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Zork Nemesis Hints
How do I open the safe?
1 of 21: In case you haven't found it, the safe is the item that you can take out of the freezer in the room with the severed heads.
2 of 21: Put the safe in the box on the left side of the machine next to the safe. Then, when you go for a close-up view of the safe, you'll be able to look at its top. That's where you'll find the dial.
3 of 21: So now you need to look for the combination.
4 of 21: Part of the machine is an x-ray device.
5 of 21: If you pull the lever to the right of the little box, you'll turn the x-ray on. Go to another close-up of the safe, and you'll see two numbers.
6 of 21: Those two numbers are part of the combination.
7 of 21: Someone else can give you the rest of the combination. WARNING: the sequence of puzzles that you need to solve to get the combination is somewhat gruesome. If you want to avoid this sequence, read to the end of these hints for the answer. You do not need to solve any of the intermediate puzzles -- all you need is the combination itself.
8 of 21: There aren't any live people around here, but that's okay.
9 of 21: Maybe a dead one could help you.
10 of 21: Go down to the morgue in the basement. If you look through the drawers, you'll eventually find one that contains a body.
11 of 21: In case you hadn't noticed, Sartorius seems to have an obsession with severed heads.
12 of 21: So maybe you need to decapitate this body.
13 of 21: There's a machine in the basement made to do just that.
14 of 21: All you need to do is put the body in the machine's box (along the wall directly opposite from the elevator), and pull the levers on the control panel in the middle of the room. The game only lets you pull one lever at any given time -- click on the levers in order from left to right.
15 of 21: Then, go back to the machine itself, and you'll find the severed head in a bucket.
16 of 21: Now, it's time to make the head talk.
17 of 21: There was an unused spike on the table full of severed heads. Put this head on that spike.
18 of 21: You can make the head talk by pressing the buttons under the head. One of the buttons will make it say something about "36-24-36".
19 of 21: You have the entire combination now.
20 of 21: The "20-18" part of the combination was on the right side of the safe, so those two numbers are probably the last.
21 of 21: The combination is 36-24-36-20-18. Just click on the numbers on the dial to enter that.
