AET 18- Charades in Venice.
Level
by Greywolf
Walkthrough by G&D Productions.
Tasks in
dark blue are for the Secrets
Golden Key.
Hop
into the water and collect the Golden Key under the jetty NE and
Ancient Gun ammo SE. Get back out at the steps between the gondola’s.
Head
E into the alley, and E up the steps to another canal. The boat is here, but we
cannot use it. Swim into the far SW corner and find
an underwater lever, this is #1 for a trapdoor** for Secrets well get to later.
Get back out of the water.
The Blue House, Rose Jewel #1.
Run
over the bridge or just swim to the doors SE, open them and step into the blue
staircase area. Under the stairs is more Ancient Gun ammo, go up the
stairs and open the double doors. Jump onto the chandelier and onto the next,
then jump into the window and shoot it. Run jump with shift (swan dive) onto the
balcony. Draw pistols, jump up and down till you shot that gem from the lion
head. Jump into the canal below (where you used the UW lever), climb out SE
again, go back upstairs and over the chandeliers to the opened door there.
Inside pick up the Rose Jewel, use the jump lever left to open the door,
get the Flares and go down the stairs.
A Torch.
Open
the doors at the bottom of the stairs and step into the room under the
chandeliers, first open the doors on the far right, go in and open the next
doors too. Now the way is free, go back and back in the room open the doors to
the kitchen on the left (NW). Straight you can pick up a Torch, ignite it on the
fire, go out to the room and throw it on the floor.
Secret:
Now go back into the kitchen and see the fire is gone (seems that when you get
close to the fire and wait, it will extinguish). Light a Flare and spot the
crawlspace (W), up over where the fire was, get in there and drop down at the
end. Open the doors and come to a library. Pick up Ancient Gun ammo
right, a small medipack left from the table and go to the left hand
bookcase on the S wall. Pull it twice, get behind it and use the lever to open a
panel in the W wall. Go over the bridge to find
Secret #1,
an Easter Egg. Back inside, straight through the doors, up into the
crawlspace to the kitchen and out to the room.
Pick
up the Torch and go through the doors SE (that’s why you opened them before),
right down the stairs and out to the canal, cross the bridge and out W to the
alley.
The Café, a Blue Key and Red Wine.
Take
a right, drop the Torch and open the door to the Café right. In the back, right
is another door to the storage, inside are hidden under crates Red Wine,
Flares and the Blue Key. Over the crate where the Flares are is a
hatch you can open, but we need a Yellow Key up there, so you can open it, but
no need to climb up yet (remember the trapdoor in the corner).
Yellow Key, Bag of Sand.
Get
out of the Café grab the Torch, go NW up some steps then left to the patio there
are some Flares. Taking the Torch head into the opening NW, and in the
street, where you can see the canal left, drop the Torch for now (remember where
you left it) and open the doors W. Go left up the stairs, then right and open
the first doors left (N). Pick up Flares and open the trapdoor in the
left corner (face W). Get down and grab the Bag of Sand and the Yellow
Key.
Use the Golden Key;
Bookcase Puzzle, Mask Piece 2, Rose
Jewel 2 and a Book.
Back
up and out through the door, left a bit and open the doors right (S) leading to
more stairs. Go either left or right and use the Golden Key to open the doors on
the right (NE).
-Push
the 3rd Bookcase on the left in twice.
-Turn
right and push the last bookcase on the right once into the entrance passage.
-
Roll and loop around left and pull it once, loop around again and now push this
one into the entrance passage – S as far as so you can store another bookcase
here too.
-Roll
and take a left, pull the one you pushed (W), back out twice, go around and push
it and also into the entrance passage against the first one you pushed there.
-Go
in where you got the last one from and pull out another one three times and
leave it there.
Now
go around and into the back W and get the Book and Rose Jewel 2.
Read the book.
Mask Piece 2 and the Ancient Gun.
Turn
back and just around the corner you can shoot the middle book panel (S), pick up
Mask Piece 2 and pull the lever, a door opens up nearby.
Now
you have to push back the 3 bookcases so you can go back to the stairs.
-Roll
and go right, left and loop around the corners to a dead end. Turn right and
push the block on the right (W) as far as it will go (W).
-Roll
and go straight then pull the block on the right (S) once. Roll and go around
the corners again to pull it once. Roll and go back, then push the block (fore
last one on the right) as far as it will go (W).
-Roll
again and go straight and right around the corner (S) pull that one 3 times and
loop around to the left and you are back at the corridor.
Go
right and then left into the doors opened by the lever, opposite the Gold
keyhole. Inside is the Ancient Gun.
Use the Yellow Key, Finding the Code
clue 1.
Go
all the way down the stairs and out to the alley (you can bring the Torch), go
left into the street, then right through another arch and loop left around into
the opening to a yard with trees (we’ll be back here), go left and Lara looks up
right to a church tower with a clock..
There’s
another clock here. It shows a different time, both are still and I wonder why.
I think there is a reason for that…
Drop
the Torch left at the alley and leave it there.
Code clue 2:
Go
back and right through the arch, right again, then left and straight to the
canal, go right a bit and turn around, look up E and spot another clock tower,
this one points to 20:17 and as the author stated Italians are always a
bit late, so 20:20 should be more accurate. Jump over E to the steps and
go straight into the alley and left to the Café.
Once
in the Café go into the storage in the back, hop on the crate and open the
ceiling hatch. Climb up W and use the Yellow Key, hop over the corner of the
hatch to the door you opened. Go into a gallery with paintings and get a clue
when you go to the painting left
I think the
code is hidden somewhere between (in the) alleys, squares and canals of Venice.
I must keep my eyes open and look around carefully…
In
the SW corner is the code pad; the code is 2020. A painting opens up and inside
is Mask Piece 1. Combine the two pieces to get the Carnival Mask.
The Shop, the Laser Sight.
Get
down to the storage, out of the Café and left right to the canal again, jump
over to the W and go into the narrow alley W. Left into the shop and find a
little elephant on a table… When you approach the owner..
I think you
need a Laser sight, I could have one but you will have to give me a Carnival
Mask in exchange..
Place
the Mask on the stand NW, turn around and get the Laser Sight from the
table behind you.
Open
the door behind the man (W) and the doors inside too. Hop into the water and
find a Medipack along the W wall, and an
underwater lever SE (#2 for that trapdoor**). Climb back out and in the
SE corner.
Secret
Detour: in the corner near the door you can grab up on the right (W) to a roof,
shimmy right around the corner and pull up in the end where you can stand. Turn
around and shoot the right hand balustrade in front of the windows N. Now stand
somewhere in the middle of this square and stand jump towards the red pin on the
clothes line and grab it, swing and jump to grab the open part at the N balcony,
go inside and get Secret #2,
an Easter Egg. Hop into the water; get out at the doors and back into the
shop.
The Boathouse, a Sword.
Go to
the canal and left into the street, straight to the end and right through the
arch to a small courtyard. Up left on the pillar is a jump lever, grab up to the
roof above the door E and pull up, back flip with roll to grab the jump lever
and see a big door open up *. Go through the arch NW to the yard with the trees
and take a right, through the arches right (E) and keep right through that door
* you just opened. You’ll come to the boathouse. There are 4 boxes on the
bottom, shoot them. Three of them have goodies; one is empty. E a Medipack,
W Ancient Gun ammo and S the Sword (Crowbar).
Use the Sword, Shoot the Bells to
open the Café trapdoor.
Get
out, loop right around the wall at the archway and use the Blue Key. Go into the
yard, get a small medipack left and open the gate with the Sword. In the
next area, dive under the entrance ledge (SE) to use the underwater lever
(#3 for the
trapdoor**). Climb back out and go up to the bridge, standing on the
bridge look up SW and shoot one of the 3 bells, you can see that trapdoor in the
storage of the Café opens up (for later).
Villa Venetia, Lion Statue #1.
Go
down to the N side, take a right and open the gate in the end, go into the
square and come to Villa Venetia. Use the two Rose Jewels to open the front door
(up the stairs E).
Inside we can go to the basement first, so straight under the stairs and to the
right through the doors. Down the stairs and get Flares from under the
stairs, open the doors in the opposite corner (NE) to get to a large storage
room.
For a
Secret: A rat will emerge from a crawlspace right, don’t kill him, but go to
another crawlspace far left (NW) and go in when the platform inside is down. The
rat will lower and raise it. Inside, around the corner is a lever, lowering a
platform in the storage, so go back out and find
Secret #3,
an Easter Egg. In case the platform blocks the exit from the crawlspace,
use the lever again.
Now
shoot all the boxes spread throughout the room and get Flares (N), a
small medipack (SW) and Ancient Gun ammo (E). The rat will most
likely attack you now, you may now shoot it.
In
the E wall is the crawlspace the rat came from, get in, pick up Flares
and crawl further. Shoot the box to get a Medipack. Now use one of those
flares, turn around and look up to use the jump lever
(#4 for the
trapdoor**). Get out to the storage and leave SE for the stairs, go back
up to the Hall of the Villa and go upstairs to open the doors left (N).
Chess Puzzle.
Go
left and pick up a Book with the clue to the upcoming puzzle. Go through the
opening N and find the Chessboard. Find the white knight W and move it twice to
the E, once N, then twice to the E, once to the N (the white block goes down for
that). Again push once N, then E twice, now push it to the S till it is standing
on the tile there, just behind the lowering white block. The knight turns and a
block goes down in the E wall revealing Lion Statue #1. Get out of the
Villa and left to the canal where you shot the bell.
The Café, Lion statue 2.
Go
over the bridge and left and leave (SE), out to the green yard, through the arch
to the yard with the jump lever (S), right to the street and left, E to the Café
and into the storage.
Secret
Detour, now you have the sword, climb up N through the hatch to go into the
gallery with the paintings. Open a crowbar panel in the wall on the right (E) to
get Secret #4,
an Easter Egg. In the corner right of this panel is another one, open
that one and throw lever #5, to finally open that illusive trapdoor **. Get back
down to the storage.
Climb
down into the trapdoor in the corner, wade through the deep water to a room with
two lion heads, still standing in the passage, draw the gun (maybe jump up once
first to be able to do that) and shoot the two gems, a platform goes down in the
floor. Swim in there to pick up Lion Statue #2.
On
the N wall is a trapdoor, we’ll get to that later. For now that’s all, so get
back through the passage, up the ladder to the storage, leave the Cafe and head
NW to the street. Right (N) and right to the jump lever yard, left to the green
yard.
Cat Square, down to the Sewers.
Go
left to the far end where Lara looks to the clock tower and go left (take the
Torch with you) into the alley, left around the
corner is a white lowered block under a jump lever, that is for the Timed
sequence later.
Go S,
right up the stairs and you’ll come to a small square with a bunch of cats.
…in the
garden of Eden there was everything. Livers, small kidneys, chopped meat, little
goldfishes and milk bowls. Only one thing cannot be eaten: “the forbidden
fishbone”. Which was growing in the middle of this magnificent Paradise. One day
Mew-Mew, the first she-cat, met the devil, dressed up as a mouse…
Well,
that was helpful..
Using the Lion Statues, Timed
Platforms.
Go N
and drop the Torch at the doors left. Open the nearby manhole (from facing S and
climb down. Go left (W) and keep going left to reach a dead end with Flares,
now go N and through the opening N, left there and climb up right into the
opening above the pipe. Here you can place the two Lion Statues in the
receptacles, this will open the mouth of that Big Lion head up on the W wall.
Look
on the NE pillar and spot the jump lever; it is timed. Climb the ladder and
stand over the jump lever. When you use it, platforms go up in the room. You
have to climb the ladder again, run right and jump over to the pillars at the
other side (S), turning right jump to the first platform and then to the next
and jump or run into the Lion’s Mouth.
Monkey swing Hall, the Water Skin.
Crawl
in and pick up more Flares at the ladder, then go up. In the Hall with
the monkey swings on the ceiling, go into the niche under the N side monkey
swing. Left is a lever, throw it, run out and a bit right to the platform that
went up, grab up to it from the higher part of the floor and grab up to the
monkey swing. Shimmy into that same N side niche, Drop onto the pillar and get
the Water Skin. Jump over to the ledge N and throw floor lever 1. Get
back on the monkey swing and now go left (E) to the niche to throw floor lever 2
and hear some water flow. You can leave the sewers now and skip the next blue
part, but…
Optional:
Quest for the Remaining Easter Eggs, 2 Timed Runs.
Light a
flare and spot the crawlspace behind lever 2. Get in and follow through to a
Timed lever to raise that block under the jump lever near Cat-square. Light a
flare, make a Save and pull, roll while the block shows (could not break the
camera) and run left around the corner, into the crawlspace and down to the
floor. Drop or run into the ladder hole NE and crawl out of the Lion head, jump
down forward with Alt and run to the back, right and down left into the water,
right/left and follow to the ladder. Go up and back flip roll before you reach
the top. Run to the fountain, left down the stairs and left to jump onto the
white block.
Part 2.
Jump up to
grab the jump lever and Save while doing that. Side flip left while the camera
shows the trapdoor and sprint right around the corner, before the clothes line
right to the yard with the jump lever, right to the street and left, left again
to go E to the Café, into the storage and down the trapdoor, try to jump around
the corner, as far as possible into the deep water and wade to the room with the
trapdoor. Climb on and run jump into the right hand niche with the lion head to
get Secret #5,
an Easter Egg.
That Illusive
Trapdoor.
Go back up
to the Café, out to the alley and right left to the street, right and right
again to the jump switch yard, left and out to the green yard. Right to the
arches and keep left along the blue keyhole, left through the gate to the canal
where you shot the bells and cross the bridge, take a left and open the gate
there with your Sword. In the left corner is the open trapdoor **.
The Maze.
Drop
down..
This place is
really a Maze! I think somewhere there is any Easter Egg, but I haven’t to get
lost! If I was in a video game, I’d save now…
Face S, go
straight and turn a bit right into the dark, left and right down a slope, follow
with a U-turn left and then keep going E to the end and to the right is
Secret #6,
an Easter Egg. Go back W, up the slope and at the end of the slope
straight E, left (N) where you come back into the light and a bit right left
going N, take the second left (W) and then right down another slope, left and
you can stand up there. Take a right around a corner and climb up left into a
higher passage, follow to where you can stand again and take
Secret #7,
the last Easter Egg. Go back, drop down and go around the corner and left
into the crawlspace, right up the slope and on top of the slope right and at the
next crossing you are back at the trapdoor. Climb out and go out to the canal.
Over the bridge and left, right out to the green yard and to the other end at
the clock tower. Left into the alley and follow along the cat fountain to the
Sewer Man hole.
The Element Puzzle.
When
you get back to the Sewer entrance, open the doors left. If you need to fill
your Water Skin, climb down into the Sewer and get some of that clean water
there. Go back up and take the Torch into the open door and open both doors
there if you haven’t ignited the Torch, you can do that behind the first door
left. Go through the door S to get to the Element Puzzle.
Bug warning!
Don’t pour your wine into the bowl before you have a burning Torch, because if
you pour the wine and save/reload before igniting the wine, the wine will have
disappeared, leaving you stuck here.
The
water goes in the first bowl from where you enter, wine in the middle, ignite it
with the torch and the Bag of Sand in the last, a cut scene takes over
explaining it all to you…
G&D, April 6-2018.