Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure Hints

How do I gain entry to the lab?

  • 1 of 12: After you open the trapdoor in the library --
  • 2 of 12: -- you find a doorway guarded by a hologram of a morlock. Approach, and you'll find that ... well, holograms are people too, right?
  • 3 of 12: I don't quite understand the physics of this, but Tex says he can short him out, so let's try it. What the heck.
  • 4 of 12: The process here will be to flood the area with water, then turn on the power. The water level is controlled by the blue tubes to your right.
  • 5 of 12: What you want to do is get all the levels as high as possible, and the red valves under each tube adjust the water level --
  • 6 of 12: -- but it's not a one-to-one relationship, as you'll discover when you start messing with them; each valve affects the water level in several tubes.
  • 7 of 12: You can do this yourself -- map out which valves affect which tubes and like that --
  • 8 of 12: -- but here's what worked for me:
  • 9 of 12: Once the cellar is flooded, flip the switch on the power box to the left to get rid of the hologram --
  • 10 of 12: -- then turn it off again so you can walk across the floor. Go over to the large red valve by the door and turn it to turn off the water.
  • 11 of 12: Now go back and turn the power back on so you can use the card reader by the door.
  • 12 of 12: Oh, and you need a security card. Sorry.