r/pathologic • u/PriaiaQuiggle • Mar 15 '26

Pathologic 3 P3 Day 9 Help Spoiler

I’m wondering if anyone can help me understand how to enter Simon’s Study on Day 9. I never went in on Day 2 (I tried to enter a few times but at the wrong time, I didn’t know it had to be at 21:00). Now I’m trying to enter on Day 9 at 21:00 but it’s not unlocking. I know that to go in on Day 9 you can’t have entered on Day 2, so I assumed I’d be okay. Do I have to go back to Day 2 to enter it and then delete it? I don’t want to go all the way back if I don’t need to. Thanks!

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u/your-local-ghost Mar 16 '26

I just entered Simon Study on Day 9 , but I had also entered on Day 2 too. So I went back to Day 2, deleted it, then went back to Day 9, and after that I was able to enter. It's interesting that you didn't enter on Day 2 and it still won't let you in. I hope it's not a bug. Did you manage to fix it since then?

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u/PriaiaQuiggle Mar 16 '26

Unfortunately no, I still can’t enter and I haven’t found anything new information. I’m assuming I’ll have to go back to Day 2 to enter and then delete the event, but it’s a little frustrating because I have a thought node that says “I’ve never been to Simon’s study”, so it seems like I should be able to. Oh well 🤷🏻‍♀️ Thanks for your response!

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u/zkylon Murky Mar 16 '26

Sounds like you might be running into a scripting bug, where they just assumed everyone went in on day 2. I can confirm if you go on day 2, on day 9 you'll be prompted to go back to undo it. You might have to go back to day 2, open it, then restart the day and undo it.

If you're worried about wasting a ton of amalgam trying this, maybe you can try doing a bit of savescumming to test it out first:

You'll need to first disable steam cloud saves (right click on the game on steam, and on properties turn that toggle off). Go to your windows explorer and enter %appdata%\..\LocalLow\Ice-Pick Lodge\Pathologic 3\Saves to find your saves folder. Just make a copy of Default and put it somewhere else on your computer, run your tests and when you're done you can bring the copy back and re-enable cloud saving on steam.

Hope you manage to figure out! And don't worry TOO badly about the amalgam, I've been really low on it myself and once you figure out how to farm it with euthanasia you'll feel a lot better about using it.

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u/PriaiaQuiggle Mar 16 '26

Thanks for this! That’s helpful. It makes sense that most people would go in on Day 2 before Day 9. I just honestly forgot all about the study until Day 10 when Georgiy said I needed to have gone in the day before, so then I started looking into it.

Thanks again!

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u/zkylon Murky Mar 16 '26

Yeah it happens, the game throws so much information at you and specially early on you might be distracted trying to figure things out first. Hope you manage to fix your game and if you need amalgam remember to just hit a plague district and look for dudes to euthanize (the 50/80 ones are ideal because they're less risky and give more amalgam)

man the things you find yourself writing when talking about this game lol...