Realms of the Haunting

REALMS OF THE HAUNTING

Interactive Adventure by GREMLIN

A solution by Lu Richardson
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General tips:

I know you don't need to be told to swing the old cursor around to see what 
there is in each room, so I won't.  However, I would like to say that you should 
use the Page Down key to see what's on the floor, because otherwise you'll miss 
lots of goodies.  

By the way, when you see open boxes on the floor and look inside to get the ammo 
they usually contain, look at them from all angles.  A high side can hide vital 
items.

During your first steps around the house, and once you have the gun, don't waste 
precious ammunition shooting at windows and mirrors; you only do that sort of 
thing later on, and only if your gun needs reloading - saves doing it when 
someone is nearly on top of you and trying their best to kill you.

As always, examine every item you pick up at the first opportunity.  Sometimes 
certain objects contain other items.

I presume you'll be playing in Easy Mode, i. e., you click on something and, if 
you are carrying the right article, the right thing will happen.  Later on, this 
is particularly handy for opening doors in a hurry if you've got half the 
population of monsters, and their friends and relations, at your heels.  That's 
not exactly the moment you would choose to rummage around your pockets to find 
the correct key.  Of course, if you are trying to solve a puzzle, this helpful 
option doesn't work:  you have to pick the right item to put in the right place.

This is a tough game, and if you want to stay alive, it is a good idea to do a 
"dry run" of a few rooms at a time so that you can learn the lay of the land, as 
it were.  You can't afford to get badly hurt, since there are precious few 
healing potions (and not all that much ammunition, for that matter) and the 
further you advance, the less you'll find.  Also, you can't hang around looking 
for items too long, as in some rooms the nasties regenerate and they'll be on 
top of you while you are busy staring at the floor.  Apart from this being 
dangerous, you have to use up more ammunition.  So, you see, if you've done a 
dry run and know exactly where everything is, you can be in and out in a jiffy.

Sometimes you get attacked from all sides, so you'll have to work out ways of 
getting away with a minimum of damage.  Save every time you have a successful 
run.

Combat:  

As to combat, don't rush into rooms but rather walk cautiously in and wait a few 
seconds to see if something nasty materializes; then you can kill it from a safe 
distance.  Keep away from the monsters whenever possible, running around and 
walking backwards if necessary - only don't walk into another room in which 
another nasty can be generated to attack you from the rear -  nor get into a 
corner if you can help it.  Finding a good spot from where you can kill but be 
safe at the same time, can be pretty crucial.  Sometimes you can hide behind 
something and hit without getting hit.  This is particularly useful when you use 
self-charging weapons which take a while to recharge.  However, if you keep very 
still, the monsters might ignore you, so move about to lure them to you.

One important thing to remember is that some monsters can't go through doors 
(may be they are too big!) so, stand where the door can't shut because you are 
in the way, and keep blasting.  If they come too close, you can always retreat, 
shut the door and open it again later.  Stairs are good, too:  sometimes you can 
stay at the foot, or half way up, and do a lot of damage without getting hurt.

If the opposition is too much for you, RUN!

Weapons:

Keep an eye on your colt if you are using it:  when it runs out of bullets you 
have to reload and you can be cut to ribbons while you are doing that.  Back 
away while you are reloading; obviously, it is not a good idea to be caught in a 
corner on those occasions.  

Indeed, if you have to fight at close quarters, the guns are not much use and it 
is best to use the sword.  Try it out for yourselves.  To tell you the truth, I 
found that, no matter how sophisticated the weapons got as I went along, they 
still didn't do all that much damage.  At times, it is important to find out 
which weapon does the most harm to certain monsters.

You will gather from all this that this game is not a straight forward shoot'em 
up - you will depend heavily on strategy to stay out of trouble.

SAVE A LOT.  Fortunately, you can save your game at the beginning of each 
chapter and use the F9 option for saving when you attempt a dangerous task and 
also when you succeed, or the F10 option to go back, if you fail; but don't use 
this option in the middle of a puzzle, since it won't work.  Unfortunately, 
there are only 9 slots and 20 chapters, so it would be a good idea to copy the 
first 9 saved games on a floppy or a directory you've created, so that you can 
overwrite the old ones.

OK, if you are ready, here we go.

CHAPTER I:  Shadows

Watch the Intro.  I know there is a walkthrough in the manual, but here is a 
better one.  In the dark room at the start, look at everything that can be 
examined, even the paintings.  Look out of the windows.  There is a small table 
with some ammo (get it) and a book.  

Step out towards the light, but turn right along the corridor to have a look.  
Here are some more doors which cannot be opened yet.

Go into the lit room and pick up the ammo on the table by the window.  You'll 
notice a note is typing itself in the typewriter.  I could do with a machine 
like that...  Get the note and everything on the table.  Read all the notes and 
examine everything you've found so far.  

Now click on one of the doors and walk to the right to see what there is.  Turn 
around and walk towards the window.  Note the footprints and the decapitated rat 
on the floor.  You can close the window, if you like.  Personally, I'd bolt it 
AND bar it.  

Go up the stairs and click on the candles to light them.  Go on up the stairs to 
see what there is and come back here.  Go to the end of the corridor and examine 
the painting.  Light one candle and then walk across to the other - light it and 
glue yourself to the wall till the fireball trap is triggered (it blows the 
window at the other end of the corridor).  Get the key and unlock the door in 
this corridor.  Go in and watch.  Oo-er...  Scary, innit?

CHAPTER II:  Signs and Portents

When the video clip is over, light the candles, find the light switch on the 
wall and turn it on.  Pick up everything on the table and read the letters.  You 
won't need the three masks, but you can get them if you like.  Get the rusty 
sword and the shield by the fireplace and also the letter on the floor by the 
shield.  Read all the letters.  Click on the gramophone.  Click on the face of 
the clock and keep clicking till one hand points at 12 and the other at 6:  the 
door will open.  This will mean something to you later on.

Pick up all the statuettes.  Go to the sarcophagus and click on each indentation 
on the floor around it to place the statuettes on them.  You'll notice you are 
going to need some more.  I think that's about it.

Now click on a book in the bookcase to the right of the picture and it will 
swing open.  Save and ready your gun.  Don't rush in - advance slowly and start 
blasting away the moment you see the nasty.  Don't waste ammo, four bullets will 
do it.

Continue to a room with a fence, where you can see some lava:  step into it, 
wait a few seconds and dispose of the nasty.  There will be a cave-in behind 
you, but don't let it worry you.  You've got worse problems than that.  Have a 
quick look at the square hollow by the shields to the right of the entrance.  Go 
on.

At the room with the water, pause till a nasty comes out of the pool and shoot 
it.  Quickly, pick up the ammo at the foot of the stairs, to your right, and get 
out through the opposite passage.  Monsters continue appearing here at regular 
intervals.

At the foot of the stairs, equip your sword - if you've used the regulation four 
shots for each nasty, your gun will need reloading and, if you back off up the 
stairs while you are doing it, you'll be attacked from the rear.  As soon as the 
nasty appears, start hacking and don't leave off until it drops.  You should get 
away without a scratch.

Moving on, you'll come to a chamber with a pentagram on the floor.  To your 
left, a locked door; beyond that, a passage going off to the left.  To your 
right, at the end of the wall, a cupboard and a passage going off to the right.  
In front of you, to the right, a couple of boxes containing ammo.

Move across the room and turn your back on the wall.  As soon as you look down 
to pick up the ammo, you'll hear a noise.  Look up, aim a shot at the nasty and 
run around the room while you reload.  You should be able to kill it without it 
getting at you.Again, be quick.  

Go to the cupboard and pick up the ball and the ammo below, on the floor.  Go to 
the door and click on the indentation; the ball will be placed automatically in 
it and the door will open.  Don't rush in.  Wait till the nasty materialises and 
shoot it, backing off if necessary.  Now go in, pick up all the ammo by the 
chair and the scroll on the table.  Look at this scroll - it's a map of the 
Mausoleum and you will recognize at the top the chamber with the pool and also 
the room you are in just now.  Examine the rest of the map and note "regardez" 
(in case you did German at school instead of French, it means "look").  "What's 
on the other side of the door?", at the bottom of the map, doesn't sound good to 
me.  At any rate, you'll be able to consult it whenever you want to orientate 
yourself.  

OK, on the other piece of furniture you'll find a healing potion (which you 
should not need at all right now) and a paper.  Have a look at it.  Save and 
open the door by clicking on the ball and then on the indentation again.  

Turn left and go through the passage to the left.  As soon as the nasty appears 
turn around and run back into the room, otherwise you'll be attacked from 
behind.  Dodging at speed, you should be able to kill both nasties without 
getting hurt.

Now it's safe to go through the passage, but:  equip the sword and save your 
game.  Go along the corridor and turn to enter the room, do so cautiously and, 
as soon as three nasties pop up from the floor, back off, turn quickly to the 
right and hack away with the sword.  As soon as the monster which was at your 
back is dead, run off up the stairs, equip the gun and come back to pick off the 
other three.  I am afraid you are going to sustain some damage, but you might 
like to know I got away with the loss of only three sections of the green bar.

Once it is safe, go in and pick up the shotgun, the ammo and the two healing 
potions.  Don't use the potions unless you must:  by the way, the roundish 
bottles give you a few health points and the narrow bottles a lot more.  Back to 
the room with the pentagram - this time, follow the passage by the cupboard.

Careful.  Peek around corners.  If you hear a clanking noise, wait till it dies 
down, when go around the corner and blast the monster robot while it's walking 
away from you.  There are three in this section, keep your distance; you must 
blow these monsters completely away, i.e., don't let them lay about on the 
ground.

Next, you step into a room on top of some stairs.  There is a door on the left, 
let's go through it.  There is a triangular dais in the middle and, near the 
entrance there is door A, next to it door B and, behind the sarcophagus, a 
secret door C.Pull the lever of door A and go through.  Go along the corridor.  
You will see a door in the corridor in front of you - there are also a lot of 
guards and you should try to clear them before you do anything else.  Wait till 
the first passes by and go after it.  Go right around shooting all the guards 
around the corridor; if they get too close, run.  While going around you will 
see a blind alley in which there are two guards.  Kill them.  I don't know about 
you, but I'm beginning to suspect that those big pentagrams on the floor spew 
out monsters.  Dur...

OK, you've done your best, go back to the door you saw from the passage.  Go in 
and search the boxes for ammo.  When you've done, pull the lever you'll see by 
the bars and be ready to open the door and run to the left and straight into the 
open door.  Turn to your left and shoot the nasty.  Run to the other end of the 
room and take the key on the wall.  Face the door and be prepared to shoot 
another guard.  Start picking up ammo from the boxes.  Save yet again.

Go to the door and open it - DO NOT step out.  If you can see any guards 
wandering about and within range, shoot them.  Inch forward till you hear a 
message.  Oh, dear, I think we've upset them, now.  Back off immediately into 
the room.  There are three of those nasty robots out there, and the pentagram 
will no doubt spew out the odd guard.  Keep opening the door and shooting at 
whatever you can see, but on no account must you find yourself outside and 
locked out.  You should be able to destroy all three robots from the safety of 
the room.

When you've done, leave and go back to the room with the triangular dais.  Let's 
go through door B.  Advance slowly till you see a room with a golden circle in 
the distance.  Save your game.  Press CapsLock to get into Run Mode, run in like 
mad and to your right, click on the circle with the hand near the pentagram, run 
to the other side of the room and click on the other two circles, then run to an 
short passage to the left of the pentagram section and press the last of the 
circles.  DO NOT pick a fight with the robots.  When you press the last circle, 
they'll collapse.  Blast them away.  You should be able to do all this without 
getting hurt.

Now step up over the pentagram and click on the wall to read the message, then 
back off onto the pentagram and you'll be teleported to a hall with two huge 
statues.  Advance to the one you are facing, to the right of it and behind the 
columns, up against the wall.  Click on the statue and choose the option of 
speaking the words.  Turn to your left and, from the relative safety of the 
columns, shoot the two nasties which will turn up.

Go through the newly opened passage.  Oo, it's dark in here.  Keep going till 
you come to a door which is missing something.  Go back to the hall with the 
statues.As you come out you'll notice two doors, to the right and left - ignore 
them for now and advance to the archway on the right.  Go through the door 
you'll find there.  To your left there is a portcullis which leads to the secret 
entrance C behind the sarcophagus in the room with the triangular dais, so 
ignore it for now.  Go instead through the door with the writing on it, go right 
in, turn around and shoot the guard which will appear.  Pick up the ammo.

Come out of this room and go left along a corridor; enter a weird door.  Go up 
to the throne and read the messages to the left and right, then sit on it.  
Watch.  This is something which must be done.

Go out of this room and keep left.  Go through two doors to a store room, get 
the ammo; then go back to the hall, turn left and go through the door without a 
lock.  Oops!  I think that, at this point, a spot of healing potion wouldn't 
come amiss.  Turn right around and see if you can spot a potion by the door you 
just crashed through.  Now follow the corridor with great care:  there are three 
guards to slaughter, lurking inside the room.  When you've killed them, click on 
the portcullis three times to get it open.  Pick up the ammo and go upstairs:  
you'll no doubt recognise where you are, so get back to the hall.

Now is the time to go to the door with the keyhole and open it.  Go in and 
follow the corridor till you come to a large room.  Hug the right and, in the 
second room you'll come to, you will find an altar.  Click on it and watch the 
video.  Take the artefact.  
When the clip is over, back off to the right and start blasting at the two 
horrors which will come at you.  A very handy weapon, this staff, it seems to 
replenish itself with ammo.  Walk back to the entrance, turn your back on the 
stairs and turn left to visit the other half of this complex.  You will have 
spied the pentagram on the floor and no doubt, like me, you'll smell a rat.  
Change to run mode with CapsLock and run like the wind into the chamber you'll 
see at the other side of the bridge.  Turn around and start blasting.  Now pick 
up the potions and leave.

At the hall, go through the door behind the statue which sunk through the floor.  
As you enter, you get into another video.It doesn't matter which lines you 
choose.  Watch.  Oh, boy, are we in trouble!  As soon as the clip is over, back 
off into the passage blasting at the skeletons as you go.  You should get 
minimal damage, but get well topped up with healing potions before you proceed.  

Now you can go to the door with the missing something and click on the hollow.  
You can go in.  Search carefully behind and around the tombs, either side of the 
corridor, till you come to the water (at least, I think it's water).

Next, take one side of the water and then the other, searching still (there is a 
statuette to be found), but giving a wide berth to the altar at the top.  Save 
half way through so that you make no mistakes.  When you've searched all the 
nooks and crannies, go to the other end of the water, opposite the altar so that 
you are facing it square on.  Save.  Click on CapsLock and run (on water?) to 
the altar.  Watch the video:  then pick up the potions, hitch your trousers up 
and run out of this place, dodging skeletons, as fast as you can.  You'll 
probably have to zig-zag through.  You'll get the odd blow here and there, but 
that's better than staying behind and getting killed.  The skeletons seem to 
come back to life after you've shot them unless you blast them when they go 
down:  don't even bother.  There's just too many of them.

Make your way back to the bookcase through which you came in.  You might meet a 
couple of bad guys on the way there, but by now you know how to handle them.  In 
the room with the statues, don't attempt to get up the stairs because you'll be 
locked it.  Instead, go through the archway to the right, open the portcullis to 
the left and go through the secret door C to the room with the triangular dais.  
When you reach the room with the cave-in, find the square recess by the shields 
and click on it to get a secret door opened.  This will let you through.  When 
you reach the library, you'll meet Rebecca who then joins you.  Just watch the 
video.

CHAPTER III:  Keeper of Time

At the library, examine your inventory and discuss the sarcophagus.  Don't put 
the statuette you are carrying on one of the indentations - you are going to 
need it.  Go out of the door and look to your left, because a nasty is about to 
materialize.  
Go downstairs, ready to come back up at a run.  As soon as you step on a certain 
part of the corridor, two nasties will pop up from nowhere, one of them behind 
you:  so dodge, run up the stairs and turn, backing off and shooting as you go.  
When that's done, go down the stairs again.

Now, a lot of doors will be unlocked and I don't suppose it matters in which 
order you visit them but, as is my custom unless a have good reason to do 
otherwise, I will hug the left wall.  So, the first room you come to contains a 
green dome.  The next one along is locked.  The next one is a bedroom:  go in, 
turn around and turn the light on with the switch.  Find a potion on the 
mantlepiece and move the chest.  Aha.  

Come out of the door through which you came in and try the door which was locked 
before - it is now open.  Look around.  Right by the door, on the floor, you'll 
see a tile of a different colour to the rest.  Click on it and the other door 
will open.  Inside you'll find a map of the house which I couldn't figure out.  
May be you can.
Go back to the bedroom and cross it to exit through the opposite door.  Outside, 
click on the sword to open the door to the left.  Go upstairs and stop at the 
first landing - there is a door to your right.  This appears to be an armoury.  
Find the ammo, look at the painting and pick up the scroll from the top of the 
bookcase.  If you don't get out quick, two skeletons will give you heck.  If 
they appear, don't forget to blast them to smithereens when they fall, otherwise 
they'll get up again.  OK, leave and continue up the stairs.

In this room there is a circular stone, this apparently being the Tower Gate; 
and we are told we are not properly dressed, so let's leave for now.  Go all the 
way down the stairs and continue to hug the left wall.  Open the next door and 
you'll see some paintings.  Step smartly back, there is a nasty behind the door 
- tease him out and let it chase you, for a change.  Once you've killed it, go 
into the picture gallery.  At the other end you'll find a helmet.  Get it and 
use it to see a nice video.  Look at the map.  Go through the door to the left 
of the map and you'll be in the dark room in which the game started.  Right, I 
think we've covered this section.

Now go to the lit room with the typewriter and take the door to the right.  In 
this room there is a scroll (I hope you are looking at each item as you get it).  
Go through the next door to a room with a fire.  Look at the maps.  When the 
fire flares up, pick up the crystal inside it.  Open the door cautiously, you 
are about to be attacked by two nasties, so be ready to back off.  When you've 
killed them, go back to the room with the typewriter.  Take the door to your 
right and cross the corridor to the room with the green dome.  Click on it.

Watch the video, ask for a key and accept the test.  At the end, go to the 
window and get the masks.  Click on the gem to get back.  Watch.

CHAPTER IV:  Tales from the Tower

Well, I guess we'd better get ourselves to the Tower Gate, so out of this room, 
turn left, through the door, through the opposite door, to the left and up the 
stairs.  In the Tower Gate room, stand on the stone and use the masks.  Watch.

You meet Raphael, the guardian of the Tower, who gives you a long schpiel.  I 
don't know about you, but I haven't understood one word anyone has said so far.  
Still, who cares, I'm having fun, aren't you?  

Right, when he has done, follow the path and branch either left or right, it 
doesn't matter.  Have a look around.  If you click on the stones with glowing 
runes on them, you get healed - use them only if you need to.  You'll be coming 
back here.  Eventually you'll go through a shimmering gate and wind up on 
another stone.

You will find yourself on a courtyard, where statues whisper words I couldn't 
quite make out.  I hope they weren't rude.  I mean to say.  You will see three 
doors, one is boarded up.  The one next to it contains nothing (as far as I 
could see, and it was pitch dark) but a nasty.  Take my advice and leave it 
alone; nothing worse than fighting what you cannot see.  The next door along was 
locked.  So I had a search around and I found the key in the round pond.  Unlock 
the door, go on in and pick up the scroll.  This upsets someone and a lot of 
nasties appear.  No sweat.  Shoot them through the window or stand at the open 
door, press End to tilt down and just keep blasting at them till they are all 
dead.  No need to step out and get yourself hurt.  When the coast is clear, go 
back to the stone and use the masks.  Watch.

CHAPTER V:  The Offering

From where you are, keep going left:  you'll eventually come to a mantel stone 
with the rune for Heled/Earth (as well as the camp fire).  Stand on it - as you 
step off, a circle with a hand appears on the wall (press it) and the green 
runes explode. Go through the door, left, and downstairs.  (Don't bother with 
the stairs to the right, they are blocked).  Note the circle on the wall and the 
pentagram on the floor.  Standing on the stairs, shoot at the circle.  See?  A 
pillar raises from the floor.  When it comes down, go through the door to the 
left.  Advance the length of this hall, stand on the square recess and turn 
around.  Wait a few seconds and two nasties will drop from above.  Kill them and 
then tilt forward with PgDown and click on the circle to put the statuette on 
it.  The pillar will raise - take the key.  When it goes down again, retrieve 
the statuette and go through the door.  You could go up the stairs, but there is 
nothing there.  

Outside the door, keep on till you see two torn doors.  As you go through the 
archway, you'll hear a noise and three huge demons with axes will appear.  Turn 
around and run to the stairs.  You have to lure them, one by one (there are 
three of them) on to the pentagram and then shoot the circle, whereupon they get 
squashed.  Most satisfying.  Just run forward till you see them and then double 
back - they should follow you.  When you've crushed all three, go on through the 
archway and you will see two doors, one of which you cannot reach because of the 
crates.  Open the other one, turn around, switch the light on, turn around and 
pull the lever.  Face the door.

Are you ready?  Open the door and run to the stairs, there is another demon 
after you.  Dispose of it the usual way.  Now you can go back and work your way 
around the crates to the now accessible door.  Go right and through the other 
door and get the goodies.  As you come out, you get attacked again.  Go down the 
stairs to the right, in front of you.  Follow corridor till you come into a 
cavern.  Keep right and you'll meet a Spirit.  Watch.  Continue to keep right 
and you'll find a passage.  You will come out at the caves.

Now, this is a rather difficult section because it is so very dark and you don't 
have a compass.  Examine the map of the caves and see if that will do you any 
good.  Personally, I kept to the right and hoped for the best.  You'll be 
continually beset by those flying horrors.  Basically, what you need to do is to 
find a red crystal and a red daemon to the East.  There is also an altar and, 
behind it, a teleporter.  Also some goodies.  But this is not essential.  
Nevertheless, feel free to explore as you please.

As I said, I cannot give you exact directions because I couldn't see where I was 
going, but keeping to the right got me to the red crystal and eventually, to the 
red demon.   Click on it, watch the video and use the red crystal.  This takes 
you to the next chapter.

CHAPTER VI:  Journal of Evil

As you walk straight on and a slab drops and uncovers some stairs, be careful:  
there are two extra-nasty beasties - try to shoot them from the stairs and dodge 
the green spells they throw at you.  When you've killed them, advance and you'll 
see moving platforms.  Press End so that you are looking down, and work your way 
across.  When you get to the other end, turn left and up the stairs.  Go through 
the door.  Don't forget to investigate all open crates:  throughout this 
section, look for the switches to turn the light on.

Keeping left, go through the first door to a room with suits of armour.  Look 
around:  there is a potion on top of the bookcase.  Enter the next door.  It's a 
bedroom.  Underneath the bed is an important staff.  Look inside the chest and 
get the potions and check out the wardrobe - there is a locked locker in it.  If 
you go through the next door you'll see a mantel stone which isn't working.

Go along to the next door and pause.  If you hear a swishing noise close by, 
stay put till it dies away.  Then, open the door, turn right and kill the 
monster:  a gun won't probably do it.  However, the staff you've just picked up 
does not replenish itself, so you should keep, if you can, it for really awkward 
occasions - preferably, to the very end of the game.  Afterwards, switch to the 
gun and look inside the crate.  Turn around and go up the stairs.

In the next room there are lots of gorillas (or at least, they look like 
gorillas).  You will have to entice them one by one down the stairs while you 
shoot them.  There is quite a lot of them, so keep going up into the room and 
down the stairs.  When you've killed them all, stay in the room with the 
flickering lights.  Open the door and turn left, till you get to a corridor, 
then right to face one of those swishing monsters - blast him as you back up 
into the corridor.

Actually, this is a dead end, but it should have been useful to destroy the 
creature.  Go back to the door ant go right look around and you will see a gap 
in the balustrade.  If you look closely, you will see a switch on the wall by 
this gap:  turn the light on and go up a short flight of stairs into an 
observatory.  Look around and take everything on the table.  Go back to the 
bedroom.

In the bedroom, examine everything you've just taken.  You'll find a key inside 
the Journal (read it).  Use it on the locker to get the last statuette.  Go out 
and through the opposite door, and find the door with the hole through which you 
entered this section.  Go down the stairs and turn left.  Be ready for another 
one of those gorillas.  When you've killed it, advance to the lit square and 
click on the breastplate.  Watch.  At the end of the video, be prepared to move 
quickly and deal with a couple of nasties.  In the lit recess you'll find a 
couple of potions.  Continue along the left and you'll come to a small wooden 
door.  
Enter and look to your left:  you'll see a silhouette of the staff. Click on it 
and the stone will raise.  Step on it and we are through to the library.

CHAPTER VII:  Beyond the Gate

Place the two statuettes in the remaining indentations and the sarcophagus will 
open.  Go down the ladder and along the corridor till you come to a gigantic 
clock.  Look at the walls around it.  Find the double stairs and go up.  Use the 
End key to look down and see the controls for the clock hands.  Click on them 
till you set them to six o'clock (as you saw in the Library).  Now press Home 
and click on the circle with the hand on the wall.  This will open the door at 
the other end of the hall.

Equip the shield and go through:  go up the stairs and follow the corridor till 
you get to a place where you can hear water.  Equip a gun, go left, shoot the 
two headed creature and get the chalice.  Click on the waterspout to fill it.  
Leave and turn left.  Go along here and down the stairs till you stop on the 
circular mosaic.  Watch.

Turn left and advance to the door.  Throw the chalice of water (it should be 
equipped, like a weapon) at the door and it will open.  Get the dagger.  Watch.  
With the dagger equipped, go back to the mosaic.  Watch.

CHAPTER VIII:  The Mark of the Beast

At the end of the video turn left (the other room contains nothing, so don't 
bother) and go to the archway.  Look at the lock.  Turn around and go back to 
the stairs.

There is a reception committee waiting for you, so don't go all the way up the 
stairs.  Leave about three rungs between you and the monsters.  Equip the self-
charging staff (blue skulls) and watch the creatures.  Every time they turn 
around away from you, go up the stairs and shoot, then quickly go down again.  
The spells they hurl at you cannot hurt you this way.  First kill the bloke in 
black (a James Bond look-alike - you'll be meeting more like him, and they get 
deadlier).  The green demon is tougher; but keep going up and down till you 
destroy it.  When they are dead, continue along the corridor till you come to 
the square block, go along one of the sides and another creature will 
materialize, shoot it, taking cover behind the block if you need to.  Descend 
cautiously to the clock room and entice the green demons you will see there up 
the stairs.  You can play hide and seek behind the block - keep running around 
it, shooting, and back again.  Run around the block till you destroy the 
creature.  Do it all once more to destroy the other.

Now go back to the library; be prepared to meet another one of those blokes in 
black, but he won't be a problem:  just dodge side to side while shooting at 
him.

Once there, save before you leave the library by the door.  As you turn right 
and get to the end of the corridor, there will be two monsters waiting from you, 
one coming from upstairs, the other coming from downstairs.  Hug the right wall 
and deal first with the one from downstairs.  Draw him into the corridor, 
shooting as you go, then ran past him, down the stairs and along the corridor 
shooting.  If necessary, run around him again and keep moving and shooting along 
the corridor.  You don't need to get the guy upstairs but, if you want to, use 
the same tactics of hit and run.

Go into the room with the typewriter and, from there, to the hall.  Be careful, 
there will be one of those blokes in black soon.  Step into the hall, the rune 
will explode and the creature will appear.  Dodge behind the suit of armour on 
your right and shoot till he's dead.

Open the door by the light switch (there is a card to pick up as well, before 
you go through).  You have a new section to explore, and the whole thing is as 
confusing as ever.  Consult your house map, see if that helps you.  Not only 
there are many doors, going in all directions:  but since you have to run the 
gauntlet of endless monsters, and that means you have to run around so that they 
can't lay their mits on you, you often lose your sense of direction.  Again, 
most rooms are so alike, you don't know whether you've been to them or not!

The most important thing here is to get a statuette.  So, from the first door, 
keep left and open the first one you come to.  Inside you'll see a pentagram 
surrounded by candles.  Start lighting them and a monster will appear.  Do your 
stuff and kill him.  Finish lighting the candles.  Watch.  A REAL nasty appears 
- don't let him catch you.  Keep going round the room shooting at him.  When he 
is dead, pick up the statuette.  Go through the next door and up some stairs and 
open the locker.  Inside, some ammo and a potion.  Leave through the other door.  
Keep going left and opening doors.  In some stairs going down and blocked there 
is another cupboard with goodies in it.

You will come to the dinning hall.  Jump on the table (press A) and get the 
potions.  Leave through the other door.  If going through a door takes you to a 
place you've been already, go back and take the next door to the left.
You should find your way outdoors.  Going down some stairs, you'll see others 
going up in front of you.  Before you go up them, search the courtyard for a 
potion.  Also, figure out which is the nearest place in which you can take 
refuge because you are going to leave in a hurry.  Then, go up the stairs, open 
the door, and kill the beast from the doorway.  Go in, walk around to a niche 
opposite the door, grab the blunderbuss you'll see there and start running out 
of this room and find your way to the nearest door:  the courtyard will be 
heaving with monsters.  You can deal with all the baddies shooting at them 
through the windows or from the door you've chosen.

OK, when you are sure you've explored all this section, find the door with the 
panel beside it for which you need the statuette.  Click on the indentation to 
open the door.  Walk in and wait till the monologue is over.

CHAPTER IX:  By The Seven Be Bound

Turn quickly to the door and turn the light on, then run up and down shooting at 
the monster which will have materialized.  Don't attempt to do it in the dark, 
he'll get you for sure.  Pick up everything you can lay your hands on and 
examine it.

Turn to the door, open it and, without leaving the room, shoot the monsters in 
the corridor.  Then go out, retrieve the statuette and take the door to your 
right.  In the courtyard, go to the mantel stone for another video clip.

Go through the only door available and keep right till you come to a door for 
which you also need the statuette.  Go in and take the door to the left.  This 
is a maze, and the only advice I can give you is follow the corridors in which 
there are a lot of squishy rats.  Ugh.  This will take you to a room with a pool 
in it.  Go around it and enter a double door - ignore the two doors either side, 
there is nothing in them.  As you advance into this room, you get another video 
clip.

CHAPTER X:  The Key of Tears

Pick up a green crystal.  Go behind the altar, look at the painting, turn around 
and pull the lever to go through the doors to the right.

In, stand on the stone and use the mask.  When you get to the other side, don't 
hang around.  Go quickly through the shimmering gate.  Once inside you'll be 
reasonably safe - there are very wicked flying dragons out there.  The best 
thing to use on them is a magic weapon.  Consult the map for the Tower and 
figure out where you are.  You should recognise quite easily where you started 
from (if in doubt, take a quick peek outside).  Check the symbol for the Raquia 
gate and figure out how to get there.  Consult your map every time you reach a 
shimmering gate to make sure you are on the right tack.  If in your travels you 
find there is a beast where you want to go, shoot it from afar.

Eventually, you will make it to the stone and you'll reach your destination.  
Ah, it's nice to be outdoors, breathe that fresh air, listen to the birds 
singing... and keep a sharp look out for the odd monster.  Mainly, you are 
heading for the tower.  Head away from the stone, over the bridge and take any 
road you like, try right:  when you run out of road, go through the gaps in the 
hedges.  After a good wander around, you'll eventually hit the stairs to the 
tower.  But first, you have to deal with the maze.  As you enter it, you'll get 
a video clip.  Next, consult the map of the maze and see where everything is.  

First, the earplugs.  They are just by the side of the pool.  Then the jewelled 
haunch.  There is a switch behind the bench which lowers the block and allows 
you to grab the meat.  Go on to get the pipes.  You have to jump on the two 
blocks - try it in Running Mode (CapsLock):  missing will set you back some 
health points.  Finally, the ring.  You have to be very patient and get onto the 
floating platforms.  Falling off you cost you a lot of health points if not all.  
So get out of Running Mode, press End to look down, and wait patiently till you 
get the chance of stepping on the slabs.  Once you've got the ring, come back 
the same way.

Now it's just a matter of leaving this spot and keeping left to get to the 
tower.  Before you enter, examine all the items.  Once in, use the haunch on the 
beast.  Click on the portcullis to get in.  I suppose there are other ways to 
get to the beginning of the puzzles, but I just hugged the left wall and 
eventually I got to a room with lots of stairs and moving platforms.  

The trick here is to get to the other room without making the bell ring.  Since 
you are allowed to touch the floor once, we might as well make the most of it.  
Go down the stairs to the left, walk more or less along the left wall till you 
see some stairs going up.  Climb up and jump across to a slab, turn right and 
jump onto the sliding platform; when it gets to the other side jump onto the up 
and down block and walk to the end of it.  Turn left and jump on the moving 
platform.  Turn left and, when the platform hits the wall, jump on the next 
block.  Walk along here to the end (ignore the lever), turn left and jump onto 
the next moving platform.  Turn right and, when you get there, jump into the 
corridor.

Go through the door and have a look at the centre block and the indentation 
below it.  We are going to open all the doors, starting from the first on the 
left; however, do not step inside just like that, first have a look.  Some are 
not safe.  By the way, you want to stand well back, otherwise the doors don't 
have room to fly open. 

Right.  At the first door, with the musical notes on it, play the pipes.  Go in 
and get the oil and the spectacles.  Move on to the next door with a face on it.  
For this you need a password, which you don't yet have.  Move on to the next 
door.  Look at the statue before you go in and wear the earplugs, i.e., "use" 
them.  Go in and take the key from the belt of the statue.  

Go to the next door and open it.  Look at the floor:  it is ice, best not 
venture on it yet.

The next door is a library.  You automatically use the oil on the hinges, so 
that the door doesn't make a noise on opening.  Use the spectacles and you see 
some rays.  Jump the two between you and the desk, pick up the scroll, turn 
around and jump twice again to reach the door.  Have a look at the scroll.

Go on to the next door.  This is a chapel.  Advance to the window and pick up 
all the gems (you'll have to use Home to get the red one).  Now use End to look 
at the pentagram below.  All you do is click on a gem and then on the proper 
point.  R is red, O is orange, Y is yellow, G is green, I is dark blue, B is 
light blue and V is violet.  At the end you get a key.

Next door.  Look at the floor - something peculiar about it.  Best not try it 
yet.  Go to the door with the face and say Spirit.  Go in and pick up the warm 
potion from the fire (don't get too close or you'll get burned).  Take it to the 
room with the ice and use it on the floor.  Go in and pick up the armlet.  Then 
go to the room with the funny floor, use the armlet and go in.  Open the other 
door, go in and open the locker (I guess with the rainbow key) and get the 
potion and the gem.

Go and place the gem in the indentation; when the block comes down, stand on it; 
when it goes up, walk along the glass platform to the corridor in front.

Open the door and have a good look.  You have to pick your way to the opposite 
corner to the left without the gems exploding.  Crouch (press Z) so that you can 
see the gems in your path.  You must steer a course where you see no gems to 
your left or right (nor, of course, in front of you!).  If you see even a 
glimpse of a gem either side of you, move slightly till you have a clear space 
in front.  First advance towards the opposite corner to the right, then go along 
the wall for a bit, then turn left and advance diagonally, then turn right and 
advance to the gem in the corner.  Pick it up an use it on the ring.  Turn 
around and wait till the gems disappear.  Now go to the double doors on the left 
and go in.  Stand on the pedestal and use the ring. Watch.