Key & Compass presents:
Pharaoh
by Gianluca Girelli

• Map
• Walkthrough
• Extras
  • Characters, Credits, Inventory
• Thank You to my Patreon supporters
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Map

Walkthrough

Darkness / Access Corridor West

The sightseeing guide abandoned you and your family inside the Great Pyramid of Giza when the walls started shaking. And did you see a green vortex?

> i. light lighter. x me. x family.

> x garments. x lighter. x vortex.

> e. e.

Underground Chamber

> x wood. burn wood. (You can see much better.)

> turn off lighter. take torch.

> x sarcophagus.

> x niche. search niche.

> push brick. (East exit opens.)

Before heading east, check back with your family.

> w.

Access Corridor East

> x writings. x pyramid. x spheres.

> w.

Access Corridor West

> x hole. listen to hole.

> d —or— enter hole. (no)

> e. e. e. d.

Downward Corridor

> x writings. d.

Intermediate Storage

The tools and the corner are different items!

> x tools. search tools.

> x corner. search corner. (found a crowbar!)

> take crowbar. x it.

> w.

Lower Corridor East

> x drawings. x creatures. x cart.

> w.

Lower Corridor West

> x fresco.

> w.

Burial Chamber

> x hieroglyphs. x tools. x trumpets. x ornaments.

> x statues. x door. x slot.

> x big. (can't open sarcophagus by hand)

> pry big. (with the crowbar)

> look in big. x box. take it.

> open box. (can't)

> break box. x ankh. ("Key of Life")

> put ankh in slot. (The floor collapses and you fall to...)

A Cold Dark Place / Metallic Corridor

> open eyes. x hatch. (too high up)

> e.

Control Room

> e. (no: A force field blocks you, and you see your family on the other side.)

> x family. talk to family. listen to family.

> x lever. (for force field)

> pull lever. (It's not working.)

> x table. x toolbox. open it. x fuse. take it.

> x junction box. open it. (locked)

> x ducts. x symbols.

> look under table. (Key acquired!)

> x key. unlock box with key.

> open box. x black fuse. take it.

> put green fuse in box.

> pull lever. (The field is off.)

> e.

Outside the pyramid

You and your family are reunited, but where are you now?

*** You have won ***

Extras

Characters

• Hal Sterling is the player-character and the father of his family.
• Your family consists of June (the mother), Trace (a teenage boy), Gina (a slightly younger teen girl), and Smith (the youngest son). They're with you at first, but they soon fall through a hole in the floor. You reunite with them at the end of the game. No one is seriously hurt, thankfully.

Mentioned:

• The sightseeing guide abandoned you and your family when the walls started shaking and took all the flashlights with him!
• Two winged creatures are pictured on the drawings in the lower corridor.
• A guardian is represented as a statue in the burial chamber.
• Graverobbers are mentioned as an explanation why there's less bodies and treasure then you'd expect to see.

Also:

• Mummies and pharaohs are conspicuously absent.

Credits

This is the response to CREDITS:

Pharaoh is dedicated to the fans of the good, old TV series of the 1980s.

Acknowlegment goes to the beta crew: Garry Francis, Ruggero Simoncelli and Davide Palombo.

Special thanks go to Graham Nelson, Fredrik Ramsberg, Johan Berntsson and Stefan Vogt.

Inventory

Items are listed in the order acquired in this walkthrough.

• some garments. You're wearing them.
• Ignore your clothes; you will not remove them.
• a lighter. You're carrying it.
• Turn it on to see. Go east twice to the Underground Chamber and burn the wood with your lighter. Turn off the lighter and use the torch for light from now on.
• a torch. In Underground Chamber, burn the pile of wood with your lighter to create the torch.
• Use it for light; turn off your lighter.
• a small sarcophagus. It's in Underground Chamber.
• Ignore the small sarcophagus; you don't need it.
• a crowbar. In Intermediate Storage, search the corner to find the crowbar.
• In the Burial Chamber, pry the big sarcophagus (with the crowbar) to open it.
• a box. It's inside the big sarcophagus in the Burial Chamber; see crowbar.
• Break the box to acquire the ankh that's inside.
• an ankh. It's inside the box; break the box to get it.
• This is the "Key of Life". Put it in the slot of the burial chamber's door. But the floor opens, not the door!
• a green fuse. It's inside the toolbox in the Control Room.
• After taking the black fuse from the junction box, put the green fuse into the junction box in its place. Now the lever works.
• a small metal key. Acquire it by looking under the table in the Control Room.
• Unlock the junction box with the key.
• a black fuse. It's inside the junction box in the Control Room; unlock the junction box with the key.
• It's burnt out. Take it and put the green fuse in the junction box to replace it.

Honorable mention:

• your eyes. They're part of you.
• After your fall from the burial chamber, open your eyes.

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