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            SHIVERS Walkthrough

Written by Sharon Fernandez ([e-mail])
Last modified on 12/20/95

Many thanks to those that helped me finish the game:

    Doug ([e-mail])
    Jeremy ([e-mail])
    Ken ([e-mail])


This cannot be an exact walkthrough because the pots and lids are not
always in the same place for each new game.  Even the 10 pairs of pots
and
lids that you must match might be randomly chosen from the 13 pairs.
So,
the best I can do is guide you to some places, and help you avoid
other
places until you're ready to capture the Ixupi!




Table of Contents:

    General Strategies
    Doing the Walkthrough in the book
    Exploring the rest of the museum
    Puzzle hints and solutions
    Ixupi hiding places
    Pot and lid pairs and their locations
    Flashback items and their location
    Trivia questions


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                    GENERAL STRATEGIES

The book warns that you can only have one item in your inventory at
any
time.  When you match a pot and talisman, then they become a single
item.
Take careful note of where every pot and talisman is found or placed.
If
you exchange a newly found item for one you were carrying or if you
move
things from a far away location to some place closer, your notes will
save
you a lot of wandering around.

You can usually tell if the Ixupi are nearby for they make a unique
noise.
If you turn away quickly, you will be safe.

Point system in general:
    Solved puzzle                     6750 pts
    Clues                          350 pts
    Reading plaques                      250 pts
    Inventory item                     2500 pts
    Loss of life essence                -1500 pts
    Recorded message for each room              300 pts
If you see any objects laying around, examine them.  They are not
essential to the game but are worth points.  I have played the game
twice
and come up with a high score of 485,500 points.

Use the tip of your mouse pointer, not the lower fat part -- it took
me
awhile to realize this, so I'm just passing it along.

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                DOING THE WALKTHROUGH IN THE BOOK

Watch the opening movie of your friends locking you inside the museum
grounds.  This is your first flashback item.  Now would be an
excellent
time to set the "text on" option.  Start reading the walkthrough in
your
book, page 34.

OUTSIDE THE MUSEUM
Turn left and see the dragon gargolye.  The chain's handle will open
it
and inside you find a letter.  Read it.  As the letter falls to the
ground, observe the number inside the dragon's mouth.

Turn around and walk up the museum stairs until you will reach a
locked
door.  The squawk box on the right side will play a recording that the

museum is not open.  Make note of the markings at the top of the door
and
its color.  As you head back down, find another set of markings and a
different color to the right of the purple vase.

You must then find another way in, so follow the path toward the
gazebo.
Find a third set of markings and its color behind the tall object.  Go

just beyond the arch then look back to see the fourth set of markings
on
the triangular stone.  Turn back toward the arch.  Find the markings
on
the bench.  By the time you reach the gazebo you should have 5
markings
and colors.  Walk to the very end of the path to see the submerged
steps.

Enter the gazebo and open the metal box and solve its puzzle.  The
answers
are on page 35 at the bottom.  If you don't have the book then you
won't
get very far in this game because I'm not repeating those answers!

Exit the gazebo and cross on the raised steps. As you approach the
Stonehenge replica, find the last marking on the perimeter wall.  Look

down.  Now use the markings and colors you've seen to solve this
puzzle.
The answers are on page 36.  Descend the spiral staircase. Open the
door
and find the light switch along the left side.  Continue traveling
downward (either passageway gets you to the underground lake).  Open
the
stone door.

UNDERGROUND LAKE
Find the corpse on your left.  Take the book and read it.  This now
appears as flashback item 9.

Get on the boat.  Go to the rear (turn left), look down, move the
anchor
pin down.  Move to front of boat, look down, and move its anchor pin
up.
Now you can turn the crank several times to reach the other side.

During the crossing, the water spirit will appear and take some life
essence.  You cannot avoid this.  When you've reached the other shore,

notice a pot straight ahead.  Get off the boat and head right to find
that
pot.  When you examine it Professor Windlenot's ghost will appear and
warn
you.  This becomes flashback item 4.  Examine the markings on the pot
for
later identification.

Walk down the tunnel and find the elevator.  Match the design on the
doors
with the nearby box (diagonal pattern).  Enter the elevator and travel
up
to the museum office.

MUSEUM OFFICE
Explore the office thoroughly, but avoid the fireplace.  Items you
should
find: the map on the wall, a newspaper in the coat pocket, a letter on
the
floor, the elevator behind the tapestry, a door into a workshop, a
message
on the tape recorder on the desk, and a letter in the desk.  The
scrapbook
on the desk will become flashback item 6.  Be sure you find the bull
talisman is in the lower right drawer.

LIBRARY
The library is the next room to explore.  Take the door to the left of
the
fireplace.  Walk a little forward and turn left.  The door you see is
to
the library.  Enter and concentrate your search to the right of the
candelabra, but beware the wax Ixupi might be there.  You should find
a
total of 4 books in this bookcase, flashback items 8, 10, 11, and 12.
If
you are having trouble, start with the only book that is leaning --
this
is the "Black Book".  Now the next one is two to the right and
orangish
in color.  Then the whitish one another four books from the last one.
The
last one is one shelf lower and is purple in color.  Further
exploration
should quickly reveal another passage, but leave that for later.  Find
the
ladder in front of another bookcase and check it out later.  Leave the

library through its front door, stay to the right of the display case
in
the center of the room, and enter the double doors between the two
pillars.  If you reached the stairs, you've gone to far.

STRANGE BEASTS
Enter the Strange Beasts room, head toward the far left corner and
find
another double door (green with a serpentine pattern).  Enter the
Amazing
Plants room and turn left, forward, then left again.  You will find
the
talisman to match the pot you found in the office.  If you have the
pot,
then the talisman will magically join to it, otherwise take the
talisman
and go back to the office and join the two items.  You have now
reached
page 44 and can capture your first Ixupi (if it's still in the
fireplace
ashes).


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                EXPLORING THE REST OF THE MUSEUM

Probably the most useful item to locate are the blueprints mentioned
on
page 61.  They are in the Mysteries of the Deep room.  If you are in
the
office, head back to the Strange Beasts room, otherwise leave the
Amazing
Plants room, head left around the eagle nest.

MYSTERIES OF THE DEEP
Find another set of double doors in the Strange Beasts room.  Go
through
the doors, take note of the map on the floor, and examine the
Poseidon/Neptune display.  Here is the Globe puzzle.  Solve it and you

will have an inventory item and a very useful set of museum blueprints
as
flashback item 14.  Go a little further and find the Sirens/Organ
puzzle
at the far end, right corner.  Solve this one and a door opens at the
Colossus of Rhodes exhibit, just to the right of the organ.

Enter the new passage and find the Movable Wall puzzle.  No clue for
this
one yet, so we'll return later.  As you come back out of the passage,
notice the splotch of yellow straight ahead.  We'll check it out in a
minute.  Watch for the sand/earth Ixupi who sometimes occupies the
building display on your left.  If you go back toward the globe, then
just
a bit beyond, turn right, forward, right again, and go along the wall.
At
the far end are some yellow crystals which the Ixupi might be
occupying.

MAIN ENTRY HALL
Leave the Mysteries of the Deep Room, go back to the Main Entry Hall
and
explore some more.  You should find the staircase going to the second
floor, a stone water fountain with a hidden spigot (careful - Ixupi
maybe), the doors behind the desk which match the locked doors on the
outside of the museum, two panels (one to the right of the desk and
one to
the left of the fountain) and a door that will lead into the Theatre.

Look in the desk drawer for the museum brochure, flashback item 7.
You'll
need this to find and set the skeleton dials throughout the museum.
Also
find an inventory item in one of the bird masks between the library
and
the office.

THEATRE
To get into the Theatre, solve the Door Puzzle.  Go around the right
side
of the theatre and climb the stage.  You will find a note on the
podium
and an inventory item just behind the curtain.  Retrace some of your
steps
and go up the left side of the stage.  Travel the hallway, noting the
Door
Puzzle at one corner and a secret passage at another corner.  Enter
the
projection room and solve its puzzle.  You now have flashback item 13
and
your clue to the Movable Wall puzzle.

MAZE
Leave the theatre and re-enter the Strange Beasts room. Go to the
right of
the giant eagle next, set the skull dial (blue), then enter Mysteries
of
the Deep room, and head toward the Subterranean World.  Solve the
Movable
Wall puzzle.  You will then travel down a couple halls and enter a
room
with three doorways.  Traverse the Maze.

SUBTERRANEAN WORLD
Read the plaque, set the skull dial (yellow).  Look across the oily
area
(careful, don't venture too close if an Ixupi is there) and note an
inventory item on the other side.  Travel back through the maze, go to
the
Main Entry Hall, then the office.

WORKSHOP
Find the workshop.  Head down the left side and find the Drawer
Puzzle.
The clue is in this room so go ahead and solve it now and find another

inventory item.  Continue around the table, but don't approach too
close
to the wooden object shaped in a humanoid form.  It might contain the
wood
Ixupi.

BEDROOM AND STUDY
Leave the workshop and let's see where the elevator behind the office
tapestry takes us.  Arrive on the fourth floor and look for a
flashback
item 17 - the Professor's Diary/Journal.  Also take note of the clock
beside the bed and the different faces for different times.  In
particular
notice the one with the open jaws and its corresponding time.

LIBRARY AND SECRET PASSAGE
Come back down the elevator to the office and go to the library.  Find
the
ladder and go up, turn right and see a statue.  Turn back to the left
and
find the book which will open the statue and reveal an inventory item.

Click on the thickest book you see to get the statue to turn and
reveal
its hidden contents.  Down the ladder, left, roward twice, right turn
and
into the secret passage.

Turn left and find some lipstick on the floor, left, left again, and
see
another elevator.  Open the elevator at least once in the game because
it
contains a clue to a puzzle.  This elevator travels between the three
main
floors.  Go back into the secret passage and find some more items on
the
floor.  If you turn right at the junction, you'll dead end.  Remember
the
secret doorway near the projection room?  This is the other side and
is a
one-way door.

MECHANICAL ROOM AND GENERATOR ROOM
Turn left and around a few corners (finding a purse with flashback
item
15) and down until you reach the Mechanical Room and Generator.
Probably
nothing here until later in the game, but explore anyway.  Find the
"Danger High Voltage" box.  There is a breaker panel to the left, and
just below it a section of the wall that looks different.  Back up to
the
main floor, go in the theatre, left side, and hallway.

CLOCK TOWER
Solve the door puzzle in the theatre side hall and climb up the tower
stairs.  You should find Beth's ghost here and another pot and head.
Examine is markings so you can identify the Ixupi.  Play the juke box
pieces and leave it set on the Anansi Spider Song.  This will save you

some wandering.  Work the video monitor, being careful to note what
you
see with the Witch Doctor camera.   These two clues help solve puzzles

elsewhere.  Observe the faces on the clock and the time on the video
monitor camera.  Solve the Clock Puzzle and find an inventory item at
the
top of the tower.  Back down, through the theatre, and into the Main
Entry
Hall.

TOMBS AND CURSES
Now, lets explore the second floor.  If you use the stairs from the
Main
Entry Hall, notice the chandelier at the top.  Careful, another place
for
the crystal Ixupi.  Through the double doors and enter the Tombs and
Curses room.  Turn right and enter the room where the Ixupi vessels
were
once kept.  Leave this room, turn right and set the skull dial
(green).
Do an about-face and notice the secret panel in the wall.  We are
going to
explore some other parts of the second floor and return to this room
later.  Turn the leaves just above the door and go through.

FORTUNE TELLER ROOM
You are in the corrider.  Dead end to the right, so turn left, go
around
the corner, continue down hallway and take the first left.  Around
another
corner and take the next left.  The wood Ixupi is sometimes near the
discarded lumber.  Find the Picture puzzle in the far corner.  Solving
it
gains you access into the Fortune Teller's room.  Here you find
Merrick's
ghost, flashback item 3.  Get your fortune with the coin, and
carefully
note the *first* thing it says.  This is your first of four riddles.
Leave the room and head back out into the hallway.  At the junction,
turn
left, go around a corner, head up some stairs, and take the next
right,
and more stairs.

STORAGE ROOM
You have now arrived on the 3rd floor without the help of an elevator.
Go
down this new passage until you find some more lumber and an A-frame
on
the wall.  Another secret doorway.  Enter the Storage room.  Turn
left,
open one crate, and arrive at a door that leads into the Planetarium.

PLANETARIUM
The thunder and lightning Ixupi is sometimes in one of the displays,
so
watch out.  Find the solar system model and solve your first riddle.
Read
the second riddle.  Work your way around to the right and find the
Pictograph Tiles puzzle.  Solve this and find another inventory item.
If
you continue around to the left, you'll see another door.  This goes
into
the tower and descends to the second level.  We'll get there by
another
means.  Leave the Planetarium through the same door we came in, open
two
more crates in the Storage room, and at the far end, find one last
crate
with the Alchemy Machine puzzle.  Solve it and find an inventory item.

About face and through the new door.

MANS INHUMANITY TO MAN
Go through the spiked doorway and find a skeleton in a raised cage.
For
fun, click the pitcher, the glass, then the skeleton's hand.  You
should
hear "I feel your pain".  Explore the other torture items in the area,

and eventually end up at the gallows.  Solve this puzzle and find an
inventory item.  Down the gallow steps and head straight, passing the
electric chair (lightning Ixupi is sometimes there so don't throw the
switch) and entering another room.  At its end is the Door puzzle.
Solve
it and you gain access into another room.  Find another puzzle between
the
two pictures.  Solve this Pinball Machine puzzle and you gain access
into
a passage with a 6-skull dial and an inventory item.  This door will
open
when you have turned all the other skull dials in the museum to their
proper color.

SECRET PASSAGE 2ND FLOOR
Backtrack to the storage room and out the secret entrance.  If you
turn
right, you'll go down the hall a few turns and find an elevator.  Take
it
to the second floor, turn right down the hall.  Take the next left and

find only dead ends, retrace back to the junction and turn right,
round a
few corners, ignore the two right turns, and go *almost* to the end.
If
you are at the end, back up just a little and find the passage into
the
Tombs and Curses room.

TOMBS AND CURSES
Turn left and go part way toward the tomb markers.  When you can turn
right and go around the corner, find the Sphinx.  Read the plaque,
poke
around the sphinx (between the legs), then touch the lips.  Do an
about-
ace and see the sarcophagus and obelisks, and solve this puzzle.
Another
inventory item.  Continue working your way left past the sphinx to
another
burial tomb (Curse of Anubis), but beware of an Ixupi.  Return to the
main
area of this room, go up the steps between the tomb markers and solve
the
door puzzle to gain access into the next room.

FUNERAL RITES ROOM
The Funeral Rites room has a skull dial.  At the bottom of the stairs,

turn left, forward, left again, and set the dial (blue).  Turn right
and
enter a burial chamber, being careful to avoid the cloth Ixupi.  Leave
and
turn left to head toward far end of room.  On the left, see the lion,
and
find Merrick's notebook - flashback item 16.  Continue toward the far
door.  On the right find the animal sarcophagus and its hidden Chinese

Checker puzzle.  Solve this and find an inventory item.  Beware the
cremation display might house an Ixupi.  Enter the door at this end of
the
room.

SHAMAN ROOM
In the Shaman room you need to beware of the wax Ixupi in one corner.

Find the witch doctor in another corner, and tracks on the floor that
disappear at a secret panel.  Follow the tracks back to their origin
and
look up.  Here is the camera you used in the clock tower.  Solve this
puzzle to gain access into the next room.

GOD AND KILLING ITEMS ROOM
You are in the Gods and Killing Items room, and your second riddle
will be
answered, and your third will be found.  Look for a horse-drawn
chariot
and Thor.  Spin the nearby stone piece and read its message.  Go to
the
next room and set the skull dial (red).  Find and solve the Sumerian
Lyre
puzzle at the room's far end, and find another inventory item.  Don't
forget the set the skull dial (red).  Back to the double doors and
solve
this door puzzle (panel on left) to gain access into the next room.

MYTHS AND LEGENDS ROOM
Find two things when you first enter the Myths and Legends room: the
music
box puzzle on your right and a duffel bag on the left.  Solve the
puzzle
and find an inventory item.  Search the bag and the book will become
flashback item 5.  Walk toware other end, avoid the wax snake (Ixupi!)
and
check out the Maoris carved chest to find another inventory item.
Leave
this area and continue on through the next couple rooms carefully.
More
spare lumber means Ixupi, maybe.  Find another skull dial near the
were
wolf and set it (red).  Wander until you find stairs to your right.
These
lead to the planetarium.  First, though, turn left twice and round the

corner to find a door.  Enter the janitor's room and you'll usually
find
the cloth Ixupi guarding another inventory item.

CAPTURE 9 OF 10 IXUPI
I believe at this point, you need to capture as many Ixupi as
possible.
Don't worry if you come down to just one left to nab.  The game seems
to
be designed this way.  If you make it to the subterranean room, you'll

find a shortcut back to the main floor.  Try it.

GENERATOR ROOM
With one Ixupi to go (and it's probably the Thunder and Lightning
Ixupi),
you may now begin the search for the missing page 17.  Work you way
down
the the generator room and find the breaker panel.  If it is not open,

then you haven't done enough of the game.  If it is, flip the switch,
twice, and page 17 will appear.  This is your 4th riddle.  Be sure to
read
the part that was still in the book and complete the riddle.  You
should
now recall some part of the museum which would answer this riddle.

MANS INHUMANITY TO MAN
Head upstairs to the third floor and its room with the guillotine.
Take a
quick side-trip through the puzzle room, past the 6 skull dial and
into
one last room.  Notice the trap door in the floor and the inset stone
on
the wall with its two symbols.  Back to the guillotine.  Work the
display
and notice the same two symbols on the blade that has dropped.  Back
to
the room with these same symbols on the wall.  This time the stone has

moved forward.  Touch it and enjoy the wild ride.  At the end of the
run,
you find your last inventory item.

GENERATOR ROOM
Now for the last Ixupi.  Find him in the generator room and capture
him.
Watch the closing movie as flashback item 18 and go home with your
friends.