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Level 12 Meroe

Level 12 Ultimate Map

This level features 4 ancient pyramids of Nubian kings. Inside each pyramid there is a Lens Room. You must turn on all four lenses to open the door to the next level. The light beams from the lenses will show you the exact locations of the 4 one-eyed statues, which require an eye crystal to open each of the four hand-type locks on the exit door. There are several places in this level which trigger the appearance of Russians. By not pressing some buttons you can postpone the Russian threat to a much later time. Anyway there are few of them, just 4-5 people, including a machine-gunner and some grenade throwers. You will also meet some hyenas on this level. You can't kill them with any usual weapon. Use your jeep to run them down.

Near the first pyramid there's a dark opening in the wall. An aborigine boy is hiding there, frightened of the hyenas. Talk to the boy and kill all the hyenas around – you will need his help later. Next time you enter the opening the boy will be gone. Go around the pyramid and notice a small storage house behind it. Shoot through the window to blow a hole in the wall. Pick up a drive chain, a bazooka and some rockets and a medipack inside. Also take a bucket.

Go to the old mine. Use your drive chain to activate the drench and get down in the pit. Examine the old mine cart and detach a wheel from it. Continue along the pit, kill some scorpions and take a watch near a skeleton. Now climb back and use the drench to leave the mine pit (just jump with Alt on the moving platform). Notice an old tunnel across the chasm. There's something inside you want to get. As soon as you approach the edge a boy will come. Give him your watch and he will bring the eye crystal from the tunnel for you. Return to the storage house near the first pyramid.

Climb the pyramid's wall (it's a maze) and jump in the opening from above. Inside the pyramid kill some spiders and use your Urgon's part to smash a wall down there. It will also push a moveable block outside. Now stand on the top of the block and examine the pyramid's wall. From here you can reach the balcony ledge with pyramid's entrance, but the door is closed. To open it move the block and climb the pyramid's wall. Press a button inside a niche high above and climb down. Pick up an idol on the wall and enter the pyramid.

In this pyramid you'll have to do several things (the sequence doesn't matter): 1. attach the Bucket to some strange device in the pool area. It will start grabbing water from the pool and initiate a small water current which will rush outside the pyramid. This will fill the empty pit with water outside the pyramid. You will need this water pit later – it reflects the 4th pyramid's beam and shows the correct position of the last one-eyed statue. 2. turn on the lens in the pyramid's Lens Room. Just set on fire a piece of wood located in the center of that room. A colored beam of light will appear and show a spot on the desert's floor with the first one-eyed statue. 3. Find a way to the next pyramid.

You can walk in two main directions, the sequence doesn't matter. Left passage leads to the pool area, right one – to the Lens Room and to the corridor, connecting this pyramid with others. The Lens Room in each pyramid is usually located somewhere close to the top, remember that when you look for a path/ladder. You can also leave some marks on the walls of the maze with your chalk to help yourself not to get lost, but generally you won't need to do that.

Go to the pool and attach the bucket. Now return to the pyramid and go for the Lens Room. Here I skip some obvious actions. Climb up using the ledges on both sides of the pit. Grab the treasure from the sarcophagus and kill some snakes on your way to the Lens Room. Use an Urgon's part to smash a wall and press the right button out of two available – this will lower the far block on your right and reveal a passage. Go along the path and crawl right to grab some health leaf, guarded by a couple of scorpions. Continue, kill another scorpion round the corner and grab another treasure. You will find the Lens Room soon. Activate the Lens, exit, turn right and jump down. The place looks familiar. Take another passage now.

Kill some snakes on your way and press a button. Crawl to the opening. Climb the ledge. You're in the corridor which leads to the pyramids 2,3 - if you go straight, and to pyramid 4 - if you go left, to the room with a some sarcophaguses and spiders. The sequence doesn't matter. Go straight. [Timed Puzzle Corridor:] You can shimmy over a chasm below if you do the following: first, jump to the platform straight ahead, press a button – it lifts a block in the wall for a short time, return quickly and pull another block from the wall, so that it is positioned exactly below the lifted block. Now the first block won't fall and you can shimmy to the other side of the corridor.

You will soon reach a tunnel with an "eyed" block to the left. It blocks the passage on your approach. You can pass through it using your invisibility item. That passage leads to the Pyramid 3. And if you take the passage on the right you will enter Pyramid 2. Sequence doesn't matter. Go to the right. Climb the sarcophagus and push a door in the room above. Kill dozens of snakes and enter the room. You're in the second pyramid's basement. Behind the block there's an exit from the pyramid but it will also trigger the appearance of Russians. Leave the block in its place for a while. There's a hole in the room's ceiling above one of the crypts – find it. Grab the treasure, kill a spider and smash a wall with your Urgon's part. You will be able to see the treasure through the hole, but the opening is not large enough to pass through. In fact the explosion has destroyed one of the crypts' roofs. You can pick an idol in the crypt on your way back. The passage to the left leads to the Lens Room. Activate another Lens there and get back to the sarcophagus room. [Eyed Block:] Prepare to enter the third pyramid: use the Taklit's Part to become invisible and get past the "eyed" block.

Kill some snakes in the skeleton room, find a cracked wall behind the central pillar with skeletons and smash it. Pick up a treasure and climb up the racks. Above you will soon see a square in the floor and a hatch above it. To enter this pyramid's Lens Room you'll have to push some button (which opens the hatch for a short time), return quickly to this spot and levitate up. Move along the right passage. There' a trap in the floor (some spikes) near the button. Press the button and quickly climb up to the next floor, before the spikes are activated again. On the top floor press a button which opens the hatch and use elevators to get down. Kill a spider and climb up to the levitation square. Select the Azerim's part quickly and fly up. Activate the Lens in this pyramid and levitate down through the hatch to exit the room. Make your way to a corridor with a chasm, you shimmied before, get across and enter the room with sarcophaguses there – you're on your way to the last pyramid.

Crash two subsequent walls with your Urgon's part and pick up some treasure and a health leaf. The button in the far passage opens a hatch in the desert's floor and triggers appearance of Russians – avoid it. Go along the tunnel nearby. Climb the ledge above and pick up a treasure. Continue along the tunnel till you reach a large hall with mine cart railway below. Pick up a health leaf, jump across and shimmy left (the block straight ahead won't move). After a while you will get to a room just behind that block (kill spiders). Move it and use to climb up the room.

From atop the block, jump to the ledge across the room. On your way up collect a piece of wood – you will need it in the Lens Room. Round the corner on the opposite ledge there's a passage you can shimmy to. Use your whip to climb up and jump on the platform. Inside the Lens Room place the piece of wood on the block and light it. The final, 4th beam will spot some place in the desert where one-eyed statue is hidden. To exit the pyramid turn right when leaving the room and use the Urgon's part to smash a wall. This will finally trigger the appearance of some Russians. It is not difficult to shot them from above here. Get down on the ground and kill the rest of them.

Now find the four spots in the desert shown by the beams. Each time you step on the correct spot (however, move away your jeep) – a statue appears. [Eye Crystal:] Install your eye crystal in each of the statues in turn and they will open a door in the first pyramid's basement for you. The third pyramid's beam spots a block near the start of the level (ruins). Push that block to reveal a statue underneath it. [4th Statue:] The beam from the fourth pyramid will show the correct location of corresponding statue only if reflected from the water pit's surface (remember that bucket you attached to a strange mechanism inside the first pyramid?). The door to the next level faces the old mine. [Fuel:]Take a fuel canister from your jeep and get inside that door. Find an old mine cart which needs a wheel and some fuel and finish the level.