We are now deep in the bowels of City 17
And immediately find a large hammer
And another devious puzzle
Which involves:
Turning to the left
Smashing a lock
Turning a bit further to pick up this item
Which we insert in the fuse box in order to disable the electricity (this game makes me feel so smart)
We pick up a crate and with it we are able
to reach
slightly higher ground
Only to find a locked door...
Luckily there is a ventilation shaft nearby
We find some lockers, those are always potential containers of exciting things
And we do indeed discover another tasteful collectible
and a key
and a door…
Thanks to the amazing immersion this game provides I can almost smell the sewage, of course we soon encounter a huge rat
As luck would have it there is a steam release valve to turn
Without further hesitation Jack dives into the filth
And finds a ladder out of yet another erm involving level.
We open the manhole and find out we are in another decrepit place
We are so immersed in the thick atmosphere that we can’t see any obvious way out
Ah but there is another ladder hidden in the shadow
We enter this filthy apartment
It’s only marginally worse than what Jack is used to
The previous owner was clearly a wizard who had to leave in a hurry and forgot one of his wands in this odd storage device
We leave through another window and attempt to follow this daring path but are momentarily stopped by a blocked off ventilation shaft
Which is no match for our mighty Wand of Suction
We fall down into yet another locked room
Where we find a canister
And a gun
Just kidding it’s just a novelty lighter, (so far) this game is too classy and advanced for trivial things like firearms and hand models.
We take the rag and combine it with the fuel canister
Light it, take a few steps back and an absolutely massive explosion obliterates the door and rocks the building
After the smoke clears we enter a moonlit grimdark back alley
Where we grab a piece of wood and approach another one of those weird looking cultists
He asks for a cigarette
And turns hostile when he learns Jack is a non-smoker
With the help of our superior lungs we make short work of this clown and his identical friend
We use this thing to lower the ladder and start climbing again
We sense that we have to go through the window next to the neon light
We push the rain pipe and return to terra firma
Where we use the newly created path
and follow the ledge until we reach
the window next to the zooming neon light
We enter a hallway and in the distance we see a semi-nude Mila in bondage guarded by another dark cultist.