Ark of Time
- A Basic WalkThru - by Mary McBride
Note: This walk-thru is written from my notes, after playing the
game just one time thru. I did *not* play it again to de-bug walk-
thru (so I may have missed a detail) or to see if a more efficient
approach were possible, i.e., if more could be done at a location
at one time. This walk-thru reflects the way I played the game and
the way I made discoveries, as I played.
Caribbean
After talking to editor, leave office and (map screen) go to Carib
Island. Talk to painter and get cup. Go Right to museum. Try to
use cup with fountain, tap can't be used without knob.
Enter museum. In Gallery, notice the Pirates wall hangings and the
compass set on East (with message about South wind). Go up stair's
to gunnery. Notice cloth in wall and the shield on wall that seems
like it should turn. Go thru alcove to library. Open window (see
car below) look at ancient book and read letter in it. Return to
painter and ask about Pirate.
Go to Beach: See flat rock in lower left of screen, with crack in
it and crab crawling around. Open bungalow door and examine jacket
(piece of cloth missing). Take the dirty mug and Mexican corn.
Read Prof's note....about ancient tomb and church.
Return to museum. Use corn with fountain tap. Use cup with
fountain. Take clear water to Painter (she "owes you one."). Take
dirty pot back.
Go to boat pier: Talk to sailor (learn about brother Tobias and
his hunt for pirate's treasure). Get professor's magnet. Return to
museum. and go to open library window. Use dirty water out window.
Then use magnet on pirate compass (south) then go to gunnery. Turn
shield on wall. Pick up piece of cloth and then enter passage to
hidden room.
Hidden room: Pick up dagger. Take and read Columbus Manuscript.
Open trunk with rags sticking out. Take Pirate's parchment.
Go to pier and talk to sailor again. Show him manuscript and find
out about his good luck crab. Bargain for trip.
Go outside museum. Use dagger on gum tree. Use bungalow mug on
resin. And get fresh water again for painter.
Go to beach. Use resin on flat rock and then use crab bait. Walk
away. (crab emerges and gets stuck). Pick up crab.
Go to painter: use crab. Use pot of clean water. Use crab again.
Give rum and get crab.
Go to pier: Give crab to sailor and go diving.
The Dive
Go screen Left to "sub/ship". in lower right corner of ship,
discover compartment. Take the black box.
Go all the way to screen Right to see gate, portal and "machine"
with slot for entry.
Return to mooring rope. Use mooring rope to return to map. (You
won't be coming back here until almost at the end of the game.)
London
Return to London and use black box with your editor. Listen to the
recording. Map now has church on it. Go to church.
Go all the way to screen Right to find the cat and ladder and
girl. Talk to her. Go back left and take leaky bucket.
Go around behind church corner to Farm. Use cloth with resin cup.
use sticky cloth with bucket. Use bucket with cow to get milk.
Return to cat and use milk on cat. Pick of cat. Use cat on broken
window in church. (automatic scene) Use ladder.
Inside Church
Take urn with ashes. Unbolt door. Take bolt. Look at confessional
booth. "use" confessional booth. Use bolt on booth to pry it away
from wall. Enter secret passage.
Notice rat that's lurking under stairway, near iron bars.
Walk into the archeological dig "tunnel". Look at hieroglyphics on
wall. Use urn/ashes on hieroglyphics (you may have to use a paper
first). Look at sculpted picture of Stonehenge. Look at sculpted
head, like Easter Island. Look at alcove ..see bones, take
medallion.
Exit. Exit church (automatic scene of weather). return inside
church and pick up "strange object" from window rubble.
Exit to map.
London
Map should now have Eastern Island and Stonehenge on it. But go
back to your editor and give him the ash rubbings. He'll recognize
dialect and talk about Prince from Algiers. (puts it on map).
Exit and go to Algier Desert.
Desert Fort
Talk to woman outside tent. Go to other, larger tent. Try talking
to him (get kicked out). Go to fort. Talk to guard. Talk to
prisoner. In this conversation, you should find out abut Holy Man
of mountain who could translate your hieroglyphics (puts cave on
map) and he should also give you a ring for his wife so she will
help you.
Go into Bazaar and talk to merchant (can't do much now). Go back
to L (wife) and hive her ring. Enter the tent.
Look at broken pot on floor. See hole in tent wall (caused by
bullet). Exit and talk to L. She should tell you that a crash
awoke her. Re-enter tent and look at base of pole & "take" this
hotspot to see bullet (should be able to line trajectory up with
top of fort)
Go back to other tent and try to talk to the guy. Exit and talk to
wife again. Get food for prisoner,
Re-enter fort. Notice locked door directly behind guard in the far
wall. Give bread to prisoner. ask him how food was. He should give
you lock pick.
Desert Mountain/Village
Look at jeep tire marks. Enter building. Talk to holy man (find
out that man with eye patch stole gem that protects tribe -- and
that jeep took off toward "village") Ask him to translate
rubbings.
This should tell you about "strange object" from church. Go to the
door in the cave, Lev. locator works. Ask holy man about door.
(He'll tell you about sacred word to open door to cave of
mysteries.)
Exit cave and "use" tire tracks to follow thief to village. See
jeep. Notice rusty hole in jeep, above front tire.
Enter butcher shop. Notice little bottle and rat bait. Talk to
shopkeeper .
Go behind building to square and talk to one-eyed man. You can
play the game as often as you want, but there is no reason to play
until you have ability to rig game in your favor.
Return to butcher shop. Ask shop keeper about rat bait. He should
let you take a croquette.
Return to cave area and exit to map and select Easter Island.
Easter Island
Talk to petty thief. It's Tobias, the sailor's brother. Ask about
island. Then exit screen right to statues. Take shell necklace
from the first statue. go screen right (lower corner) to get to
lighthouse. Take glass jar off milestone. Enter lighthouse. You
can't do anything with broken light right now. Return to statues
and then take screen right path (higher up than lighthouse) to
take path to Tobias's shack.
Talk to Tobias. Get the island picture from him. Take rubber
tubing near the petrol can. Show the "m" parchment to Tobias. Show
him rubbings paper...he'll tell you about batcave at end of path
(off screen left). Go to path and cave.
At cave, see termite hill and try to enter cave (too dark). Use
rat croquette with empty jar (in inventory). Use bait/jar with
termites. Take jar of termites.
Make way all the way back to airport and exit to map. Go to
Stonehenge.
Stonehenge
See standing rocks and notice central rock. Nothing to do here
now. Go To (upper screen left) to worker's hut. Talk to worker.
Use lockpick on hut door and enter. Take metal file from table and
take plumb line from boxes in right corner. Exit back to map and
return to Desert.
Desert
Talk to wife and ask her if she knows magic word for cave door.
(royalty knows it.)
Ask guard why turret is closed. (locked door). Talk to prisoner
and ask him if he knows the magic word for the cave of Mystery. He
does, and makes a deal to tell you if you save him.
Create a snake by combining the rubber tubing, the plumb line and
the shell necklace. use this fake snake on camel. Go into first
tent and tell man that his camel, bolted. he send you to Bazaar
merchant. Go to Bazaar and deliver message. He leaves (but you
still can't get past dog).
Leave Bazaar and take dish of dog food from open cell -- do NOT
feed this to dog until you can put drug in it.
Go to (now) empty tent of man and take shoe. Notice rifle. Leave
and go back to cave.
Use metal file on "strange door" to get filings of the lev. metal.
Exit to map and go to Carib Island.
Carib Island
Talk to painter two times. Give her photo of Easter Island. Give
her "M" parchment to use as canvass. Go to pier and tell sailor
that you've found Tobias. Exit and go back to Desert Cave
Desert
Go to Village beyond the cave. Enter butcher shop. There should
now be a piece of meat on dish on counter. Talk to butcher. You
should find out that this is a camel carcass. Use jar of termites
on the hunk of meat. After shopkeeper faints, take narcotic powder
and the rat bait.
Go to Fort and use narcotic on dish of dog food. use on dog. Take
small safe. Enter door and notice large safe. use chest -- it
moves to reveal a passage. Enter.
Take the silencer from floor. Use wall-steps to go to roof. Take
cartridge case. Take telescope lens. Use shoe from tent with
footprints in the corner.
Return to fort area and talk to guard. You should be starting to
tell him about evidence. But he still needs more proof. Exit to
map.
English Church
Return to the archeological dig below church and find rat --
either below stairs or all the way at the iron bars at right end
of dirt floor. Use rat bait on rat. Take the sleeping rat. (you
won't need him for quite awhile!). Return to map and go to Easter
Island.
Easter Island
Go to Tobias' hut and give small safe to him "to crack" He tell
you combo is 517. "use" safe and it should open. Get key inside.
Return to Desert Fort.
Desert
Go to fort and use duplicate key on jeep which is once again
parked by jail cells. Take contents of jeep -- drive belt and
flares. With back hatch open, you can now see license plate 517 -
462. (First number should be familiar). Enter Bazaar and hear two
conspirators talking. Listen to tale of death of cursed camel.
Follow them to back door and "use" door to observe them and hear
their plot and about their contract -- which is in large safe.
When they go down passage, go to large safe and use combo (462) to
open. Just set each number by using dials. Take contract.
Go talk to guard. this conversation "gives" the guard the rifle
(you can't do it directly). Then give him silencer. Then talk to
him about plot and then show him contract. You get key to free
Prince (automatic scene). You get magic words of Open Sesame.
Return to cave. and tell him sacred command. Go to inner cave and
hear bout myth of gods fallen from sky. Notice mechanism,
compartment and hole. Exit and return to map. Go to Stonehenge.
Stonehenge
Go to construction yard (worker shack). Use drive belt (from jeep)
with worker. (automatic scene) Once he's on the phone, you can
click anytime, while he's talking, which "releases" you to leave
shack. You lever on tractor to lift stone. Enter underground room.
Take strange green object off pedestal and take thin bronze tube
and take cracked crystal from center altar . You can now combine
tube with cartridge case to create a make-shift blow pipe. Return
to yard and then to map. Go to Easter Island
Easter Island
Go to lighthouse and enter. Use flares (from jeep) in lamp holder.
Turn handle to shine light on cave. -- but now air balloon block
light from reaching cave. Exit back to map and go to Carib Island.
Carib Island
Get completed picture from painter. Take this fake treasure map
back to Tobias at his shack.
Easter Island
Give fake treasure map to Tobias (automatic scene). Enter hut.
Take chrome paint can and car jack and shard of glass that's in
broken window over washing machine. Leave hut and use gas burner
on balloon to deflate it. Go to bat cave.
Enter bat cave (now lit by lighthouse). See graffiti, fountain and
stone head carved in cave. Notice small hole inside mouth of head.
Use rubber tube with fountain, to divert stream of water, and
enter secret passage. Pick up ancient parchment, use car jack with
tombstone. Take medallion.
Return to head statues and talk to digging Tobias. Exit to map and
go to Desert
Desert
Return to the inner cave and use Magnetium object (from Stonehenge
underground) on hole in mechanism. Doesn't power up. Holy man
should tell you about sacred gem that was stolen, again.
Go to Village
Use telescope lens on rusty hole in jeep to start burn-through to
tire. Go around to square and start to play game with crook.
(automatic scene). Take mother-of-pearl snuff box under middle cup
-- you can't take the wooden boxes under other cups. With box in
inventory, use lev. filings with it. use this with dirty cup on
table to return it to position. Crook should return.
Ask to play (automatic scene....keep playing) He gives you gem.
Return to inner cave and give gem to holy man (automatic scene)
Mechanism is now powered up. "use" helmet to see transmission from
medallion that is *already* in the compartment. (don't worry about
instructions for reading other medallions, all you'll have to do
is insert them and use the helmet).
Open compartment and remove the medallion (that was already there,
that you just heard) and insert medallion from Batcave. Use
helmet. After this transmission, use parchment from her tomb and
you should "see" coordinates that put Yucatan on map.
Open compartment and remove this medallion and insert medallion
from Church. This gives you instructions on how to recharge to
Lev. finder at Stonehenge-- (Lev finder on center stone, put
crystal cube on finder and when Red color, it's charged...take
finder away.) Exit to map and go to Yucatan.
Yucatan
Look at sunbleached rock and at plants. Go off screen R to
Mystic's hut. Look at marks on stone idol outside hut -- these are
a musical score.
Talk to Mystic..."come back with precise question"
Go back to forest and exit screen left ("above" rock) to Pyramid.
See boa constrictor by Mayan Head. Go to (chamber) door "behind"
Mayan head ...see 4 buttons and push them to learn that they
control movement: left up right down
Return to Mystic's hut and talk to him about what you have
discovered. He tells you secret for entering pyramid: you need a
snake, a yellow flower of sun, egg of bird and bone of animal
cursed by man (this last item should remind you of your desert
carrying-ons)
Return to pyramid and approach boa. Use sleeping rat on it. Take
snake. Go around behind (left corner) or pyramid and see nest us
by top of pyramid. Use make-shift blow pipe (bronze tube combined
with cartridge case) with nest. Examine fallen nest and take egg.
Return to forest area.
Use chrome spray with shard of glass (from Tobias' cabin) to make
mirror. Use mirror on sun-drenched rock to turn flower yellow with
sun. Pick the flower. Return to mystic with snake, egg and flower.
Exit to map and go to Butcher shop in Desert Village.
Butcher Shop
Talk to butcher. Look at thigh bone. Talk to butcher again and buy
the bone. Take bone. Return to Yucatan.
Yucatan
Go to mystic and give him gone. (automatic). Talk to mystic when
he finishes (you now have musical pipe in your inventory). use
pipe with Marks on Idol to play the pipe.
Go to snake room in pyramid and move mechanism ..up, up, right,
up, up, down, up. this opens back door of pyramid. Exit and go
around to now, opened, door. See painting of medallion being
thrown into water. Return and ask mystic about drawing (automatic)
Exit on path to Lake that now appears. You can't get past croc.
Metal Net
Easter Island: go back to digging Tobias and talk to him.
(automatic scene).
Carib Island: go back to sailor on pier and tell him Tobias found
treasure. He leaves. Take metal net and return to small lake in
Yucatan.
Yucatan:
Use metal net with croc. Notice stone idol by lake -- and the way
the faces are facing. Go tell mystic that you have trapped croc.
Enter his hut. Open his "coffer" trunk, see and take the 8 stone
faces. Return to back of pyramid and enter inner chamber.
Place faces in 4-square tile openings, on either side of door, to
match to stone idol.
1. top is two smiles, facing inward toward each other and bottom
is two frowns, facing outward
2. top is two frowns, facing outward and bottom is two smiles,
facing inward toward each other.
This opens door at top of stairs in the front of the pyramid. Go
to it. See heads/masks along the wall. Notice that touching
crystal in mouth changes its color. Nothing you can do now.
Return and talk to mystic. Ask him about his swim, he will give
you medallion. Ask about crystals. Exit to map and go to desert
cave of holy man.
Desert Cave
Take medallion to reader mechanism. Use in compartment. Use
helmet.
This transmission tells you that to enter *his* tomb, you need lev
finder, fully charged and you need to solve the logic problem of
the colored crystals in heads on walls. After transmission, remove
medallion from mechanism. If you click on it in inventory, he will
repeat the logic rules.
Pyramid
Return to pyramid mask room and set crystals in head/masks:
Head Black Blue Red Green Yellow
Crystals Blue Red Green Black Yellow
Enter tomb and take (uncracked) crystal cube from altar. Exit and
return to map and go to Stonehenge.
Stonehenge
Go to central rock. Put lev. finder on central rock. Use crystal
cube on it. Click on this stuff, to pick it up, when color shown
is yellow (with the delay , this will really pick it up when color
is red). Inventory should say "recharged lev. finder" Return to
tomb in pyramid. Use charged lev. finder with octagon-hole in
tomb. Inside tomb, pick up dolphin disk. Exit and go to map and go
to Carib. Island.
Carib
Go to pier, sailor should be back. Talk to him. After he tells you
story, ask him to take you out to ocean again.
Atlantis
At bottom of ocean, go screen right to gate. Use dolphin disk in
portal lock Enter (automatic)
See broken control panel near door. Try to open door -- dialog
with occupant.
Open drawers in large file cabinet. Then use file cabinet to climb
to pipes. Walk to air vent on right, and use your press pass on
vent. Return to door and talk to Helen.
Go down hall on screen left to elevator room. Read journal near
skeleton. Use button to go down. Notice 3 locked doors to screen
right, with colored disks above each. Also notice canister
mechanism to screen left. Take elevator up and up again -- to
prison room. (automatic scene) He should give you key to filing
cabinet that holds instruction to canister mechanism on lower
floor.
Ask prof how to free him ..you should hear about "they have key"
and "need something to knock them out from far away." Go to air
vent and Use it, to overhear their conversation.
Return to Helen. Use key (from prof) to open drawer in small
cabinet to get instructions. Look at them. The white one is the
general instructions and each color is the code for that
colored/disk door. Return to mechanism on lower floor.
Mechanism:
Buttons under canister send contents of above canister to the
canister of that (button's ) color.
Red: White fills Red canister (only when all are empty) with 8
units
Green sends liquid to Green (up to 5 units)
Blue sends liquid to Blue (up to 3 units)
Green: Red sends liquid to Red
Black empties Green canister
Blue sends liquid to Blue (up to 3 units)
Blue: Red sends liquid to Blue
Green sends liquid to Green canister
Black empties Blue canister.
Blue Door: Code of Red/0 Green/3 Blue/3
Fill Red (white button). Send Red to Green. Send Green to Blue &
empty green. Send red to Green.
Go to room and take water. Use control to open airlock door. Exit
room.
Red Door: Code of Red/0 Green/2 Blue/2
Fill Red. send red to green. Send red to blue. Send green to red.
Send blue to green. Send red to blue. Send blue to green. empty
blue. send green to blue. empty blue. send red to blue.
Go to room. See empty frig, take container of white powered lime.
Take alcohol. See beaker and beaker valve and thermal heating
device.
Green Door: Code of Red/0 Green/1 Blue/1
Fill red. Send Red to Green. Send Red to blue. Send green to red.
send blue to green. send red to blue. Send blue to green. send
green to red. send blue to green. send red to blue send blue to
green, send green to blue. empty blue. send red to blue. empty
blue . send red to blue.
Go to room. see pumps schematic and notice pipe with rubber valve.
This pipe is liquid chlorine. Use empty syringe with rubber valve
to get syringe full of chlorine.
Professor
Return to professor and show him chlorine, syringe, bottle of
alcohol, lime bottle and distilled water. He tells you that you
have makings of chloroform. Instructions:
Put water, lime and chlorine in beaker and boil. (you get salts of
lime chloride)
Dissolve these salts in alcohol.
Laboratory
Use water, lime and chlorine with beaker. Use thermal device. Look
at beaker. This is lime chloride. Use empty jar with beaker valve.
Use valve. Use alcohol with jar of lime chloride. You now should
have jar of chloroform.
Professor
Go back to professor and talk to him. Use jar of chloroform with
air vent outside the control room (automatic) Use door lever and
then enter room. Take small key on wall on right. Return to prof
and use key on handcuffs. (automatic) Go back into control room
and open small doors on each side of control desk. Take small
weight from door on left to disable gyroscope.
Escape
Go to decompression chamber and discover the lever dilemma.
Use plumb line with water container. Go to lab room. Put container
in refrig. Close door and then open door. Take frozen container
back to decompression chamber. Use frozen container on control
lever. Use small weight on this set-up.
Rest is automatic...
