Gateway - Legend

                    Solution by The Grue!
Part I:

Turn on commset and play new messages to find out about the ship
handling lessons at 3:00pm in room T20, and to meet your proctor
in the Blue Hell Bar at 8:00pm.  Open the desk and take the book,
now go to central park and turn off the watering machine. Wait for
the maintenance man to arrive, when he does he will give you a key
and ask you to put it in his toolbox. Don't put it in the toolbox,
put it in the planter tray, keep waiting and he will tell you
about the strange goings on, where he has seen a man walk through
walls just after midnight. When he finally goes take the key from
the planter and the rose.

SCORE 22pts

Go to the corporation lobby and give the rose to the receptionist,
who will then give you a magazine telling you about Becker. Go to
armoury and unlock the vent with the key, press the button and
wait. When a robot appears in the vent get the gun and give it to
the robot. Now go to room T52 and unlock the vent with the key
press the button and wait. When the robot appears take the gun.

SCORE 57pts

Go to room T20 and wait until 3:00pm for your ship handling
lessons. You will be given a blue badge and will also be assigned
6 course missions. Now go to the VR terminal in the corporation
building, the tech will explain about the VR and offer you his
Pedroza pin badge if you can crack it. Lie on couch and wear the
collar, then press the button.

To crack the beach VR, you must get your drink and then give it to
Sam the bartender. Keep repeating this until he collapses, then
get the drink from the bar and place it in the scanner. The VR
will collapse and you will be able to take the pin.

SCORE 92pts

Go to Pedroza Lounge and get the pamphlet. Now go to the Blue Hell
Bar and wait until 8:00pm to meet your proctor. Thom will tell you
all about Gateway and the Orion program, he then tells you about
Terri, who gives out the green badges for the Orion program. He
tells you that she usually turns up at the bar around 22:00pm and
gives you a memo to give to her. Keep buying drinks for Thom and
he will tell you about a hot tip he's got and will then go and
find someone for you.

Nubar will now appear in the bar, ask Nubar about his medallion.
He will ask if you want to play a game, if you win he will give
you his medallion, say YES.

SCORE 97pts

He plays the trivia machine and scores 7pts, now you play the
trivia machine.  Choose 'Games of all Kinds'.
Question No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 lO
Answers     1 2 4 4 1 4 2 3 2 4

You score 10pts and Nubar gives you the medallion.

SCORE 112pts

Go back to your quarters and sleep. In the morning go to the
hanger entrance and show blue badge to the agent, she will program
your ship with the 6 course codes and allow you to board your
ship. Examine the control panel and select your first course code.

1st mission, you take pictures of a nebula and return to Gateway
and are given a mission bangle.
2nd mission, you find a black hole and return to Gateway.
3rd mission, you see Andromeda and return to Gateway.
4th mission, you take pictures of some fragments and return to
Gateway.
5th mission, you find a dying star (red giant) and return to
Gateway.
6th mission, you find a planet (Dyan 7) that has a small
concentration of Heechee metal, so you land.

Once landed go to the plateau and push the rock. Now go back down
to below cave, you can now go north into the cave (Entry Chamber).
Enter the opening just before it appears to find the Ovoid room,
take the box and return to your ship then Gateway. You get a
25,000 reward for finding a Heechee artefact.

SCORE 187pts

Go to Blue Hell Bar and wait until 22:00 and Terri Neilson will
arrive, give the memo to her. She will then tell you all about the
Orion program, she gives you her PV number and tells you that
you can prove yourself worthy of the Orion program by making two
trips in your ship and also finding a legit Heechee artifact.

SCORE 202pts

Go back to your quarters and turn on the comset. Select place call
and type in Terri's PV number. She will check your records and
then ask you to meet her in the Blue Hell Bar in 30 minutes to
discuss your green badge.  Go to Blue Hell Bar and wait for Terri,
she will tell you about the briefings in room T52 at 9:00 daily,
where you can exchange your blue badge for a green one.  Go back
to your quarters and sleep.

Go to room T52 for briefing at 9:00, you will be given your green
badge and your Orion course codes. Now go to your ship and select
the course code, this will take you to the planet ALEPH 4.

ALEPH 4

Go to the lake shore and wait for a salamander to appear and take
it. Now go to the Mutzer village and enter the chief's hut, then
go down to under the hut and wait until you hear a sloshing sound.
Go back up into the hut and place the salamander in the tank, the
salamander will get out of the tank carrying the cylinder. Go to
the lake shore again and take the cylinder, now go to base of
dome.  At the base of dome put the cylinder in the slot and select
the correct sequence (44325) to enter the dome. Once inside the
dome take the red, blue and yellow fans and then climb onto the
machine.  Examine the slots and put the...
red fan in yellow slot
yellow fan in blue slot
blue fan in red slot.
A machine will detach itself from the platform, take it and
return to Gateway.

SCORE 347pts

Once you reach Gateway you will find yourself in Part II.

Part II

After you have returned from Aleph 4 go to your quarters and turn
on the commset.  Play new messages and you will have a message
from someone telling you to meet them in the tanning room just off
the Pedroza Lounge.

Go to the tanning room and talk to the man. He will tell you that
the machine you found on Aleph 4 is of great importance and you
must go to the corporation offices immediately. It seems you have
been chosen for a special 4 part mission.

Go to the corporation offices. Worden explains to you that he
wants you to activate a Heechee cloaking system and that the
machine was to deliver a warning. It seems another alien race
called the Assassin who destroys intelligent life is still alive.
There are four shield generators which will protect the Heechee
and other intelligent life forms from the Assassin but the Heechee
panicked before turning them on. The machine has given the four
course codes to the worlds where the shields are, you have to
travel to each of the four worlds and activate the shields.

WORLD l...AURIGAE 6

Get the cracked prism and go to residence, then drop the cracked
prism and take the clear prism. Go back to the landing pad and put
the clear prism in the depression, put the bright cube in the
socket and stand on the teleport disk. You will be transported to
the city center, go to temple court and take a beetle. Now go back
to residence and put the bright cube in socket and clear prism in
depression. When the window opens put the beetle in the oval
depression and take the pyramid then make your way back to temple
court.

Once back at temple court take the northeast exit into an
octagonal room, make your way to the center ( SE - E - NW - S - W
- SE - N ) Then just put the pyramid on the stand and go back to
the temple court. You will now find the control panel is
accessible, turn knob, pull lever and press button. You will have
activated the first shield and can now return to your ship and
Gateway.

WORLD 2...KADUNA 3

At the jungle clearing get a pod then go to anemone thicket and
wait until a giant spider appears. Shoot the spider and when it
rears up on its hind legs shoot it again. Take the gun and you
will get covered in spider ichor, this will allow you to pass
through the anemone thicket and you reach a swamp. Wait until a
worm attaches itself to your spacesuit and then feed worm to
tentacle. A pterosaur will kill the octopus allowing you to pass
the swamp to a field. At the field throw the pod and a small rat
will try to get it but the spikeball plant kills it. Take the dead
rat and the spike from the tree and go on until you reach the
plaza.

At the plaza feed the rat to the snake and open the door and go
inside the tower.  Stab the slug with the spike (twice), you can
now turn on the second shield.  Turn knob, pull lever and press
button. You can now return to your ship and Gateway.

SCORE 582pts

WORLD 3...DORMA 5

Go to northern shore and take the small stone then go to dark
forest and wait for a beast to appear. Wait until he enters the
cave on the SE side of the clearing, now you can enter the
clearing and go into the cave on the north side. Once inside the
tunnel antechamber take the bowl and then go to the NW shore and
put the stone in the bowl. Now fill the bowl with berries, then
make your way back to the tunnel antechamber (making sure the
beast is in the other cave first) and place the bowl on the floor.
Return to the dark forest and take a vine and branch, then wait
until the beast enters the antechamber. Quickly go into the SE
cave and make your way to the crystal cave.

Inside the crystal cave hit the shard with the branch, take it and
go to edge of forest and clean the mud off it in the pond. Go back
to the clearing and wait for the beast to appear, he will be
transfixed by the crystal and you will be able to tie him up with
the vine.

Once you've tied him up go to the western shore (avoiding the
pond). Now you go up onto the dike but the beast will remain on
the shore. Throw the crystal in the pond. The beast will pick up
the huge boulder, before he throws it at you quickly enter the
pond. As the beast throws the boulder it lands in the hole in the
dike. An unseen force will pull you toward the bottom of the pond
and you will find yourself in the shield generator room. Turn on
the third shield, turn knob, pull lever, press button. Enter the
small pool and return to your ship and Gateway.

SCORE 782pts

WORLD 4...NEMIRA 3

Go to deep shaft and get the pickaxe then go to crash site and
take the whistle. Now go to mountain trailhead and meet Becker,
shake hands with him and listen to what he has to say. After he
has gone, go to river overlook and dig in the ground three times,
you find some ore.

Now go to Becker's treehouse and read his notebook, open the
drawer in the desk and take the calipers and discharger. Go back
down into the garden and examine the jubifruitus plant, take the
leaves from the plant and go to pinnacles. Blow the whistle to get
rid of the bird, take the rope and cross the bridge to Becker's
house.

Once inside Becker's house ask him about the lens cover, he says
if you have something special for him he will give it to you. Now
give ore to Becker, then follow him to his garden. He checks the
ore for quality and then hands you the lens cover. Go to the
meadow and tie rope to tree, swing across the rope and get the
focal lens from the other side of the chasm.

Now go to the crash site and open the maintenance crib to find a
flange defuser and a grommet wrench. Remove grommet with wrench
to reveal an actuator cylinder, then unscrew the cap. Now connect
blue clip to pyramid anode and connect gray clip to tetrahedron
anode, now remove flange with defuser and remove core with
calipers to reveal an actuator cell.

Take the cell and go to Becker's house again and give the leaves
to the gopheria. When he jumps off the control panel take the
small mat and put it on the floor. Put the cell in the slot, the
lens cover in the socket and lens in tray. You can now turn on the
fourth shield, turn knob, pull lever and press button. You can now
return to your ship and Gateway but on your way back to the ship
you will meet Becker who will ask if you will take him back with
you, say YES.

SCORE 997pts

Part III

ENDGAME

Once you have activated the four shields and returned to Gateway,
you will be taken to the board room and told about a fifth
component in the defence system. The shield won't work until this
fifth part is activated. They don't know the code for the fifth
component but they believe the information is stored right here on
Gateway and you must find a sphere which will give you the
information.

Go to Gateway Museum and put the medallion in the depression and
then take the tuning fork. Place the tuning fork in the Heechee
device and a hologram of a tuning fork will appear above the disk.
Take the disk and place it on the pedestal, thus deactivating the
alarm. Now take the tuning fork (the real one) and go to corridor
B4 and hide inside the crate.

SCORE 1027pts

Once inside the crate wait until around 12:00pm and a man will
come in, he puts something into the wall and walks through it, as
he does he drops a bit of paper. Get out of the crate and get the
paper, examine it and you will see a five digit code (random). Hit
the tuning fork and a blister will appear on the wall, examine the
blister and you will see two square holes, place the tuning fork
in the holes and a keypad appears. Type in the five digit code to
reveal a portal, enter the secret room and take the sphere. You
find a small gold button set into its surface, press the button
and a holographic star map appears. Take the sphere to Worden in
the board room.


Back at the board room Worden explains because of your success it
has been decided that you must travel to the vertex to activate
the fifth component. But first you will have to undergo a
psychological test to see if you are mentally prepared.

Go to the VR terminal and lie on the couch. wear the collar and
turn switch to Deep Psych, type in the password and press the
button.

In Deep Psych, wait once and then jump over the crack then wait
until the demon starts to panic and begins scratching at the door.
Lift the demon so he can open the door, you have succeeded in
cracking the Deep Psych VR and can now proceed with your mission.

SCORE 1140pts

Go to your ship and set the final course code that will take you
to the vertex.  You ship will get caught in a tractor beam, wait
until it docks with a satellite then open the hatch and go out.

Once in the satellite open the compartment and wear the collar and
then get the globe.

You receive a message from a Heechee VR telling you about a
warning message and that the collar you have on contains the
program, and how you must destroy the Assassin.

Enter the travel pod and press the pedal, you will be transported
to the planet's surface. At the other end touch the globe and you
will be ushered in and the hostess gives you a gold credit card.
(This is another VR simulation). Play some games until you have
enough money to enter the card game in the secluded bar. At the
secluded bar show card to Flint and he offers you a seat at the
card table. Get cards, deal cards, put credit card in slot.
Instead of placing a bet, FOLD immediately, even if you have a
winning hand. The VR will collapse.

SCORE 1200pts


After the VR has collapsed you find yourself in front of a throne
with a demon sitting on it. He is the keeper of the gate, this is
another VR simulation and again you must force it to collapse.

Hydra lair, get sword and then go to demon gauntlet, wait three
times until you are caught in a net. Then cut net with sword
(twice) and then take the net and the sack that one of the demons
has thrown at you. Go back to the hydra lair and put some ash in
the sack.

Go to empty chamber and wait until you hear a shuffle on the
stalagmite shelf. Now throw ash on shelf and a demon will appear,
quickly throw the net over the demon and take his ring. Wear the
ring which will make you invisible, pick up the sack and go to the
mirror room.

In the mirror room wait until one of the statues begins to move,
then cover the particular statue with the sack to collect some
beserker dust. Take the sack and go back to the hydra lair. Throw
dust over the hydra. Because you are invisible it will attack
itself and the VR will collapse. It appears you have finished your
mission and are returned to Gateway.

SCORE 1335pts

Go to your quarters and sleep. When you wake you see the light is
flashing on the commset, turn it on. You see another message from
the Heechee VR, telling you that you are not really back on
Gateway but in another VR simulation created by the Assassin to
delay you. To defeat the Assassin all you have to do is enter the
Deep Psych VR again and the Heechee VR will do the rest.

Go to the VR terminal and get the manual and read it. You find the
password for the Deep Psych VR is date dependent but the rest of
the page is blank, and you can't see any passwords. Take the
manual to the tanning room and read it again, this time the
strange lights in the tanning room reveal the list of password
codes for the Deep Psych VR.  Go back to the VR terminal and lie
on the couch. Wear collar and type in the correct password for the
particular day you are on.  All you have to do now is press the
button to enter Deep Psych, the Assassin will be destroyed and the
cloaking system will be activated.

SCORE 1505pts

Special notes :

You do not have to score full points to finish the game. Some
point scoring actions do not have any bearing on the game
whatsoever.

Once you have tied the beast up with the vine, you must not
untie him! If you do, you will not be able to complete the game.

If when you open the vent, you do not find a button, quit the game
and reload the game. When you are in the first location restore
and you will find the missing button.