THE LOST TREASURE
Level by Claude Gross
Walkthrough by Phil Lambeth
After a lopsided flyby that gives you a glimpse of where you'll wind up
at the end, begin in relative darkness. Without moving from your starting
position, hit the look key and you'll see a room ahead with a gem receptacle on
the far wall. Your way is blocked by an invisible barrier on either side of
you. If you wish to do a little preliminary exploration that I'm sure wasn't
intended by the author, you can turn around and slide backwards down the slope.
Grab the edge, shimmy to your left or right and pull up when you can. The door
in the west wall opens upon your approach, giving you a partial view of the
coil surrounding the Lara clone in the room beyond.
Go inside and draw your pistols. A harpy is flapping its wings in the
alcove to your right. As soon as it comes into view, blast away at it until it
dies, and you'll do yourself a huge favor for a later stage of this level. But
be sure not to approach too closely while you're filling it full of lead, for
if you do the door behind it will open, releasing the harpy to fly through one
of the inaccessible (to you) windows to the Lara clone inside, where it will
attack the clone repeatedly and drain your own health in the process.
After disposing of the harpy, return to the dark room. Near the NE
corner is a passage, but don't go in there either. You'll encounter spikes that
pop out intermittently and without warning, and you'll probably be skewered
before you've gone more than a few steps. Instead, do what the author intended
for you to do all along, and that's to allow yourself to slide down the slope
into the water far below. In the water is a closed door in the west wall and a
pair of closed face doors down in a hole at the east wall. Pause for some uzi ammo on a ledge in the NE corner, then surface and pull
out of the water on the east side. Go along the outer ledge, shooting the small
chests along the way, and pick up a large medi-pack,
some flares and some shotgun ammo from those that aren't empty. Someone has
been here before you and has already raided the tomb near the south wall. Go
into the opposite opening in the north wall, vault up onto tne
ledge to open the facing door, and pick up the flares.
Go north into the next room. Go to the alcove in the NW corner for two
stashes of grenade gun ammo, then locate the shortest pillar against the south
wall and climb up onto it. Turn to face NE and take a running jump to the next
block. Turn to face west, and from the back edge of the block take a standing
jump to the sloped pillar ahead. Take three jumps in succession off the sloped
surfaces, and you'll land on a flat surface in the darkness, awakening a
skeleton on the higher ledge to your right. Wait a bit to see if it loses
interest and starts wandering away, then hop up onto the ledge and run over to
the jumpswitch in the north wall. Activate it for a
cut scene showing the west door opening in the pool (the face doors open as
well), then back flip to the sloped pillar behind you and slide down to the
floor before the skeleton has a chance to do major mischief.
Turn around and exit this room. Continue forward and jump into the
water, swim down into the hole near the east wall, through the opening and up
the underwater slope. It's a little tricky to pull out of the hole at the top. What
you need to do is get as close as you can to the west wall and pull up in that
corner. Spikes start appearing in the shallow trench in the east wall as action
music plays, but it's not very difficult to time a run past them. Make a
hairpin turn to the right in the tight passage, and the block ahead will lower
as you approach it. Turn left there and time another
run across a spike trap. Just beyond that is a blade trap, so be careful. Make
another hairpin turn to the right beyond the blade trap, and you'll encounter a
second blade trap just before you reach the next turn.
When you emerge in the next area lined with dart guns, draw your pistols
and kill the harpy at the north end of the room. Then run there down the middle
of the room and the block in the NE corner will lower upon your approach. Enter
for SECRET #1. Shoot the small chests on the ledge to your right for three
stashes of shotgun ammo and a large medi-pack. The
lower chest contains the SHOTGUN, but you pay a price for it: a bunch of
beetles. However, if you dash down the north passage the beetles quickly
disappear. Continue along the passage, turn left at the T-intersection, and the
block to your left will lower when you reach the end. Go through the opening
and turn right. The spike trap ahead now looks inert, but don't be fooled. Run
across the tiles and veer to the safe area to your right just before the spikes
start popping out again. Jump into the water and swim back to the pool.
Cross over to the west opening and swim inside. Looks suspiciously like
an area that may need to be drained for later. Swim up the shaft and pull out.
A lingering flyby ends with a door opening high up in a wall. Go to the dark
area near the north wall and locate a place where you can pull up into an
alcove between two pillars. Step forward and take a running jump to the next
pillar south, and another running jump to the pillar against the south wall. Turn
to face NE and take a running jump with a midair swerve to the right to grab
the edge of the next higher pillar in the darkness. Turn to the north and take
a long running jump and grab to the next pillar. Pull up, turn left and take a
standing jump to the next pillar, then turn left again and take another
standing jump to the next pillar. Pick up the CROWBAR when you reach the second
one.
You can see the opening in the south wall, and you'll be tempted to use
the sloped pillar to the west to try and jump off into the alcove next to the
graffiti plugging TRO-Online. Bad decision, because you'll bounce off the low
ceiling every time, no matter what you do. Instead, face NW and take a standing
jump down to that pillar with the irregular surface. Don't worry, you won't
slide off. From there, it's a simple matter to face SW and take a running jump
(grabbing in midair to change your trajectory) down into the wall alcove.
Jump up and grab the crack to your left, and shimmy around all the way
to the opening in the south wall. Pull up into the passage and go toward the
reach-in switch in the far wall. Along the way you'll pass six closed face
doors (the first one to your right being blocked by an invisible force field). Use
the reach-in switch to open the nearest face door looking east. Run up the ramp
(no, there's no devious boulder trap) and the door ahead opens upon your approach.
You emerge in a large room with wall ledges at the highest tier, a suspended
platform down below, and a central pool at floor level. Start with a long
running jump and grab to the next ledge east. You may fail several times and
come to the conclusion that it's too far to reach, but keep trying. Aim for the
right corner, which is ever so slightly higher, and you should make it.
Pull up, turn right and take a running jump and grab to the suspended
central ledge. Pull up, turn left and take a running jump and grab to the ledge
in the east wall. Pull up for a wonderful prize, the CROSSBOW, which will come
in mighty handy later in dealing with skeletons and harpies. There's nothing on
the ledge in the SE corner, so turn around and jump back to the central ledge. From
there, face SW and take a running jump to the dark ledge in the south wall. Turn
right and take a running jump to grab the ladder. Climb down until you reach
the ledge to your right, then shift over and drop down onto it. Turn around and
get in position to take a running jump between the pillars of the suspended
platform. Step forward and take (apparently by telekinesis, for Lara doesn't
move a muscle) the PHAROS KNOT.
Jump back to the ledge, hop through the hole in the SW corner and duck
under the low ceiling to run down the ramp to the east. Pick up the crossbow
arrows (explosive, thankfully) and go to the ramp on the other side of the pool
for a small medi-pack. Jump into the water and locate
the wall opening in the SE corner. Swim inside and follow the shaft upward,
then continue along the underwater passage past a closed face door until you
reach a place where Lara stops and stands up in a partially filled shaft. Too
bad you can't stoop down in this shallow water and move forward to pick up
those UZIS that are in plain sight just beyond. They must be for later.
Jump up to grab the east wall face, and climb up a tediously long
distance to the passage above. Pull up and run forward into a huge blue-tinted
room. Run forward along the ledge until you reach the first of the lower
pillars to your left. Jump over to it, then turn right and take a running jump
and grab to the next higher pillar. Pull up and repeat for the next pillar
against the east wall (that's hard to see, because the lighter top surface is
hidden from view where you stand). Pull up and ready your crossbow with the
explosive arrows, as your movements have alerted three nearby skeletons.
Turn right and take a running jump and grab to the next pillar in the
east wall. Pull up and walk out onto the translucent bridge that spans this
room from west to east. Climb the short steps, but watch out for a gap at the
top. Take a standing jump and grab to the next section of the bridge. By this
time the skeletons are very near. Go as far west as you can along the bridge,
then turn around and draw your crossbow. If you're lucky the skeletons will be
bunched together so that you can take out all three with a single arrow. Now
that this threat has been eliminated, turn to face north and take a running
jump to the translucent pillar, and from there step forward and vault up onto
the upper tier of the translucent bridge. Follow it all the way back to the
east wall, where you'll find a jumpswitch. When you
activate it you'll see an extended flyby that takes you through this immense
room and reveals a receptacle and an opened door at floor level. As soon as
camera control is restored, reverse roll, draw your crossbow and quickly blast
away a fourth skeleton that had materialized behind you.
Now you have to get down from here. Head back along the bridge toward
the west wall, and jump down to the central steps. Head back east and jump over
the gap. When you reach the east wall, turn left and take a standing jump down
to the top of the pillar. Turn left and jump down to the next pillar, then turn
left and jump to the tiled bridge. Run toward the west entrance, and just
before you reach the T-shaped portal, drop off either the right or left side
and grab the edge of the bridge. Just below you'll see the pillar with the
receptacle on it. Pull back up onto the bridge and hop back again. This time,
wait until you clear the edge before hitting the grab button. You should land
on top of the pillar below (it may take a few tries). The author probably
intended that you drop down onto the translucent block over at the east end,
and use the bars above to monkey swing over from that direction, but this way
requires a higher level of skill for you adventurous types. There's a
climbable surface on the north face of this pillar. Use it to reach the floor
below, and place your Pharos Knot in the receptacle (west face of this same
pillar). Reverse roll and draw your shotgun to eliminate the DEMIGOD that's
taking pot shots at you, then continue forward to the
open doorway in the east wall that you saw in the earlier flyby.
Turn left into a plant-strewn room (you'll find some shotgun ammo on the
north ledge), and go down the ramp to the west. Follow until you reach an open
door down at the bottom. Go inside, draw your shotgun and wait for the harpy to
appear. Kill it, then light a flare and continue down the dark passage as
continuous action music starts playing.
You're in a mini-maze which is made somewhat more treacherous by
numerous blade traps and one spike trap thrown in for good measure, but it's
not too difficult to master. Go past the first blade trap you encounter and
activate the reach-in switch you'll find around the corner. Go back the other
way and time a run past the spikes. Turn right, run past two more blade traps
and activate the next reach-in switch just beyond the door you opened with the
first switch. Retrace your steps, go past the spikes and another blade trap,
and turn right to find a water hole just beyond the door you opened with the
second switch.
Jump into the water and swim along the passage. When the current grabs
you and starts pulling you forward, swim in that direction with as much vigor
as you can and look for an opening to your left. (If you pause to think about
what you're doing, the current will suck you to a point where you can go
neither forward nor backward. You'll then drown and have to reload.) Swim into
the left opening and swim along the red and blue tinted passage. Turn left at
the bend and pause for air at the first opening. Then continue along the
passage until you reach a shaft leading upward. Follow the passage until you
reach those Uzis you couldn't get to earlier, for SECRET #2. Flip turn and go
back to the passage with the current. Turn left and let the current carry you
to another shaft leading upward. Pull up into a low-ceilinged room with four
small chests on the ledges to either side.
Shoot all the chests for the LASER SIGHT, the ORNATE HANDLE, some uzi ammo and a large medi-pack. Run
down the ramp in the SE corner past the open face door at the bottom to an area
you've visited before. The face door to the opposite ramp is also open, but
there's a closed door up at the top. So return to the crossroads and go up the
ramp past the first open face door on the east side, opposite the opening
blocked by the invisible force field. You come out onto a ledge encircling a
lava room, with pillars of all sizes. Take a running jump to the tallest pillar
from the south ledge. Face west, and from the back edge of the pillar take a
standing jump down to the next one. Try to ignore all the bubbles and that
sloped block to your right. Turn to your left and jump down to the slab against
the south wall. Pick up the HATHOR EFFIGY that's mighty hard to see. Turn right
and continue hopping along the slabs until you reach the last one facing an
alcove to the east.
Take a running jump and grab to the alcove. Pull up inside and use your
crowbar to pry off what shows up as the BROKEN BEETLE in your inventory. Turn
to your left and activate the jumpswitch, then jump
back to the safety of the previous pillar as beetles pour out of the wall. At
least you thought it was safe; those blasted beetles will follow you right
through the lava. Go back around the slabs in a counterclockwise direction.
When you take a standing jump and grab to the final, tallest pillar, you
finally shake the beetles. Take a running jump back to the south ledge and
leave this room.
Go up the ramp in the middle east (no, there
are no ninjas in this level) passage where the door at the top is now open
thanks to that last jumpswitch. Climb the short
ladder and pull up onto a higher ledge overlooking what looks like, but isn't,
the same lava room you just now navigated. Follow the same procedure described
earlier. See, when you get to the end there's a new beetle and a new jumpswitch. Take the BLACK BEETLE #1 and activate the jumpswitch. As you step out to the edge of the alcove,
Lara's attention is drawn to something over to her left. Never did find out
what it was; must not have been important.
Make your way back to the entrance to this room, and climb down the
short ladder. The far left west face door is now open, so run up the ramp, turn
around and drop down into a pool with a closed face door. Pull out, drop down
to the room below and raid the half dozen tombs for a bunch of crossbow arrows,
some flares and a large medi-pack. (Half of them are
opened from the wall side.) Along the way you'll arouse a skeleton and a harpy,
so put that crossbow to good use. Locate a jumpswitch
on the interior south wall near the SW corner of the room, right next to one of
the small lava pools. This opens the face door in the pool, so go around the
room (noting the closed door with a receptacle on either side in the east wall)
and locate the ladder near the NW corner. Climb up, shift to the left and drop
down onto the ledge. Jump into the water and swim into the opening in the north
wall.
Skirt those strange underwater flames as best you can, and follow the
passage until you get to the other end. Pull out into an extremely dark area as
the action music comes to a merciful end, and get ready to break out your
stockpile of flares. Turn to your right and pick up the large medi-pack in front of the two coffins that you can't get
into, then hop back twice, turn left and follow the passage that starts out
headed north. When you reach the T-intersection turn to your left and note the
closed face door for later. Reverse roll and continue north.
Take a left turn at each of the next two crossings. When you reach the
next left after that, go inside and raid the tomb you'll find there for the
HORSEMAN'S GEM. You'll also alert a DEMIGOD, so ready your crossbow and wait
for it to come to you so you won't lose your bearings. When you've killed it,
leave this tomb alcove, turn left, then make another quick left turn at the
T-intersection and raid that tomb for a small medi-pack.
Reverse roll and go all the way north. Turn right and raid the tomb at the dead
end for some flares and shotgun ammo. Retrace your steps and turn left in front
of the previous coffin.
Continue east to the T-intersection and turn left. Turn right at the
next intersection and go all the way east. Continue until you reach the dead
end and raid the tomb for some more flares and shotgun ammo. Retrace your steps
and take the first left you come to. There's another tomb just inside for a
large medi-pack. Leave this alcove, turn left and
then make another immediate left. Follow this passage until you reach an inert
blade trap. Go underneath the blade trap (the passage to your right just makes
a meaningless loop) and bear slightly to your left. Follow this passage
underneath another inert blade trap, and you'll emerge in a larger room with a
tomb at the far end. As you approach it you activate the blade trap. Reach
inside for the PHAROS KNOT.
Time a run past the blade trap and draw your crossbow to deal with the
approaching skeleton. Continue through the passage and run through the second
active blade trap. You now have both artifacts you need to progress, but let's
pause long enough to get another secret. Continue west past the blade trap and
turn right. Turn left at the T-intersection and make another quick left. Continue
south until you reach another T-intersection, and turn right. Turn left at the
next bend and go forward into a new area that was barred earlier by the closed
face door. Turn left at the bend and approach the coffin for SECRET #3 while a
gauntlet of blade traps along the short passage is activated. Raid the tomb for
the GRENADE GUN, some flares and some shotgun ammo, then
gingerly make your way back past the blade traps. Take the first right once you
leave the secret passage, look out for spikes coming out of the ceiling in one
spot along the way, and you'll eventually come to the water hole from whence
you first arrived.
Jump into the water and return to the pool. Pull out on the east side
and safety drop to the floor below. Reverse roll and place your artifacts in
the receptacles on either side of the large double doors. You get a burst of
nice music as you enter yet another maze to your left. An
early cut scene shows a door opening somewhere, and guess what: it's
timed. You don't have much time to reach your goal, and you need to make
judicious use of your flares along the way so you won't lose precious seconds
bumping into walls in the dark. Here's the correct route:
Follow the passage until you reach the T-intersection. Turn right and
then another quick right. Turn left at the first opportunity and follow to the
next T-intersection. Turn right, then make another
immediate right. Follow until the next crossing and turn right. Follow the
twists and turns until you reach a major intersection, and make a hairpin turn
to the right. A few more twists and turns, and you'll emerge in a slightly
larger area where you dash through the open doorway on the left.
Do battle with the DEMIGOD inside. When it falls, go to the south doors
and they'll open automatically. Go inside and take the BLACK BEETLE #2 off the
wall, and dash back to the safety of the central pyramid as real beetles pour
out of the wall. When the coast is clear, return to the south alcove and pick
up the large medi-pack. The north doors are now open,
so go there and awaken another DEMIGOD before you have a chance to do anything
inside. Once it's dead, go back and pry BLACK BEETLE #3 off the wall, then pick
up the large medi-pack. Now the doors on the right in
the west wall are open. When you go inside, beetles start pouring out and
another DEMIGOD materializes behind you. Kill it, then
approach the pyramid to get rid of the beetles. Go back to the west opening and
take BLACK BEETLE #4 from the wall to your left. You can also take the
multiplying beetle from the wall straight ahead, but it adds nothing to your
inventory. Pick up the large medi-pack and go to the
central pyramid.
Place the four beetles in the faces of the pyramid (does the illogic of
a four-faced pyramid strike you as odd, too?) and pick up the HORSEMAN'S GEM
inside. Go to the east doors that are open now, pick up the large medi-pack and use the ladder to climb up a long, long way. Shift
to your right when you reach the opening and drop down into the passage. Spike
traps are activated as you move through the passage, so move forward one square
at a time and you should be all right until you reach that room where you began
this level.
Vault up onto the north ledge and place your gem in the receptacle. Both
doors in the west wall are now open. Go inside and run around to the far (west)
side of the central building. Combine the Ornate Handle and the Hathor Effigy to form the PORTAL GUARDIAN, and use it on
the pole device in front of the face door. Reverse roll, and you'll find that
the door allowing access to the room with the Lara clone is now open. Go inside
and kill the DEMIGOD, then vault up onto the central dais with the Lara clone. An
extended flyby takes you through the open face door beyond the receptacle for
the Portal Guardian and ends the level.
Addendum by Lizard Queen:
Alternate route for the timed run in the
last maze:
Follow corridor – turn right at the T-intersection.
Follow corridor – turn left (north).
Follow corridor – go straight, turn right, then right.
Follow corridor – go straight (east) but to the left of the block/wall ahead.
Follow corridor – go through the doors with plenty of time to spare…no dashing
required ;)
(the trick is NOT to pass over any floor tiles
with an "X" on it.)