Riven
Riven, the sequel to Myst, is much larger than its
predecessor. This walkthrough takes you on one of the shorter
paths through the game, but you may wish to stray from this path
occasionally, in order that you might take in all of the sights
and sounds that Riven has to offer.
I did quite enjoy solving the puzzles in this game. Some of
them are very challenging. Which is presumably why you're
reading this in the first place. Well, I shan't delay you any
longer. Here we go!
Tips
Before you do anything else, download, unzip, and execute
the Riven 1.02 Updater
(because this file can be quite difficult to find on the web these days,
we have archived it here for you :-)
This patch fixes problems with FMV clips that play twice. It also
fixes a problem later on that would prevent you finishing the
game!
... and ...
Warning: don't mess with the cone-shaped device until the very
end of the game, or you'll be sorry!
'Super Dome' Island
You begin the quest to rescue Atrus' beloved Catherine as Atrus
packs you off to Riven using his hypnotic little book.
Immediately, you find yourself transported into a tiny prison
cell. There is no apparent way out. A loquacious native
eventually appears. He wrests the Prison Book, the one you're
supposed to use to trap 'Gehn' with, away from you through the
bars of the cell. He is then struck down (by a dart?) and
dragged away. His assailant sets you free.
Directly in front of you is a strange cone-shaped
device. Walk forward and have a look. Note the pipe going into
the rockface. It powers the device. Turn around, go back past
the prison cell, and up the steps next to the cliff. When you
reach the top of the steps (where a narrow bridge spans the sea
ahead of you) turn left twice. Go through the doorway into the
pentagonal room, and have a look through the portcullis that
blocks the other doorway. There's a walkway there that spans the
chasm next to the cone-shaped device. The object of your first
puzzle is to open that portcullis so you can cross the walkway.
Easier said than done! You might want to try to work this one
out yourself first, because it's quite an ingenious puzzle. You
can figure quite a few things out by looking through the
pinholes in the concave portions of the walls as the room is
rotated. If you get stuck, the solution is as follows:
Exit the room and turn around. Press the button located on
the wall to the right 4 times. The room rotates one position
clockwise each time. It's pentagonal in shape, so it will rotate
to 5 possible positions, aligning the 2 doors to different
positions each time. Now you have to find another way in! Turn
around, and go left down the other side of the cliff steps. When
you arrive at the bottom, turn to the left twice and you will
encounter a locked gate. At first, it appears that you require a
key, but you can crawl under the gate by clicking when the hand
cursor is toward the bottom of the screen.
Enter the pentagonal room and head through the opposite
doorway. Go to the pipes and look up to see the steam escaping
from the top of the vertical pipe. Throw the switch, and the
steam is now diverted to the cone-shaped device
(note the symbol for it on the plate above the switch). Turn
around and head back for the doorway. Push the button on the
right hand wall twice, then flip the switch on the left hand
side of the doorway to the up position. You'll see the
portcullis in the opposite doorway rise. Head through the newly
opened portcullis (a bronze door set
into the cave wall still blocks your path) and turn to the left.
Press the button on the wall twice, then turn to the left and
flip the switch on the left-hand side of the doorway to the up
position. This action causes the portcullis which blocks the
door to the chasm walkway (which you can't see at the moment) to
open. Now we just have to get back there! Head through the
opposite doorway, to wind up where you began this exercise. Then
turn around, press the button on the wall twice, and head
through the now open portcullis to find yourself on the walkway
across the chasm. Whew!
Cross the walkway and enter the golden dome. Continue
following the walkway through the dome until you emerge outside
again. As you continue along the path, on your left you see a steam
switch at the end of a small promontory. Throw this switch. It
powers a section of bridge you will need to lower in order to
get back to the dome later on! Turn around and continue along
the pathway in the direction you were originally headed. Just
before you enter a tunnel, there is a sort of lift
you can stand on. If you turn to the right, there's a button on
the wall, but it doesn't work yet. Continue on through the
tunnel and throw the steam switch located on a small
balcony at the end. Then turn around and go all the way back
through the dome. Just before you exit the dome, you can try
throwing the switch on the wall next to the entrance. It raises
and lowers the chasm walkway. The steam switch on the small
balcony powers it. Go back through the pentagonal room and
cross the walkway over the sea that is directly in front of you.
Proceed into the tunnel. Halfway through the tunnel is a door
set into the wall to the left. Enter, and look through the porthole
to the right. Throw the switch on the wall, and you see a door
opening somewhere. Exit this room, and continue on down the
tunnel. Open the door at the end of the tunnel and proceed into
the temple. Exit via the door to the right (which you saw being
opened while looking through the porthole).
Push the button on the gizmo to the right of the metal steps. A
rail car pulls up as a result. Get into the car, sit in the
driver's seat, and hit the rotary switch to turn the car around.
Then throw the knife switch to move the car forward. Enjoy the
rollercoaster style journey to the next island.
Island of the Wooden Eyes
Exit the car and head to the right. You'll see a small orb that
resembles an eye carved from wood protruding from a rockface.
Touching the orb causes it to rotate, revealing a symbol on the
reverse side. Make a note of this symbol (hey, it's a
walkthrough, but you have to do some work yourself. Don't worry.
There'll be a re-cap later on in case you miss something)! Also
note the animal sound that is made when
the orb rotates. Turn around and go into the cave. Head up the
steps. After going up a few steps, turn around and note the animal
shape formed by the mouth of the cave, the eye of the animal
being the wooden orb you just found. Turn around again, keep
going up, then proceed downwards after you exit the cave.
Below, you see two creatures sunning themselves on a rock in
a small alcove. You should only move forward when their heads
are down, or they will flee! If you get close enough before
scaring them away, one of them makes a strange sounding bellow
(sounds like ... 'Gehn'). The significance of this sound will
become more apparent later on. Step off the walkway onto the
beach. Turn right and go all the way to the end of the alcove.
Then turn left and head towards the rock in the water. Another
wooden eye! Again, note the note the symbol
and sound. The large rock itself is the animal's shape. Return
to the walkway, and continue in the direction you were
proceeding before you stepped onto the beach. The steps head
upwards into a cave. Go through the cave to emerge at a lake in
the middle of a crater. Head down the ladder, and touch the
wooden eye in the basin to reveal another symbol.
Remember the sound this creature makes. Turn the valve on the
side of the basin, and it fills up with a bit of water that
takes the shape of the creature. There's another ladder leading
down to the lake. You may explore further if you wish, but the
walkway dead-ends at the lake and there is nothing more you can
do here at the moment. So, turn around and head back up the
ladder. Go back through the cave, along the walkway by the
beach, and this time head up the steps and go all the way to the
top of the hill. Cross the wooden bridge, and you wind up on a
stone path (actually, a trough!) in an area with a lot of tree
stumps. Head for the wooden door set between two trees directly
in front of you. Go through the door, and down the steps. Just
after passing through the first tree, turn to the left. Leave
the path and go down the small steps amongst the luminescent mushrooms.
Advance forward a few times to find another wooden eye. This one
doesn't have an animal shape associated with it, but it does
have a sound! Note the symbol.
Then return to the path and continue in the direction you were
headed before you made this detour.
Enter a second tree, and follow the Y to the right, down
another set of steps. At the end of the path, just before you
reach a totem-like statue, are a pair of lamps. When you are
standing right between the lamps, pressing the small button atop
the lamp on the right opens the mouth of the statue. Proceed
into the statue until you cannot advance further and you are
automatically turned around. Flip the lever on your right to the
upward position. The door of the statue closes, and you are
conveyed upwards to a series of metal catwalks. Exit the tree,
then make the first right. In front of you is a spinning metal
dome. To stop it spinning, look through the eyepiece of the
device at the end of the catwalk. You have to press the button
just before the yellow symbol appears in the eyepiece. Make a
note of the symbol for later reference (Note: if you didn't
manage to note the symbol on the first go, you can start the
dome spinning again by pressing the button on top of the
device)! Once you have stopped the dome spinning, go to it via
the catwalk. Have a look at the device in the centre of the
dome. You see a book through the glass, but you don't have the
code to open the device yet. Turn around, then head up the metal
steps to the left. Enter the chamber at the top, and sit in the
chair between the two levers. Hit the left hand lever. The top
of the chamber opens and the chair rises. You are now at the
very top of this island. Look down to see the lake which you
visited earlier. Hit the lever on the right to close the aperture
in the platform below. You are going there shortly. Hit the left
hand lever again to lower the chair, and then exit the chamber.
Go all the way back past the dome, and into the tree lift again.
Move the lever downwards to operate the lift. Next, hit the
lever on the left to open the door of the statue's mouth again.
Go back outside, and when you enter the tree with the dome atop
it, follow the Y to the right. Go up the steps and through the
wooden gate onto a wooden catwalk. Turn to the right, and
proceed through a cave all the way down to the lake.
Follow the wooden walkway around the edge of the lake, and
head up the ladder. At the top of the ladder is a dwelling.
Follow the walkway around the left-hand side of the dwelling,
and go up another ladder. At the end of the next walkway is a
metal submarine perched on the edge of a
cliff. Hit the lever on your left to lower the sub into the
lake. Now we have to make our way back to the sub. Are we having
fun yet? So, go back down to the lake, up through the cave, onto
the stone trough pathway, across the wooden bridge, down the
steps to the walkway along the beach, into the cave, and down
the two ladders to reach the sub! You might want to save the
game here, then play around with the sub for a while. Try
docking at a few stations. Anyway, here's the shortest way to
accomplish things here (from the sub's original position):
Once inside the sub, hit the rotary switch to turn the sub
around. Then hit the lever on your right to advance, and then
once again. Exit the sub here, and proceed up the metals rungs
set into the side of the cliff. When you emerge into the room at
the top, note the position of the 5 switches in front of you.
They control the positions of the ladders at the various sub
docking stations. Flip the 3 switches that are pointing downward
to the upward position. Now all 5 ladders are in the water and
you can dock anywhere you please. Go back down to the sub. Hit
the rotary switch to turn the sub around. Then hit the lever to
the right to advance forward. Now you are at a junction. Move
the slider switch over to the left to select the left hand
track. Move forward again, and exit the sub when it halts. We're
going to school! As you enter the
classroom, turn to your left and get close to the execution
'toy'. Each time you pull the ring on the toy, one of the
hanging figures drops down a random number of notches (until the
big fish at the bottom eventually gets him. Ouch)! The
corresponding number in the Rivenese system appears in a window
at the bottom of the toy. Operate the toy until you have learned
to count from 1 to 10, making note of
the symbols.
At this juncture, it would be a good idea to match the symbols
you found on those wooden eyes to the numbers you have just
learned. Finished with classroom activities for today, and
satisfied that you have indeed learned something useful, head
back out to the sub.
Hit the rotary switch to turn the sub around. Then move
forward. At the next junction, make sure the slider switch is
still to the left to select the left hand track, and advance
again. Exit the sub, and make your way to the centre of the
strange platform (but only if you did this
first). Pull the triangular handle to lower the harness,
then climb on the harness and take a ride to the top. Have a
look at the prisoner in the cell there. Don't bother to open the
cell yet, as you don't have enough information to progress
further once you have done so. For now, follow the metal catwalk
downwards. Lower the ladder at the end of
the catwalk, and climb down to the wooden walkway that skirts
the lake. Then turn around and head back through the cave to the
top of the hill. Bear to the left when you reach the stone
trough path, and head past the stump with an axe stuck in it.
Have a good look across the water to the two islands connected
by a footbridge. You'll be heading for that shortly. Go down
into the hole at the end of the trough, and hit the lever on
your left. Enjoy the trip through the water, which is held at
bay by a tunnel of magical golden bands.
Boiler House Island
You arrive, after having been unceremoniously dumped from your
conveyance, on a platform overlooking a lake set in a crater.
Head down the ladder to the beach, then proceed to the centre of
the lake via the catwalk. Move the valve
you find there towards you to the next (middle) position, then
head for the boiler house. Note the blue flames at the base of
the boiler. You'll have to turn them off before you can go
inside:
Head up the steps to the boiler, turn left, go to the back of
the boiler, and turn right to face the boiler. Turning the valve
on the right extinguishes the flames. Then turn the wheel on the
left to drain the boiler. Turn to the left, and move that valve
to divert power to the grate which is inside the boiler. Then
turn to the right once more, and push up the lever to elevate
the grate. Now you may enter the boiler via the front door.
Once inside the boiler, head down the central ladder and
through a dark tunnel. Continue up the ladder to emerge at the
end of a pipe overlooking the sea. Climb down from the pipe, and
follow the path over the crest of the hill to the top of the
crater. Continue downwards to the balcony which overlooks the
lake. Open the trap door set in the floor of the balcony to give
yourself access back to the lake. Head down the ladder to the
beach, go around the boiler house, and out onto the catwalk to
the centre of the lake again. Turn the valve
upwards to the position it originally occupied. Head back up to
the balcony, open the double doors, and enter. Proceed to the
end of the catwalk. There is a strange device here that looks
something like an inverted colander. Look
upwards, and you will see a rapidly rotating fan.
You'll need to turn off this fan in order to gain access to the
ventilation shaft. Turn around, and head back towards the double
doors. Close them from the inside to reveal two hidden passages.
Nasty trick, that! Take the left hand passage and go down the
steps. Open the door at the bottom of the steps to reveal
another spinning dome. Move forward through the open door, then
turn around immediately and close the door from the inside to
reveal another hidden passage! Head down this passage, and you
see the device that will enable you to stop this dome spinning.
Look through the eyepiece of the device, and try to depress the
button just before the symbol turns yellow. Memorise this symbol
for later on. Now, exit the hidden passage and walk up to the
dome. Then look upwards. Note the large hole
in the ceiling here. This is another important piece of
information.
Head back up the stairs, and continue straight through when
you reach the top. You wind up on another walkway along the edge
of the crater. About halfway down the walkway as you approach a
building in the distance, there is a lever off to the right with
a cable running through it. Throwing this lever turns off the ventilation
fan. Now, head back to the end of the catwalk where the colander
and fan are located. Time to catch some frogs! Open the colander
(it's a frog trap, actually) via the handle at the top. Then
take a pellet from the cup on the right, and place it in the
depression in the centre of the open trap. Don't close the trap!
Move the large lever on the left of the trap to lower it. Wait a
while until you hear the trap spring shut, then press the lever
again to raise the trap. Opening the trap reveals a brightly
coloured frog. Ribbit! The sound made by the frog before it
escapes is one you heard earlier. When
you are finished catching frogs, look upwards to see the now
idle fan. Click on it to start climbing up the ventilation
shaft. At the other end of the shaft, move the grating and climb
down into the laboratory. Lots of interesting trivia to view
here.
Nothing is really important in the lab with the exception of
the book (Gehn's journal) immediately
in front of you. Open it and have a good read. Of special note
is the combination which has been placed on the central devices
inside those domes you have been opening:
Remember how you learned the Rivenese number system in the school?
Their number system is a base 25 system (whereas ours is base
10). We know that 5 = a rotated '1', and 10 = a rotated '2', so
what might 15 look like? 20? Well, they
look like
this. So, now you should have enough information to
translate the sequence of 5 numbers
written down in Gehn's journal into
our own number system. For example: the number '19' would be
constructed by combining the symbols for '15' and '4'. Not
particularly useful right now, but take note of it for later on
(Warning: the sequence is different for every run of the game,
so you'll have to figure this out on your own. Tricky devils)!
Exit the lab via the front door (the back door leads down to
another rail car station) and head to the right. Lo and behold!
A way back to the 'Super Dome' on the island where you began
this adventure. Cross the long expanse of footbridge and flip
the lever on the right towards the end to lower the final
section of the bridge. This action will only be possible if you
threw the steam switch down below earlier
on. If you neglected to do so ... well, it's a long way back --
but such is the life of an intrepid adventurer!
Meanwhile, Back at the Dome
You're back on the island where you began this little adventure.
This time, however, you have a chance to tidy up some of those
loose ends that we left dangling earlier on! Proceed onto the
metal catwalk inside the dome, and make the first left to go
outside again. A gap in the walkway! Turn around, and press the
button on the wall. The lift, which was
inoperable from below, rises to bridge the gap. Cross over the
lift and head around the bend in the walkway. To your left, note
the spinning dome below. at the end of the walkway, hit the
lever on the right to raise the bronze
door. You can begin to see how all these places are related
now! It's the pentagonal room again. Don't bother to rotate it
again just now. Instead, turn around and go back to the dome.
Enter the dome, head to the left, and rotate the wheel at the
end of this section of the catwalk to finally hook up all the
bits of the catwalk! Now, follow the catwalk to the bottom of
the dome and go outside. Follow the path until you come to the
place (just before the tunnel) where the lift was. It has been
replaced by another lift. Turn to the right, and press the
button on the wall to take the lift down. Turn around, and
follow the stairs up to the device in front of the spinning
dome. Look through the eyepiece. Once again, depress the button
just prior to the symbol turning yellow, and make a note of the
symbol. Turn around, go back up the lift, along the walkway into
the dome, and up to the top level of the catwalk inside the
dome. Make the first right, and hit the lever on the inside wall
to raise the walkway across the chasm. This action will save you
some time later on. Now, turn around, head back out the second
doorway to the right, and over the water across the long
footbridge to the previous island. Enter the lab through the
front door, turn around and press the button on the gizmo next
to the door to summon a rail car. Exit via the back door of the
lab to find the waiting rail car at the bottom of the stairs.
New destination ho!
'Finally, a Map!' Island
When you reach the new island, exit the rail car, head through
the doorway, and up the steps outside. You arrive at the edge of
a strange lake (don't worry. No real elephants were used in the
making of this adventure)! Enter the building in the centre of
the lake (head through the crack in the wall, and upwards in a
lift). Walk forward onto the platform that overlooks ... a map
of the five islands of Riven! You haven't visited the small one
on the upper right-hand side yet. Each time you depress a button
on the panel in front of you, the water on top of the
corresponding island changes shape to match the contour of that
island. Before you proceed any further, make sure you know which
of the actual islands you visited corresponds to each of the
rough angular shapes on the panel. Looking straight ahead, and
then to the right, ought to do the trick (look for features that
you recognise on each of the distant islands)! Then, for each of
the islands in turn:
- Press the button for the island.
- Turn around, and head into the mushroom-shaped structure
located in the middle of the water (on your way there, you
can see to your left the spinning dome on this island. Make
a mental note of where it is located on the island. You'll
need this information shortly).
- Under a magnifying glass, you'll see the corresponding
island shape of the button you pressed outside.
- On each of the islands you have previously visited, try to
remember where the spinning dome was. Press that area on the
island shape under the magnifying glass. A 3D relief map of
the area will pop up. You may rotate your view of it by
using the handle on the magnifying glass. Try to locate a
representation of a spinning dome in the area you have
selected. You may have to try several areas on each island
if you're not sure where the dome was located!
- Make note of: which area on each island you located the
dome in, and where exactly it is on the 5 x 5 grid for the
area. I have made a drawing here for each island if you get
stuck:
'Super Dome' Island
Island of Wooden Eyes
Boiler House Island
'Finally, a Map!' Island
The Fifth Island
Now, head around the catwalk until you find the device that
will allow you to stop the dome here from spinning. This time,
you can't get a clear sighting of the symbol that turns yellow!
Well, you'll have to do without this information. Okay, now back
down to the rail car. Get into the car, just turn it around
(don't move it forward), and get out the other side! Open the
door, and head towards the end of the hall. Hit the lever on
your left to summons a very strange lift. Take it down to the
floor below. Exit the lift, go through a doorway, and onto a
path. Follow the path straight ahead through another doorway, up
some steps, and sit on the throne (pun intended)! Press the
button on the lever to your right to rotate the throne into
position. Then hit the lever on your right. A viewing device
flips down. Look into it. Now you have to match spinning dome
symbols to colours. The symbols on the six positions of the
wheel correspond to spinning dome symbols. We only know three of
them at this
stage. Here's the coloured
lights they match up with.
Exit this view, and hit the lever on the right again to
retract the viewing device. Hit the lever on the left this time,
and another viewing device drops into place. If you press the
hexagonal button on the left hand side of this device (you may
have to try this a few times), you'll eventually see a woman
appear in the room being viewed. This can only be Catherine,
held captive somewhere! Now, hit the hexagonal button on the
right. As you press the tabs on the outside of the viewing
device, your view will cycle through various vantage points of
the lake on the Island of the Wooden Eyes. Keep going until you
see an animal shape. Take note of this
shape, because it's the missing fifth animal shape which you
couldn't see when you were on the Island of the Wooden Eyes
earlier!
You're finished here, so retract the viewing device, and hit
the button to rotate the throne back to its original position.
Head back down the path and make the first right into a rail car
station. Use the rail car to return to the Island of Wooden
Eyes.
Island of the Wooden Eyes
Revisited
Exit the rail car, and head through the door into the lift. Yes,
you've been here before! Take the lift up one level, then hit
the lever on the left to open the statue's mouth. Go up the
steps, and take the right hand fork of the Y in the tree. Head
up the stairs, open the wooden gate, and make a right onto the
wooden catwalk. Follow the path down to the lake, and climb up
the ladder which you lowered earlier. Free
the prisoner by pushing the button on the wall to the right of
the cell. Hey, where did he go? Opening the circular grating on
the floor of the cell and clicking on the water produces a
hidden switch. This switch causes a secret door set into the
wall of the cell to retract. Enter the new opening, head into
the dark tunnel, and proceed through 6 completely black frames
until you emerge from the darkness again. The tunnel dead-ends
at a body of water. Protruding from the left-hand wall of the
tunnel is a stick. Pull it to turn on a light (Note: if you have
not installed the 1.02 Upgrade, simultaneously banging on the
Alt key while clicking on the stick will get you over this one)!
Turn around, and proceed back the way you came, turning on
lights (that have magically appeared!) along the way. When you
pass through a doorway, turn around and open the newly
discovered door to your right. Proceed through it into a large circular
chamber.
You should now have enough information to solve this puzzle.
You have to push down 5 of the stones in the correct order.
Well, remember the wooden eyes? Each one (with a single
exception) had a Rivenese number and an animal shape associated
with it. Here's the solution.
When you have pressed the stones in the correct order, a
niche in the wall opens. It contains a linking book. To where?
Open it and touch the pretty picture to find out!
Prisoner of the Moeity
When you arrive at this strange place, turn around and head into
the cave. As you approach the idol in front of you, two of the
locals sneak up behind you and zap you with one of their noxious
little darts. You wake up momentarily as you're being
transported across the lake in a boat. The next time you wake,
it's in a cell. Walk up to the wooden door of the cell and take
a look outside. Then go have a look out the back window. As you
return to the centre of the room having looked out the back
window, you should be visited by a confidante of Catherine's.
She presents you with Catherine's
journal, and the Prison Book which Atrus gave you to trap Gehn
with. It was taken from you at the very beginning of the game.
You may save the game here and try using the Prison book -- if
you desire a sneak preview of the credits! This is the first
possible game ending, and quite an undesirable one. But it gives
you a good idea of the book's purpose. Hey, wouldn't it be great
to be able to save off your day before you went to work or
school in the morning, in case ... but I digress.
Have a good read of Catherine's journal. It contains a note
that repeats what Atrus told you at the outset, just so you
remember what you're supposed to be doing! If you're not asleep
yet, a good distance through the journal are some handy tips for
operating the cone-shaped device. Write down the 5 number combination
(Warning: the combination is different for every run of the
game, so you'll have to figure this out on your own!) for
opening the portal underneath the device, and note the reference
to a 'stop' on the left hand side of the device. Some time after
you have finished reading the journal, the girl returns. This
time, she presents you with a useful linking book ... the one
back to the circular chamber. Go
for it!
Finding Your Marbles
Okay, the end is rapidly approaching! One last big puzzle. Head
back to the very top of this island, where the tree stumps are
located. Head past the stump with the axe in it, and ride the
car through the strange tunnel back to Boiler House Island. Go
around the boiler house, and up the ladder to the balcony above.
Head through the double doors, then close the doors and go
through the right-hand passage, along the walkway past Gehn's
laboratory, and over the long footbridge back to the 'Super
Dome'. Enter the dome, then make the first left and go back
outside again (be sure the chasm walkway bridge has been raised,
first!). Head through the pentagonal room, then turn around and
press the button twice so that the room is rotated to allow
access to the chasm walkway. Go through the room and up the now
elevated chasm walkway to the very top of the 'Super Dome'.
Have a good look at the grid in the centre of the walkway
(the 5 Riven island shapes again!), and note the 6 coloured
marbles lined up next to the grid. Well, we can deduce something
straight away from this! The last marble is the colour violet,
and we haven't seen that colour before. So, it must be the
colour of the broken light, and thus, the colour corresponding
to Boiler House Island! The solution to this puzzle concerns
placing the coloured marbles on the grid so they occupy the
exact positions of the spinning domes on the 5 islands. We know
all 5 positions, and 3 colours with certainty, so a bit of
guesswork is required. Each time you have placed the marbles,
turn around, walk forward one frame, then turn around again and
pull the lever located on the wall to the right. After the
device has locked into position, press the white button located
above the lever. If you hear a deep rumble, you've hit paydirt!
If not, raise the lever and try placing the marbles differently.
You're trying to fill the 2 remaining positions with 3 marbles
to choose from, so it would be a good idea to keep a record of
what you're doing! Have a decent go at it (it's a fun puzzle!),
but here's the solution if you get
stuck.
Now that you've solved the marble puzzle, the spinning domes
have power! You may have tried opening the domes previously,
using the combination from Gehn's journal. If you did this, you
would have noticed that the books inside were unusable. Well,
they aren't unusable any longer! Find your way back to the
spinning dome on this island, and move the 5 slider pieces to
the positions you figured out from Gehn's
journal. The interior part of the dome opens. Touch the
book, watch the nice FMV sequence, then touch the picture ...
and we're off to see The Wizard!
Gehn
Imprisoned again! And none of those linking books which you can
reach through the bars have power. Press the button on the
square panel to summons Gehn. After listening to a long
monologue, touch the Prison Book when Gehn offers it to you.
Congratulations! Atrus' plan worked and you've managed to trap
Gehn (far too easily, I thought)! You take his place outside the
bars. Turn to the right and head down the manhole in the floor.
It's Gehn's room. On the table next to the bed is a small silver
globe. Touching it causes a sequence of sounds to be played. You
should save the game here, because you will invariably need to
play the sequence a few times later on in order to solve a
puzzle. Exit Gehn's room, and hit the lever on the spherical
boiler. This device powers the books! Now, find the switch on
the window sill that retracts the bars of the cage. Find the
linking book with one square on it, and use it.
Catherine
Exit the dome by pressing the button on the floor. Then cross
the walkway, enter the building, and stand in the cage. See the
three switches on the wall? you have to strike these to
reproduce the sequence of sounds you just heard from the silver
globe device in Gehn's room (Warning: The sequence is
different for each run of the game, so I can't help you much
here ... but, I think it's always some combination of exactly 5
strikes)! Then hit the lever to roll back the cage. If all goes
well, you've just rescued Catherine! She tells you to signal
Atrus by using the cone-shaped device on the fissure. Well, you
have all the information you need. What are you waiting for?
Catherine used the dome, so you'll have to stop it spinning
again before you can follow. Travel back to Gehn's place, then
use the 'Super Dome' Island linking book to return there (again,
you will have to undo some things which Catherine changed when
she went ahead of you).
The Star Fissure
I trust by now you can make it to the cone-shaped device on your
own. Thanks. First thing to do here is look at the lower left
leg of the rig the device is sitting in. There's a stop pin
there (which Catherine hinted at in her journal)!
Flip it upwards. Then use the combination
which you also found in Catherine's journal to open the portal
underneath the device (Note: a '2' in the combination would
represent the second button from the left on the portal). Flip
the lever on the right downwards, then keep hitting the button
until the device shatters the glass that protects The Star
Fissure. If you've done everything correctly up to this point,
then you have managed to save the day! Atrus and Catherine are
re-united (if you tried to open the portal and lower the device
earlier without rescuing Catherine first ... oh dear! Hope you
have a saved game somewhere before that)! As Riven destroys
itself, you dive into The Star Fissure and follow that book!
Copyright © Steve Metzler 1997, 2002. All rights reserved.
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