Hexen II - part 4

                Walkthrough by James Madigan

Continued from Issue 82

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Welcome to the Roman hub, where you shall ultimately face War
himself, the 4th and last of Eidolon's dark generals. Many of the
adversaries from the 1st hub are back in force, with the singular
addition of the very dangerous Medusa. You also get friendly with
one of the game's toughest monsters, the Skull Wizard Lords, or
Shadow Wizards. This hub balances between action and puzzle
solving, calling on both quick fingers and some clever lateral
thinking.  There is a strong emphasis on "Easter eggs" or
"secrets" in the form of releasing artifacts in the Temple of
Mars. There are lots of clues written on the walls, particularly
near the doors that connect the maps. Make sure you note them all.

*****Step 1: The Power Crystal*****

-You start the hub in the Hall of Heroes.

-Go forward until you come to steps leading down to a shallow
pool.  Go left, up some stairs out of the pool, and go right down
some more stairs.

-Enter the room with a long pool and catwalk overhead. Turn left
along the length of the room and take the hall no the left down
some stairs. Come to a hall with red carpet, a red gem, and a
medusa. Grab the Crystal.

-Notice the cracked wall up on the left. Knock it out, jump up,
and hit the button to release a prize in the Temple of Mars.

-Retrace your steps to the shallow pool, but go straight, up a
short flight of stairs to the catwalk in the room with the long
fountain.  Follow the catwalk around to a room with a gold
teleporter.  Enter it.

-Go up the steps and come to a hedge maze. Go left at every
opportunity to work your way to the bottom left corner. Kill the
medusa and hit the button, opening some doors back by the shallow
pool.

-Near the exit in the upper right corner of the maze, there is an
illusionary wall. Find it, walk through, and hit the button for a
Mars prize.

-Retrace your steps back through the maze and return to the gold
teleporter.  Cross the shallow pool to the opposite side, going
through the recently opened doors. Follow the passage to a room
with stained glass and a pedestal. Approach the pedestal to place
and charge the Crystal. Hop up and collect the Power Crystal when
done.

*****Step 2: The Silver Bar*****

-Break out the window in front of you, hop through and down to the
yard. Go through the ornate arch in front of you, and take the
stairs down to the right.

-Come to a room with a machine in the center, a button on one
wall, and a red shelf on the other. Approach the shelf to place
the Power Crystal. Then hit the button to activate the machine and
rotate the bridge.

-Exit the room and keep going straight so that you renter the room
on the catwalk. Cross the bridge, hit the button on the right, and
quickly return to the bridge before it rotates again.

-Follow the narrow hall to the door leading to the Forum of Zeus.
Enter.

-Go forward and then right, following the hall to the ledge
overlooking a pool. Jump in, then swim forward and to the right,
to an underwater passage. Swim up, climb out of the water, and hit
the button. Climb the other stairs and hit the second button,
completing the sequence.

-Return to the pool and take the lift up. Walk across the
floorplate to rotate the bridge. Drop down onto it, turn around,
and follow the corridor.

-Follow the hall to the left or right until you can overlook a
courtyard with a medusa and a fountain. Carefully creep out
through a window and onto a very narrow ledge that runs the
parameter of the courtyard. Walk the ledge to a cracked wall.
Break it out and hit the button for another Mars prize.  Drop down
into the courtyard.

-Exit the courtyard through the hall on the left (when facing the
fountain), walk up to the darker wall to the left or right to move
it. Come into a room where stairs rise up and hit the button on
the wall. This will drop a platform out in the room with the pool.

-Go down the stairs and take the passage on the right. Keep
following it to a room with 3 buttons and a message to "Choose
your fate." Choose "life above all others" by hitting the button
on your left, then turning around, taking a right to the room with
3 artifacts up on ledges. Go up the stairs to the left and get the
Mystic Urn.

-Backtrack to the room with the pool. Dive in and take the lift up
again.  Cross over the recently dropped platform to the left.

-Follow the hallway to a room with many pillars. Run forward
through a lightning blast, and around to the left or right to a
room with 6 lenses.  Align all the lenses by hitting the floor
plates on either side of the room.

-Go back out next to where the lightning strikes, and take the
narrow stairs up on the right. Walk around the catwalk and through
the narrow hall no the other side. Now you're on the catwalk above
the 6 lenses. Step on the button on the central platform, opening
a door. Hop down and go through.  Follow the hall to Zeus's throne
room.

-Be penitent and approach Zeus's throne by crouching. Collect the
silver bar. Exit the throne room (by crouching) and retrace your
steps to the door leading to the Hall of Heroes. Enter.

*****Step 3: The Gold Bar*****

-Retrace your steps to the hedge maze, find the exit to the maze
on the left-hand side of the wall. Follow it to a door leading to
the Temple of Athena. Enter.

-Go forward to the room with a pool in it. Jump into the pool and
break out the cracked wall, following the tunnel to a button. Hit
the button to drop a pillar in the next room.

-Get out of the pool, then go up the stairs (pushing an iron
barrel up to the broken stairs if necessary), following the hall
to the catwalk over a courtyard. Drop down to the pool on the left
and hit the button for a Mars Prize.

-Get out of the pool and hit the button on the left wall,
activating a lift.  Take it back up to the catwalk and take the
hall on the left, following to a room with a button. Hit it to
open the house back in the courtyard.

-Go back to the courtyard, drop down, and enter the house.  Follow
the hall up some stairs and around to a second courtyard with a
Mystic Urn. Go straight ahead and follow the hall around to the
left, until you come to a mural on the left wall with a red edge
around it. Keep going straight, up some stairs, and into a room
with a Tomb of Power and a button. As always, hit the button.

-Return to the red-edged mural and go through the doorway opposite
it.  Follow the hall around to a big yard with a temple in it.

-Enter the temple and look up. Shoot the button on the ceiling to
get a Stone of Summoning. Exit the temple and hop up to the ledge
running around the right-hand side. Hit the button at the end of
the ledge.

-Hop down and take the lift to the upper ridge. Walk around the
ridge and hit the button at the end, summoning some Skull Wizards
and opening a door behind you. Go through the new door and follow
the hall to a catwalk over another courtyard.

-Go through the doorway between pillars on the left. Follow the
hall around to the room with the gold bar and an imp ambush.
Stand outside the room and fire at the top of the stairs where the
cracked step is. Enter the room and avoid awakening the imps by
not firing or using any of your weapons. Step on the floorplate,
get the gold bar, and press the button behind the statue of Athena
for a Mars prize.

*****Step 4: The Diamond Scepter*****

Drop down into the courtyard, go through the narrow hall in front
of you, through to the second courtyard (grab the ring of flight
to get the Krater on top of the house) and back to the door
leading to the Hall of Heroes.  Enter.

-Follow the hall to the hedge maze, and go through the exit on the
opposite wall. Follow the hall around, and go through the exit on
the opposite side of the building (not the ornate building).

-Follow the hall and go through the door to the Reflecting Pool.

-Follow the hall and dive down into the pool. Climb out and find
the hall leading to the outside area with a big temple and a gold
golem.

-Place the gold and silver bars on the shelves flanking the temple
door. Go through the door when it opens.

-Take the hall to the right, down a short flight of steps to a
room with a stone bridge over a pool. Go across the bridge and up
the stairs to the room with a door leading to the Baths of
Demetrius.  Enter.

-Go forward into the first room and go into the alcove on the
left.  Take the stairs down, and go through the archway to a room
with a Skull Wizard and grates over lava.

-Go down stairs to a room with a long bridge. Note the 2 buttons
on each wall. Push the buttons in the following sequence: fire,
steam (vertical wavy lines), water, air (horizontal wavy lines).
Collect the Diamond Scepter at the end of the bridge.

*****Step 5: The Crown of Kings*****

-Hop down off the bridge. In the area below there are 3 roman
numerals: I, II, and III. Below each numeral is a triangle that
can be turned by walking up to it. Past the III find a room with a
pool. Across the pool is a button, over which are three triangles
showing the proper alignment for the roman numerals.

-So, return to each of the numerals and turn the triangles as
shown in the room with the pool: I to 12:00, II to 3:00, and III
to 6:00.

-Return to the room with the pool and step on the floor plate,
releasing the floating barrels (kudos to Raven for this bit of
creative genius!). Hop across the barrels and hit the button,
opening an archway to the left.

-Swim through the archway and up some stairs to the left. Go
through the doorway on the opposite side of the room and keep
following the stairs up until you come to a 2-way intersection. Go
into the room on the right.  There should be a pool with a
platform in the center in the middle of the room.

-Dive into the pool and take the underwater passage to the right.
Swim up to the room with the Bo Peep staff and a button on the
wall. Hit the button (do you ever not hit a button?) to get a Mars
prize.

-Open the door, go through, and follow the hall all the way to the
end to score a bunch of Glyphs. Return to the room with the pool
in the center, and go through the exit on the opposite wall. Go
right into the room with stairs and a medusa.

-On the upper right is a window you need to jump up to, leading to
a room with the Crown. You can make this jump 2 ways: (1) by
hopping up on the fountain to the right (2) by climbing up the
stairs on the left and jumping across. Both can be a little tricky
and may take a couple of tries.

-Grab the Crown of Kings. Go through the door and return to the
door (incorrectly) labeled the Hall of Heroes. Enter and it will
actually take you to The Reflecting Pool.

*****Step 6 The Sunstone*****

-Return to the room with the stone bridge over the pool. Dive into
the pool and take the underwater passage beneath the bridge.
Climb up out of the water, take the lift up, and hit the button on
the left. This will lower the bridge before you. Jump down, go
straight and then right, then right again up some stairs. Follow
the hall until you come to the newly lowered bridge. Cross it and
follow the hall. Notice 2 pedestals, one on the left and one on
the right.  Place the staff and crown on the pedestals to open the
door ahead.

-Enter the door to The Temple of Mars, the god of war.

-Follow the hall until you come to a large open area. Go through
the door to the left, down the steps and into a room with
lightning surrounding a Tomb of Power. Run through the lightning
and across the floor plate. This will lower a lift. Take it up to
a catwalk.  Hit the button on the opposite wall.  Go down the hall
to the left to an alcove overlooking the swinging blades.  Hit the
button. Go back across to the catwalk, and through the opposite
hall, to a room with a Skull Wizard Lord. Defeat him and collect
the Sunstone from the alter.

*****Step 7: The Shadowstone*****

-Return to the outside area and take the door opposite you.
Follow the stairs down to a large room with stairs leading up and
a catwalk overhead.  Take the stairs all the way up and hit the
button on the wall, opening to doors on the opposite wall.

-Go through the door on the left to collect all your Mars prizes.

-Go back through and take the door on the right. Go up some stairs
on the right, then right again to a room with a Skull Wizard Lord.
Defeat him and collect the Shadowstone.

*****Step 8: The Voidstone*****

-Go back out of the room and up to the alcove on the right. Hit
the button to open a path past the blades. Jump down to the hall
with the blades.  Follow the wall to the left past them.

-Go through the doorway to a balcony overlooking a courtyard with
a statue of Mars. Jump down and take the passage under the balcony
to another Skull Wizard Lord. Defeat him and collect the
Voidstone.

-Return to the courtyard with the statue of Mars. Take the hall to
the right or left of the statue to a second courtyard with 3
pedestals in the center.  Place the Sunstone, Shadowstone, and
Voidstone on the pedestals to open the center stone. Jump down to
vanquish the mightiest of Eidolon's generals, War.

To be concluded next issue














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