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Beneath a Steel Sky Hints

How can I get into the cathedral?

  • 1 of 14: You'll need to find a way to distract the guard.
  • 2 of 14: Do you remember how Mrs. Piermont said that her dog can't swim?
  • 3 of 14: So make him swim.
  • 4 of 14: You can make a trap for the dog out of items here at ground level.
  • 5 of 14: The bricks, pulley, and rope will help you here.
  • 6 of 14: All you need now is some bait.
  • 7 of 14: You'll find the appropriate item in Mrs. Piermont's apartment.
  • 8 of 14: The dog's biscuits will work.
  • 9 of 14: You just need to tempt the dog away from its bowl first.
  • 10 of 14: Lamb had something that should work here.
  • 11 of 14: Look in his apartment for an item that might attract a dog.
  • 12 of 14: Put the cat videotape in Mrs. Piermont's VCR.  Then you can take the dog's biscuit out of its bowl.
  • 13 of 14: Then put the biscuits on the plank of that brick contraption.
  • 14 of 14: And pull the rope once the dog goes to eat its biscuits.