Brute Force Charnel House Testing

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On Podcast 54 Kinak said this about finding hidden content in The Charnel House/The Charnel House (reopened):

It requires an extremely specific item, from outside the charnel house, which might not make a lot of sense. Might make sense in retrospect. A very specific item that interacts with the charnel stuff, if you beat your head on the right rocks so to speak.

Furthermore, he says

The item's been known for quite a long time.

Back in Podcast 36, he said this:

Q: For the something we're missing in the fiery lakes of the Charnel House, can we get it in both the opened and reopened versions?

A: I believe so, yes. Or at least there's something missing you can do in both.

This suggests that:

• The place to look is the Lake of Fire
• The item we're looking for is probably fairly old (or maybe, for the reopened CH, has an old analogue)

So, the idea of this page is to list all the items of the appropriate vintage by equipment slot so we can just brute force try them all. Kinak's wording suggests an item of equipment, but if not of this pans out we may have to branch out into items that give effects.

Whatever we're looking for might be easier to find in the first iteration of the CH.

Items to Test

I'm omitting unearthly and unearthly-derivative items and also limited-time content from holidays, etc. (This includes Oldos programs with no obvious Novos replacement.)

Items are listed in ascending ID order.

Items marked * are from inside the Charnel House.
Hats

• paper mask
• giant paper mache head
• knit cap
• security visor
• lieutenant's shades
• gas mask
• scarred silver mask*
• Original Charnel House quest implemented
• Midgard cap
• regal crown
• heavy containment helmet
• improved visor
• Black Ops HUD
• filtered HUD
• slick shades

Weapons

• filthy pistol
• cheap pistol
• brass knuckles
• riot baton
• heavy pistol
• lead pipe
• Midgard MK9
• slick holdout
• old fishing pole
• broken bottle
• suspicious rifle
• protest sign
• razor knuckles
• the bone scepter*
• hooked chain*
• red hot pipe*
• Original Charnel House quest implemented
• spider drone leg
• Midgard MK11a
• fungus spear (has an item gap right after it …)
• anchor chain
• crystal spike
• ancient saber
• ancient rifle
• needler rifle
• ghoul maw
• thick cabling
• live cable
• Metroplex slugger
• KZR needler
• Eurasian handcannon
• handcrafted blade
• bloody switchblade
• slammer bottle
• hunter sidearm

Offhand Items

• garbage sticker
• trash golem heart
• tome of binding
• Original Charnel House quest implemented
• trauma reference
• battered hammer
• replica sword
• Slags medical ID
• hound crystal
• giant bat wing
• headless voodoo doll
• lashing golem heart
• crawling golem heart
• writhing golem heart
• living sludge heart
• beating sludge heart
• walk with the blind
• artificial hound crystal
• bad poetry
• satirical poetry
• Midgard riot shield
• shock shield
• Midgard blastshield

Shirts

• dirty old trenchcoat
• old jacket
• light armored vest
• Third Eye shirt
• Third Eye vest
• bloody shirt*
• holocaust coat*
• Original Charnel House quest implemented
• scrubs top
• prototype vest
• zombie shirt
• heavy containment top
• monitoring vest
• team jacket
• armored jacket
• lined coat

Pants

• smelly old pants
• comfy jeans
• corduroys
• strange pants
• bloody pants*
• * Original Charnel House quest implemented
• scrubs bottoms
• sheet of scales
• zombie pants
• heavy containment pants
• armored pants
• lined pants

Gadgets

• antiquey watch
• OmniWatch
• electrical kit
• Etheric focus* (found both inside and outside the CH)
• Myers sampling kit
• first aid kit* (also found outside the CH)
• stopped watch*
• personal focus* (reward for completing Problems on the Docks quest, but not technically from inside the CH)
• student PDA * (same)
• Original Charnel House quest implemented
• targeting scope
• basic scope
• watch of tomorrow
• Biotech PDA
• ancient focus
• caffeine IV
• numbing IV
• Slags IV
• biomonitor kit
• antique scope
• retromodern scope
• hunter focus
• quick draw holster

Cyberware

• The Claw (doubtful; could not be installed until much later)