ASPIDETR EASTER TIME 2025 - A SHRINE OF PEACE

Level by PedroCroft

Walkthrough by Phil Lambeth, with the help of Tartancroft's video walk

Begin on a bridge facing the eponymous shrine. Jump off either side into the water and swim to the NE corner for a Wrapped Up Egg (hereafter WUE, which has a nice Oriental ring to it) (1 of 10). Go to the S bridge abutment and pull the underwater lever to raise a block. Pull out W and use the ramp for a rather difficult running jump NE to grab the raised block. Pull up, sidestep left against the ramp, jump up to grab the sloped roof and shimmy right to activate a jump switch that opens the temple doors down below.

Enter and go up the wide ramp for a diary entry, continue to the closed doors and take the MAGIC SKULL from the plinth (cut scene). Go around to the SE corner to find an apparently bare plinth next to the colored globes that nevertheless provides a KNIFE. On the other side of the globes is a timed wall switch that lowers a block outside. Take a rolling back flip, jump over the railing onto the ramp, exit the temple and loop around left with running jumps toward the lowered block at the NE corner. Take the SILVER KEY from the plinth (cut scene of a closed trap door), exit and jump over the railing into the adjacent alcove for a WUE (2 of 10).

Return to the temple, turn right just past the front doors and Lara will look to her right as she enters the side room. Pull down the E wall switch to open the adjacent door and enter a new wing. Shoot the crate to your right for a medicine pouch and continue into a puzzle room. In the N alcove is a plinth with a diary entry providing some cryptic clues concerning the task now facing you. But this is why we have walkthroughs, right? Go to the SE keypad, punch in the numbers 3150 followed by the star key and the door to your left opens. Enter for the colorful EASTER EGG (1 of 5) and exit to the main foyer. Turn right at the entrance ramp and follow the hallway to the closed trap door you saw in the cut scene.

Insert the Silver Key in the wall receptacle to lower the trap door and use the ladder to climb down to a dark lower passage. Enter the next room and climb the SE crate to find a triangular crawl space (stay close to the outer walls to avoid getting caught in the collision) leading to a WUE (3 of 10). Exit and place the Magic Skull in the NW receptacle to open the central door to your left. Enter the next room, turn left and shoot the W door to gain access to a side room with four pulley chains. Pull the S chain four times and the E chain one time (in that order) to move blocks in the main room. Exit, go across the main room and shoot the E door to find a similar side room. Pull the N chain four times and the W chain one time to move more blocks in the main room. The W door opens to reveal an alcove in the main room, so go there and take the EASTER EGG (2 of 5) from the plinth.

Return E to the ladder, climb back up and back flip to the temple hallway. Go to the alcove opposite the central dining room table near the back of the room for another WUE (4 of 10). Shoot the door near the NE corner and enter a colorful side room. Loop around right to find a jump switch that opens a ceiling trap door on the other side of the column. Go there, climb the ladder to a flat spot on the roof, turn around and stand jump to grab the column crack. Pull up, turn around, stand jump to grab a higher ladder and climb up to a wooden barrier that fails to prevent you from pulling up to an alcove with a WUE (5 of 10).

Climb back down the ladder, hang from the bottom rung, release and grab the lower roof, pull up onto the flat spot and jump across onto the facing sloped roof. Shimmy left as far as you can, pull up, back flip onto the sloped roof behind you and jump off with a sharp left curve to grab the sloped ledge. Shimmy left, save as you're pulling up and back flip onto the slope behind you. Jump without sliding onto the next slope, draw your pistols while jumping onto a third slope, slide and jump with a right curve while firing your pistols at the bell in the upper E alcove. If you waited long enough to make that last jump, you should land on the slope below the alcove and safely drop to the floor. Otherwise, your fall will be fatal.

Save in a different slot when you've done all this successfully. Shooting the bell opened a door elsewhere. Exit this room, run W past the dining room tables into the side room and loop around right to find another wall switch. Activate it to open a ceiling trap door on the other side of the column, go around and climb the ladder to another flat spot on a sloped roof. Perform the same maneuver described in the previous paragraph, but this time you don't have to draw your pistols and shoot anything. When you reach the third slope, slide and jump off with a right curve to land on the stable ledge jutting from the W wall. Jump up to grab the alcove, pull inside and step forward to take the RUBY from the plinth (cut scene of a closed door).

Drop down to the ledge and from there to the floor. Reverse roll, exit this room E, loop around right in the hallway past the opened W door and follow around the corner to a wall switch that opens the door to an outdoor courtyard. Turn right and find the STONE KEY on a plinth against the E wall (another cut scene of a closed door). Shoot the crate in the NE for the LARGE WATERSKIN, fill it in the nearby pool (whereupon its name changes) and continue forward for a WUE (6 of 10) next to a date palm. The crate on the other side of the column is empty, so exit to the temple foyer and go up the wide ramp to the next floor.

Turn left and follow around the corner to an empty plith on which you can place the Ruby (face N) to open the adjacent door. Go up to a puzzle room with cascading water all around. At the back of the room is a floor hole that allows you to swim under the central platform and pull down a ceiling switch that lowers a trap door. Go back and find the lowered trap door at the NE corner. Nearby is a plinth with a diary entry intended to assist you in solving the forthcoming task. Climb the ladder past the lowered trap door, go around left to find a N alcove containing a WUE (7 of 10), then continue W and S until you reach a door you can shoot in the W wall.

Enter a room with four pulley chains, pull the nearest (E) chain six times, exit this room and continue S and E until you reach the next shootable door in the S wall. Enter the room and pull the chain on your left (the E one) seven times. Exit, jump over the railing and go to the W alcove where a door has opened for an EASTER EGG (3 of 5). Exit E, go to your left in the upper hallway and just around the corner you'll find a well-hidden jump switch on the column with the colored globes. Activate it to open a nearby trap door, continue to the NE corner and climb the ladder to a dark storage area.

Scramble over the crates to the S wall for the JADE KEY (yet another cut scene of a closed door). Before leaving, hop up NE onto a crate for a WUE (8 of 10). Return to the ladder, climb down and go to the nearest closed door in the E wall and use the Stone Key to open it. Enter the room and Lara immediately looks up at the ceiling. to see a formula of some kind. Shoot the crates to get them out of your way and approach the SW plinth for a diary entry with more clues. Go to the row of switches in the N wall and pull down the one under the digit 2. Reverse roll, go to the S wall and down the switch under the digit 7. Go back and forth in like manner to pull down the switches under digits 1, 8 and 9 (in that order) and the E door opens so that you can claim the EASTER EGG (4 of 5) on the alcove plinth.

Exit this room, go down the wide ramp to the lower lever and find the next closed door in the W wall. Use the Jade Key to open it and enter the room and note the scales ahead. Shoot the crate near the entrance for the SMALL WATERSKIN. Your large waterskin should already be full. If so, you don't need to go in search of a water source. Simply combine the large and small waterskins, leaving 2 units in the large waterskin, and pour its contents into the bowl on the left. You hear the sound of a door opening, but first go to the tapestry hanging from the N wall, crawl past it into an alcove and take the EASTER EGG (5 of 5) from the plinth.

Return to the room, go to the NE corner where you see the wall lamp, face E and jump up to grab a crawl space. Pull inside, drop down left into the floor hole for a WUE (9 of 10) and return (shimmy right before pulling up so you won't get caught in the collision). Exit to the main room, turn left before you reach the wide ramp and go to the N wall where you'll find five empty plinths. Place an Easter Egg on each one to open the nearby floor trap door, drop down the deep shaft into the water far below and pull out N near a plinth with DRAGON'S XIAN GUN. When you pick it up, double doors open elsewhere. Go around to the other side of this underground cave and push the floor lever in the S alcove to hear the sound of a trap door opening.  

Hop back, turn right and look up to the see opened trap door. Go up the small hill beneath it, jump up to grab a ladder surface and climb up past the opened trap door. You can't pull up into the opening in the usual manner, so treat the opening as a crawl space (release, grab and quickly pull up) to accomplish the same purpose. Turn left, look behind the floor lamp for the final WUE (10 of 10), go back the way you came and make your way clockwise around the perimeter until you can look right to see a ladder. Jump to grab it, climb up the excruciatingly long shaft and pull up past the opened trap door to the main floor of the temple.   

Go past the opened double doors you saw in the cut scene, shoot the target to open the next set of double doors and enter the next room as Lara looks to her left. Go to the Easter Egg, stand next to it facing N and use the Knife to break it open and open the secret door to your left. Enter the next room, which serves as a lounge of sorts, but since there's nothing to do here, look around a bit if you wish and then exit to the raised platform to finish the level.