I just can't get Santino's vote, have Noogie's and Bugeye's yes, but Moose keeps siding with Santino. I have the 2 books with exchanged covers in inventory, have the seahorse head, and Murray (wish he would shut up as he doesn't seem to be any help) and a slug and empty jug, which I do know how to fill. But none of that seems to help. Sometimes I see a manatee after the vote, but not always. I am truly stumped.

Concentrate on Murray. He's pretty bloodthirsty and wants gore.
Use examine mode on those 2 books that you interchanged covers on. Note that one of the books will now be gory.
Murray wants Guybrush to be tortured.

Suddenly, now that I want Murray to talk, he stays silent most of the time. I check both books and neither one says anything about gory, but then Murray isn't as mean as he was. So how do I concentrate on Murray to get him to talk since up to now it has been random and I haven't paid too much attention, too busy telling him to shut up, my mistake, I see!

I presumed you prepped Murray already - sorry.
Murray is a skull.
You want Santino's vote. Santino can't talk.
He needs to talk - so.....

No, I don't think I prepped Murray in any way. I've tried putting the skull on Santino but nothing happened, that was back when I was collecting faces to get Bugeye's vote. Maybe I should try again? If nothing happens I will be back.

I'm back. I tried the skull on Santino, but Guybrush just says something about Santino's skull being on too solid so couldn't exchange skulls there so that wasn't it. Then I tried the skull on Moose, he mentioned something about ventriloquism.

Off with their heads. ARRR!

I have found out how to get Murray to talk to Guybrush but he doesn't say anything about off with their heads. He wants to be put on higher ground sometimes but I don't know where that would be. Guybrush tried to cut off Santino's head with the sword with 3 different reasons but none worked. At least that was new dialogue for me. Murray isn't happy with Guybrush's sweaty legs, but hasn't said anything about torture. The manual has the torture book cover and the torture book has the manual cover, but neither one looks gory and nothing is mentioned about being gory in any way. Anyway, I have made a teeny bit of progress but at this rate it will be next year before I finish.

And by then this thread would be a mile long, methinks. Arrr!

Hahahaha.
We'll do the spoiler now.

Thanks, MaG, the first spoiler did the trick as I never in the world would have thought of doing that. I was shocked though when Murray didn't vote yes, but right away I knew the torture book with the manual cover would get him to change his mind. I see now that was the second spoiler. That was a great idea to separate the hints like that. I even liked the earlier hints that pushed me in the right direction even if I didn't get it. It was fun to try rather than knowing the answer too quickly! The build-up was neat.

Have fun. I enjoyed the facial expressions.

I'm going around in circles, getting nowhere. I'm trying to get Noogie to talk by using the faces and I have seen his file and the nun's picture so I figure that's a clue but it doesn't help. Also trying to get to Flotsom and I think I need to use the locket in some way, but again nothing I try works. I've used the golden wrench on it and can get DeCava to daydream about the hut on Flotsom but the Voodoo Lady just gets mad and Guybrush cuts her off. Which reminds me that I've cut off Murray's head and it went over the side. I looked for it on the ocean floor but can't find it. I have taken a return trip through the manatee and found nothing there except the grub which I probably won't need. I played the bongoes and the bile rises, but I don't see anything else to do there. Now I'm out of ideas and I'm tired of trying to find the right face to scare Noogie, if that is even the way to go.
I have read the comments about the walkthrough and I also marvel at how fast you did it. I'm really slow because I just stumble into most of the solutions without knowing what I was doing or why. But it is so neat when something unexpected happens and surprises me!

Talk completely to DeCava. He will tell you what he wants done.

This is a 2-parter puzzle:
1. To understand manatee.
2. To learn how to sound manatee.

To understand manatee - you already did several things for that puzzle - the locket.
Remember what DeCava stated - someone at Flotsam taught Santini how to understand Manatee.
HINT: - You as Guybrush has to go to Flotsam.
HINT 2: - What did just happen to DeCava when you played with the locket.
-I thought this was the funniest part of the game.


To sound like manatee:
You already know that you need the Tongue of the Manatee and one of the crew knows.
You already interrogated them.
At the helm is the file of the pirates - it is beside the barrel with the locket - study what's inside.
Then interrogate them again.

Where do I get a picture of Guybrush? I can't find it in the files, only picture there that I see is of the nun.
I'll do the Noogie thing for now.

Remember the picture of Guybrush that Morgan asked him to autograph. Later in disgust, she threw that picture on the ground close to Noogie's bongo.

So, another trip to the manatee innards, I feel like I'm commuting back and forth! Anyway, I got the tongue and then the picture, went to Flotsom by way of the Voodoo Lady and now I'm trying to talk to the leviathon for the manatee, but getting nowhere. At one point I had quite a long conversation but then lost it. Too many choices for me to remember, trying to write things down isn't helping, they talk too fast. Guybrush stops and goes up for air, so am I supposed to do something topside to help me with the manatee talk?