Hexen - Strategy Guide (Page 04)

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Forsaken Outpost (1)


Liber Oscura

You start in a dark cavern, with many monsters around. Go to where 
these caves opens into an open area with a deep chasm (there aren't 
too many caves here, so you should be able to find your way around 
pretty easily). Follow the ledge on the right that goes to the doors 
where the Chaos Serpents are.

Note: there's a pillar in the chasm with many Repulsion Discs. You 
can jump to it, but only if you're very expert. I suggest that you 
solve puzzles here first, and then come back, because a magic bridge 
will appear after you solve the puzzle.

Enter the doors, which lead into a courtyard with a statue in the 
middle. There are two small rooms on the left and on the right. There's 
nothing in them yet, so go to the far end of the courtyard where 
there's a dark corridor. The big doors in front require the Rusted 
Key, which you'll get later. If you go right on the corridor, it 
will lead to the ledge where the Chaos Serpent is. There's a platinum 
helmet here. If you go left on the corridor, it will fork into two. 
The left turn goes to the other ledge with the Chaos Serpent, where 
there's a quartz flask. Follow the right turn, which leads into a 
small dark room with a switch.

Pull this switch. This opens a new room at the corner of the passage 
where you came in. Go inside the room and kill the ettins there. 
There's a book lying on a pedestal in the middle. WAIT! Don't forget 
to pull out your weapons before you grab the Liber Oscura. This mystic 
book has many jealous guardians! It's one of the items you need in 
the Gibbet.


Daemon Codex

There's a passage at the far end of the room which leads to one of 
the small rooms in the courtyard through a newly-opened exit. If 
you noticed, a wall has opened in the courtyard. The switch there 
lowers two platforms at the sides which lead to a small room with 
some items. Now, go to the other small room. A new passage has also 
opened here, as well as a wall with the Rusted Key inside. You can 
grab the Rusted Key now.

The new passage leads into a dark room with a shallow chasm in the 
middle, and some Dark Bishops. Jump from pillar to pillar to get 
to the ledge at the other side of the room where there's a switch 
and a Porkalator. Unlike many other places in this game, don't worry 
if you fall into the chasm. It's quite shallow, and there are some 
high steps that let you climb back up (the steps are high, so you 
need to jump in some parts). Pull the switch on the ledge.

If you're observant enough, you'll notice a grey ball lying on another 
ledge in this room. This is a sleeping Afrit... unfortunately you 
can't kill it yet. It's invulnerable in this "ball" mode.

After pulling the switch, another area has opened in this dark room. 
There's some ammo there and a secret window which looks into the 
room behind the door that needs the Rusted Key (it's a secret window 
because you can't see it from the other side). There's also a door 
here that will open much later.

Go back to the courtyard now, and open the big doors with the Rusted 
Key. WATCH OUT, though. There are many unpleasant monsters behind 
the doors.

The doors lead to a big room with many crystal vials and quartz flasks. 
There's also lots of ammo at the far corners. At the far end of the 
room, there's rusty pillar. You need to open it by pulling four switches. 
The four switches are in four small rooms at the sides of this room. 
You must kill the monsters inside here before the rooms open. Once 
they open, go inside and pull the four switches. The rusty pillar 
will split into two, move to the side, and the wall behind it will 
slowly lower. There's a book lying on the floor beyond. This is the 
Daemon Codex, which you need in the Gibbet.


Desolate Garden

If you've pulled the switch in the Sacred Grove back in Episode 
2, when you grab the Daemon Codex, a portal will open behind it. 
This portal leads to the secret level in this episode, Desolate 
Garden. It WON'T open unless you pulled the switch in Episode 2; 
so if you didn't pull the switch back then, forget about going to 
the Desolate Garden.

Now that you have both the Liber Oscura and the Daemon Codex, go 
back to the portal that leads to the Castle of Grief. Along the way,
you might want to grab the Discs of Repulsion on the pillar in the 
deep chasm. Note that you must JUMP onto the blue magic bridge, and 
JUMP back; it's not really a bridge but just some kind of 'stepping 
stone' that helps you get to the pillar. Be prepared for some jealous 
monsters while you're grabbing the Discs, though.

Go back to the Castle of Grief, and from there, go to the Gibbet:
you're now ready to solve the next puzzle. (Or, finish solving the 
puzzle of the Clock first in order to get to the Gibbet, if you haven't 
done so already.) 

Yorick's Skull

Go to the Library Area in the Gibbet. There are two bookshelves on 
the wall here; these are actually rotating doors in disguise. The 
door on the left leads to the library; this is where you should go 
now.

The library has many bookshelves. For some reason, there are several 
ettins here (I don't know for what. In my opinion, they are really 
stupid blockheads; so dumb even though they've two heads. So it's 
surprising to find them in a library!!). Look for the bookshelf that 
has a demon mask at the top. (Hint: this bookshelf is the last one 
in its row, so it's facing the wall.) There are two empty slots between 
the books. You guessed it! This is where the Liber Oscura and the 
Daemon Codex belongs. If you look carefully, the letters on some 
of the books on the shelf spell out K-R-X. Notice that the Daemon 
Codex has the letter 'O' and the Liber Oscura has the letter 'A'. 
Pull them out of your pocket, and slide them into the empty slots 
on the shelf, so that the letters spell out K-O-R-A-X! The lights 
go out. Whip out your weapons and prepare for another battle...

Several of the bookshelves have lowered into the floor. ONE of them 
has a skull with horns on it. Pick up this skull. This is Yorick's 
Skull. Just like the two books, this skull also belongs somewhere... 
can you think of where?

Go to the Statue Room now. If you haven't been here yet, go and smash 
all the stained glass walls around here! Behind one of the stained 
glass walls there's a switch. Pull this switch. Now the broken bridge 
that leads to the statue is repaired. Walk up to the statue. Notice 
anything unusual?

OK, you guessed it. Return Yorick his skull. WATCH YOUR STEP NOW! 
Remember I warned you about tectonic instability here...? When things 
have calmed down, walk back on the path and leave the room. The tremor 
has created a leak somewhere. Go to the Central Room now. The pool 
here is leaking through some leak near the black pillar. Go down 
to the pillar and you'll see an eight-pointed star. Flip this symbol,
and oops...! You've been sucked into: 

Effluvium (1)

This is some kind of stinking sewer, with lots of slime, grime and 
muck (hence the name Effluvium, which means a bad, repulsive smell). 
Just the kind of place for those slimy Stalkers! This is probably 
their favorite hangout: there are lots of them swishing around in 
the muck here.

You start in some kind of drain, which flows ahead into a pool of 
muck in the room at the far end. Before you go there, you need to 
look for a switch in one of the small ledges on the side of the drain. 
If you're observant, you'll notice doors and walls in the other ledges 
that look like they MIGHT lead somewhere interesting. They do; however,
you can't open these places yet, at this point, so just find the 
switch and activate it.

The switch opens a portal back to the Gibbet in one of the other 
ledges, and also lowers another drain on the other side of the room 
with the muck pool (which lets in some nasty shooting Stalkers as 
well). Jump into the muck pool, and go to the end of this other drain. 
There's a ledge on the right, which leads into another room filled 
with muck. There are windows in this room that look out to the outside 
world. The door at the end of the room lets you out to breath some 
fresh air. :) If you look carefully enough, one of the windows has 
something on its sill on the outside. This is the Dungeon Key. Go 
out the door and turn left. Walk over to where the windows are and 
grab the Dungeon Key.

This is about all you can do in the Effluvium at this point. Go back 
and step into the portal that the switch opened earlier, to get back 
to the Gibbet. 

Dungeons


The Portal

Now go to the Library Area in the Gibbet again, and go through the 
rotating bookshelf on the right. You're now in a room with a cage 
in front, something that looks like a bed on one side, a bookshelf 
in one corner, and a wooden ledge with a switch at the end. There's 
also a door that needs the Dungeon Key.

Kill the Slaughtaur in the cage, and a wall beside the cage opens. 
This leads inside the cage itself, as well as into a room with many 
barrels. There's a secret passage in this barrel room that isn't 
open yet, so go back to the room outside the cage.

The bookshelf in the corner lowers a platform underneath you if you 
activate it. This leads to a short passage with some monsters and 
a window beyond your reach that looks into a room with Dark Bishops. 
That room is behind the door that needs the Dungeon Key. To get out 
of this passage, pull the switch near the platform, which lowers 
it and takes you back to the first room.

You need to pull the switch at the end of the wooden ledge. WATCH 
OUT! As soon as you pull the switch, the wooden ledge collapses into 
a really deep pit! NO! you DON'T try to run back after you pull the 
switch. The ledge collapses too fast for that. Rather, you must stand 
on the tiny piece of wood that's left in front of the switch! Then,
slowly turn around, and jump as hard as you can to get back on solid 
floor! (Hint: holding down the Jump key longer will help here... 
also, try to RUN forward at the same time.) This switch opens the 
room with the Dark Bishops that you saw earlier.

Now, open the door with the Dungeon Key. Go inside the place that 
looks like a torture chamber, and turn right. The wall here should 
have opened (when you pulled that switch), and the room with the 
Dark Bishops is beyond. Go inside that room and pull the switch there. 
This lowers stairs in the room with barrels. Go to the room with 
the barrels now, which is behind the secret passage beside the cage 
in the first room.

Go down the stairs at the far end of the room. BE CAREFUL HERE! At 
the bottom of the stairs, turn RIGHT. There's a very deep hole on 
the left, so DON'T EVER BACK UP INTO IT! There's a portal in the 
room here, which leads to the Dungeons. Step into the portal now.


The Dungeons

You start in a small room with the portal that leads back to the 
Gibbet. The exit of the room opens to a very large, dark room with 
a lava pool in the middle. Go there, and climb down the stairs. On 
the south side of this room, there's a passage blocked with bars. 
Opposite the bars, there's a wooden pillar with a switch that's blocked 
by another piece of wood. You need to open both the bars and this 
switch.

Go to the west side of the room now, where there are stairs leading 
into a really dark torture chamber. Go inside the chamber (watch 
out for monsters!) and go the west end. There's a switch here you 
must activate. This switch opens the other switch on the pillar in 
the large room with the lava, and also opens the bars blocking the 
south passage.

Go back to the large room and enter the south passage that is now 
accessible. This leads into a round area with seven cages. In the 
centre of the cages there's a wooden pillar. A switch is hidden in 
this pillar, but it won't open just yet. Go back out to the lava 
room, and press the switch on the wooden pillar. Each time you press 
this switch, one of the seven cages open. You can either open them 
all by pressing the switch seven times all at once, or, (recommended) 
press it once at a time, go to the opened cage and kill the slaughtaur 
first, before you come back to press the switch the next time. After 
all seven cages are opened, another switch appears in the pillar 
in the centre of the seven cages. Go and press this switch. This 
opens two new passages on the west side of the lava room.

These new passages lead to the walkway above the really dark torture 
chamber. You can jump on the pillars with the goodies from here which 
you couldn't reach before. There's also a couple of secret doors 
on the pillars that lead to the goodies on the high ledge that you 
can see from the lava room.

Go up the stairs on the southern passage, and take the first left 
turn. This leads to two rooms with ettins. There's a porkalator in 
the farthest room. Come back out and continue along the passage. 
The second left turn leads to two cages with some nasties inside. 
The switch on the wall is worth mentioning here: if you pull it once,
it opens the door to one of the cages. The second time you pull it,
it opens the other cage. The third time you pull it, (notice the 
red eyes this time) it closes both cages.

Continue along the passage, which turns a corner at this point. Take 
the left turn, and you'll get to a room with small cages and mutilated 
bodies in them. There's ammo at the far end of the room. Go back 
to the passage and continue. The next left turn leads to four rooms. 
The farthest room, on the northwest, (the one with many chains) has 
a secret door on the west wall, which leads to a long corridor that 
takes you to the room with the slaughtaurs at the end of the passage 
outside. There's plated armor here. Activate the switch, and the 
windows will open so that you can get out without having to retrace 
your steps.

Go east now, along the northern ledge. A new passage has opened on 
the left, which has a different wall texture. Go down the passage 
to a room with a gang of Chaos Serpents and several cages at the 
sides. There's another passage on the right that leads to another 
room with Chaos Serpents and cages at the sides. Stairs from one 
of those cages lead to the room on the east of the lava room. If 
you go down the stairs at the far end of that room, you'll get back 
to the lava room.


Bottomless Pit

For now, come back to the first room with the Chaos Serpents and 
the cages at the sides. Examine the cages CAREFULLY. There's a well-
hidden switch in one of them. Pull this switch. Now a new passage 
has opened somewhere along the passage that you came in. This is 
very hidden, and won't even show on your map unless you've looked 
in its direction. Go back along the passage where you came in and 
look carefully on the left. Walk down the steps in the new passage,
to a curved room with a slimy river. Jump into the river now and 
follow it downstream. Yes, right into the pitch black tunnel. Keep 
going, keep going... don't hesitate...

AAAAAAARRRRRRGGGHHHH... !!!!!! You've fallen into a pit! NO! don't 
reload your game! Just hang on while you tumble into the bottomless 
pit... 

Effluvium (2)

Miracle! You're still alive after all that drop! You're now in a 
new part of the Effluvium. Many new places have opened on this level 
at this point, and it's time to explore them! Go out the room and 
jump into the muck. Follow the current downstream. Along the way,
you'll come through a room with ettins. The door on the right takes 
you to the drain where you first entered the Effluvium earlier on,
from the Gibbet.

If you can't wait to solve the puzzle, go there now and skip the 
following digressions.


Interesting Places in the Effluvium

So, you want to muck around. :) So, continue downstream in the room 
with the ettins (and of course, watch out for those Stalkers that 
are enjoying themselves in the muck and dirt).

At the end of the journey, you'll come to a very high room filled 
with muck. On the opposite wall, the muck is draining out from the 
room through a drainhole. There's a winch on the left. Turn this 
winch now, and the hole closes. The muck will start to fill up the 
room... until the water level (or muck level, to be precise!) reaches 
two overflow-drainholes at the top of the room. You can now reach 
the ledge on the right side of the room where there's a Mystic Urn 
and another winch. Grab the Urn, and turn the winch. Quickly jump 
back into the muck; the winch has re-opened the drainhole at the 
bottom of the room, and the water level (muck level) is dropping 
back to its normal level. If you don't jump back now, the water level 
will be so low that you'll get hurt jumping back in.

OK, that's enough disruption of sewer operation. :) Go back to the 
room with ettins and go to the place where the portal to the Gibbet 
is. A wall has opened on the ledge opposite the portal. There's a 
labyrinth of muck rivers beyond. Go inside there now. If you look 
carefully, you'll notice a Porkalator on the other side of a drain 
hole. You'll get there shortly... Now, go down the drain the leads 
from this room. It branches into three. Don't worry; it's not as 
confusing as it may seem.

On the left, those walls are the walls of a room with a torch in 
it. I call this the Torch Room, because there's a torch inside to 
help you see more clearly in these dark drains. The entrance is on 
the other side. If you look up in that room, you'll see that you're 
looking up through a sewer grating.

The walls on the right are walls of another room, which I call the 
Dragonskin room. It's not opened yet, so now, follow the drain on 
the right, and keep to the right wall. You'll see the walls of a 
third room on your left. Look along the wall on your right carefully. 
Open the wall where there's a rusty handle. There are two such walls;
one leads into a room with a switch and a window looking out of the 
sewer, and the other leads to a platform that actually takes you 
outside. Activate the switch, and the walls of the third room lowers. 
There might be some monsters in that room. Now, the Dragonskin Room 
is open. There's an elevator there that takes you up on a ledge with 
Dragonskin Bracers.

Go to the platform that takes you outside to a small dark area with 
some trees. Look for another sewer hole in this area, and jump down 
into it. Go right. There, you got the Porkalator you saw earlier 
on. To get back, climb on the rusty platform which takes you back 
out to the area with trees. Jump back into the hole where the three 
rooms are. Now go back to where the portal to the Gibbet is.


Back to Solving the Puzzle

Go down the drain beside the portal to the Gibbet. Jump into the 
pool of muck at the end of the drain, just like before, and walk 
up the other drain on the opposite side. Now, the ledge on the left 
has opened. Climb on it, and go into the big, dark room. Be careful 
here: there are Brown Serpents around. There are four tanks of muck 
here. Jump on the one closest to the top of the stairs where you 
came into the room (the southeast one). Now you can reach the other 
two tanks on the north side by jumping from here.

There's a winch between the two tanks on the north side. Turn it 
now, and the muck will drain way from the two tanks. Jump into the 
northeast one. There's a falcon shield in a small room to the north. 
The pillar on the south side of the tank is an elevator; activate 
it to get back out. Now jump into the northwest tank. There's a portal 
in the room beyond that takes you to back to the Castle of Grief. 
You'll come out in a hidden room at one end of the Castle's moat. 
You can raise the wall to get out onto the moat and into the Castle. 
For now, step back into the portal to get back to the Effluvium.

The portal will take you to the west side of the room with the four 
tanks. Jump onto the southwest tank now. There's also a winch between 
this tank and the southeast tank. Turn the winch to drain out both 
tanks. The southeast tank leads to a small chamber that sometimes 
has an item. Again, the pillar in the tank is an elevator to take 
you back out. Go to the southwest tank. There's a wall with a handle 
in the room beyond. Open this wall, and you'll see another room behind 
the muck drain, with a Brown Serpent. WATCH YOUR STEP HERE! There's 
a PIT right in front of you! You must jump over it to get to the 
room with the Brown Serpent.

This room has a waterfall (muck falls, to be precise). There's also 
a rusty pillar which is an elevator. Activate it to lower it, and 
it will take you up to a door which opens into one of the ledges 
beside the drain with the portal to the Gibbet. Don't go back to 
the Gibbet now; you haven't solved the puzzle yet. Go back to the 
room with the muck falls. Climb on the ledge where the Brown Serpent 
was. Notice the wall here that has a handle on it. Pull it open to 
reveal a portal. Step inside. 

Forsaken Outpost (2)

The portal takes you to a new room on the Forsaken Outpost. Unless 
you feel like bashing up more monsters, don't break the stained glass 
walls. There are baddies behind them but only one or two goodies. 
:) The rusty wall at the end of the room opens out to the room with 
the secret window. As you approach the rusty wall, you'll get a message 
that something has opened on the Gibbet.

Step back into the portal that leads back to the Effluvium, and take 
the portal in the Effluvium that goes to the Gibbet. Now you're ready 
to solve the final puzzle in this episode! 

Heresiarch's Lair

Go to the Axe Key room in the north side of the Gibbet. On the left,
there's a circular wall with flechettes on green pillars. If you 
want to grab the flechettes, be careful that you don't get crushed... 
If you walk to the south side of the circular wall, a small room 
will open in the circular wall, with some Afrits and some items inside.

On the right side of the room there's a cage with some monsters inside 
and a pillar. If you've solved all the puzzles so far, the southeast 
corner of this cage will be open. Go inside and the pillar lowers,
revealing the long-sought Axe Key. Grab the Axe Key, and go to the 
door of the Heresiarch's Lair. Now you're ready to face the Heresiarch! 
Open the Heresiarch's Lair with the Axe Key. Note that the door will 
close after a short time, and IT CANNOT BE OPENED FROM THE INSIDE. 
You must make sure you have enough health potions and ammo to face 
the Heresiarch plus lots of monsters before you enter this door. 
Once you go in, there's no return until you kill the Heresiarch (unless 
you have the Chaos Device, of course).

NOTE: Some people, including myself, have experienced problems in 
this room, where some script malfunctions and the Heresiarch doesn't 
appear. So I advise you to save your game before you enter the Heresiarch's 
Lair, in case something goes wrong and you're stuck. I'm not sure 
exactly what causes this problem; many people have mailed me about 
this, but everyone seems to have a slightly different version of 
the problem. For my case, I must jump ON TOP OF the throne where 
the Icon of the Defender is, AS SOON AS I ENTER THE ROOM. Just grabbing 
the Icon without jumping on the throne or jumping on it after the 
Afrits appear seems to be the cause of my problem. Other people have 
mailed me different solutions, including avoiding the god-mode cheat,
opening the Axe door more than once, etc.. If anyone knows the real 
answer to this, please tell me!

Enter the Heresiarch's Lair and kill the monsters there. Now, go 
up to the throne and JUMP ON TOP OF IT when you grab the Icon of 
the Defender (see the note above). This opens pillars at the sides 
of the room with lots of Afrits. Kill all the Afrits, and Chaos Serpents 
will teleport into the room around the throne.

Now, here is where the malfunction I mentioned above may occur. If 
after you kill the Chaos Serpents and waited a long time, and the 
Dark Bishops haven't appeared yet, something's wrong. You should 
reload your saved game and try again. You must kill all the Chaos 
Serpents as well as all the Dark Bishops.

Then, a wall behind the throne opens, with a big star of lava on 
the floor and lots of quartz flasks lying around. The Heresiarch 
is standing on top of the star, prepared to beat the life out of 
you! You might want to review the tips on fighting the Heresiarch 
which I gave in Episode 3.

After you kill the Heresiarch, the portal behind the lava star opens. 
This portal leads to episode 5, Necropolis. Also, the door to 
this room is opened momentarily when the Heresiarch dies. If you 
want to get out of this room to explore other parts of this episode,
you should RUN to the door as soon as the Heresiarch dies. Once the 
door closes again, there's absolutely no way out of this room except 
with the Chaos Device.


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The Secret Level in Episode 4: Desolate Garden


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NOTE: in order to reach this level you MUST pull the switch in the 
Sacred Grove (Episode 2). If you don't pull that switch, the portal 
to this level won't open. Also, some people have mailed me saying 
that the portal doesn't open even though they pulled the switch on 
the Sacred Grove. I'm not very sure about this because so far I haven't 
encountered the same problem. But using the VISIT cheat code or the 
CASPER cheat code may cause you to miss certain trigger lines on 
the levels, and mess up the script that opens this portal. This COULD 
be a possible cause of the problem.

The portal to this level is in the Forsaken Outpost. 

Eight Switches

You start in a desolate garden. :) Watch out, though. If you stand 
there too long enjoying the lonely breeze, a pretty spiral of yellowish-
green may JUST come creeping out the window on the opposite far wall 
and float towards you... And don't forget that while fighting those 
Dark Bishops behind the window, there just MIGHT be a gift or two 
from some kind soul behind you. You'd better make sure you 'reward' 
that kind soul for the gift! ;)

OK, jokes aside. If you look at the ground, you'll notice eight switches 
around the garden. These pop out of the ground randomly and pop back 
in. You need to catch each of the eight switches when they pop out 
and pull them. Well, you may think this is a funny game, but the 
switches don't think so, so be prepared as some monster teleports 
in each time you pull a switch...

After all eight switches are pulled, the elevators on the north and 
south sides of the garden are activated, and the stairs there are 
opened as well, leading to new places to explore. 

The Ninth Switch

Also, pulling all eight switches makes the switch in the pond in 
the middle of the garden rise out of the water. This switch opens 
the room with the portal back to the Forsaken Outpost. Some jealous 
'gardeners' may appear too... :)


Don't Drown

The stairs on the north and south sides of the garden lead to the 
room where the Dark Bishops were. This room is opened only if you 
pulled the ninth switch. The portal here takes you back to the Forsaken 
Outpost. Behind the portal, where the window is, you can find one 
of the three parts of your fourth weapon. There's also another room 
across the drain on the other side of the corridor.

If you look carefully, there are drainholes on the floor in this 
other room, and there's a pillar on the far side of the room. One 
of the three parts of your fourth weapon is here too. UH-OH! muck 
is overflowing from the pillar into the room! The water level (or 
muck level) is getting higher and higher... the ceiling is getting 
closer and closer... Hurry up and run BEHIND the pillar at the far 
end of the room. Activate the switch there. This switch stops the 
overflowing muck coming from the pillar, and the muck in the room 
will drain away through the drainholes on the floor.

That's not all, though. A jealous Chaos Serpent will appear in a 
newly opened area opposite the door of the room. One of the parts 
of your fourth weapon is inside. 

Krater of Might

The elevators on the north and south sides of the garden take you 
up to where the west side of the garden where some monsters were 
shooting at you earlier on. Be careful here, because there are more 
of them than you saw through the window. At first, the room here 
is split into two sections, one on the north side and one on the 
south. You can find your second and third weapons here, one on each 
section, as well as some ammo.

If you go to BOTH the two sections, a hidden area will open, joining 
the two sections, as you LEAVE. There's a Krater of Might inside.

That's about all you can do in this level. Grab all the goodies and 
items lying around, and step into the portal to the Forsaken Outpost 
to continue your quest. 
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Necropolis


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Synopsis

So, you've come this far. You've destroyed the Death Wyvern, and 
you've killed the two Heresiarchs. Korax has enough meddling from 
you.

"Are you strong enough to face your own masters?"

Your former masters (see the story at Raven's page), Zedek, Marshal 
of the Legion; Traductus, Grand Patriarch of the Church; and Menelkir,
Arch-Mage of the Arcanum, are waiting for you in their tombs. (Korax 
gave them the gift of Unlife. My guess is that since "undead" means 
the living dead, Unlife means the "dead living"... which is probably 
why these three masters are in their tombs.) Each of them represents 
one of the three character classes in the game. Zedek represents 
the Fighter; Traductus, the Cleric; and Menelkir, the Mage. You must 
enter their tombs and defeat each of them. Then only you can reach 
your goal: to enter Korax's stronghold, and destroy Korax himself. 
However, finding your three former masters in their tombs isn't as 
easy as you think. Each of the tombs has its own puzzles, traps, 
and monsters which you have to deal with before you actually fight 
the master.


The Living Dead

When you first enter the Necropolis, you'll meet the Reivers in swarms. 
Note that after you kill a certain number of them, more will rise 
from the ground. But don't worry; they don't keep coming forever. 
Once they rise from the ground once or twice there will be no more 
of them. You should walk around the whole graveyard and kill all 
of them so that they won't interfere when you're trying to solve 
the puzzles.

Before you start solving the puzzles in the three tombs, however,
you might want to visit the Vivarium. Note that it's accessible 
only BEFORE YOU ENTER ANY OF THE TOMBS. After you enter any one of 
the tombs, the portal to the Vivarium will be sealed off forever. 
There's a fair amount of goodies in there (and LOTS of monsters),
so you might want to go there to 'stock up' on useful items before 
you fight the three masters and Korax himself.


The Tombs


The three tombs are: 
The Tomb of Zedek 
The Tomb of Menelkir 
The Tomb of Traductus 
(Click on each of the above to solve each of the three puzzles.) 


Epilogue

Once you've finished the three tombs, there's only the Big Bad Guy 
left. You should have obtained the three special items from the tombs:
the Glaive Seal, Sigil of the Magus, and the Holy Relic. (If not,
go back to the tombs and get them!) You need these three items to 
continue.

Now go to the northwest of the Necropolis, where there's a door with 
a panel at the side. There are three outlines on this panel, each 
matching one of the Glaive Seal, the Sigil of the Magus, and the 
Holy Relic. Fit these on the panel, and the door opens. There's a 
portal behind the door. Collect the mana here (there should be plenty 
-- and you need them!), gather all your resources together, and prepare 
for the final battle. Enter the portal to the Dark Crucible, the 
stronghold of Korax: your final objective.


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Vivarium


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The Portal

REMINDER: This level is accessible only BEFORE YOU ENTER ANY OF THE 
THREE MASTERS' TOMBS. After you enter any one of their tombs, the 
portal to the Vivarium will be closed forever.

The portal to the Vivarium is on the southeast corner of the Necropolis. 
This shouldn't be too hard to find, unless, of course, the portal 
is already closed; in which case you'll see a door that won't open 
no matter what you do. Get your best weapons ready before stepping 
into the portal! The Vivarium isn't a nice place when its inhabitants 
are still alive... 

Goodies

There are four crushers in the centre of the Vivarium. There's combined 
mana in the crushers; when they open, quickly jump on them, grab 
the mana and get out before you get crushed.

There's a large area with many, many goodies on the south side of 
the Vivarium. This is behind you when you first enter the Vivarium. 
There are two ways of getting in there: 

1. Blast the wall with many symbols, behind you when you start,
with a PROJECTILE WEAPON. Note that there's a PARTICULAR SPOT 
on the wall which you need to hit; and since this is picked at 
random, you may need to try several times. Once you hit the correct 
spot, the entire wall swings back to reveal a large area full of 
goodies. I found that ALL the mage's weapons will work here; for 
the fighter, only the Hammer and the Quietus works; and for the 
Cleric, the Serpent Staff and the Firestorm works. For some reason,
the Wraithverge doesn't work (it SEEMS to work sometimes, but I'm 
not sure when).


2. Go to the east or west sides of the Vivarium where there are 
a lot of traps. Watch for the round, yellow projectile that is 
fired sometimes. This is the PORKALATOR; you DELIBERATELY get hit 
by it so that you turn into a pig. As a pig, jump out of the traps 
area and crawl through the hole on the east side of the wall with 
many symbols. This also leads to the area with many goodies, but 
it doesn't open the wall to let the baddies in! After the effect 
of the porkalator wears off, you can get out by opening the wall 
with many symbols from the inside. (I owe Arne this alternative 
way of getting into this area.) On the east and west sides of the 
Vivarium there are areas with traps. If you look carefully, there's 
a stained glass wall in the north side of each of these areas. Jump 
through the window to get into each of the traps area (watch out 
for the traps!), and PUSH (ie., run against it, not activate) the 
stained glass wall. It's a rotating door. The stairs behind it lead 
to the each of the two ledges overlooking the centre of the Vivarium. 
There's usually an item or two on these ledges.


The Exit

The north side of the Vivarium has a dark area with some monsters 
shooting at you. Shoot at the walls under the dark area (or punch 
it if you're close enough) and it will lower. Step on it. When it 
rises again, walk to the pillar in the middle, where there's a maulotaur 
statue. Walking up in front of it lights it up and opens a door behind 
you. Watch out; there's usually a few baddies inside who will blast 
you from the back. There's a portal behind this door that leads back 
to the Necropolis. Before you enter the portal, walk BEHIND it. There's 
a porkalator there for the more observant people who don't rush into 
any portals in sight! :)

After you collect the goodies in the Vivarium, step into the portal 
back to the Necropolis, and continue your quest. 
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Tomb of Menelkir


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The Portal

The portal to the Tomb of Menelkir is on the east side of the Necropolis. 
Enter the door with the pillars at the sides. NOTE: opening this 
door will close the portal to the Vivarium for good.