In keeping with many standard survival horror traditions, Alan Wake 2 features a host of hidden and optional tasks, each offering some extra items to help players withstand the horrors thrown their way. These can be anything from solving Alan Wake 2's cult stashes containing notes and supplies to finding lunchboxes with weapon upgrade resources. Another type of these side missions are eerie nursery rhyme setups, apparently part of the Federal Bureau of Control's attempts to study the strange phenomena caused by the unnatural forces inhabiting Caldron Lake. One of these can be found at the Watery Ranger Cabin during Return 3: Local Girl.
Alan Wake 2: Watery Ranger Cabin Nursery Rhyme Location & Solution
As players question witnesses around the Watery region, they will make their way through a run-down trailer park and to a creaky coffee-themed amusement park. While doing so, they will need to address some leads pertaining to the main case. This will lead to them needing to enter and find a fuse inside the Kalevala Knights workshop next to Coffee World.
Once players have accomplished that, as well as finishing the macabre float display, they will find that Watery has expanded, allowing further access to many of its previously locked portions. At that time, players can head far northwest to the very end of the map, where the Ranger Cabin sits seemingly abandoned in the forest:
This rhyme can't be accessed until after the fight in the Overlap.
Players should take a moment to exercise caution when approaching, as a wolf or two may be prowling through the surrounding woods outside the front of the cabin. Using the screwdriver found at the Coffee World Gift Shop, players can jimmy the lock open with it and enter the cabin. After looking around a bit, players should head upstairs in order to grab some of the wooden dolls needed for this and other rhymes.
Collect The Maiden And Monster Dolls
Upstairs in the bedroom is a dresser to the right of the bed with the Maiden and the Monster dolls on it:
This screenshot was after both dolls were looted, but it is where they are located.
Ranger Cabin Nursery Rhyme Scene
After collecting the dolls, players should return to the first floor and head out through the back door. Players should be on alert again just after stepping out, as another wolf is likely to pounce before the rhyme scene can be fully investigated.
Once the wolf threat is eliminated, players can solve the cabin's puzzle. To do so, they should place the Maiden doll on the tree drawing and the Bear doll on the chalk heart:
Place Bear doll on heart.
Place Maiden doll on tree.
Collect The Charm Reward
After Saga confirms the arrangement is correct, ghostly black puddles will appear, leading back into the cabin and upstairs again to the bedroom. On the bed will be an FBC charm, which increases Saga's damage while she remains undetected by enemies; especially helpful for players who prefer to make use of Alan Wake 2's powerful crossbow to silently take down foes from afar.
