Life Is Strange is an adventure game series which takes you down a mysterious rabbit hole as you play as Max Caulfield, who upon discovering her newly found powers with which she can travel to alternate timelines and hop dimensions, starts investigating a murder case involving her best friend.
How To Find Clues About Maya’s Death In Life Is Strange: Double Exposure
You will have to go and talk to Gwen and Vinh quite a few times and hop some dimensions for Max to realize that Lucas might have information regarding a student at Caledon who is dead; Maya, who knew Safi herself. The question – who killed Safi? gets annoyingly difficult to answer as you reach Chapter 3 in Double Exposure.
There are well-kept secrets that you must uncover and Professor Lucas who teaches English Literature at Caledon is no such exception.
Everyone is withholding information in this game from you and it is imperative for Max to uncover these secrets to solve the murder mystery of her new best friend. However getting Lucas to answer your questions is not going to be that easy because yes, you guessed it right. Life is Strange, especially in the game so you will need to hop some more dimensions and investigate Lucas’s Office to get him to answer.
How To Find Information On Maya In Life Is Strange: Double Exposure
Premise
Maya Okada was Safi’s friend and a student at Caledon University who sadly passed away before Max joined Caledon in the game. You will find this out once you speak to Gwen about this. The mystery lies in the fact that this murdered student is somehow connected to the strange occurrences happening in and around the campus.
Conversations Between Vinh and Diamond
To get directions to Lucas, speak to Gwen, Vinh and Yasmin. If you go and have a conversation with Vinh in the admin building, he too like other characters will be tight-lipped as soon as you take Maya’s name but if you hop dimensions into the dead world and enter the Library, you will encounter Vinh and Diamond having sort of a heated conversation in the corner.
Here you can see Diamond trying to become the New Leader of Abraxas by trying to force Vinh out. She will ask Max about any information that she has regarding Vinh which she can use as leverage against Vinh to make him drop out of the leadership race.
Whichever dialogue option you chose here does not change what happens next as Diamond then goes on to confront Vinh with the information she has received from Max.
Listen in on their argument in the Living World by using Pulse outside Vinh’s office to hear the conversation happening on the other timeline.
Vinh’s Confession and Lucas
Now use what you have learnt after eavesdropping on their conversation against Vinh while talking to him and he will provide you the directions to Lucas’s office where you can confront him. You’ll even hear Vinh say that Lucas has ‘blood on his hands’ but nothing more.
He will also confess to the fact that it was he who threw the cow’s skull at Safi’s windshield of her car to direct Safi’s anger towards Lucas.
Investigation Of Lucas’s Office
Once you confront Lucas, your initial conversation with him will inform him about the in-game choice that you could have made, whether you inform Maya about the restraining order or not, although the choice does not affect what Lucas has to say to you here.
Once you finish this rather vague conversation with Lucas, you will realize that he is hiding something and you must search his office.
As you will find him in his office in the living world, you’ll have to cross dimensions and enter the dead world from the nearest shift point in the game to investigate his office.
- Now as you reach his office in the dead world, you will find many items which you can inspect for more comments from Max and about the in-game lore for Lucas.
- Inspect the Filing Cabinet below the Painting. When you will inspect the documents in this cabinet, you will find information which confirms the fact that Safi, Vinh and Maya were all students that studied with Lucas at Caledon.
- You will also discover that Lucas had certain inclinations towards Maya. This is when you will hear Max comment that she hopes that the situation here is not the same as with Mr Jefferson at Blackwell Academy from the previous game.
- Now if you move towards Lucas’s desk in his office, you’ll observe that he has a family photo kept on top of it next to his laptop. Inspect this photo until you can find the key taped on the underside by turning around the photo frame.
- With the key in your possession, head towards the golden typewriter, which can be found sitting in between the book cases on the opposite end of the room.
- The key that you previously found opens a secret compartment in the typewriter where Max will find a certain manuscript which was written by Maya, hidden by Lucas.
You will find that Max immediately recognizes the handwriting in the manuscript but what’s written in it is even strange. It is a copy of the manuscript of the first uber-successful novel written by Lucas but in Maya’s Handwriting. Realising this Max will look for a copy of Lucas’s novel and confirm the fact to herself that Lucas stole Maya’s creative ideas for his own novel.
Take a Snapshot of the two manuscripts together and you will have completed this questline and moved further towards solving the mystery of Safi’s death in Life Is Strange: Double Exposure.