Audio Diary Locations

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Audio Diary Locations

Adonis Luxury Resort

1. Attention: Workers!
Adonis Baths. On the pillar base at the northeast corner of the room, in front of the sparking generator.

2. Fitness
In the locked sauna at the south end of the hall just beyond the large room with the sparking generator. Input 1540 into the Keypad to open the door.

3. To My Daughter
At the back of the “Dames” room in the corridor south of Adonis Baths.

4. Return
In the room with the bridge and wading Splicers. On a bench below the painting at the southwest end of the room, or directly to your right upon entering.

5. They Called It Rapture
Bathysphere Docking. Next to the open suitcase across from the doorway.

6. Generation
Grand Foyer. Collect after the Big Sister fight. On the counter in front of the Vita-Chamber at the east end of the area.

7. Escape From Rapture
Ocean floor. Search the Corpse in the crashed bathysphere along the left side of the path, just before the collapsed pillar.

Atlantic Express

1. The Great Chain Rattles
Repair Platform. On the desk in the workshop (Workshop 6A) along the south side of the platform.

2. Mr. Tape Recorder
Maintenance Runoff Pumping Station -- the area you land in when the floor collapses during Lamb’s assault. You need the Telekinesis Plasmid to reach this diary, so backtrack to this area when you have it. It is behind the large, slowly-turning fan by the stairs at the north-end of the corridor. Grab the diary with Telekinesis when the diary is visible through the gap in the blades.

3. Just a Fad
On a desk along the platform with many explosive containers and Splicers gathered around a flaming oil drum below. This platform is through the doorway next to the blood-scrawled “She Knows The Way” message on the wall.

4. What Happened to the People?
Train Workshop 6B. On top of a mattress in the northwest corner of the large room below the platform where the previous diary (Just a Fad) was found.

5. Ryan vs. Lamb: Reality
Cafeteria. In an open suitcase next to the “Health and Happiness” poster in the west-most room.

6. Know the Beast
Control Room. On the overturned filing cabinet at the bottom of the steps on the side of the room opposite the Vending Machine.

7. Improving on Suchong’s Work
After riding the elevator up, enter the office along the west side of this area. The diary is in the open filing cabinet at the back of the office.

8. The Situation
Train Station at the end of the level. On the bench across from the front end of the train.

Ryan Amusements

1. Eleanor’s Progress
On the altar up the stairs and through the door beyond the first Vita-Chamber of the level.

2. The Old Sheepdog
On the table across from the Manager’s Office entrance, which is past the first Power to the People weapon upgrade and nearby Vita-Chamber.

3. Volunteer
Under the bench on the mid-section of the second-floor walkway in the Rapture Museum lobby.

4. Eat Dog
A gift from Eleanor, along with the Drill Power Tonic. You’ll come to this gift on your way to the El Dorado Lounge.

5. “Child” and Guardian
In the open suitcase on the table across from the couch at the north end of the El Dorado Lounge.

6. You, Me, and 1959
Ryan Amusements. While facing the “Journey to the Surface” sign, turn left and look for the audio diary on the desk there.

7. Escape Plan
Journey to the Surface, Ride Cart Garage. On the ground next to the second Little Sister gather spot.

8. Lamb the Problem, Sinclair the Solution
Journey to the Surface. After protecting the Little Sister while she gathers ADAM in the Ride Cart Garage, exit the room through the doorway closest to the Health Station and turn left. Look for the diary on the table behind the falling water.

9. Truth is in the Body
On a balcony along the Journey to the Surface tracks. Keep an eye out for a graffiti message, “We Will Be Reborn,” on your right shortly after the Ride Cart Garage gather. When you spot the message, head through the opening in the wall further up. Climb the steps up to a balcony; the diary is on the table around the corner here.

10. Deterioration
Journey to the Surface. Continue down the tracks until you reach rubble blocking the path. Move through the doorway to the right of the robotic family sitting on the couch to enter a room with two large hands. Use the Y/Triangle button to jump onto the palm of the hand on the right and walk up the arm to reach the platform above. The audio diary is next to the Corpse here.

11. Helping Sinclair
Journey to the Surface. In the room through the door to the left of the ceramic family sitting on the couch (Lighting Storage). In the alcove to the right of the Power to the People weapon upgrade station.

12. Doctor Lamb
Journey to the Surface. In a boarded up room below a Security Camera along the tracks. Melee the boards to break them. The diary is on the mattress.

13. Efficacy
Journey to the Surface. In the overturned filing cabinet through the doorway marked “Ride Maintenance” at the end of the track.

14. Dating Plans
After using the Maintenance Door Access switch at the end of the Journey to the Surface, head back down the ramp leading to the ride entrance. Go through the now-open doorway in the northeast corner of the area and look in the backroom here to find the diary.

15. A Father’s Love
Hall of the Future. You’ll come to a couple of Splicers arguing over a sparking Turret. Continue through the door at the other end of this room and then down the U-shaped corridor. Look for the diary by the Vita-Chamber in the next area.

16. Cutting Corners.
Gift Shop. In an open box behind the counter at the south end of the room.

17. Rapture in Deliverance
Gift Shop. Start by heading down the steps across from the Ammo Vending Machine. At the bottom of the steps, turn left and use Electro Bolt on the Door Control to open the gate. The diary is on a table at the back of the “Dames” room.

18. Disappeared
Embedded in the ice mound near the start of the level. Melt the ice with Incinerate.

19. Wooden Nickels
This one is easy to miss. Just before hopping on the train to leave the level, after activating the Security Override Switch, leave the booth and look in the room to the left of the now-unfrozen door to find the diary.

Pauper's Drop

1. Ryan vs. Lamb: Religious Rights
The Fishbowl. Enter Marlene’s Flower Emporium and look for the diary on top of the drawers inside.

2. Better Times with Lamb
The Fishbowl, on top of Marlene’s Flower Emporium. Climb the wooden steps along the east side of the Diner and cross the bridge at the southwest end to get on top of the flower shop.

3. Wrong Side of the Tracks
Sinclair Deluxe. In the reception office to your left upon entering the hotel.

4. The End of the Line
Downtown. On the Prentice Mill memorial in the northeast corner of the area.

5. Clinic Code at the Fishbowl
Downtown. By the locked door to Fontaine Clinics at the south end of the area.

6. Camera in Hock
Fontaine Clinics. On the desk in R. Flanagan’s office.

7. Arrangements
You’ll eventually come to an area with some Splicers standing around a not-quite-dead Splicer lying on a covered table. The diary is by the bunch of candles next to the Vent here.

8. Therapy with Gene 1
Once on top of the Pawn Shop, before dropping through the hole in the roof to collect the Research Camera, cross the wooden bridge at the north end of the roof. Blast the Splicer through the door here and turn right to spot the diary on the cabinet there.

9. Blood Lamb
Skid Row. Enter the Pharmacy in the middle of the area and head through the doorway behind the counter. In the backroom, climb on top of the boxes, click the Left Stick to duck and crawl through the opening in the wall to enter the bookstore. The diary is on the counter. Hack the sparking Door Control panel to exit.

10. Mole
Skid Row. Move through the doorway across from the Pharmacy entrance. Look for the diary by some fire and a Rosie corpse about halfway down.

11. Pauper’s Drop
Skid Row. At the end of the corridor where you found the “Mole” diary. Rather than heading down the steps, turn right and head up the steps there. At the top of the steps, proceed through the doorway straight ahead. Upon entering this room, move through the opening in the wall and cross the wooden bridge to the top of the Pharmacy. Look for the diary on the Storage Crate through the opening across from the hole in the roof.

12. Sunday Services
Skid Row. After collecting the “Pauper’s Drop” diary, cross the wooden bridge back to the apartments. The diary is on the ground next to the gather spot here.

13. Closing the Limbo Room
Limbo Room. Head up the steps at the right end of the stage and proceed through the door straight ahead to find another Power to the People weapon upgrade station. Use the station, exit the room, then turn right once through the door. Look for the diary on the vanity in the room you come to.

14. A Gift From Lamb
Sinclair Deluxe. Once you are able to remove the rubble blocking entrance into the hotel lobby, head up the stairs and look for the diary in room 106 along the south side of the second floor walkway. The diary is in the bathroom.

15. Profit Coming, Profit Going
Sinclair Deluxe. Before climbing up the collapsed floor to get onto the third floor, continue past the Vent and Gene Bank and turn left when you can. Head up the stairs here, jump across the gap and look for the diary by the Storage Container.

16. Where Has Harry Gone?
Sinclair Deluxe, third floor. In the apartment across from the Vending Machine on the third floor. Turn through the doorway to the left and look for the diary on the shelves next to the Turret.

17. The Butterfly
Sinclair Deluxe, third floor. Past the Vending Machine, look for the diary on one of the tables in the southeast corner of the apartment across from the puddle of water.

18. What a Snap
Sinclair Deluxe, fourth floor. By the Storage Crate at the northwest end of the fourth-floor walkway.

19. Barbarism
Sinclair Deluxe, Grace’s Apartment. Under the bed in Eleanor’s room.

20. Falling Lamb
Sinclair Deluxe, Grace’s Apartment. On the bed in Grace’s room.

21. Field Test 1
Kill the Brute Splicer that spawns in The Fishbowl before leaving the level. Loot his corpse to find the diary.

Siren Alley

1. A Silent God
Near the start of the level. Turn left once through the first doorway; the diary is hanging next to the painting here.

2. Misbehaving
Little Eden Plaza. In the restaurant in the middle of the plaza. There’s a hole on the second floor you can drop through to get in. The diary is on the counter in the middle room. Hack the Door Control in the room next to the kitchen to get out.

3. The Rumbler
Mermaid Lounge. In the first floor restroom next to the Ammo Vending Machine at the west end. Melt the ice mounds with Incinerate to uncover the diary.

4. Plasmid Shipment.
Mermaid Lounge. Look for the diary on the table at the back of the slot machine room at the northwest end of the second-floor walkway.

5. Father to Fall
Mermaid Lounge. In the gated room with the Power to the People station on the first floor.
Shoot a Hack Dart at the Door Control panel visible in the kitchen through the window at the top of the stairs. Complete the hacking stages to open the gate and then drop through the hole in the kitchen storage room. The diary is on the ground next to the weapon upgrade station.

6. Lamb’s Salvation
Maintenance Area. Next to the locked security door into Plaza Hedone.

7. Father Simon Wales
Pink Pearl. On the desk in the first-floor office, which is accessible through the automatic double-door in the northeast corner of the lobby.

8. Double Standard
Pink Pearl, second floor. On a table in the bedroom through the automatic double-door beyond the Turret.

9. Wales an’ Wales
Pink Pearl, third floor. On the desk in the office at the back of the hall.

10. The Date is the Code
Pink Pearl. Loot Daniel Wales’ corpse.

11. Bury Her Memory
Plaza Hedone. In the room through the automatic double-door along the northwest end of the upper walkway

12. The Pair Bond Mechanism
Plaza Hedone, ground floor. On a stack of blocks in front of the Gene Bank, Gatherer’s Garden, and Vending Machine at the south end of the area.

13. The Requirements of Utopia
Plaza Hedone. In the tunnel accessible near the stairs in the southwest corner of the plaza. Start down the corridor next to the stairs leading up to the second-floor walkway. Walk along the corridor to reach the stairs down to the tunnel. A Tonic is hanging from a rope partway down and the diary is on a stack of blocks at the end.

14. An Empty Niche
Plaza Hedone, Joe’s Green Groceries. Press the Conspicuous Switch behind the counter to open the door on the other side of the wall. Proceed through the door to enter the Illegal Plasmid Lab. The diary is on the table in the room through the Securis door next to the Ammo Vending Machine on the flooded ground floor.

15. Lamb's Operation
Plaza Hedone, Smuggler’s Hideout. Take the stairs up to the second-floor walkway and cross the wooden bridge to the top of Joe’s Green Groceries. Hack or destroy the turret in the alley here and then proceed through the Securis door. The diary is on top of the Smuggler’s Crate in this room.

16. My Name is Eleanor
Plaza Hedone, Little Sister Orphanage. Head up the stairs, through the automatic double-door and look for the diary at the far end of the sleeping quarters.

17. Shackled to the Great Chain
Pump Station Access. Head up the stairs through the doorway past the Vending Machine and go to the west end of the upper walkway. The diary is in the room behind the gate here.

18. Guidance of the Lamb
Pump Station Access. Before heading through the door at the east end of the area, look for the audio diary on the ground below the two paintings to the right.

19. Therapy with Gene 2
In the room with the Power to the People station in the corridor to Simon Wales’ church.

20. Creed of the Faithful
On the pulpit at the front of Simon Wales’ church. Be sure to collect this diary before activating the Pump Control.

Dionysus Park

1. Patronage
After killing the Houdini Splicer at the start of the level, continue through the doorway at the east end of the area. The diary is on the shelf next to the puddle of water straight across from the doorway.

2. A Gift from Billy
After collecting “Patronage,” proceed up the stairs and through the doorway at the top. Move straight through the falling water and down the stairs there to find this diary.

3. Lamb’s Time is Over
Once you have “A Gift from Billy,” backtrack to the area where you faced the Houdini Splicer and approach the locked door next to the Vending Machine at the east end of the Cohen’s Collection corridor. Input 1080 into the Keypad and look for a diary near to the Power to the People station in this room.

4. Lamb’s Idea of Art
After collecting the “Lamb’s Time is Over” diary, make your way back to where you found Billy’s diary. Proceed through the automatic double-door near the falling water, hack the Security Camera here and continue up the stairs. Proceed through the doorway in the next room and turn left to spot the diary on the base of the statue there.

5. Lost and Found
Carousel room. At the centre of the carousel.

6. Lamb Flouts the System
After speaking to Stanley Poole, exit through the automatic door at the east end of the station. Up the stairs and through the second automatic door, look for the diary next to the overturned trashcan behind the statue at the centre of the area.

7. Learning Poker
Triton Theatre Lounge. Approach the locked door at the bottom of the steps at the north end of the lobby. Hack the Door Control panel to open the door. The diary is on the Filing Cabinet in the corner straight across from the door.

8. The Secular Saint
Triton Theatre. Proceed through the automatic double-door to the left of the stage at the back of the theatre. The diary is on a bottom shelf in the far corner of this room.

9. A Spy
Triton Theatre. Head up the stairs at the west end of the corridor just outside the stage room. The diary is on the railing of the booth here.

10. Growing Up
Triton Theatre. In the hall leading to the Projection Booth, which is accessible through the automatic double-door at the east end of the corridor just outside the stage room.

11. The Voice of the Self
On the piano in the Piano Bar, which is accessible through the automatic double-door at the west end of the Gallery Entrance area.

12. Falling Into Place
Imago Gallery. Embedded in an ice mound next to the doorway across from the Vent at the southwest end of the area. Melt the ice mound with Incinerate.

13. Gotta Keep it Together
J. Fischer Gallery. In the backroom up the steps at the southwest end of the area.

14. Dionysus Park’s Weakness
Basement Storage. At the base of the partially open door up the stairs to the left of the Lamb’s Garden entrance.

15. A Plan
In the security booth with Stanley Poole.

Fontaine Futuristics

1. Alone at Last
Turn left after stepping through the automatic door at the start of the level to spot the diary.

2. Agnus Dei
Next to the desk near the Security Office. Can’t miss it.

3. Means of Control
Before leaving the Security Office area, look for this diary on the couch to the right of the hanging corpse.

4. Life After Sisterhood
In the area beyond the Security Office (where you face a Rumbler). The diary is on the ground next to the Vent in the southeast corner of the second-floor walkway.

5. A New Cognitive Model
After collecting “Life After Sisterhood,” head to the southwest end of the second-floor walkway and move through the opening in the wall there. Drop through the hole at the other end of the corridor to enter the Plasmid Laboratory Facade. Look for the audio diary on the chair here.

6. Prototype
Plasmid Showroom. Through the doorway marked “Employees Only” (the area with wading Splicers). Input 5254 into the Keypad to open the gate here. The diary is next to a Storage Crate across from the bound corpse.

7. Source of Volunteers
Marketing Department. Kill the two Houdini Splicers sitting at the table here, then exit through the door at the north end of the room. Look to your left once through the door to spot the diary on the desk there.

8. Goodbye to Fontaine
Frank Fontaine’s Office. Examine the Conspicuous Boar Mount in the southwest corner of the office to uncover a secret storage space. The diary is in here.

9. Abort the Experiment
Upon entering the Lab Airlock on your way to the Plasmid Laboratory, turn left to spot the diary on a table with some Big Daddy gear.

10. Solving for X
Plasmid Laboratory. Below the north-most circuit breaker in the area Gil is being held.

11. Gil’s Plan in Place
Plasmid Laboratory. Next to the Gatherer’s Garden between the two sets of steps that lead up to the Power Mains Switch in the area Gil is being held.

12. Outlived Usefulness
Plasmid Laboratory. After collecting the first ADAM-Infused Plant and killing the two Alphas that spawn, exit to the Showers through the door at the northeast end of the room and look for the diary in the Subject Observation room.

13. Meltzer’s Choice
Plasmid Laboratory, Test Subject Surgery. Kill the Rumbler here and loot his corpse to find this diary.

14. Goodbye, Dr. Alexander
Plasmid Laboratory, Test Subject Surgery. By the Vent in the northeast corner of the area.

15. Big Sister
Plasmid Laboratory. In the locked room with the Power to the People station. To unlock the door, head to the northeast end of the Test Subject Surgery area, shoot a Hack Dart at Door Control panel visible through the broken window and then hack the door open. Return to the previous room and head through the now-open door to use the weapon upgrade station and collect the diary.

16. Betrayal
Plasmid Laboratory, Test Holding Cells. In the northwest-most cell.

17. The People’s Daughter
Along the path on the way to the Hidden Elevator. After cycling the Airlock Controls, keep an eye on your right as you walk down the path for the diary.

Persephone

1. Selling Ryan Short
After using the Power to the People station to upgrade one of your weapons, enter Persephone and start down the hall. Turn into the room to the right of the falling water and look for the diary on the ground next to the Vent here.

2. Withholding Visitation
After using the Cell Block Door Controls in Lamb’s Office, head up the steps across from the controls and look for the diary on the chair in front of the desk here.

3. Blessing in Disguise
 On the toy submarine next to the statue in the Common Hall.

4. Behind Mother’s Back
Next to the Big Sister Helmet in the repair shop.

5. Freeing Father
Before giving Eleanor the Big Sister suit, look for this diary under her bed.

Inner Persephone

1. Out With the Old…
After hacking a door open with a Hack Dart, proceed through and head to the other end of the corridor. Go through the door marked “Security Checkpoint A” in the northeast corner of the room you come to. Make your way to the end of this corridor and enter the room there. The diary is on the desk here.

2. The Definition of Despair
Next to a corpse on the table in the northwest corner of the Cafeteria.

3. Last Two Digits
Cell Block South Quad. Enter the northwest cell and crawl through the opening in the wall to find the diary.

4. First Two Digits
Block D. Upon entering Block D, enter the cell to your left and look for this diary in the toilet.

5. A Trade
Block D. Upon entering Block D, look for this diary on the bed in the cell to your right.

6. No More Hope Left
Block B. Search the hanging corpse in Block B to find this diary.

7. A Generous Offer
Block A. On the ground in the southwest cell.

8. Magic Sauce
In the watchtower Sinclair is holed up in. Grab it after breaking him out.

9. Legs, Mouth, Arms, and Eyes
Therapy Wing, Recreational Therapy. Search the corpse sitting on the couch by the window at the far end of the room to find this diary.

10. A Simple Question
Therapy Wing, Intensive Therapy. Next to the red chair at the north end of the room.

11. Destructive Learning
Therapy Wing. Before entering the Pediatric Ward, enter the room at the east end of the hall and look for the diary on the Storage Crate in the corner.

12. Sacrifices
Therapy Wing, Administration Offices. Upon entering the offices, head through the first door to your right and look for the diary on the shelf in the southeast corner of this room.

13. A Stratagem for Sinclair
Therapy Wing, Administration Offices. After collecting “Sacrifices,” leave the  room and go down the stairs straight ahead. Look for the diary on the desk in the northeast corner of the room.

14. Such Freedom
Infirmary Ward, Ward A. Upon entering Ward A, walk to the end of the hall and enter the room to your left to spot the diary on the bed there.

15. My Prison
Infirmary Ward, Quarantine Area. In the locked room with the Power to the People station and Missile Turret. To open the door to this room you must press the Door Release button on the back of the pillar in the middle of the area. Doing so will release two Alphas, so be ready for a fight.

16. They Feel Pain
Infirmary Ward, Surgery. On the counter by the Mail Tube in the second part of the Surgery area.

17. Alleviating Pain
Infirmary Ward, Autopsy Room. Before entering the Pediatric Ward, enter the Autopsy Room through the door at the north end of the walkway. Look for the diary on the sinks behind the pillar with the hanging corpse.