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Quest / Waiting at Linden’s garden

Tool Thief: start the waiting scene

Tool Thief not progressing? Interact with the rose bush at Linden’s garden and choose to wait. See the hiding place, timing caveat and next conversation.

Player solution + video
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Short answer

Click the rose bush at the upper left of Linden’s garden and choose the option to wait in it. Simply standing behind the bush does not select that interaction. The launch-week answer suggests checking after 9 PM, but describes that opening time from memory.

This solves the stage where you have agreed to watch for the tool thief. In the original question, the player waited from the afternoon until late without noticing the bush option; they thanked the reply that pointed it out.

Find and use the rose bush

  1. Return to Linden’s garden at night with the watch-for-the-thief objective active.
  2. Look above the cultivated soil, to the left of the house, for the pink-flowered bush in the image below.
  3. Interact with that bush and select the waiting option. On keyboard and mouse, the source reply says to click the bush; on a controller, follow the current interaction prompt.
  4. Check that the character takes the hiding position and the camera begins the watch scene.
Player approaching the highlighted pink rose bush above the garden soil to the left of Linden’s house at night
The highlighted rose bush is above the soil and left of the house. The footage clock reads 9:43 at night; that shows a working time, not the exact earliest trigger. The Cozy Gaming Club · 18:40. 30 September 2026 video; Development Build footage. Open the image to read the interface.
Closer camera view with the player hidden behind the pink rose bush overlooking the tool and garden beds
This is the resulting hiding scene. The edited video does not preserve the waiting option’s exact menu wording. The Cozy Gaming Club · 18:42. 30 September 2026 video; Development Build footage. Open the image to read the interface.

After the waiting scene

Watch the scene, then speak to Linden about what you saw. The video shows that follow-up conversation and points the player toward investigating at school; it does not show the entire later investigation here.

Show the culprit and follow-up image (spoiler)

The recorded scene reveals one of the plants taking a tool. The creator identifies the plants as goblin bluebells; the following conversation tells Linden what happened.

Player reporting to Linden that the thief was a plant
Return to Linden after witnessing the scene. This conversation is the next step, not proof that every later quest objective is finished. The Cozy Gaming Club · 18:54. 30 September 2026 video; Development Build footage. Open the image to read the interface.

If the waiting option does not appear

  • It is still afternoon: return after 9 PM and check the bush again. The forum’s suggested time is not an independently tested cutoff.
  • You are standing nearby: select the bush itself and inspect its options.
  • The watch objective is absent: check your conversation with Linden and the journal before expecting this scene.
  • The correct option still fails at night: the sources do not establish a universal bug fix. Record the journal stage, clock and game version when reporting it.

If you are still trying to reach the fields beyond town, the southern route and shell-shop section shows the nearby progression landmarks.

Version and sources

Checked 3 October 2026. The Steam thread supplies the interaction advice and the questioner’s acknowledgment; it does not state a build number. Images and the follow-up scene are from The Cozy Gaming Club’s 30 September video, marked Development Build and recorded with a supplied key. Reviewed footage, not our own playtest. Game imagery © Eastshade Studios.