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Servant of the Lake Walkthrough
Achievements

Soothing the Baby

Soothing the Baby wants the champagne given to the infant James before William gets it. Where the bottle is, and why a polite playthrough misses it.

Last updated 2026-08-15

Light spoilers. This page names rooms, items and characters you meet, but keeps the story beats out of it.

Give the champagne bottle to baby James — before William.

Official in-game clue: "Someone else wants a drink. Why is this baby so fussy?"

Where: Day 1 Evening, during the reunion, in the same block as the tea service.

Why it gets missed

The champagne is handed to you in a scene where William is the obvious recipient: he is an adult, he is holding court, and the game does not suggest an infant should be drinking. Give it to him and the scene advances normally with nothing lost except this achievement.

The clue is doing the work here — someone else wants a drink is the whole hint, and why is this baby so fussy tells you which someone.

What to do

  1. Take the champagne bottle when it becomes available.
  2. Use it on James, the baby, not on William.
  3. Carry on with the evening as normal.

This does not block anything. William gets his drink afterwards and the reunion proceeds.

The pattern this belongs to

A large share of this game's hidden achievements fire when you do a chore wrong on purposefailing the morning exercises, letting the goat eat the bouquet, scrubbing the portrait instead of the floor. Once you notice the pattern, the rest of the day gets easier to read.

Nearby

The full list of hidden achievements, in the order you reach them, is on the triggers page. Going for everything in one run? See 100% completion.