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Half-Life: Blue Shift Hints
Chumtoad's Lair
1 of 11: This is a weird little secret area that you can access via the watery room.
2 of 11: You're going to have to dive all the way to the bottom of the deep pool to find the entrance to the lair.
3 of 11: After standing in the healing pool and saving your game, face the deep pool from on the healing pool.
4 of 11: Move forward into the deep pool and lean on the C key to reach the bottom at maximum speed.
5 of 11: Have the crowbar readied and the flashlight on.
6 of 11: As soon as you hit the bottom, you'll need to turn to the left and quickly whack the rock wall with the crack in it until it crumbles.
7 of 11: If you have trouble finding the cracked rock wall, try using the Cheat Codes to make yourself invincible so you can explore around the pool bottom at your leisure. Then, when you've found it, restore your save and try it again the fair way.
8 of 11: Once through the rock wall, hurry on down a short underwater tunnel, bash a vine-covered hole, and swim upward quick! You should make it with just a little health to spare (mine is usually in the twenties).
9 of 11: As your health slowly recovers, look around the lair. There are three chirpy Chumtoads sitting around, but they aren't useful (and will soon teleport away).
10 of 11: What is useful are the two snark packs that are sitting near one of the Chumtoad perches. Pick them up for use against the marines in the next chapter.
11 of 11: Save your game, then reenter the watery tunnel and make your way back to the surface of the watery room's pool by leaning on the V key to swim up.
