Tell-Tale HeartdarthsLair (Rod Peirson)

November 2nd 2012

Halloween Contest Submission

There are 13 secrets in this mission:

1. You’d better be able to hold your breatha long time to find this gem in the watertunnels.

Hint: Located near Willard’s body and thelost key. The tunnel entrance to where thissecret is located is obscured by a vine.Jack up your gamma to see it better.

2. A lever (arrow) opens a secret door inthe wall straight ahead of you.

Located in the Coffin Resale Room, nearwhere you find two haunts smashing asecurity camera.

NOTE

This FM employs all three difficulties. Trick (Normal) or (Hard) Treat (Expert)

3. This elevator is located in the torturearea, near the large cauldron. Standoutside and push the button to send it up.A secret passage will be revealed beneaththe elevator, with a ladder going down.

4. Get up onto the beams to find a hiddenroom. It’s extremely difficult to see, soorient yourself by the screenshot on theleft.

5. Frob the lit torch to reveal a secretroom. (Located in a stairwell.)

6. Get up onto the beams and look for alever nestled inside where the beamsintersect.

NOTE

The proper way to get there is to find asecret door in one of the libraries.

7. Do a blind frob on this banner. There’sa lever behind it that opens up a passageinside the fireplace that’s behind you.

8. A lever hidden inside the hole (arrow)moves the cabinets.

9. Located near the morgue, a lever in theceiling (circled) reveals a secret room(white square).

10. Smash this statue with your sword. It’slocated near a large well.

Find the room with the pumpkin and bluesword and go east about 15 steps.

11. Slash this statue with your swordseveral times.

To find it, locate the blue sword stuck inthe floor near the pumpkin. From there, goN-E-N-W, and it’s the one on your left.

12. Destroy the crates to reveal a lockboxthat will open the grate.

13. This scroll speaks of the 13 secrets,and is a secret itself.

Initial Objectives:

Meet up wth Basso and Jennivere behind the Trumble house. When your job is finished leave by way of the City Gate!

NOTES

1. Killing certain creatures will get you loot!

2. It takes 3 flash bombs to kill a “live” zombie, while 2 will take out a “dead” one.

3. The maps are “upside down,” meaning, north is pointing south, etc.

Can the elevator near my starting point be used or is it just for decoration?

It’s real but the power needs to be turned on from somewhere else.

Can I break the two boards blocking the way into the house?

Use the crowbar. It’s in the shed.

I’ve gotten into the funeral home reception area, found the General Use Key and have read allthe books, scrolls, etc. How do I open the gates?

Return to the house and look for the key.

I’m in the house but can’t find anything…

Look carefully on the side of the brick chimney.

I found the banner mentioned in the note by Cecil Myers.. However, how do I open the doorbehind it?

Look in the SE corner of the room, near the statue.

I ran into a wraith at the bottom of some stairs, and noticed my health quickly draining away.How do I deal with this creature?

The wraith will kill you if you remain in his proximity. A single fire arrow will take it outif you don’t raise his awareness level. If you do, it will take more than one arrow. Sincethe wraith leaves behind loot when it dies, it’s a good idea to kill it.

I took a pumpkin from a scarecrow in the outside cemetery. What can I use it for? Also, thereare some ‘healing corn’ nearby.

The pumpkin doesn’t do anything. The healing corn is like the healing fruit.

Where is Willard the caretaker, who supposedly went swimming withthe Mausoleum key?

Although there are several entry points into the water tunnels,only a couple will take you to the caretaker. When you findseveral rooms close together, connected by wire bundles snakingaround the ceilings, you’ll find the water tunnel entrance. Divein and bear left. You’ll find his skeleton with the key a shortdistance from there.

Another access point to the water tunnels where you can reachWillard is near the painting shown here on the left (Fig. 1).

Figure 1

Figure 2—Don’t waste time trying to kill any of these creatures in the cemetery. None of them carry loot.

When you find Dr. Morris, KO him to receive the following objective:

Place Dr. Morris on table, Remove his head place on table, make a brain map!

There’s also an orange book on the examination table that Morris is facing. Reading it brings upthis goal:

Travel to Dr. Morris’ time period following the brain map.

NOTE

Find out the hotkey that’s assigned to your breath potion before you go exploring in the water tunnels, as it will make your journey less stressful.

How do I cut off Dr. Morris’ head?

Take his body down the elevator and throw it on the guillotine. Not the swinging scythe—the guillotine near the large portcullis.

I placed the head on the table upstairs and the machines did their thing. The paper printed outbehind me, but I can’t grab the paper!

You have a scripting issue. Make sure you’re using the latest NV Script.

Where’s the time machine?

Find the security camera(Fig. 3) and go in thedirection of the arrow.

Where’s the key to the portcullisnext to the guillotine?

Check the skeleton layingnearby with the sword in itshand.

What’s the bottle of poison nearBasso and Jen’s cell for?

It plays a part in one of theobjectives but you don’tuse it for anything.

What do I do with the flying eye or the hand of the evil eye?

The flying eye is a “guard” once you’ve taken the evil eye next to Frankenstein's tomb.The hand is decoration; it does nothing.

What do I do with the fuse I found?

Located in Dr. Morris’ office, take it to his lab and take the elevator up to the top floor.

Figure 3

NOTE

During your search, you’ll hear some pounding on wood. It’s two haunts in their training room whacking on a security camera. On one of the targets on the wall you’ll find an axe which will replace your blackjack. (Use the ‘weapons select’ keys to access it.) Like the

sword, however, it slows you down, so you must keep it stashed until needed.

How do I use the time machine?

To get to the future, throw the switch and dial in the year—2014.

I’m in Dr. Morris’ future…what am I supposed to do?

Find his journal and a ring. Look carefully in the bathroom for the latter.

I’ve returned to the past with the stuff I need. My objective says to Steal the heart of Dr.Frankenstein. How do I find him?

Frank is in the mausoleum. When you return from the time machine, take left turns onlyuntil you find some stairs going back up. You don’t want to take any stairs down!Eventually, you’ll find the stairs leading up to the mausoleum.

Where’s Frankenstein’s tomb?

You should have come across a crumpled note—Notes to Myself—from Cecil Myers,that talks about the switch being on the south side of the top row of tombs in themausoleum. In the mausoleum, climb the ladder to the highest tier and look behind thetomb in the SW corner. Throw the lever, return to the bottom, and look at the tomb in theNE corner.

Inside the newly-opened room, you’ll see two levers, side-by-side. The right lever opensthe lid to the sarcophagus just behind the large angel statue in the courtyard.

Climb down the ladder through the opened tomb and frob the placard at the bottom.When the skeleton sticks its hand through the opening, give him the ring you picked up inthe future.

You won’t be able to retrieve the heart until after the ghost finishes its ranting. Use thescalpel on the heart and then it will be frobbable. A new goal will then appear:

Use the heart of Frankenstein to bring Amanda Morris back to life!

Where do I find Amanda?

In the freezer room across the hall from his lab. There are two levers on the wall; oneopens the locker where her body is being kept.

How do I get back down to the torture room where Basso and Jenny are located? The elevatordoesn’t work.

Exit the doc’s room (you have to throw the lever near the first-aid kit twice). Go up theramp and make an immediate left down another series of ramps.

What’s the deal with the steak?

Go into the doc’s lab and grab the bottle of poison on the table near the first-aid kit. Useit on the steak and take it to the large creature (Lord of Death) swinging the axe nearwhere Basso and Jenny are locked up. Place the steak on the plate (it highlights) that’s onthe table in the center of the creature’s room.

Do a quick-save once you enter this area, as the sequence may not work right. If the Lordof Death doesn’t move to the table where the steak is, do a quick-load to reset things.Here are the correct steps to take:

1. Place the poisoned steak on the plate.2. Open Basso and Jen’s cell door.3. Hide somewhere.4. Jenny and Basso will die and you’ll get a goal saying they were poisoned.5. The Lord of Death will eat the steak, and afterward yap about this ‘n that.6. He’ll die, completing the revenge goal.

How do I bring Amanda Morris back to life?

Bring her out of the freezer across from the doc’s lab. Take her up the elevator and placeher on the table at the top of the room. (You’re supposed to put the heart in the glass casefirst. You can pick Amanda up again once you’ve placed the heart and drop her again.)Her body should “lock” onto the table.