CISTERN

Stand here a moment to appreciate the interesting sounds. Then draw your guns and drop into the hole, immediately shooting the honking great rat that's biting you. Yuck. Push the block forward twice and once to the right to access a switch that opens a white door and a trapdoor in the floor. Shoot two rats that come through the wall that just opened. Go through the white door and get the medipack, then go down the hole and run outside to a walkway that overlooks a huge room with pillars and a large pool. Stand there a moment and shoot two rats below you and two crocodiles in the pool. Turn to your right and jump to the pillar at your right, then shoot a rat on the stairs. Walk to the wall, then jump up and grab the crevice. Shuffle left to a ledge, then drop down and take some shotgun shells. Turn left and grab another crevice; continue left until you can climb up. Turn right and climb up to a ledge and walk to the end of it to get the Rusty Key. Return to the other end of the ledge and climb down, then hang and drop to the brick walkway below. Follow this walkway around and climb the pillar at one corner, then turn right and jump to the balcony and go up the stairs. Blast, Pierre is here again, on your right; shoot him until he runs away, then turn right and climb the conduit you see here. Jump up to the next conduit and into a tunnel and climb up to SECRET #1, shotgun shells. Walk to the edge of the slope, then slide down and jump just at the end to land on another ledge with two shotgun shells. Slide and drop back into the room below. On the opposite wall, there's a high conduit with some goodies on it. Run and jump twice to reach a medipack and some more shells. Do a safety drop to the floor from here. Notice a switch and some openings in the floor to water. Skip the switch for now and go swimming. There's rats here, and you can't get out once you get in, so swim deep to avoid them and look for a tunnel. At the end of the tunnel, surface and kill a rat in the water. Climb and jump up to the top ledge and get a second Rusty Key. Go forward and hang from the ledge so you can shuffle to the left and drop to the ledge with two rats, filthy vermin, whom it is a pleasure to slaughter. Continue forward and slide down the ramp to the main room. Turn right and jump up to the ledge, then follow it around to get back to the bridge where you started the level. Turn right and jump to the next bit of bridge, then turn left and jump to the first door where you get to use one of those Rusty Keys. Enter the room and turn around to climb a ledge over the door. Turn and shoot two gorillas, then jump to the next ledge and shoot at Pierre from above until he runs off. Jump to the next ledge and get the medipack, then do another jump to the high ledge. See that little alcove just under the crevice in the back wall? It's hard to get to, but it can be done. Stand at the edge closest to the alcove, then turn around and take one step forward; then hold your breath and jump backwards into space. Open your eyes to discover that you just landed in the alcove! Amazing. Get the magnum clips, then do a running jump back to the highest ledge, then turn around and do a run-jump-grab to grab the crevice above the alcove. Shuffle to the right and drop to the ledge, then drop through the hole on your right and run forward to go down the ramp. Shoot the crocodile in the room, then slide down to the floor and shoot a second crocodile. (Man, those are big suckers. Lara ought to saddle one and use him for a horse.) Walk into either of the passages to alert a third crocodile to your presence and kill him. Shoot a rat and get the medipack, then return to the room with the dead crocodiles. Climb the wall above the pedestal, then turn and jump to the ledge, then do a running jump to the next ledge and one more jump to the ledge on the right. Go forward and drop to the ledge below, then grab the crevice and shuffle left to the white door. Use the switch and enter the door. Jump over some spikes and into a pit where you can shoot two more rats, then drop into a green hole. Shoot another rat, then drop to the ground. Go through the door and shoot a rat to your right, then climb the stairs by the Gold Door. Facing the wall, jump to the ledge, then turn right and climb to the next ledge. Run to the end and turn around and do a running jump. Climb up to the ledge and turn right and do another running jump, then jump over to the switch and open the Gold Door below. Make your way to the floor and enter the door to get the Silver Key. Back up and -- shoot, it's Pierre again. Avoid him this time; just clamber over the stairs and dive into the water ASAP. Swim past the first opening and continue until you surface in the pool in the main room. Work your way up to the room with all the conduits and the switch we didn't throw before. Avoid the holes in the floor (although you can stop to shoot the rats now, if it pleases you) to throw the switch, then walk back to the entrance and look at what you just did. Way cool -- you flooded the entire room. (Incidentally, you can throw the switch again to drain it if you need to.) Drop down to the walkway, then jump in the water and swim to a small almost invisible tunnel in the top right wall of the old pool. Swim to the end and throw a lever to open a door for you, then surface and kill two rats. Get the medipacks and shells, then dive back in and swim to the new door and get the Silver Key. (If you take the wrong turning here, you'll end up in the room where you last saw Pierre, now flooded. Pretty, but useless.) Go through the gate that just opened and you're back in the main room. Swim to the second locked door and use the other Rusty Key. Take a swim down to a small room with a medipack and a Gold Key. Swim back to the main room and get out of the water fast so you can shoot the crocodile that just arrived. When he's dead, swim to the large platform against the left wall of the room with all the plants on it. Dive down and swim to your right to find another small tunnel leading to SECRET #2, magnum clips. Go back at the surface and climb up to a white door and a block at the left with Rams on it. Push the Rams block to find SECRET #3, a small room with a slope on the left and a high ledge on the right. Stand facing the slope and jump forward, holding down the Jump button to bounce up to the ledge. Piece of cake. Get the medipack and the magnum clips and exit. Use the silver keys to unlock the next two doors and enter the room -- walking, because you're not done yet. The gold box you see over the door is the lock. Climb the pillar and jump to the ledge, then to the ledge over the door. Face the high ledge and jump to it, then jump to the lock in the wall on your right. Kill a surprise gorilla and use the gold key to open the door below. Do a safety drop to the door and kill two more lions. But wait, there's more! Enter and run across the large room, being wary of the broken tiles that drop into spike pits. At the back is a switch that you can throw if you want to kill three more lions, but they've got nothing you want, so skip it. Behind the switch is a movable block; pull it twice, then pull it out from the wall four times. Move to the opposite side and push it once, then climb up and jump to the ledge above. Take the medipack and three magnum clips. If you're in the mood, go into the doorway at the right and shoot two rats and the three lions we didn't release before, then drop down and flip a switch to get you back to the other unflipped switch. In any case, go to the place behind the switch where you pulled out the block and look down. Gulp, then jump into the well. Scream with joy all the way down; you finally found the EXIT!

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