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 are in a small garden outside the church. Looking back at the church, you will see two barrels and an exit from the garden. Shoot the barrels open for two clusters of 40 Tarydium Shards, then go through the exit from the garden. You come out in another garden area where a Manta swoops towards you from the right. Kill it, then go into its corner for a Nali Healing Fruit. When you're done, return to the dirt path through the garden and follow it down towards the houses.

The way is blocked in that area by a stack of hay bales. You can get past the blockage by jumping up the slanting hay bale. If you have trouble with that, you can go to a rock further along to the left and use it to jump over the garden wall, but you'll land right in front of a Skaarj.

Once over the bales, there are various ways to go. A grass path leads you to the right, while there's a small village square ahead and a pathed path to the left. First, go down the paved path. The path shortly turns a corner to the right into an open area guarded by a SkaarjWarrior. Kill the Skaarj. Here, you will see that the open area is blocked by a collapsed wooden bridge between two buildings. Turn around and return to the junction. Go to the right at the junction, past the hay bales, and onto the grassy path. Follow the path, collecting a Nali Healing Fruit on the way if you need it, until you reach a doorway to a small courtyard on the left. You will find that it is blocked by bars.

Go to the far end of the footpath. You come out on a paved lakeside path. Ahead, the water stretches off a little way into the dark, with a long jetty running parallel to the footpath. Go along the path to the right. You will find a doorway back into one of the buildings (some kind of barn) is also blocked by bars. A grassy area at the end of the path reveals nothing, so take a dip into the lake. Go to the back of the lake - beware two strong Devilfish lurking in the shadows - and open a UMS drop box you find there for a Combat Assault Rifle. Collect the CAR then swim to the jetty and climb out. Go along to the end of the jetty near the grassy area you entered the water from to find steps back up to the waterside path.

Follow the footpath along, past the end of the grassy path you entered this area by, and you will find a covered footpath that leads into the village square you passed earlier. If necessary first take a detour to grab a Nali Healing Fruit from the end of the waterside path, then enter the village square.

As you enter the village square, doors open on a balcony to the right and a Nali runs out with a cry of fear. It jumps down and runs across the square, hotly pursued by an angry SkaarjScout, and opens the door of a small house, taking refuge inside. Intercept the Skaarj with your Flak Cannon. When the Skaarj is dead, the Nali will summon you.

Enter the house and follow the Nali's gesticulation. He points you into a room with a lever and a window out to the small area you saw blocked off by barse earlier. Press the lever and the bars open. Leave the Nali's house and go round to the left. You will be back at the junction by the hay bales. Follow round once again to the grassy path, and enter the now open area. It's a small yard with a hay cart on which there is a UMS drop box, a Nali Healing Fruit and a slanting ladder. Open the drop box for a 50 bullet CAR Clip, then climb the ladder. You arrive on a balcony above the waterfront footpath.

Go to the left along the balcony. You will find a door into the building from which the Nali fled. Kill the SkaarjWarrior lurking within but don't go inside yet. If you go to the other end of the balcony, you will find another door into the barn which is locked. Go to half way along the balcony. You will see that you can walk along the top of a dividing wall and climb steps to get on to the roof of the Nali's house. Do so. From there, you will see a UMS drop box on the roof of the building from which the Nali fled, but don't go up there yet.

Jump across from the roof of the Nali's house on to the roof of the barn. On top of the roof, you will find a large hole leading inside which you can drop through. Watch out for a nasty Giant Manta prowling around up here.

Go inside the barn and go down to ground level. There, a Nali lies dead on the floor with his diary nearby, between two UMS drop boxes [2].

Open the two drop boxes. It's a bit of a treasure trove from your point of view - you will find a box of 10 Rockets (Rocket Launcher ammo) and a useful Rocket Launcher. I would advise that you steer clear of using it for the confined spaces of the village though. Once you have collected the gear, press a lever in the corner to remove the bars from the exit. Go outside and find the ladder back up onto the balcony. Climb it and return to the roof of the Nali's house. This time, hop up on to the roof of the building from which the Nali fled. Open the UMS drop box up there to collect the 50 bullet CAR Clip it reveals. Go to the far end of this level of the roof.

At the end, go down the slope of the roof towards the lake (don't fall off). Look along to the left when you reach the bottom snd you will see that a narrow section of roof continues along-side the wall of the taller part of the building. Follow this section of the roof to the end; there, you will see a cave entrance in the cliff. Hop through the entrance, follow the short cave, and drop down the hole at the far end.

You are in the underground Nali hideout referred to by a diary in the previous map. There, three Nali and a Nali Priest pace around the cave and pray, while another Nali meditates by four further Nali who are sleeping. Collect a set of Bandages from by the beds, then go to a table at one side of the cave which has on it three Bandages and a diary [3].

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."
3. ""Two more died last week. Luckily we got them out through the cave without the Nightstalkers taking notice. We're low on food again..."

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)