Obduction
From the creators of the Myst games
2018: Walkthrough by: Dick Leeuw and : Louis Koot
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Chapter 4: Kaptar part 1
Through the switch machine in Hunrath you have landed in Kaptar and probably this is on a different planet than where Hunrath is. You are also here at a switch machine. Turn around and continue to the metal bridge
In front of the bridge is a lever ..... stay away from it. Walk up the bridge to the middle and then go down the stairs to the left.
You see a wheel on the center piece, turn that wheel around completely
If you look up, you will see a few blades turning. Go back up the stairs and on the other side of the platform you will see a lever, pull this lever to the right once.
The bridge turns and on the other side you can now get off the bridge. At that end of the bridge you see a red handle on a gray pole of the bridge,
Stand straight in front of the gray pole and then pull the red handle to the right so that the gray pole lies flat. If you don't do this now the bridge can not turn in a later part
Walk down the bridge and onto the rock platform, on the left you will see a staircase down. Go down and follow the path over narrow ridges, wooden planks and ......
..... stairs, through a cave, past a big anchor and ...
.... eventually you end up on a plateau with ruins and if you continue to see all kinds of large machines inside, everything stands still.
You also see a red laser beam, and just like in Hunrath you have to destroy it. You also see that there is also the same tree as in Hunrath.
Walk up the stairs in the direction of the red laser,
Continue along the ledge in the direction of the red beam
You will then see a strange sphere of a rock, which stands for the laser. Walk towards the rocky sphere and go in. You will see that there is another switch machine in the sphere,
Pull the lever and then press the button. You see a yellow light circle and you are being transported back to
Hunrath:
Destroy the red laser in Kaptar
You end up in the niche of house A in Hunrath. The niche was blocked then but now it's open and the rocks are gone. The switch machine has been transported with you and it is now in this niche
Go out through the front door and look for the rail cart with the blue laser. If all goes well, it is still in front of the gate at the mine, at L8 on the Hunrath map, where you left it
Get in the rail car and drive backwards to the blocked mine tunnel, via the cross in the rails.
Just before the blocked mine stop the rail car and get out.
Then walk to the switch and turn this switch to the right rail.
Walk back to the railcar, get back in and continue backwards to the blocked mine. Then drive further ahead, over the right rail to house A, You drive the car now with the blue laser forwards
On the left side of house A is the entrance a mine tunnel. That mine tunnel was previously blocked by a huge round stone, behind house A, but because you have switch from Kaptar that round stone has now disappeared. Drive the cart, slowly and with the blue laser in front, forwards into the mine ... it is dark in the mine, but you have some light ........ This mine goes round and on the other side the corridor opens again into the valley. Drive through the tunnel until you are behind the niche of House A....then stop the rail car but don't get of the rail car. Left and right you will see a rectangular hole in the walls.
Stop the rail cart at these rectangular holes ....... You are behind house A and through the right hole you see the switch machine, in the niche of the house, and you can now activate it from the rail cart.
So pull the lever of the switch machine to the left and then press the blue button and .........
You get transported back to Kaptar with the railcar and with this piece of the mine tunnel ...........
Look through the hole in the left wall and you will see the red laser from Kaptar and you have to destroy it with the blue laser of the rail cart.
Drive the rail cart backwards so that you can destroy the red laser with your blue laser.
You can't see the red laser beam through the hole in the wall then, so you must aim the blue laser at the red laser by looking at the screen of the rail car.
Activate the blue laser of the rail car and click on the green lever. You can now only see the red laser on the rail cart screen. So look at the screen and use the WASD buttons to navigate the blue laser to the red laser and ......when the blue laser touches the red laser (the red laser machine, not the red beam ) then the red laser will be destroyed.
Look at the sky again, through the hole in the left wall, you can see the sky changing. You can now also go through the transition wall in Kaptar.
In the right hole stand the switch machine. Drive a bit forward and then use the switch machine to return to Hunrath.
Back in the mine at Hunrath drive the rail car backwards out of the mine tunnel .......
WARNING.....Don't drive the rail car forwards out of the mine tunnel because then you can not use the railcar later on and then you can not continue playing the game because you then can't drive with the rail car
So don't be stupid and arrogant and drive the rail car now BACKWARDS out of the tunnel and park it somewhere on the rail in front of house A.
Get out of the cart and go back in to House A and go to the switch machine in the niche, use it again to return to Kaptar
Back in Kaptar:
You arrive back, with the switch machine, in the rocky sphere. Go out the sphere and then follow the route back to where you first came onto this big platform
Just to the left of it you will find a staircase, go up this stairs until you reach another plateau.
Turn around and go up the next stairs and turn around again and climb up the last stairs.
Upstairs you see large chains. Walk through and then to the left and to the end
Go down the stairs and walk all the way down to the back. Ignore the stairs in the floor because it goes down to the wide metal gutter .... Here you come up again later.
Walk backwards along the drive belt and you will enter a room with a large fan. There is a "lookout tower" in front of the enormous fan.
The huge fan is stationary but it must be activated. You can walk up the steps to be on that "lookout tower" but first you have to activate the big fan blades. Go behind that "lookout tower". You have to go down a few floors. On the 1st of the floors you will find a turning wheel, you can turn it here but it does not stay in place...this wheel will turns back, you have to do something else first.
Walk further down to the lowest floor where you will find a lever and a turning wheel.
Move the lever to the left ...... this will lower a shaft with a gear, Then turn the turning wheel and the machine will start to rotate. If you look down for a moment, you will see 4 large blades turning now. Go up again 1 floor, to the other turning wheel and turn it on, now it works and you see that the crank shaft is turning. Go upstairs and go up the stairs of the "lookout tower"
You see that the rods of the crankshaft are not yet coupled. Click on the viewing hole. Click in the peephole and you turn right, you see the connecting rod that is not linked back and forth. Look at the edge of the peephole, you see 4 half rounds and at the top right you see a lever. If you stand on the lever with your left mouse button pressed, you will see that you can do 3 things with this. You can pus it to the right, down and diagonally to the middle. Now look through the hole to the connecting rod and if it is close to the coupling then pull the lever diagonally to the middle. The rod is now coupled.
Then pull the lever to the left and also connect this rod, downwards and also connect this rod. Finally pull the lever to the right and also connect the last rod, you now have power in Kaptar
Zoom out and go down the stairs, turn left and follow the path.
You come to a metal walkway with a lift cage at the end, step into the cage and pull the handle on the right.
The elevator cage takes you down. Get out and ................you're back at the switch machine you came here with. Walk to the bridge and pull the big lever and the bridge turns towards you.
Walk to the middle and pull the handle to the right twice.
The bridge now turn straight to the rock wall, witch is an transition wall. Walk to the wall and go through it. This is now possible because you have destroyed the Kaptar red laser
When you are through you are in an other part of Kaptar and you see a staircase on the left, at the top
of that staircase you see a machine.
Go up the stairs and you see a metal staircase. Go up and step on the platform you see there.
You are now standing on the trolley of a tram / chain conveyor, on the right you see a lever. Move the lever to the other side and the trolley will take to the other side.
If you look down on the way, you can see a large bucket hanging on the chain, you saw this bucket that big metal gutter.
When the trolley has stopped then step off and go down on the right side via a metal staircase and walkway.
You arrive back at the square in front of the ruins, walk diagonally to the right. Just before the rock / gorge a stone staircase goes down to a rock ledge path below.
Go down the stone stairs and then follow the rocky ledge ...... you go under a metal jetty and then up a wooden path.
When you are up you then enter the chain conveyor in the large metal gutter.
Walk through the gutter to the back. There is a staircase on the left side. Go upstairs and you will arrive in the middle of the ruins.
Walk a bit ahead and then turn left and go up the stairs you see there.
At the top you go right and at the end you see a wooden path going up. Go up this path and climb up. You enter a gap where you see large skeletons against the walls. Follow the path to the right, under the skeleton.
You come to a rock wall where you no longer find a path, walk to the wall and go through it.
On the other side you will find a staircase, go on it. Follow the path to the right and you will reach a narrow stone staircase.
Go up this staircase, you come to a platform. Here you see a staircase on the right and you find a hallway straight ahead. Walk in there and there you see a switch machine (M).
Use the switch machine and you will enter a completely different area or planet again.........You are in:
Maray:
This is just a short visit to Maray and you are here now to open up the first door here
Turn around and........ on the edge you will find a machine as you saw it in the garage of Hunrath, a Villein number machine. On the left, in the gorge, you see a closed door.
You can not reach that door now, but you can open that door now here. If you go closer to the Villein machine, it will open.
This Villein machine has fewer options than the one in the garage of Hunrath. Make the last connection from the middle bubble to the right bubble and then press the blue button and ........
........you see that the closed door dissolves and that door is now an open gate
Opening that door is the only thing you have to do here and you had to do it here because you can't do it anywhere else and this spot is only accessible from Kaptar.
Use the switch machine again to return to Kaptar.
Back in Kaptar:
Go back to Hunrath:
You are back in Kaptar and you now have to get to the newly opened gate in Maray. T
o get to Maray you first have to go back to Hunrath because there is the switch machine with which you have to transport yourself to Maray.
You are back in the hall where you used the switch machine to go Maray and back again. Exit the hall and go up the stairs.
At the top of the stairs you come to a platform with a golden statue. Turn around and you will see 2 staircases. On the right a staircase goes down and on the left a staircase goes up.
Go up the stairs to the left and then follow the path to a triangle gate. Go through the triangle gate and you will see another tram / chain conveyor.
Walk down the stone stairs and then up the metal stairs to the trolley. In the tram you pull the lever forward and the tram goes to the other side.
You end up at the large fan that you previously have activated. Go down the metal staircase to the left and follow the metal path until you reach a T-junction.
Go down here and turn the handle and .......
............ the ladder, that stand up, now goes down.
Turn around and go up again and follow the path to left and you are now in an elevator again
Pull the lever in the elevator and it takes you down. When the elevator stops, get out and walk to the wooden staircase and up the wooden staircase. Upstairs you see that you are in a cave a switch machine (N).
Via the stairs at the switch machine you can go higher, do that and take a look around. You see 2 niches in the wall. You can not reach one of the niches, but the other can be reached via a wooden staircase, but if you go there you arrive at a locked door. You have to turn this entire wooden platform 180 degrees to reach the other niche via the double wooden staircase, but for that you have to go back to Hunrath. Go back down to the switch machine and use the switch machine and ....... You and the whole wooden platform and the switch machine are transported to
Hunrath:
So you are back in Hunrath and you are in the concrete Sphere at the train depot .... only ..... The concrete sphere is now the wooden construction from the Kaptar cave and you have brought the Switch machine with you. Turn around, walk down the stairs and follow the metal path to the front and then walk down the plank
Follow the path until you are under the sphere at the stone pillars and go stand at the pillar with the button
If you press the button, the sphere rotates 45 degrees . After 8 rotation the
sphere has made a completely round.
You must rotate the sphere 180 degrees now, so that means that you have to press the button 4 times now. So press the button 4 times now
Then go back up and back in the sphere and use the switch machine again to return to the cave in Kaptar.
Kaptar:
Back in the cave you see that the whole structure is now turned 180 degrees because the double staircase now stands for that other niche.
So climb up and there you see the door again but you can open it now. Click on the latch and it slides up, push the door open and enter the corridor.
Follow the tunnel and keep to the right, a little further you go to the left. You come to a staircase, go down and on the other side of the hall you go up the stairs.
At the top of the stairs you turn to the right. You are back at the wooden path that leads to the skeleton gorge.
Go up there and follow the path through the skeleton gorge to the wall, go through it again and follow the path until you get back to the golden statue.
Now take stairs down and at the bottom you will find a switch machine (B).
Use the switch machine ...... You end up in a tunnel in Hunrath:
Hunrath:
Turn around and walk to the bedroom. This is Farley's bedroom because you are here in the rocks behind the Farley house. You can view everything here. There are a few books from Myst on a table. All objects here from the "Backers", the people who participated in the Kick starter campaign and thus contributed to the game with their money support. If you have watched everything, walk past the switch machine and continue through the tunnel until you reach a door...... open the door and ......... you are at the back entrance of Farley's house.
Turn around and click again on the door to open it again ...... the door will close the
tunnel again but you can now go outside via the back door of Farley's house. Do that and then walk under the stone arch again and then via the stone staircase path to the right and jump again through the
purple wall
On the other side of the transition wall go to the left, to the dam Do not go over the dam but walk into the mine again and dive through the transition wall in the mine
On the other side at L4 on the map, you go up to the path that goes to the mayor's house.
After a short stretch you see a metal wall on the right, just before that you go right. There you also see a part of a sphere.
Walk past that sphere and turn around, in the middle there is a switch machine (A)
Pull the handle and press the button and........
.... you will end up in Maray.
2017: Original Dutch Walkthrough by: Dick Leeuw
2018: This English translation, screenshots and lay-out by: Louis Koot