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Achievements for pie, honks and Night Court

· The Turbo Pudding team · 4 min read

Main Street at night during the homecoming parade, under a banner reading HOMECOMING – GO OWLS and strings of glowing bulbs: Kaylee Dunn, a young woman with a blond ponytail and a lilac hair clip, in a lilac zip top with a round Juror 5 badge, presses her fists to her cheeks with wide blue eyes and a small open mouth, little surprise lines around her head. Behind her are the Bless Your Hair salon, Méndez Hardware, a float with a big red owl and CLASS OF ’27, a red tractor, the bell of a tuba and a drummer in a plumed hat.

Twelve Neighbors is a story about an arson trial in a small town, and most of the time it keeps a straight face. Then you open Extras on the game’s menu and find a shelf of achievements with names like Pie Is a Personality and Honk If You Love Harvest.

There are 21 of them. The ones you’ve earned light up with a star, and the rest stay dim, each with a hint about how to get it. Four are hidden: until you earn one, it says only “Hidden achievement” and “Keep playing.” The shelf is free, and a count at the top keeps score. Here are a few favorites from chapters 1 to 3, and how to earn them.

Pie Is a Personality

Monday morning, October fifth, at Hoff’s. Paloma is recording an intro bit for her podcast and wants one word for Harrow. You get three to choose from: cozy, haunted or pie.

Cozy gets you “Like a quilt. Or a crime scene with throw pillows.” Haunted goes straight into her trailer. Pie earns the star and a flat correction: “Pie isn’t a word. Pie is a lifestyle.”

Juror Seven holds her ground. Pie is a noun, she says, and Patty McAllister would back her up. A minute later, Russ sets a warm slice of cherry pie in front of her without asking. In Harrow, that pretty much settles it.

Hoff’s diner on a Monday morning, under a long red sign reading HOFF’S and PIE & COFFEE: on the left, Paloma, a girl with dark hair in a high bun with a pencil stuck through it, gold hoop earrings, purple headphones around her neck and a purple HARROWING hoodie, stands with her arms crossed and a deadpan look; on the right, Juror Seven, a young woman with long light brown hair, freckles and a mustard cardigan with a round Juror 7 badge, smiles smugly with one hand on her hip. Two pies sit under glass domes on the counter between them, a coffee pot warms on the left, and a slice of cherry pie waits at the bottom right.
Search: “jury visual novel.” Exhibit A is a slice of cherry pie.

Fairer Than This Town

At jury selection, Walt Pruitt, the defense lawyer, asks Juror Seven the question the room has heard forty times that morning: can she be fair? “Yes, sir” is the safe answer. “I’ll try” gets Walt calling it the most honest answer he’s had all day.

The third answer is “Fairer than this town.” Judge Whitlock replies for the whole county: “Noted. The town will be thrilled.” That one comes with a star.

Honk If You Love Harvest

On Monday night, Juror Seven takes the long way home. A combine is still working the Lindauer field in the dark, and its driver gives her the two-finger wave off the wheel that passes for hello out there. You can wave back, pretend you didn’t see, or honk.

Honk, and the game reports the result with a perfectly straight face: “Wyatt Lindauer jumps a foot in his seat. The combine does not.”

A honk doesn’t close any doors with Wyatt, the farmer on the jury. At the Harvest Festival hayride, you can still take the bale next to him, and he moves over exactly one bale’s width. As Juror Seven puts it: “For Wyatt, that’s a speech.”

The Harvest Festival on the courthouse square on a sunny afternoon, with the Lark County courthouse and its clock tower showing twenty past four, strings of colorful pennants, red and orange trees and booths for the chili cook-off, tamales and cider: on the left, Juror Seven, a young woman with long light brown hair and freckles, smiles in a mustard knit cap, a tan jacket and a red plaid shirt; on the right, Wyatt Lindauer, a tall man with curly brown hair, freckles and pink cheeks, glances away shyly in a brown jacket over a green hoodie, holding his cap in both hands.
People also ask: are farmers shy? This one moved over a whole bale.

Homecoming Royalty

Thursday night is the homecoming parade on Main Street. The homecoming court rides by in borrowed convertibles, doing the slow wave they all learned at Kim Calloway’s studio.

One of your answers here starts with a little pie emoji: “Wave back like a queen.” Pick it, and Juror Seven gives the convertibles the full routine. “Elbow, wrist, elbow.” She learned it at age six, for eight dollars a lesson.

Kaylee Dunn, Juror Five, turns up at her shoulder and does the wave too, perfectly. Five years ago, Kaylee says, that was her in the red convertible. Then: “Somebody pinch me.”

That little pie emoji is worth watching for. In the free chapters, it sits in front of just two answers, and both are exactly as silly as they look.

Night Court

This one is hidden, and it’s the only hidden one we’ll give away. Night Court goes to anyone who makes a choice in the story after midnight and before five in the morning, by their own device’s clock.

There’s no special scene and no secret path. It’s just you, Harrow and a decision you probably should have slept on.

Stars that take two trips

On Monday night and again on Friday night, Juror Seven writes down how she would vote if she had to vote tonight: guilty, not guilty or “I don’t know.” A few achievements keep an eye on those notes.

Swing Vote is for changing your verdict between Monday and Friday. Still Thinking is for saying “I don’t know” both nights. Both Sides of the Table takes two different runs: guilty on Monday night in one, not guilty in the other.

Objection Sustained is for going back to an earlier choice from the Story map, which also happens to be the quickest way to chase the rest. A few are for sharing: Quotable for a line from the story, Compare Notes for sending a friend your verdicts and Fan Scene for making a scene of your own and sharing it.

Come count your stars

Chapters 1–3 of Twelve Neighbors are free to play in your browser at twelveneighbors.com. The full game is $9.99, paid once. More about the game is on its Twelve Neighbors page.

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