THE RING
Level by: Bibi Phoque
Walkthrough by Anurag
Note: This walkthrough is dedicated to Kristina, who helped me out at
"Stuck In a Custom Level Forum" and for encouraging me to write the
walkthrough for this level.
WALKTHROUGH
The game starts with Lara standing on a cliff, pick up the FLARES. Turn around &
reach a barnyard at your right. Climb on the box to the right & pick up
some FLARES then climb up the ladder & jump to other side & pick up the
WOODEN HANDLE. Exit the barnyard then go right, overlooking another empty
barnyard, go round it & pick up the FLARES. Return to where the 1st
barnyard was & continue to its opposite side.
Enter the fenced area,
go right & up the stairs, continue straight at the turn, go inside the cave
& pick up the FLARES. Now resume ascending the stairs, at the top you will be
standing near a mansion. Go to the left end & pick up FLARES from the
alcove. Now stand near the brown door on the left of it & activate the jump
switch. The gate near to it opens. Now if you want to explore a little, then
follow the walkthrough, otherwise go to **. Go right & explore the kitchen.
Now take a left from the previous brown door. Enter the room & open a door,
observe the corpse there & a television in the dark room. **Return through
to the main room & up the stairs, first take left & open a door. Enter
the room & pick up the FLARES, now push the bed aside & crawl in &
climb down the ladder. Go inside & pick up the OLD DOLL, hear the shrieks
that follow, now some part of the ground has turned into water. Climb back the
ladder & come out of the crawlspace.
Descend the staircase
& go to the room with the corpse. (You will observe that the kitchen is
shut, & in the room, the corpse has disappeared & so has the television
set.) The bloodstains will lead you to a movable block. Push the block, continue
straight & drop down. Continue forward & then through the crawlspace
with NO ENTRY written on it. As you come out on other side it closes behind
you. There are some FLARES in the Southeast corner. Continue to another room
& go straight avoiding a set of ghostly spike traps & right through the
open door. If the door closes before you can go in, then turn left after the
tile with something written on it, stand on the tile next to the painting, this
shows you a cut-scene showing that a door has opened. Now there are 2 ways to
reach this door.
The usual way by which
you reached here. OR
A secret way, turn around & there is a crawlspace (which is not visible) in
the left hand wall just before the turn. Continue through the black part &
come out of the painting with trees. Turn left & go inside the open gate.
Continue inside & pick up a METAL BLADE. Go back to the room with
paintings, & re-enter the second room, there is an opening in the
Northeast, go inside pick up the FLARES & drop down in the water below. Get
a set of FLARES here. Swim through the opening on west. The Water flow in some
parts is very rapid, which will lead you in another place. Get out of water.
Head for the mansion again, after the last step, jump on to the triangular
ledge on right of Lara & from there to the opposite one & from there to
the ledge on the mountain. Continue forward, just before the burial place on
the left is a ledge, go on it & slide down. Slide down another slope, to
reach a ledge with an OLD KEY & a witch on it. Pick up the OLD KEY, the
witch really is a 2D Texture so it won't hurt you.
From here jump upwards
in South direction & then to the stony ledge in the Southwest. Now facing
West slide down. Drop down from the middle of this ledge. In the Northeast,
there is a ledge; jump up to it. From here jump down to an alcove in the
Northwest direction. Go inside & use the OLD KEY there. Climb down the
ladder, then descend the stairs all the way down. Climb down another ladder, go
to another room through a passage, as soon as you enter this room the door gets
shut. There is a crawlspace in the Southwest corner, you will end up in a room
with graffiti on its walls. Open the door & get inside, you can see that
the glass wall in the Southwest is intact. Push the button in Northeast corner
& the television besides you gets activated, listen the shrieks &
observe the broken glass wall. (Now there is bug here; if you save &
reload, then you will find that the TV is off & the button is pressed &
also the glass wall is unbroken. So avoid saving in this & other 2-3 rooms
that follow.) Go through the broken glass, & walk on the leftmost side, the
5th texture in the ground is an opening. Drop down, watch a rocking chair (lol)
in the next room, walk in & drop down into a pool below. Watch the lovely
message there. Now go either through left or right of this message.
Go inside & pick up a COMB, this is SECRET# 1, this makes a door
open. Go through the now opened door, climb the ladder & back flip on a
ledge. Go straight through the painting with legs & you will end up in a
familiar room. Go up the ladder, now climb the stairs avoiding a Ghostly spike
trap on the way. At the end, climb the ladder, exit through the door on which
you used the OLD KEY.
Lara will now be in an
opening place. Jump to the ledge in Southwest direction, then jump to another
ledge in the southwest direction, climb on 2 ledges & you must end up at
the starting of the level. Now go to the mansion & jump to the burial place
as told earlier. Combine the METAL BLADE with the WOODEN HANDLE to make SHOVEL.
Use the SHOVEL on the holy cross. A cutscene follows which gives a panoramic
view of the area & also shows us that the ground adjoining the burial place
has been dug. Go through the crawlspace to a room with a well.
Jump in the well, swim
through either opening at both the sides, both are identical, so I will just
describe one of them & you can try the another. Lara will end up in a small
room, at one of the side walls you can find a Jump switch, activate it. Now if
you want to explore then follow the walkthrough; otherwise go to ##. Go through
the opening opposite to from where you entered. There is a Ghostly Spike Trap
& a pit, jump over it & reach a room with a pedestal & a corpse.
Now this is a trap, if you use the OLD DOLL on this pedestal, a cutscene will
show you awakening ghosts & Lara will catch fire. (Note: I found out 2 such
rooms with the pedestal trap, but the guys at the MPRager forums told me that
there is only one such room & I believe my eyes & also I believe in
them, so please see whatever applies to you.) Similarly activate the jump
switch in the other room.
##Activating both the
switches makes a door open at the bottom of the well, swim through this door.
Swim bending all the way, & surface up in a room with a pedestal & a
girl's corpse. Use the OLD DOLL on the pedestal, a cut-scene shows the burial
place & the spooky tree besides it, if you observe the naked tree has grown
some red leaves. When the cut-scene is over, you can observe that the wall in
front of the pedestal had disappeared & so has the girl's corpse. Continue
forward up the slope towards the boulder to end a spooky & terrifying level.