Secrets of the Ark: A Broken Sword Game – Broken Sword 4: The Angel of Death

 Immediately go
back to the stairs and climb up. With the guards distracted, climb the railing
and the vines to get to the roof.

Crossing roofs:

Now to find the nun. Go
left and click the front wall to see that is has loose stone.

Use the squeaky toy on
the loose stone. The toy will talk and the guard comes to check.

Go right of the dome,
forward, right and see a nun at far right. Go over the wall and meet – NICO!

Just like old times –
Yeehah!

Pasha
Palace

Gaining entry:   
Dumb and dumber… I smell a trap.

As Nico –  (You take the walk from a nun but not from Nico). Talk to the
receptionist. There’s no room available now.

Continue to talk about Eamon.
With the elaborate story told, get
the key for room 505. Take the elevator and go upstairs.

Looking for clues:   

Get to room 304 –
In room 505 and as George, climb to the ledge outside the right window. See the
window you want to go to.

Go right. After the
canopy, jump down to shimmy the ledge. Drop down to the balcony on the fourth
floor. If you go left, a scream will be heard from a lit window. Go right and
climb over the railing. Drop down to the 3rd floor ledge. Walk to the left until
you see a policeman’s shadow on the window. Drop down and shimmy the ledge.
Shimmy left and climb back to the ledge after passing the guard’s window. Enter
room 304’s window.

Pick up the rosary on
the carpet. Look and right click the rosary in inventory. At the back of Anna
Maria’s rosary, it says Memento Mori.

Enter the bathroom and take the
credit card receipt from the trash
can. Watch the Mevlut – waiter – the priest… interlude.

Hack the Credit R Us
– George talks to Nico.

Check the credit card receipt in inventory. Use
the PDA, connect and hack Credit R Us.

      

Get Anna Maria’s
address.

Rome

Rome
Apartment

Try to enter building:   

Brother Mark –
Walk to the door on the left. Look at the sign and then try to open the door. The man sweeping
the street says it’s a matter of keys. Talk to Brother Mark completely. Look at
the yellow car. Talk to Mark about the car and find out that he’s a big fan of
Lucy Chu.

Talk to Archie, the
drunken tramp sitting on the steps. Learn a lot about key and Mark. Look at
where Archie keeps on looking. Try to take his bread.

Bread – Talk Nico to distract Archie and then get the bread. That didn’t work.
Talk to Mark completely. There’s God and there’s Lucy Chu.

Try to move the left
shrub by the apartment’s front door. Mark will complain. Get Nico to talk to
Mark. Then take Archie’s moldy bread.

Use the moldy bread on
Mark’s yellow car. Bad George!

Go to the left shrub and
move it. George takes the apartment key. Use key on door.

Gain entry to the
apartment:

Go up and try opening the door. It’s locked. Mark’s apartment is at the lower
part of the hallway. Go through the double doors to the balcony at end of the
hallway. See a nun at the building across the road. Shimmy up the ledge and go
left. There’s a break on the ledge. Go back and shimmy to the right and to the
end of the building. Jump down and shimmy on the cable from this building to the
building across the road. Nice shadow graphics.

Get pass the Nun – Jump down on the first balcony.
Save game here. Remember there’s a nun on the next
balcony. Try the door of the first balcony. Wait until she turns to go in her
apartment. Immediately, go over the railing and shimmy to the right.

Anna Maria’s apartment – Then shimmy to cross
the road and drop down on the balcony with a locked double door. Look through the window.

Use the Stobbart
telescopic golf club on the bar on top of the double doors. George opens to let
Nico in.

Searching apartment:   

Click on the picture of the nun – Anna Maria on the mantel. Nice repartee. She
is standing on a Vatican wall, the words are Memento Mori.

Enter
the bedroom and look around. Take the metro ticket to Cipro Musei
Vaticani from the bed.

Go to kitchen and take the airline ticket stub
for Phoenix, AZ.

Exit the room and talk
to Mark about a package. Go out the building and go to the end of the street to
the right and go to Vatican.

Rome
Monastery

Finding a way through
wall:   

Go forward and try the double doors
to the right. Listen to George the tourist.
Ring the door bell and talk to Sister Serena.

Go forward and talk to the nun,
Sister Angelica through the window left of the doors. There’s a paper on the
desk that is active. Try the double doors again so that George will go
through another tourist bit. Go left towards the guards. Read the metal plaque
right of door – Monastery of the Order of St. Michael. Talk to the guards and hahahahaha.
Sorry.

Talk to Sister Angelica
again. Ring the doorbell and talk to Sister Serena. This is the Sister of Mercy
Communion Wafer Supplies (Wafer Factory).

Hack the Vatican
server – Go back to Anna Maria’s apartment. Use the PDA, connect and hack into the Vatican
Server.

For a fun dialogue – try calling the Wafer
Factory from here at the apartment. Go back to the Vatican.

Getting through Wafer
Factory:

Sister Angelica – Hiding beside Sister Angelica’s window, call the Wafer
Factory. Sister Angelica leaves her desk. Take the schedule paper right of her
desk. Ah, the health inspector is coming. Talk to Sister Angelica when she comes
back. George is now Henry Steiner, the health inspector.

Inspect the factory
– Listen to Sister Serena’s tour. Look around after the tour.

Go to the
area where the wafers are packed; the clean area with boxes that is across
Sister Angelica’s room. Click on the
protruding box on the shelf on the left and Sister Serena states that those are
wine and wafers for emergency.

Try to touch the open box on the table. It is a
food free area. Tilt the light colored box that is on top of the pile by the
wall. Take a
box of wafers from the open box on the desk.

Tilt the light colored box
again and place the moldy bread in the open box. After the health inspector’s
scolding, use the knife on the emergency wine and wafer box on the shelf. Take a
miniature bottle of wine.

Climb up the metal
stairs and walk to the end. See and open the dough mixer. Pour the bottle of
wine in the dough mixer. Go down the stairs and watch what happens.

Rome
Monastery

Information on Anna
Maria:

Yard – Go to the hall behind the clean area,
pass Sister Angelica’s office and out the door to the
yard. Go up the stairs and see that the gate is locked. Go down and climb
the crates at the corner of the yard. Shimmy up and move left to the break on
the top of the wall. Climb and see the Monastery garden.

Get pass the monks
– There are 3 monks working in the garden. George needs to get to the door at
the other end of the garden. Watch the routine of the monk close to the door.

Note that the monk at
center can see the door. He needs to get distracted. Note that there are birds
around.

Walk to the left side of
the top left plant stand. Then wait for the best time to go to the plant stand
at top right. Use moldy bread on the top right plant stand.

Quickly go back to the
top left stand. When the birds distract the monk on the center, move to the
center path directly in front of the door.

You might need to get
the best timing with the third monk by the door. He turns a bit. When the monk
by the door is busy working on the shrub on the right, click open the door while
still standing at center path. Do not run and move forward to the door.

Monastery offices –
Inside the double doors, note that there is a large trap door on the floor.

Go up the stairs on the left and walk the hall. Enter the door at
far end.

Study the painting behind the desk. Turn to the desk and open the top
right drawer. Look at the blue journal with Anna Maria’s name on it. Cardinal Gianelli walks in and catches George. He calls the Monsignor.

Monsignor Devlin
and Father Gregor escort George out of the monastery. Learn that Anna Maria
worked there but stole a manuscript. Father Gregor gives his business card.

Finding clues about
Anna Maria:

Mark’s apartment – Go back out of Anna Maria’s apartment and go to Mark’s
apartment down the hall.

Talk to Mark. Show him Father Gregor’s business card.
The Big Enchilada! Talk to him again. Get the package for Anna Maria.

Show him the pen from
hotel in inventory. It came from the Black Cat Massage Club at the Old Town.
Talk to Mark again to learn the address of the Black Cat Club.

Go back to Anna Maria’s
apartment. In inventory, right click the package to get an unmarked DVD.
Use the unmarked DVD on the computer on the table. Learn about monatomic gold in
Phoenix, AZ made by Maynard. It is a white powder gold that even Moses used in
the desert – manna. Nico goes to check it out.

Black
Cat Club

Entering club:

Try ringing the doorbells on different houses. Talk to the man by the Black Cat
Club plaque. You need a membership card. Go back to the apartment.

Mark’s apartment –
While in Anna Maria’s apartment, use
the pen on the photo of Lucy Chu. Go back out of Anna Maria’s apartment and go
to Mark’s apartment down the hall. Talk to Mark again about the club and give
him the forged signed picture of Lucy Chu. Get the Black Cat card.

Black Cat Massage Parlor
– Show the Black Cat card to the bouncer. Go down the steps and enter the club.

Searching club:

Try
to enter the doorway right of the receptionist. You need to change.

Go to the shower and locker room on the left. See
locker 17 is open.

Go to the shower area to the right. Check the middle occupied
shower and try to take the towel. Nope.

Go outside to the locker room and look
around. See a painting by the corner wall. Move the plant stand left of the painting.
Turn the valve. Ah, hot water.

Go back to the now steamy shower. Take the
towel. George will automatically change.

Go to the doorway right
of the receptionist.

Go down the hallway and
enter the steam room on the right. Talk to Duane of BS2 fame. Spallacci owns the
club. Go to the exit and get caught.

Escape:   

Spallacci asks about Anna Maria and money. A call is received on the radio about
what to do with Nico. Oh No! George is hit unconscious.

Use the wall plug on the
lower left wall. The pink bunny drops a long hook on George’s head. Talk to the
metal box.

Now click on the hanging
strap twice. Click on the oil bottle on the table to make the floor slippery.

Save game here to replay
the next fascinating sequence. Click on the wall plug again and watch.

Finding clothes:

Use the curtain on the
wall and hear Spallacci talk with Cardinal Gianelli.

Right click, look and
use the button left of the window. Door opens. Exit.

Pssst comes from the
steam room. Go down the steam seating area. Click on the central drain and talk
to Duane. He can’t give you the key to get out of here because of the drain.

Go back to the locker
room and click on locker 17 to get dressed.

Escaping club:

Go back to the steam
room. In inventory, attach the paper clip to the rosary to get rosary with
clip. Use rosary with clip on the drain.

In inventory, right click the
rosary with the key to get rosary, key and paper clip back.

Go out and walk the
hallway. Use the key on the first locked door on the right to enter the laundry.

Exit, walk the road and George has a
moment of despair.

Rome
Apartment

Defuse bomb:

Mark greets a drunken
George with the news that the gasmen came and fixed his leak. Uh oh!

At the apartment’s
kitchen, see a bomb. The military has knowledge on how to defuse the bomb. You
have 10 minutes. Save game here.

Use the PDA, connect and
hack the US Military database. Note the use of double sided mirrors at 2 points
below.

Read the notebook.
Scroll down with mouse wheel to get to the hacked notes faster.

Read the 2 notes: Self
Protection and Defusal. Then talk to Mark and ask for his shocking pink gloves.

Save game here. Click to
look at the bomb.

Use the paper clip on
the bottom blue wire and attach it to the ‘Live Trigger Wire’.

Use the knife on the top
blue wire. We did it!

George keeps the C4 explosive as souvenir.

NICO! George faints.

Phoenix

Play as Nico. Read the
PDA notepad to find out Nico’s thoughts.

Getting into
compound:

Entry – Try to open the gate. Look inside the jeep and get jack handle.
Use jack handle on gate.

Enter and look around
for any entry to buildings.
Go forward and right behind the right building.

Going up – See a dumpster below a break in the gutter of the first floor
building.

Pull the crate right of dumpster. Climb over the
pulled crate and go behind crate to the wall.

Push the dumpster. It
wouldn’t budge. Use the brake lever of the dumpster. Now push it to the left.

Position Nico to
move the crate under the broken gutters – pull left and then push back the
crate.

Climb up the crate into
the roof of the first floor.

Go to the green ramp at right and climb up to the second floor.

Shimmy up to the metal
bar and go left to the metal ramp. Climb up and jump to the left metal ramp.

Go around and climb to
the roof. Look around and see nothing to gain entry.

Look for access to other building
– Look across to the other building and see a red lever by metal ladder.

Gain access to other
building – Pick up stones-rubble
from the floor.

Turn the antenna at
center of roof to position it to slingshot the rubble to the metal ladder across
the road.

Click rubble on the hook
of the antenna to shoot it. If the aim is true, the metal ladder is released
when the red lever is hit.

Go down to the ground
and climb the metal ladder.

Crack on the roof – On the roof, see a gaping
crack that separates this side to
the other side. To check how deep the crack is, push the crate down the hole.
It’s deep.

Then push the big pipe to the place where the crate was. Click on pipe to get
Nico to crawl inside the pipe to the other side.

Hole in the roof – Right click the hole in the roof. Check how
deep this hole is by picking up rubble and dropping it in the hole. Not that
deep. Climb down the hole.

Searching loading bay:

Look through the window.
Check the gold plated name tag on the desk and picture on the wall of Ronald
Maynard, Director of Engineering.

Hack the secretary’s
computer – Check the computer at
other side of the room. Hack the computer. Use PDA, connect and
c.jenkins_office1

Read the recovered Files
from Secretary’s PC. One of the e-mails states to change the codes – reverse the
dates at the very least.

Locked door – Look at the framed
wedding picture on the left table. The date is 12-08-91.

Go to the locked door.
Click on the keypad left of door. Enter 91-08-12.

Entry to the lower
level – Enter the loading bay.
Walk the ramp, jumping over the break in the ramp. Jump down to the metal grill
and shimmy down and left. Jump down over the crates at the end. Look at the
gaping hole on the floor. Check the large hopper on the floor. See a piece of
something on the edge of the hopper. Pick it up and ooops…

Investigating
facility:

Elevator room – Hear something; someone is here. Look around and see ‘quite a
mess’. Exit the room.

Kitchen – Enter the lit room across the hall. Look at the hook above the sink –
one of the hooks is empty. Take hook. Something is on top of the right
wall cabinet. Move the table closer and climb up to get the stick of gum.
Exit and go down the hall.

Men’s locker room – Someone closed the door. Try to open the 6th locker from
left. Use the jack handle to open locker. Take the engine oil. Look-right
click at the keypad (electronic lock) by the door.

Hack the electronic
keypad. Use PDA, connect and admin.pc_office7. Exit the room.

Open the door at end of
hall. Go down the steps. Enter the door on the next floor. The first 2 doors are
locked the old fashioned way.

Elevator room – Enter the open door on the right and get locked in again.
There’s an elevator here that needs a key.

Try the door again and hear a nasty
laugh. Meet Spallacci’s goon. Maynard ala Rambo with his AK47 to the rescue.

Maynard shows off his centrifuge that makes monoatomic gold and the safe with the
money.

Trying to open safe:

Help Maynard move the
safe. Talk to Maynard. Climb the counter on the right and up the broken ceiling.

Pulley control – Look around and see
rollers and a pulley overhead. Click on the control
panel and note that the chains are rusted in place. Use oil on the right red
panel below the chains.

Move the safe – Now use the control panel to move the pulley over the
hole on the floor. Using the arrows below select: right and then down.

Go down the hole and off
the safe. Use hook to attach the pulley chain to the handle of the safe.

Go back up to the panel.
Use the control panel to move the safe: up and then left. The safe is now on the rollers.
Maynard comes up from floor.

Fix the roller control stand – Go right of roller, right again and up the control
stand platform. Check the roller control stand and find out it is dead. Not
wired. Talk to Maynard. He says wires need connecting. Go back to platform
stand. Click on the front side and look-see. The wires are loose. Use the gum on
the panel wires.

Now, use the stand –
still doesn’t work. Talk to Maynard again. He’ll fix it. There you go, good as
new.

Move the rollers –
Using the arrows, move the rollers to get the safe as close to the centrifuge
opening. Click on arrows: left, left, down, right, right up, left, down, left, left,
up, up, up, up, up, up and up.

Centrifuge – Push
the safe. Ask Maynard for help. Watch what happens.

Enter and pick up the
paper from the main floor to get: Maynard’s keys and plastic folder
(bank statement from St. Michael #3 and technical drawing). Right click the
bank statement. Hear the goons blocking escape.

Escaping the goons:

Centrifuge room – Exit the centrifuge. The steps to go up is watched by the
goons. Exit through the door across the centrifuge stand. Use Maynard’s keys on
the door.
Climb up to the next level.

Access elevator room – See a light switch on the left wall. Open the door and
see a goon guarding the elevator door. The goon checks the noise. He left the
door open using the doorstop.

Get rid of the goon
– Use engine oil on the doorstop. Turn off the lights using the switch on the
left. Use the doorstop to close the door again and hide at left corner. Watch
the goon come in and slip on the oil.

Elevator room –
Immediately go to the second room on the right. Close the door and use Maynard’s
keys on the door to lock it. Listen to the goons. Ha, he left the keys in the
elevator. Use the elevator by clicking on the circle of the left panel.

Escaping the loading
bay:    Go left of the ramp. Fingers will answer to Spallacci.

Rome

Rome
Apartment

After Nico’s report
about a possible weapon and George’s still hopeful belief that Anna Maria is
not evil, they decided to go back to the monastery without Mark.

Rome
Monastery

Breaking back in:   

Archie – Talk to Archie and learn about
a secret stash. Try to take the bottle of meths from the ground. Talk to Archie about the meths and trade. Nothing you
have he wants as trade.

Go left and left again.
Search the trash bin left of
the guards. Take a half full bottle of Krueg champagne from the trash bin.

Go
back to Archie, talk to him and trade the champagne for his meths. Take the
half bottle of meths.

Distract the guards
– Go back to the trash bin left of the guards. Use the
bottle of meths on the trash bin and light it with the lighter. Automatically,
George and Nico hide. Run to open the wafer factory and enter.

Searching for clues:

Look around and check the earlier closed door across the conveyor belt. Enter
and see Sister Angelica watching a back up processing machine.

Nico takes Sister
Angelica for a
private talk outside.

Look around the room. Check the
wafers on the conveyor belt. George eats 1 or 2 wafers. Play with the control
panel and George messes it up.

Go between the 2 tanks at the backend of the
room. Look at the monoatomic gold on the floor between the 2 tanks.

Sister Angelica and Nico
comes back in. Talk with Sister and learn about the Holy powder used to make
special wafers. It is for Il Papa.

Someone is coming – it
is Cardinal Gianelli going to the monastery via the backdoor.

Following Cardinal
Gianelli:

Go out the backdoor and
see the Cardinal up the stairs. Climb up and watch the Cardinal sneak back to
the office.

Sneaking pass the
monks again – There are 3 monks patrolling the garden. Watch the monks’ route and
plan how to get into the far door.

Watch the pattern of the
closest monk patrolling the closest path. Enter the middle garden path and hide
on the shadows made by the hedges and the plant stands – best to stay on the
left side hedges.

Be careful of the 2
monks at center paths. Run to the top left dark corner and watch until the monks
are gone. Click to open the door from afar and run to the door.

Inside Monastery – Meet Nico. Climb the stairs on the left.
Walk the hall to the
open door on the left.

Enter Monsignor Devlin’s office and Oh My! George was really
manipulated. Learn about Monsignor Devlin, the Ark and the purpose of the
weapon.

George is awakened by
Mark. Cardinal Gianelli has more information to impart. Study the new manuscript book
in inventory.

Go next door and look
again at the painting on the wall. Study the
painting; especially the bottom corners of the frame. There are 2 angels with a
crack on their necks and 4 hour glasses in various positions.

Finding Nico:

Trap door – Go
back downstairs to the room off the main monastery door. Look at the trap door
on the floor.

Use the Mark icon on the
lock; then use the golf club on the lock of the trap door. Go down the stairs.

The
Vatican

Gaining entry:

2 Angels – See 2 angels. Turn the hourglass’ position similar to that seen at
the bottom corners of the Ark of Ashod’s painting.

Turn the right angel’s
hourglass: left hourglass is upright with sand down and right hourglass is on its side with the sand
on the right.

Turn the left angel’s
hourglass: the same way – left hourglass is upright with sand down and right
hourglass is on its
side with the sand on the right.

Climb up and pull at the
neck of both angels. Do the left angel’s neck first before doing the right
angel’s neck. Thanks Pokey!

Ah, a satisfying click and the head is now in place.

A stone slab opens but
closes immediately. Use Mark’s icon on throat-neck of last angel. Go down the
stairs. Be careful, George!

Catacombs’ heavy door – Go to the door at the end of the hallway. It is very
locked.

Touch the light bulb in socket.
Hot! Use the fire blanket to get light
bulb.

Look at the junction box
with plastic cover on the wall back at the corner. Use knife to remove the
plastic cover. Wear the pink gloves to loosen the wires.

Go back to the empty
socket. Place the C-4 explosives on the empty socket.

Go back to the junction
box. Wear gloves again to connect the wires. There you go!

Pushing on:

History of the Ark
– Go through ‘open’ doorway. As George reads the Latin verse, George is face to
face with a gun.

Mark and the cavalry
arrives but Mark…

George talks to Anna
Maria. Nico is in danger because of the planned ceremony to empower the Ark.

Read the 14 Latin verses
and learn the history of the Ark. Talk to Mark and Spallaci by Latin verse 8.

Enter the open doorway on left passage. A monk arrives but now a new hero –
Archie. Find out about Archie’s secret stash – the ole boy’s wine cellar.

Searching for the
Ark:

Review the manuscript
book.

Cross puzzle –
Look at the wall on the right and see crosses. There are 3 empty squares and 3
middle crosses are movable.

The manuscript book
shows pictures of Jesus: Carrying cross, putting it down and the actual
crucifixion.

When the cross
manuscript pictures are superimposed on the puzzle: the top crosses turn
counterclockwise 45 degrees and the bottom crosses would turn

counterclockwise 135
degrees. The middle row should turn 90 degrees counterclockwise.

Using the manuscript’s
middle manuscript cross that is leaning to left, arrange the 3 movable crosses
to 90 degrees difference counterclockwise.

The door opens.

Manuscript crosses	Solved cross puzzle

Floor tile puzzle
– Enter and go forward to
the symbols on the floor. Walk the floor without any uh ohs! Use the second
Latin text as guide.

Second Latin text:  The battling armies ensure Strict rules that they respect No Mamluk can follow Templar or Hospitaller Of lowly breed, Mamluk must follow Turk To escape the Assassin, sidestep to right. Templar and Assassin must never follow the other. Always move forward and never back.		15 Hospitaller   12 Templar 13 Turk 14 Mamluk   11 Hospitaller       10 Mamluk 9 Turk 8 Hospitaller       7 Templar 6 Hospitaller       5 Templar   2 Hospitaller 3 Assassin 4 Mamluk   1 Hospitaller
		Start at Hospitaller at bottom and walk up to end at Hospitaller on top.

Floor trap puzzle
– Go forward to the next
puzzle. Walk George on the skinny path and he falls into a trap and is being
crushed.

Anna Maria will need to
release the trap.

Use the same second
Latin verse clue for the sequence of icons.

Push the lever of the:
dagger (assassin), crescent moon (Turk), lion (Mamluk) and cross (Templar).

Templar Master statue
puzzle – Go forward to next room
and see a statue of a Knight to the left.

Use the clue of The
Fourth:     The master shall show the way through the
warmth of his heart.

The Templar Knight must
be Jacques the Molay. The show the way (map) and warmth (fire).

Place the map on the
statue’s hand. Use lighter to burn it. The door opens.

Ark room – Go
forward see an empty base at the center of the room. Anna Maria states that was
were the Ark was. The first Angel was taken from Mount Horeb.

In frustration, Anna
Maria kicked the stand. Poison gas starts to seep in from the walls.

Click to look at the
base of the stand – it says Memento Mori. Remember Anna Maria’s rosary. Use the
rosary on the base of the stand.

The Rescue:

End puzzle – Go to the hallway.
Listen George, the Mass has started. Go forward and see Nico tied to the stand
with the Ark. She will be the Angel of Death.

Finally:    
Thou must prove thy self to be true.

Watch… To save Nico,
destroy the 2 angels using the golf club.

I never told her…

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