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Expert: Meg Darling - 10/29/2008


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Myst III - Exile (Lava Room) - I can get the lava to enter the room after I move the red handle, but when I step forward to turn on the fan, there is nothing there.  I have clicked around inside the circle on the column in front of me, but nothing happens.  I step back and scan up to look at the fan, but it is not coming on.  It is very dark and I don't see the red dot or circle that I am supposed to find.  Is it in the middle of the circle on the column, down near the bottom?  Once I locate it, do I just click on it - what's the story?  Help!

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Try this...

Drop down into the lava control chamber.  Go down the short ladder in the middle of this chamber and look through the small round window in the door to see the red molten lava.  Return to the top and look out the window to see a fan in the upper right and some gears.  In front of the window is a wheel with a red knob.   Turn around and open the door behind you.  It is the one that leads to the red and blue tunnels.  Return to the knob and move it counter clockwise to lower a walkway below that fan and drain the lava out of that room.  (To move the red knob grab the red ball, move the little grasping hand about 1/4 way around and then release.  Your little hand may not be able to stay on that red knob but it doesn't matter.  After you release your grasp the handle will move.)  Go down the ladder and look through that little round window on the door.  All the lava is gone now, so open the door and enter that room.  Go up the ramp and you will see another similar wheel with a red knob below the fan.  Move the knob clockwise.  Move the knob through the center to the left.   Move the knob counter clockwise.   

Go forward and pull the fan switch.   Go back to turn the red knob clockwise again to lower the walkway.  Now you can see the fan moving.  Slide the red knob to the right, move the red knob counter clockwise and finally move the red knob back to the left.  Leave this room and go up the ladder to the top level.  Move this red knob counter clockwise.   

Hope this helps.

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I can help with most Adventure games from small hints to complete walkthroughs. I`ve finished/beat all the popular games including Myst, Riven, and the Gabriel Knight series without help. New games are added to my list often. **Sorry, I am not a computer expert, so technical advice is rarely given. Please visit the manufacturer`s web-site for tech support.**

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Here are some of the games I've played: the 7th Guest, 11th Hour, Adventure at the Chateau d'Or, Amber: Journey's Beyond, Albert Hitchcok's Final Cut, Amerzone, Arthur's Knights: Tales of Chivalry, Arthur's Knights II: the Secret of Merlin, Atlantis: the Lost Tales, Aura: Fate of the Ages, Beyond Atlantis I and II, Beyond Time, Black Dahlia, Black Mirror, Blackstone Chronicles, Blade Runner, Broken Sword: the Sleeping Dragon, Byzantine: the Betrayal, the Cameron Files: Pharoah's Curse, the Cameron Files: Secret at Loch Ness, Clue Chronicles: Fatal Illusion, Cold Case Files; the Crystal Key, CSI, CSI: Dark Motives, CSI Miami, Dark Fall I and II, Dracula Resurrection, Dracula: the Last Sanctuary, Egypt 1156 BC: Tomb of the Pharaoh, Forever Worlds, the Forgotten... It Begins, Frankenstein: Through the Eyes of the Monster, Gabriel Knight I, II, and III, In Cold Blood, Inherent Evil: the Haunted Hotel, Jack the Ripper, Jazz & Faust, the Journeyman Project III: Legacy of Time, Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis, Law & Order I, II, III, & IV, Lightbringer (AKA Cydonia), Lighthouse, the Longest Journey I and II (Dreamfall), Martian Gothic Unification, Messenger, Missing since January (aka In Memoriam), Monkey Island I, II, III and IV, Mummy: Tomb of the Pharaoh, Messenger, Myst, Myst III: Exile, Myst IV Revelation, Mysterious Journey: Schizm, the Mystery of the Nautilus, Nancy Drew series; Necronomicon, Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy, Omega Stone (ROTS2), Phantasmagoria I and II, Post Mortem, Quest for Karma (AKA Karma: Curse of the 12 Caves), Reah, realMyst, Return to Zork, Riddle of the Sphinx, Ring, Riven: the Sequel to Myst, Safecracker, Sanitarium, Seven (aka Faust), Shivers I and II, Still Life, Syberia I & II, Timelapse, Titanic: Adventure Out of Time, Traitor's Gate, the X-Files, Zork Grand Inquisitor, and Zork Nemesis.

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