A New Beginning

     STAGE 9 .

*****  Note that the background has changed yet again.

*****  Click on the vibrating speaker button and listen to Salvador’s report,

 *****  Click on the 3 light blue squares which have been automatically marked on the close-up, and listen to Fay’s comments. N.B. For recognition if necessary you can highlight these squares by pressing on the spacebar.

*****  From the abovementioned 3 statements, Salvador has succeeded and has found a back entrance.  Fay is excited and informs Bent who wants to know how to get in. Fay replies “I’m working on it”!

*****  Examine the numbers which have automatically appeared near to the top left corner of your monitor.

        The top number, 11.52, is the counter reading in use at present. The number beneath it, ABCD, is the counter reading to be used in the next stage of the puzzle.

*****  Hey wait a minute!  ABCD is not a number It must be a code for some 4 digit numerical vale!

*****  To crack the code;-

        Remember the previous 4 counter numbers in order [1st] 14.95; [2nd] 35.91; [3rd] 29.97; and [4th] 11,52.

*****  Sp So take one digit only IN ORDER from each of these preceding values.

*****  If this is not clear:-

        1st digit of 14.95  = 1.

        2nd digit of 35.91 = 5.

        3rd digit of 29.97  = 9.

        4th digit of 11,52  = 2

*****  And so the next number to insert into the counter must be 15.92..

*****  Click on the down-arrow (at the right side of your monitor) to zoom-out

 

     STAGE 10 .

*****  Change the counter number to its new value of 15.92|

*****  Highlight the matrix-square ‘row 2, column 11.‘

*****  Click on the up-arrow to zoom in.

   

     STAGE 11 .

*****  EUREKA !!!

*****  See Salvador just entering the back door to Indez’s office. It is a bit to the left of 3 very wide pipes  each gushing huge quantities of water.

*****  Fay shouts to Bent “I’ve found the entrance to Indez’s office the location of the canister of algae

*****  FAY ARRIVES AT THE BACK DOOR ENTRANCE TO THE SMALL BUILDING OF THE INDEZ PLANT, AND BENT FOLLOWS HER.

 

TO INFILTRATE INTO THE SMALL BUILDING IN INDEZ’S PLANT.

Preface

Fay and Bent are standing in front of the maintenance door back entrance to the small building in Indez’s plant.  There are large pipes to the right of this door.

    They need to infiltrate into this building in order to proceed to regain the precious algae which he has stolen.

 

*****  Observe the maintenance door and the large pipes to the right of it.

*****  Fay opens the  maintenance door NOT!…  “That doesn’t work. Salvador barricaded it”!

*****  View the 3 large pipes to the right of the door, gushing large quantities of water(???) and the single pipe above,which appears to be dry.

*****  Fay climbs through the one dry pipe. Bent won’t follow he’s too old for that. He will wait outside. Fay declares ” I’m going to look for a way to open the door from the other side, then. See you”!

*****  Once inside, you see 3 very large water towers, with Fay (very small in comparison)  on the top floor of the left water tower just after she emerges from the pipe (near the top left corner of your monitor).

*****  Press the spacebar and become acquainted with the most important features of the 3 water towers. (See below).

 

 

***** Note that the right and left water towers have water in them:- The left water tower has the bottom and middle floors filled with water. The right tower has the bottom floor only filled with water. The middle water tower is completely dry.

*****  Look at the door in the top level of the left water tower

*****  and enter it. It is a control room.

*****  Examine the console “I wonder what this is supposed to be, and what do all these lights mean?”.

        It would appear that the red and blue lights are status indicators of some of the states of some of the aspects of some of the towers.

*****  Turn the valve twice to the right if you happen to turn it a 3rd time, no-go! “I can’t turn it any further”. *****  Return via the control room door to the top floor of the left water tower.

*****  Notice that water has drained completely from the left water tower and flowed into the right water tower.

        The result is that the left (and middle) water towers are now completely empty, whilst the right water tower is completely full of water.

*****  Fay enters the pipe at the left side of the top floor of the left water tower and arrives  back outside again.

*****  Look at the left pipe of the 3 lower pipes which ALL previously had water gushing from them

***** It is now dry… “I can climb through now” says Fay.

*****  She enters that left-bottom dry pipe and finishes up on the 2nd floor of the left water tower (which is now dry of course).

****  Climb down the ladder to the 1st (bottom) floor of the left water tower.

*****  Open the bulkhead there.

*****  Examine the floating bridge. Fay remarks “Holding/Floating elements are attached to the bridge. That way the bridge will float if it is not docked or something!”.

*****  Move the lever for the bridge to release the floating bridge.  Fay confirms that “The bridge undocked from the platform”, i.e. it is completely released and free.

        N.B. In case this extremely important fact is not clear?! There are TWO of these levers for the bridge, both on the left side of the middle water tower. As mentioned just above, the bottom one RELEASES the floating bridge from the bottom of the middle water tower. The top one CLAMPS IT firmly in position at the top of the middle water tower and hence can only operate after the previous one and when the bridge has been raised to the top floor of the middle water tower!

*****  Exit the abovementioned bulkhead and ensure that it is left OPEN.

*****  Climb up, back to the 2nd floor using the ladder again.

*****  Exit the pipe on the left and arrive back outside.

*****  Fay enters the single upper (dry) pipe (as she did at the beginning of this puzzle).

*****  She is now back again at the top (3rd) floor of the left water tower.

*****  Again enter the control room.

*****  Turn the valve twice to the left Don’t turn it a 3rd time – if you do, Fay cannot exit the control room, and is imprisoned there. In that case, turn the valve once to the right, and return to the correct situation.

*****  Exit from the control room back to the top floor of the left water tower.

*****  The result of this (See below) is that both the left and middle water towers are filled with water up to and including their 2nd floors. The right water tower has its 1st floor only filled with water.

        The important objective of the above is to lift up the floating bridge, which Fay previously completely released from its platform (As seen below).

 

 

*****  Open bulkhead A

*****  Examine the floating bridge as previously.

*****  Move the other lever for the bridge to dock (completely secure) the floating bridge as described previously. Fay remarks “The bridge is docked to the platform”!

The floating bridge is now accessible from the top floor of the left water tower.

***** Yet again return to the top floor of the left water tower,

*****  Once again enter the control room.

*****  Turn the valve twice to the right.

*****  Exit from the control room back to the top floor of the left water tower.

        The left and middle water towers are now empty. The right hand water tower is full of water.

*****  Fay enters the pipe on the left and is, this time,  DIRECTLY (i.e. instantly and automatically, without going outside and back!) transported to the 2nd floor of the left water tower.

 

*****  From there, she again uses the ladder as previously to descend to the bottom floor of the left water tower.

*****  Close the lower bulkhead in the left water tower.

*****  Just as immediately previously but in reverse,  Fay returns back up to the top floor of the left water tower (i.e. instantly and automatically, without going outside and back!).

*****  Once again enter the control room.

*****  Turn the valve twice to the left.

*****  Exit from the control room back to the top floor of the left water tower.

        The left water tower is now full. The middle water tower is completely empty and the right water tower is filled with water only up to its 1st floor.

***** Enter bulkhead A (if it’s closed, then obviously open it first).

*****  Cross the now (non-)floating bridge.

*****  Open bulkhead

***** and enter it.

*****  Now having reached the top floor of the right hand water tower, Fay walks a little to the right.

*****  Climb down the ladder to the 2nd (middle) floor which is now  obviously free of water!

*****  Walk a few steps to the left.

 *****  Open the bulkhead

*****  and enter into the (dry) 2nd floor of the middle water tower.

*****  After another couple of steps to the left, open the next bulkhead to the main valve.

*****  Turn the valve which completely drains all 3 water towers and empties the water from all of them.

Fay exults “I did it!”.

        In particular, the bottom floor of the right hand water tower is now free of water.

*****  Open the bulkhead again.

*****  Exit the valve-compartment.

*****  Return to the right.

*****  Climb down the ladder.

*****  Walk to the right

*****  and down the ladder.

*****  Open the door to the outside

*****  and exit.

*****  The entrance door is now wide open. All 4 pipes are dry. Bent is amazed !

*****  A long cut scene ensues followed by the final acts of the drama and the whole game.

*****  FAY AND BENT HAVE NOW MANAGED TO PENETRATE THE SMALL BUILDING OF THE INDEZ PLANT  and are ready for action!

 

 

P.S.

         This is the last of the “Giant-Puzzles”.  It is not however quite the end of the game, although close to it!  There is a pretty short final sequence which contains no extended puzzles but simply the ordinary sort of Quest/Adventure procedures (inventory acquisitions  & usages, fairly straightforward actions, etc., etc.) which have occurred all the way through the whole of this game, as through other adventure games. Hence they and the end actions are not included here.