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This place is huge! Look up... way up! As Lara walks along the balcony, the tree by the entrance, moves and grabs the doors. It locks tight with 2 sets of branches. Ok... This is a little strange? Climb down the ladder to the floor area. No goodies to be found, but there's lots of strange plant life including huge mushrooms. Walk up the flight of steps to the enclosed patio at the back. This is some sort of fertilizer or chemical pipeline dispenser. |
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There are 5 different valve wheels and a pipe lever against the far wall. By the bench, there's a buletin board with several sketches, showing different chemical formulas. Push the bench away from the bulletin board. This reveals another sketch at the bottom with a red "X" through it. Must be a poisonous formula for plants? Determine what 3 symbols the bottom chart is pointing to. The 3 correct chemcials are marked by lines going to the tree. |
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In order, turn the first valve wheel. The meter above the wheel goes to full. The tank resevoir on the far wall, starts to fill. Go to the 2nd wheel. Turn the valve and watch the meter go to full. The tank resevoir fills some more. Go to the 4th wheel and turn the valve. Watch the meter go to full. The tank resevoir is now full. Go and pull the lever next to the resevoir. |
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After Lara pulls the lever, a cut-away scene shows the pipeline filling with your mixture. The pipe goes all the way to the tree by the door. The tree shutters and collpases from the poison. The doors are now open. Walk down the steps and up through the entrance foyer. As Lara enters through the next door, we get a panoramic view of the Bio-Dome. This place is huge.. I would say as big as a domed sports stadium, but probably alot taller. There's at least 6 levels of balcony catwalks. Oh. Fun! |
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First priority is to take care of the security guards. 3 of them have different level security passes. The first security guard is roaming around the ground floor. Walk to the right down the sidewalk, hugging the courtyard wall. Lara can see his searchlight as he walks down the path. As he approaches, ambush him and take him down at close range. Grab his Botanical Low Access Pass. At the end of the sidewalk, there's a small room with 3 swipe card readers. We'll go there later. Go up to the courtyard. |
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In the corner of the garden, there's a steel ladder going up to the 2nd level catwalks. Climb to the top. Look around. To the left, there's a set of stairs going around the corner, up to the 4th level. Walk up to the 4th level and SAVE GAME. The gate door is locked. The security guard walking by the circular balcony with the huge tree, can't see you, or isn't bothering with you. Our next priority is to get to the 4th level catwalks, by finding another way. |
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There's a section of wrought iron railing missing from the far catwalk, by the arboretum. The roof blocks can be jumped across to reach that opening. Engage [walk] so you don't fall. If you miss a jump, Lara will slide off the roof and fall into the pool at the bottom. No harm done, just her ego. Lara will have to make her way back up here and try again. Carefully jump across the 3 roof blocks and then jump to the opening in the railing. Grab the edge and pull up to the catwalk. SAVE GAME. |
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The security guard patrolling this catwalk will see you soon enough. Load your machine gun. As you round the first circular balcony, let him have it. Even at medium range, you should be able to take him down. This guy has no access pass!! Lara also mentions to herself, that she can't jump that gap just yet. It's a big gap between 2 broken sections of catwalk. Walk to the door gate that was locked, and open it from the inside (just in case). Now walk to the far wall and to the left down another catwalk. |
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There's a big section of catwalk missing down this wall. Run-jump across the gap, grab the edge and pull up. Lara gets a strength upgrade and now thinks she can make that jump across the gap. Grab the medpack by the end, then run-jump back across the gap. Notice that Lara didn't need to grab the edge this time. She cleared it with lots of room! Backtrack along the 4th level catwalks to the circular balcony area where we'll jump. |
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Take note, there's another security guard patrolling down below, to the right. Wait for him to come to the 3rd level courtyard and draw your machine gun. From the edge of the catwalk, Lara can auto-aim down to him and take him down from here. What a great idea? He drops something. Ok, now take a running jump to that far catwalk. Grab the edge and pull up. Climb the stairs to the 5th level and go all the way around to the very end. There's a climbable vine on the right wall. |
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Climb the vine up to the 6th level balcony. Shimy to the right and pull up through the broken section. As Lara walks, a long movie sequence begins. |
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All the members of The Cabal, are meeting on the 7th level balcony. Dr. Muller is trying to restore power to the system but Eckhardt is getting impatient and very worried that things aren't contained. Gunderson decides to take things into his own hands, pushes Muller away from the computer, sits down and starts to work away. He thinks he can fix it. |
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in all the confusion, Lady Boaz comes running in, saying the Proto-Nephilim was not destroyed and it's running loose. Eckhardt is absolutely furious. Boaz explains that she couldn't kill it because it's part Nephilim. She needed a Peript Shard to do that. Eckhardt thinks its an excuse, and rants on about her pets and disobeying orders. He's heard enough. |
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Gunderson walks away and says to Boaz, that he'll go clean it up. Eckhardt, now in a quiet rage, orders Muller to bring down one of his "creatures". This thing is ugly! A mutant cacoon pod with big tentacles and lots of spindley teeth. Eckhardt struggles with Boaz and then throws her over the balcony right at the pod. The pod grabs Boaz and devours her kicking and screaming. Great??? |
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Lara's seen enough. Walk down the balcony and grab the Botanical High Access Pass from the dead guard. Climb back down the vine to the 5th level. Walk back around and down the stairs to the 4th level. We need to get that other security pass on the 3rd level. Safety-drop off the edge of the catwalk and shimy right. Climb across the vine and then down to the stairs that connects the 2nd to the 3rd level. Go to the courtyard and pick up the Botanical Mid Access Pass. |
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Now Lara needs to find an easy way down to the floor. Run down the stairs to the 2nd level and turn left. Go to the end. There's a ladder leading down. Start climbing down the ladder. Half-way, Lara stops. A section of ladder to the floor, is broken off. Let go of the ladder and free-fall to the ground. Lara's health should be ok. Now go to the small access room on the other side of the dome. |
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Hopefully, Lara has all 3 access passes in her possession. Swipe each card in the 3 different readers. A standby light will go on above each reader. Once all 3 readers are lit, the blue doors at the end will open. Walk down the next hallway and down the stairs. We are going deeper and deeper into the research area. The security is getting noticeably tighter. |
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This chamber has steam vents shooting up through the catwalk and poison gas down below. There are goodies down below. Walk across the floor and jump into the small pool of water. Swim to the room and get the goodies inside the lockers up top. The access door there, is jammed. Swim back and then run to the upper catwalk. Your air will go back to normal. Walk across the upper catwalk to the airlock. Go inside and press the button pad to release the interior airlock doors. |
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From the junction area, Lara can only go left. Go inside the airlock. Movie sequence begins. Kurtis appears outside the airlock. He's trapped Lara inside. He gives her grief for causing havoc around the place and tells her to stay put. Lara shows Kurtis the Periapt Shard she happened to steal from him at the Louvre. He's shocked but not upset. He moves away and leaves Lara in the airlock. LEVEL ENDS. |
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