Waltz at a masquerade Black Swan, during which the Pathfinder will have to witness a kind of battle between the “klutz” in a mask and the keeper of the “Garden of Memories.” Aeon follower Fuli received a strange and provocative message from a naughty actress and is serious about answering it.
In this guide, we will tell you what conditions must be met in order to begin completing the Waltz Masquerade companion mission in HSR, and also present a complete list of rewards for completing the quest.
How to start the Masquerade Waltz quest in Honkai: Star Rail
In order to open the task “Waltz at a Masquerade Ball”, you will need to fulfill several mandatory requirements:
- to reach Mastering level 40 or higher;
- complete the Reconstruction mission “And who is the killer?...”.
After all the requirements are met, a message from Dr. Edward will be sent to the Pathfinder’s phone, opening access to the mission. Black Swan donated a dream bubble to the store, which Edward thought might be of interest to the Pathfinder.
Walkthrough of Masquerade Waltz in Honkai: Star Rail
Black Swan shared a strange memory: in it, she solves riddles left by Twilight. Go through multiple puzzles to find out who the killer is in well-crafted crimes.
Talk to Doctor Edward
Head to Oti Shopping Center in Golden moment, related to the Dream World, and meet Edward. Listen to his recommendations and touch the dream bubble.
Go to Recon: Black Swan Dream Bubble mode. Assemble a squad that must include the Black Swan herself (you can choose a trial character) and heroes with the following types of combat:
- physical, flighty.
Enemies may include Royal Bucks and Spring Croupiers from the Nightmare Troupe. Please note that in this mode you cannot use navigation for teleportation; available Spatial Anchors will only restore HP.
Ask a member of the Hound Clan about the case
Watch a short scene: Sampo and Black Swan pretend to be detectives to infiltrate a mysterious crime scene. You can tell the truth or not explain anything to the guy, he will still be a little scared of such tricks. A red and white mask of Sparkle will appear in the air, offering to solve the riddle and find her before Penaconia turns upside down.
When the dialogue comes to an end, turn to the guard on the left, you can ask her additional questions or get to the point by asking if you can talk to the victim.
Then talk to the detective and his assistant standing in the center of the location. According to them, the victim was the matriarch of the Goldhammer clan, Iskorka. She had an appointment with three warriors, but upon arrival they saw only her body.
Previously, the soldiers lost ammunition, perhaps they wanted to avoid punishment and now become the main suspects.
The detective will ask you to conduct your own investigation, tell you that there is still a lot of evidence left, and hand over the case materials. Ask the assistant detective about the suspects and their signs:
- Leo lost his right arm.
- The Center's face is disfigured.
- Prava's legs were broken.
After questioning, you will receive the quest item "Case Brief I".
Find evidence at the crime scene
Examine the two pieces of evidence next to the wall one by one and get the following items:
- Evidence: Giant Wooden Hammer, which Twilight also beat Mr. Shamari with.
- Evidence: Shamari's ID - It should have disappeared along with the man, but the matriarch left it here to prove her guilt.
Step aside and look at the collected evidence. The Mask will appear again and report that Sparkle has left other clues somewhere so as not to litter the crime scene.
Find clues left by Twilight
Interact with a nearby TV to transform into a different form and begin the challenge. "The Adventures of Hanu". Enter the room where Twilight hid the puzzle clues through the hatch on the left.
Evidence 1
Run behind the screen and examine the device lying on the floor to get the item Clue: Mutually Assured Destruction Button. One click will destroy Penaconia to the ground.
Evidence 2
Follow the corridor between the stacks of books, turn left and interact with the TV to return to your previous appearance.
Destroy the ball, hovering along the way, and then turn back into Hana and move on through the opened age.
Run left and look around Mosaic of dreamsto collect it:
- Drag the first two pieces to the left side of the picture without rotating them.
- Rebuild the right side in the same way using the third and fourth pieces.
- Now move the fifth and sixth puzzles down, also without twisting them.
- Take the seventh fragment and place it on the right, turning it once. Drag the last one to the remaining area, click on it once to place it in the right direction.
When you complete the test, examine the resulting rabbit and receive the item Clue: Pom-Pom toy.
Evidence 3
Interact with the rocket to climb up onto the shelf above. Examine the vase and push it onto the enemy standing nearby, then the age will become clearer.
Go down to the floor using the blue teleporter behind and activate another travel point, which will help you deal with the fence and get to the opposite side.
Examine the last clue, Goldhammer Mansion Security Rules, and you will automatically be returned to the crime scene.
Find the solution to the puzzle
Approach the suspect figures and choose who needs to be eliminated by elimination. First, you can go to your inventory and once again familiarize yourself with the collected evidence. Who should be excluded:
- According to the rules, all guests of the mansion must undergo a facial recognition system, otherwise they will be killed on the spot. that you Center face is disfigured and exclude him presenting Evidence: security rules for the Goldhammer mansion.
- Eliminate Levusing Evidence: giant wooden hammer, because the murder weapon is too heavy and it is impossible to lift it with one hand.
Thus, we can conclude that in Twilight's death guilty Right - only he could get through the defenses of the mansion and strike with a large hammer.
Tell the detective the identity of the killer. According to the rules of the game, he will tell you where to find the next puzzle.
Rush to the scene of Twilight's next crime
Climb the stairs to the west to the marked point and exit the underground part of the area.
Continue the path: run past the hotel to the western part of the city and talk to the sheriff and the sheriff's assistant. In the new mystery, the victim is a galactic business tycoon named Twilight. In the story, she was strangled in a boutique fitting room, and there were three suspects at the crime scene.
Ask the deputy sheriff about the suspects
Memorize details about three potential criminals and get "Case Summary II":
- Right - the owner of the store, belongs to the Pepeshi people and is small in stature: only about the waist of Mrs. Sparkle.
- a lion - a wealthy erudroid merchant and a direct competitor of the murdered woman.
- Center - a gambler from the fox people, lost a bet to a girl and gave her a family heirloom.
Find evidence at the crime scene
Examine the box where you will find the first quest item - Evidence: Lev's tie. On the right lies Evidence: Qian Ketong's ledger. Perhaps it belonged to Twilight's new victim.
Find clues left by Twilight
Step back and look at the collected evidence. Just like last time, enter the room where Twilight hid the clues to solve the puzzle by turning into little Hana.
Evidence 1
Run forward and turn behind the shelf, where there will be a small age between the stacks of books. A TV will immediately appear to their right. Interact with him and return to your previous appearance.
Go up the steps and look at the overturned decor on the floor to get the quest item Evidence: Rights stool.
Evidence 2
To the right of the stool is the following TV - take the form of Khan and use teleport from behind to get to another part of the room.
A box will immediately appear in front of your face, inside which lies Evidence: smoked herring. A comic hook, in the description of which you will only see a detailed recipe for its preparation.
Evidence 3
Next, turn right to the second blue rocket, with which you can to be teleported on high shelves. Run to the clock ahead and repair it Walkers of the Dream Worldto find out what's inside the device:
- Move mirror of dreams a little backto connect the paths.
- Then rearrange yellow figure to the left - towards the second cube. Thus, lay out the correct route to the first gear, and the watch will go to it.
- Get blue curved figure and click on it three timesso that it connects to the platform on which the gear lies.
- Now separate the two yellow bars - Pull one of them closer to the blue path.
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When you're done with the puzzle, awaken the mechanism and fish out the last clue - Clue: Center Ring. After this, you will automatically return to the street.
Find the solution to the puzzle
Talk to the sheriff and tell him who the killer is - you can identify him or not, or think about it and come back with an answer later.
In fact, any answer will be correct, if the evidence is presented correctly. The decision does not affect further rewards and progression - it is only a demonstration of how imagination can influence reality.
If you decide identify the killer, then tell the sheriff the identity of the killer. Condemn Center and present Evidence: Center Ringto prove his guilt.
The motive will fit, everything will be arranged like this, supposedly a card sharper got into the store without money for the sole purpose of stealing his lost relic. But the same way all participants can be convicted, juggling the collected items:
- For Lev, present the Evidence: Lev's tie. The victim was strangled, and this thing is only for the personal use of His Excellency Mr. Lev. This means no one else could have used the murder weapon.
- For Right, show the Evidence: Right's stool. Previously, the chair belonged to a pepeshi worker, the only way he could reach and kill Twilight,
If you want to don't identify the killer, then in a conversation with the sheriff show him Evidence: Lev's tie. Other attributes found in the house, the stool of Rights or the ring of the Center, will also work. They can all prove that Twilight died accidentally and none of the suspects had anything to do with it.
Sampo will prove that based on the clues collected the killer could be anyone or no one at all. This means that there really was no crime, it was all just Twilight’s performance.
Rush to the scene of Twilight's next crime
Follow the clues north to the arcade with the slot machines, wondering along the way how long these games with the Masked Klutz will last.
Meet with the detective and his assistant to discuss the details of the case, after which a short cut-scene will start.
Sparkle worked very hard on this riddle, left all the evidence in place and pretended to be someone else. She took on someone else's appearance and now she has to guess which of all the participants is the Masked Genius?
Hurry to Twilight's hideout
Run east along the small street towards the center of the area.
Turn left towards the bridge and finally reach the statue dedicated to the cartoon character Chasik.
Check out the unusual trash can. He will congratulate the team and report that they did it, and ask the last question: “What creature has four legs in the morning, two in the afternoon, and three in the evening?”
There is no correct option in the list. You can answer with the classic “person” or indicate something else. In any case, the correct answer is Sparkle. She is sleepy in the morning, very busy during the day, and by the evening she collapses and cannot even brush her teeth.
As punishment, the Royal Tank will attack the company along with the Spring Croupiers from the Nightmare Troupe. Break through the vulnerability of the main enemy as early as possible so that he leaves the battlefield.
He becomes weak to the elements he was attacked with, so try to concentrate all attacks on the tank. The monster is quite strong due to its increased attack, and monitors the health of its squad .
Sparkle herself will take the place of the enemy. Sampo will accuse Black Swan of treason, allegedly only she could harm a person in the Dream World. The klutz in the mask constantly made fun of her and mocked her, so the Keeper of Memory could not stand it and arranged everything for the sake of her death.
Black Swan will object by saying that, thanks to the efforts of the Family and the blessing of Harmony, it is impossible to die in the garden of memories. She will also make a counter-accusation: Sparkle has taken on the identity of Sampo.
Using deduction, Swan will solve the final riddle. The killer in a locked room will be detective assistant, that is, Sampo himself, skillfully covering his tracks.
The Klutz herself will appear in a mask and reveal all the cards. It turns out that throughout the entire performance she was pretending to be her own body. She needs fun, and Black Swan needs memories. Therefore, they could become soul mates.
Talk to Doctor Edward
After a long cutscene, return to the Golden Moment, discuss what happened with Doctor Edward and express your impressions.
Watch the conversation between Sparkle and Sampo. The girl will give him the key to the Tavern cellar and mention the impending disaster on Yarilo-VI. The guy will ask her to stay away from Belobog and say hello to Giovanni, at which point the scene will come to an end.
Immediately after this, you will return to reality, and a message from the Black Swan will arrive on the Pathfinder’s smartphone. The Memory Keeper will ask if you have looked at her bubble yet.
Find out if it's really the Black Swan, because Twilight is pulling a prank again and pretending to be someone else. Then the girl will delete her . The task will come to an end, after which you will receive rewards and an achievement "Time to dance".
Achievement Time to Dance in Honkai: Star Rail
Complete the companion mission "Masquerade Waltz", at the end of which you will earn an achievement "Time to dance" from section "Our Memories". Reward: 5 star jade.
Awards
For complete completion of the mission “Waltz at a Masquerade Ball” you can receive valuable rewards:
- 100 star jade;
- 600 points Experience;
- 60 credits;
- 3 starfire essences;
- 3 heavenly interludes;
- music record “Challenge to the Reader”.
We hope this guide helped you get started and complete the Masquerade Waltz companion mission in Honkai: Star Rail. If you encounter any problems during the age, you can report them in comments. Follow the relevant sections of our website for other articles and guides on the game: news.
Typo, not patriarch, but matriarch 😀
The confirmation: a photo
Corrected, thank you!
Twilight's death is a complete reference to Danganronpa Pasiba
I liked the Joker reference from Sparkle at the end))
Somehow I find Sparkle incredibly annoying - just an arrogant, nasty and arrogant little thing. But damn, was that a reference to Danganronpa)? When her corpse was zoomed in)) Checked this out
I doubt it =) The Chinese are unlikely to refer so much to the Japanese ONIME 😀
Rather, these are flashbacks for you)
The Chinese refer to a lot of things, including “Japanese onime”, so don’t go there.) And ronpa is, first and foremost, games.
ahh, how many Chinese people are fumbling for fight club??