Mission 3: Framed

For the benefit of those playing on expert difficulty, this Walk-through will show you how to get through this mission without harming anyone. If you're playing on a lower difficulty, make sure you stay within the knock out limits for the skill level. With this Walk-through, though, your knock out tally will be zero.

Before the mission, stock up on water and moss arrows; stealth will be you most important strategy.

Although there are no loot objectives in this mission, this Walk-through will point out some otherwise unnecessary areas that contain loot. You may want to ignore them, though; any loot you gain in this mission will be useless, for reasons that will become clear when it's over.

Entering the Station
The main entrance to the station is very well guarded. Too well guarded, in fact. You must find an alternate entrance. First, though, let's get some loot.

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The easy way into Shoalsgate Station.
From where you begin, go straight ahead to the wooden door. Use the lockpicks to open it. Go inside and take the bottle from behind the bar. Now, exit the bar. Walk over to the locked metal door near the starting point. Use the lockpicks to open it and enter the utilities room.

There's a valve on a large tank. Turn it, then jump in. Follow the underwater passages, surfacing for air when you can. You'll come to a room with a drain at the bottom. Open the drain like you would any door, and swim down. Again, follow the passages, surfacing when you can. At one point, you'll reach a room that seems like a dead end. It isn't. Turn around, and you'll see two passages next to each other. Take the one on the left.

You'll emerge in a large cavern with a few spiders. Get out of the water and kill them. There are some flares here, if you need them. There are two passages out of this cavern. One leads to a series of rooms that contain some useful story information. It's not necessary to see any of it, but it is fascinating. Follow the passage until it dead ends, then turn the torch on the wall to open a secret passage. Explore the rooms - there's an interrogation room, a morgue, and a laboratory. There's also a stairway up to the first floor, but it's not the best way in. Return to the cavern instead.

From the cavern, follow the passage that leads over a series of wooden bridges. If you explore the water below, you'll find some useful stuff: a few water arrows and a statue. Follow the passage to the dead end. Turn the torch to open a passage.

Next: The walk-through (cont.)


 
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