THE WARD - part 2

                  Solution by Peter Clark

Concluded from last issue

Go back down the passageway to the Church. Go right from here to
the main entrance. The door on the right is the door to Preacher's
Room. If he is not there yet, wander around talking to everyone
that you meet. If you can find Sebastian, talk to him and he will
probably tell you that it is safe to talk in the Casino Room and
that there is a secret passage somewhere.  About this time you
should get a message that the Preacher is back in his room so go
there and talk to him. You will find out that the Reptoids are
trying to wipe out all humanity and that Pager was Jessica's
boyfriend, Douglas. He is gone forever.  The Preacher has an
interesting closet in his room with another slider puzzle in it.
Leave this for now and go back into the Church and talk to Rosa
Martinez. If she is not there, wander around until you find her.
She will tell you about her implant and more about what happened
while you were on the Moon Base. Go to the Lavatory and ask
Sebastian about the Holy Mountain that Rosa mentioned. Now leave
and try to find Jessica. When you find her, meet her in the Casino
and talk to her about everything. Talk to everyone and watch out
for an opportunity to go into Rita's room while she is out. She
will, at some point, leave without locking the door. If you
haven't had a long conversation with her recently, you can most
likely do this in her room before she leaves. When you are in her
room alone, take the tarot cards from her table. You should have
the Wheel of Fortune, the King of Pentacles and the Death Card.
Put them in your inventory then use the Wheel of Fortune card on
the cabinet on the right of the room. The card has the solution
for the slider puzzle lock. You can use the Easy Mode to find out
what the puzzle should look like and then go back to your game to
set it up.

When you exit the puzzle screen, the door to the cabinet will
open. Move the books on the second shelf down and you will see a
red sensor with a small slot. None of your pass cards will operate
it so try the King of Pentacles card. A door will open behind
Rita's table revealing a secret passage. Go through here quickly
as it will close if you hang about. It is a good idea to save your
game here if you haven't done so lately. Go into the room to the
left and pick up the notebook from under the painting of the
Earth. Now leave and enter the room with the green sensor by it.
There is a book propped up on a crate or box at the back of the
room. Move this and it will fall to the floor revealing a red
sensor. You are unable to operate this at the moment so leave by
the secret passage to Rita's Room and close the cabinet door. Now
go through into the Casino.  Here you should see Ripper having an
argument with Rosa. You join in and rescue her from his unwanted
attentions. Leave the Casino and find Hacker. He will ask you to
meet him back in the Casino. Return there and talk to him. Show
him the half of the Pager's card that you have. He will need the
other half before he can try to repair it. Leave the casino and,
if Jake gives you a message, find Rita and talk to her. At this
point you can also talk to the Doctor again if he is around. He
will tell you about Webber. Now find Rita and meet her back in her
Fortune Telling Room. Tell her that she has been lazy and left her
room unlocked. Now leave and try to find Rosa in the Church.  She
will tell you that the other half of Pager's card is in the locker
in Slash's Room. She gives you a piece of paper containing the
combination to his locker. His room is next to your own.  Return
to the Landing Platform and use the Gambler's card on the door to
get inside. Use the locker combination on the cabinet and then
solve the slider puzzle to open it. Inside you will find the other
half of Pager's card. Leave the room immediately and go to find
Hacker. Give him both halves of the card.

Try to find Jake the radioman. He has found a note on his radio
asking you to go to the Preacher's room as soon as you can. Find
your way back to the Preacher's room. The door is half open and
looks suspicious. Save your game before entering! Sebastian may
approach you around this time but there is no immediate hurry to
talk to him. Go inside the room and you find that it is empty. The
door closes behind you and the air is slowly being pumped from the
room. Unless you can escape quickly, you will suffocate. Try to
open the door and use the bell button alongside it. No good! Above
the door is a picture. Look at this in close-up and you will see a
small switch on the right hand side about halfway up. Use this to
reveal the device that operates the bell mechanism. Open the top
panel using the screwdriver then click on the broken wires until
they are in a cross shape. Press the bell button and you will blow
the fuse. Take out the blown fuse. This is turquoise in colour.
Put it into your inventory. Fix the wires again but, this time, do
it the proper way so that the wires are not crossed.  Click the
CSM Model from your inventory on the fuse cap that is now on the
shelf. Now put the fuse cap back into the mechanism.  Ring the
bell.

There now follows a cut scene where you are rescued and you
discover that the Preacher did not send you the note that Jake
found on his radio. Talk to everyone and then leave the room.  If
they have already left, go into the Church and you will most
likely meet Hacker. He will give you the repaired Pager card.
Jake might find you and warn you not to go into the Casino for a
while as Ripper is there and he is not in a good mood.  Also find
Jessica and the Doctor and talk to both of them.  Jessica will
tell you what happened when Douglas Pager was abducted and about
Professor Webber. You will find out that there are three different
types of implant. One for mental control, one for language
translation and another for observation that is not used on
humans. They will work on the Greys however and this gives you an
idea. She also gives you more information on the Men in Black. She
and Professor Webber have developed a decompression treatment that
will restore people's minds. Webber is still around the Colony but
his name is now Weirdstuff. Now find and talk to the following
people: - Hacker, Rita and Rosa. She will refer you back to the
Preacher so go and talk to him in his room. You will have to use
Pager's card to enter his room and will find it empty when you go
in. Ring the bell and then meet him in the Church. You ask him to
"cover" for you at the Mass Service as you have something
important to do and you don't want to be missed.

Go to the Fortune Telling Room and open the cabinet by pressing
"done" when the puzzle screen appears. Use Pager's card on the
sensor again and go back into the secret chambers.  Go ahead into
the room with the sensor and enter.  Use Pager's card on the
sensor behind the book that fell off the box. The wall will begin
to shimmer. Go through this wall into another room. There is a
notebook on the table so pick it up and open it. Look at the star
chart on the inside cover and look through the remainder of the
pages. Jessica will come in and fill you in on some missing
information. You will find out that Holbrook, the Preacher, is in
fact, the Nexus.  Jessica will take you to the Preacher and you
will find out the rest of the story. After this conversation, you
and Jessica find yourselves inside a ventilation system. You will
arrive at the Central Core.  Use Pager's card on the red sensor.
The hatch releases and you are in the central section of the
Colony with the flight centre ahead of you and the abyss all
around. You and Jessica are on the ramp around the mid left of the
screen. Go through the small red door on the upper left side of
the screen.  You will eventually find yourselves in the Fraction
Headquarters.  Go to the door at the far right rear of the room
and use Pager's card on the sparkly sensor on the left of the
middle door.  The panel will turn liquid and you can walk through.
On the far side you will see a white light. Follow this until you
arrive in the Fraction Headquarters. You are told that it is
possible to get the Memorizer back again and that they will get
you to Draco where you will find the Holy Mountain. You are also
confirmed as The Ward. The reptoids are after the Techno Virus and
you will have to get it before they do. You have to have another
key card before you can retrieve the Memorizer. Suddenly, you are
all attacked and everyone is killed except you, Jessica and one
member of the High Council who gets you safely back to the Colony.

Episode Three - The Uprising

Talk to the Preacher in his room. You will need to activate the
bridge across the abyss to get the Memorizer back from the Control
Room. Now Jake will tell you to mingle a bit and make yourself
inconspicuous for a while. Leave the Preacher's Room and go out
onto the Landing Platform. You should find Hacker here. Talk to
him and then talk to everyone you find, especially Mike and the
man in the sunglasses and lab coat. He will turn out to be
Professor Webber. Now find Rita in the secret room behind the
Fortune Telling Room. You will have to use the liquefied door
again. Talk to her and use the notebook that you picked up earlier
on the notebook on the table to make a copy of the star chart. You
will need this to open the locker in your room later. Talk to Rita
and she will tell you that there may be a bridge activator hidden
somewhere in the Colony. When you leave Rita and subsequently the
Casino, Ripper will accost you will end up in Sebastian's Room
with Jessica and Marshall.  Marshall has placed a security
necklace on Jessica. You will finish up having a fight with Riper
and killing him.  Examine him and take his pager and his freezer.
You now have fifteen minutes to complete the next task. Leave the
Casino and, right where you are standing, do the following: -

Use the Pager.  Click on the long blue button to the left.  Watch
for the red light to flash then replace it in your inventory.
Take out the freezer.  The game will automatically position you in
the best spot to ambush Marshall.  Have the freezer ready when
Marshall appears by the double doors.  Wait until he turns his
back on you then let him have it with the freezer.  Examine him
and take his freezer, his personal card and a note from his
pockets.

Go to Marshall's office and convince Slash that you need to get
the Data Reader from his room. Go inside and find the safe on the
far side of the room. Complete the slider puzzle to open the safe.
When it is open, take the Data Reader then use the freezer on the
world map on the wall. This is a hologram that hides a storage
area and you can now get the Implant Gun.  Leave Marshall's Office
and go back to Sebastian's Room where Jessica is being held, still
wearing the necklace.  Give the Data Reader to Hacker immediately
and he will encode the right sequence to free Jessica. After the
cut scene, Jessica and Hacker will throw Ripper's body into the
abyss. When you are left on your own, take the Data Reader from
your inventory and use Marshall's personal card on it. Scroll the
arrow so that it rests on BRIDGE DOWN then press the TRANSMIT
button.  There should now be a bridge in place across the abyss.

Go across the bridge but do not enter the Control Room yet.
Before entering the Control Room, use the Data Reader again to
turn off the bridge. Enter the Control Room and use Pager's card
on the right hand cabinet on the left wall. Take the Memorizer and
the Implant Capsules that you find. Now you can remove the
Bio-container from your body. Take the Memorizer from your
inventory and scroll to the code that you scrambled earlier.
Unscramble it then press transmit.  You will now see a cut scene
where the Bio-container is retrieved from your body. You will now
have the Crystal Cone. Use the Data Reader to turn the BRIDGE ON
again and leave the Control Room. Return to the Colony where
someone will tell you what has been happening to Preacher John.
Before going to see him, visit Rita in her secret room again. She
will tell you that she believes that you have a Tracer Capsule
hidden in your body. You realise that you will have to get it
removed.

Leave Rita and go to Walker's Room in the sleeping area.  Go to
the cabinet on the left side of the room and solve the slider
puzzle to open it. The notebook that you found in the room behind
the Fortune Telling Room will help you here.  Inside the cabinet
you will find some purple tiles. Take these and go back inside the
Colony to find Professor Webber. Talk to him about helping you get
rid of the Tracer Implant. He and Jessica will help you do this.
Immediately this has been done, take the Implant Gun from your
inventory and use the Tracer Implant on it. Leave the room and the
Casino and go straight across to the middle door. This is where
you will find the Preacher in a back room. Shoot him with the
Implant Gun. Now go back and talk to Rita in the secret room. She
is trying to activate the Crystal Cone. She gives you a clue to
the solution. Use the purple tiles on the new page in the notebook
and solve the Tile Puzzle.  This is a relatively easy puzzle and,
when you have completed it, put the crystal cone into the circle
that is part of the completed puzzle. You will get a very bright
white light. Put this in your inventory and go to the Preacher's
Room. Use Pager's card to get in and try to open his cabinet. You
will have to complete yet another slider puzzle.

Look at the painting above the door and click on the top part of
it where the cursor highlights. You will see the word REV with two
lines under it. This is the solution to the slider puzzle.
Complete the puzzle to open the cabinet. Inside there are some
books. Try looking at the "Joyce Finnegan's Wake" and you will
find the Preacher's personal card. Inside his Bible you will find
another decoder but you cannot take it and you don't need it
either. Now go and find the Preacher in the Guard's Room opposite
the Casino. Stand near him and take the Data Reader from your
inventory. Remove Marshall's card from it and replace it with the
Preacher's card. Scroll down until you find a code beginning with
"tt5" If you remember, the Preacher mumbled the words, "Picture -
Double T5" Having selected this code, click on TRANSMIT and watch
as the Preacher's hand begins to glow. Click on him to retrieve
the PSI Communicator. Now use the exclamation mark on the unit to
call Gowddeln, the High Council Fraction Grey who helped you
escape earlier. You will talk to him and tell him that you now
have everything that you need in preparation for the journey to
the Holy Mountain.

You will travel there via the Dorb Adiopter Star-ship. It is a
reptoid supply ship. Gowddeln gives you a Pass Card and a Special
implant with your personal ID Code.  Next, he gives you a Holomask
so that you can disguise yourself as a Reptoid. Take the Holomask
and select Reptoid Maintenance with the blue buttons at the right
on the Control Unit. Click on the exclamation mark. The Reptoid
Disguise will envelop you. Go through the hatch on to the platform
and to the larger exit at the top of the screen.

When you arrive at the Dock Area, you will see an exit to the
left. This is a dark alley. There is a smaller exit just to the
right of this with a sort of small wall near it. Take this exit
and you will enter a Pre-flight Staging Compartment next to the
Draconian ship. There is now another timed sequence. Use one of
the regular white implants from your inventory and use it with the
Implant Gun. Now shoot the Grey that is standing in front of you
with it. Talk to him about everything and you find out that his
name is Bloom. Now put the Special Implant into the Implant Gun
and fire it at the Bio-container that is still in your inventory.
Use the Memorizer and transmit the code to put the bio-container
back into your body again. Turn off the Holomask and talk to Bloom
again. You will subsequently enter the Reptoid Star-ship.

Episode Four. - The Alien Star-ship

Now that you are in the Hanger on level D of the Dorb, you have
the choice of continuing the game as Walker or Bloom. I chose
Bloom. You can switch your identity using the new icon that
appears on the screen. You can also trade items from your
inventories. This is very useful, but it can only happen when both
players are standing in the same area together. If you choose
Walker then you have no inventory except the Bio- container. If
you are playing as Bloom, you have an STD Card and a Memorizer. It
is a good idea to practice switching identities and swapping items
from your respective inventories to get the hang of it.

First, as Walker, turn to Bloom and say, "I need you to do
something for me." Click on the Container Room and, as Bloom, walk
over to it. Use the Memorizer and select COMM LINK TO CONTAINER
then hit the TRANSMIT button. Now press the RECEIVE button and
make a note of the code that you receive. Now go over to the
console and click on all three levels of the ship's floor plan.
Highlight all the rooms and then go back to Walker. Talk to Walker
about all of the rooms so that he has some idea of their uses. It
may be useful to draw a quick sketch of this layout for future
reference. When you have finished this conversation, and as Bloom,
go across to the doorway and use the STD Card to go through. Near
the start of the corridor that you find yourself in, on the right
hand side there is a door that opens with the STD Card into the
Maintenance Room. Inside there are some shelves with boxes on.
They have red lights on them. Pressing the red buttons opens the
boxes. Open them and take two of each object inside. You should
have some Maintenance keys, some Wire Cutters and some
communicators. Now leave the room and continue along the corridor.
A Reptoid may approach you.  Talk to him quickly in passing and
push the elevator button and go inside to the left. Select Level
C. When you arrive, leave the elevator by clicking on the arrow at
the bottom of the screen.  Look at the Cryo-booths and walk to the
second one at the back and to the left of where Bloom is standing.
Scan the booth with the cursor until you find the panel. In
close-up, you will see a lock. Use the maintenance key on it to
open it. You see a gas tank.  Take this and, in doing so, you
reveal some wires. Take both the red and blue wires to disconnect
them.  Exit the close-up and cross the aisle to where you see an
empty gas tank. Take this and return to the elevator. Go to level
D, where Walker is waiting. Leave the elevator and find your way
back to the Maintenance Room. Here you will now be able to click
on a box of electronic devices and take two Y- Microjacks. Go back
to the Cryo-Chamber on Level C and return to your cryo-booth. The
panel will be open so put the Y- Microjack in the slot to the left
then connect both the red and blue wires to the Microjack. Put the
empty gas tank in the appropriate slot and close the booth. Now go
to the elevator and return to Walker who is waiting on level D.
Talk to him and say that everything is ready. Now select, "Let's
sit and wait.."

While you are waiting as Bloom, give the STD Card, a Communicator,
some Wire Cutters, the Full Gas Tank and the Memorizer to Walker.
You should see a display telling you that these objects are being
transferred as you do so. It is a good idea to check your
inventory afterwards to see that the transfer has taken place. As
Walker, go to the container and, in close- up, put the full gas
tank on the floor in the hiding place behind the crates. As
Walker, go to the hatch that leads to the elevator and use the STD
Card on it. Now, as Bloom, go through the hatch and return to the
cryo-booth on Level C. Use the screen near the booth to set
Bloom's booth to "Sphereblend" and "open". Get in the booth and
immediately change over to Walker.

As Walker, go to the container area and use the Memorizer to
transmit the bio-container code and retrieve it from your body.
Enter the close-up of the container area and click on "behind
crates." Put the bio-container on the floor next to the full gas
tank. Save your game here as the next phase is timed and there is
little room for mistakes. You have only 60 seconds to do the
following:

Click on the valve of the gas tank to open it.  Transmit the
container code to close the container doors.  Use the STD Card to
enter the passage.  Go to the elevator and use it to get to Level
E.  When Walker can be seen leaving the elevator door, go to the
door on the right of the passage.  Use the STD Card to go in.
Under the security scanner, the ship's computer will determine
your true identity and let you through to the Security Control
Room.  Walk inside and the door will close behind you sealing you
inside in reasonable safety. Save your game again here.
NOTE :  On the security screen, if you see a request for elevator
service from Level E, deny it, as it is a reptoid trying to reach
you.

Switch to Bloom and leave the hibernation area. Use the elevator
button. If it says, "WAIT", it means that Walker will have to deal
with another request before yours. Switch to Walker and deny the
request from Level E again before switching back to Bloom and
trying again. You may have to do this several times before Bloom
is able to use the elevator to go to Level D. Walker will have to
approve the request before this can happen. When you, as Bloom,
arrive on Level D, the Cargo Hanger where you both first arrived,
it might be useful to save your game again before approaching the
dead reptoid and taking his Gold Card. The next sequence of events
is not timed but must be completed fairly quickly and in the
correct sequence or you will have to start again.

Use the Gold Card to get back into the passage.  Go towards the
elevator but, just before the elevator, go into the door on the
left hand side.  Go to the Gravity Control Console and immediately
press, "Abort."  Switch to Walker and deny the Level E request
before approving Bloom's request.  Switch back to Bloom and press,
"SET GRAV. GEN.  SHUTDOWN" then "AFFIRMED." Choose "3 MINUTES"
then "UNTIL WE ARRIVE AT DRACO SYSTEM." Now press "AFFIRMED"
again.  Switch to Walker and approve Bloom's request.  Switch back
to Bloom and use the maintenance key on the round lock on the left
hand side of the panel below the Gravity Controls. When you see
some wires, use the cutters to snip the red and blue wires
immediately under the LSR emblem.  Finally, as Bloom, leave the
Gravity Control Room and go left to the elevator.  Call the
elevator and, when it appears Ok, as Walker, approve Bloom's
request and then, as Bloom, go to Level C. Go to the Cryo-booth
and, on the screen, click "Hibernation" and "Open Booth." Now get
into the booth and answer "Yes" to both the questions that are
asked.  Switch to Walker and approve Bloom's request for
hibernation.  Step back from the console and click on the left
wall of the cabin where you see a hot spot. That is the Vitrifax.
Choose "Ten Minutes." Several events now happen as the ship's
gravity system closes down.

Afterwards, go to the console and "Disengage security lock" so
that you can leave. Go back through the scanner area and down to
Level D.  Go into the Computer Room. This is the room on the left
after the screen reverses on leaving the elevator. The security
scanner will not betray you. The computer is a large floating
white diamond and it will greet you and treat you to a deep
conversation. After this, the ship changes course and heads for
Draco and the Holy Mountain.

When you regain control, follow the path of least resistance until
you come to a long bridge. Cross this and enter the elevator. You
are taken into the depths of the Holy Mountain.  Click on the
"Portal" and then on the "Flow." You then reach the final puzzle
with the crystals. The object is to click on each one and then be
transported to another place with more crystals. There doesn't
seem to be a set way to finish this puzzle but, if you keep
clicking on the white ones as par as possible for a few minutes,
you will eventually get to the final scene where you are
transported back to Earth and picked up by a Park Ranger.

Watch the closing scenes as you have now completed, "The Ward."

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