Image 1
Proceed back outside and pick up the apple and eat
it. You may regain some health. Follow the little trail of equipment,
(water crystal, water crystal, moss crystal, moss crystal). Now you
will be facing West where you can see a Keeper book on the next
building ledge. Hop to the next building and read the book. Ah! A
little help from the Keepers. Thanks guys. Open the two shutters of
this building and listen completely to the conversation involving
three odd characters. While you listen, you may eat the cheese, the
apple, and the cucumber sitting on the cabinet just inside the
window. You may regain even more health. Hop back on the buiding
ledge and continue West and then North around the corner of the
ledge. (Note: you may notice a moss crystal on the top of the house
with the chimney and the parapet, but you probably won't need it, so
head toward the building with the two balconies (see Image
2).
Image 2
Run and jump on the top balcony with the flowerbox.
Open the door and enter the bedroom. The North door opens also. In
the living room, you'll find a large wooden wirespool being used as a
table. It has a loaf and an apple. Eating them should bring you close
to full health by now. Exit the living room into the stair landing.
Go downstairs and enter the lower apartment. Head into its bedroom
and eat the carrot in the window sill if you need some more health.
Go out onto the balcony and make sure the patrol on the streets below
is out of hearing range. There is a moss arrow in this flowerbox. Hop
on the balcony ledge and then crouch. Now drop down on the sloped
corner buttress below. You will bounce to the street below without
taking damage (see Image 3).
Image 3
Head South between between the red building and the
house with the chimney to the street with factory sounds then turn
right (West). There is a moss arrow in the ground level garden at the
back of the chimney house. Squeeze between the house and the blue
brick apartment. There is a valuable necklace (130 -total 145) on a
dresser of the basement apartment. Listen to the conversation between
the man and the woman about her being sexually harrassed. Head back
to the area where you bounced down onto the street. Next to the front
garden of the chimney house is a sewer grate. Go down into the sewer.
Once you hop of the ladder go South down a tunnel and open the little
secret door on the South wall (FOUND SECRET!). Activate the switch
behind the hidden door and return to the ladder. Looking to your
right you'll see a secret door in the water has opened. Dive in a
swim West. Near the end is Number 3 from the strange conversation you
heard earlier. I guess he really couldn't breathe like a fish after
all. At the top of the tunnel is a stack of water arrows. Proceed
into the room and find your lockpicks and your blackjack (OBJECTIVE
COMPLETE-Get blackjack). Frob the switch above the table where you
found your blackjack and proceed through the secret door which has
opened. Pass along the crates and wait in the dark for the patrolling
guard to turn his back. Whack him! Proceed upstairs and open the
metal door.
Away From Your Captors At Last
You are now in the city block directly West from the
block from which you escaped, which is good because the gates were
locked from the other side. Standing in the dark in this doorway,
wait for the patrolling guard to clear out of the area. Hug the wall
of this building while crouched and turn left (W) all the way to the
vines on the wall, then hug the wall of the building being guarded by
the stationary archer. Stand and sneak up behind this guard. Your gem
should be dark. If the patrolling guard comes along, just stay close
to the double doors behind the stationary guard and you should be OK.
Pickpocket the stationary guard's arrow, and whack him. Pick him up
and drop him down the stairs of the building where you found your
blackjack. Go back to the open metal door and crouch just inside it
in the dark, waiting for the patrolling guard. Once the guard walks
past you heading West, pickpocket his arrow, put it away quickly, and
head back into the dark doorway. When he turns around and passes the
doorway again heading back East, whack him and throw him down the
stairs as well. Go outside, crouch and sneak behind the stationary
bystander. Blackjack him and throw him in the dark corner opposite
the porch staircase, opposite the sewer grate (see Image 4). Open the
sewer grate and take the ladder down there, where you will find three
water arrows scattered, and a coin (5 -total 150). Also frob the
switch to open the gate down there if you
wish.
Image 4
Return up the same sewer grate and head to the long
tunnel, but wait in the dark for the patrolling cop. Blackjack the
cop and throw him with the bystander. At the Southern most end of the
long tunnel is a little locked shutter door. Pick it first with the
triangle pick then the square pick lockpick. Frob the switch inside
to open the gate, but don't go in there just yet. We'll get there
later. It's the city block from which you just escaped, and we'll be
going back. Proceed north down the tunnel. About halfway down the
tunnel, wait in the dark for the patrolling female cop to come close
to you then turn her back, then whack her. Drop her in the dark in
the Southern half of the tunnel. Return to about the halfway point of
the long tunnel, and when you reach the little connecting tunnel,
turn left (W) towards a red brick building.
The CityWatch Rest Station and Environs
Note the CityWatch banner on the short grey stone
building to your left (S), and a small archway in that building. If
no patrols are approaching, proceed through that archway, stopping to
read the note on the door inside the archway. It seems Number 1 and
Number 2 from the odd animal sounds conversation you heard earlier
got taken in by CityWatch for their odd behaviour. Around the back of
this rest station are window shutters that can be easily picked. Read
the note about cleanliness, but pay particular attention to the note
about strange activities on the roof of the Grunder Inn. Remember
this note and its details about shooting arrows. Grab the healing
potion on the desk, and the coins (10+10+5 -total 175). You are
finished back here. Now face West where you are standing. See that
outside basement staircase? Go down these stairs and look on the
ground between the two buildings, and you'll find a little wooden box
with a purse (25 -total 200) and read the note about being extorted.
Hmm... Someone is being taken for their
money.
Leave this area, and go back into the long tunnel the
same way you came. Continue to the Northern most part of the long
tunnel and pickpocket the arrow from the patrolling female archer
cop, put it away quickly, and hide in the dark. When she is headed up
the stairs, whack her and dump her in the southern part of the tunnel
with the other cop. Run back to the northern most part of the tunnel
and pick the blue wooden door. Open the next blue wooden door inside,
but stay out of the line of sight of the doorway as you do so. There
is a guard in the next room. When he turns his back, blackjack him.
Proceed through the next wooden blue door and up the staircase. Pick
the lock on the brown door and run into the dark part of the room
near the vault. Read the note on the desk. Solve the puzzle. READ NO
FURTHER. This will give you time to solve it yourself if you like.
Inside the vault you will find five items of value (25+12+20+50+50
-total 357). If you wish to know the code to the vault without trying
to solve it yourself, then the code is 6572. Run into the dark corner
near the other desk and turn of the desk lamp. Read the note on the
desk. Ah! This must be where the lady having the conversation with
her husband about sexual harrassment quit her job. Now read the note
in the trash. Odd... Mr. Greider doesn't seem like a stickler for
decorum at all.....My people in this part of town are certainly
displaying some odd behaviour.
Exit this building the way you came and back to the
tunnel. Proceed up that staircase near the doorway and don't be seen
by the other guard patrolling the outside of the vault building (the
one you just robbed). Knock this guard out while his back is turned
and drop him with the other guard who was guarding the building from
the inside. Back out to the tunnel, but instead of heading back up
the stairs, turn right. Get close enough to the guy conversing with
the prostitute to pickpocket the key on his belt, but don't be seen.
Hide in the dark and let the conversation play out. Let him walk away
without anyone being alerted. Knock out the prostitute without
alarming her and drop her with the two guards who were guarding the
vault. (When you knock her out, stay in the dark and lean forward
before whacking her). Return to where the prostitute conversation
took place.
You'll notice a funny shaped green stone covered
porch with a window opening on either side in its walls, and at the
top of the porch an archer guard is standing guard at the double
doors. (A SAVE GAME is a good idea about this point, on top of a
quicksave). Face the open window of the porch area squarely, looking
straight ahead. Press yourself against the wall, then back up a quick
half step. Hop and go forward, looking straight ahead. The guard may
say: "Who's there?", but if you've done it right and drop into the
dark bottom step in the corner quickly, you're safe. Even if he
searches a little, give it a chance before reloading, he may give up
and head back. Stay close to the wall and sneak up behind him.
Pickpocket his arrow and his purse (10 -total 367). Knock him out and
drop him in the dark bottom step where you were
hiding.
Head back to where the prostitue conversation took
place and wait for a patrolling cop to come by. Pickpocket his purse
(15 -total382), whack him, and drop him with the archer guard you
just knocked out. Now back to where the prostitute conversation took
place, and head West between the Parker Building and the red brick
with the bars on the windows (the narrow street the cop was
patrolling). Now head toward the patrolling female cop and knock her
out. Notice the Pub sign on the building in that area. Read it. Ah!
The Grunder Inn! The police report you read earlier said there was
someone on the roof of this building shooting arrows, remember? Keep
it in mind. While you're standing under the Pub sign, look East. See
the ramp going down between the two buildings? Go between these two
buildings, but not down the ramp. Stay close to the wall of the South
red brick building without falling down the ramp. Go to the end
towards the iron fence, and notice the last window is open. There is
a valuable bottle of wine on the cabinet inside that room (25 -total
407). Go back to the pub sign and turn left (S). There is a weed
clump at the far end of the road between the two buildings near a
downspout that has a stack of two moss arrows. Grab them. Now look
West. See the porch steps? Head that direction but don't take the
steps. Squeeze between the steps and the Grunder Inn to get behind
the Grunder Inn. About halfway down the length of the Inn, you'll see
steam coming out a vent. There you will find a gas crystal. Now go
back to where the prostitute conversation took place. While you're
standing there, face South and notice you can see the little archway
in the CityWatch rest station. Head towards there but stop just short
of it and use the key you pickpocketed during the prostitue
conversation to open the wooden door in the red brick building on
your right. Mr. Prostitue Insulter is standing in there with his back
turned to you. Whack him and pick the little lockbox on his cabinet
to find a silver coin stack (12 -total 419). Leave and head back to
the prostitue conversation area, go into the tunnel and up the stairs
to the area where you knocked out the vault building patrol a while
ago.
Eastern City Block
Across from the arches of the vault building you will
notice an outside staircase headed to the basement. Proceed down
there and open the door. Wait for the patrolling guard to be out of
view, then walk in the doorway and hug that dark corner just inside
the doorway. Your gem should be dark. (NOTE: The threshold of this
doorway is very noisy stone, so tread softly). Prepare your blackjack
and lean forward. When the guard returns, frontal blackjack him when
he is close enough. Sneak up behind the kitchen girl and knock her
out too. There is a gold plate in the sink (10 -total 429). Enter the
farthest barracks (W), lean forward, and knock out the sleeping
guard. The locked footlocker contains a rope arrow. Go to the next
barracks (E) and lean forward and knock out that guard as well. The
locked footlocker contains a flashbomb. Leave this building and go
back up to street level.
Head East along the the wall of the North apartment
buildings that has vines on the walls in the little alcoves. In the
most Easterly little vine clump is a moss arrow. This little alcove
is a good place to hide in the dark waiting for the two patrolling
cops to walk by. Knock out the sword cop and dump him in the dark in
this little alcove. Wait also for the patrolling archer cop and
pickpocket his arrow. Whack him and hide him with the other cop. Now
continue East to the end of this building where this apartment and
the most Eastern apartment meet (you'll notice a tranformer in the
corner covered by a little roof). Head south to find an archer
guarding this Eastern apartment up on the porch. Quicksave where you
are standing in the screenshot (see Image 5).
Image 5
Crouch and sneak over to the stone wall of the porch
in front of the closest tree. Face the cement wall of the porch
squarely, looking directly ahead (see Image 6). Press against the
wall, then do a quick half step backwards. Jump and go forward at the
same time, then run straight to the back wall, then behind the
archer. You may have to reload and try again if he sees you, but if
you are quick and quiet, you can do it.
Image 6
Pickpocket his arrow and whack him. Hide him in the
bushes at the back wall. Climb the tree outside the snoring man's
apartment window (NOTE: If you have a hard time with hopping from the
trees in this mission, shoot a rope arrow into the flowerbox below
his window). Jump in through the window and knock out the snoring man
who may have stood up by now. The South bookcase has a hidden switch
shaped like a book. It is on the bottom shelf, far left side. Frob
the book and the ancient hammer display will move aside revealing a
metal lined compartment in the floor (FOUND SECRET!). Read the letter
hidden below. Hmmm.....what evil has the administrator of the asylum
been committing? Grab the "donation" purse which corresponds to the
details in the letter (150 -total 519) (NEW OBJECTIVES-BONUS! You're
doing alright for yourself during your little research mission).
Leave out the window from which you entered, down the tree, down the
porch, turn left (S) and into the little tunnel you are now
facing.
Go quietly into the gate station, lean forward and
knock out the sleeping guard. Open the little shutter and frob the
switch to open the gate. Stand in the tunnel in the dark, facing the
open gate, and wait for the patrolling female cop to come by. Knock
her out and dump her in the dark gate tunnel. Now go out and get the
guard standing in front of the double doors nearby. Stay close to the
wall and you'll stay out of his line of site. Bring him back into the
dark gate tunnel and drop him there. We won't go back to this area
yet. Go back out of the gate tunnel into you are in the Eastern city
block again, and notice the guard at the double doors. You can get
behind him if you crouch and stay close to the walls. You'll have to
stand in the light to get behind him, but he probably won't alert.
Knock him out and drop him also in the dark gate tunnel. Go back and
crouch to get as close as you can to the innocent bystander nearby.
He will probably start searching, but knock him out and hide him in a
dark corner before he alerts the guard up on the porch nearby (see
Image 7).
Image 7
Proceed to the porch area in Image 7. Frob the light
mushroom and destroy it. Stand on the ground next to the porch, hop
to get the archer guard's attention, then run back into the dark
behind the tree. Let him search for you. When he gives up and heads
back towards the porch, pickpocket his arrow and his purse (10 -total
589). Once he settles down on the steps again, do the hop to get his
attention again, and go hide in the dark. Let him search for you, and
when he gives up and turns around, blackjack him. (NOTE: If while
searching for you, he gets too close to you, lean forward in the dark
and frontal blackjack him). Hide him in the dark. You may at some
time during this part of the game so far, notice a male innocent
patrolling, wearing white pants and a green shirt. Knock him out at
any time it won't alarm anyone, and hide him in the
dark.
You will notice a large beam jutting out of the peak
of the roof over the porch where the archer was just standing. You
may climb the tree here, then hop on the top of the window sill, then
onto the roof, then climb up to this beam. If you have a hard time
with hopping from the trees without taking damage, it is just easier
to use a rope arrow and shoot it into the front of the beam as
demonstrated in Image 8.
Image 8
Climb up the rope and retrieve your rope arrow.
Standing squarely on the beam, hop and land, making sure you make
good footfall noises, then quicksave.With your back against the wall
of this building, run the length of this building and jump to the
window sill of the building toward which you are running. (NOTE: Look
straight ahead, not down at where you want your feet to land). Jump
again to the next sill with the open window, and enter the room once
you make sure you can't hear a patrolling guard nearby. (See Image
9).
Image 9
Pick the locked door in the room using the square,
then the triangle lockpick. Wait in the dark corner near the doorway
for the patrolling guard to enter then whack him from behind. Be sure
to grab the two goblets from the top of the cabinet (15+15
-total619), then head upstairs. Crouch to approach this locked door,
and pick it using the square, the triangle lockpick. Stay crouched
and proceed directly to the North wall of the room. The lady
shouldn't notice you. Sneak up behind her and knock her out. To the
right side of the desk where she stood is a little switch near the
wainscotting. Frob it (FOUND SECRET!) and take the healing potion
from behind the painting which has moved aside. Don't miss the coins
(5+5+20+20 -total 669). This is a good place for another GAME
SAVE.
Hop out onto the window ledge of the open East
window. Stand as far to the North as you can on this ledge, with you
back against the wall and jump to the window ledge directly across
from you. Remember, look forward, not where you want your feet to
land (see Image 10).
Image 10
Once you are safely on this ledge, you will need to
hop onto the roof with the metal moulding and head West to the last
window. This is a matter of dropping down to the short roofs, then
hopping and mantling up to the taller roofs. Once you are safely
across all of these little roofs, you will notice that the last
window is open (see Image 11).
Image 11
Hop through this window into the ladies' bedroom and
knock her out. She has a nice little gem ring on her night table (25
-total 694). Exit and hop back onto all those little roofs the way
you came, but when you get to where you hopped from the window ledge
of the north apartment, drop down onto the top part of the window
sill of the storey below. Then face the little transformer roof, and
crouch and drop on the metal fan cowl, then crouch and drop down onto
the transformer roof, then down to the street. You should be able to
do this without taking any damage. Now head back towards that
basement kitchen area (see Image 12).
Image 12
As you get to the corner of the apartment where you
just found the ring, look right (N) between this apartment and the
vault building with the arches. You will notice a wooden door that
has a plaque which reads: "ALL DELIVERIES TO FRONT DOOR". Pick this
door open using the square lockpick and then the triangle lockpick
(see Image 13).
Image 13
The Route to The Upper Areas
Once you pick this door, enter and head directly
forward toward the door that reads: "REFUSE COLLECTION ROOM". Climb
on top of the garbage and put a rope arrow into the wooden ceiling.
Wait for the sound of the patrolling guard to leave. Open the door
above you, climb the rope arrow and go into the office immediately in
front of you. Turn off the light and stand in the back at the doorway
next to the desk. Get out your blackjack and wait for the guard. When
he comes in the office then turns his back to leave, run out and
whack him. On the office cabinet is a little loot statue (15 -total
709). Retrieve your rope arrow and enter the MAINTENANCE ROOM.
Standing in the doorway of this large room, you will notice a large
metal grate near the ceiling. You have already used three of these
grates in the mission thus far, so you should suspect that this one
may open as well, and you would be correct (see Image
14).
Image 14
You exit out this grate using a rope arrow, but first
look behind the water tank to find the little area where the workers
sneak off to have a beer and play a quick card game. Get the loaf,
the cheese and the two apples from inside the little wooden crate.
Eat some or all of these food items if you still need a health point
or two. Grab the two coin stacks as well (5+5 -total 719). Proceed
out onto the grate and walk on the gargoyle and over to the top of
the window ledge and then down onto the porch roof (see Image 15
& 16).
Image 15
Image 16
Once you are on this porch roof, you will see an open
window with a noble standing in a nice living room. We will go in
there in a few moments, but before we do that, we will go all the way
down to street level and explore there first. You never know what
you're going to find. Look over the edge of the roof on which you are
standing, and on the red brick building you will notice a sloped roof
covering a basement staircase. Shoot a moss arrow onto that roof to
make your landing on it quiet, so the archer down there won't go on
alert (see Image 17).
Image 17
Image 18
Get back one moss crystal in the vine near the
basement staircase in this area. Go down those basement stairs and
pick open the wooden door. Open the door at the end of the hall and
proceed up the stairs directly in front of you. At the top of the
staircase is a wooden door to the right. Enter this room containing
brewing vats, and read the plaque under the painting. Ah! Grubec
Ale... Now find a switch to the left of the desk (FOUND SECRET!) and
watch the painting move aside. Inside the secret compartment you will
find some pricey spices (40 -total 779) and a jug of Huoma. Hmmm...
that's the strange drug recipe you read when you got out of your
closet prison. Is someone drugging the ale? Leave this room and shut
the door behind you. In the break room near the table are some coins
on the window sill (5+5 -total 789). A conversation will start in the
basement. Head down there and hide in the dark away from the door.
Listen very carefully to this conversation between the thief and the
cop. The Jacko character of which they are speaking must be the one
mentioned in the police report you read earlier, shooting arrows on
the roof of the Grunder Inn. They said the closest he got to hitting
the switch to open this gizmo door was when he stood on the north rim
of the chimney and placed the middle beacon light of the antenna
inside the bottom of his bowsight....Maybe you are a better aim than
Jacko is. After the thief and the cop leave, be sure to frob the
switch near the workbench. It will open the grate of the basement
windows in case you want quicker access to this part of town later
(see Image 19).
Image 19
Head back up to the breakroom quietly and sneak up
behind the thief and whack him. Proceed out the door you originally
picked to get in here, waiting at the bottom of the stairs for the
patrolling cop to turn his back, then whack him. Weird. A cop and a
thief with the same boss. Who is this Boss? Hop on the wooden crate
next to the staircase roof, the hop on the staircase roof, then onto
the pipe, then mantle up back on the porch roof. Again this can be
frustrating if you aren't half a step back and not squarely facing
the wall. Look ahead (see Image 20).
Image 20
The Upper Areas
Hop through the window up there and knock out the
noble. Read the note on the table. Hidden, eh? Shoot a rope arrow
into the ceiling in the SE corner of the living room and look for a
purse sitting on the moulding ledge up there (FOUND SECRET!) which is
yours now (25 -total 814). Listen at the door for a guard to walk by.
When she turns around and starts walking away, open the door and
blackjack her from behind. Proceed upstairs to the apartment. Enter
the sleeping couple's bedroom and knock them out. Read the letter on
the lady's night table. Ah! She is the one who gave the asylum
administrator the secret "donation" you found under the hammer
display! Oh, her poor sister. What an
injustice!
In the Bonsai Sequoia planter you will find a water
crystal and a rock which moves aside. Grab the coins under the rock
(5+12 -total 831). Proceed to the dining room, and grab the two
apples and the plum on the table. Also grab the two goblets and the
wine from the side table (25+25+50 -total 931). Head out onto the
porch roof outside the dining room window. Good place for another
SAVE GAME. Hop onto the buttress of the Parker building, then onto
the ledge of the red brick (see Image 21).
Image 21
Proceed West on that ledge toward the Grunder Inn,
but grab the ring and the necklace through the open bedroom window on
your way by (50+150 -total 1131) (NEW OBJECTIVES-BONUS!-Over 1000 in
gold on a night when you didn't plan any thievery! Man, you're the
best!) Give yourself a good running start and jump North onto the
other buttress of the Parker Bldg. Make sure to hop once you land to
make sure you have good footfall sounds. It shows your not stuck in
the Dark Engine glitches. Good place for a quicksave. Shoot a couple
of moss arrows on the roof of the Grunder Inn, with one especially
aimed near the chimney (see Image 22 and Image
23).
Image 22
Image 23
Back up on the buttress as much as you can, then run
and jump directly toward the gable roof over the window in front of
you at the Grunder Inn. Look straight ahead. Do not look down where
you hope to land. Hop and stand squarely on the North rim of the
chimney, just like the thief told the cop Jacko did. Aim a broadhead
at the antenna, and make sure the middle beacon light of the antenna
is inside your sight, just at the bottom of the sight, just like the
thief said (see Image 24 and Image 25). Let fly. The bottom light
will go out and you'll say: "Ah! Got it!" if you hit the button. Now
you know that the locked door to the Boss' mysterious gizmo is now
opened, wherever it may be.
Image 24
Image 25
Now that you've finished that, stay on the chimney
ledge and turn directly around. Shoot a water arrow straight down the
chimney to put out the fire, then shoot a moss arrow down there to
quiet your hop. Go down the ladder and hop off. Crouch, lean forward,
then come out of the fireplace. Stay crouched and immediately head
for the desk to the left. If the thief isn't searching for you, this
is a nice place for a quicksave. Hop over the desk and run next to
the bed. Read the note. Ah! This is Jacko! Don't miss the purse under
the bed (25 -total 1156). Hop over the bed, sneak up behind Jacko and
whack him! Grab the cucumber on the kitchen counter and the water
arrow in the sink. Head back up the chimney.
The antenna building has an open window. Run off the
edge of the roof of the Grunder Inn and drop down into this window.
No need to hop. a run and drop will do. Immediately hide in the dark
area behind the open window pane and ready your blackjack. When the
thief walks in the room, wait for him to turn his back and put him to
sleep. Pick open the metal cabinet door in this room using the
triangle toothed lockpick. Read all the books from left to right.
Transmitter instructions? Is this the mysterious gizmo? DISCHARGE
ROD? Keep that in mind. Hmm.....mesmerism, must be connected. Aha!
The Boss is a woman! She's looking for revenge on her husband. This
is the poor woman betrayed by her scumbag husband on their wedding
day. Hmmm....does she want you for one of her drones? Proceed down
the hallway...more paintings involving mesmerism. Go into the next
office and pick the lockbox on the desk. Ah! A spare key to the Boss'
bedroom. Keep that for a little later. It should come in handy some
time tonight.
Look around in that same office. Aha! The open gizmo
door! Glad you hit the switch already, it will save a trip back up on
the Grunder Inn roof. (NEW OBJECTIVES-Destroy the Boss' transmitter
to foil her plan!) Well, if the Boss doesn't want anyone going near
it, like the thief told the cop, you're going to destroy it! Grab the
DISCHARGE ROD LOCKBOX KEY inside the transmitter compartment and head
down the basement with it. Knock out the patrolling guard and the
guard on the ramp. Near the double doors at the top of the ramp is a
lockbox. Use the key to open it and grab the discharge rod. Bring it
back up to the transmitter and frob it in place. BOOM! (OBJECTIVE
COMPLETE-Destroy transmitter) Go back to the room with the open
window. SAVE GAME.
Only One Roof Trip Necessary
From this point there are still two things to get via
the roof of the Grunder Inn, but if you can manage this trick, you
won't need to come back again. It's tricky, but it can be done.
Here's how:
Don't jump out the window from this point down to the
ground. If you fail, reload and try again. Hop onto the middle ledge
of the Grunder Inn (see Image 26). Make sure you heard good footfall
sounds. If not, reload and try again. Resist gravity while walking on
this slope by facing toward the wall of the Inn as you walk. Travel
along that ledge on the West side until you come to an open window
and walk in that room (FOUND SECRET!) Inside this little bedroom
you'll find a slowfall potion next to the bed, and a flute in the
hopechest (50 -total 1206). Hop to hear footfall sounds and SAVE
GAME. You want to head out the same window in which you entered, and
walk toward the south on this ledge, resisting gravity once again,
until you reach the porch roof of the south building. Land on the
roof and hop for footfall sounds. Shoot a couple of moss arrows along
the lenght of the pipe running horizontally. Hop on the pipe and walk
onto the window sill with the open window. When the guard turns his
back, run in and let him take a little nap with your blackjack. Take
the four goblets in here (15+15+15+15 -total1266). Hop out the window
and on to the ground. Head back around the green Parker Bldg and then
towards CityWatch into the main tunnel and South to the gate of the
city block from which you originally escaped.
Image 26
Wrapping Things Up
Once you get back to this first area, you'll want to
get back up to the rooftops. Aim a rope arrow at the flowerbox of the
lower balcony where you first hopped down to street level (see Image
27). Climb up the arrow and hop onto the balcony. Retrieve your rope
arrow and go to the upstairs apartment and out onto its
balcony.
Image 27
The upper balcony is a good place for a GAME SAVE.
Hop onto the ledge of the balcony, and run and hop onto the white
ledge of the red brick building directly across (see Image 28).
Remember, look straight ahead as you run and jump, not at the ledge.
Once you make it across and know you aren't falling,
quicksave.
Image 29
Run on this ledge and hop onto the moulding of the
North bldg (see Image 29). Go through the French double doors and
enter the bedroom in this apartment. Pick the lockbox to get the
purse inside (30 -total 1296), then head back out and hop onto the
white ledge of the red brick building again. Head South and then turn
the corner to where you heard the strange animal sounds conversation
earlier this evening. Hop the ledge over to the next red building and
go around it to sneak up behind the guard outside on the roof. Take
out your blackjack and make sure he is good and sleepy. Hop onto the
moulding of the South apartment building again and open the other set
of French double doors. Put out the gas torch with a water arrow.
Enter quietly and open the door. Wait for the guard to turn his back
then run a knock him out. Also knock out the noble who is probably
awake by now. Get the tapestry from the chest next to his bed (35
-total 1331). Hop back across to the red brick building and silently
approach the sleeping guard above the mezzanine. Lean forward and put
him.....errrr......put him BACK to sleep. If you wish, you may now
pick the lockbox under the mezzanine to get the noisemaker
arrow.
TIME TO RE-VISIT THE BOSS' PLACE. Hop back into the
vents. Head East, and when you reach the turn, head right (S) to the
first turn, turn left (E) to the end, where you MUST turn left (N).
Go to the end, where you MUST turn right (E). Quietly up the ramp,
and when you get to the top of it, you MUST turn right (S). Shoot a
moss arrow ahead of you to make it more quiet. Pick open the grate in
the guard's sleeping quarters, then back up so you can still open the
grate. Back up more so the guard won't alert when you pull out you
bow. Shoot another moss arrow at the grate opening, just where metal
floor meets wood floor. Take out your blackjack. By now, the guard
will have awoken the sleeping guard, but if you haven't alerted them,
his back will be turned. Wait until the standing guard looks away,
then run out and whack him and his buddy. Dump there bodies out of
the line of sight of the door, or the hallway patrolling guard may
see them when you open that door. Check out the sign on the case of
beer near the air conditioner. Grubec Ale! These guys have been
drinking the spiked ale, and the Boss wanted them to give it to you
too!
Open the hallway door, standing to one side so the
patrolling guard won't spot you. When you hear him approach, get out
your blackjack. When he turns around and heads away from you, club
him. Throw him with the other guards. Now out into the hallway and
use the Boss' spare key on her door. Run in and knock her out. Get
the purse out of her hopechest (100 -total 1431). Grab the Exit key
on her table, and read her book on tests and results. Ha! All of the
out of character and strange behaviour you've seen in this area
tonight has been her doing! SO THIS IS WHY THE BOSS WANTED YOU!
(OBJECTIVE COMPLETE-find out why the Boss' kidnapped you). Time to
leave her a letter of reply. (NEW OBJECTIVES-Leave her a note in her
papertray) Select the letter in your inventory and hilight the
papertray, then frob it (OBJECTIVE COMPLETE). Read the letter by
frobbing it again. (NEW OBJECTIVES-get out of here) Head down the
hall, and sneak in and knock out those last two guards, just to make
the evening complete. Ha! They believe they are still guarding you!
Use the exit key unlock the last hallway door, down the stairs and
out the lobby doors (OBJECTIVE COMPLETE).