Myst III - Exile - Part 1

                  Solution by Peter Clark

The game begins with you overlooking a desert scene. You hear a
voice from behind. Turn around and you are greeted by Catherine.
She welcomes you to the age of Tomahna. She tells you that Atrus
is busy and suggests that you wait for him in his study. Go into
the study and look around at the items on the desk and shelves
behind the desk is a book with a broken link to Ghen's Age in
Riven. Read the note on the desk and look on the other side of the
room where you will find a pedestal on which is the Releeshan
Linking Book. Turn around and Atrus will enter and greet you in
preparation for a journey to Releeshan. Suddenly everything goes
haywire and you finish up in J'Nanin.

J'Nanin.

On arrival, you see the thief from Atrus's Study run around a
corner. Follow him and you will see him disappear up a ladder and
into a tower. You can see him inside but trying the door is no
help as he has locked it behind him. Go back down again onto a
curved pathway. On the right, you will see a ladder leading down
to the beach. Go down this ladder and, when on the beach, go to
the right and follow the beach to the end.  Look up to the right
and you will see a post with a circular lens on top. Examine this
and you find that you can get different views from it and rotate
it by touching the circular bar under it.  If you have explored
the island, you will have seen that there are seven such posts.
They each have a coloured ball on top.  Nearby, you will see that
there is another post with a round object on top and another
ball-like building on a pedestal sticking out of the sea. Leave
this alone for now and follow the path around the crater. Halfway
down is a broken post and at the end are some steps leading both
up and down. At the top of the stairs is a building shaped like a
tusk. The door is locked and it has a window above it with a
symbol carved on it. From here you can see most of the island with
its tusks, posts, stairs, bridges and pathways. Go down the steps
through the windy place. Note the sound that you hear here. You
will arrive at a glass building. Go into this greenhouse building
and pull the handle. This will open the door to the inner part of
the building.

Go inside and go forward to the Tower door. It is locked.  Behind
you is a red button. Push this button to open the door to the
Tower and go inside. It appears that this is some kind of workroom
with a hammock in it. Look in the hammock and you find a book.
Read it and you discover that it belongs to Saavedro. Have a good
read as you may find some clues.  Look around the room and you see
a balance with some weights on it. Note the position of the
weights for later reference. There is also an experiment on the
table that you can play with. Make a note of the positions of any
other coloured balls that you may see. In an alcove you see a
wooden contraption. Look behind it and you find a door. It is, in
fact, a lift. Go inside and use the lever to make the lift go up.
At the top you will see Saavedro. He thinks that you are Atrus. He
fiddles with some machinery and a cage appears from the floor.
There is nothing more that you can do here so press the button to
take the lift back down.

Look around to the side of the lift and you see that you can
operate the lift from outside. Use the lever and watch the lift go
up. When it has gone, look down and you see that there is a pit
under the lift. Jump down and you see four pieces of machinery
around the walls. These must be set right before you can get into
the Laboratory above. Check Saavedro's book for diagrams of these.

Firstly we must deal with the machinery with three small weights.
Click twice on the left and right hand weights but do not touch
the centre one. Next, to the right you see a sort of cylinder on
the end of an arm that is connected to a central ring. Click on
the cylinder that you see to make it revolve and then once on the
central ring to make the ring turn to the right.  Click on the
cylinder that now faces you and then again on the central ring. Do
not click on the third cylinder or the central ring again. Next to
the right you see a sort of switch. Click on this once to that the
lever moves towards you. To the right again and you see two cogs.
The one on the left has one large gap in it. Turn the left hand
cog so that a tooth on the right hand cog fits exactly into the
gap on the left hand one. Now go back up out of the pit and call
the lift back down with the lever.

Enter the lift, close the door and use the lever to go up again.
This time the lift revolves before rising and when you arrive at
the top you see Saavedro disappear and the cage disappear again.
You can now leave the lift and enter the Laboratory.  Inside, you
will find some of Saaverdo's pages. You will keep finding these
around the place. Press the blue button on the central rail and
three projectors will appear from the walls. You start to see a
video of Atrus but Saavedro buts in and tells you to find three
symbols. When the video is complete, go to each of the projectors
in turn and examine the pictures in them. By moving the pictures
around you are able to centralise the window of a tusk with a
symbol on it. Each of the symbols is etched into the projector
and, using the controls on each side of the projector, one of
which controls the zoom and the other the focus, it is possible to
align each of the symbols with the appropriate window. When this
has been done, go to the lift and pull the lever to lower the
lift. Now you can open the lift door and operate the lock on the
outer door. Open it and leave.  Now you have to find the Linking
Book for Amateria.

Amateria Linking Book.

From the laboratory tower, head towards the nearest tusk. This is
sort of half left. Towards the left hand side of the rock by the
tusk is a hole leading down. Go down the ladder and you find
yourself on a walkway leading to a door. There is a cylinder
blocking the way so go back up the ladder and go to the far end of
the rock behind the tusk. There is another ladder down the cliff.
Go down and you see that there are two levers here.  You can also
see the walkway with the cylinder on it. You have to get cylinder
right o the right hand side so that you can get to the door. The
sequence of lever pulls is: - Left, Right, Left, Right. Now go
back up the cliff and down the hole again. When you get to the
door open it and go inside. Unfortunately, the floor has been
smashed and you cannot get across. Return up the hole and down the
cliff. Use the levers to roll the cylinder into the hole in the
floor. This is done using the levers as follows: - Left, Left,
Right, Right.

Now go back to the room with the broken floor and, this time you
can walk across to a sort of plinth with a marble puzzle on it.
You must put the marbles into the same sequence that you saw in
the tower. Starting from the outside marble and working inwards
imagining a clock face they should be in the following positions:
- 11, 4, 6 and 9. Press the central button and a basket will
descend with the linking book in it. Click on the book and of you
go to Amateria.

AMATERIA

This an oriental land with a large pagoda in the centre. There are
some raised tracks that you cannot use. Use the track that leads
to the central pagoda and on your left you can see a hexagonal
control panel. There are many buttons on it. There are tow more of
these and they are means to close the gaps in the walkways that
you cannot currently use. Three boxes mean three puzzles and you
can complete them in any order.

Head off across the bridge and, at the next junction, you will see
the linking book back to Jnanin. Follow the path into the tunnel
and go down the stone steps. At the junction, turn right.  Go past
the lift and follow the path. Near the end you will see a ladder
on the right hand wall. Go up and follow the track. On the left
hand side there is another control panel. Use the lever to raise
the platform and then use the control panel lever to start the
ball rolling. The ball will get so far around the track and then
shatter. Watch the path of the ball through the cogs on the
control panel. This is the sequence that you must set to solve the
puzzle. Go back down and into the tunnel and carry on along the
path. You will come to some black stepping- stones. Hop along
these and, at the end; you will be able to climb up onto the
roller coaster. At the end of each loop there is a platform with a
panel on it. Each of these panels has to be set to the position
shown on the control panel above. The easiest way to complete the
puzzle is as follows: -

Go to the loop where you are facing the setting sun and set this
panel to the 10 o'clock position. Go back onto the track and go
through the buzzing force field. Follow the track down to the
junction and go straight through. At the next loop, set the panel
to the 12 o'clock position. Back onto the track and carry on to
the junction. Go straight across the junction and set the next
panel to the 2 o'clock position. Go back on the track and follow
it to the central junction where you should take the middle exit.
At the next loop, set the panel to the 4 o'clock position. Now
return to the track, carry on along it to the next loop and set
the panel to 6 o'clock position. (It took a bit of time but I
found that it was best to save the game at each point and then
return to the control panel above and try it out before setting
the next panel.) When all five panels are set, return to the
control panel above and set the ball loose again. If the panels on
the roller coaster are set correctly the ball with complete its
circuit and the tope of the control panel will open showing a
bridge closing. It will then close and you will see on it a
pattern. Make a note of this and the colour.

Now go back to the point where you arrived on the island and
follow the steps down again. Take the right hand tunnel at the
junction and you should find the lift. Take the lift up and, at
the top, you should see a metal channel balanced on a huge gear
wheel and a track at either end. Go back down and follow the path
to the right. Go along the wooden path and onto a mud bank with a
green pool by it. Halfway along the path, on the right, is a
platform that you can ride up on by pulling the lever.  Go up and
look at the equipment that you saw from the top of the lift. There
are three levers here that control the balance point of the giant
cog and tube. Experiment with them to get the feel of what they
do. The other lever releases a giant ball that will travel some
way along the track before shattering. Go back down and along the
mud bank to the building at the end.  Go inside and you see a
balance weight in the form of a ball.  There are several segments
available to place on the ball. If you have played with the
balance in Saavedro's Room, you will be able to work out that the
spare segments are made of wood, iron or crystal. Further
experimenting shows that wood = 1, crystal = 4 and iron = 16. We
need a total weight of 22 to balance the counterweight. So we have
to add 2 wooden segments and 1 iron segment to the ball in the
hut. Having done that, return to the control panel and set the
pivot point to the left. Pull the lever and the ball should travel
its course and close showing another bridge rising and another
symbol. Make a note of this and of its colour. Now return to the
point at which you arrived on the island.

From this point, go down the ladder towards the glowing rocks and
across a wooden walkway that leads to a green mossy path. About
halfway along this path, on the right, is a gate. Go through the
gate and pull the lever next to the control panel.  You will rise
up into the air. In front of you are three pegs that fir into the
holes in the two wheels. Pulling the lever across releases a large
ball that runs around track and into a cup. It will eventually
fall into the sea. You have to set the pegs in the correct holes
to stop this happening. Put the pegs into the holes as follows: -
Left hand wheel. - top segment and the next to the right.  Right
hand wheel. - The ten o'clock segment. When you have done this,
pull the lever. If you have the pegs in the correct segments the
ball find complete its trip around the cups and the control panel
will show you another bridge and another symbol. You should again
note this symbol and its colour. Now you may return to the central
pagoda.

From the point at which you arrived on the island, go across the
walkway towards the pagoda. There are still gaps in the pathway.
On the left of each gap is a control panel. Set each one with one
of the symbols that you noted on the other control panels. I don't
think that there is any special order. As each one is completed
the walkway is extended. When you arrive at the pagoda, go inside
and a staircase will appear. Go up and sit in the chair at the
top. Press the button and you will hear Saavedro talking to you.
Pull the lever above the viewer screen and you go up in the air.
At the top, you will see a complex puzzle in front of you. You
need to set the pieces so that they form a path. A picture of the
solution is attached to this walkthrough. When you have completed
this, look up and press the blue button for the ride of your life!
At the end of the ride the symbol for Amateria will appear. Note
this symbol and then go to the Linking Book and return to J'nanin.

When you return, you will be in the Laboratory. Place the symbol
that you got from Amateria on the blue disk near the blue button.
You will hear from Saavedro again. You can ignore him if you wish.
Go out of the door and find your way to the position where you
first saw the dome-like object that sticks out of the sea. Turn
the handle until you get maximum reflection of sunlight from the
dome. This should take four clicks. Near there you will see a post
with a yellow ball on the top. Stand with your back to the
reflecting dome and turn the post until a beam of light shines
from the right hand side of the post. Look through the post and
you should see that it is pointing to the blue post. You now have
to align the whole seven posts in the correct order. Remember to
stand with your back to the reflected light each time. The order
to align them is as follows: - Yellow, Blue, Green, Red, Yellow,
Purple and Red. (Note that there are two Yellow and two Red
posts.) When you have completed this, look through the last post
and you should see that there is a rainbow shining on the Tusk.
You have to press the buttons on the door in the same order as you
set the posts to open the door. Once inside, look at the plinth
with the marbles on and set them the same as you did in the Tower.
(Starting with the outermost marble as (1) Set 1 at 7 O'clock, 2
at 9 O'clock, 3 at 6 O'clock and 4 at 3 O'clock. A basket will
descend with the Linking Book to the Voltaic Age inside it. Click
on the book and off you go.

To be concluded next issue















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