Let's Discover The Fate Of Atlantis ! (Completed)

Ulminati · Sep 13, 2010

Darth Slaughter said:
I can't remember any difference in atlantis sections in the different paths.

I believe those differences may be related to the Items you collected through your chosen path, like how many orichalcum beads you have.

But the stone disks reminded me of the old copy protection system this game had on the floppy disk version.

Each page of the manual had a specific position on a stone disk, earth, moon or sun.

Old DRM...

On the fists path, you have to beat up nazis for a knockwurst, because you haven't got a sub sandwich. there are also some small differences with the eel and the jail as far as memory serves. That should be vague enough not to count as a spoiler.

taplonaplo · Sep 13, 2010

What, wits has a Crete part too? :decline:

It still is the most action packed route as i see it.

ghostdog · Sep 13, 2010

Ulminati said:
Since there are tiny variations for each of the 3 paths in atlantis as well, I suggest you go with the wits path through atlantis. I think there's 2 or 3 extra puzzles in there if you do.

There are slight differences only in the pre-chamber between the 3 paths. I think that afterwards everything is the same.

Darth Slaughter said:
But the stone disks reminded me of the old copy protection system this game had on the floppy disk version.

Each page of the manual had a specific position on a stone disk, earth, moon or sun.

Old DRM...

Oh yeah, I still have the manual somewhere. Back in the day where DRM didn't fuck your PC.

Brother None · Sep 14, 2010

Atlantis train!

:love:

Your dedication is the stuff of legends, ghostdog.

Furious Flaming Faggot · Sep 14, 2010

You are a true patriot to the Codex, Phantom Hound.

qliveur · Sep 15, 2010

ghostdog said:
And now we've seen all three paths. Yep, I actually went through all the three long, hard, unforgiving paths just for your enjoyment and amusement. I expect eternal gratitude, preferably of the monetary kind.

Thanks for doing this, ghostdog. It brought back some good memories and was very entertaining. :love:

Now MOAR!

ghostdog · Sep 16, 2010

Here we are folks, at the entrance of the Lost City. Finally, after traveling around the world, battling Nazis, hijacking balloons and submarines, we've managed to find the entrance to Atlantis. 10.000 leagues under the Aegean sea, we've reached an airlock that hopefully leads into the Lost City.

From now on the game plays the same for all paths, but we'll be stating with the TEAM path in order to have some lame touch-in-the-dark opportunities.

Inside The Lost City.

I'm sure you remember that at the end of the Team path we hijacked the Nazi U-boat, saved Sophia and steered the sub into the airlock that leads to Atlantis. After such an awesome feat, maybe we should take a small break and have a talk with Sophia.

I guess so. I just didn't think it would be so dark.

Yeah, it's really dark in here.

Don't get any ideas, buster... there must be a torch or something we can use.

Ideas ? What kind of ideas ? I don't know what you're talking about, darling ! I'll just feel around and try to find something of use...

*SLAP*

Gee, I'm just trying to help here. As we continue to fumble around, we find a some kind of wood-thing:

Good. We take it with us, of course. Further on, it seems that some rubble is blocking the path. Let's try to-

Wut ? I swear, this time I didn't do anything !

Jones ? Hey, you're not Jones !

Huh ?

Help ! INDY !

*muffled shouts*

What the hell ? Was that a door ?

Sophia ?

No reply. Things sure don't look good. But before doing anything else, we must find a way to get some light in here. Let's try to feel what's this thing that blocks our path...

Good thing we've got a ladder then, let's use it to climb on this thing. Thankfully after a while Indy's vision gets accustomed to the dark and we start to see a bit in the dark. (A cool effect, I may add.)

We open it to find something inside...

It's a metal rod with an opening on one end.

An opening huh ? I bet that this another one of those devices that are powered up by orichalcum. Let's use one of our beads :

It worked, we now have an extremely powerful atlantean torch !

Kerner must have grabbed her somehow.

We've found the light, but we've lost Sophia. Oh well, let's see if we can open that door. On the base of the statue here there's a spindle, so I guess we'll have to use our key-stones.

Thing is-- the combination we've used so far doesn't seem to work. We'd better have a closer look at Plato's Lost Dialogue...

"Final entrance yielded only to contrary minds" Let's try the exact opposite combination, then.

The mouth of the statue opened !

You know what that means, we'll have to feed it an orichalcum bead and... Open sesame !

Let's take that ladder with us in order to hinder any Germans that may come from the sub. Time to enter the place of our dreams. ATLANTIS !

FUCK. Another maze. And there are German troops patrolling the area... great. The placement of the rooms changes randomly in each game. Let's enter the first one. We find a statue here :

Apparently its head is loose, naturally, we decide to pick it up. It's an adventure game after all, so we know we must pick up anything that isn't nailed to the floor.

In another room we find some kind of ancient dismantled robot.

It's all over the place. You'd think Atlanteans wouldn't be such slobs.

What's of more importance, though, is that little bronze gear that's hanging from the wall...

We take that too. Then we use the grate on the wall to reach another room.

There's nothing here except crabs. For some reason the whole maze is crawling with them. Anyway, let's get outsid-

Damn.

We don't like people who get in our way. Especially not the likes of you, Herr Jones.

Another Nazi stooge. Let's see how big a goon you really are !

It's a piece of sausage. I'm sure there's some kind of Double entendre to be found here, but I can't think of anything witty at the moment. I'll leave it to you.

Anyway, after all this ass-kicking, I'm sure Indy will get hungry eventually. Let's search some more chambers. We find another grate that leads to...

...an area that can't be reached by normal means. One of the rooms here has another one of those robots. We find another spare part here: a bronze wheel.

Further on, we find something even more interesting.

There's a pool of molten lava here !

You don't say. And there's a small opening on the side.

Hmm, this looks a lot like that statue head we have. Let's see if it fits.

It does ! Maybe we could use one of our containers to pick up some molten lava ? Molten Lava always comes in handy and it's a blast to have at parties ! You can melt your friend's faces and do other funny stuff.

I'd rather not stick my hand under a stream of molten lava.

Smart man. We'll come back here later, let's see more of this maze. In the next room we finally find out where all these crabs come from.

Hmm, maybe we could fill our jar with water from this pool...

The jar is now full of water.

Ok, nothing more for us to do here now. Let's move on.

WHOA ! what's this place ?

The statue is holding an empty bowl. There's a tube from the top that's running down into the back of the statue.

Interesting... As we continue to examine the statue we see that there's a little peg above its head to the right :

Since there's a wheel on the other side, I guess we should try to use the spoked wheel we found earlier...

Yep, it fits. Now, let's have a look at the top of this contraption. There's a funnel there :

Hey, we have a jar of water don't we ? Let's see if it can be used !

Nope. Guess it doesn't like water.

Hmm, we'll need to think of something else. For now we should search the rest of the place. Another grate leads us to a room with an eel statue...

It sure does ! We grab it and move on...

Goddamit. We're constantly crawling in ancient Atlantean sewage... HUH ?

It's Sophia ! And right in front of us is another one of those stone robots. Are you thinking what I'm thinking ? A bead of orichalcum could probably put it in motion. Thing is, we only have ONE shiny preciousss bead left...

...

Oh well, we can't let Sophia get molested by the evil Nazi. We'll just have to use our last bead. :puts bead in statue mouth:

(I vill throw myself in front of zis massive robot statue and get ze iron cross !)

No iron cross for you, Fritz. Unfortunately there's no way to open the grate an get into the holding area. Let's try to communicate with Sophia.

Sophia ?

Indy !

I'm sure it was picnic compared to life in this cell.

Are you alright ?

I'll feel a lot better once you get me out of here.

If she can bitch, she's alright

Did you miss me ?

Put it this way... even YOUR company beats this cell.

This conversation isn't very constructive.

Ok then, see you soon.

Don't leave me here Indy !

Trust me

In the end she changed her tune, but at this point we have no way of freeing her and we've just used our last orichalcum bead. We better get our shit together, or we'll become a permanent addition to this archaeological site.

Stay tuned for the next thrilling chapter of Indiana Jones and The fate Of Atlantis™ ! Will Indy find a way out of this maze, save the dame and uncover the secrets of Atlantis before Kerner ?

We'll see...

Darth Slaughter · Sep 16, 2010

this last nazi soldier, the one watching sophia's cell, is the most difficult guy to beat.

he doesn't accept sucker punches, and he has a long energy bar.

He's like the ticket man from the zeppelin in the game indiana jones and the last crusade. I never could beat him in a fight, but i believe it can be done.

lightbane · Sep 16, 2010

Moar!!! Also, I think there was an "alternate ending" of sorts if you didn't rescue Sophia when given the chance, but I don't know if that applied to all paths...

ghostdog · Sep 17, 2010

@Darth Slaughter:
Yeah, beating him with brawling must be extremely hard. I think he's even tougher than Arnold.

@Lightbane:
It can be done in all paths. You can just leave her in the dungeon, if you want to.

Ulminati · Sep 17, 2010

It can be done. I did it a few years ago, after around 40 failed attempts. But you still need to use the statue to make it tip over and break open, so it's a bit of a wasted effort.

Darth Slaughter · Sep 17, 2010

Ulminati said:
It can be done. I did it a few years ago, after around 40 failed attempts. But you still need to use the statue to make it tip over and break open, so it's a bit of a wasted effort.

If he's beatable, probably it'worth a feel iq points. In last crusade, the guy on the zeppelin was tough and there were means to dispose of him. But beating him was worth IQ point.

Arnold is unbeatable. Just like that guy in the brunwald castle in last crusade, biff.

ghostdog · Sep 18, 2010

All brawls can be won. It's just that Arnold and the dungeon guard are extremely hard, and they're not really worth the effort. Not unless you're madly hunting for perfect IQ score.

spekkio · Sep 18, 2010

ghostdog said:
@Lightbane: It can be done in all paths. You can just leave her in the dungeon, if you want to.

ghostdog · Sep 18, 2010

Welcome back. We are in what seems to be the outer circle of Atlantis, but we have two major problems:

We don't have any orichalcum left (and believe me we need a lot)
We can't reach Sophia's holding cell.

First things first : Let's get us some Orichalcum.

In Search For Orichalcum And Female Psychics.

We discover a room with a huge statue.

The statue is holding a cup. Too bad I can't reach it, the chasm is too big.

Good thing we brought that ladder with us, then. We can use it to form a bridge and take the cup.

Surely, this is NOT the cup of a carpenter.

Another little reference to the movies. If we walk the outer rim of the maze we'll eventually come to a caved-in part of the Atlantean subway. There's a car filled with skeletons here :

Skeletons have rib cages, and one of them catches our eye.

This rib cage is more or less intact.

We grab it of course, since archaeologists like this kind of stuff. Eventually, we find an opening that seems to be leading into the inner circle. Let's check it out.

Hmmm, a huge and locked double door and a fish-like statue.

You know what that means. We need to feed it some orichalcum, so we better find some.

Hmmm, now that we have the stone cup maybe we could use it to obtain some lava ! Let's head over to the lava room. The trick here is to first place the cup on the pedestal and then put the statue head in the opening...

BINGO ! Now let's see if that huge machine likes lava.

Hey, the cogs are starting to move !

YEEEAAAHHH !

This machine creates Orichalcum ! Actually, we can do this as many times as we like. Mondblut's book "Asperger Gamer Deluxe" tells us that we must do this mundane, repetitive action as many times as possible... but fuck that shit, we have enough beads.

Now, we should get back to that room with the sentry statues and give the fish-head some orichalcum.

Uh-oh. That didn't go very well.

Damn ! It seems that the pool of water is blocking the doors. We must find a way to get rid of it...

Hey, back in Iceland, we used an eel figurine to melt the ice, maybe we can do something similar with that other eel statuette we found here !

Let's put a bead inside the eel-thing.

The figurine melted into a slug, but the gates are free !

:thumbsup:

Now the doors can be opened.

And we can access that chamber in the back...

...To find Sophia !

Sophia !

Indy, get me out of here !

Hang in there missy, there's a part of the broken statue that we want to pick up first :

Now, let's use our legendary strength to try and get this cell open.

BAZINGA !

Hurry Sophia, get out !

I don't know, the door makes me nervous...

Oh, for fucks sake !

Brace the door with a rock !

I don't have a rock !

JUST TRUST ME !!

You I trust. The door I don't.

I can't *grunt* hold this up much longer !

The woman is insane ! She can stay in there if she wants to.

Don't you DARE leave me here, you... you... troglodyte !

Bah, women :roll:

. Let's see where that opening leads to.

Whoa !

The canal probably goes all the way around the city.

Unfortunately, the canal is inhabited. There's a giant octopus living here.

It sure does. And what's that crab-like craft on the other side ?

Cool ! Let's board it.

DAMMIT.

We'll need to get rid of that octopus if we want to move on. We'll deal with this in the next exiting chapter, where we'll fight the beast, avoid tentacle rape and decide if we want to save Sophia after all.

spekkio · Sep 18, 2010

ghostdog said:
We'll need to get rid of that octopus if we want to move on.

May I suggest a Flint's solution?

Don't tell me those Atlantians hadn't invented submarines...

:smug:

ghostdog · Sep 19, 2010

spekkio said:
ghostdog said:

We'll need to get rid of that octopus if we want to move on.

Click to expand...

May I suggest a Flint's solution?

Don't tell me those Atlantians hadn't invented submarines...

Flint's solution is too crude. Indy is going to be much more creative

Sceptic · Sep 19, 2010

I ALWAYS forget to take the ladder with me when I enter Atlantis, then have to backtrack to the entrance to pick it up after I get to the chasm. EVERY. SINGLE. FUCKING. TIME. :rage:

Sceptic is not a learning animal.

ghostdog · Sep 21, 2010

Yes, it's that time of the week again. Time to discover ancient cities and fight monstrous octopussies.

...and I HATE snakes !

Sex and the Lost City

So, how the hell are we going to get rid of that octopus ? This is one of the hardest puzzles of the game, I was really stuck here the first time I played it. So, what do we do ? Since the beast is hungry we should feed it. And what better food than a live crab ?

In order to catch it we must first set a trap. We put the sausage inside the rib-cage...

And then we put the cage inside the pool.

We got one !

There's a crab stuck in the rib cage !

Let's go back to that canal and throw the crab to our eight-legged friend.

The octopus seems satisfied and it leaves the scene. Sorry folks no tentacle raep here. Let's swim to the other side.

A bead of orichalcum does the trick.

Whoa... that thing's got a motor.

So now we've got ourselves an Atlantean motor-raft. Unfortunately, the canal gates are closed, but it seems there's something on the top of the door :

It's our key-stones that open the gates. We use the sunstone and move through.

In the next room we find a couple of strange looking bone piles.

These bones are weirdly twisted. Any human being with bones like this must have been diseased.

Hmm ? What the hell was going on here ?

Maybe they weren't human at all, but something ELSE. What kind of demonic creatures looked like this ?

Maybe Indy will get his answer soon. Atlantis doesn't seem very glorious right now... Let's move on. In the next area there are some stairs leading up to a room.

Here we find another ancient gear part.

It must have been part of some ancient machine.

By a strange whim we decide to close the cupboard and that proves to be a good choice since we find a diagram on the other side of the door !

We can't make anything of it right now, but later it will prove to be useful. Further on, we reach an archway :

I'll bet this leads further into Atlantis.

Indy's instincts are right. The archway leads to a huge gate, but the mechanism that seems to operate the gate is broken.

Let's see if our archaeological knowledge and our modern engineering talents can be put to good use ! First, we tie one end of the chain to the right arm of the statue...

But the rest of the chain is too short to reach the other hand loop. Hmm, it seems there's something behind the statues broken chest plate, let's check it out !

What the... ?!

Yep, we'll need to repair the statue/robot thing. After some failed combinations it seems that this is the right order to put the gear. Let's put an orichalcum bead inside the opening.

It works !?

The right arm is broken and it can't move.

Great. I hope we haven't damaged it beyond repair. But what about that diagram we saw earlier ? It did show a statue-like thing and some other stuff that looked like the gear we used here !

Photographic memory said:

Let's see... it seems that in order to move the right hand from it's upper position we need the cog in the left-upper corner and the crescent-shaped gear to the right :

Yes ! The left hand moved closer and now we can tie the other end of the chain on it !

Now let's move the arm back to it's previous position...

...And open the gates to the inner circle of the Lost City !

FUCK YEAH !

But let's not move on just yet. It's time to make a decision. Do we want to save Sophia ? Do we like her feisty composure, or are we fed up by her constant bitching ? Do we want to score, or do we want to roll ? Are we MAGGETS or are we FAGGETS ? Am I drunk ?

Questions, questions, questions... I'm not going to make a poll, I already know what lies in the heart of the Codex (apart from filth, popamole and inanity that is):

MAGGETS : 10
FAGGETS : 5

"If you stare into the Codex long enough, the Codex stares back at you." -Ray Muzyka

It's settled, we'll save her.

So, back to game. Something came loose when we broke down the door :

In that hinge pin lies the solution to the Sophia problem. We can either stab her in the throat, or hand it over to her...

Maybe we'll think of something.

Let's try to open the cell door again:

I've got a plan.

Which is ?

Brace the cage with the hinge pin !

You know, that just might work !

Come on, Sophia, don't be angry !

ANGRY ?! YOU LEFT ME ROTTING IN THIS HELL-HOLE !

WELL, IF THAT'S HOW YOU FELL, MAYBE YOU SHOULD STAY HERE !

MAYBE I WILL !

GREAT IDEA !

FINE !

RESISTANCE IS FUTILE

I'm not sure... I think Nur-Ab-Sal made me do it.

Is that so ?

Round 2:

Yeah...

Some sort of dungeon, I guess. Strange, I always thought Atlanteans were too advanced to need dungeons.

Hmm. I wonder where the rest of the Nazis are.

They must be ahead of us. Let's get out of here. Somewhere beyond the waterway, Nur-Ab-Sal is calling my name.

You can hold my hand if you're scared.

Unfortunately, there will be no actual sex in the Lost City, but I'm sure the romantic part of the Codex is satisfied.

Next time we'll finally meet our old friend Nur-Ab-Sal. Stay tuned !

spekkio · Sep 21, 2010

*fap* *fap* *fap*

Err, I mean, carry on, good sir!

:salute:

Also: you handled the C&C aspect well. The t(y)ranny of choices would be too much for us anyway

Cenobyte · Sep 21, 2010

Hehe, classic Indy scene, very good :D

Gondolin · Sep 21, 2010

Atlantis makes people horny.

ghostdog · Sep 21, 2010

Gondolin said:
Atlantis makes people horny.

Not to mention that constantly inserting beads into mouths can get your imagination rolling. :smug:

...What, don't tell me it's just me ?

Sceptic · Sep 21, 2010

Eighteen years.

EIGHTEEN FUCKING YEARS and the thought never occurred to me. NOT. ONCE.

So yeah, it probably is just you

ghostdog · Sep 21, 2010

Hey, don't blame me. Blame :

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