Realms Of The Haunting - Part 2

                 Solution by William McCole

@~Continued from Issue 51

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 I 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 mantelpiece 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. Maybe
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 the 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 it, if you can, 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.

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