The Black Mirror - Part 2

                    Walkthrough by Dusty

Continued from last issue

CHAPTER 3

The Hidden Heirloom

At the gate in Wales:

Ring the doorbell next to the gate twice, but doesn't work.
Examine the doorbell with the right mouse button - you will find
out that the wires inside barely touch one another. Examine the
broken leg of the statue to the left of the gate three times -
Samuel will find a nail in it. Use the nail for the doorbell,
which will finally make it ring. As soon as the gatekeeper asks
you to identify yourself quickly (before leaving) show him
William's death notice - he will lead to you to the villa to see
Eleonor. You will discuss all sorts of topics with Eleonor.

Unlocking the door of the abandoned house:

Walk out of the villa and head to the fork in the road. From here,
continue left to the old garden (the gatekeeper will stop you, but
after explaining he will let you go). Continue to the abandoned
house and along the left to the crypt. Try to get inside - you
will find out that it is locked. When you speak to Eleonor about
the crypt, she will refuse to let you in. Try to enter the
abandoned house - it too is locked. Examine the door with the
right mouse button - you will discover that the key is inserted in
the other side of the lock. In the location in front of the house,
there is a water tap. Examine it - Samuel will pick up the piece
of wire, which is wrapped around it. Insert the death notice under
the door of the old house, and use the wire on the door. Samuel
will thus obtain the key, which you will use to unlock the door to
the old house.

Discovery of a secret passage in the abandoned house:

Inside the abandoned house, you will scare a cat sleeping on the
hearth. The cat will run into a closet, but when Samuel opens it,
he finds out that the cat is not there. The cat threw a key onto
the floor from the fireplace. Examine the small door to the left
of the fireplace (left or right key) and unlock it with the
collected key. Take a candle (which does not have a wick) and gas
lighter from the unlocked compartment. In the inventory, use a
small knife on the candle, thereby creating a wick, and insert it
into the lighter. Use the gas lighter for the dark closet - you
will find out that there is a secret passage. Walk in - you will
reach Richard's secret laboratory. During the dialogue, Richard
will break a bottle with boron oxidant and will want you to obtain
another one for him.

Production of boron oxidant:

Examine the bottle on the small table in the workshop - Samuel
picks one up. Pick up the fragment with the oxidant label from the
floor next to Richard. Upstairs in the room above the laboratory,
open the drawer in the desk, and in a detailed view open the small
drawer - there you will find a fountain pen.  Outside in front of
the house, use the empty bottle for the tap, thereby filling it
with water. In the inventory for the bottle, use the fountain pen,
thereby obtaining blue water in the bottle. Inside the old house,
pick up the dirty paper from the floor, and throw it into the
stove on the left. From the floor in front of the fireplace, pick
up a log of wood and throw it into the stove as well. Light a fire
in the stove using the lighter. From the table in the middle of
the room, pick up the tea kettle, fill it with water from the tap
in front of the house, and place it on the stove in the house.
After a while (leave the house and return again), steam will start
to escape from the kettle. Place the fragment over the steam,
thereby removing the label. Now you have to somehow have to stick
the label on the bottle with the ink. In the garden in front of
the villa, you will speak to Louis the gatekeeper, mainly about
repairing the doorbell. After you leave

the location, Louis will move away to start repairing the doorbell
on the main gate. Go back to the villa, where Eleonor will have
another message for Louis - this time he should take care of the
lawn. Go back to the main gate and give the message to Louis, who
will retort that he does not have time. Inform Eleonor of Louis'
standpoint; she will tighten up and send you to see Louis again.
Tell Louis that Eleonor explicitly wishes that he take care of the
lawn immediately. When you leave the location and return again,
Louis will be running around the garden with a lawnmower. Louis
has left his tools lying near the main gate.  Look through it -
you will find glue and a stiff wire. In the inventory, spread the
label with glue and paste it onto the bottle with the ink - and
there you have oxidant! Take the bottle with the oxidant to
Richard in the laboratory, and speak to him about the crypt,
William and the key.

Puzzle in the Crypt

Go to the place where Louis is cutting the grass, and throw the
wire on the lawn. The lawnmower will get stuck and Louis will
leave. Look through his jacket, which is hung up on the tree - you
will find a bunch of keys. Go to the crypt and unlock the entrance
using the key to the crypt. Inside the crypt, examine the
inscriptions above the three statues (from the left: Veine, Odire,
Malite). Talk to Richard about the inscriptions on the crypt - he
will promise to find out what they mean. However, you must give
him some time to do so. Go back to the crypt, and inspect the
stone tomb to the right, and then its stone lock (if you have
already done so, go back to the crypt anyway, otherwise Richard
will not be finished with the translation of the words).  Ask
Richard about the deciphered words. You will find out that Veine
is the name of the god of contention, Odire is the goddess of
abundance and Malite is the god of water. In the crypt, each of
the three status has a bowl. It is necessary to place blood, soil
and water in the appropriate bowls. WATER: In the abandoned house,
take the tea kettle with the water from the stove, and pour it
into the bowl of the statue on the right. SOIL:  Examine the stone
flower pot outside in front of the crypt - Samuel will take soil
out of it. Pour this soil into the bowl of the middle status.
BLOOD: In the abandoned house, read through the papers pasted on
the opened doors of the closet - there are newspaper clippings
about Richard (it informs you that he was engaged in the analysis
of mammal blood). Then speak to Richard about the blood - he will
tell you that he has it in the freezer. Open the freezer box -
Samuel will remove a bottle of blood from it. Pour the blood into
the bowl of the statue on the left. As soon as you fill all 3
bowls, a stone altar will slide out from the middle of the crypt.
Examine it - the hardest puzzle in the game is located on it. It
is basically a classic "tile" puzzle, but some of the tiles have
zodiacal symbols on them, and you have to arrange them exactly
according to the months in the year.  Because you will not find
any help in the game, there is a hint consisting of at least 4
symbols, which are drawn under the corner tiles in the pedestal.

See screenshot - zodiac

As soon as you solve the puzzle, a small compartment will open in
the middle, from which you will take a key. However, at this
moment Louis the gatekeeper will appear, lock the crypt and your
fun is over. Go back to the laboratory to see Richard, and speak
to him about the locked crypt - he will promise to help you get
inside, if you meet him after dark and help him out. Go back to
the villa and wait until night.

At night in the crypt

Go to the abandoned house to see Richard, and try to get inside -
unfortunately, it is locked. Return back to the location, pick up
some gravel (stones) from the path and throw them at the tower
window several times in a row, until Samuel hits the target. After
Richard's failed chemical experiment, take a bottle of acid from
the table. Hurry off to the crypt and use the acid for the
entrance. Inside, use the key (from the altar) for the tomb on the
right, thereby unlocking a secret passage. Go inside. However, a
locked grid will stop you from entering underground. Examine the
lock. Find Richard and ask him about the lock in the crypt - he
will tell you that Eleonor has the key in a box in the main foyer
of the villa. Do not forget to take the key to the villa from the
table in Richard's laboratory (it is almost invisible, lying in
the same place where you took the acid). Go to the villa and use
the key for the main entrance to open the main door. Inside,
examine the small wooden box, lying on the table to the left.

You have to solve a simple puzzle to open it. On a chessboard with
3x3 fields, you must replace the white horses with black ones, as
indicated by the arrow in the middle. However, you may only move
the horses around on the chessboard using an L-shaped motion,
meaning by one field to one side and two fields to the other side.
It is not complicated, and after a few random attempts, you will
surely manage to open the box.

As soon as you place the fields correctly, the box will unlock
itself and Samuel will obtain the amulet. Return to the
underground crypt and use the amulet to open the lock on the grid.
Inside the crypt you should save the game, because death is
awaiting you after opening the tomb (read the inscription on the
plaque in the middle).

Opening the tomb in the crypt

There is a pile of skulls along the wall in the underground crypt.
Examine the third from the right (unlike the others, it presents
itself in singular form, meaning "skull"). Throw stones on the
cracked skull. The skull will fall on the ground, go and examine
it. Take notice of the small key behind the grid on the window,
which you cannot reach. Go back to the abandoned house and pick up
a poker (it is leaning against the fireplace). Return to the crypt
and use the poker to pull out the key. Use the key and skull on
the monolith - you will thereby disable the protection "killer"
system of the tomb. Now you may safely shift back the cover of the
tomb, examine it and take the key from the dead Dargham.

CHAPTER 4

Forgotten bonds

Stonering - child's corpse:

After returning from Bates' place, you receive 2 bad messages -
Robert has disappeared and they have found a young boy's corpse in
the woods. Go to the inn in Willowcreek. Speak to the gravedigger
about Vick - he will tell you that they found his body at
Stonering (a new location on the map). Set out to Stonering.  One
the spot, speak to detective Collier, not only about Henry.
Examine the bloody altar twice, and then the menhir with the
symbol. Draw the symbol into William's diary. Use the right button
to examine the plant on the left of the monitor - you will
discover a piece of fabric underneath it. However, you cannot pick
it up in front of detective Collier. Pour some blood from the
inventory on the flat stone behind Collier. Then point out the
blood to the inspector. As soon as he turns around, grab the
fabric from underneath the plant. Leave Stonering and go see
Hermann at his house. At the morgue, ask him about Vick, Robert
and Henry. At the entrance gate to the Black Mirror manor, examine
the mailbox - you will find a letter from James.  Inside the
manor, speak to Victoria about James and Robert through the door
(on the same corridor as Robert's study) - Victoria will send you
to the sanatorium in Ashburry (new location on the map).

Ashburry - how to enter the boiler room:

Before the entrance gate to the sanatorium, ring the doorbell.
After some short persuasion, the nurse will let you inside, where
you will speak to her about James - you will find out that he
escaped his cell. Go outside and walk around the house along the
left. In front of the boiler room, examine the crate of beer.
Knock on the door of the boiler room, and speak to the boiler
operator about all sorts of things (the boiler room, Robert and
the escape, and mainly about the beer). Inside the sanatorium,
speak to the nurse about the telephone. As soon as the nurse
leaves, walk through the counter hatch and take the small vase
from the cupboard. In the inventory, search through the wallet -
take out one coin. Use this coin on the vase, thereby obtaining
the key to the cupboard. Use the key to open the white cupboard
and take the sedative from it - Ezokain. In front of the boiler
room, examine the trash bintwice - you will find a syringe inside.
In the inventory, draw some Ezokain (barbiturate) into the
syringe. Inject the syringe with the barbiturate into the beer in
front of the boiler room. In the foyer of the sanatorium, wet a
handkerchief in the fountain. Take a hammer from the shed to the
left of the boiler room. Examine the small window to the left of
the door to the boiler room. Try to loosen the middle bar, but it
will not work. Use the hammer to break the brick under the bar.
Hit is several times, but always at the right moment, when you
hear the boiler operator filling the stove). As soon as you
destroy the brick, loosen the bar and use the wet handkerchief on
the device (thermostat) - you will fool the thermostat and thereby
oblige the boiler operator to have the beer with the sedative. It
is necessary to wait a while, so you can go to the foyer of the
sanatorium and them come back.

The boiler room and the guard near the cells:

Inside the boiler room, go to the back and examine the notice
board. Pick up the small key on the bottom edge, and also take
note of the poster dated 1918. Examine the panel next to the door,
insert the key in the hole and enter the code 1918 - the door will
unlock. Pass through the door into the corridor with the cells,
but you will encounter a guard, who is on his rounds. Go into the
main room of the sanatorium and ask the nurse for a round
schedule. In the back part of the boiler room, use the round
schedule and the intercom (on the wall beside the notice board),
to recall the doctor.

How to get into James' cell:

Walk through the door into the corridor with the cells, and go
along the corridor, until crazy Ralph speaks to you from one of
the cells. He will promise to help you if you find Mr. Bubby - his
toy. Look through the trash bin on the right side of the corridor
(right mouse button) - you will find the doll's head. Return to
the boiler room and look through the pile of coal (again with the
right mouse button) - you will find the doll's body. In the
inventory, join the head and the body of the doll and look through
them (right mouse button) - you will obtain a thread. Examine the
notice board and take a pin from it. In the inventory, join the
pin and the thread and use the result for the doll's head and body
- sew both parts together. Take the doll to Ralph - he will tell
you that the guard has the key to James' cell. It is necessary to
prepare a small trap for the guard. Turn off the lights using the
switch on the right side of the corridor. Then tear the wire,
leading from the switch to the light, from the fittings on the
wall, pick it up from the ground and attach it to the screening on
the window. Use the music box on the screening, thereby attracting
the guard. He will touch the electrified screening and faint. Use
the right mouse button to examine the doctor's body - take the
keys to the cells.

Inside James' cell:

Use the right mouse button to examine the hole in the straw
mattress - you will discover James' notes. Tear the drawing of an
eye (again using the right mouse button) from the wall -
underneath you will discover a hole in the wall leading into
Ralph's cell. Speak to Ralph through the hole about James and the
senior doctor. In the cell, take the drawing from the stand. At
this moment, the doctor that has revived from the shock will lock
you in the cell. Speak to Ralph again through the hole about
escaping. Then crawl under the bed, whereby you will get out of
the cell, and leave the sanatorium and go back to Black Mirror
manor.

Meeting with James near the old lighthouse:

In the kitchen, speak to Bates about the lighthouse - he will tell
you how to get there. Go to the lighthouse through the map and
SAVE THE GAME, for deadly danger is within reach! Examine the
entrance to the lighthouse, then go round the back of the
lighthouse. Suddenly you will be attacked by James. You will come
to yourself when he is digging your grave. You must now act very
fast. First, use the small knife to cut apart the ropes that you
are tied up with, and use the music box on James. During the
conversation with James, ask him particularly about the key - he
will tell you that his is hidden in the gutters below Black Mirror
manor.

The gutters below Black Mirror manor:

In the kitchen of Black Mirror manor, take the key to the cellar
from the wall, and open the door to the seller using the key. In
the cellar, you must find out which one of the canals leads to the
underground gutters. You will do so by throwing a coin into each
of the canals. As soon as you discover the right canal (the one
next to the grinder), crawl into it. On the right side of the room
in the gutters, there is a mechanism with two missing cogged
wheels. The first cogged wheel is lying on the ground in the same
room near the fountain. Pick it up. Go further along the gutter
all the way to the half-flooded room. Take a broken pole from the
railing on the left side of the room, and try to insert it into
the crack in the column - it does not work, the pole is to thick.
Go back upstairs to the cellar and use the pole on the grinder -
you will thereby narrow down the end. Back in the gutters, stick
the pole into the crack, this time successfully - Samuel will use
it as a lever and open the outlet. In the same room, there is a
wheel on the wall, attached with a lock. Use the acid (to destroy
the lock) and then turn the wheel - the water level will rise even
more. Upstairs in the cellar, remove the rope from the well using
the hook. Inthe inventory, join both objects and attach the result
firmly to the pole - you will obtain a makeshift rod. In the
canals, use the rod to fish out the cogged wheel, which is
floating on the surface. Insert both cogged wheels into the
mechanism in the front part of the canals and turn the red wheel,
thereby releasing the water from the half- flooded room. Return to
the formerly flooded room and walk down the steps. On the ground
near the steps lies James' box - pick it up. Examine it in the
inventory - you will find the third sacred key inside. Samuel
starts feeling ill from the fumes in the canals and goes to rest
into his room.

To be concluded in Issue 90











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