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ACT SEVEN - OUTPOST
You regain control of Conan beside a small boat which you have apparently
used to get ashore - the severed heads of Stygian Warriors adorning the
spikes around you.
> Turn and head down the path, clocking the sentries as you go. The first
wave of enemies you will face are Stygian Pikemen; the second, Stygian
Elite Swordsmen.
> As you near the Stygian Pikemen, take note that there is a campfire, and
a Treasure Chest for you to pilfer once they are dead.
> Once the Stygian Elite Swordsmen are taken care of, run PAST where they were
congregated, and keep heading right until the camera turns and leads you
onto a dock. Here you will find a mini-ambush, a treasure chest, and your
first battle with a new type of enemy. Conan calls them Winged Lizards, so
that's what I'm going to call them too. The Winged Lizards are TERRIBLY
ineffectual combatants, and should give you NO problems at all. When their
eyes glow red it means they are about to bite at you, so just roll away.
You really shouldn't have any problems with them at all. They do have a
poisonous breath attack that they VERY rarely use, which stuns you for a
couple of seconds, and which can be counter-attacked if your timing is good.
> Once you are done on the dock, turn and head back to where you did battle
with the Stygian Elite Swordsmen, and head into the nearby building (tap RB
three times to get through the door), and take out all the Stygians inside.
Once you have slain all the Stygian Pikemen, a door opens in the northern
wall of the room and a Stygian Honour Guard arrives together with some of
his cronies. Slay them all, and only read on when you have done so.
There is a red rune triumvirate in this room, not to mention a lot of vases.
HOWEVER, it is possible for you to screw this up beyond correction, so
PLEASE PAY ATTENTION.
DO NOT push anything over in this room yet. Once all the Stygians are slain
I would like you to head to the bottom right-hand corner of the room, and
activate the red rune triumvirate inbetween the two pillars there (1/3).
Then, head to the top left-hand corner of the room, and activate the red
rune triumvirate there (2/3). Finally, head into the room that the Stygian
Honour Guard and his posse came from, and activate the red rune triumvirate
there (3/3). This will bolster your Song of Death Power Bar.
Take the green urn, smash the vases and other items in the room for extra
goodies, and pick up whatever weaponry (if any) you desire, before going
back into the main chamber.
Now, head back to where you activate the first red rune triumvirate, and
push over the pillar on the right so that it falls to the left (RB, tap B).
See ? If you'd done that BEFORE you activate the triumvirate, you wouldn't
be able to use it now would you ;)
(( I know because I screwed it up the first time I played )) =./
Jump up the demolished pillar, up the next pillar, and then up again to a
new plateau.
> Follow the pathway around to the right, and you will be attacked by a large
group of Winged Lizards.
> At the far end of the clearing where these foul winged beasts attack you is
a Treasure Chest for your plundering.
Once you have taken your fill of the treasure, head up the slope to your
left, using the ledges as you go. Incidentally, if you go (from the ground)
up, up, up, up, left, left, left, left you will reach a hidden plateau which
contains a treasure chest, and can then either drop down to the pathway
below you and climb the whole rockface again, or double-back on yourself and
pick up where you were.
As you reach the top, Conan says "More foul magic I'll wager" - seems he's
becoming rather more verbose as we play on eh !! ANYHOW, LITERALLY just
before you reach the top (where you have to do battle with a small group of
Stygians) there is a level - it's atop the highest ledge on the rockface,
but BEFORE the top of the rockface (if that makes sense). There is a
hidden treasure chest on the left-hand side of this level.
> When you reach the top, take out the Stygians and smash open the nearby
wooden door (RB), to get access to a small room containing a Buxom Beauty,
a VERY important blue stone for saving your progress, a blue urn, a number
of vases, and a weapon rack replete with axes.
You're going to need all this clobber, because there is an ARMY coming at
you from the other side of the bridge, and you will need your wits about
you for taking them out.
Equip yourself with whatever you fight best with, and get stuck in !!
There are a number of Stygian Archers that will pelt you from afar, so you
ought to try and close the distance with them as quickly as you can. You
might want to use your Rain of Fire power here to see how it functions
against multiple troops or, failing that, use your Stone Prison to even the
odds against you ;)
> Once you have slain them all, head through the door (RB, LS Up, LS Down, LS
Up), and into the next chamber.
There is a green urn, a weapon rack filled with axes, and a load of
destructible items in this room, together with a set of Stygians, who will
be reinforced by another set further into this combat.
> Once all the Stygians are slain, leave via the door in the right-hand wall,
and you will enter another chamber. There are some vases to smash, another
weapon rack against the far wall (filled with axes), and two doors - one
to the left that requires a chain to be pulled to get through it, and a
wooden door to the right.
Head right (RB to smash the door) behind which you will find a buxom beauty
AND A STYGIAN HONOUR GUARD lying in wait for you (you won't see him until
he is right upon you owing to the dodgy camera angle - grrrrrr). There is
also a treasure chest, and a fair amount of destructible items in this room
which you can smash to bits.
> Once you are done here, head back through the room you were in previously,
and run up to the door on the far side (RB, tap B on the chain to lock it
and open the door).
As soon as you enter this room, prepare to block as you are propelled right
into hand-to-hand combat with 2 Stygians. They are soon backed up by a
Stygian Honour Guard, and further warriors who pile into the chamber to
do battle with you.
Once they are all dead, smash as many items as you like to get some goodies,
and then head up the stairs on the right-hand side (there's plenty more to
smash, along with a couple more Stygians, on the upper level), and finally
head through the wooden door (RB to smash it) to get to the next area.
> In this next room are 2 (TWO !!) buxom beauties to be saved, plus a few
Stygians to be taken out. There is also a weapon rack on the left-hand
wall, filled with axes (again - what's with the AXES people !?!?!).
Use RB and then tap B repeatedly on the chain in the north wall, to open
the door and gain access to the next room.
> In this room you will do battle with a Stygian Honour Guard whilst having
to dodge Stygian Archers' arrow fire from above, which is a BIT of a pain.
Once he has been slain, run up the stairs on the right-hand side and take
out both the Stygian Archers, before doubling-back on yourself across the
higher level, to pick up a green urn. I needn't mention it, but there is
YET ANOTHER axe-filled weapon rack on the ground floor in this room should
you really want another axe (!!).
When you are done, RB three times on the door to smash it to bits, and head
out to the next area.
> Here the camera gives you a VERY handy angle - up high and at a distance,
so you can see your adversaries immediately. There are 2 Stygian Pikemen
and a Stygian Elite Swordsman in the immediate area, but reinforcements
in the form of 2 Stygian Honour Guard, 2 Stygian Elite Swordsmen and a
Stygian Pikeman lie in wait.
There are a further 2 buxom beauties to be rescued here as well !! Read on
once you've slain everybody.
> There is a blue rune triumvirate in this room that we shall now complete.
If you would like to activate the first blue rune triumvirate (the one
nearest the door you used to get into this room) (1/3), and then head to the
north of that one along the line that is drawn to find the second (2/3), and
finally follow the line that heads away from the camera from the second, to
reach and activate the third (3/3). This will bolster your magic power bar
so that you now have FOUR levels - power enough for 2 Rain of Fire Spells,
or FOUR Stone Prison Spells !! BONZA !!!!! =)
> Head back to where you activated the second blue rune triumvirate, and push
the pillar over onto it (RB, tap B).
> Jump up onto the broken pillar, and then up onto the scaffolding - the
camera pans to show you the way.
> Run to the left, and then jump up to reach the next level of scaffolding,
and the green urn atop it.
> From here, head away from the camera and then right, down, right, and then
jump onto the back wall (which is actually a ledge), and go up, up to reach
the next level of scaffolding (just above the banner), and head away from
the camera, then right and then right again, to drop down by the blue urn
and blue stone.
> Save your game.
> Follow the path away from the blue stone, and push over the pillar (RB, tap
B). Jump up onto the demolished pillar, and keep running to the right (over
the pillar effectively), ignoring the Winged Lizards.
When the camera pans to show you the way up, ignore it and keep running to
the right to find a further Buxom Beauty and a Treasure Chest.
Once you are done here, head left, back to where the camera panned up, and
head to the door at the back of the room - RB, LS Up, LS Down, LS Up to
open it.
> In this next room BLOCK IMMEDIATELY, as there are several Stygians in the
area, 2 of which will attack you as soon as you arrive. There is also a
treasure chest and a weapon rack filled with ... that's right ... axes !!
There are HEAPS of vases to smash here as well =)
Head up the stairs, taking out the Stygians as you go and, when you reach
the top, press RB and then tap B repeatedly on the central pillar, to
twist it so that you can get by. Just be careful of the Stygian Honour
Guard and Stygian Elite Swordsman on the other side !!!!!
It is very important that you get this bit right - you should twist the
block and it should then rise up when it's been moved. If it does not,
which is quite likely if you are hit whilst you are moving it, you should
slay the warriors that face you, and then run off the broken steps at the
top to drop back down to the bottom and run up to do the twisty bit again.
Once you have done it right, run up the broken steps and then jump to make
sure you reach the ledge on the other side, and then jump right, right, up,
and up again to reach a new ledge.
Smash the vases to get some green energy, and then run and jump over to the
right, before heading up, up and up again, to reach a large open-air chamber
with what looks like a huge chalice in the centre.
> Take out the Stygians that you face here, but WHATEVER you do, DO NOT USE
THE GREEN URNS !!!!!
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