

He will eventually come and drink the cocktail, and then proceed to the nearby bathroom (opposite the kitchen in the backstage hall) to vomit. After mixing the cocktail, spike it with the rat poison. You will also have the option of mixing the Bare Knuckle Boxer, which you may choose to do now, or wait until Novikov comes along and orders it. Proceed to the far left end of the bar, where you can blend in and 'tend the bar'. In the far right corner of the kitchen, you will find 2 boxes of Emetic Rat Poison. Turn right and walk down the hall until you reach a kitchen area (behind the bar) where two palace staff are preparing food. Follow the stairs up one floor, and exit out the doors into the backstage hallway.

Read it, and proceed through the door marked 'Exit' in the kitchen. On the table nearby (where one of the chefs works separately to the other two), you will find a piece of paper that is the recipe for the Bare Knuckle Boxer cocktail. On the other end of the basement, you will find a kitchen where there are three chefs working. There is a Palace Master Key (which unlocks almost all the doors inside the palace) on the way, sitting atop some crates in the room beyond the mess hall, but it will not be necessary for this particular walkthrough. Take the palace staff disguise sitting on the bench to your left as you enter, and then proceed East to the other end of the basement. Go to the right once you get off the stairs and proceed through the door to the locker room where there are three palace staff conversing.

Take it down ( trespassing area) and be wary of a stylist who walks down the corridor in the basement. There will be a door there which leads down to the basement. Proceed through the front entrance and then go to the left of the main staircase (which your target Viktor Novikov is walking down). Equipment: Any ( Fiber Wire and Coin recommended)
