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The Night Watch
Mission #3 – Reorientation
Walkthrough
This mission starts in the East Gatehouse, where Nurse Kindly is
tending Gwendoline. Pick up the household key from the bedside
table and read the note. Objective Complete! You also
receive some new objectives. Make your way to the hallways, turn right
and walk round to the East Entrance to Lord Drakon's household.
The House
Unlock the door with the household key and creep in. Lurk in the
shadows by the door and observe the guard patrols. When you are ready,
move quietly towards the far end of the hall, but remember that
you must not hurt anyone. Those double doors are flanked by pedestals
which support dragon statues, but the doors are guarded! With careful
timing it is possible to creep along the east and west
walls and steal the statues from the pedestals without alerting the
guards (+300). Obviously you can't get through those doors, so go back
and turn into the hall on the west side. The doors at the
end here can't be opened either, so the only remaining route is to
vault the banisters on the north side into the room below.
The Trap
This is odd! The doors aren't actually doors and there are no hidden
exits. However, there is a note inside the big vase on the floor in the
SE corner. (The note is sitting on the desk in Hard.) What
does it say? Yikes! A crowd of jeering onlookers appears above as the
floor slowly retracts into the wall. There is no escape, you are going
to flushed!
When you hit the bottom, head upstream to the grating with the corpse.
Check your objectives, which have changed. Thank goodness you can use
your weapons now! Collect the breath potions, healing
potions and flares, and read the plaque on the wall about the vortex
drain and the control room. Hmmm, it's possible that drain could be an
escape route. Now go with the flow.
Near the bottom is another grating guarded by a skeleton warrior (not
present in Hard). Aim to the left-hand side, squeeze through and let
the flow deposit you by a large pipe near a ramshackle
bridge. Be very careful here because the bridge is guarded by a giant
spider and the skeleton warrior may well creep up on you from the rear.
Cross the bridge and head east. You begin to put two and
two together - check the new note - and you get a fresh objective. This
can't be the vortex control room, so pick up the breath potions and the
water arrows (behind the pipe), go back to the bridge
and look around.
Vortex Control
High up on the south side is a window and across on the west side is a
large switch mechanism. Go there and flip the lever above it on the
right to put the light on. Climb up over the mechanism and
keep climbing until you get to the broken window at the top. Jump
through, and you are in the control room. Above the body in the corner
is the Pool Access Hatch Lever Activation, so activate it!
However, in order to reach the hatch lever you must first to find
Durbage's body to get his rope. Just above the activation box is a
switch for the lever light. This works on Hard but is broken on
Expert.
Go round the wall and pick up the water arrow just above the barrel
then walk down the ramp in the SE corner. Take care, there is a guard
down here, but he probably won't hear you because of the
water noise. Mantle up onto the orange pipe, open the hatch at the top
and drop in. After an alarming ride you surface below another hatch.
Open it, climb out and descend the ladder.
Collect the flares from the box under the table, then go over to the
east side and jump up to frob the grating open. Climb back up the
ladder, drop onto the grating, crouch down to enter the shaft,
go left and remove the grating here then drop down to the floor.
Cross over to the other side of the pipe via the ladders to arrive at
the top of an elevator shaft. Press the top button - good, it still
works! The middle level gate is locked, so continue to the
bottom, search the body on the floor and collect the Pump Station
Stores Key. Take the elevator back up to the middle level and use that
key to open the gate.
Climb the boxes in the NW corner, enter the shaft and
go left to where Durbage's body is stuck in the grating. Objective complete! Collect the rope arrow and
the map. Secret #1!
Go back to the elevator. The gate has closed, but there is a button to
open it behind the boxes on the left. Go down to the lowest level again
but this time send the elevator back up, then hop into
the pit and rummage amongst the debris to find a coin (+20 = 320).
There is a purse (+50 = 370) hidden on the top of the
orange pipe; you will need to climb on the box and jump up to reach it.
Secret #2!
Now take the moving walkway in the NW corner to the far end. Be careful
when you get there, two more guards are on patrol. Go through the rooms
to the NE corner, climb two ladders, remove the box at
the top and emerge back in the control room.
The Vortex
Climb back down to the left-hand edge of the bridge and drop carefully
onto the left side of the orange pipe. Shoot your rope arrow into the
bridge just to the left of the first handrail support.
Rope down under the pipe, operate the lever, then let go and dive down
through the open vortex hatch at the bottom. Flip the lever on the far
side to close the hatch again and swim west to the locked
gate. Climb the ladder here and operate the rotary switch situated just
below the top rung to open the hatch above. (This hatch will not open
if the vortex hatch is open.)
Wet Caves Control
Spin the wheel to open the watertight door and carefully climb the
stairs, watching out for guards and personnel. Go into the aquarium
room and collect the box under the bench. Go up a couple more
steps and turn into the alcove on the left.
Use the box to help you climb up onto the switch
panel, then collect a coin from the top of the pipe (+20 = 390). Secret
#3! Objective
Complete!
The scientist who visits here carries a pair of spectacles (+50 = 440)
and the Control Room key. Enter the Wet Caves Control Room and operate
the lever on the side of the Access Controls switch box.
This will open the gate by the entrance ladder.
There is a box on the left of the desk opposite the window containing
Holy Water (ominous!) and Healing potions. There are water arrows in
the crate left of the desk. Collect the watch (+100 = 540)
from the far corner of the desk and a second copy of the Control Room
key that's tucked in behind the books, then make your way back
downstairs.
The Wet Caves
Climb into the hatch, down the ladder and swim west to surface in the
swampy Wet Caves. This is a dangerous area! First of all make your way
to the body outside the control room window and collect
his purse (+100 = 640). There is a broadhead in his quiver and another
in the bow (in his right hand).
Now very carefully head to the west of the window and creep north. (If
you disturb any of the wildlife then everything in this area, including
some zombies, will come and attack you!) If you look
north of the mushroom light on the left you will spot a chest. Creep
over there, open it and collect a crown (+150 = 790), a sceptre (+150
=9840), a red gem (+100 = 1040 and an ankh (+50 = 1090). You
now have all the loot that is available in this mission!
Sneak over to east side of the rock and look north-east. See that
purple light? That's your exit! Scurry over there and go upwards along
the course of the little stream. When you get past the rocks,
collect the moss arrows up the stream bed to the left, then head right
(S), climb the slope and mantle up into the sloping tunnel.
Keep going, and you will reach the left-hand exit from the caves
opposite the wall of a building. Walk through the water on your right,
scramble up to the other exit and jump across to the pipe. Drop
down onto the ledge below to open the window and climb in. (If you find
this difficult then climb back onto the pipe and drop onto the open
window.) Enter the building.
Mission complete!
Nightwalker and Freddy Fox - 27th January 2007