A SHORT ADVENTURE

 

Level by kettie

 

Walkthrough by Phil Lambeth

 

 

A scantily-clad Lara is standing in front of a slope.  She is heaving gently back and forth as if preparing to vomit.  Her coiffure appears much like a giant beetle viewed from behind. Speaking of behind...well, no, as this level is intended for children, we won't go there.  Note the key receptacle and the attractive painting. As you slide down, you're reminded that you have no weapons, which aren't needed as there are no enemies in this level.  When you reach the bottom, you can enter the alcove and peek through the missing texture, if you like, for a surreal view.  Pull down the wall switch to lift the red curtain.

 

Enter a large room dominated by a pool that's spanned by three bridges.  It appears to be a hub room with plenty of closed openings.  Begin by jumping into the water and locating the GOLDEN KEY on a block near the NW corner.  There are openings in the E and W walls (and a closed one at the NE corner, which is opened with an underwater lever at the SE corner).  The E passage leads to an inaccessible slope, so you must slide down from the other direction later.  The W passage leads back to where you started the level (where the door painting is now open, but your key doesn't fit the receptacle). 

 

However, the Golden Key does fit in the receptacle on the block opposite the ladder in the S wall.  Use it to drop a trap door above that ladder, and climb up into an upper room.  Get up onto the block for another GOLDEN KEY.  Go back down the ladder to find that a block has lowered at the N wall, exposing a receptacle fitted for your new key.  Use it to open the door to your left, and enter a brightly lit library.  And guess what, there's a YELLOW KEY on the far ledge.  The red curtains in the corners are phantom, so run through either one into a hidden room. 

Hop onto the table against the W wall and pick up the
BOOST for the motorbike and a large medipack.  Grab a TORCH on the other side of the room and light it with one of the handy flames.  It appears that you need to find some oil to pour into the pedestal bowl, so leave the torch here and go back through the phantom curtain.  Return to the hub room, jump into the water and open the NE gate with the SE underwater lever.  Swim into the passage and get the BLUE KEY.  Swim back out, pull up onto the bridge and use the Blue Key in the (green) receptacle in the SW block.  The nearby curtain lifts, giving you access to a receptacle for your Yellow Key.

 

Use the key to open the door painting and enter the passage.  You hear the door painting close behind you, but not to worry.  Continue to the pedestal and take the SAPPHIRE from it.  As you do so another door painting opens to your left.  Exit to the hub room and run forward to the stand in front of a closed curtain.  Place the Sapphire to lift the curtain.  Go inside and pause briefly for a spectacular frontal view of Lara.  Pick up the bottle of WINE.  It's highly flammable, so don't attempt to steal a sip. Before leaving, climb into the crawlspace in the left wall, hidden by the curtains, and take the ROSE for SECRET#1. Thanks to manarch2 for pointing out this secret. Now head to the N room beyond the phantom curtains.

Empty the bottle of wine into the pedestal bowl.  Retrieve your torch and light the wine to open a door beyond the tables bearing the torches.  Go there and enter a large and mostly barren room.  First, open the doors in the N wall.  Go up the steps and push the harp E to open the door on that side.  Go down and retrieve the ROSE for SECRET #2.  Go back up and push the harp to the W end.  The other door opens, allowing access to another ROSE for SECRET #3.  Return to the previous room and use the staggered blocks against the S wall to access a pair of platforms in the W wall, then two more blocks in the N wall, and finally a high ledge NE where taking a floating MASK causes a painting door to open.

 

Slide down that long slope you saw earlier from the other side and swim to the hub room.  Pull out onto the bridge and place the Mask on the stand near the S ladder.  This causes a block to rise next to the Sapphire stand near the W wall.  It also causes the N ladder to extend, allowing you to climb up (my, what a view) through the hole in the ceiling to the roof area.  Open the S doors and pick up a CARD.  A cut scene shows a block lowering in a previous room.  Climb back down the ladder...oops, the way is now blocked.  However, the NE doors are now open, so locate the motorbike in the SW corner and affix the Boost before you mount it. 

 

Drive into the open doorway and up the slope.  Go down the other end and pass closed doors to your left and a block with a key receptacle to your right.  Continue around the corner and follow the long passage past an opening to your right.  You'll come back here soon.  Continue around another corner and drive past a closed door and a wall switch.  Park the motorbike just beyond another opening to your right and slide down the slope at the end.  Note the receptacle stand and enter the W opening.  Pull down the wall switch to open the gate.  Climb the blocks to a higher passage and follow to an opening near the spot where you parked your motorbike.

 

Walk to the closed doors and pull down the wall switch to open them.  Enter a mirror room and locate the image of a key at the SW corner.  Vault up onto the block and pick up the BLUE KEY.  There's a receptacle in the NW alcove, so use the key there to open the gate.  Enter another mirror room, with the mirror on the ceiling this time.  Take the YELLOW KEY from the central wooden tile, then locate the TORCH near the W wall.  There's an alcove with a receptacle near the NE corner.  Hop down and use the Yellow Key to open the gate.  You can see a pedestal bowl, so you need to find a flame to light your torch, and something to place into the bowl to light. 

 

Go back, grab your torch and exit SW.  The flame you're looking for is just beyond the first mirror room.  We still need lighter fluid, however, so leave the torch here and get on the motorbike outside.  Turn around and go back the way you came, in a clockwise direction.  Stop at that opening in the N wall that you bypassed earlier, get off the motorbike and drop down into the room below.  Locate the ladder in the W wall and climb up past a closed gate.  At the top keep the up arrow depressed and Lara will transfer herself to the ceiling monkey bars.  Follow the track all the way around the room and drop down onto a ledge at the end.  Enter the passage and pick up a fresh bottle of WINE

 

Climb a block and climb the ladder to a higher passage.  Step forward and climb down the longer ladder to find yourself inside the central structure.  See that a block has risen at the entrance, allowing you a way back out of here.  For now, turn into the alcove to your right and see that the gate you climbed past earlier is now open.  Jump there and pull down the wall switch to open the gate in the opposite E wall.  Jump back to the central structure (keeping the action key depressed to glide into the opening) and go across to the other side.  Take a running jump and grab to the E opening, pull up and follow the passage to a ROSE and SECRET #4.

 

Return to the central structure and jump S to the raised block.  Get on your motorbike and drive back to the mirror rooms where you left your lighted torch.  Pick it up, take it with you through the passage and hop up into the second mirror room.  Go to the side room with the pedestal and pour the Wine into the bowl.  Now light the wine with the torch to open the door in the NW alcove.  Drop your torch (you no longer need it) and go there to find a MASK on a pedestal. 

 

Get back on the motorbike and drive it S and down the ramp.  Get off and place the Mask in the receptacle stand to open a door leading back to the hub room.  Drive the motorbike carefully (if you strike the wall switch ahead you die for some reason) to your left and along the bridge.  Stop at the N doorway, dismount and find the lowered block inside and a GOLDEN KEY.  Insert your Card in the nearby receptacle to lift the gates to your left.  Get on the motorbike and drive it up the ramp.  Dismount at the open doors and use the Golden Key to eradicate the wall in front of you.

 

Run to the far wall and climb the blocks for a small medipack and a KEY (cut scene of the spot where you began this level).  Get on the motorbike and follow the long passage in a counterclockwise direction until you reach the short ramp at the end.  Drive down to the entrance to the hub room and this time go carefully to your right and up the ramp.  Park when you reach the top, for you'll die if you drive into the open doorway.  Dismount and insert the Key in the receptacle to drop the trap door.  Jump W to grab the edge, and pull up into the passage.  Follow to the third alcove on your right, open the doors and go inside to find a ROSE on the far ledge for SECRET #5.  Exit this room and turn right to end the level.