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Blood walkthrough: Cryptic Passage
Posted 22. April, 2010 22:09 | by Daedalus
Mission 1 : Boat Docks
You begin in your little speedboat afloat near some docks. If you look to your right, you'll see an opening in the mountain. That's where you want to go. Proceed to the mountain and follow the path across the bridge.
As soon as you cross the wooden bridge, go right to make your way deeper into this mountain. Take the left turn in the fork then and continue towards the torch, then take a right turn. Continue making your way through this area and you'll find a fairly dark room to your right. Make a note of this, then continue forward and you'll find another bridge. Cross this bridge and grab the skull key. Destroy your enemies and return to the dark room I spoke of earlier. If you explore the dark room, you'll find a hole in the floor. Below lies the skull key door. Pass through it.
You'll find yourself in a damp, grey room. If you keep to the left wall, you'll find a staircase. Climb the stairs and pass through the small door. You'll find yourself in a more comfortable setting. Take the second turn on your right and move through the door (note the dagger key door). There will be a small switch on your right. Press the switch and a nearby door will open (if you turn around and keep left you'll find it). Pass through this door and you'll enter a fairly large room that opens to the sky. Step into the small patch of light that the sky offers on the left and zombies will emerge from the wall behind you to ambush you. Kill them and take the key they were guarding. The door that you came through has probably closed by now, though, so you'll have to find the switch to open it. The switch is on your right if you look out of the zombies' resting spot. Pull the switch, exit the way you came in and return to the dagger key door.
Moving on, you find yourself in an outside area. You'll want to go left and make your way towards the rocky passage. Take a right turn and you'll come to an area where you can turn left or continue onward. Go left for a moment and peek around the corner. You'll see the moon key door. Go back and continue on straight. You'll find a lighthouse. Enter the lighthouse and make your way to the top. Note that you'll have to leap on the barrel first to jump onto the top of the lighthouse. There will be a switch. Pull the switch and return to the bottom floor of the lighthouse. A door will have opened. Pass through it. Collect the moon key, eradicate the zombies and go back to the moon key door.
Pass through the moon key door and you'll find yourself in a second outdoor area. Keep left, pass through the final mountain passage, fall through the wooden floor at the end and use the switch on your right to open the large steel doors. Once outside, turn right and make your way to the metal gate. The seal of Tchernobog is before you.
Mission 2 : Old Opera House
You begin this mission on an eerie path leading to a small town. Follow the path and enter the opera house found on your left. There will be a few paths to take, but in this instance, go up the flight of stairs on your right. The second small passageway to the left will lead to the moon key. Collect the key and exit the opera house.
Once outside, turn left and proceed until you reach the wall. Turn left again and go down the back alley of the opera house. Brick walls should surround you. Take the passage on your left and enter the back area of the opera house through the moon key door. Continue along the wooden passage until there are doors on *both* sides of you. Enter the door on your right and open the sliding bars on your left to access the lift. Press your use key to activate the lift and proceed to the top. Turn left and progress carefully over the bridge which looms over the stage. Turn right after the bridge and use the second elevator. This takes you into the area below the stage. Unfortunately this area is infested with spiders. Exterminate the spiders, grab the spider key and exit through the spider key door found on the opposite end of the chamber.
Note the dagger key door on your right after you've passed through the spider key door. Now turn left and go into the next room. The room has a large organ in it. The fanatic in this chamber carries the dagger key. Kill him, take the key and go through the dagger key door. You enter a water filled area. Note that there are two tunnels on your left and right. The right tunnel leads to the opposite side of this body of water, the left tunnel leads to the fire key door. Leap into the water and there will be a passage under the platform you were just on. Swim into this space, crush the gill beast guarding the fire key and take the left tunnel I spoke of earlier.
Moving on, after surfacing and going up the passage, we find the fire key door on our left. Exit the area through this door and the seal of Tchernobog will be clearly visible on your right. Finish the mission!
Mission 3 : Gothic Library
We begin outside a large library. Enter through the main doors and proceed to the end of the hallway before you. Take note of the eye key door on your left. Take a right turn at the end of this passage and move past the bookshelves. Turn right again, kill the fat zombies and push the grey button you find on the right wall. The nearby door opens, revealing a small, crowded bookshelf area. In this area we find the eye key. Collect the eye key. Thwart the zombie ambush and return to the eye key door seen earlier.
Through the eye key door we find even more bookshelves. The trick to getting the fire key is quite sneaky. There is a toppled bookcase. Look on the edges of this bookcase. There will be a button. Press the button and a nearby bookcase will slide open to reveal an area which holds the fire key. Grab the fire key and return to the entrance of this entire library. On your left will be a flight of stairs. Climb the stairs and turn left again. The fire key door stands before you.
Can you guess what's behind the fire key door? Yep, bookshelves. More bookshelves. Make your way to the upper level and there will be a grey button on the bookshelf next to the small table. Press it and a nearby door will open to reveal a space that holds the moon key. Collect the key and go through the moon key door (found at the end of the main corridor of the library). Finally some fresh air! Move past the pool and through the hedge passage. At the end of this passage is the end of this particular mission.
Mission 4 : Lost Monastery
This level can get a bit confusing at times, but I'll make it quick. Follow the path you start on and enter the building. On your left is body armour. Grab the body armour and smash the fanatic/s that attack you from behind. Go down the stairs and turn right. Continue along this path. You'll enter a chamber with the fire key door in front of you and the moon key door to your right. Make a note of these. Go right, past the moon key door and go up the stairs.
In time you'll find another outside area. There's a passage leading left, up some stairs and another one behind it leading left. Basically, the first passage has a door that needs to be opened with a switch found at the end of the second passage. Go down the second passage, pull the lever and return to the first passage. Pass through the door. You'll find a little space with the moon key floating in it. Luckily, after collecting the key, you can conveniently fall through the floor space provided and go to the moon key door. Open the door and follow the grey brick path you're on. You'll find two sets of doors. Pass through both, slaughter your enemies in the church and proceed up the flight of stairs on your left.
After climbing the stairs you'll find a door with a fairly holy feel to it. The door won't budge though, so you'll have to find another entrance. Luckily, Caleb can get just about anywhere he needs to be. Exit via the window and walk along the roof. Jump in the window found along there. You are now behind the door. Simple.
More stairs. Go down the stairs and look to your right. The fire key awaits. If you smell a trap you're correct! Grab the key, remove your enemies and return to the fire key door you found earlier. If you have trouble exiting the building the conventional way, just leap out one of the windows I mentioned earlier.
Move through the fire key door and keep to the grey brick path. You'll find a small cavern you can walk through. Follow this path for some time and try not to fall into the water. The path is pretty straightforward, as long as you avoid the waterways. Eventually you'll find another path made out of the grey bricks. Follow the path and you'll discover a large tower, can't miss it. This tower, upon further inspection, requires the eye key to enter it, which you don't have. Again a strange course of action, you have to fall down the well we find nearby.
Swim down, through the passage and surface. Leap onto the nearby rocky platform. Climb the rocks and you'll find a river. Follow the river and you'll see the eye key floating on your right after a while. Don't worry if you missed the jump to grab it. The water is shallow and you can easily climb the nearby rocks to reach it. Once acquired, follow the stream and fall into the body of water. You can either go left or right, but in this case, go left. The water will become shallow. Follow this path until there is another fork. There will be a broken cross lying in the water on your left. Take the opposite path, i.e. the right one. Fall into the water, climb out and climb the tower. At the top of this tower is a bell. Ring the bell (with your use key) and go down the stairs. Nearby doors will have opened. Pass through the archways and turn right. The seal of Tchernobog is found here - the mission is complete.
Mission 5 : Steamboat
Time for some fun! This time you're on a steamboat. Not very fast, but not very comfortable either. No time to hang around. There will be a lot of going back and forth in this mission. When you begin, turn left. Go around the corner and walk down the passage towards the metal staircase. Go past the metal staircase and go left, follow this little passage and you'll find the spider key door. Remember it. Go back to the metal staircase and climb up. When you turn around, there will be a metal door on your right in this passage. Ignore it for now and go to the end of the passage. Turn right and take the first left turn here after hearing the moaning.
Blast your enemies and open the dual metal sliding doors in front of you. The skull key door has been revealed to you. Remember it. Turn around, go right (past the fire and electricity in the wall) and open the first door on your left. The spider key is within!
Go back to the spider key door I pointed out earlier. Have a bit of a bar fight and, if you survive, go to the far side of the room. There are three doors. Go through the wooden one on your right and move into the room. Keep looking right and you'll see a switch. Pull the switch and one of the two metal doors will open. Pass through it, go down the stairs and enter the engine room. Upon entering the engine room, turn right and go down the passage. The skull key lies before you. Grab the key, smash your opponents and backtrack to the skull key door I pointed out earlier. No use trying to turn the steering wheel; this steamboat is set in its course. Instead, turn to your right and open a small panel on the wall. A switch lies behind the panel. Pull the switch, return to the engine room and go through a small door that has opened at the far left side of the chamber, behind the furnace. On your right, after going to the opposite side of the chamber, is yet another switch. Pull it and a nearby door opens. Pass through this door and the seal of Tchernobog is on your left. Mission complete.
Mission 6 : Graveyard
Ahh, a graveyard. Silent, dark and deadly. Proceed up the stairs before you and turn left. Follow the path for a few meters and look left. You'll see the skull key door. Remember it. Now go right. There will be a trail through some hedges. Follow this path. It's very simple, really, just stick to the pathway and you'll get to where you need to be. You'll find three grey pillars with lamps hanging from them. There is a switch on the right one. Pull it and the skull key will reveal itself in the bowels of the middle pillar. Grab the key and go through the skull key door mentioned before.
Break the cobweb, after going through the skull key door and push the bloody slabs on your right. They will slide backward to expose a new passage. Follow this passage for some time and you'll find a wooden door. Move through the wooden door, go left up some stairs and you'll have a choice. Left or right. Look down the left passage. The dagger key door stands before you. Now go the right way. Whether by going down the stairs or falling down that small hole in the floor, you'll reach the small chamber containing the dagger key. Just hit the switch on the wall near the entrance to reveal it. Now go back through the dagger key door. Three doors here. Remember the eye key door and the fire key door. Now go through the only door you can.
Turn right and move through this gloomy place open the door and go up the stairs on your left. You'll reach a door. Open it and move into the room. Turn left and open the door you find there. Go down the stairs and pull the lever. Look through the bars and you'll discover another switch. Exit this room and make your way towards that switch. Pull the switch and the teeth-like door opens. Enter the room and go up either flight of stairs you find. There will be some stone engravings here, featuring a hand. Push this and turn around, you'll see an eye-like stone symbol lower to expose another switch. Push this and the eye key will show itself to you. Use your fancy footwork and grab the key. Proceed backwards and pass through the eye key door.
There's a wooden door on the other side of the water, but it won't move. The switch to open it is in the water. Dive into the water and look against the wooden surface, you'll find the switch, pull it and pass through this door. Open the next door and go up the flight of rocky stairs on your right. Fall down the hole you find at the top, destroy your enemies and go through the door with the skull on. Turn right and go through the hole and you'll find a small chamber with the fire key floating in it. Grab the key and make your way back to the fire key door, pointed out earlier.
There will be a switch on a stone slab. Pull this switch and stairs will rise. Go up these stairs and follow the passage you find. The end of the level is at the end of this passage.
Mission 7 : Mountain Pass
This is a large, dull level that includes a lot of running, so I'm going to zoom through it. When you begin, follow the path set out before you. You'll come to the skull key door. Look to the doorway to your right on the lower ground. That's where you want to go. Take a left turn and move into the storage area. There will be a forklift. Sit in the seat and push your use button. The forklift will reverse. Use the box carried by the forklift to leap onto the nearby platform. Push the button you find on the right side of the small wall in front of you. A door on the opposite end of the chamber will open. Activate the forklift again and use the box to leap through this large metal door.
Now if you go through the doorway, turn left and turn left again, you should find a large, open pit with a switch alongside it. Press the switch and watch the metal doors below open. Leap down and pull the switch to activate the lift. Go down the lift and take a left turn. Go through the thin passageway, squash the spiders and enter the cavern. Follow the path (note the eye key door on your left as you go) and you'll find a teleporter. Use the teleporter and you'll appear in what seems to be a watery trap containing the eye key. Collect the key and observe the giant crack in the wall. Use explosives on the crack and the water level will rapidly rise.
With a bit of patience, you'll reach the cavern again. Go through the eye key door and jump onto the opposite ledge. Use the lift and cross the broken bridge. Use the narrow pathway on your right to access the cavern again. Follow the path and open the door. There will be a skeleton obelisk in the center of this chamber. Press it and it will lower. The two holes in the floor will grant gifts; a super armour and the skull key. Take the long, painful journey back to the skull key door and pass through it. Another door lies before you. Open the door and cross the second broken bridge. The fire key door presents itself to you and you don't have the key, but look to your right. There is a very narrow path, that you can actually navigate, hugging the mountain side. Walk along it carefully and you'll find the fire key. Grab the key and return to the fire key door. Open it and pass through the passage.
Continuing along this path, you'll eventually find an odd room with an obelisk in the center. There are three metal pillars on the side of it. One contains a teleporter. Enter it and you'll find more treacherous ground. There will be a ledge in the distance. Luckily, by some work of magic, there is a center block that seems to move between the ledge you're on and the one in the distance. Using this ledge, reach the other side, press the obelisk and return from whence you came. You'll be back in the moon key obelisk room. Another teleporter has revealed itself to you. Use it. Unsurprisingly, you'll find yourself on another high ledge. Take a right turn, after going through the spiderweb passage and you'll see another obelisk in the distance. Make your way towards it, push it and, if you survive, go back through the portal you came in.
The third and final pillar/portal has opened. Go through and make your way across the grey landscape until you find the pillar. Press it and it will lower, lifting your prize out of the earth. The moon key! Make your way back to the portal. Passing through it, you'll enter the moon obelisk room for the final time. Thank goodness! Press the obelisk in the center and it will lower, while forcing a nearby stairway to lower. Follow the path that the stairway provides until you come to a high, icy platform. Move to the far side of the platform and stand on the stone slab that you find there. The nearby structure will change shape and will contain a portal. Use the portal, go down the underground passage and leap into the water. The level is done.
Mission 8 : Abysmal Mine
A fairly quick run through a mine. When you begin, move through the gate and surface. Leap onto one of the boxes and jump onto the higher ground. Blow up the barrel of TNT to blast open the door. Move through the door and blast the TNT barrels on your right. A small, watery area will be exposed. Leap into the water and you'll find the fire key. Grab it and exit the water. Turn left and you'll hear (or see) a large explosion on your right. The correct, path is left, but if you go to where you heard the explosion and search around a bit you'll find the skull key door. Take a note of it, then go back the other way.
You'll find a door, open it and you'll discover a bridge with the fire key door on the opposite side. Look down to your bottom left and you should see the spider key door. Remember this as well. Cross the bridge and go through the fire key door. You'll find yourself in a small storage chamber. If you look out over the lower ground you'll see the eye key door. That's three doors to remember now. Turn left and go through the mossy stone area. Turn right and you'll see a strange metal structure containing the skull key. Push the nearby machinery to open it. Grab the key and go back to the skull key door I pointed out earlier.
Open the skull key door, blast the dynamite barrels and collect the spider key. Retreat to the spider key door (under the bridge, remember?) and open it. There will be a small undergound passage to follow. Moving along, you'll find the eye key in the open. Collecting the key and moving back to the eye key door, you'll find a mine cart behind it. Inside the mine cart is the seal of Tchernobog.
Mission 9 : Castle
This is it. The final mission. Let's get to it.
Enjoy your brief ride through the tunnel and use the door on your right. Follow the grey brick path at your feet for some time and you'll find another door. Pass through it and navigate the short pathway above the water. Open the door at the end of this passage and cross the bridge. Enter the castle doors.
Walk for a short distance and note the skull key door on your left. Now take the right passageway. Go down the stairs and destroy the fanatics in the passage. Take the door on your left. Further exploration leads to a prison. One of the cells has a switch in. Pull the switch and return to the passage where you killed the fanatics. The other door has opened. Pass through this door and go down the stairs. If you take a sharp left you'll find a passage. Follow the passage, pass over the bridge and go up some more stairs to find a large chamber containing many enemies. Destroy all opposition and proceed into the adjoining chamber with the shelves. There will be a button. Push the button and return to the small bridge you crossed earlier. A panel on the side of this bridge will have opened. Jump to the open passage, go down the ramps and you'll see the skull key in the distance before you. Claim it and return to the skull key door!
Look to your right after coming through the skull key door. The eye key door is there. Remember it. Now go up the stairs on your left and follow the path for some time. Pass through the doors and make your way towards the grandfather clock. A fairly cosy setting. Go left and then right. Move past the fireplace, through the dining room (ignore the room on your right) and go up the stairs. Now take the double doors on your left. The eye key will be well guarded on a bed. After smashing your opponents, grab the key and return to the eye key door. Pass through it.
Follow the path until you find a curious sight; four key pictures. The skull, the eye, the moon and the spider. Two of these keys you should have (unless you're a cheating bastard, but I know you're not :-]). I'll tell you now, that after collecting all four keys and hitting all the switches, the large doors open. There are two passages, left and right and both contain a combat challenge and each will offer a key you need as a reward. After collecting the two extra keys you need, you will be able to pass through the large door and move on to your destiny! Good luck!
Mission 10 : Boggy Creek
You start off in a small boat, travelling around this swamp. It'll make two long stops. Take a note of the first stop, as this is where you want to go after you've collected the key. At the second stop, (the cottage), leap off and make your way behind the house. Take note of the switch that requires the skull key to activate it. Open the door to the lonely outhouse. The spider key is within. Grab the key and go back to the shores I mentioned earlier. You can either wade through the swamp or wait for the boat to come past again.
Reaching the other shores, make your way between the trees, it's a pretty straight path. You'll come to an old, grey, smashed house. Enter the house and make your way to the back of it. You'll find the spider key door there. Open the door and go into the basement. Kill the spiders, collect the skull key and look for a switch on the pillar near the dark corner. It'll open a door for you to escape out of. Exit the building and make your way back towards the skull switch.
Pull the switch and hop into the boat. It'll take you to the end of this mission. Short and sweet.


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