THE SCROLL OF SETI (revised version)

Level by Darrell Wright (D. Ray)

Unauthorized Walkthrough by Gerty

Use revised Catacomb Wads and choose from the menu Catacombs. This level has many dark corners and there aren’t that many flares, so be careful with them.

At the start, pick up the flares. Coming into the next room, dive in the pool and swim in an opening in the south wall, and climb out. Pick up the CROWBAR and pry the Golden Star from the wall. Jump in the water again and get out off the pool.

There are quite a few openings in this room.

Take the opening in the SW corner and in the room itself take the stairs left. Walk all the way around the corner and when you are at the north wall, there is a lever left. This is a timed lever so save before you pull it.

The door you see through the camera shot is a long way away, so get to the drill.

Push the lever, wait for the camera to quit the shot, run outside and keep running east (use dash), around the corner and jump down, do a roll and leave the room. Along the pool (use dash), still going straight and at the end of the pool to the left into a wide corridor (use dash). You enter a room with pillars, immediately turn the corner and run up the stairs. You come onto a ledge, and up to the next stairs, but climb up (left) when you are on the second step and run through that open door.

Straight ahead collect the SHOTGUN and some shotgun ammo. Jump into the opening in the floor and again to a room with a see through floor. Pick up the Pharos Knot and see a camera shot of where to place it. Use the Golden Star and push the button in the corner and enjoy an elevator ride. Pick up grenade gun ammo and the LAUNCHER (SECRET #1). Go right and then left and you are back at the timed door. Get downstairs and go back to the pool.

Now go to the SE corner and climb the stairs there and after using the Pharos Knot enter. Around the corner Lara stares to her left and you can see a skeleton approaching. Get rid of him if you want. In the next room are some pillars and a closed door. Go around the corner (where the skeleton was) and find the crawlspace straight ahead and on the right (you might need a flare). Push the button (camera shot), go back and pull that pillar out and push it to the empty spot west. Enter the now open door. Follow through and climb down the ladder and get rid of that skeleton there. Jump down and climb some stairs.

Go into the opening near the wall torch and watch out as a boulder comes down. Climb up and at the end climb the ladder and back flip when you are almost at the top. Turn around and find another ladder, descend that one. Find another CROWBAR and a Golden Star.

Go east, down the stairs, the doors opens and go left, down a ramp. Go to the next room and the next and in the NW corner you can place the Star, but don’t go in just yet. First go north.

North wall is an opening, two skeletons hold guard there and when you follow through you end up at another big pool with some fire.
Go right (E) and right again and get into the small hole filled with water. Swim through and at the end climb out. Get on the ladder and on top is a room with a lever (camera of one of the fires on the tiles in the water going out). Leave through the door on the right and you are back at the pool. Now you can jump to the north. In the room there is another lever that one extinguished the other tile with fire. There is still a fire going so you can’t go there yet. There is however another lever in the SW corner (camera shows a door being closed and another one opened). Go east again and around the corner and that is the place you saw. Go in and climb the ladder and follow the road so to speak. You are one floor up and on the left is a closed door. In the NW corner you can find shotgun ammo and in the opposite corner is a lever. This extinguished the last fire so get to it. I just jumped in the water as you can climb out south. So running jumps over the tiles to get to the last tile and a standing jump with Ctrl to get into the opening (N).

You enter a room with fire burning and two ropes. At the end of the ledge you don’t need to turn around and climb down as there is nothing there to find so better go for the ropes. Do running jump to the first rope and swing to the next. Turn to the right (S) and swing into the opening.

Get the Ornate Handle (camera) and near the entrance is an opening west and climb the block there. At the other end you can find some shotgun ammo and small medipack, get back on the block and climb up and save before a slide there.

There are two ways to get to the other side, one is a monkey climb, so jump up while sliding and the other is stand to the right and slide and jump with a curves jump in the opening left and from there a running curved jump to the medipack and shotgun ammo.

Jump in the next hole and swim through you are back in the pool. Climb out (S) and back to where those two skeletons were. Before jumping you see a ladder and if you want you can pick some shotgun ammo. Go back and enter the door next to the Star receptacle. Push the button and enjoy the elevator ride.

Upstairs is a mummy and pick up the CROSSBOW with arrows (SECRET #2). There is nothing else so leave and find the hole in the SW corner in the next room, you are back in the room where you placed the Star.

Go back to the pool in the north and go east again, up the ladder as the door on the floor above the pool (S) has been opened. Keep going straight and at he end go left. Follow through until you reach a room with slanted blocks and fire. Jump down and a skeleton awakes. Lara keeps looking at him and the skeletons runs away. You can follow it and it will lead you to another skeleton. Or kill it right away and keep the wall to your right and find a crawlspace at the end. Once in there, climb the ladder and you are one floor up. Walk and jump to the ledge in the south and do a safety drop. Slide down the pole. I would save before sliding down the ramp as there is a neat trick you can do here. Get your shotgun and while sliding down you see a skeleton awakens, try to shoot him of that ledge. Do a safety drop and enter the new room and watch the fly by.

Go left and climb the stairs and use the lever (camera), climb more stairs and take a running jump to the open door. Follow through and jump back and shimmy right, around a corner and climb up. Use the button (camera show a door). Take a running jump to the other side and jump up (E) and shimmy left around the corner and drop down. Hooray another CROWBAR and a Golden Star. Go back to the building in the middle and jump to the stairs north. You can use the Star on the door on the ground floor and pick up the SIGHT, revolver ammo and REVOLVER (SECRET # 3). Now up the stairs and use the lever again. Up the stairs and climb that block. And climb then to another ledge even higher and with a running jump in the door. Climb the stairs and all the way on the top is lever I would save before using it as it is timed. Get on the block and monkey swing west. Watch out for skeletons and run (with sprint) north, around the corner. At the end, slide down backwards and back flip to the next ledge. Run (with sprint) further and around the corner and in the open door Pick up the Pharos Pillar from the pedestal and in the south is a corridor. Around the corner and climb the stairs, In the end climb up and go east and you are back at the starting point, the room with the pool. Go left (N) up the stairs and place the Pillar.

Enter and go left (N) and find an opening in the floor and down some stairs. At the end is a hole and Lara falls in the water. The current takes her away and she ends up in a small pool. Climb out south and keep climbing till you enter a huge cave. Watch the fly by.

Goal is to get to the rope (S) and from there to the exit (S).

There are some goodies to find like flares (first time around I also found some shotgun ammo but couldn’t locate it anymore). For the flares go immediately right, facing west, into that darkness there, around the corner you can pick them up. Go back to the entrance of this cave.
Take some steps into this cave and turn west, hop on a block and keep climbing blocks going south. You come on a ledge that is brightly lit and you can see the rope and the exit door on the south. Turn around facing north and a running jump to the other side. No go in the direction of that small fire (E) and climb the block on the left (N). The wall west is climbable. Once on top turn south again and see a skeleton rising. A running jump will get you there.

Save here and line up with the rope. Slide, jump the rope and swing to the opening there. Get the Hathor Effigy (camera of a door opening) and go east and slide down.

Go north back to the entrance of this cave and retrace your steps aiming for the rope again. One you are next to the slide to the rope, on that brightly lit ledge go SW and a running jump will get you in that open door. Climb the stairs and when you hear a danger sound be aware. In the corridor there is a spiked boulder (S).

Of course you need to run down the ramp and jump over a hole in the floor. But watch out, as another spiked boulder will fall down from the other side.

The camera angle changes so jump over the pit and there is an opening on the right, jump in that and you are home free.

Near the fire is a climbable wall (E) and follow through.

In the next cave the wall north is climbable and a running jump will get you there. Shimmy around the corner. There are two ways to get to the ledge east (near the small fire). One is to shimmy around the corner once, lower Lara till she can’t shimmy anymore, jump and roll and grab and climb up, she is on the block with the fire, OR shimmy further till Lara is on top of a slanted block, let go and grab end of the block, jump and roll and grab and you are on the ledge.

Follow the ledge, still going north and see a skeleton wake up. A running jump with grab for the ledge where the skeleton was and also a running jump to the rope (W). Swing to the climbable wall and look south now. There is a lever near a small fire.

Better save here before sliding down and jump to the climbable wall (E). Climb up and shimmy around the corner and use the lever. Better safe before using the lever as it is timed. The camera shows two blocks being pushed out and the first one is on the west. I saved again in a different slot the second the camera stopped and ran around the lever and jumped to the ledge with the first block, climbed up and a running jump with a slight angle to the ledge south. Again a running jump to the second block SW and a standing jump to the crack there. Shimmy right and at the end climb up.

Go around the corner and into the opening in the floor, Swim in and a bit further climb out south. There is an opening north and in there push the button and an elevator bring you to a staircase. Climb the stairs and you are back with the pool once more. In the middle opening of the east side is the receptacle for the Portal Guardian, so combine the Hathor effigy with the Ornate Handle and place the Portal Guardian en enter the door.

Pick up the shotgun ammo on the floor, en enter the room. A camera shows skeletons and by climbing that middle structure you see the first one. Around the corner is a button that shows a door opening. Go back to the entrance and look for that door on the right. Climb the ladder and follow the ledge, meeting another skeleton. Get to the structure in the middle and get the Music Scroll. A door opens and the end music will start. Jump down and slide down and once inside, Lara hits the finishing trigger.

17-10-2004