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ANACHRONOX.

AUTHOR: George K. Ison
aka GARR

CAUTION: don't cheat till after all lessons at Whackmaster Jack's. Then, even though
maximum
level of 99 and hitpoints at 9900, only set a level of 45 or 49. The hitpoints will be adjusted
correctly for the level. Setting the level any higher causes major problems later on! Don't
use any
other cheats or later in the game you will have trouble with crashes, freezes, and not being able
to
restore a save game!

You might even be tempted to set your world skill level high. You reach Master level at 2, so
setting it any higher returns you to your default world skill level. Also, setting it high will
cause
problems later on.

Bricks/Rowdy's.
The first thing you'll be asked to do is Rowdy wants you to find his cellar key. That's
probably a
red herring, i.e. something to throw you off or an object not likely to be found.

Once you're in-game there are some things you have to do or you can't even leave the
level. Head
upstairs and into your office. To the left, click on the PAL-18 robot till Boots says he misses
the
little guy. Grab your camera from the desk, then use the scanner, for a vague hint about someone
having an undersized helmet. Go over to the door to lockpick the storage room. The best way to
lockpick is to put your cursor on the tumblers (the spacebar will accomplish the same thing) and
your other hand on your down arrow.

Click the cursor, and once the tumblers stop press the down arrow and then the cursor (or
spacebar) again immediately. The faster you do this the better your chances of picking the lock.
Remember that the locks reset themselves after each failed attempt. Once inside, grab the money
and ignore the locked storage chest for now. Your Lockpick World-skill probably isn't high
enough. When it is high enough, there'll be an extra button you can click on to keep the time
from
running out.

Back down by the bar, go play some OX if you want. It's a variation of 9 Man Morris. Ignore
the silver head man at the bar because you'd have to buy him a drink to get his advice of going
to
Whackmaster Jacks to brush up on combat. Fatima will tell you this later anyway.

But you do want to talk to the blonde (Valesta) at the bar. She'll suggest that you talk to
her
friend Deanamo at Franks Flophouse, because she knows about some work. In the back of the
bar, talk to the woman standing at the table. Talk to her all you can and she might mention a
Yeracan who has some plans. Now leave Rowdy's to load a new screen.

Bricks/Fountain Spiral Area.
Turn right and talk to the Aewa (flyer) and he'll suggest you look for his cousin K'Conrad
Khk (at
the Fountain Spiral) to get information.

Ppaki the Alley goon will attack, beat you to within 1 point in health, and bust your Vistin
Pistol.
Fatima will suggest you check out Whackmaster Jack's to brush up on your Beat skills.
Continue
up the ramp and talk to the woman on your left. Continue up and pick up the Healgrease. Hit F5,
click Boots' face, click his inventory, click the Healgrease. When you get to the open area
where
you can go either right or left, take a right and go into the door between the big neon signs.

Bricks/Whackmaster Jacks.
Go inside and up the ramp to the fighting ring. The guy against the far wall will give you a
glodent if you talk to him three different times on all topics. Then talk to the old guy, in the
red
shirt, standing by the ring. He's Whackmaster Jack and he'll give you an old Vistin
Pistol and get
your training started. After the lesson, go back to the fighting ring and get another lesson from
the Whackmaster. Keep getting lessons till he says he can't teach you any more. Leave the
map
when you're done (if you try to leave before all the lessons, you can't go anywhere.)

Once out the door, go down all the ramps to the Time-minder and out the door.

Bricks/Fountain Spiral Area.
Continue up the ramp to the right and go through the first corridor you see with the four signs
above it. Talk to the sitting man 3 or 4 different times. In the next area, fight, then take the
gravpath up the curving wall. Talk to the guard and listen in on all the conversation.

Bricks/Casinox Area.
Go to the elevator and take it down. Talk four different times to the woman (Maria Black)
standing by the Time-minder, to learn that she wants to know where Simon Langer lives.
Continue on, take your first right through the door to the Overlook and talk to K'Conrad, then
go
back through the door to the elevator straight ahead and take it to Casinox.

At the bottom, talk to a NoxGuard and he'll eventually show you a picture of Valesta and ask
you
if you've seen her. Tell him NOPE. If you had told him where she was, then she would be
arrested and you couldn't give her plans to Detta's fortress later on. Now continue
through the
door. Casinox is closed off at this point. Take a picture of the Anachronox symbol over the
Platform sign (hit F11, choose an empty slot, use up arrow to zoom in, hit Enter or Space, then
Esc. Continue straight ahead to the Cordicom elevator to the Ghallas Area.

Bricks/Junkyard Area.
Behind the Ghallas sign, get 50 dollars from the chest. Now go through the Ghallas door, go
forward and left and talk to the person behind the counter. You might have to wait for her to
appear. If you're health isn't all the way up, you can buy a Healgrease (12 dollars) from
her to get
healed. You can also buy Healgrease Plus and Time-minder Tears. The Tears resurrects dead and
gives a few hitpoints. Click the plus sign by the item you want and then click the Buy! button.
After you buy this, head up the short ramp behind you and way back into the area and pick up a
TACO on the floor.

There's a total of 20 Taco's in the game and you can trade them for very useful items when
you
get to the Commerce Lounge on Sender Station.
In the low part of the room is a dataport on the table. Bring Pal back here to access the dataport
and he gets completely healed. Exit and use the Time-Minder behind the fruit stand. Even if you
don't touch the fruit in the stand, a couple of goons will attack as you move past. After the
fight,
notice a nearby bug hive. These things seem to be everywhere! Much later, you can get different
colored bugs for a very important weapon. Notice another symbol over the tunnel. Activate your
camera, choose an empty slot, zoom in and take a picture of the symbol. 2 down, 4 to go.

Continue straight through the Tenements area tunnel. Just out of the tunnel, turn around and take
a picture of the Anachronox symbol over the signs (hit F11, use right or left arrow key to get an
empty slot, use mouse to center the symbol, then use up or down arrow to zoom in or out, then hit
Enter, then Esc to close the camera.). There's a total of six for a quest concerning a
Professor
Langley. You can also take one of the symbols itself back to Langley. This all takes place much
later.

Bricks/Tenements Area.
Turn away from the tunnel and go talk to the woman 2 different times. Now take the elevator
down. Just beyond the bottom is Franks Flophouse.

Bricks/Frank's Flophouse.
If you didn't buy any Healgreases at Ghallas, then you should have enough bucks (you need 5)
to
take a room, which will completely heal you. Get a room anyway, pick up a Taco there, picklock
the back door, go down stairs and picklock another door to enter Frank's private lounge. Go
back up to the bar. Try picking the locks of the other rooms as listed below:

Room B: just some guy named Dax who's sorry about the past (you need Master picklock here.)
Room D: upstairs, Healgrease and a drunk guy.
Room E: talk to the guy outside. Once inside, click the guy who's dreaming about Eddie who
knows Anachronox like the back of his hand. Go back downstairs.
Room A: once inside, Deanamo will tell you that she was hired by a guy named Grumpos over in
Tenements. Next to the exit is Valesta's bracelet. You can take it back to her. She's
sitting at the
bar in Rowdy's, in the Fountain Spiral area.

As you approach the flophouse exit, Fatima tells you where Grumpos is. Just outside, go down a
couple of short ramps to the left, to the bottom floor entrance of Tenement Building 5.

Bricks/Tenements Building 5.
Once inside, directly across from the elevator doors is a directory on the wall. Use your camera
to
zoom in on the lower right portion to see that Grumpos is listed in C19, which is on the fourth
floor. Talk to the NoxGuard. Now browse the SenderNet terminal, and of course use the
LifeCursor Registry. Now head over to the section C elevator behind you and get in. Here is the
guide to all the apartments you can access in this Section, and what their significance is:
Floor #2
C05: Simon Langer. Knock and tell him you'll save his life for 25 loonies. Say you're
calling the
shots, and he'll slide it under the door. Then call him a Sucker.
C07: there's a Healgrease on the small boxes in the corner. Also contains a life-cursor for
Detective Rukh, after talking to him in front of Joe's Diner in the Anachronox Tours area. He
gives you a PAX Flaspack for Boot's BattleSkill2.
Floor#3
C11: contains Healgrease Plus.
C14: contains Healgrease Plus.
Floor#4
C19: Grumpos Matavastros (choose the option "Pick Lock.") Security almost catches you.
During the cut-scene with Grumpos, he'll tell you that he'll hire you for a protection job
if you
can prove yourself. You'll have to bring him a size-five NoxGuard helmet (remember the vague
hint on your scanner.)

Once the cut-scene is over, explore the immediate area of the balcony, to find a TACO. Head
back down and through the door into his apartment and pick up the blue MysTech Museum card
from his kitchen counter. Now go back down to floor 1 and outside.

Take a left, and past the food store is a narrow alley to the right. At the end is a NoxGuard
keeping watch while some guy is getting roughed up. Talk to him, and if you ask him about the
helmet he'll give you a hint about some guy in the Platforms Division that got issued a small
helmet
that day. Remember this location, you'll want to bring Grumpos here for some handy work, if
his
worldskill is high enough for a good yammer.

Turn around, walk straight ahead to the end and talk to the guy in the tunnel. Continue left and
around to the right and down a ramp, you'll come to a Mephad'in Doorlord guarding the
entrances
to the MysTech tunnels. If you talk to him too many times he'll kill you, so steer clear. At
the top
of the small ramp, talk to the man till he suggests that Eddie would probably know how to get by
the Doorlord.

Head back to the elevator near building 5, and take it up. If you talk to the NoxGuard you see,
he'll also suggest that some Guard at the Platforms has a small helmet. If you take a left at
this
guard and take all the platforms down, past Barton Arms (remember this location.) Eventually
you'll wind up on a balcony overlooking the open Tenements area, and there's a Healgrease
there.
Pick it up, then head back up and talk to the guard just outside Joe's, to the left, on your
way.

Continue to the NoxGuard and head left down the Fountain Spiral/Platform hallway. You'll
fight
the goons again. Continue towards Ghallas and take the elevator.

Bricks/Casinox.
Start following the signs to the Platform Area. You'll finally arrive at the
Platforms/Anachronox
sign that had been blocked before. Head down towards the Platforms past several stores. Talk
several times to the dark brown Alley Goon standing in front of the gravpath, then take him out to
get yourself some easy bucks. Then take the gravpath.
Bricks/Platforms.
The transition plate isn't aligned at this point, so all you can do is head left, through the
door,
towards the Platforms. Once you get to the elevator, keep in mind you're starting out at Level
4.
Here is what you'll find on each level:
Level 4: Corridor back to Casinox Area..
Level 3: A Gorian drug runner that you will have to fight if you talk to him more than a couple
times (sometimes you don't fight while playing easy mode.)
Level 2: While in the elevator, turn to the Anachronox symbol by the elevator and take a picture
of it. (hit F11, use right or left arrow key to get an empty slot, use mouse to center the symbol,
then use up or down arrow to zoom in or out, then hit Enter, then Esc to close the camera.)
Level 1: NoxGuard with Size 5 Helmet.
In the conversation with the NoxGuard on Level 1, you need to realize a few things. First off,
he's
got many more hitpoints than a typical NoxGuard. The best way to get the helmet is to always
answer him with positive responses. After you get the helmet, quickly leave. If you talk to him
one more time you'll have to fight him, and of course if at the start you threaten him then
you'll
have to fight him too. He's REALLY tough, so it's best to avoid a fight.

Now head all the way back to Grumpos in the Tenement area building 5.

Bricks/Tenements Building 5.
Go back up to Grumpos' work shead on the balcony, give him the helmet, and he'll give you
a
Linguinator that allows you to understand aliens. Now he's in your party. Leave the
building and Fatima will appear, suggesting you go see K'Condrad overlooking the fountain
spiral.

First you should take Grumpos just ahead past the food store into the narrow alley where someone
is getting roughed up. Have Grumpos Yammer the guard for a Cobalt Crawler (8 in the game.)
It's not likely that Grumpos' worldskill is high enough at this time. The Crawlers are
used with an
Elementor by putting one on a function node and the other 7 on the support nodes of the
Elementor. Now go back around left to Franks Flophouse and buy a room, to heal Grumpos.

After that, exit and take the elevator back up. Follow the signs for the Fountain Spiral area.
Talk
to the Brebulans Sunil and Harth just ahead on the right. They will ask for a symmetrical crystal
tree. Be sure to talk to them till they start saying the same thing. Next, go to Ghalla's and
buy any
health items you might need for several upcoming fights. Now go back to the Graveyard
gravpath, opposite the 2 Brebulans, and go on up.

Bricks/Junkyard.
First beat down the Alley Goon waiting right by the entrance to the junkyard. Then head deeper
into the junkyard, and at one point you'll be able to go either left or right. First take the
left fork
just to a Pre-Owned shield cell and pick it up. Go back, hanging a hard left and under some steel
beams. You'll come up to some guy that says Eddie Knows. Enter the broken pipe, turn right,
and follow the long tunnel till you come to a big open room. Head left on the wooden plank and
down ramps to the bottom and fight the Gorite. The crystal tree you need is at the far right.
When you click the correct tree, you automatically take it.

When you get back near the 2 Brebulans, hand over the tree for some loonies. Take the elevator
up that's by Ghallas. At the top is the tunnel leading to the Fountain Spiral overlook, where
K'Conrad Khk is at. He'll give you some basic info about Eddie, but instructs you to
follow a guy
named Lucko Coldwolf in order to get the rest of the info from K'Conrad. Fatima will appear
and
tell you that you can find Lucko over by the Barton Arms, which was over by the elevator that
leads down to where Franks Flophouse is.

Talk to the woman again, by the Time Minder, and tell her where Simon is. She gives you some
dollars.

Bricks/Tenements.
Head back down the elevator, opposite the Overlook door, straight into the tunnel and down
another elevator to Ghallas. Turn right and head through the tunnel and turn right to the top of
the down ramp and SAVE. Now as you head down, the 'Follow Lucko' mini-game starts.
Quickly back into the shadows under the ramp. You have to follow him but not too closely, and
not too far away.

TIP: hold Shift, while following him, to avoid running and overtaking him. If you loose him,
restore and try, try again.

Bricks/Anachronox Tours Area.
Eventually you'll catch up with the guy Lucko was bringing a briefcase to, in Joe's Diner.
He'll
tell you that Eddie lives in the Junkyard. He also says that Eddie will tell you whatever you
want to know, but Eddie needs something chewy and stinky to help him focus. Then Fatima will
basically tell you that the person you need to get something chewy from is around the fountain
spiral, so plan on heading back.