Not Quite Malduke

When you're good and ready, fly straight into the now-visible Deus Ex Machina.

Enemies in this area:

Name:	HP:	EXP:	Gella:	Halved:	Resistant:	Weakness:	Active:	Absorbed:
Bandersnatch	2300	350	380	NONE	NONE	ALL	NONE	NONE
Jabberwock	1130	184	200	NONE	FIRE	ICE	NONE	NONE
Quox	2260	360	380	WIND	NONE	EARTH, ICE	NONE	NONE
Strategy: Aside from the Jabberwock (which can be easily killed with a Refrigerate arcana), the enemies in Deus Ex can be a little deceitful. Bandersnatch is weak to every element, but that doesn't matter much because he is constantly protected by Reflect! He's also got a load of other nifty statuses on him, so cast Eraser to wipe that stupid face off of his stupid... uh, face, then shoot him in it. Quox, on the other hand, is just like your old buddy Goldrake; once you knock off 3/4 of his HP, he'll take to the sky, and from that point forward, you'll have to use Arcana or the Lock On force ability with Clive to beat him.

Should an emergency arise, you can always leave the dungeon by heading back through the entrance, so keep this in mind! Start by watching the first scene, then proceed through the first room. The next room has an annoying buzzing sound that's being caused by twin laser drones. The laser drones move up and down along the walls of the room, and to pass by, you'll have to bomb either end of the drone. Place the bombs when the drone is moving towards you so that the drone moves into the bomb and pushes it! When you're done with that, walk into the next room. There are white gems here, but you probably don't need them, so toss a Changecrest at the orange block wall to clear a passage to the next room. This room features a REALLY tricky puzzle; there's a large pit we must cross, but the only way to do so is to use the retracting beams coming out of the wall. There are 5 of them, and they come out of the wall very slowly, then retract very quickly. To get across, walk along and position yourself against the wall while standing as close as you can to the edge, and Galecrest across as soon as the middle beam starts to come out. Climb the ladder and hit the switch, then go through the open door. From there, head through another room, destroying the lasers along the way, and ascend the stairs. The next room features a very Metal Gear Solid-esque scene. Proceed through to the next room past the supercomputer, and you'll reach a room with a locked door and a computer terminal. Check it out, then head back to the supercomputer and check that. Maya and her team will stay behind and relay codes to you for opening the door, so head to the terminal and check it out. Mimic the button combination that Maya reads out in the time alloted (it's totally not hard), and the door will slide open. By the way, if you want to use a Name Tag to rename Maya or one of her friends, go and do it now! Up the stairs and through the next room, another puzzle awaits, and this one is maddening! There are 13 floor buttons on the floor, and they ALL must be activated at once! To aid you, there are 3 massive blocks and one small block, but they're all kind of pushed together inconveniently right now! Follow these steps exactly to complete the puzzle. Push the small block north twice, then approach the southernmost block from the north side. Push the southernmost block south 5 times and west once. Go back to the other blocks, and push the northernmost one north once to move it a bit, then approach the other massive block. Push it south 8 times. There are 5 buttons left to cover, so push the small block onto the "lone button", then push the massive block onto the last 4 buttons to open the door! After that, you'd expect an easy puzzle that you could relax and solve. Not likely! This room features 3 Ring Pops that need to be Boomerang'D, but the problem is that one of them is on a conveyor belt that's also filled with boxes (is this an enemy base or a packing plant?!), another one is in the "center" of the belt, and the last is behind the belt! To make matters worse, every time you hit a switch, the belt speeds up! Here's what to do; stand in line with the switch that's hidden behind the belt, and toss the Boomerang straight, but time it so that when it makes the return trip, it will bounce off a box and hit the switch. Next, toss the Boomerang at the stationary switch in the center, then finally nail the one that's moving really fast. That was fun, wasn't it? Head through the next room, destroying the laser drones, then save your game. A boss awaits you in the next room.