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Zork Nemesis - Walkthrough
 This document is organized in the following order:

 SEGMENT 1 mild clues
 SEGMENT 1 explicit clues
 SEGMENT 2 mild clues
 SEGMENT 2 explicit clues
 EASTER EGGS AND POSTSCRIPT

 There are no clues for segment 3! You're on your own!

 There are seven main characters in this game. I will refer to them as
 Nemesis, Lucien (Lucien Kaine), Alexandria, Sophia, Malveax, Sartorius and
 Kaine (Thaddeus Kaine).

 General comment: Many adventure games have dozens of objects you must pick
 up and move around, sometimes incredible distances. This game is not like
 that. There are VERY few objects you can actually take with you. There is a
 special mouse pointer which indicates either "I can be picked up" or
 "Something can be placed here".

 General comment: Many of the things you see have to do with plot
 development. I rarely mention those. This hint guide is intended to deal with
 the puzzles which would hold up your progress in the game. Don't restrict
 yourself to just what I mention here or you will miss almost all the
 experience.

 This is not a "die whenever you do anything wrong" kind of game, so don't be
 afraid to experiment. And take lots of notes!

 ---------------------SEGMENT 1 MILD CLUES--------------------------------

 Is there anything I can do in the starting area? Well, it's quite a view,
 isn't it?

 How do I open the double-door? Have you looked up?

 What should I do in the library? A message from the Zork Librarian's
 Association: "Read a book today!" A message from the Frobozz Sliding Panel
 Company: "Slide a panel today!"

 What should I do in the fountain courtyard? Well, it's quite a view, isn't
 it?

 What should I do on the ruined deck? I just noticed that my watch stopped.
 What time is it? Wait a moment, what kind of clock is this, anyway?

 What should I do in the lab? There's sure a lot to look at here!

 What should I do with the four crypts? I've heard that seances are fun! By
 the way, what's your sign?

 What should I do with the altar? Looks like something is missing!

 Where are the four elements hidden? Did you obey the Zork Librarian's
 Association?

 I found an element and I can't leave the altar! Maybe someone wants to
 thank you!

 FIRE: How do I get into the Fire pavilion? Did you obey to the Frobozz
 sliding panel company?

 FIRE: How do I open the first door in the Fire pavilion? Use your head.
 What are we trying to find here, anyway?

 FIRE: How do I open the second door in the Fire pavilion? I've heard of
 time locks, but never one based on a sundial before. Of course, anything's
 possible.

 FIRE: How do I figure out which flame is the right one? I've heard it said
 that mirrors don't lie.

 AIR: What do I do with the horns? Well, what do they sound like?

 AIR: What do I do with the constellations? I think we need only one color
 here.

 AIR: Why can't I move the levers? There's something else you need to do
 first. At the moment you can't see what you are doing. You've probably
 missed a hotspot elsewhere in this room.

 AIR: How should I adjust the levers? Well, what color is pure air?

 EARTH: How do I unlock the first door? This door won't open unless you know
 a lot about what you are after and can prove it to the door. Redundancy
 doesn't hurt, either.

 EARTH: I can't go up the helical staircase! Well, maybe you should try
 something else.

 EARTH: I'm trapped underground and I can't get up! Maybe there's something
 near here which will change that.

 EARTH: What do I do at the top of the Earth pavilion? Heck of a view, ain't
 it?

 EARTH: What do I do with the telescope underground? Sure is a nice view,
 isn't it? (Bet you're getting tired of me saying that, aren't you ?)

 EARTH: Why can't I make the mine car move? Where do you want to go?

 WATER: I don't understand these doors! I've heard that time is circular,
 but this is ridiculous.

 WATER: How do I make the doors work correctly? Maybe the clue is musical.

 WATER: What do I do in the basement of the Water pavilion? Let's come back
 to this one later if we really need it, OK?

 WATER: What do I do at the top of the Water pavilion? The Zork Librarian's
 Association says "Turn back the pages of history!"

 -------------------SEGMENT 1 EXPLICIT CLUES------------------------------

 Is there anything I can do in the starting area? Nope - all you can do is
 go towards the temple complex. You cannot open the lock on the gate.

 How do I open the double-door? Move closer to the left hand door. The
 bottom of the knocker is a hot spot. Press and hold the left mouse button
 and drag up. This is here to teach you how to use both the "look up" and
 the "drag" mechanisms in the user interface.

 What should I do in the library? There are six books along one side of the
 library on a bench. Read all six of them. You'll probably want to come back
 later and refer to them. The entrance to the "Fire" pavilion is also
 located here behind sliding panels.

 What should I do in the fountain courtyard? This is a transit point to
 other interesting locations. It connects to the library, the ruined deck,
 Nemesis' lab and the hall with the painting. Try experimenting with the
 fountains.

 What should I do on the ruined deck? Look at the sundial and get the spike
 from it.

 What should I do in the lab? The only item which is critical is the scroll
 on the work table. The first page of it gives the symbols for the four
 planets, the four elements and the four metals and also shows their
 relationships. This is critical to solving many puzzles in this game, so
 copy this page down explicitly.

 What should I do with the four crypts? When you move to the lower closeup,
 there are two hotspots. The upper hotspot allows you to correlate a planet
 to each alchemist, and hence also an element and a metal. The lower hotspot
 permits you to listen to what the alchemist has to say for him/herself.
 This, combined with one of the books in the library, gives you a face for
 each name. The upper closeup is not used at this time.

 What should I do with the altar? The four objectives in this segment of the
 game will fill in the four outer holes. This will happen in due course.

 Where are the four elements hidden? In one of the books in the library is a
 map of the temple complex, and four planet symbols are written on it. These
 correlate to the elements you seek. This map is reproduced in the back of
 the tan pamphlet which was included with the game.

 I found an element and I can't leave the altar! Before you can proceed, you
 must watch an FMV sequence of the alchemist associated with that element.
 The correct crypt will be highlighted by a beam of sunlight. You must "move
 closer" to it.

 FIRE: How do I get into the Fire pavilion? Click the left side of the first
 panel, the right side of the second, the right side of the third panel and
 the left side of the fourth panel.

 FIRE: How do I open the first door in the Fire pavilion? Rotate the head so
 it points to the "Fire" symbol.

 FIRE: How do I open the second door in the Fire pavilion? Put the spike
 from the sundial on the ruined deck into this sundial. Then rotate it so
 the shadow falls on the symbol for Saturnax.

 FIRE: How do I figure out which flame is the right one? You can simply
 click on every flame in the room until one lets you get close. But a better
 way is to try hanging the mirror from each of the hooks. One of the flames
 will reflect blue. That gives you a hint as to where to look.

 AIR: What do I do with the horns? Each of the horns makes the sound of an
 elemental force. Blue is wind, purple is thunder, yellow is an earthquake,
 green is rain, and red is fire. Also the blue horn is in a different key
 than the others. The point of all this is simply to tell you that blue is
 the color you should be striving for in the constellation puzzle in this
 same room.

 AIR: What do I do with the constellations? The idea is to have all the blue
 stars on and none of the purple stars on. The easiest way to do this is
 simply to click any purple star which is on and any blue star which is
 off. If you keep doing this eventually you'll get it right and you can
 watch an FMV sequence.

 AIR: Why can't I move the levers? You need to close the curtains first.
 When you are facing the levers, move to the right of the platform and
 search for a hotspot just under the sphere. If you click it, curtains will
 come down. This unfreezes all the levers except one, which is permanently
 stuck.

 AIR: How should I adjust the levers? Lever 2 should be half on. Levers 3
 and 4 should both be full on. Lever 5 should be off.

 EARTH: How do I unlock the first door? You must expose the symbols for Iron
 and for Murz, but no others, these being the metal and planet associated
 with Earth.

 EARTH: I can't go up the helical staircase! In this case you must go down
 first. Move the lever to cause the staircase to descend further.

 EARTH: I'm trapped underground and I can't get up! There is a mechanism at
 the base of the helix which really will convert it to stairs.

 EARTH: What do I do at the top of the Earth pavilion? The four buildings
 you can see are the places where segment 2 takes place. Each one is
 associated with an element and this room gives you that association. This
 information may also immediately be useful, so note it down.

 EARTH: What do I do with the telescope underground? This indicates what you
 are after in this area. So look and remember.

 EARTH: Why can't I make the mine car move? You have to select a destination
 on the small panel next to it.

 WATER: I don't understand these doors! The doors don't work correctly until
 you solve the water/music puzzle in this area.

 WATER: How do I make the doors work correctly? The panpipe on the left
 indicates the notes needed from the fountain. Counting from the left, turn
 on numbers 1, 4 and 5.

 WATER: What do I do in the basement of the Water pavilion? There is nothing
 to do here once you've solved the musical puzzle.

 WATER: What do I do at the top of the Water pavilion? Click the hourglass
 and it turns into a chair. Sit in the chair and start rotating left. Note
 that the open window changes for each full rotation. You'll need the saw
 from the first screen. When you get to the ice, cut an icicle and let it
 fall into the bowl. Then turn to the age showing lava and look closely at
 the bowl.


 ---------------------SEGMENT 2 MILD CLUES--------------------------------

 END OF SEGMENT 1: What do I do with this glowing yellow sphere? It looks
 like the Sun to me.

 PLANETARIUM: What do I do now? Shed a bit of light on the subject of your
 interest!

 FROM ANY WORLD: How do I get back to the temple? A planet got you here,
 maybe a planet will get you back!

 MONASTERY: The door is locked - how do I get in? Maybe you can sneak in
 some other way.

 MONASTERY: The door is locked - how do I get back out again? The same way
 you got in!

 MONASTERY: What do I do with the 6 heads? Something is missing underneath
 them!

 MONASTERY: What do these strange symbols mean next to the heads? I think
 you missed something important outside the monastery - go look again.

 MONASTERY: Which symbols go with which heads (I can't understand what they
 say)? Zorkminster Fuller says "The medium IS the message!"

 MONASTERY: What are the six symbols for "The Seventh Bell"? Hmm.. have you
 run into a sequence of six of these symbols elsewhere?

 MONASTERY: What do I do with the bell rope? Reverse Bungie Jumping! The new
 Zorkian sport!

 MONASTERY: How do I read the page in the book on Malveaux's bed? Maybe
 something from elsewhere in the Monastery would help.

 MONASTERY: What is there to do in the chapel? If you haven't found
 something to read here, keep looking.

 MONASTERY: What do I do in the room with all the books? The Zork
 Librarian's Society says etc.

 MONASTERY: How do I unlock the locked gate in the room beyond the books?
 Maybe it's a combination lock. (Ignore that keyhole behind the curtain!)

 MONASTERY: What do I enter into the rotor in the room beyond the books? How
 do you spell OPEN?

 MONASTERY: What do I do in the museum? Pick up a couple of things.

 MONASTERY: How do I open the trapdoor in the museum? Have you read the sign
 near the base of the stairs? You may have missed an important hotspot.

 MONASTERY: How do I get by Nemesis's flames in the passage? Did you read
 the history of Saint Yoruk?

 MONASTERY: Something just ate me! Do you remember reading about Grues in
 the temple library?

 MONASTERY: What do I do with the five skulls? If you don't know, you
 haven't searched the rest of the monastery enough yet.

 MONASTERY: The third machine just keeps giving me the drillbit back. Hmmm -
 have you noticed that the five flames are hotspots, so to speak?

 ASYLUM: How do I open the safe? To get ahead on this one you may need
 another head.

 ASYLUM: What can I do in the morgue? Now THIS is ghoulish. There's a
 machine here and you're going to have to use it on something.

 ASYLUM: I'm on the 20th floor - how do I get through the vibrating door?
 Hmm, I think you need a treatment. Sit down.

 ASYLUM: The control panel on the 21st floor electrocutes me! Well, it's
 hard to kill a hand which is already dead.

 ASYLUM: I can't reach the ladder! Go back in the other room and look some
 more.

 ASYLUM: I can't get a spark! Maybe the batteries have dried out.

 ASYLUM: How do I process the tin? Instructions are in a book downstairs.

 IRONDUNE: How do I get into Kaine's chest? There's a note on his desk held
 in place by a dagger. Read it for a hint.

 IRONDUNE: How many of the closed doors can I open? Three (and one later).

 IRONDUNE: The old soldier won't let me outside! Well, there's a WAR on out
 there! But if the war was won, he might let you out.

 IRONDUNE: How do I open one of the doors guarded by a suit of armor? One of
 the suits of armor has two hotspots. What's missing from this one?

 IRONDUNE: How do I open the door at the far side of the library? Have you
 looked closely at the bronze dog?

 IRONDUNE: What should I enter into the radio control panel? Check out the
 map in Kaine's chest and the radio code in the painting in Lucien's room.

 IRONDUNE: How do I open the second door in the trophy room? Look closely at
 the stained glass windows.

 IRONDUNE: Why won't the tank move? You need to set a destination, and you
 need fuel.

 IRONDUNE: How do I get the iron in the mine? Get a mold, and be quick about
 it!

 CONSERVATORY: What do I do in the practice room? There is a place for
 everything and everything should be in its place!

 CONSERVATORY: What do I do in Sophia's office? Have you found the tuning
 fork? Try that note on the piano.

 CONSERVATORY: The lady won't let me into the auditorium! She doesn't think
 there's a show. But what if she DID think there was a show, eh?

 CONSERVATORY: I can't get into the boiler room. Try some other door right
 now.

 CONSERVATORY: How do I turn the lights on? We need the fanfare. Did you
 listen to the records?

 CONSERVATORY: How do I get past the backdrops? Have you looked at the panel
 in the control booth?

 CONSERVATORY: What do I do beneath the stage? Play with the swan!

 CONSERVATORY: I can't make the lever in the boiler room stay down! I think
 you need to go for a swim.

 CONSERVATORY: OK, the lever in the boiler room stayed down - now what? I
 think you need to go for another swim.

 CONSERVATORY: What do I do in the crystal room? The answer to this lies on
 Sophia's blotter and in the practice chamber.

 -------------------SEGMENT 2 EXPLICIT CLUES------------------------------

 END OF SEGMENT 1: What do I do with this glowing yellow sphere? It is the
 Sun in the planetarium. Use the left lever there to install it.

 PLANETARIUM: What do I do now? Use the right hand lever to rotate the
 planets, until the planet you are interested in is lit. When you get to a
 correct position, a small bell will ring. If you let go of the lever,
 you'll get an FMV movement sequence.

 FROM ANY WORLD: How do I get back to the temple? At the point the
 planetarium sent you there is always a floating model of the planet. Click
 this planet to return to the planetarium.

 MONASTERY: The door is locked - how do I get in? As you face the door, turn
 to your right and look down. There is a hole you can enter.

 MONASTERY: The door is locked - how do I get back out again? There is a
 hole in the floor you can exit through.

 MONASTERY: What do I do with the 6 heads? Look into the four pots, in which
 there are 8 placards. 6 of these go under the 6 heads.

 MONASTERY: What do these strange symbols mean next to the heads? Outside on
 the ground is a Zorkmid. Feed it to the machine by the door and read the
 slips it ejects.

 MONASTERY: Which symbols go with which heads (I can't understand what they
 say)? Ignore WHAT the heads say and concentrate on HOW they say it. Each
 symbol represents an attitude. Specifically, on the left side from left to
 right they are fear, anger, boredom; on the right side from left to right
 they are happiness, body, suspicion. The other two symbols are not used.

 MONASTERY: What are the six symbols for "The Seventh Bell"? Once the heads
 are matched with their symbols downstairs, the order that they speak is the
 order of symbols in "The Seventh Bell". Specifically the order is anger,
 suspicion, body, boredom, fear, happiness. (If you are having a hard time
 seeing the symbols, counting from the left this is 2, 14, 16, 12, 9, 4.)

 MONASTERY: What do I do with the bell rope? This is somewhat real-time but
 you can repeat it as many times as necessary. After you pull on the rope,
 move your cursor to center of the screen. When you reach the top, click and
 you'll go through the window up there.

 MONASTERY: How do I read the page in the book on Malveaux's bed? You need an
 object from his study on the second level - get there through the belltower.
 Use it on the book.

 MONASTERY: What is there to do in the chapel? Under a grate in one corner
 is a piece of paper you'll need to look at.

 MONASTERY: What do I do in the room with all the books? Read the legend of
 St. Yoruk.

 MONASTERY: How do I unlock the locked gate in the room beyond the books? In
 the center of that room is a pillar with a rotor in the middle.
 The combination is derived from the piece of paper under the
 grate in the chapel. That piece of paper gives correspondences between
 letters and symbols. The combination is "OPEN" using these symbols. There
 are 12 symbols on the dial - the proper sequence is 2:00, 10:00, 3:00, 12:00.

 MONASTERY: What do I do in the museum? You need the jewel and the torch.

 MONASTERY: How do I open the trapdoor in the museum? Near the center of the
 room is a metal mushroom shape. It can be opened if you are looking at it
 from the right direction, and with it you can deactivate the burglar alarm.

 MONASTERY: How do I get by Nemesis's flames in the passage? You need the
 shield of Yoruk. It can be found near here.

 MONASTERY: Something just ate me! Light the torch you got from the museum
 off of the torch on the wall here. That'll keep that old Grue away!

 MONASTERY: What do I do with the five skulls? The answer is in the book on
 Malveaux's bed on the third level, which was revealed using the lense from
 his study on the second level. Specifically, from left to right they are:
 center, left-2, right-1, left-1, right-2.

 MONASTERY: The third machine just keeps giving me the drillbit back. You
 need to set the colors of the five flames correctly. The sequence is on the
 wall over Malveaux's bed on the third level. From top to bottom they are
 blue, yellow, red, orange, whitish-purple.

 ASYLUM: How do I open the safe? The combination is 5 numbers. You get three
 of them from a head on the bench and two by XRAYing the safe itself. If you
 want to avoid a really disgusting sequence, the combination
 is 36-24-36-20-18.

 ASYLUM: What can I do in the morgue? One of the drawers on the wall has a
 complete body in it. You're going to have to use this machine to chop its
 head off, so you can get the head.

 ASYLUM: I'm on the 20th floor - how do I get through the vibrating door?
 You need to let "Dr. Sartorius" (actually an escaped inmate) give you a
 treatment. Before the visual hallucinations wear off, go through the door.
 If you don't get there in time, you'll have to get another treatment.

 ASYLUM: The control panel on the 21st floor electrocutes me! Use the hammer
 from the other room to break the glass covering the dead hand. Use it to
 punch the buttons on the panel. The hammer is a bit hard to find because
 the location connectivity there is a bit strange. You need to stand in
 the center of the room and look towards the bed.

 ASYLUM: I can't reach the ladder! In the other room is a model of the
 tower. Push the button on its base.

 ASYLUM: I can't get a spark! Fill the sink and drain it. This will make
 the batteries work.

 ASYLUM: How do I process the tin? Step by step: Put water in the sink, then
 drain it. Set the Oxygen lever to the left and the Hydrogen lever to the
 right, then trigger the spark to get a hot flame. Set both Oxygen and
 Hydrogen to the right and trigger the spark to get a cool flame. Then
 trigger the helium to raise the lid.

 IRONDUNE: How do I get into Kaine's chest? There is an ampule of Nitro
 inside Kaine's desk. Use it to blow the lock.

 IRONDUNE: How many of the closed doors can I open? Three: One of the side
 doors on the lower level guarded by a suit of armor, the double doors on
 the lower level which right now seems to be guarded by the "old soldier",
 and the double door at the far side of the library. There's also another
 door on the far side of the trophy room which can be opened, but initially
 you can't see it.

 IRONDUNE: The old soldier won't let me outside! You have to find the radio
 control panel and enter the correct orders into it first to win the war.

 IRONDUNE: How do I open one of the doors guarded by a suit of armor? One of
 the suits of armor has two hotspots. If you place the complete sword on the
 lower hotspot, the door next to him will open.

 IRONDUNE: How do I open the door at the far side of the library? The bronze
 dog is a cannon. Open the "breech" (in this case, where the dog would wear
 its britches?) and put the gunpowder from Lucien's room in it. Then twist
 the dog's ear to load it. Finally, pull its tail to fire it.

 IRONDUNE: What should I enter into the radio control panel? There are
 actually three sources. You can translate the tactic from Kaine's map using
 the radio code on Lucien's canvas; you can listen to the torture victims in
 the basement and they'll tell you what the numbers should be (but not the
 order) or, as it happens, the answer is written inside the front cover of
 the tan booklet which was shipped to you with the game: 10, 1, 9, 6, 12.

 IRONDUNE: How do I open the second door in the trophy room? There are five
 suits of armor in the place, each corresponding to one of the stained glass
 windows. The visors of all five must be set correctly to cause this door to
 open.

 IRONDUNE: Why won't the tank move? You need to set a destination. Kaine
 used the pool table to store the combination (741953). You need fuel. In
 the trophy room in one of the display cabinets is a lump of Thaddium.
 You'll need to put it into the purple container in the back of the tank. It
 has to be put into the bottle next to it; put the thaddium and bottle into
 the purple gizmo in the back of the tank. Be quick about it or you'll die!

 IRONDUNE: How do I get the iron in the mine? First go to the mold machine
 and make a mold of the Murz symbol. Pick it up. Walk into the elevator and
 go down. Turn to the small panel to the right and press the reset button,
 and then the left-hand six buttons. Turn back to the large machine and step
 closer to it. Insert the mold in the middle, then press the "arm" button.
 Once the animation stops, press the "fan" button. If all goes well you'll
 now be able to move closer to the sample of iron. Click it and you'll be
 transported back to the temple.

 CONSERVATORY: What do I do in the practice room? You must place all the
 instruments onto the chairs in the proper arrangement according to the
 chart on the wall. You'll also need to listen to the records from Sophia's
 office on the record player.

 CONSERVATORY: What do I do in Sophia's office? The key for the note
 represented by the tuning fork will release a lamp key inside the piano.
 Use the key on her desk lamp and turn it on. There are also other things
 here you need to see, and don't forget to get the two records.

 CONSERVATORY: The lady won't let me into the auditorium! Get the last
 poster out of Alexandria's portfolio upstairs and put it onto the board
 next to the boiler room door. Then get a ticket from the ticket booth. Use
 the ticket on the auditorium door and she'll let you in.

 CONSERVATORY: I can't get into the boiler room. You have to get into the
 auditorium first.

 CONSERVATORY: How do I turn the lights on? After you've gone to box C and
 seen the FMV sequence, come back downstairs. You have to use the baton to
 "cue" the sections where the instruments are sitting in the correct sequence
 to generate the traditional fanfare. From the records the sequence is:
 popperkeg, nambino, popperkeg, wertmizer, violin. The instruments are NOT
 laid out exactly like in the practice room. Rather, it is more like in an
 opera house. Here is more or less what it looks like from above:


         X       2                       X        X

         4       5     PODIUM            X        1,3

 The numbers indicate the order in which you must hit the hot spots. Since
 it is dark, you'll have to hunt a bit to get them right. There isn't any
 hurry, but if you screw up the sequence you have to start over.

 CONSERVATORY: How do I get past the backdrops? The control panel must be
 turned on. The first button is burned out. Turn on buttons 2, 3, 4 and 6.

 CONSERVATORY: What do I do beneath the stage? Get into the swan and raise
 yourself. Then jump on the drum to get to the boiler room. By the way, you
 won't have to come this way again. After you do this you'll unlock the
 boiler room door from inside.

 CONSERVATORY: I can't make the lever in the boiler room stay down! Try to
 get the locket, but it will drop into the water. You'll have to go down
 into the water after it. Then use it on the lever while the lever is in the
 up position.

 CONSERVATORY: OK, the lever in the boiler room stayed down - now what? You
 need to go back in the water. There's a door you can exit through down there.

 CONSERVATORY: What do I do in the crystal room?
 This is extremely difficult, mostly because the background
 music drowns out the sound of the crystals and the place is extremely
 difficult to navigate. You're going to have to spend a lot of time here
 getting to know the place and where all the crystals are. Something which
 may help is that the background music is in the key of C. There is also a
 map on the wall which tells about where things are. You need to find a
 place in the wall filled with crystals and get one of them. Toss it into
 the boiling pot, and a large black crystal will appear. Then go to the
 large green crystalline fish and open its mouth and get the wafer. Toss
 this in the pot, and the crystal will turn gray. (If you do this in the
 wrong order it won't work.) Now you have to play the notes in the proper
 order. The "Music of the spheres" is CDEBG - but the G is the gray crystal
 itself. The other four are spread around the room - you'll have to find
 them, and turn them on in the correct order. Unfortunately, a crystal only
 stays on about a minute, so if you go too slowly you'll have to start
 over. Another thing which won't work is to turn one of the crystals on, off
 and on again - this is considered to disrupt the sequence.