LEVEL 31: THE MASTABAS
Secrets: 1
The
diagram at right shows the layout of this level and the
beginning of the next (THE GREAT PYRAMID). The thick, gray
lines represent the above-ground buildings. The broken lines
show the underground rooms and tunnels. The rooms are
numbered in both diagram and text in the order you explore
them. Special thanks to Theresa from tombraiders.com for
this diagram (used with permission).
GAS STATION AND FIRST MASTABA: (1 and 2 in the
diagram) As you explore, a wild dog
comes out from between the two buildings ahead and to the
left. There's another dog
slinking around the truck parked by the gas station, a
little farther to the left (north). After clearing the area,
pick up the JERRYCAN near the gas
pumps.
(2) Return to the boarded-up door with the "Danger" sign
near where you began the level. Shoot the boards, enter the
building and kill a couple of bats.
It looks like there's nothing here, but wait. There's a
cleverly concealed trapdoor in the middle of the floor.
Lighting a flare might help you spot it. It's the one square
that's divided into smaller squares. Position Lara facing
this square, standing just outside it, with her back to the
entrance. Press Action to lift the trapdoor. Climb down the
ladder to the bottom of the shaft, where you'll find a
large medipak. This is secret
#1 (67/70). Climb back out of the pit. Exit and
go to the right between this building and the next.
(3) NORTHWEST MASTABA: Kick open the door (Action
key) and enter the next building. Pick up
revolver ammo in one corner. The trapdoor in this
room is much more obvious. Stand near the handle and press
Action to open it. Drop into the tunnel and kill a
wild dog. Follow the tunnel. At
the split, go left (east). Continue to a room with
2 more dogs.
(4) ROOM WITH THREE GOLDEN LIONS' HEADS: Pick up
normal arrows and a
small medipak from the floor. Use
the pistols to shoot each of the gems in the lions' mouths.
You don't need to waster revolver ammo here. Instead draw
pistols, stand Lara in front of each lion's head and jump
while shooting. When all of the gems are broken, the door
will open. There are 2 mummies
lurking in the alcove. You can destroy both with a single
grenade or explosive arrow. (Other weapons are ineffective.)
Go into the alcove and pick up the SMALL
WATERSKIN.
Follow the tunnel back to the split. This time head left
(south). You'll meet 2 more dogs
as you go. At the end of the passage, climb through the
opening in the ceiling to another ruined mastaba.
(5) SOUTHWEST MASTABA: Kill 2
bats and a black scorpion
(normal size). Exit and go the right (east). You'll meet a
wild dog just around the corner.
Take a running jump across the
excavation pit to the building with the "Danger"
sign.
(6) SOUTHWEST CENTRAL MASTABA: Shoot the boards,
open the door and kill 2 bats and
a dog inside the ruined building.
Open the trapdoor and hop down into the pit. Follow the
tunnel and, when it forks, go right (east).
(7) ANOTHER ROOM WITH THREE GOLDEN LIONS' HEADS:
Kill 2 wild dogs and a
bat. I found it helped to advance
slowly down the stairs to trigger only the dogs, deal with
them using the shotgun, then switch to pistols and enter the
room to kill the bat. Now repeat the business of shooting
the gems in the lions' mouths (see ROOM WITH THREE GOLDEN
LIONS' HEADS, above). The same as before, when you shatter
all the gems, the alcove door opens, releasing
2 mummies. Only this time there
are also 2 more bats, which make
targeting a bit more difficult. I recommend first using a
grenade, which should take care of the mummies, then
switching over to pistols for the bats if they're still
alive. Pick up the BAG OF SAND in
the alcove.
Return along the passage to the fork. This time, go right
(north). You will soon come to two left turns, one after the
other. There's a wild dog waiting
here. Take the first left, kill another
dog just around the corner, and continue to a dead
end where you'll find a large medipak
and revolver ammo. Return
to the intersection and turn left, then left again. Continue
to an opening where you can climb up.
(8) WEST CENTRAL MASTABA: Shoot
several bats inside the ruined
tomb. Then shoot the boards across the door and exit. Move
to the edge of the excavation pit
and position Lara on the left side where the rim of the pit
juts out a bit. Then take a running jump across the pit to
the small ledge at the corner of the next building. Step to
the left edge and take a standing jump over to the wider
ledge between the two buildings. Use the directional keys to
pivot in the air if necessary to help land these tricky
jumps.
(9) NORTHWEST CENTRAL MASTABA: Enter the building
on the right and kill 2 scorpions.
Open the trapdoor and drop down into the tunnel. Follow the
tunnel, turning right (west) at the T intersection. Kill the
wild dog in the passage and pick
up the WOODEN TORCH at the end.
Return eastward along the passage, past turn where you came
in from the surface. When you come to the stairs leading
down to the next room, drop the torch and draw weapons.
(Remember where you left the torch, since you'll be needing
it shortly.)
(10) ANTEROOM WITH GOLDEN LIONS' HEADS/ROOM WITH THREE
SCALES: Kill 3 dogs and
2 bats. Again, I found it easier
to trigger the dogs first, use the shotgun to kill them,
then switch to pistols and enter the room to kill the bats.
Then repeat the process of shooting the gems in the lions'
mouths to open the door (see ROOM WITH THREE GOLDEN LIONS'
HEADS, above). Enter the next room and kill
2 more bats. Here is a puzzle
involving three scales. These
are labeled with symbols for water (wavy blue lines), fire
(sun) and earth (pyramid).
Walk around behind the scales and stand Lara in the small
pool. Select the SMALL WATERSKIN from your inventory and
press Action to fill it with water. Return to the front of
the scales, step up onto the low platform and position Lara
in front of the scale with the water symbol. Use the filled
waterskin to pour water into the scale.
Next, position Lara in front of the scale with the sun
symbol. Pour gasoline from the JERRYCAN into the scale. Go
back through the LIONS' HEADS room to get the WOODEN TORCH
from where you dropped it. Light it on one of the
lit torches and use it to ignite
the gasoline in the scale.
(NOTE: If you're missing the
jerrycan you'll need to go back to the beginning of the
level to do this. If you're missing the torch, it's just
down the hall a bit. Go through the ROOM WITH GOLDEN LIONS'
HEADS and follow the hallway westward to a dead end, where
you'll find the torch on the ground.)
Finally, position Lara in front of the scale with the
pyramid symbol. Use the BAG OF SAND to pour sand into the
scale. After filling all three scales correctly, the left
(west) door in the SCALE ROOM opens. Enter the WEST ROOM
(11 in the diagram) and kill the 2
mummies. Use the CROWBAR to pry the
NORTHERN SHAFT KEY off the wall.
When you do, the east door in the SCALE ROOM opens. Go
through the SCALE ROOM into the EAST ROOM (12 in the
diagram). Pick up poisoned arrows
and revolver ammo near the ramp.
Kill the 2 dogs in the stairway
opposite and exit up these stairs.
Follow the passage. After a few bends take the first left
and continue to a dead end where there's a
large medipak. Here
2 wild dogs attack from behind.
Backtrack to the intersection, turn left and continue to the
opening in the ceiling where you can climb out of the
tunnel.
(NOTE: Before exiting this
area, you can also shoot some more gems in the other lions'
mouths and relight the torches that go out. However, I
haven't found that this accomplishes anything.)
(13) NORTHEAST CENTRAL MASTABA: Kill a
black scorpion in the ruined
building, exit and kill another scorpion
outside. Take a running jump to the north side of the
excavation pit, tapping the left
directional key in-flight to land the jump. Turn right and
take a running jump across the pit to grab the rim on the
south side. Be sure to jump across at the left side where
the ledges are closer together. (See the yellow area with
arrows in the diagram.)
(14) SOUTHEAST CENTRAL MASTABA: Open the door of
the building on the right (southwest), enter and kill
several bats. Open the trapdoor
and drop down into the tunnel. You might want to walk along
this tunnel with pistols drawn, since Lara can probably see
the scorpions before you do.
You'll encounter three of them as you go. The first is just
inside the tunnel. Turn left (north) at the first and only
intersection. Continue to another
scorpion and, a little farther on, some
revolver ammo. Follow the tunnel
back to the intersection, then go left (east). Kill another
scorpion and continue to where
you can climb out into another ruined mastaba.
(15) SOUTHEAST MASTABA: There's a
wild dog lurking in the doorway.
Just outside is another boarded up ruin.
(16) NORTHEAST MASTABA: Shoot the boards, kick
open the door and enter. Kill 2 bats
and open the trapdoor. Follow the tunnel to a T
intersection. To the right is an obvious dead end. There's a
small medipak on the ground here.
when you pick it up a dog attacks
from behind. Continue eastward to yet another ANTEROOM
WITH GOLDEN LIONS' HEADS (17). Take care of the
twin dogs and
twin bats, and shoot the gems to open the door. (Is
it just me, or is this getting a little tedious?)
(18) ROOM WITH MONKEY STATUES: Here we have
something a little different. Three monkey statues in the
classic poses "hear no evil," "see no evil" and "speak no
evil." Each statue has a lever
mechanism in front of it. You'll need to use the
CROWBAR as a handle to operate each lever. If you like, you
can avoid using all but the lever on the right. This one
releases a friendly monkey that
climbs up onto the high ledge and uses the switch there to
open the door to the right (east).
If curiosity overrides compassion, you can release the
other monkeys just to check them out. Use the CROWBAR to
operate each of the other lever mechanisms. The one on the
left ("hear no evil") releases a black
monkey that attacks Lara. The middle lever ("see no
evil") releases a ghostly monkey,
which also attacks Lara. These guys make nice little
explosions when you kill them.
[NOTE: If you accidentally
kill the friendly monkey before it can open the door, use
the crowbar again to operate the lever on the right. On the
PC version, at least, you'll need to position Lara facing
the lever mechanism from the other side (i.e., with her back
to the statue). The monkey will appear again and climb the
wall to pull the switch.]
The EAST ROOM (19), contains 2
mummies. If you wait for them to move near each
other, you can destroy both with a single grenade or
explosive arrow. When the area is clear, go in and pry the
SOUTHERN SHAFT KEY off the wall.
When you do, the west door in the MONKEY ROOM opens. Go
through the MONKEY ROOM into the WEST ROOM (20).
(Again, you can shoot the gems if you like, but I found this
didn't do anything.) Follow the passage out of the west room
and follow the passage to the end of the level.
IMPORTANT
NOTE: Do not leave this level without three shaft keys.
The first, the WESTERN SHAFT KEY, you should have found in
the last level, INSIDE MENKAURE'S PYRAMID. The other two,
the NORTHERN and SOUTHERN SHAFT KEYS, you should have found
here in the MASTABAS. (You'll get the EASTERN SHAFT KEY in
the next level, KHUFU'S QUEEN'S PYRAMIDS.) You will need all
of the keys when you get to the level INSIDE THE GREAT
PYRAMID. Once you enter the next level, you won't be able to
backtrack to this level.
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