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Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure Hints
How do I open the trapdoor in the library?
1 of 12: If you move the rug in front of the fireplace in the library (take the left door off the front hallway and go through to the opposite door to find the library), you'll discover a large trapdoor. Ooo, we gotta get in there. But how?
2 of 12: Did you notice the three brass globes here? There are two downstairs and one upstairs, and they can be turned.
3 of 12: Turn them so the arrows in the middle all point to the center of the room, and the trapdoor opens --
4 of 12: -- well, halfway, anyway. Go look at it to see what's wrong.
5 of 12: A panel has popped open on the left wall to reveal some gears, one of them smoking. Pull off the panel, and Tex says he needs a screwdriver to remove it.
6 of 12: Use screwdriver to remove the broken cog -- and now you need to fix it, like a blacksmith. That is, you need to heat it up, then use a hammer to reshape it.
7 of 12: Pick up a pile of firewood from outside the shed --
8 of 12: -- and a book of matches from inside the regular globe (not one of the brass ones) in the library. Use the wood on the empty fireplace in the library, then the matches on the wood, and you've got a fire. But --
9 of 12: -- if you try to use the cog on the fire, Tex says he needs to be able to get it out again. That means a pair of tongs --
10 of 12: -- which you can find next to the fireplace in the bedroom upstairs. Combine cog and tongs in your inventory, and now use them on the fire.
11 of 12: Now all you need is a hammer. Another hammer, that is, since you no longer have the one you used to build the ladder (d'oh!). And you can find one in the locked cabinet here in the library.
