FROSTY MANSION

Hall of Fame Level by Oxy

Walkthrough by Phil Lambeth, to supplement the outline provided by the builder. Refer to it now for background information and some helpful playing tips.

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After the impressive flyby that takes you through various sections of the mansion, indoors and out, step forward and pick up the PISTOLS. Continue under the arch, shoot two bats and turn left into the foyer. Push the urn onto the marked tile to match the companion urn and reveal flares, shoot another bat and go through the NW opening to a larger pavilion. Turn left, locate the nearby pushblock and push it once to reveal grenades. Continue N, loop around left between the dog statues for MAMA'S ROSES and watch the door opening between the two urns.

Return there, enter the mansion via the front door and loop around right up some steps into an office library. Pull up E onto the shelf behind the desk and pick up an extra set of BINOCULARS. Drop down and return to the entrance area. Go SE to the fireplace for an extra COMPASS and watch the flames ignite. Go up the nearby stairs to a sitting area and grab MAMA'S GLASSES on the raised slab among the books. A door opens downstairs opposite the office library, so go back down and first head E into the dining room. Vault up into the N alcove for the HEART OF GOLD, then head back W through the curtains to find the opened door on your left.

As you enter the Roman-style bath, the door closes behind you. Turn left to find the SCROLL between the toilet and a spooky apparition, read the message from Grandma and jump into the water for grenades. Get some air, save your game, swim through the E opening and bars will drop down behind you to prevent a return trip. Quickly swim forward and follow the bars left for a small medipack, opening bars to the alcove you passed for a large medipack, which in turn lifts the bars where you found the small medipack. Go there, surface for air, grab the flares to lift the E bars, swim through and turn left through the N opening, surface and pull out to a section of the pavilion.

Go NE past the horse statue, shoot a bat and locate the crawl space in the dark NE corner. Go on in for SNOWFLAKES and SECRET #1. Return, and just past the horse statue look for the receptacle to your right and place Mama's Roses to open the N gates. Go to the end of the dark passage and pick up the POWDER OF LIFE to hear the sound of a nearby door opening. Go back S, loop around right down the stairs and turn left past the opened door as it closes behind you.

In the storeroom go to the small stack of FIREWOOD near the SW corner and pick it up to hear the sound of another door opening. Find the SE pushblock and pull it away from another POWDER OF LIFE. When you pick it up the SE door opens, providing access to another storeroom. Go there, pull the SE block from the wall and go around it for the GRENADE GUN and grenades as a nearby gate door opens. Push the block out of your way and turn right to find the opened gate and an apparition in the E alcove. Place a Powder of Life into its bony hands to trigger a repetitive flyby that I finally had to break. However, it enabled me to see something on a stack of wood in the storeroom, so go back a few steps and pull up E into the crawl space for the GOLDEN KEY.

A skeleton attacks as you drop down, so put that grenade gun to good use. Pull the block S and loop around it to the right to find a water hole near the SW corner. Jump in and swim S, up and right (W) and right again into the N passage. Surface and pull out in a familiar area. Push the urn once onto the marked NW tile, pick up the revealed flares and await the arrival of another skeleton. Use the Golden Key to open the nearby N door and hear a warning burst as you enter. To your left is a crow on a plinth. Turn it to open the N door to the kitchen (after a pause of a few seconds). Enter, loop around left and pull up S onto the cabinet for flares. Hop down, vault up onto the hearth and the flames to your right mysteriously go out. Stoop to pick up the GOLDEN KEY between the pans and go NE between the curtains to trigger a brief flyby through another section of the mansion.

Go on N past the next curtains, loop around left and pull up onto the tall chest for a POWDER OF LIFE. Go back S and up the stairs to find a receptacle for the Golden Key. Use it to open the door to your left and enter the master bedroom as the door closes behind you. Turn left, pull up onto the bookshelf against the S wall for grenades and shoot the empty vase in the far corner if you like. Approach the fireplace, vault up on the left side where it's not burning and drop down the hole on the other side of the grate. Hop down into another bedroom as the fireplace ignites and two skeletons come charging in.

Shoot another empty corner vase, vault up into the W window and pick up the GOLDEN BIBLE. There's a small medipack on the S cabinet, at the cost of awakening a bat. Shoot the two beds (?!) and pick up the FROZEN ROSE (from the stem facing S) for SECRET #2. Exit E, continue around through the kitchen and S into the hallway, squeeze between the pedestal and the angel statute and place the Golden Bible on the pedestal (you'll step back involuntarily as you do so). A bat attacks as a halo appears over the angel's head.

Enter the W breakfast room and shoot the empty vase if you like. After a brief and inconsequential flyby, run past the piano to the fireplace and go past the grate as it catches fire. Pull up N, shoot a bat and go around the corner past another grate as it also catches fire. Hop down into a bedroom and wait for two skeletons to awaken. Demolish them and the bed with a single grenade and pick up the nearby GOLDEN KEY. Climb up onto the NW armoire for another GOLDEN BIBLE and offer it to the angel statue in the SW corner in the same manner as earlier (although this time you actually have to stand inside the pedestal). You hear the sound of a door opening.

Go to the NE corner, insert the Golden Key next to the suit of armor to open another door, reverse roll and go upstairs. Turn left past the curtains to find another GOLDEN KEY on the sofa to your right. Continue into another bedroom and shoot the corner vase to expose grenades near the SE corner. Exit, go down the SW stairs to a den and find the shadowy apparition standing to the right of the fireplace. Place one of the Powders of Life to light the grate, reverse roll and go down the SW stairs to the main floor.

Loop around left past the curtains, go up right into an office library with an empty vase, find the NW keyhole and open the adjacent door with the Golden Key. Enter a large den, climb the SW cabinets for grenades and step on the small ramp on either side of the fireplace to awaken a skeleton. After dealing with it, pull up into the crawl space over the fireplace and crawl to collect the GOLDEN KEY. Get back down, go upstairs and use the Golden Key to open the door leading to the outdoor ramparts.

Head E toward a large medipack, shoot a bat should one appear and go back W to pull up S onto a ledge. Follow toward the angel statue you see in the distance, but before you reach it you'll find a second HEART OF GOLD on a slab to your right. Go back toward the ramparts, hop down E into a small courtyard and eliminate two skeletons, one of which drops a BLUE BIRD. Place it on the nearby plinth and a harmless vulture will appear. Don't draw weapons, but grab the flares in the alcove to the right of the bird and drop down N onto the pavilion.

Go through the NW opening and continue N to a closed gate that you can open with the two Hearts of Gold you're carrying. Exit the mansion complex E, turn left and head toward a frozen fountain for MAMA'S ROSES. Continue N down into a valley and find a hard-to-see POWDER OF LIFE on the ground. Pull back out and locate the opened gate at the NW corner of the mansion. Light a flare to locate the ladder, climb up a bit and back flip onto a sheet of ice for a HEART OF GOLD (note that the vulture has followed you here). Jump back to the ladder, climb the rest of the way up and use the Heart of Gold to lift the bars in the alcove.

Hop down, shoot two bats and find the pushblock in the corner. Push it onto a trigger tile to open a door and pick up the nearby HEART OF GOLD before continuing to a stairwell. Go straight down S to awaken a bat, go back up and right to find a door you can open with the Heart of Gold. Enter a small storeroom where another spooky apparition is waiting, offer it a Powder of Life to lift the bars in the window alcove to your left and exit onto the roof of the mansion. Go past a ladder to your right (for later), hop down E onto the ledge below and follow the ramparts around to your right to a large medipack for SECRET #3.  

Drop down E next to the horse statue and return to the opened NW gate. Climb back up the ladder, shift right near the opening and drop onto an ice ledge. Turn around to pick up a BLUE BIRD, hop into the opening and go around to the stairwell. Return to the storeroom with the spooky apparition, go through the opening onto the roof and this time use the ladder you passed by earlier. Climb down, grab small medipack, hop down for the flares in the floor hole and pull up into the N opening. Follow the familiar fireplace route into a new bedroom and step onto the bed to open a couple of doors. Pick up the GOLDEN KEY and use it to open the SE door.

Ignore the other opened doors for now, go out SE onto the terrace and place the Blue Bird on the plinth to summon the vulture (either the same one or its twin). Vault up onto the slab to your right for a POWDER OF LIFE and return to the bedroom. Exit W, turn left and go down the first steps to the landing. Place Mama's Roses in the W receptacle to open the door to your right, enter the bathroom and disturb a bat soaking itself in the deeper water. Exit, go downstairs S and loop around right. Shoot the large vase to open up an area behind the cabinets where you'll find a large medipack near an angel statue at the NE corner. When you pick it up a trio of skeletons will attack, so bunch them together for destruction courtesy of a single grenade.

A door has opened SE, so go there, climb the ladder and shift left to drop into a passage. Follow to the end, hop down to a lower section and place the Firewood you've been carrying next to the stack you see there. You hear a door opening, and as you turn to leave the stack you placed ignites. Hop down left and do battle outdoors with a hostile snowman who leaves behind snowflakes for you to pick up. Head between the two-dimensional tree and the waiting vulture to trigger a flyby through the immediate area. Continue to the S mirror, pick up more snowflakes and see another snowman cavorting about beyond the mirror (which is solid).

Go W through the phantom mirror, whereupon you'll take snowman fire from your unseen enemy, run N through the next phantom mirror and pause for more snowflakes. Hop up the piled snow and pull the block two times from the NE corner. Go around it into the revealed room and pick up the BOOK OF MAMA'S LOVE. Place a Powder of Life in the outstretched hands of the apparition and watch an angel-like halo appear over its head. Go back S through the mirror, turn right and pull up into the opening in the W wall. Place the Book of Mama's Love on the icy alcove wall, hop back down and go through the S wall (which is now phantom on this side) to engage two hostile snowmen. One leaves behind flares, the other a replacement BOOK OF MAMA'S LOVE.

Go to the SW corner, pull up into the alcove in the N wall and push the block to reveal a HORSE STATUE for SECRET #4. Hop back down, go to the NE corner and place the Book of Mama's Love to open the wall door near the unseasonably dressed girl. Go there, pull up as the door closes again, hop over the skeleton and pick up a new SCROLL to lift the bars to your left. Pull out of the short passage into a fireplace duct and  pull up three more times next to an ENERGY DRINK. The grates behind you ignite as you pick it up, so safety drop from there or jump to grab the ladder, climb down and head W into a dining room where a maid, Von Croy and a Santa Claus guide are waiting. Offer the Energy Drink to Von Croy and the level will end rather unceremoniously.

FROSTY MANSION

By Oxy

Walkthrough written and provided by the author, by special request.

Story: Lara's best friend and Von Croy go to visit her grandmother's grave. It is almost a year since grandma died, but her spirit still stays in her house. She died too soon and didn't have time to say goodbye. When Lara's best friend meets the spirit of her grandmother, she gets caught in the mirror from this to another world. Von Croy also stays locked in her house.

Lara hears all about it and goes to investigate.

You don't need to shoot the bird. It's non-aggressive.

DON'T BREAK THE FLYBY CAMERAS. THEY OPEN DOORS.

In the level are 4 secrets.

Read the scrolls. Hints and story lines are in them.

Walkthrough:

Wait until the intro flyby ends. Pick up the guns. Lara hides them in her pockets. She sees she's going to need them, although this is a empty house. Walk further, two bats will attack. Pull out the pushable block on the right and enter the stables. Kill the bat. She sees there is still a bucket for a horse grandmother used to have. Pick up the flares.

Leave the stables and go straight to a front door, where two big vases are. One of them is pushed away. Push it forward like the vase on the right is. Pick up flares and kill two bats.

You still can't enter the house, so go to the door, which leads to the garden. You see the two angel statues are guarding the exit.

Turn around, go to the statute of grandma (she looked that way in her younger years). You notice her beautiful roses grew up, although it's freezing outside.

The magic begins. Grandma with her power from the other world opens the front door.

Go into the house. Pick up the compass. Fire turns on. Go left in the dining room. Seems the house looks like it used to be, except there is a statue of a little angel. He dropped his little golden heart. Now the angel is asleep.

Pick up the heart of gold. Check to see if the door, where intro flyby went, is now open. No, it is not.

Leave the room, go straight through curtains and right to the library. There you notice the doors are locked.

Go back to the fireplace, where you picked up the compass, and go upstairs. You notice the burned ceiling above the stairs.

Enter the room. Something bad has happened. You hear your friends shout and grumbling. Light the flare and check the ghost. You notice the fireplace is guarding the two angels of death. It is unlit. What can that creature be, you wonder.

Check the table with books. You notice there are grandma's old glasses. Pick them up. Flyby camera opens the door into the bathroom.

Go downstairs to the bathroom. Door closes and you're trapped. Check the pool, on the ground is grenade ammo. You notice the doors on the left. They're closed. Swim out from the pool and look to the right. You see scroll and the ghost. Pick up and read the scroll:

Don't be afraid, Lara. Please help me.
I died earlier than expected
and my spirit is calling farewell.
My granddaughter is now caught
on the other side of the mirror.

Keep me alive with Powder of Life.
I will help you to open some doors.
Find a Golden Bible
and give it to an Angel.
With the help of her heart of gold
you'll find a way into the mirror.

The fire in fireplace turns on and the door in pool opens.
Save here.

Swim through the door in a swimming pool. The door closes, you're trapped. Swim further and find small medi pack. Pick it up and swim back. The doors on the left are now opened, pick up the big medi pack and swim in the next room. Swim up to get some air. Swim down and pick up the flares. The door opens, swim further and turn left, to get out.

Climb out the fountain. Here you notice the vase is also moved. Leave it alone for now. Check the garden, where grandma's grave is. It is locked and closed. Kill the bat. Behind the pine is a hole. There is a secret. Pick up the snowflakes.

Go to the basement door and put mama's roses in the vase. Door opens. Light the flare and pick up the powder of life. Go downstairs into the basement. Door closes. Look around. Pick up the firewood near old table and chairs. One door opens. Push the pushable block and pick up the second powder of life. Second door opens and you can enter the next room. Ghost is locked in a door.

Go to the pushable block near the stack of chopped wood. The key is on top of it. Leave the key for now. First pull pushable block out and pick up the grenade launcher, which is under it. The door to a ghost opens. Now you can pick up the key safely. The skeleton will come. Kill it with grenade launcher. Give ghost powder of life, like she asked it to in a scroll. Jump back from the ghost after doing that. Door opens.

Swim out the fountain again. Now you can safely push the vase on its place and pick up some flares. Kill the skeleton.

Enter the house from backside. You notice the statue of an angel. Wasn't here before. Switch the bird and wait awhile. Door to the kitchen opens. Step on the old stove, fire turns off and you can pick up the key. You see there is still a chicken in pans, but now it is not crispy anymore. It is inedible. Climb up the kitchen cabinet and pick up some flares. Go through the curtains. Camera starts. Follow it straight to the next room. You notice skeletons are lying here on sofas. Who are they? What are they doing here? (Grandma used to live alone.)

Climb up the weapon cabinet and pick up the powder of life.

Go back and upstairs. Unlock the door and enter the room. It's a bedroom, untouched by the ghosts. Climb up wardrobe and pick up grenade ammo. The fire is extinguished. Climb through the chimney down into the next room. Enter. Skeletons will run into the room. If you're afraid, climb up on the wardrobe. Kill the bat, you can pick up the medi pack later. Kill the skeletons. You notice the skeleton under the bed and the bed itself is also destroyed. Destroy the left bed (if you haven't already). You find the second secret, frozen rose.

Climb on the shelf of the window and pick up the golden Bible.

Go back and place the Bible on pedestal in front of an angel statute. The angel becomes alive, it is breathing and shines. But it is not strong enough to help. Go through opened door. Angel with his small power opens the door in a chimney. Climb into it and kill the bat. Light flare and pick up the medi pack. Enter the room.

Here you see the skeleton under bed. Shoot it with a grenade launcher and pick up the key. The angel is also here. It is alive but it lost its power to open doors. Pick up the golden Bible. It is on the wardrobe. Place the Bible on the pedestal again. Now the angel is full powered and it can help you with its heart of gold. Unlock the door and go upstairs. Pick up the golden key on sofa.

You don't want to shoot the bed in a beautiful room, do you? Take pistols and shoot only the vase. The picture moves and you can pick up the grenade ammo. Leave the room and go downstairs to the ghost. Give it the powder of life again, so the fireplace will lose its death.

Go into the library and unlock the door. Examine the room and kill the skeleton. Pick up the key over the fireplace, unlock the door upstairs and go out.

Pick up the big medi pack on the roof and climb up the roofs. You see an angel left its heart of gold for you. Pick it up and kill the skeletons. They captured the sad blue bird that Mama used to feed. Give the bird life again.

Pick up the flares near the bird and carefully climb down and go to the gate which leads to the frozen garden. Place hearts of gold to angel statues and door opens. Enter the garden. Pick up the roses (Mama watching it). Climb into the empty pool and pick up the powder of life again. Enter the door and climb up the ladder. Jump backward and pick up the heart of gold. The bird is watching it. No one can steal it. Climb up to the door, turn around and jump back on the ice and take the poor frozen bird. Jump back to the door, place the heart of gold to an angel statute.

Enter room. Kill the bats. Push the block and pick up the heart of gold. Go downstairs and kill the bat. You can do that also later. Go back and place the heart of gold again. Doors open. Spirit waits in silence. Has nothing more to say. Give it a powder of life and climb the roof. Go straight and jump on the fence. You'll find a secret there, it's a big medi pack. Jump down and climb the ladder again. Go on the roof again but now climb into the hole. You can pick the medi and flares here, but it is not necessary. Mama, bird and the angel are watching for you.

Step on a bed and wait, the doors open. Pick up the key. The fireplace with angels of death is lit. Unlock the door and give the third bird a life by placing the frozen bird onto the piedestal. Here you get the powder of life, just in case you might need it.

Go back and go through door to the hallway. Place Mama's roses into vase and enter the bathroom. Step into the pool and clean the house of those bats once for all. Also if you didn't do it before, kill the bat near the statues of a dog and cat. Mama use to have them, they were friendly to each other.

Check up how Von Croy is doing. He is tired but everything is OK. He read a book.

Shoot the vase near the picture of flowers. Picture moves. Enter the room. You see here three skeletons on a sofa. Shoot them with grenade launcher before they are triggered. Now you know you can do that.

The angel tells you, you're near the mirror room. It will be watching the other side, too. Pick up the medi pack. Door opens. Climb up to the chimney. Jump down into the fire place and place a firewood onto it. The door into the mirror room opens. Go there. Fire is lit, there is now way back. Enter the mirror to another world.

Look, here are birds watching the place and also a snowman is here. Seems friendly, so just leave it alone for now. Wait the flyby, you'll see the poor granddaughter frozen on the other side. Pick up the snowflakes, if you like. Go right, you can enter through mirror, there is no reflection of living creatures.

But now you can't go back, neither can go left to a poor granddaughter. Go right and climb through the snow to the end of a room. There is a pushing block. Pull it out and enter the room. Mama's ghost is waiting to be released. Give her the powder of life. Pick up the book of Mama's love and go back to the frozen hole. Place the book on the wall and the mirror will break. The life begins on this side of the mirror also. The birds are reflecting themselves on four ways.

But where is the snowman? You can't see the reflection of it here. This is not a living creature. Attack it. He has stolen the book of Mama's love, and that's why the granddaughter is frozen. After killing the snowmen, climb into the hole in front of granddaughter's frozen reflection. Push the block and pick up the fourth secret - horse statue. Now you can place the book of Mama's love and leave the spooky place.

Enter the door. Read the Mama's last message.

Dear Lara, please show Santa to my
dearest granddaughter, although it
is not yet New Year and tell her
my message from the other side:
"Your caress brushes my cheek. My vision blurs.
Now I can rest in peace".
Thank you Lara for your help.
Give Von Croy the Energy Drink.
The three of you may now go with the angel's blessing.

She's an angel now and she released her granddaughter from the mirror. Climb through the chimneys back in the main chimney, where the energy drink is. Pick it up and go into the house. With mama's last goodbye here is a Christmas tree and a Santa himself. Santa has a wooden knife, just in case some bats are left here. Show him to the granddaughter. Now she believes ...

Give the Von Croy energy drink, so you can leave.

"Why I have one powder of life left in my inventory?" Lara asks Von Croy. "This is just sand," answers Von Croy. "All happened just because you believed."

Happy adventuring.

With love, Oxy