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Map of Gibbet
The Gibbet is one of the maps accessed from Hub 4: Castle of Grief (map). This is almost like a sub-hub in itself. From here, you can access Hub 4: Effluvium and Hub 4: Dungeons.
Walkthrough
The level itself is a central room connected with an underground library, dungeon, balcony, throne room, and hypostyle hall (where the headless statue of Yorick lies). Beforehand, the player needs to have acquired two books, the Liber Obsura and the Daemon Codex, from Hub 4: Forsaken Outpost.
First visit
From the entrance, head South to a stair going down to a small corridor with two bookshelves. The first gives access to a small room and the dungeon part of this level (not accessible yet). The second one opens to the library. The two bookshelf's open in different directions, so beware to not get crushed. In the library, go to the Eastern bookshelf of the central row and place the two books in the empty book slots, thereby unearthing Yorick's Skull (roughly in the middle of the library).
Go now to the hypostyle hall, East from the central room. Placing the skull on the shoulders of the headless statue creates a chain reaction that obliterates the floor all around the player (leaving only an alleyway to the room's exit) and lowers the pond in the central room, granting entrance to the Effluvium level.
Second visit
Once you come back from Effluvium with the Dungeon key, go to the South corridor again and pass through the first bookshelf. You will enter into a small room with some Slaughtaurs containing:
- A Slaughtaur in a cage. Killing it will open the wall next to the cage, granting access to a storage room.
- A bed with a Crystal Vital. It's actually a crusher trap.
- A platform with Dragonskin Bracers and a switch (see below).
- A bookshelf, lowering a lift to more Slaughtaurs and items.
- The dungeon door, leading to Ettins and a blocked path.
Activating the switch will open the path in the dungeon, as well as lowering the platform into a killing pit. To not fall, go as close as possible to the switch before activating it, then simply jump over it.
Once you're done with the monsters and the switch, go to the dungeon and take the new path to a triangular room with Dark Bishops and another switch. Activating it will lower stairs in the storage room, giving access to the Dungeons level portal.
Bugs
There is a script on this map that requires a very specific condition to activate that the player can accidently render impossible to meet. The script must activate to allow further progress in the game.
In the room behind the Axe Door is a throne that four Chaos Serpents will teleport on to. The aforementioned script checks every few seconds that exactly three remain and lowers walls when the condition is met. However, it is possible for the player to reduce their number below three in those few seconds. In this case the script will never activate and the player will become permanently stuck.
This bug was fixed in the version of the script included in the Version 1.1 WADfile.