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What do I do in this huge watery room with the bridge?
  • 1 of 15: Find the ladder and climb down to the bridge.
  • 2 of 15: Can't quite cross it, can you?
  • 3 of 15: Notice the little blue-white statues on each bridge piece.
  • 4 of 15: The first one's of a Skeleton, the next a Zombie, then a Lich, and finally a Banshee.
  • 5 of 15: Have you found anything referring to those four creatures?
  • 6 of 15: There's a scroll stuck to the wall to the left of the big archway that leads to the bridge area.
  • 7 of 15: Use it to pick it up, then double-click on it in inventory to read it.
  • 8 of 15: It mentions those four monsters several times and prints their names in all-caps.
  • 9 of 15: Hey, maybe that's the order in which you need to use the monster statues to solve the bridge puzzle.
  • 10 of 15: As it so happens, it is.
  • 11 of 15: So climb down and use the Skeleton statue to start things off.
  • 12 of 15: Then swim over to where you can get to the Banshee statue and use it.
  • 13 of 15: Then it's the Lich, the Zombie, the Banshee again, the Lich again, the Zombie again, and finally the Skeleton again.
  • 14 of 15: Now you can walk all the way across the bridge and through the newly opened door. Just keep walking to get to the next region.
  • 15 of 15: NOTE: The Terror statue at the top of the ladder is just for resetting the bridge puzzle if you mess up and want to restart it.