Honesty

Deceived by Samhayne and captured by Blackthorn, you've been thrown into a small prison cell in the dungeon of Deceit and all your belongings were lost. Aided by powerful magic, you make your initial escape from your cell. But to get out of the dungeon you will have to see through the tricks of this dungeon and gain yet another tainted Rune.

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• After the movie clips you'll end up standing in a cell, seemingly trapped. A thorough search of the cell reveals nothing. But, if you stare out the cell at the lit torch across the hall for about 10 seconds, you'll see it go out. Turn left and you'll now see the the telltale lines of a secret door in the wall. Click on it to open it and follow the passageway. It'll seem like you're coming to dead ends, but just keep walking forward and the walls will magically disappear. You'll eventually come to a room with a strange Spider Statue.

• This statue is the key to your escape from the prison part of Deceit. Click on it and the room will change color to blue. Go back out to your cell and the door will seem transparent. The spider seems to cause the reality of the dungeon to shift in and out of phase with the rest of the world (fancy talk for saying it allows you to walk through doors and such ;). Walk through your cell door and turn around to click the button that opens the door. It won't appear to have opened, but when you go back and touch the spider again, everything returns to normal, and your cell door is open. Go and do exactly that and return to the area outside your cell.

• Turn right and you'll come to a table with a key on it. Take the key and then turn to your left and you'll see some barrels. On the leftmost barrel you'll find another handy Bag. Be sure and take that with you. If you break these barrels, you'll find some Chainmail Arms. The Wyrmguard ones you might have gotten oh, so long ago are actually better, so keep them on if you have them. Back in the cell across from you are some yellow potions. Since you don't have your inventory anymore, I highly recommend taking these. If you break the barrels outside that cell, you'll find a Chainmail Coif. Take it if you haven't gotten one already.

• The wooden door is only unlocked when reality is solid, but there's a closed cell door on the other side. Run back to the Spider and shift reality again so the room is blue. The key you got off the table will unlock the wooden door when it's transparent and you can then walk right through the cell door. Turn around and push the green button to open the cell. Run back to the Spider, touch it to turn the room red, and run back. Look to the left and look for the telltale signs of a secret door. Click there to exit the prison area.
  

• You'll enter a room with a brazier in the middle. Touch it to cause a green ball to rise and the room will alternate from red to green to normal light. When the room is green, the opposite door can be opened. DO NOT TOUCH THE CHEST!!! It's a Mimic and you're in no shape to challenge one of these. The button on the wall just lights the torches in the room.

• Follow the passage until it comes to a "T" branch. To the right is a room with buttons on different pedestals. The blue button makes a yellow potion appear on top of it. The red button shows you a vision of a magical path over some lava in another room. The green button makes a skeleton appear. It is possible to kill this skeleton with just your bare hands. The key to permanently defeating skeletons is to take one piece of their broken body with you and drop it a good distance away from the rest of them. This keeps them from pulling themselves back together for another attack. Take the Cutlass that appears floating above the button and use the yellow potion to heal yourself.

• Go back down the hall and follow the other path around to a lava filled room. Follow the path shown to you by the red button in the above mentioned room to get to the platform on the right side of the room. There are two buttons on this wall. Press the blue button on the left to make a path appear up out of the lava to your left. Run across it and it'll fall back into the lava. Get on the floating platform and ride across to another stone platform. Watch out for the fireballs coming from the statue that you passed on your ride over. The platform will return to its starting position, but don't worry about it. On this wall you'll see a whole bunch of buttons. You have to press the correct one (see picture below) to make a staircase appear behind you. The correct one is the second one from the left in the second row (blue). Climb up the stairs and press the purple button on the wall. This will cause a floating platform to appear that takes you back to the stone platform you first walked to.
  

• This time press the purple button on the right to make another floating platform appear to your right. Get on it and ride across the lava to the other side of the room. When you step off it, the platform will return to its starting place. Turn and face the wall for another button puzzle.

• There are five buttons on the wall here. From left to right, they control the statue there like this (also see picture below): Major Turn Clockwise, Minor Turn Clockwise, Shoot, Minor Turn Counterclockwise, Major Turn Counterclockwise. Turn the statue Counterclockwise (blue buttons) to make it face the sun-face that's on the staircase you rose before. Press the red button to shoot a magic ball at it and the force-field will disappear from the teleport in the middle of the room.
  

• Turn the statue around so it's facing the sun-face on the opposite wall. Shoot at it to bring the floating platform back to you. Ride back and press the blue button again to raise the platform and get back to the staircase again.
  

• Call the platform from the top of the stairs again and hop on. This time, you've got to be quick and press the green button on the side of the center platform as you pass it. This will cause the platform to divert its path and drop you off at the center platform. Grab the potion if you need it and step on the teleporter. You'll be taken to an extremely large, lava-filled room.
  

• Follow the lifted path around to the right and you'll see the Glyph. Or is it? It'll disappear as you get close to it. This dungeon certainly lives up to its name, and this won't be the first time. Press the button on the pedestal where the Glyph was and the tilted stone on the other side of the path will fall into place, giving you access to the other side.

• Jump onto the small platform with the table and crystal ball. Touch the crystal ball for a clue on how to solve the next puzzle. The buttons on the table move the sun-face around. You have to move it into position so the statue across the way will shoot and hit it. This will most likely take several trips back and forth to get it right. Just touch the large statue to make it fire. Watch the fireballs that shoot alternatingly from the twin statues. There's a trick to running back to the other side and not getting hit from behind. Take small steps towards the path leading back and the fireball will shoot right by you as long as you didn't get too close. Run behind that fireball and you should make it to the other end before another one fires along that same path. You cannot outrun these fireballs if they fire too close behind you. When you finally hit the sun-face, a floating platform will appear.
  

• Hope onto the new platform and take a ride over the lava. You'll be taken to a stone plateau with a teleporter. Step on it and you'll be taken to small room. Drop down and kill the spider. In a few seconds a Bow will appear floating above the table. Touch the small statue in the one corner to make a bunch of arrows appear. Looking in the mirror closest to the table heals you. Looking into the other makes a fireball shoot at you. Equip your bow and shoot at the sun-face to make a staircase appear. Climb up and stand on the pressure-plate to make another sun-face appear. Shoot it also and a wooden plank path will appear across the gap. It disappears quickly, so run across fast and teleport back to the lava room.
  

• Ride back and look for the sun-face across the lava path. Shoot it with your new bow and arrow to make another path extend. BE CAREFUL as it doesn't extend all the way. You have to jump to get on it. Turn the valve to lower the lava level throughout the room permanently. Go back to where you first teleported into this room and drop down onto the now accessible plateaus. Touch the crystal ball for another hint on how to progress. Ride the gold platform back up to the stone bridge path. Make your way to the opposite end of the room and drop down here. You'll see a new alcove available. Make your way back there and step on the teleporter. Touching the crystal ball back there gives you a disturbing vision of some farm animals walking around on the roof of a throne room.
  

• Both the chests in this room are Mimics. You're really not a good match for them at the moment, but you can attempt to kill them. The goal of this room is to stand on the fancy looking floor and shoot a moving sun-face on the opposite wall. It's trickier than it looks, but with persistence, you'll hit it. Try to lead it a bit with your shots. A successful hit will make the Blue Orb appear on the pedestal in the corner. Take it and go back to the lava room. Pick any one of the pedestals with the three golden claws on top and place the orb on it. It doesn't matter where you put them. A piece of a stone bridge will appear.

• Work your way back to the corner where the twin, fire-shooting statues are. You'll notice a stone obelisk sticking up out of the lava. Touch it and the lava will recede for a few seconds. You'll see a chest in the corner. Quickly open it and take the Red Orb. When you hear the loud beep, that means you have about 1 second to get back up on some higher ground before the lava rushes back in. Place the orb on another claw pedestal and more bridge will appear.
  

• Take the gold floating platform back to the the where the teleporter was where you got the Bow. This time, look around in the lava around the plateau for one of the obelisks. Touch it and make your way to the other teleporter. This takes you to another small room where you've got to use your bow skills to proceed. The chest contains two yellow potions. Pressing the button on the center pedestal makes a sun-face appear on the wall. You have to shoot the sun-faces within a certain amount of time as they appear all around you on all walls. If you fail, you'll have to start over again. Your final shot will appear as a gray target near the larger corner pedestal. Success gives you the Green Orb. Teleport back.

• It may look like your trapped, but of course you're not. Touch the obelisk to lower the lava and run back down the corridor and you'll see a safe spot to hop up to. And, low and behold, there's a spot for your newly attained Orb. There's another obelisk nearby that'll let you run back to the main area.

• Hit the obelisk near the Orb Holder that's down close to the lava in the main area. Run down the hallway in the direction that the new bridges have been appearing when you correctly place the orbs. Jump up on the plateau down there and step on the teleporter back in the corner. You'll be taken to a small maze-like room. I've drawn a picture of it below. Press the button above the pedestal and you'll have to run around the maze and shoot the sun-faces. You only have a few seconds to get to the next one before it disappears. Success will get you the Yellow Orb. The chest contains a Full Heal Scroll. There is also a War Hammer sitting in the corner near the pedestal. Return to the lava room and place the final orb in the holder. The last bridge will appear. Use the obelisk back here to lower the lava and run back to the main area. Get back up on the stone walkway and make your way down the newly completed path to the large teleport.
  

• You're teleported to a very large, lava filled room. If you look around you'll see the Column. Facing the column, turn right and walk in that direction. You'll watch a cut-scene where another Wyrmguard sics her pet Hellhound on you. If you got the War Hammer, this hellhound is a piece of cake (real ones later are a bit harder). With it defeated, some stones will rise up out of the lava to give you access to the Wyrmguard's area. When you get there, she will triple herself. Although it's not obvious at all, this Wyrmguard is actually one of your friends whose been turned by the Guardian. It's Mariah. When they attacks, ONLY KILL THE WYRMGUARD THAT HAVE A WEAPON!!! They are the doubles. The real one has no weapons in her hands (she casts spells), and if you want a valuable reward later, DO NOT KILL HER!! When one is down, a floating platform will eventually appear along one of the edges. Just run around until it appears, dodging the attacks. Ride it to the Column and get the Glyph of Deceit. Get back on the platform and you'll be taken to a teleporter.

• The teleporter takes you back into a stone hallway. If you press the button, the stones behind you will disappear. This leads back to the beginning of the dungeon, but you won't be needing to go back there. Head down the hallway and you'll be taken outside to Moonglow...