~Fade To Black

A mixture of tips taken from the Internet.  These are in no 
particular order.


~Oracle

To get to the oracle you need to follow the same fields on the 
floor as in on the floor below before the elevator. There's a 
cross like thing, then a circle, then another shape, and 
finally a filled circle - well close to it.

Enter the oracle room on the right cross field and walk right. 
So now you're on the second symbol in the sequence. Once the 
sequence ends, start with the next cross.

After you pleased the oracle with some dino-bird you'll get 
another code to help activate the pyramid. The whole trip I 
think looks somehow like this:

`               Elevator
`               |
`               DD  Door
`              21
`            143
`            2341
`               2
`               3=Oracle activates



~Level 4


>I finally stumbled across the death-trap upper bridge on Level IV, 
>but can't get any further.  On the other side I get a nice view 
>of some jelly-fish-like venusian colonies.  On the left there's a 
>room with some mostly useless lockers, and on the right there's a 
>room with a bench in front of it, but I can't open the door and 
>get into the room.   I have accumulated keys to "upper bridge" 
>and "command room" but they don't seem to open anything.  Can you 
>provide any advice here?  Thanks.

I can give you a partial answer, but I'm also stuck on Level 4 
wandering around wondering what to do  :)

After crossing the bridge of death, be sure to shoot the control 
panel next to the weird head thing in the glass tube inside the 
room just on the other side of the bridge.  After shooting the 
panel the head will be freed and become your friend.  What good 
this does,  have no clue, but hey, its something you may not 
have tried.        (Chad Solomon csolomon@ucsd.edu)



~What after bridge?

I actually managed to cross the bridge my first time using blind 
luck (and a ton of saved games).  In my opinion this part of the 
game is a major drag, but the rest of the game is so cool that 
its worth it.

The proper way to cross the bridge is to get the secret energy field 
detector (or whatever its called...I've been stuck on this Level 
without having played the game for several weeks).  This gizmo will 
display the hidden land mines on the bridge so you can avoid them 
(in theory anyway) ;)

I believe I remember the object being located in the end of the 
rooms that you can teleport to using the teleporter device on this 
level....It should be in a locker in about the final room you end 
up in before having to turn around and teleport back to the main 
part of the level.



~Purple Level

>I'm stuck on the purple level. I crossed the upper bridge and 
>entered the room behind it, there is something in it blocked by 
>red energy bars. I can then go back from there, because the door 
>I entered through won t open again.  There is a neighbour room 
>with two morphs and two cupboards. I cleared the morphs AND the 
>cupboards, but didn t find anything of interest.

>Can anybody help me ??


It turns out you have to shoot the control panel to the right of 
the caged head, who, it turns out, has some good advice for you.



~More ? (Not to sure if these are for Fade To Black or no?)

Look at the sequence of the morphs in the bird room.
Go out of this room into the long room with the golem
in it. Leave by the door at the other end. In here you will 
see a golem fighting two or three morphs.
On one of the walls you will see a sequence of morphs these 
can be altered.

Adjoining the basin room is a small room containing a golem
lure him into a beam by stepping on one of the pressure pads
(button by basin turns them on) you will get something for 
your troubles.

Doing these things will give you more info on the other 
question. If you still have bother, mail me.