Manhunter 2: San Francisco - Sierra On-Line (Second part)

@~Continued from the last issue of SynTax.

Day Three.

An Orb tells you to investigate a human on the sign at
Ghirardelli Square.

Track the targets in turn. Targets (1) and (2) arrive. (2) waits
but (1) goes up where he is chased by Target (3) who arrives from
the building at the top left. Target (1) is left on the sign.
(3) returns the way he arrived. Meanwhile (4) and (5) attack
Target (2). (4) hides in the alley. (5) and (2) leave and go to
the wax museum where (2) stays at the second exhibit and (5) goes
up the chimney in the third exhibit. Close MAD, leave appartment.

Travel to Ghirardelli Square. Enter the alley (don't go right -
a wounded rat kills you). Get the rat's paw, put in robe. Climb

the rope. Don't enter the window yet (you break the flask). Go
right, see the man hanging from the sign but don't go up yet.

Travel to the wax museum. Enter, look closely at figure, examine
figure, hit it with the mallet to enter the door. Go to the
second exhibit, examine the dead man. See the white thread on
the tie (it must be Noah Goring). Use fang on thread (it
unpicks, you see an orb card). Get orb card, put it in robe.
Back up. (If you go up the chimney at the third exhibit, a rat
kills you). Leave.

Travel to the shop. Enter (see a man examining a rat's finger).
Examine the man. Offer the rat's paw. Play the card game till
you win six times. Pick the rat mask with eye holes (on the
left). Leave.

Travel to the laundry. Go to the door. Go in. Examine the girl.
Give the laundry receipt. When invited, follow the girl (you see
the man you freed but another one hits you and puts you in a

store room). When you come round, the man you rescued opens the
door to free you. Get the walking stick, put it in robe. Leave.

Travel to Ghirardelli Square. Enter the alley. Climb the rope. Go
right. Select easy arcade. Climb the framework using only the
solid lines and avoiding the sparks till you get level with the
man. Turn left to look at him. Get the ring with the walking
stick (so you don't get electrocuted). Put ring in robe. Climb
back down (or fall to do it quicker!).

Travel to the Private Club. Examine the door. Wear the mask.
Knock on the door. You are let in by some rats. Note the marks on
the arm one rat has (UNNC).  The rats play a dice game. When you
lose and are unmasked, the rats advance. Use the full flask on
them (they think it's the remedy and fight over it). Quickly get
the hatchet and leave through the door.

Travel to Ghirardelli Square. Enter alley, Climb the rope, enter
the window. (You fall down the stairs). Examine lock on grate.
Use ring on lock. When you fall into the room of rats, Phil
drops an orb on a stick. Get it quickly. When the rats attack,
use the camera on them (the flash blinds them, you escape
through the pipe at Hyde Street Pier.)

Go down the ladder. Go under the pier. climb the post. Use the
hatchet on the underside of the crate (you climb up into the
crate, the crates are loaded onto the ferry, taken to Alcatraz
and unloaded the other end).

Use the hatchet on the crate to escape (you climb out, trip and
lose the hatchet as you go left). Examine the cages, each
contains a green humanoid. Examine the cage second from left,
middle row, to see the green creature from your vision. Give it
the statue (you're now friends!). Go to the machine on the left,
examine it (cell door access machine). Use orb card on machine
(the camera scans you), use orb on a stick to fool it. (The
cages open, your green friend takes you to a hot-air balloon).

Examine the controls, turn the handle (gas starts to escape), use
matchbook, light the gas (you float away). Go to easy arcade

mode. Land the balloon on the flat area by Julius Castle. (You
fall down a chute and squish an Orb in a room. This room is
Hell). Meanwhile the greenies start to kill the Orbs.....

Look at the panel on the wall. See where the lava, robots and
slaves are. You must open or close the gates so you fill part of
the complex with lava, destroy the robots but not the slaves,
with lava erupting through the surface buildings. You must
survive and routes must be left open from the slaves to Hell and
from Hell to Freedom! All the creatures on the surface will
revert to their natural human form when this is done.

I did it in two bits. First, move the robots to the two rooms at
the bottom left.  Move the slaves to the Slavery. Close the
correct gates to flood the left hand section when you open the
gate nearest to the lava and the Cable Car Barn. Now close more
gates to flood the other surface outlets but leave a route from
the Slavery to Hell and from Hell to Freedom. 

Bring the rescued slaves to Hell (they carry you to Freedom and
put you in a machine. Remember the code from the arm in the
club? UNNC) Moving from left to right, push the left button
once, the next one to the right twice and the next one to the
right once. Push the button above them (the screen lights up).
Examine the screen.

Select easy arcade mode. Guide the machine through, avoiding the
lava (if you find yourself stuck at a gap that's too narrow
to get through, you've gone wrong!). The route will take you
through all four screens till you get to the sea shore.

You emerge at the Ferry Building to see Phil escaping in his
ship. You grab a hold on it and are carried up, up and away from
San Francisco to ..... where? If the poster on the cable car is
anything to go by, it looks like your next stop may be London!