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City of the Damned |
The Crypts |
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 You start out overlooking a watery area, with buildings interspersed, and with Gargoyles patrolling the area. Jump down and kill the Gargoyles to your left. Circle around to your right, pick up the small goodies along the way, and walk up the steps. Kill the Golems at the top and make your way to the podium that lowers to bring you to the Gold Key. Jump down over the red area and enter the Gold Door.
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up the stairs, kill the Gargoyles within, and obtain the Ethereal bow and arrows.
Enter the area with the Green Door to your right. Go to the room with the columns and Morph Ovum, opposite the Green Door. Rday your obtained Ovum and use it on the Golums who attack you from the lowered columns as you do so.
Make your way back around and cross under the crushing ceiling trap. Safely on the other side, trigger the lowered wall to your left and open the door behind it. Kill the Undead Warriors and the Gargoyle, and obtain whatever small rewards you find within the room.
Go back outside and around to your left, not across the triggered crushing ceiling, to the area with the Blue Door on your left.
Kill the Golems, go up the stairs to kill the Undead Warrior around to your right, then go back around to the other side of the room, kill the Undead Warriors, obtain all of the Time Bombs, and flip the switch, which triggers the stairs. Jump out the opening and go to your right to take the triggered stairs, which leads to a ledge area outside, populated by Gargoyles.
Kill all the Gargoyles who come scratching at and flaming you from afar, and make your way around the ledge area to your right. Run swiftly over the next ledge to your left, and make it to the other side before it lowers taking you with it. You will face some more Gargoyles as well. Open the secret door on the other side, distinguished as a different texture from the surrounding walls. Kill the Golems within, pick up some Claw Orbs if you wish, and make your way around to your right.
Cross another ledge and go into the room on the other side. Kill the Gargoyles within and take Ring of Invincibility they were guarding. Go back out the door and drop off the right side of the ledge. Run quickly to avoid being hurt by the slime and enter the tower. Climb up the spiral stairs, retrieve the Tomb of Power at the top, and jump out of the opening.
Quickly make your way to your left through the lowered ledge and ride it back up. Turn left and make your way back around to the ledge area you first entered. You can see the Green Key across the way in an alcove. That is your destination.
Run over the little space in the ledge, clear the Gargoyles in the immediate alcove, and keep making your way around to obtain the Green Key.
Jump down into the second little space in the ledge and take the entrance below. Kill the Gargoyle as you make your way up the steps. Release your Time Bombs in the entrance to the crypt that houses the Green Door, one at a time, to take care of the Golems and Gargoyles that try to make it through to you. Grab the quiver of arrows and enter the Green Door.
Kill the two Undead Warriors in the room of the tombs and flip the switch in the corner to your immediate right, which lowers the tomb of the right. Enter the opening, grab the Silver Shield, and kill the Gargoyls as you make your way through the path. Pick up the Claw Orb if you need it, follow the path around, up the stairs, kill another Gargoyle or two, and you'll emerge atop a ledge overlooking the big room with the Blue Key.
Ignore the denizens of this room below you for now, kill the Golem on the ledge to your right, and drop off the ledge on the far side. There are a couple more Golems to kill, on the floor at the alcove in front of you, which you can go ahead and take care of.
Then turn around and shoot up all of the monsters in the big room before they can reach you, while you're still in the relative security of the alcove. Emerge when it's safe to do so, head to your immediate right and go across that side of the room. Open the secret spine door, if the Gargoyle behind it hasn't already opened it for you.
Kill the Gargoyle for its trouble and kill the Golem behind it as well. Go around to the right and flip the swtch in the niche. Walk over to the left side of the room as wall lowers behind you to reveal a cople of Undead Warriors. Turn around and kill them. Take the Torch and go back out to the big room. Obtain the Blue Key from the lowered pedestal in the middle of the room.
Pick up any of the scattered goodies remaining in the room and exit through the door on the other side of the room, which is actually a Green Entrance if you were entering this room from the outside. Kill the Golems, wade into the water, make your way around to the right and kill the two Undead Warriors in the alcove above you.
Keep heading along the outside wall on your right until you encounter a gaggle of Golems emerging from an opened part of the building. Plow through these monsters and follow the path from whence they came. Pick up the Silver Shield and Claw Orb on your right and enter the Portal on your left. It takes you to the top of the tall lookout tower surrounded by the outside ledges where you originally obtained the Green Key.
Grab the Dragon Claw and Orb, take the steep fall down to the ground below and pick up all the Orbs and Health Vials you may need. The first of the two paths you took when you earlier visited this area, had painful slime leading to it. Take the other, narrower path, which doesn't require you to run through painful slime to get to it. Kill the Golem within and hurry around the corner to take the triggered pedestal containing a Shadowsphere and guarded by another Golem, before it rises back up. Otherwise, you'll need to run back towards the beginning of the path to trigger the pedestal to lower again, catch it and ride it back up.
Once you're at the top, you face a couple more Golems to your right. Kill them, then turn back and enter the portal on your left. This takes you to the alcove where you killed the two Undead Warriors above you as you exited the big room with the Blue Key. Pick up the Tome of Power and Quartz Flask on either side, jump down and go back through the Green Entrance, across the big room that contained the Blue Key, diagonally to your right, to the safe alcove, from where you originally cleared out all the big room's monsters.
Turn right, open the door, cross under the crushing ceiling on your left, then take the path on your right side, to make your way to the Blue Door on your left.
Kill the Gargoyles that greet your entrance. Pick up the Wings of Wrath in the corner in front of you and make your way to the left. Run under one of the crushing columns as it rises, go up the stairs in the chapel, which triggers the wall before you to rise.
Two Undead Warriors emerge in front of you, while several Gargoyles attack you front behind. After fending them all off, grab the quiver of Ethereal Arrors from each of the red thrones. Flip the switch on the right and jump down into the parcel of floor that opens before you.
Kill the enemies in your immediate vicinity, cross over to the right of this room, drop down into the lower floor area, and grab the Torch. Floow the trail around, up the little steps and kill all the monsters on your right. Pick up some scattered goodies and enter the portal. This takes you back to the first part of this room.
Run over the casket to the ledge and retrieve the Ethereal Quiver. Turn around and run across the little break in the corner on your right and kill the Golem in that niche's stairway. Retrieve the Map Scroll and the Claw Orb.
You can open the secret spine door at the end of this area if you wish, but you don't need to leave this area. Turn back around and head back and jump into the lower area again, and this time turn to your left.
Cross over the red casket pedestal in front of the Blue Door, turn left and face off against the twin Disciples of D'Sparil that emerge from the triggered niche up the stairs. After dispensing with them, you can treat yourself to the assorted goodies from their now abandoned niche ahd head back to the Blue Door.
Open the Blue Door, kill the Undead Warrior within, and flip the Blue Switch.
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