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Myst V: End of Ages Hints
How can I get up to the roof of Esher's lab?
1 of 10: Go to the upper level and explore some of the drawings there.
2 of 10: One of them shows that the ladder covering the hatch can be folded down.
3 of 10: But there doesn't seem to be anything inside the lab that would move that ladder.
4 of 10: Esher did ask you to seal the refuge so you could climb.
5 of 10: The doors in the passageway outside would be one way of sealing the refuge.
6 of 10: That means you will need to go back outside the hut (via the passageway through the rock, and up the ladder) to lock the doors again. Make sure you have a way back in, though.
7 of 10: There was a pedestal for your slate just as you entered the lab.
8 of 10: When you put your slate on the pedestal, you'll notice that the corresponding symbol (a box with a "T" on top) will light up on the main pedestal inside the "soap bubble" at the start of the age. (When you lit up these symbols on the main pedestals in other ages, you may have had the Bahro transport the slates for you first and then followed, but it works equally well if you drop a slate on the pedestal yourself the first time.)
9 of 10: So what you need to do is make sure to put your slate on the pedestal inside the lab. Then walk outside the lab, go back to the grassy plateau outside the lab, and set the combination that unlocked the door to anything other than the correct one -- for example, by rotating any of the controls one turn to the right.
10 of 10: Now, you can press the symbol for the lab (that box with a "T") on the main pedestal and teleport back into the lab. Keep climbing up, on top of the cage near the roof, and you'll find that the ladder is now within reach. That will let you get on top of the roof.
