Puzzle Tips

This level is quite a change from most. With a very few exceptions, the object in this level is NOT to fight! In fact, if you start a fight anywhere but in a couple places, you won't be able to finish the level. If the monsters in the central area wake up, your access to the beanstalk will be blocked, and you'll probably eventually end up in a new room reading a term about how the beanstalk is falling on your head -- just before you die in a lava flood.

You're told you need to find some invisibility devices, which are hidden in a secret room near where you enter the complex. Look for a secret door in a small storage room.

Once you're invisible, you need to move fast. There's a large gathering of aliens in the main courtyard just outside the ventillation plant. If they see you, you might survive if you're good, but there's no point, as you'll never finish the level. So move fast to the eastern side of the complex and find the security building (a two-story blue building). Go in to the second floor and find the security chip in a filing cabinet in one of the offices. Then go back to the northeast corner of the first floor, open the closet there, and sit in it if neccessary until you're as invisible as you can get (ie, you've just picked up another invisibility device).

Next, move back past the main courtyard to the west end of the complex. You'll find the power generators in a building corresponding to the location of the security building, only mirrored to the west. Go in, feel free to kill the compilers there, and insert the chip.

Next go in the side door to the main building, which you passed on the way to the power plant. It was darkened before, but now it's active and will open. Go straight ahead, then left at the locker room, then right through the first door, then out through the blasted ticket counter. Avoid the malfunctioning gun turret and the aliens who have their backs turned (DON'T shoot them, however tempting it may be!), and go south through the security checkpoint and the door beyond.

At the Beanstalk, go in the cargo area of the elevator car and push on the sides of the crates until one opens. Step in and "hide".

Combat Tips

You can only kill things in the ventillation plant, the security building, and the power plant. Anywhere else and you'll be discovered and blocked from accessing the Beanstalk. (Remember, the idea here is that if you're discovered, the aliens will drop the Beanstalk and destroy Earth's ecosystem.)

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