The Meaning of Christmas

Level by Brenna (December, 2009)

Walkthru by Harry Laudie

This is a TR3 level. It case you do not remember the TR3 boat controls. The controls are:

CRTL = forward

ALT = backward

Left/right arrows to turn

END + left/right arrow to exit the boat

[Note] There was no walkthrough given in the TRLE level lists. However, after I started this walkthrough, I found that the author had included his own walkthrough in his zip file. I finished this walkthrough with the assumption that two independent walkthroughs are better than none. [End note]

You start in a rubber boat. Drive to the dock and get out. If you look at the sky, you seem to be a large dome. Go forward to a large tree. Go behind a small potted plant to the left and pull down a wall switch. Continue forward towards a tunnel and go left before the tunnel entrance and enter the open door. Climb the wall ladder and back flip into an upper bedroom. Pick up the Office Key off the floor. You can open the door in the corner to a toilet. But there is nothing to find. Climb down the ladder and go outside.

Go left and through the tunnel. Go to the far end and use the key in the key lock on the wall of the arch. Turn left and climb the green wall. Pull up into a crawl space air duct. Follow the air duct to the end and safety drop into a room. Turn the book switch in the bookcase and hear a door open. Go to the corner and manually open the white door with the knob. Exit into the corridor and loop around to the right. Go down the corridor and enter the open door.

In the left corner is a dark wall with a brown square at the bottom. That wall is a moveable block. Pull back the moveable block four times. Pull up onto the block and pull up into an alcove in the ceiling. Pick up cookie #1 for secret #1. Get down and back into the room. Go into the corner tunnel that was hidden by the moveable block. Pick up the Office Key and exit the room.

Go down the corridor and go left and up the stairs. Use the key in the key lock to open the nearby door. Go through the door and down some steps to another room. An invisible block protects the blue door to the right. Go left and open the white door. Enter the room with three closed white doors leading to toilets. Open the left door and enter. Pull up into a crawl space air duct in the left wall. Follow the air duct to the end and safety drop into a room. Pick up cookie #2 off the floor. This may be secret #2 but it did not register as a secret. Pull down the wall switch on the wall behind the plotted plant to open the door. Be careful has you can walk through the wall to get outside the room without pulling the wall switch. And you need to pull that wall switch to open a door for later. Exit back in the room where you started.

Go right and follow up the steps to the top. You enter an outdoor area with many chairs. Go left and follow the wall. You should find a lower crawl space in the right brick wall. Crawl through and stand up in a room with sloped columns. Go to the back right corner. Back flip onto a slope. Jump forward and just jump the slopes. On the last slide, slide down a little, jump and grab the top edge of a slope. Pull up and jump to land on an upper ledge. Jump onto the middle column and pick up the Office Key. Jump down and return through the crawl space. Go straight and use the key in the key lock on the right wall. A trap door opens beside you.

Drop into the tunnel and go to the end. Climb the back wall and pull up onto a dock. Just run onto the rubber boat to get in. Do not back up into the dock or you will be stuck. Drive the boat through the channel and drop into a lower channel. Go forward and get out of the boat at a wooden dock. I tried many times but could not get the boat over the dock. Run to the other side of the dock and drop into the water. Swim and follow the channel and pull up onto the top of a slope. Slide down into another channel. Ignore the nearby dock and follow the channel underwater. You reach a T-junction. Swim left under a wall and pull up into a corner alcove. Pick up a crowbar off the floor. Swim back to the dock that you passed earlier. If you surface you may notice that a corner torch has a wall switch instead of a flame. Just a small mistake.

Pull up onto the dock. Use the crowbar to open the gate. Enter the gate and climb the red wall to the left. Pull up into a crawl space. Crawl to the end and climb down a very long ladder to reach the floor. Enter into a large room and a gate closes behind you. In front of you is a large black structure with a closed gate.

Go to the right wall and enter the doorway. Enter the open door. This is a sequential series of timed doors and wall switches. This timing is not too tight and the doors stay open once you are inside. The following sketch shows the sequence order. The #0 is the door that is open at the start.

#1 #5

#3 #4

#0 #2

Enter the last room (#5) and climb the back wall. Shimmy to the right and drop into a corridor. Follow the corridor and go up some steps. You are on an upper ledge. Run and jump to grab the platform on top of the back structure. Pull up and climb the red wall of the column. When Lara gets into her normal climbing position, back flip onto a ledge. Pick up Office Key #1 and get down. Safety drop to the floor.

Go to the left wall and enter the doorway. Drop onto a ledge and get into the water. Swim down to the middle of the trench and pick up cookie #3 for secret #3. This secret is registered as #2 and you hear the secret sound. Pull up onto the ledge and climb back into the doorway. Grab the ceiling and follow the monkey swing. Go into an alcove and drop. Pick up flares and cookie #4, which may be secret #4. Grab the monkey swing and continue to the last alcove. Drop and pick up Office Key#2. Do not drop into the water or you cannot get back. Just monkey swing back to the doorway and enter the room with the black structure.

Use the two keys in the two key locks on the black structure. A gate opens in the front of the structure. Enter the gate and pick up a crowbar. Go behind the black structure and use the crowbar to open the gate in the back wall. Enter the room and see a Christmas message on one wall. On the opposite wall is a picture that I assume is the author. Run down the long tunnel and the level ends

After the credits, the level restarts at the beginning. You have to use the passport to exit the game.

23-sep-2010