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To open this oven (if it's not open already), you'll need to solve the
puzzle involving what's written on the door and the corpses in the area.
Each Riddle Level is quite different, however.

EASY:
Here there is no puzzle, the oven will be open.

NORMAL:
Here there will be roman numerals in randomly selected slots on the oven.
They have to do with the four corpses on the gurneys with white coverings.
The roman numerals in the slots on the oven will be I, II, III and IV. If
there's a roman numeral in a slot, there will be a covered corpse on a
gurney in that position of the room. It's not that hard to figure out.
Each of the gurneys -- covered or not -- are marked with numbers.

Here are the locations for each gurney number in the area:

1 2
3 4 5 6
7 8 9 0

Use those numbers to unlock the oven. So if it says "I" in a spot on the
oven, the number on the corpse in the room that coordinates with that
location is the first number to the solution. Do the same for the other
three numbers and you'll get a code.

Eg. II --- --- IV 1 2
--- --- I --- 3 4 5 9
III --- --- --- 7 8 9 0

In this case, the resulting code would be 5172. However, you are very
unlikely to get this exact code, since all codes are random. Another thing,
the number 7 will always be in the resulting code because that's Stanley
Coleman, according to the crazy guy on the phone (later on in the
hospital).

HARD:
Upon examining the open there will be a riddle. On each gurney in the room
there will also be a poem. You need to use them to solve the puzzle. The
following is written on the oven:

"Burn the one who knows no death
Pure, adored by those above (A)
No prayers within, just simple love

And now the pining hunter
The flames longing for his rebirth (B)
A distant breath within the earth

Burn up that heavy body of his
Make it wind, dancing in the sky (C)
That bottomless gut now a cloud,
now a sigh

The sweet blood on his laughing lips
Now calls him to the gates of Hell (D)
There burns evermore that soulless shell

Four bodies return to ashes
Thus the door is opened
Thus the door is opened"

The poem has five verses and the first four are the answers that give you
the four-digit pass code. However, you need to use the four verses on the
oven and match them with four of the ten poems on each gurney in the room:

[Note:] The poems marked A-D on the side correspond with the paragraph of
the same letter for the memo above (the oven door).

1 (The Song of the Sparrow)

"Who killed Cock Robin?
'The Sparrow,' they said
'He wants them all dead (D)
To him, honey-sweet is
their sobbin''"


2 (The Song of the Owl)

"The Owl who forgot the sky
Resigned to his poor earthbound state
Hungry or full didn't matter at all (B)
He ate and he ate and he ate"


3 (The Song of the Thrush)

"The grass the Thrush so loved to eat
Gave him sweet happiness
He sank ever deeper and finally fell
To destruction and fatal distress"


4 (The Song of Cock Robin)

"Cock Robin, who hid the key away
Is ash in the oven, all right
The place he held is empty now
And the doors remain shut tight"


5 (The Song of the Lark)

"The Lark's child lost all his words
And walled himself up all away
Heart and mouth both locked up tight
In a cage where none want to stay"


6 (The Song of the Dove)

"The Dove's hope died; he chose his path
His flapping wings fell still
Drenched in scarlet here they lay
His cheeks pale white and chill"


7 (The Song of the Linnet)

"He seeks out her soul by his own
black ambition
Frightening her out of her wits (C)
Whispering love songs into her ear
What cruel Linnet wants, he gets"


8 (The Song of the Rook)

"The black Rook is the praying sort
Who hears the gods in the skies
His whispered petitions go on
without end
And glassy and dim are his eyes"


9 (The Song of the Wren)

"The Wren, with pure heart as
yet unrefined
Makes us laugh with his feeble
lip-smacking (A)
But still we all know he shall
never grow old
And he knows not how much
he is lacking"


0 (The Song of the Kite)

"The Kite, hot, crazy, and panting mad
Sweet shackles that tease and excite
Death itself would drive him wild
Red blood that turns milky white"


If you are familiar with the nursery rhyme "Who killed Cock Robin?" you
are in luck. But if you're not, that's probably why you're here. Read all
the poems on the gurneys in order. So start with 0, which doesn't relate
to anything here.

1 is the fourth verse on the oven. The Sparrow is the bird who is to be
sent to hell here, since he's the one who killed Cock Robin. Very
straightforward.

2 is the second verse on the oven. The Owl is the pining hunter, withering
away from grief -- he can't hunt nor fly. Also, the word "earth" is
mentioned in both this verse and the verse on the oven.

3 to 6 don't have to do with anything here, but 7 is the third verse on
the oven. The thing about the "Linnet" is the clue here, it matches the
the third verse on the oven. By the way, you may notice that this memo
also clearly describes Stanley Coleman, the madman writing letters to
Heather. The corpse numbered "7" is in fact his, which will be told to you
shortly, if not already. The number 7 corpse is always down here, and is
always a number in the resulting code for every Riddle Level.

8 is nothing and 9 is the first verse on the oven. This verse says "he
shall never grow old", which matches "knows no death" on the oven. Also,
they both have "pure" in them and the verses are quite similar, referring
to love.

So that leaves you with four numbers: 1, 2, 7, 9. Just take those numbers
and arrange them in the order of the verses they match on the oven (A - 9,
B - 2, C - 7, D - 1). This leaves you with 9271.