Transcripts
LOCATION: (Start of Game) (Optional) (In Game) Training
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(After learning how to walk and run.)
Lara: The exit's up there, but how am I going to get to it? (Lara finds a button.) Lara: It looks as if I need to shoot that, but it's rather low... (She uses a lever to help her reach the door.) Lara: At last - a way to reach the exit. |
LOCATION: (Start of Game) (In Game) Tibet - Mountain's Edge
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(A message appears at the start of the level.)
In Game Message: Following a second request by her anonymous employer, Lara Croft has travelled to Tibet. Somewhere within this ancient monastery she must recover a vase containing Cinnabar, a substance used in the creation of life-affirming tinctures. Lara: The bridge across the ravine, leading to the monastery has perished, but I have discovered some passages down through the mountain side. It seems I have no other choice... |
LOCATION: (In Game) Tibet - Into the Catacombs
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(A message appears at the start of the level.)
In Game Message: Lara continues descending towards the valley floor. (Lara introduces a move that wasn't taught in the training level.) Lara: I can descend high walls if there are hand-holds to grab on to. |
LOCATION: (In Game) Tibet - Into the Catacombs
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(Lara finds a treasure on the ground.)
Lara: A pile of ancient coins. Quite a treasure to find so early in my adventure... |
LOCATION: (In Game) Tibet - Spirits Awaken
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(A message appears at the start of the level.)
In Game Message: As Lara travels down through the chambers hewn into the mountain side her mind seems to dwell on thought of evil spirits. |
LOCATION: (In Game) Tibet - Spirits Awaken
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(Lara manages to climb higher into the monastery.)
Lara: The local peasants warned me that evil spirits have been awoken here, but surely that's just folklore... |
LOCATION: (In Game) Tibet - Spirits Awaken
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(Lara picks up an item that had been hidden under a movable wall.)
Lara: This must have been hidden for a reason. I am going to have to research this... |
LOCATION: (In Game) Tibet - The Barrier
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(A message appears at the start of the level.)
In Game Message: Lara discovers a series of chambers that have been deliberately sealed with crude but strong stonework, then painted with Sanskrit prayers. |
LOCATION: (In Game) Tibet - Cave of Mandarava
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(A message appears at the start of the level.)
In Game Message: The tunnels open into a vast natural cavern, with platforms and rooms straddling the wide rock ridges. |
LOCATION: (In Game) Tibet - Cave of Mandarava
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(Lara finds a bell.)
Lara: A bell. What a strange thing to find just laying about... |
LOCATION: (In Game) Tibet - Mandala Grotto
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(A message appears at the start of the level.)
In Game Message: Lara's path leads her to another great cavern, this one largely unworked since its original formation. |
LOCATION: (In Game) Tibet - Mandala Grotto
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(Lara finds another bell.)
Lara: Another bell, but this time made of copper... |
LOCATION: (In Game) Tibet - Padmesambhava's Well
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(A message appears at the start of the level.)
In Game Message: Lara reaches the mouth of an ancient shaft that seems to connect the twin caves back to the mountain's honeycomb of passages. |
LOCATION: (In Game) Tibet - Padmesambhava's Well
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(Lara finds a bell.)
Lara: A golden bell now! These can't just have been left here by mistake... |
LOCATION: (In Game) Tibet - The Buddha Shrine
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(A message appears at the start of the level.)
In Game Message: In the heart of the caves, tantalisingly close to the cliff face and open air, Lara enters a richly ornamented temple complex. |
LOCATION: (In Game) Tibet - The Buddha Shrone
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(Lara discovers some Buddha statues.)
Lara: I knew those bells would be needed somewhere! I hope I have enough to sanctify all of these statues... |
LOCATION: (In Game) Tibet - The Buddha Shrone
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(Lara finds a stone tablet.)
Lara: This looks similar to some of the writing I saw in the Osiris Codex... |
LOCATION: (In Game) Tibet - The Fragile Road
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(A message appears at the start of the level.)
In Game Message: The catacombs behind her, Lara steels herself for the daunting ascent into the monastery outbuildings that jut from the sheer rockface. |
LOCATION: (In Game) Tibet - The Winter Hall
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(A message appears at the start of the level.)
In Game Message: Lara's footfalls echo through the empty and deserted corridors of this ancient library. |
LOCATION: (In Game) Tibet - The Winter Hall
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(Lara has just entered the Winter Hall.)
Lara: Well, it looks now that I've made it out of the catacombs and into the monastery itself that I'm going to have to be on the lookout for the monks themselves as well... |
LOCATION: (In Game) Tibet - The Summer Hall
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(A message appears at the start of the level.)
In Game Message: This open meditation hall was built to face the summer sunrise - but abandoned, it is almost lost in shadows. |
LOCATION: (In Game) Tibet - The Summer Hall
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(Lara finds an item.)
Lara: This gemstone seems to have runes carved into it. Maybe the Osiris Codex will translate them... |
LOCATION: (In Game) Tibet - Chapel Tower
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(A message appears at the start of the level.)
In Game Message: The stone tower overlooking the monastery grounds also provides access to the upper quarters and, Lara hopes, her prize. |
LOCATION: (In Game) Tibet - Monastery Heart
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(A message appears at the start of the level.)
In Game Message: Though desolate, the monastery's assembly hall and four grand chambers still hint at their former glory. |
LOCATION: (In Game) Tibet - Monastery Heart
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(Lara discovers an item.)
Lara: This looks like a fragment of a wall mural. Very unusual... |
LOCATION: (In Game) Tibet - Summit Labyrinth
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(A message appears at the start of the level.)
In Game Message: Lara is surprised to find the monastery's final overlook takes the form of a narrow, disorientating maze, twisting to the very summit of the mountain. |
LOCATION: (In Game) Tibet - Summit Labyrinth
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(Lara looks forward.)
Lara: Well, I can see the exit, but I can't get to it from here... |
LOCATION: (In Game) Tibet - The Roof of the World
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(A message appears at the start of the level.)
In Game Message: Lara emerges underneath the simple shrine at the mountain's peak, the first in centuries to step into this hallowed place. |
LOCATION: (In Game) Tibet - The Roof of the World
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(Lara finds the Urn full of Cinnabar.)
Lara: This is it. But while I've got the amber to thank for preserving the Cinnabar, there's no way I can carry it back. I'll need to break it open somehow... |
LOCATION: (In Game) Tibet - The Roof of the World
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(Lara uses fire to melt the amber containing the urn.)
Lara: At last! The Cinnabar! Now to get out of here. |
LOCATION: (End of Game)
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(A message appears on the screen with a render of Lara.)
Message: Lara returns to England with the Cinnabar safe. What could her mysterious employer want with this rare substance, as well as The Osiris Codex? Determined not to remain in the dark any longer, Lara decides to find her employer in person and discover the truth. Follow the adventure in episode 3, Tomb Raider: Elixir of Life, coming soon... |