Glathriel Village (part 2)

Glathriel Village (Part 2) is the fifth map in Unreal - Return to Na Pali's single player game.

Author 

Matthias Worch

Description 

Part two actually has the infestations of Spinners and Skaarj, the Spinners will be quite annoying, I consider them pests but in numbers they can easily kill you if you don't dodge correctly. You begin this map in the tombs where you shot a hole in the Nali's house.

Walkthrough

Glathriel Village harbour seemed surprisingly free of Skaarj. Now, as you drop into a strange crypt-like underground cellar, you find it dangerously infested with voracious spider-like creatures.

You start in the cobweb-laden crypt, on the floor below the hole through which you dropped to exit the previous level. To either side in this small area are shelves, and ahead the crypt opens out into a wider space.

Ready your Grenade Launcher. Set off towards the area ahead. As you approach, you will hear a sharp hiss and you will see a Spinner lurking in a dark alcove to the right. The Spinner will not come towards you, so blow it up at your leisure. Step out into the central area, where there is a tomb in the middle of a small hub room. There, another Spinner will see you. This one comes scuttling towards you, so try and avoid its acid attacks and fangs. Kill it.

Start straight across the crypt. You will enter another offshoot much like the one in which you started. In this offshoot, you will find that the first bottom shelf on the left contains a Nali Fruit Seed, a Flak Shell and an ASMD Core. Collect the gear. Return to the main crypt and go to the right, arriving at the far end. There, two Spinners will sight you from the corridor with the staircase ahead while two more will come from further offshoots on either side. Kill all four.

Before leaving via the staircase corridor, raid the remaining offshoots. In the offshoot to the left, the back left shelf contains two clusters of 40 Tarydium Shards and a Nali Fruit Seed. The back left shelf of the final offshoot contains two further clisters of 40 Tarydium Shards. Return to the crypt. If you want you can push on the end of the tomb to open it, but it reveals nothing of gaming value. Head instead up the corridor with the steps and enter the area at the far end.

The area you are now in is a main crypt hall with two minor halls on either side. Go past the first minor hall and look down the main hall; a Spinner attacks from the far end. Kill it. Then, enter the far minor hall and kill the Spinner there. Go along the minor hall. Remove vases in the way in an alcove to the left then collect from said alcove a set of Bandages, a box of 50 Bullets and two Flak Shells.

Go to the main hall and along to the arches at the end. Go through the arches into the next small area, where there are four doorways. The door to the right and the two doors ahead each go into small tomb rooms, with a chest in each. Two of said chests reveal a set of Bandages each. When you're done with the chests, go through the fourth doorway, which leads to a staircase upwards. Climb the staircase to enter a small hallway lit by lamp stands. Follow the hallway along and go through a doorway at the far end, and you come out inside a church where a Nali Priest prays by a dead Nali on an altar.

As you approach the altar, a window above shatters and a SkaarjScout leaps in through it, much to the terror of the Nali. Try to kill the Skaarj without harming the Nali - the Nali will still be afraid of you but at least he'll be alive. There's a UMS drop box by the altar. Open it for a pack of 10 Grenades. Then, read a diary the Nali Priest (who has probably scarpered) has left on the altar beside the dead body [1].

When you're done, go to the double doors at the far end of the church and step outside.

You can either go on the rock and jump over the wall to the other side or you can jump on the hay stacks to the other side, there will be a Skaarj to the left of the other side of the hay stacks, or if you go on the large rock you can see him. if you go in the middle of an area of the town near in front of the hay stacks, there will be a Skaarj that will run and jump towards you trying to kill you, after you killed him, the door to the right facing where the Skaarj jumped from the small bridge, will lead to a lever that will open a small garden-like area, it has a UMS crate along with some Nali fruit. This leads up to the top of the wall, jump on the roof, you can get the UMS crate on the roof if you'd like.

Before you go in the building from the bridge entrance, go back to where you got on the top of the wall, jump on the roof with the smoke coming out of it, and jump in the hole on the roof, inside you'll find a few boxes with equipment, some Nali fruit and another book containing message [2], there is a UMS crate inside with a Rocket Launcher take it so you can blow some heads off. Now go back to the place where you got up the roof, and the building to the left on the bridge should have it's door open go inside it, but be careful, there will be Skaarj there. Pull the lever that opens the doors if the bridge the Skaarj jumped from and go to the other building that the bridge connects to, there will be a Skaarj behind the bookshelf, I recommend you use the grenade launcher, shoot it so it ricochets off the wall and towards him, continue onto the next room.

The next room will have Krall playing dice, you should take advantage of this and blow them up, there is nothing useful in the library, afterwards exit the building, there will be a UMS crate outside of it with some health. The lever to the right of the UMS crate and Nali statue opens the door to where you have already been, so turn left and keep going, but get ready for a fight, there will be a Skaarj Trooper waiting for you, after you killed him you can go behind the building near the beginning of the pathway there is Nali fruit behind there, you can also go to the end of the pathway where there is a house with a couple of bandages there for health. There is an odd secret near there, I don't really consider it a secret though, but anyway, there is a destroyed part of a building, you can jump over it by sliding over while jumping, then keep going forward around the building behind the destroyed part, you should see a weird scene, there is a pit-like land formation with a Nali at the bottom, he has knives stuck to his back.

There is no way out after you go over the debris of the house, you should just put 'Fly' (if you have the patch for Return to Na'Pali which I recommend) in your console and go back to the other side of it. Go back and to the right you should see the other side of the destroyed bridge, go to the room on the right of the destroyed bridge, there should be a Skaarj there so be prepared, pull the lever and the other side of the bridge's door will open. Do not fall from the bridge after the door, it'll lead back to where you were, continue forward, but at the end of the bridge turn right and get ready to attack, there will be a Skaarj Trooper waiting to ambush you, afterwards, exit the building. Go to the cave and kill the Skaarj Officer there before continuing on, when you jump down from there, you will go to the next level.

Translator messages

1. "What did we do wrong to anger the gods? First the Nightstalkers, then the huge Thunderbird flew over our valley and seeded fire and destruction. And now those strange boxes are raining from the sky, hitting our houses and killing our people."
2. "I found another one of those strange objects that fell from the sky. I will collect all that I can find and then bring them to the priest. He will know what we are meant to do."

Trivia

There is a secret in the tomb in the middle of the beginning room, facing the exit to the basement there is a small button, and you can press it.

It will open the tomb which shows a weird skull with 'Ocrana' under it, the translator message says "Will you die for this? http://www.ocrana.de" (I guess it's the mapper's site or a sponsor of his, it's in German)