20x20x20 Challenge - THE PEARL PALACE

Level by Larafan25 (Julian Wilson)

Walkthrough by Phil Lambeth



Drop down into a dark cave from which you cannot escape a fixed camera. Locate the hole in the floor and hang drop into the pool far below. Climb out anywhere and watch the flyby. Your goal is to locate and place four tridents in the shafts held by the Poseidon statues.

Notice the skeleton guards posted on the N and S ends of this lower level. There's a ladder in the N wall and one in the S wall. The pool is empty except for a grated opening. Start by pushing the following skeletons away from the wall, one time each (they can't be pulled, only pushed): N side, E wall, the one closest to the water, and the one in the NE corner; S side, E wall, the one closest to the water, and the one in the SE corner. The others can also be pushed, but without effect. After you push each of the four mentioned above, you'll see a cut scene with a door opening.

S SIDE, FIRST TRIDENT

Climb the ladder in the S wall and push open the double doors in the upper alcove. Enter a small library with a fixed camera. Run forward and turn left. You can see a book jutting out of a shelf near the right edge of your screen. Stand in front of it and press action to open the gate behind you. Shoot the flying book and enter the S alcove for the first TRIDENT. Reverse roll, exit the library, jump over the ladder hole and run across the bridge to the statue to place your trident. Drop down into the water and climb out N.

N SIDE, SECOND TRIDENT

Climb the ladder in the N wall, shift left and drop down onto a ledge. Enter the W room and avoid the spike-trapped areas. Hop onto the block and you'll be catapulted upward with the rising block close behind. Walk forward to the S edge, jump up and grab the climbing surface. Climb up to an upper ledge, turn around and face an active spike-trapped platform. Time a running jump to the left side of the platform just as the spikes are going up, veer to your right and jump off to the ledge where you'll find the second TRIDENT. From here you can take a running jump SW to the raised block and climb down the N side. Return to the ladder hole and hop SE over it. Follow the bridge and place the second trident. Instead of dropping down into the water, jump SE to the connecting bridge and enter the E doorway.

E SIDE, THIRD TRIDENT

Walk cautiously to the hole in the floor. Look down to see a flame blower protecting the platform below. Save your game. Wait until the flames subside, then run off the edge at an angle so that you land on the corner of the platform where you'll be safe. If you miss, you'll fall in deadly water below and die. When you land safely, you'll see another flame-protected platform below on the S side and a lower one on the N side. Hang from the N edge and drop down onto a corner of the lowest platform when the flames subside. Run off the edge onto the raised block below and take the third TRIDENT from the pedestal.

Climb back onto the NW corner of the lowest platform, turn around and take a standing jump to grab the edge of the middle platform. Pull up into the corner, turn around, and wait for the flames to subside before jumping up to grab the upper platform. Pull up, turn left, wait once more for the flames to subside, then jump up and pull up to safety. Run across the bridge and place your hard-earned trident. Hop around to the other side and enter the W gateway.

W SIDE, FOURTH TRIDENT

When you reach the W wall you can turn left or right. If you go left you'll quickly see the fourth trident, but it's spike-protected. Instead, go right into a room with a deep pool. Jump into the water and open the door in the S wall. Swim into the passage past the spike traps, turn around and pull the underwater lever to disable the spikes protecting the trident. Swim back past the underwater spike traps and pull out of the water (but not just over the opening). Run into the adjoining room, pull up onto the ledge and take the fourth TRIDENT without fear.

Return to the bridge and place the final trident. Drop down into the water below and find that the grate is now open. Swim down into a cave and exit via the N opening. Pull out into another area guarded by skeleton statues and a fixed camera. Approach the raised block. When you vault up onto it and take the SCROLL, the level ends.