[Chef Callion

A chef instructor teaching Culinary Arts 101 at Escape Academy who also serves as one of the three suspects in the 'A Trying Trial' escape room.

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Chef Callion is a chef and instructor who teaches Culinary Arts 101 at Escape Academy. He also appears as one of three suspects in the "A Trying Trial" escape room, where the player may choose to accuse him, unlocking a unique chain of puzzles and evidence confrontations. This guide covers how to accuse Chef Callion and how to work through the accusation sequence, including the evidence you need to present at each stage [src-cdf9faa348].

Before You Accuse Anyone

In "A Trying Trial," walk up to all three suspects and interact with each of them. Doing so nets you a picture of each suspect. Once you have all three pictures, go to the blackboard and select one to accuse. Whoever you choose will create unique puzzles to solve in the next couple of steps [src-cdf9faa348].

Note that the walkthrough below assumes you accuse Chef Callion. If you accuse Guy or Monstrong instead, your puzzles will be different [src-cdf9faa348].

How to Accuse Chef Callion

1. Interact with all three suspects to collect their pictures [src-cdf9faa348].
2. Go to the blackboard and select the picture of Chef Callion [src-cdf9faa348].
3. Confirm your choice on the blackboard to lock in the accusation [src-cdf9faa348].

Step-by-Step Walkthrough: Proving the Accusation

After confirming your accusation, you must prove it. Move over to the desk and interact with the bag there to discover various pieces of evidence you can read [src-cdf9faa348].

Question 1: "What does Chef Callion have against me?"

Your job is to present evidence at the blackboard each time that answers the question [src-cdf9faa348]. Reviewing your evidence, the correct choice is the School Budget, as it shows a lack of funding for the cafeteria [src-cdf9faa348]. During this, the Headmaster will hold up a bucket of chum, which you need to inspect to progress the conversation [src-cdf9faa348].

Disproving Chef Callion's First Defense

In response, Chef Callion makes a defense comprising a few statements. You must choose which of his statements is incorrect and provide another piece of evidence that backs up your claim [src-cdf9faa348]. The three statements are [src-cdf9faa348]:

• "Budget cuts or not, I would never serve anything so crass in my kitchen."
• "Every recipe I prepare is optimized for student health and nutrition."
• "That chum wasn't food — it was headed for the compost heap."

Review your gathered evidence documents to deduce which statement is false. The false statement is: "That chum wasn't food — it was headed for the compost heap." [src-cdf9faa348] You can prove it by presenting the Kitchen Rules evidence [src-cdf9faa348].

Disproving Chef Callion's Second Defense

This leads to more conversation and three further statements from Chef, one of which you must disprove [src-cdf9faa348]:

• "It's true that meat isn't allowed in the compost heap."
• "But there simply isn't a contradiction… Fish isn't considered meat."
• "That chum was never part of some ridiculous murder plot."

Again, review your gathered evidence documents to determine which statement to challenge [src-cdf9faa348].

Tips

• Collect all three suspect pictures before accusing anyone — the blackboard selection requires them [src-cdf9faa348].
• Read every document in the bag at the desk before presenting evidence. The confrontations are deduction puzzles: you must match the right document to the right question or false statement [src-cdf9faa348].
• Don't skip inspecting the bucket of chum the Headmaster holds up — the conversation will not progress without it [src-cdf9faa348].
• If you get stuck on the first defense, the pattern is to find the statement contradicted by a written rule (the Kitchen Rules) rather than by opinion [src-cdf9faa348].
• Remember that accusing a different suspect changes the puzzles entirely, so this sequence only applies if you accuse Chef Callion [src-cdf9faa348].

Context: Chef Callion at the [Academy

Chef Callion teaches Culinary Arts 101, and his classroom demeanor comes through in his introduction to students — he greets the class, checks that everyone washed their hands and wiped their feet ("in that order"), and reminds them there's an order to everything in his kitchen [src-7fcadcc2ae]. This insistence on kitchen rules is exactly what makes the Kitchen Rules document the key piece of evidence against his compost-heap claim [src-cdf9faa348].

Details

role

Chef and Instructor

suspect_status

One of three suspects in the 'A Trying Trial' escape room whom the player can accuse, triggering unique puzzle sequences and evidence confrontations.

Sources

• Escape Academy DLC 2 Escape From The Past (Yes Chef)
• Escape Academy A Trying Trial Walkthrough