Golden
Scarab
Level by Flyskater
(September, 2004)
Walkthrough by Harry
Laudie
You start in a closed
room. The vases are empty. Move the tower from the east side to the west side
of the room and the north door opens. Enter the doorway and go forward to a
slope. As soon as you land on the slope, jump up and grab a crawl space to the
west. Crawl to the end for secret #1
and pick up flares and a small medipack. Get back and drop to the slope. Slide
and jump over the pit as a spike ball lands behind you. At the end, jump over
the fires and pull up into another crawl space. Follow the south crawl space
and get blue shotgun shells. Return and go west and a fire stops you. Go back
and go north. At the next junction if you go south another fire starts. Take
the north branch again. Loop around and head south. Enter the first room on
your right to climb a pole. Back flip into a room and pick up the Ornate
Handle. Get down into the crawl space again.
Continue south and enter
another room. Shoot a vase for crossbow explosive ammo. Use the west floor
lever and a door opens in the east wall. Enter that door and follow the tunnel
to a room. Notice the receptacle for the Portal Guardian. Slide down the pole
and be careful of the fire at the bottom. Back flip to the west into a tunnel. Go
to the end and use the floor lever. You get a cut scene of a tile rising in a
hole. Roll and run back to grab the pole while a skeleton hacks at your heels. Climb
back up and go to the previous room with the tower. Move the tower from the
north side to the south side of the room and the west door opens. Step on the
white floor tile south of the rug design and the door opens in the north wall. Follow
the tunnel there and use a floor lever. Exit and climb a column in the
north-east corner. Jump south to another column. Grab the crevice in the south
wall and shimmy to the right and into an opening. Shoot the vase you see in the
west wall. Use the rope to swing over there and pick up the Hathor Effigy. Safety
drop to the ground and go back to the room with the receptacle. Make the Portal
Guardian and use it to open the door beside you.
Enter the room and turn
left to pick up the shotgun. You face a water trench with a closed door at the
north end. Dive into the water trench and swim south through the narrow
opening. Pick up red shotgun shells and continue swimming. You pass a closed
door and finally pull up into a room. The vases are empty. Climb the ladder and
drop on the other side. You see a gem in a fire. Press the button on the east
wall and get a flyby back to the underwater door. Climb the wall and get back
to the water. Swim into the underwater doorway and follow the tunnel to another
room. Look south and notice the doors and the receptacles for two gems. Use the
floor lever in the north-west corner and get a cut scene of the underwater door
opening in the water trench.
Swim back to the water
trench and into the open door. Follow pass another closed door and pull up into
a room. Go east to pick up the crowbar from a pedestal. You are overlooking a
deep room with a shallow water pool at the bottom. On a far east platform you
can see another gem. Turn around and jump to pull up onto the ledge to the
south-west. Jump from the platform, as you cannot grab the block from the
pillar side. Use the floor lever on the ledge and drop back to the platform. Swim
back to the water trench and pull up. Pry the Golden Star from the south wall. Go
back to the platform and use the ladder in the north-east corner to get to the
ground floor.
The vases are empty. Pick
up flares from the water. Dive into a hole in the north side and follow the
underwater tunnel to a room. Pull up and use the floor lever and get a cut
scene of an underwater door opening. Return and go to the north-east corner. Use
the Golden Star and the door opens. Climb the ladder and get the Portal Gem
from the pedestal. Return to the
floor and climb the ladder back up to the platform. Get back into the water and
enter the open underwater door. Follow the twisting underwater tunnel to pull
up into a dry tunnel and use a floor lever. Go back to the platform and enter
the open door in the north wall.
Carefully go up the
stairs to get the Scarab Knot. The face tiles on the stairs are fire traps.
Return to the platform and climb down to the floor again. Use the Scarab Knot
in the west alcove and get a cut scene of the previous gem but the fire has
stopped. Ignore the two skeletons and climb back up to the platform. Swim back
to the water trench and through the narrow opening. Go to the end room and
climb the ladder. Drop on the other side and get the Portal Gem. Get back and
swim into the open door and go south. Use the two gems and the doors open. Go
south and jump over the water to a ledge next to two large faces. Pick up the
crossbow and dive into the water for crossbow explosive ammo. Go back to the
north doorway and destroy two skeletons.
The tops of all the
short walls are firetraps. Go south into the water again and swim into the
opening in the west wall. Swim and pull up into a room and see a floor lever.
First go to the north-west corner and pull up into a crawl space. Go to the end
for secret #2, red shotgun shells, and
a small medipack. Return to the room and go to the south-east corner. Follow
the crawl space there to use a floor lever. Exit and use the floor lever in the
south-west corner. Swim back to the room with the large faces. The underwater
door in the north-east corner is open for later.
Pull up to the north and
look for an open door in the west wall. Enter the door and follow the tunnel
back to the walls to pick up the Ornate Handle. Return and notice an opening
above a wall dart emitter. Hop up there and follow the tunnel. Hop over the two
firetraps and come to a room with pillars and fires. Jump to the first pillar
with no fire and another fire goes out. Keep jumping the pillars as the fires
go out and finally enter a tunnel to pick up the Hathor Effigy. Exit and jump
to the south-west column and then to the entrance. Go back down the tunnel over
the firetraps. Return to the large faced room and the water. Swim into the
north-east corner and follow the underwater tunnel. Pull up and make the Portal
Guardian and use it. Return back to the room with the fires on the columns.
Dive into the water and swim
west into the open door. Swim west into the open doorway and swim up to
surface. Go north to see a closed door and also use the floor lever. Go to the
south-west corner and look north towards the ceiling for a crawl space. Pull up
into it and follow to a small room. Use the floor lever and return to the
water. Swim back to the pillar room and swim into the open north door. Pick up
a small medipack and pull up in front of a pedestal on fire. Pick up the Scarab
Pillar and catch fire. Use a medipack as you hop back into the water. Exit and
swim to the open door in the south wall. Pull up and use the Scarab Pillar.
Back to the water and swim west again back to the closed door you saw next to
the floor lever. The door is open so enter the tunnel to destroy two skeletons.
Run towards the pedestal with the item (looks like the mechanical beetle) and
the level ends.
18-may-2006