Level 20: Mountain Fortress of Thorstadt

Summary: What a Quiet Little Village…
Level Time: 8 minutes

Watch the opening cinematic in which you mug a guard and get a change of clothes – whew! You smelled bad!

Go forward to the end of the courtyard, then left and out to your right. Move toward the bridge, killing the DARK VIKINGS. Smash through the ice on the right side of the bridge, and swim through for a TRIAL PIT MACE, to the other ice hole for a RUNE OF LESSER POWER and a RUSTY MACE, then swim back to the bridge and past the wheelbarrow to get some DELICIOUS FRUIT. Get on the bridge and face the wheelbarrow. Get on the left ledge of the bridge, and jump up to the sloped roof ahead, then jump to the opening over the door on the right, through and jump down into the room. Make a left; go up the stairs, right, and left. Smash through the wood door on your left for some MEAD, then forward and smash the breakable floor. Drop down through the hole in the floor, go to the next hole in the floor, and drop down into the sewers.

Turn around, go left, right, right again to passage with rope up. Kill the GOBLIN, climb the rope, and jump from the rope to the room. Smash the door ahead, exit, and kill the DARK VIKINGS. Go forward to the end of the courtyard, left, smash the door, enter room, climb rope, go past barrels, smash door, out and left to courtyard, and kill the DARK VIKING. There’s MEAD in the building on the left. Go forward along the street, then down the street to your left, past the wheelbarrows, to find a ROMAN SWORD, METAL SHIELD, FRUIT, and LIZARD on the right. Continue to the end of this street, turn right, and smash the door ahead to trigger an axe-throwing cinematic. Exit and return to the street with wheelbarrows, kill the DARK VIKINGS, pick up anything you need. Go forward to the intersection. On your left will be an open door; go in to get a THROWING AXE, METAL SHIELD, and MEAD, then return to the intersection. Turn left, ignore the DARK VIKINGS fighting with each other, and go up to entrance of building on your right. Kill the DARK VIKING there, go in, and climb the rope to the platform above. Do a Quick Save at this point. Now, go to the ledge with the stacked boxes, and knock down the boxes to kill the DARK VIKINGS below. Jump down into the courtyard and throw the switch on your left to open the door to the right of the switch. Kill the DARK VIKING that comes through the door.

Turn around and move to the door ahead and to your left in the courtyard. If the door is open, cool, go through the door and ignore this next part – otherwise, you have run into a glitch in the version of this map included in the golden master and 1st commercial edition of Rune. You have two choices to work around the glicth: (1) download the latest official Rune patch (at this writing, version 1.01) from any of the Rune fan sites, install it, and re-load your Quick Save game; (2) use cheat codes to get through the door.

If you decide to use cheat codes to pass the door, press the tilde (~) key to make a new window appear. Then type CheatPlease and press enter, then type Ghost and press enter, then press tilde again. Ragnar should be swimming in mid-air. Swim through the door, press tilde, type Walk, press tilde again, and move toward the door to trigger the DARK VIKINGS inside the building.

Once you’re through the door (whether you had to download, cheat, or just go through it), kill the DARK VIKINGS that attack you. Pick up the VIKING AXE. Then go forward, up the ramp, around to the left past the shields, smash the door on the left side of the alcove ahead, go down the stairs, right, left, and diagonally left out into the courtyard with the village rune stones. Kill any GOBLINS and DARK VIKINGS; get the RUNE OF LESSER POWER on the platform. Follow the wall around to the left until you near the other end of the courtyard. On your right will be a monument with a statue and a switch; pull the switch, then go around to the other side of the monument and pull the second switch to open the doors in the alcove at the end of the courtyard. Go to your left and up the platforms for another RUNE OF LESSER POWER. Kill any new GOBLINS and DARK VIKINGS, then go through the right-hand door and down the corridor to reach a sealed off passage. Smash the stones sealing the passage to end the level.

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