Necronomicon Walkthrough Disk 1
Version 2.0 4/22/2002
By The Lone Gunman
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This document Copyright 2002 David L. Hill
If youd like to put this FAQ on your site you MUST email me and ask,
and you may as well since I'll probably say yes, cause I'm good like
that. Thanks.
This walkthrough was written exclusively for GameFAQ and may not be
reproduced without my permission...enjoy, this makes #2 for me
You really don't need to read the documentation for the game, its
really REALLY easy to figure out...its kinda one of the games that has
puzzles just for the sake of puzzling, so puzzle-solvers might enjoy
this. Anywho...
Version 1.0: First draft of the walkthrough of the first disk, second
disk to come later, possibly on another FAQ file...we'll see
Version 2.0: Current version with both discs on one FAQ file. If this
FAQ needs any improvement keep me apprised.
Walkthrough:
The game begins at your home in your Living Room in Providence,
Rhode Island. You hear a knock on a door to start out, so answer it.
It is your friend Edgar Wycherly, and he's here to give you a
mysterious pyramid...and a warning. After he leaves, return to your
Living Room and when you hear a knock, answer the door again to meet Dr
Eagleton. He gives you his phone number.
Now you can return to your Living Room without distraction.
Move to the telephone and get the key. Go to the desk in the corner of
the room and use the key on the center drawer after examining the desk.
Get the money and the keys. Now go outside the house to your scooter.
Use the keys on the scooter and take the path to the right. This will
take you to the picturesque town of Pawtuxet, R.I.
Go down the street with the buildings on your left. Pass right
by the General Store (it's the only white building in an otherwise
postcard town) 4 clicks. Now look across the street and enter an
alley. Continue down the alley until you meet an old woman. Talk to
her and give her money. She tells you to go to the General Store that
you just passed and surely wouldn't have entered if she hadn't told you
so. Go to the dictionary and look up the word "linear".
Anyhow...Proceed to the General Store and enter. Crumb belts out
what would become my favorite line in the whole game. Talk to Crumb.
Buy stuff...specifically a book of matches on the counter to your right
next to Crumb. Having picked it up, go to your inventory and click on
your money. Turn the cursor to Crumb and you'll see both the matches
and the money. Click on him and you'll have bough the matches. Now
talk to him and NOW he wants you to buy a map. As he indicates, it is
next to him. Buy it in the same way you bought the matches. Crumb now
gives you information that you couldn't POSSIBLY have gotten from Dr
Eagleton, specifically, the location of Edgar's domicile. Anyway, exit
the store and go to the map in your inventory. Edgar's house is just
next to Pawtuxet. Click on it and you'll be at Edgar's doorstep. Ring
the bell, get rejected and proceed to Dr Wycherly's house, which is
right next to yours on the map.
Enter the house.
Dr Wycherly leads you to the living room, then leaves to make
some tea. The only thing you can do is to make a visual scan of the
room, since Dr Wycherly will return when you step near the painting
over the fireplace. The doctor says a few words about Gregor Herschel
when you click on the painting, and then a few more when you leave the
room.
Proceed to the next logical place (for some reason), the
General Store, and then talk to Crumb. Give him money for his
information. Notice that he says "Its cheap at half the price."
Understand why he's my favorite character in the game. Go to the docks
and talk to the longshoreman. A building will now show up on the
southernmost part of your map. Go there.
Talk to the man at the desk. Check every single drawer and
pick up everything you can. Sometimes you need to manipulate a
stepstool which is on the floor and move it out of the way when you
need to check a drawer that its blocking, or stand on it when a drawer
is too high. When you've checked all of the drawers, return to the
docks in Pawtuxet. Talk to the longshoreman and when he's done
speaking, turn 180 degrees and proceed in that direction. Knock on the
door and try to talk to the fisherman inside. He won't talk to you
until you have a little something to lubricate his jawbone, so proceed
to the General Store and purchase some hooch.
Return to the fisherman's house and give him the hooch. After
a long FMV, talk to Arthur, who's sitting outside a bar between the
docks and the church. He tells you to come back tomorrow.
Fortunately, Edgar Wycherly's place is now open to you. Knock on his
door and talk to him.
Return to your house and call Dr Eagleton with the number in
your inventory. He comes to your house, and commits to having Edgar
committed. Now its off to Dr Wycherly's house.
Enter Dr Wycherly's house and talk to him. After a revealing
cut scene, you may now proceed upstairs. Edgar's room is on the far
right.
Now we explore the room counter-clockwise, starting with the
bookshelf between the door and the fireplace. Look at it. There is
only one book of importance, and its on the lower shelf. Take it.
Proceed to the desk with the two chairs. Open the third drawer from
the left and get the key.
That's it...you're done with this room...yeah, I know...
Now enter Edgar's place with the key you now have. Enter the
dining room and proceed to the large case on the other side of the
room, as the armoires in the corners have nothing in them at the
moment. Only the lower middle drawer has anything takeable. After you
grab it, attempt to leave. After you get a talking to, go to your
house, and talk to Dr Eagleton.
After Edgar is committed, go to the davenport to the left of
the painting. The lower drawer now contains a key and a map. Return
to your house and click on the doctor while holding the map. The
bungalow will now appear on your inventory map. Go there.
You are now outside the bungalow. From here you can see a
rusted car on the right (assuming that your facing the house). We'll
get to the car shortly. In the meantime, move around the house to the
left (in other words, go clockwise around the house) until youre close
to a barrel, and under the pointed steeple of the house (there's only
one on the roof so it shouldn't been difficult to find). Enter the
shed on the other side of the wall with the barrel. Move the cursor to
the keys and get them. Go to the trunk of the car I mentioned and
unlock it. Get the crowbar in the trunk and use it to enter the front
door. You're in.
Now we're going to move counter-clockwise starting to the left
facing the door your just entered. Turn to the desk against the wall.
Click on the folder. Read it. Proceed to the West Wall (assuming that
the door you enter is North). Check out the astrological chart on the
wall. Continue counter-clockwise past a flight of stairs (which you
cant use) and a door (which you can) along the South part of the room.
Check the table and you'll see only one paper respond to the cursor.
Take it.
Head to the SE corner of the room. Click on the server
against the E wall and it will move. You'll eventually find a lockbox
in a secret compartment. Fortunately, you have a key with which to
open it. There are two item, a button and a key. Take them.
Well, that's all there is to do in this room, so go to the
South wall and enter the door. Move to the barrel that sits to the
right of the window. Move the barrel and it will reveal a trapdoor,
which will reveal a puzzle. The solution should be available in your
papers/notes, or you can click until you can get the solution (and
there are 7^3, or 343 possibilities). Anyway, the solution is:
Cassiel
The Saturn symbol (you'll see it in the button you have)
The Iron symbol (it kinda looks like a collision between a greater than
and less than sign)
Slightly more obvious is the fact that, once you've given the proper
combination, you need the key you got in the other room. Enter, and
prepare for a cut scene and a pixel hunt.
Okay, you are now in a lit hallway. This will change as you
progress, so equip the matches. Move forward, then to the right.
There's a torch on the right wall, so light it with the match.
Continue down the hall, where there's another torch on the right.
We'll assume that you know to light whatever torches may appear.
Continue. Now the torch is right in front of you. Continue to the
left. The torch is again on the right wall. Proceed, then turn around
so that you can see the path from which you came. The torch is just to
the left of the entrance. Continue down the hall just to the left of
the torch you just lit. There are no torches here, so you must search
for an exit. As soon as you find it and enter, move the cursor
slightly to the left and then down. Proceed. You can barely see a
torch on the wall, but our friend the cursor knows...it knows all.... In
any event, light it and you'll see that you are standing on a flight of
stairs. Go down.
There's no torch here either, but you can proceed anyway.
Proceed once more, and you'll find a torch on the left wall. After
you've lit what is easily the best damn torch in the dungeon thus far,
continue. Forward once more and you'll find yourself in front of a
gate. To the left of the gate is another torch, and lighting it is the
only thing that allows you into the door to the right of the gate.
Enter the door. Since you only have one more match, use it to light
the candlestand to the left of the door you just entered. This, I
believe, is Gregor Herschel's study.
Go forward towards the globe. Turn to the wall and pull the
lever. Change disks.
Necronomicon Walkthrough Disk 2
As you saw in the cut scene, you can now proceed down the hall,
but you can't exit. Why not? Who knows, it's not like the dungeons
was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright or something. In any event, you can
now take a pocket dragon (i.e. a lighter) from the table. By the way,
notice that your entire inventory is gone except for Edgar's pyramid.
In any event, leave the way you came and go down the hall. Now turn to
the left wall a light (and get) the lantern.
Return to the room, you can now explore the area, taking or
examining everything except for the trunk next to the door. We'll get
to that later. Once you leave, go down the hall and enter the large
room where there's a less-than-pleasant surprise waiting for you. You
lose your lantern and if you walk towards the hole one more time,
you'll fall in and die. Oddly enough, when you DO fall in, you enter
the hole feet first, but plunge to the bottom headfirst. Am I the only
who finds that odd? Ah well, I'm a freak...
Anyway, this next part requires a little pep in your step, so
pay attention. Proceed to your right, hugging the wall. And where it
gets dark, you'll have to hunt for a torch, which you can light with
your pocket dragon. After you've lit the torch, proceed QUICKLY to the
centre of the room. On the floor near the altar is an axe. Get it and
return to the wall quickly. It's possible to make it to the wall
without the torchlight, but as you can guess, it's easier if you move
quickly. Return to the lab and open the trunk with the axe. Inside is
a key that opens the cabinet in the study and another lamp, which is
good because you haven't quite perused the study yet. In the cabinet
you'll find an alchemical lab kit and a gas can. Beyond that, I'll
leave it to you to explore the entire area, since there's nothing here
but papers to fill the library portion of your inventory.
Exit the room and turn left and move towards the gate. From
the gate, turn right and enter the doorway. You'll see a fork in the
hallway. Go down the right path, open the coffin, and click on the
hand. Get the key. Catch your breath, as this is probably the
freakiest part of the whole game. Return to the room with the holes.
Go around the room counter-clockwise until you come to a gate.
Sufficed to say, it should be much easier since you now have a lantern
that you won't drop down one of the holes. Unlock the gate with the
key and go forward twice. Welcome to the lab.
First order of business is to give the room some power so that
can turn the lights on. Go to the other end of the room, and to the
right you'll find a room with a furnace in it. Not only is there a
furnace, but there's coal and a shovel. Put the coal in the furnace
(You'll need to do this three times). Now add more fuel from Professor
Gas Can (from the cabinet in the study). Light it up with your pocket
dragon. Close the door and open the vent by using the middle lever.
Now click the dial next to the levers. Return to where you started and
go left past the box on the wall. You'll find a generator there, so
click on the crank. Go back to the door, examine the box on the wall,
open it, and flip the switch. The room should now be lit. Enjoy.
First, go to the sink, which is along the East Wall. You will
find a syringe. Take it. Now go back to the other end of the room,
instead of turning right like you did to get to the furnace, turn left
to go to a machine with a brain in it. It can talk a little. Quite
frankly, it's an impressive little brain when you consider that ever
Einstein's brain required vocal chords and a voice box to communicate.
In any event, your task it to make it talk, and more than just a
little. For this you need some sort of fuel to keep the brain going.
This can be found on the West Wall, assuming that the door you came in
through is on the North Wall. Take the jar on the bottom shelf that is
as far to the left as any jar you can pick up. Now do a 180 and put
the jar into a beaker that you see on the table. Now turn back around
and take the third jar from the right on the bottom shelf. Put it in
the beaker. If it is the correct combination, you'll get a green
liquid, plus a little noise. If it is incorrect, it will evaporate.
With the correct combination, use the syringe to transport the green
liquid. Return to the brain machine and examine the contraption to the
right of the communicator. Feed your mind using the syringe in the
little bowl on top of the contraption. Now turn the crank. After a
cool little cut scene, you can now pick your brain.
Its time to invoke a spirit, so you'll need some herbs to do it
with. Move along the East Wall past the sink and you'll find a cabinet
full of herbs of varying kinds. The ones you'll want are charcoal and
euphorbia. The literature you picked up will not only tell you why,
but will also tell you which soul you want to invoke. The euphorbia is
in an unmarked drawer in the bottom right-hand quadrant of the cabinet,
above the garlic. And when you open the charcoal drawer, get the
charcoal and the key that is revealed when you take it.
It's time to leave. To do so, go to the end of the room where
there's a puzzle similar to the one you used to get you in the dungeon
in the first place. You can either solve the puzzle the same way you
did before, or just turn to Samuel, the symbol for Mars, and a symbol
that looks kind of like an arrow with two testicles. Use your
imagination. Anyhow, use the key form the charcoal drawer to open the
lock, and then move into the hall of cremated spirits. You want to
find the ashes of Elias Levy, and the urn has his initials on it. Go
forward 5 steps, then left to the wall. Now turn right and go forward
once. Examine a shelf with three brown urns on the wall and you'll see
one with EL on it. That's the one you want. Now get the hell out of
here using the exit on the opposite side of the entrance. This place
freaks me out.
Welcome to the Spirit Room.
There's only one area you need to be, and that's between the
pentagram on the floor and the table. First let's deal with putting
the items on the stand next to the table. First use the charcoal, then
the styrax that is in your kit. Now, with your pocket dragon, light
them. Fortunately, you won't have to deal with any time limit like you
did in the Altar/Kennel room. Now open the drawer in the table and
pick up the label for Elias Levy. He's your good buddy, and he's who
we're going to call up. Put the label in the pentagram along with the
ashes you picked up in the previous room. Now you need the components
to actually raise the spirit. For this you need the euphorbia and a
diamond that is also in your kit. Burn it...BURN IT ALL!
You are treated to a nice a chunky cut scene and at the end you
kill your buddy. And no one comes, asks questions, or even notices.
Keep in mind that he was put here for his own safety, and now you've
killed him. Keep up the good work. In any event, search the body to
discover a key, and leave. Once transported to your house, go to
Edgar's place. You can now move to a door under the stairs and use the
key to open it. There's lots of goodness here and you can get a little
head that sits between a small clock and an urn. You can also get a
package on the other side of the door. Finally, you can open a cabinet
on the other side of the room and pick up...THE CHROMONOMINOM! Actually,
there are a couple other things that you will definitely want to pick
up in the house. Go to the entranceway inside the house. You'll find a
note and a newspaper. In the living room, you'll find a label sitting
on the bookcase near the fireplace. After all of this, talk to Dr
Eagleton, showing him the Necronomicon. The Providence Library will
show up, and to there you shall go.
First, go through the lobby. There's no reason for you to
return to this room, so we can pretty much ignore it. Let's refer to
the entrance as West. Go all the way to the East-most area of the
library and turn right. You'll see a door, enter it and talk to the
librarian. Now show him the Necronomicon. He will charge you with the
task of getting certain books to aid in his research. The first will
come from the occult section, which is in the South-West section of the
library. Look at the books below the window separating the two
sections and get the book from there. Return to the librarian with the
book. After each cut scene, read whatever book you give him and you'll
find out what book you have to get next. Now, instead of going to the
library section, go forward from the librarian's office and enter the
door there. Go down the hall and enter the door to the left. This is
evidently the rare books section of the library. Interestingly enough
the only security they have is making people walk down a spooky hall to
get to it. This evidently deters a lot of people because all the books
are still here. A little searching will make the Dragon book turn up.
Return to the librarian and give it to him. Since your next assignment
is to find a book on ancient scripts, go to the Symbolism section,
which is right next to the Occult/Magic section. As with the first
book, the book you're looking for it under the window between the
shelves. Give it to the librarian.
You must figure out where the six transmitters are (and
quickly!) and for this, you'll need to use the items you got from
Edgar's place after you blew him away (in self-defense, naturally).
First use the little head thing. It goes between the 'S' and the 'O'
in South Atlantic Ocean. The letter goes just to the West of the Black
Sea in Europe. Think of Africa as a giant arm, with the NW section of
it being the shoulder. The label goes in the armpit. The Providence
Gazette goes (logically enough) on the southern tip of Greenland.
That's right, Greenland. Finally, since you were too polite to open
Edgar's package after shooting him, you may as well put it on British
Guyana in South America.
Now draw a Star of David (like a pentagram, but with six
points). You're basically drawing two triangles to do this. Oddly
enough, you only have 5 points to draw that symbol. So where is the
sixth point? That's right...its in Providence, and if you don't know
where Rhode Island is on a world map, then I will have to deliver a
serious beating unto you.
Beatings aside, a new location will appear on your map. Go
there. No one will give you any advice. No one will wish you good
luck. Just saunter off, alone, to this forbidding area. Don't forget
to have fun.
This is the final area of the game. To open it up you'll need
(finally) the triangle that you received at the beginning of the game.
Examine the triangle so that you know how to move the various objects
that will form the world's largest combination lock. First thing we
need to do is create a reference point. Assuming you haven't moved
since you got here from the Library, we'll call this point North-East.
Now move counter-clockwise along the circle just once and you'll be in
front of this object that you can click on. Click on the circle until
it matches the shape seen on the triangle. Move counter-clockwise
twice more and turn in the direction from which you just came. There
will be another object that you can click on and shape the match the
picture on the triangle. Finally, there is another object on one of
the South-West points that you can shape. This will cause an
indentation near where you began. Its easy to find, so go to it.
Examine it and it will open to reveal a keyhole. Fortunately you have
such a key: The Key of the Ancients. Its in your kit, so use it.
Notice that, in your kit, there's room for two, but there's only one.
Anyway, using the key reveals ANOTHER keyhole, and this time your key
is the triangle. Insert it and take the three triangles on each side
of it. After a brief cut scene, move to the stone triangle on the
South-West corner of the circle and click on it.
You have now opened the City of the Ancients. Enter.
Move forward until you have three triangle-shaped paths.
Choose the centre one. Continue down this path until you actually have
a choice. You'll see a circular stone with markings on it, and you'll
want to go towards it. The stone has four symbols on it, one of them
being an arrow almost at a right angle with a line through it. Go down
that path and choose the leftmost path hugging the left wall, until you
come to the end of what looks like a flight of stairs. From there,
take the path 2nd to the right among available paths. Continue in that
direction until you go down. You'll have two choices, left and right
(going forward will put you smack into a wall...its not a choice anyway,
but it might be useful to you as a point of reference, since this maze
is very VERY confusing). Take the left path and continue going left
until the only room available is a green path. You are done with the
maze. Applaud yourself. Applaud me since I had to write all of the
down.
There's some good news and some bad news about this next room.
The good news is that its simple to figure out if you know what you're
doing. The bad news is that its on a timer. First thing is to open
the room that allows you to set the timer. Click on the column in the
middle of the room and press all of the buttons in the middle. When
you go through a door after the timer is set, the only door that opens
is the one that corresponds to the button you pushed. In other words,
you make the maze, and you'll want it to be a simple as possible,
especially in light of the LAST maze you went through. Anyway, the
gate opens after you've pushed the fifth button. Go through the gate
on the right. Now click on the time on the left wall. The gate will
close and its time for you to go. Keep going until you return to the
room that you started in. In addition to closing the gate, the timer
also opens the central door. Go through it for a long, long while.
You might want to look around a bit, because its pretty cool. Keep
going until you can see the City of the Ancients. Go down the stairs
to the left until you can actually proceed towards the City itself.
You'll notice that the cut scene has you running after a man that is
undoubtedly Gregor Herschel. Chances are they decided to cut the
confrontation from the game but forgot to change the cut scene. Too
bad, since it would probably have been a very cool scene. Anyway, move
all the way around to the back of the tower. Enter and continue until
you see a panel with 3 triangles on it. Remember how many you have?
Perfect, its time to solve another puzzle/maze.
Actually, its really not that difficult. Just click on the
buttons until you find the one that opens the door to the right. Keep
doing this until you get back to the room you started at, and you can
tell because it's the only room that lets you leave the citadel. Now,
instead of going to the right, go to the left and look carefully at the
right wall until you see a door that is now opened. Go through it and
continue until you see a panel. Place the triangles in the panel to
open the door. You can pretty much mix and match until you get it
right, and unlike the puzzle for the trapdoor, where there were 343
different possibilities, this time there are only six. Go through the
door, this dog's almost over.
This final maze is actually simpler than it looks. Whenever
you're given a choice, click the left button and go through the gate.
Eventually you'll get to the final puzzle. This would normally be a
good puzzle to figure out, except you only have about 2 minutes to do
so. Quite frankly, that sucks, so I'll tell you which panels to push
for the 'good' ending. Assuming that the leftmost one is 1, press 2-3-
5-4-2-6-4-7-2-1.
After all this, you open the door that takes you directly to
none other than Gregor Herschel himself. So ends the game.
This was my second FAQ, so I hope you had fun. *bow*
