Microsoft KB Archive/229865

Pandora Directive: Step-by-Step Instructions to Complete Day 9

PSS ID Number: Q229865 Article last modified on 06-24-1999

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 == Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive == 

= SUMMARY =

This article contains step-by-step instructions to complete Day Nine, “A Black Sun Ascending” in Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive.

NOTE: These instructions apply to the Game Players level of play.

= MORE INFORMATION =

To complete Day Nine, “A Black Sun Ascending,” follow these steps in the order in which they are listed.

  GET all 14 puzzle pieces from around the room (look up to find the last one)!   GET the piece of papyrus as well.   Save the game. Then USE one of the pieces on the altar in the center of the room to start the next puzzle. For the solution to this puzzle, please see the following Microsoft Web site: http://support.microsoft.com/support/games/links/pandora/faq/pzzlhnts.asp#Map When you have completed the puzzle, the result is a map that depicts every room and passage in the entire temple complex.   Exit the Snake Room using the star door. Note the small painted circle on the door at the snake’s tail. These markings will have significance later in the game.   GET the piece of charcoal to your right.   Go back to the altar in the Snake Room. </li>  In the Inventory, COMBINE the charcoal with the papyrus to make a very crude map. </li>  Exit the Snake Room, again using the star door. </li>  In the Mayan Labyrinth, GET the small stone cup and the white dagger. </li>  Make your way over to meet Oliver Edsen (well, what’s left of him). </li>  GET the glasses. </li>  EXAMINE the glasses to obtain two lenses. </li>  GET the gun. </li>  EXAMINE the gun to obtain some bullets. </li>  GET the lantern. </li>  EXAMINE the lantern to obtain some lantern fuel. </li>  GET the handkerchief. We’re not done plundering the dead yet! </li>  Make your way to the dead warrior. </li>  GET the shield. </li>  USE the broken lens to cut the hemp cord. </li>  GET the hemp cord and the spear. </li>  Make your way back to the Snake Room. </li> <li> This time, exit the Snake Room using the white sun door. </li> <li> GET the hatchet and the silver dagger. </li> <li> Enter the hatchet room. Note the small painted circle on the door to the left of the hatchet. </li> <li> LOOK at the crystals embedded in the altar. </li> <li> Save the game. Then USE the hatchet on one of the crystals. To solve this puzzle you must find pairs of crystals that make the same tone when they are struck. </li></ol>

For the solution to this puzzle, please see the following Microsoft Web site:

http://support.microsoft.com/support/games/links/pandora/faq/pzzlhnts.asp#SingSton

<ol start="28" style="list-style-type: decimal;"> <li> Enter the Mayan Fireball Room using the star door. </li> <li> Save the game! The best manner in which to navigate this maze is to crouch all the way down (use the CTRL key). It’s easier to see the floor that way, so you will not be as likely to keep falling off the edges. Then move immediately to the right. </li> <li> When you reach the far side of the maze, try to OPEN each door at your leisure (once you are on the far side of the maze, the fireballs go right over your head, as long as you stay crouched down). It’s always the last of the four doors that you try that you can open. </li></ol>

Now you are in the second segment of the Mayan Labyrinth.

<ol start="31" style="list-style-type: decimal;"> <li> Make your way to the Wasp Room (do not enter the room). Note the small painted circle beneath the wasp symbol on the door. </li> <li> In the Inventory, COMBINE the handkerchief with the lantern fuel. </li> <li> In the Inventory, COMBINE the oily handkerchief with the spear. </li> <li> Enter the Wasp Room, and LOOK at the wasp nest (over the black sun door). </li> <li> In the Inventory, COMBINE the matchbox with the oily handkerchief and spear. </li> <li> USE the flaming spear on the wasp nest. </li> <li> GET the stack of king tiles. </li> <li> Save the game. USE the king tiles on the altar. Each tile has a distinguishing feature, and they must be arranged in the grid. </li></ol>

For the solution to this puzzle, please see the following Microsoft Web site:

http://support.microsoft.com/support/games/links/pandora/faq/pzzlhnts.asp#KingTile

<ol start="39" style="list-style-type: decimal;"> <li> Exit the Wasp Room using the star door, and GET the gold dagger. </li> <li> Make your way to the other side of the labyrinth, and GET the red dagger. </li> <li> Make your way to the Dagger Room. Note the small painted circle to the right of the dagger symbol on the door. </li> <li> Enter the Dagger Room, and LOOK at the symbols framing the doors. Black sun over white sun… the relative elevations of the symbols are the key to the next puzzle. </li> <li> Save the game. USE one of the daggers on the altar, and then place the remaining daggers in the slots. </li></ol>

NOTE: If the black dagger is not in the Inventory, and you did purchase it from Rook, don’t panic! When you get to the Dagger Room, it reappears in the top right corner of the dagger puzzle, ready for use.

For the solution to this puzzle, please see the following Microsoft Web site:

http://support.microsoft.com/support/games/links/pandora/faq/pzzlhnts.asp#Dagger

<ol start="44" style="list-style-type: decimal;"> <li> Exit the Dagger Room using the black sun door. </li> <li> Make your way to the Pentagon room. Note the small painted circle to the left of the pentagon symbol on the door. </li> <li> Enter the Pentagon Room. LOOK at the ceiling. Then LOOK at the symbols framed on the wall. This is your next puzzle. </li> <li> Save the game! Then (quickly!) solve the puzzle (remember the locations of the painted circles relative to the symbols on the doors). </li></ol>

For the solution to this puzzle, please see the following Microsoft Web site:

http://support.microsoft.com/support/games/links/pandora/faq/pzzlhnts.asp#Mayan

<ol start="48" style="list-style-type: decimal;"> <li> Tex falls down a long chute, and winds up in a room at the bottom. Regan is there, waiting. </li> <li> GET Regan’s backpack. </li> <li> EXAMINE Regan’s backpack to obtain the rope. </li> <li> USE the rope on the statue in the centre of the room. </li> <li> MOVE the statue. </li> <li> After the statue has fallen, LOOK at the pieces. Tex spots a crack in one of the pieces of the fallen statue. </li> <li> In the Inventory: <ul> <li> COMBINE the jack-knife with the bullets. </li> <li> EXAMINE the combined jack-knife and bullets to obtain gunpowder. </li> <li> COMBINE the gunpowder with the small stone cup to produce a primitive explosive. </li> <li> COMBINE the hemp cord with the lantern fuel to make a primitive fuse. </li> <li> COMBINE the fuse with the explosive. </li> <li> Finally, COMBINE the matchbox with the explosive and fuse. </li></ul> </li> <li> USE the lit explosive on the cracked fallen statue piece. </li> <li> GET the two statue fragments, and place each fragment on one of the four raised pedestals. </li> <li> Tex and Regan each hop on a pedestal and the circular piece in the centre of the room begins to rise. Tex and Regan ride it to the top. </li> <li> There ensues a long sequence where Tex learns that Regan and Jackson Cross have been plotting against Tex from the beginning… <ul> <li> Mission(1-2): Lombard(3): Tex must set the controls to launch the ship before the anti-hydrogen on board blows up the entire planet. Fitzpatrick started to give Tex the launch sequence before he died. All you heard was: North, Circle, Red, East, Cross… before Fitzpatrick bought the farm. A pattern is beginning to emerge here, and Tex must set the controls and complete the sequence quickly! For the solution to this puzzle, please see the following Microsoft Web site: </li></ul> </li></ol>

http://support.microsoft.com/support/games/links/pandora/faq/pzzlhnts.asp#Space

Tex beams down from the ship just before it takes off. Elijah Witt gives him a lift home. Just another mundane Day Nine in the life of a private eye.

- Lombard(4): Boulevard(5): Tex limps from the ship just before it takes off, and Elijah Witt gives him a lift home.

- Boulevard(6-8): Tex meets his untimely end, and never lives to see Day Ten. For additional information about how to complete the Pandora Directive, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q229849 Pandora Directive: Step-by-Step Instructions to Complete Day One

Q229853 Pandora Directive: Step-by-Step Instructions to Complete Day Two

Q229856 Pandora Directive: Step-by-Step Instructions to Complete Day Three

Q229858 Pandora Directive: Step-by-Step Instructions to Complete Day Four

Q229860 Pandora Directive: Step-by-Step Instructions to Complete Day Five

Q229861 Pandora Directive: Step-by-Step Instructions to Complete Day Six

Q229863 Pandora Directive: Step-by-Step Instructions to Complete Day Seven

Q229864 Pandora Directive: Step-by-Step Instructions to Complete Day Eight

Q229866 Pandora Directive: Pandora Directive: Description of Available Endings on Day Ten

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