborn. It's up to you now to reconcile the two of them - you'll need a bottle of beer to give to Herb so you can get your uncle on his boat for the fishing contest.
8. Funnily enough, if you head over to the gas station store to buy one, your character will quip that she's not old enough to buy beer... despite already old enough to drive. Anyway, you can buy a root beer so you get that instead.
9. Despite looking similar to actual beer, the root beer isn't going to fool Herb. You'll need to change the bottle's appearance. So, first, you need to go dumpster diving in the dumpster outside the gas station for an empty bottle of beer.
10. Then you head over to the Diner and try to sneak your way into the kitchen. There'll be a short interaction here before you can actually get in. If Phil, the cook, is inside the kitchen, he will immediately kick you out, so what you need to do is to wait for him to exit the kitchen before going in.
11. Once you're in, you'll need to be quick - grab the knife off the knife rack and the pot from underneath the kitchen counter.
12. Head back home and go into the kitchen. Here, you'll need to Use the Pot on the sink to fill it up with water and then put the Filled Pot on the Stove. Switch on the Stove by interacting with it.
13. Once the water is boiling, Use the empty bottle of beer on the Filled Pot to remove the beer bottle label. Use the beer bottle label on the Root beer bottle and you're done! Head back to Herb and give him the "beer".
14. Since you've already learned that your uncle doesn't have a fishing rod, you'll relay this to Herb and he will point out that he has a spare spool on his boat. Go grab it. You'll also want to Use the knife on the Reeds to get a Reed.
15. If you return to Uncle Clark to let him know that Herb allowed him to compete onboard his boat, your uncle will then point out that he has no fishing rod. Unwilling to just buy the overpriced one from the gas station store, you'll now have to provide him with the materials to make one. You'll need a spool, fishing line, and a rod. You should already have the spool and the rod.
16. For the fishing line, you just need to head leftwards while in town until you reach a washing line. Talk to the homeowner and help her repurpose the washing line.
17. To do this, you'll need to grab the Spray can from your uncle's garage and the Christmas lights from the cardboard box upstairs (leftmost). Use the Spray can on the washing line and then the Christmas lights. Talk to the homeowner again to complete the task and remember to go to the washing line to pick up your reward.
18. Return to Uncle Clark so he could make his fishing rod. Return to Herb to let him know that your uncle is ready to take him on. This will check off the last item on your todo list.
19. Go back to the newspaper office and talk to Aunt Jill. Use the computer and start adding in auto-written paragraphs from your check list - you don't need to write anything yourself! Once you reached the minimum word count, hit Print and you're done!
20. Before you retire for the night, make sure to return both the Pot and the Knife to Phil at the diner. The steps are exactly the same as before.
That's it folks!
I also have a video walkthrough in case you're interested. However, note that the video walkthrough can be a bit "extra" since I'm figuring out things as I go in real time there. The written version is definitely a lot more compact and time saving, tbh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPii2m1x9Cw
Can't seem to embed this for some reason. So here's the link!
