BLACK CRYPT FOR WIMPS - Part 2 by Mary Scott-Parker @~Continued from Issue 31 LEVEL 4 At the bottom of the stairs you will be facing E, turn to face S, take one step forward and then step back immediately and kill the weapon-pinching monster that will materialise in front of you. If upon starting level 4 you feel a shade under-equipped then the following steps will ensure a more even handed battle. Go back to the stairs at 20.23.2 and lay essential items on the floor, the most obvious necessities at this point being Storm Wand [unused!], Potions of Cure Poison, Quake Scroll, and Teleport Scroll and then save the game and exit. Make 3 copies [call them 1,2, and 3] of the save disk [call it disk A] using a copier like X-Copy 3 [failing that Workbench and remember to remove the "copy of" from the name of the copies] Restart the game using Disk A, pick up the items and go down the stairs. Go back up the stairs, this time using Disk 1 and again pick up the items. Go down the stairs again and then back up again, this time using Disk 2 and pick up the items again and repeat with disk 3. Save the game again on save Disk A. [This can be repeated at any stairs that access the save disk, only visit the level below first, and kill any monsters] You will now be fully equipped to complete level 4. Level 3 can only be completed when the Eyes of True Sight have been put into the gold face at 27.15.3, and the Mask of True Sight obtained. To get the eyes you need 4 Fork Keys to open the locked doors on level 4, behind which are the special waterskins for the four altars through the teleporter at 24.16.4, but first you need the Box Key to open the door at 22.20.4 to create the first switch. 24.16 Scroll of Life + Hope Blade + Potion of Cure Poison 22.12 Open Door 22.09 Open Gate 15.01 Scroll of Cure Poison [green monster in here] 15.01 Push Lever [removes wall at 27.02.4] 15.06 Get Box Key to door at 22.21.4 + Teleport Scroll 22.20 Open gate with Box Key 22.23 Dispel Magic Field 22.25 Push button 1st Fork key 20.19 Push lever and quickly go to 19.20 19.20 Face North and proceed 18.22 Push little button and quickly move over closed pits 13.22 Open Gate 11.22 Horn of Plenty 11.22 Push button 11.22 Enter haze [teleported to 20.24.4] 20.24 Get Fork Key for door at 18.19 18.25 Cure Poison Scroll 18.25 Enter haze and walk South towards pillar 18.19 Open gate with Fork Key 15.19 Get Waterskin and put in separate place 2nd Fork Key 24.19 Push lever, quickly go to 25.20 and proceed North 27.24 Fire Wand 27.24 Enter haze [teleported to 29.6.5] Level 5 31.02 Push lever 28.08 Step onto floor studs 31.08 Step onto North studs 31.08 Step onto South studs 31.08 Step onto South studs 28.08 Reverse onto floor studs then kill green monster 31.08 Step onto South studs 31.08 Step onto North studs 31.03 Enter haze Level 4 27.21 Step on invisible plate 25.21 Walk South towards pillar 25.18 Weapon pincher here, turn quickly before pushing lever 25.18 Push lever and quickly go to 26.16 27.16 Enter room cautiously, Green Monster and Weapon pincher just inside. Proceed East, room will go dark for 1 step 32.14 Push button 32.18 Push button 31.16 Dispel Magic haze 33.17 Get Fork Key for door at 26.19.4 33.16 Step South onto floor studs 28.16 Go West towards pillar 26.19 Open door with Fork key 29.19 Get Waterskin and put with the other 3rd Fork Key 22.14 Push lever, quickly go to 25.12 and proceed South 29.08 Use Dispel Magic on East haze and quickly go East, turn and kill 3 monsters 30.08 Get Fork Key 29.06 Tablet of Dvergar 29.10 Push lever 27.10 Coffer [Scroll of Cure Poison, 3 Pots of Cure Disease] 25.08 Go North towards pillar 26.13 Open door with Fork Key 29.13 Get Waterskin and put with others 4th Fork Key 20.15 Push lever and quickly go to 19.12 Face South and proceed 10.09 [Or somewhere around here] Green monster 09.11 Green monster 12.15 Push lever then teleport to 18.15 and quickly go to 17.16, or push lever and quickly go to 8.16.4, press button and enter haze at 7.16.4 to be teleported to 18.15 & quickly go to 17.16 18.16 Face West and proceed 16.17 Push lever 15.17 Put something in altar 14.15 Put something in altar 15.15 Put something in altar 15.15 Face North and get Fork Key. Get things from altars 16.16 Face East and proceed 18.13 Open door with Fork Key 15.13 Get Waterskin and put it with the others 15.13 Get Potion of INVINCIBILITY [don`t use it yet, multiply it so that you have a generous supply!] 24.16 Enter haze, then turn and kill weapon pincher 06.04 Put special waterskin in altar: repeat with others 10.02 Get Eyes of True Sight 09.04 Enter haze 22.18 Go up stairs Level 3 27.15 Put eyes on gold face 27.14 From 27.12 F RR FF LL FF RR FF LLLL FF RR 27.03 Get Mask of True Sight + Cult of Magic 26.18 Magic User must wear Mask. Click on bottom right square so that it is yellow, showing that he is the leader. You should now see the monsters in the room. 17.21 Open gate 17.19 Get Level 15 Scroll of Dispelling [keep safe] 07.21 Open gate 07.19 Get level 15 Scroll of Dispelling [keep safe] 12.12 Use level 15 Scroll of Dispelling on haze 12.08 Use level 15 Scroll of Dispelling on haze 12.07 Get level 15 Glyph Scroll [use on 28.02.4 Skull Glyph] 12.07 Get Wizard word + Red key [for door at 27.21.3] The area behind the Skull Glyph at 28.02.4 can now be explored @~But not until NEXT issue - o -