Legend of Grimrock, level 7 map.

Toorum Note regarding wall and draft

Cleared level 6? Let’s kill some slimes then 😉

You will start level 7 in a corridor with closed blast doors, which are opened with buttons.

Slimes are not hard if you kite them. Just move backwards half second before it launches it bile and shoot or cast a spell. Then advance and use weapons.

There will be half-dozen of them – freely lurking around in the beginning of the level.

The first room in the corridor has 1 mushroom and a tar bead. Open both its doors to use for kiting slimes if they give you hard time. It’s going to be much easier.

Room 2 has two slimes inside already. Deal with them, move the tattered cloak away to find the Toorum note.

Again – Quite cryptic one, but it’s only 4 combinations, and you could have figured it out by yourself:

After you figured it out, get on to the next area:

Maze of Shadows.

It is not hard, you will figure it out quickly. There are 5 torches in the maze, and you can’t drop shadows.

If you go near a torch, you may drop a shadow. That’s the main idea.

You will find a HardStone bracelet, Darkness spell and another Toorum note about Torches.

There will be two slime bells *(a herb) lying around too.

Hardstone bracelet gives more attack power for the trade of speed (you hit harder but slower):

Darkness spell dozes light so you can see where the torches are dropping shadows and find your way around (or just check the minimap above). If the light on the floor is dim – you may probably pass through. If it is bright – don’t.

If you drop shadow, you will be transported back to the beginning of the area.

Take your time in the maze.

In the south part of the maze, you will find huge box with food. On the east wall where the box is – you will find a button which opens a corridor with teleporter and few bombs behind it.

Enter the teleporter, kill the 2 poison mushrooms and loot. (bolts, mole jerky and throwing axes).

Find the rune button inside the secret room and press it. You will get to the frost bombs on the other side of the teleporter and get the 4 bombs. They are usefull (frost bombs).

Enter next area.

Kill the fire elemental. Drop on level 8 secret room from the pit. You will find bracelet of Tirin (good one for archer, you shoot 15% faster):

(The second pit leads to the same room on level 8, but there is nothing. Just teleport back.)

Next, there is a room with a pressure plate.

Save before pressing it. You will release some slimes and they can surround you quickly.

Get back fast. Try to get in the corridor with slimes in front of you and nothing behind you.

You may consider going back to the door and closing it. Then take your stand and take them down one-by-one.

When done with them – get back to collect the iron key, some bug-food and the Diviner’s cloak in the slime room:

When you use the key and advance east, there will be 3 more elemental for brutal slaughter.

Take them down.

[After you advance in this area, your next sleep will be visited by Toorum again. He explains about a machine, which is not guarded and you will use it to break from this dungeon. Just a little further.]

There will be one button near the wall with the socket. Click it and get back so it’s hit by the head, (the portcullis will open) then go back to the button, so you don’t stand in the way of the other head. If you do it right, the pit will also close.

If you don’t like slimes – You will not like the next area 😉 There are half-dozen of them and they will want a piece of you.

Deal with them.

The Blue stone is here, some herbs, Fire Torc (+50 fire resistance amulet):

There are 2 rooms with a small puzzle and 4 fire elementals.

The puzzle is simple.

• Step on the left plate to open the portcullis completely.
• Step on the other plate, so the head fires light bolt …
• … and immediately go back to the left plate which opens the portcullis.
• This way the portcullis stays open for the light bolt to pass and all secret doors will fall.

One of the doors has 4 elementals, and the other has some good stuff:

1. Another Toorum note.
2. Scroll of invisibility.
3. Shaman staff:

In the north room of this area, there are 3 pits and teleporters.

Falling down again.

This room is a bit annoying.

Needs some strafing to get away from the poison bolts, but in the end, you will walk with the Boots of Valor (+15 protection):

Pulling the lever will release some Crabs and spiders, but there is one trick – Use the pressure plates to launch poison bolts towards the spiders and crabs.

It will not kill them, but they will come to you softened a lot and you can finish them.

The teleporter will transport you on the other side of the pits to the next area:

Next area has a corridor with 5 levers and a room with 15 trap doors and a head blowing bolts (every bolt inverts the trap doors’ positions – closed/open).

Levers.

At first – All levers are pointing up.

If you reposition them (from left to right) up-up-down-up-down, behind you will open a secret alcove with an excellent life leaching assassin’s dagger:

The trap doors room has 3 things:

1. The room below has an ogre, but this time you can easily kite him down – there are no spiders to stand in the way. He drops another hammer with low accuracy and there are also kite shield, a herb and an edible mushroom.
2. There is an alcove in the northeast corner of the 15 trap doors room, with a “Brace of fortitude”. You probably already have better, but take it regardless.
3. There is also a button in the Northwest corner of the room which opens the door to the next room. To reach it in time, you need to advance quickly in the room and stand in the way of the bolt, so the trap doors stay closed. The light bolt does not harm you – so you are okay to plan your steps from there.

If you fall down again, there will be a spider waiting for you. Not a biggie at your level.

When you open the door to the next room, 2 fire elementals will come to burn you.

Deal with them.

The west part of this area is with longer corridors (one of them has barely visible rune button).

There is one room with a hydra coming from the basement. Use Advance-hit-and-run tactic. In the alcove behind the hydra there is a -5 accuracy flail and probably a fire elemental will come too for additional chaos.

And lastly a room with 3 trap doors, 3 heads and 3 fire elementals.

Deal with the elementals and open the next room. The stairs to level 8 and an alcove with a skull (Take it if you have “head hunter” trait on your minotaur char).

Go around and you will see the receptacles where the 3 heads will shoot light bolts and an iron door behind them.

This puzzle is NOT EASY 🙂

You need to stand in the way of the bolts.

It starts slow. But then it goes like a machine gun and takes some quick moves. The reward is scroll with an “Enchant Fire Arrow” and Chitin boots:

Enchanted bolts and arrows deal +5 more fire damage. Your mage needs 7 fire skill and to hold the quiver of arrows/bolts in the hand.

[There is a rune button which opens a secret room in the east corridor where the hydra was, but you need to run for it 😉 – It opens another way to level 8. There is an ogre and a fire elemental which will stand in your way, while you try to kite the Ogre.]

But – That’s all you can do in this level for now. Go to level 8 from any of the 2 ways you prefer. The main or the secret.

Legends of Grimrock level 5 map

Level 5: Hallways

You start in a hall full of statues.

There is a light coming from the ceiling, so I suppose there is another secret room in level 4 from which you can fall here. (drop me a message if you know)

2 rooms have levers for opening and third room is accessible from there:

NW room has a scroll of fireshield and 2 bolts.

SE room has a loose brick which opens a wall. Inside the wall there is another button to open a secret room with good +8 evasion cloak.

Inside the 3-rd room is a chest with useful spell (Light). And few ingredients and food.

Having “Light” means – no more torches in hand for you 😉 Also – no more searching for torches.

The iron key is in the 3-rd room also.

You can’t do anything for the cave in (fallen rocks), so open the SW portculis with the iron key.

There is a trapdoor to level 6 with another Toorum scroll :). He claims there is nothing in the room, but in fact, there is Toorum Scroll 😀 … Brain = blown 😉

One of the rooms has 2 alcoves with food and the first Dragon statue. Take the rations.

One of the corridor has barrels and boxes. Nothing inside them.

Go east to find the pit room.

3 buttons control the trap doors.

You need to click them in order – South, Southeast, South, Northwest and then grab the key.

2 flyers will show up from hidden rooms and attack.

One of the flyers mass hits with electricity so kill it quickly.

Toorum note and a herb in the hidden rooms.

(Edit: Thanks to John) In the room below the trap doors. Near the teleporter back is a hidden button which opens a secret door. Fire and Lighning bombs there.

Beware the 2 flyers, one of them breathes lightning too.

The toorum note explains how to enter the room with the lever and 2 button. It is a bit tricky but you will manage (Click buttons in order Right, then Left and then pull the lever down and return up). Conjurer hat, some food and a helm:

Save.

Go to the door with iron lock and open it.

4 flyers. 2 lightning and 2 normal.

Take them down.

In the next room you will find useless +2 cloak and the blue stone.

The Crabs behind the portcullis are strong, so save again. Fight can suck if you try to bruteforce the crab. They fall better if you kite them around, but here – there is simply no space:

Open portcullis and hit hard. If you have some damage over time spell such as poison cloud. Cast it and close the portcullis. 450 experience per kill.

When both crabs are down, explore the next area.

You will find chain greaves (heavy armor).

Near the cave in is a secret room. You can open it from the corridor outside with a small loose brick. (the corridor before the Crab).

West room has a scroll behind the barrels saying

“The gate of iron shall open
if you take your time
and rest in the place
where the dragons gaze.”

You need to find both Dragon statues first, but if you need spoiler, have a look at the map in the beginning of the text. I’ve marked the spot with”X”.

From this hall – There are 2 areas: Chamber of pits and Deserted tunnels.

Chamber of pits.

Chamber Of Pits

Press the button and try to remember how the trap doors in front of you follow the path to the next corridor.

If you fall down, there will be some skeleton fight. 1 pikeman, 2 loose archers and a squad of 4 pikemen. The fight is not fight, but try to kite them around, so you don’t get hit a lot.

Some food and herbs as well as few ice arrows are laying around for taking.

Stairs back to level 5, another bow in the alcove and a lever to open you the way back to the pit room.

The right “Dance” above the pits is:

Press the button.

Start with your back facing the lever.

W-W-N-W-W-S-S-E-E-N-N-W-W-S-S-E-E-S-S-W-W-S

(west-west-north-west-west-etc.)

Have in mind, there is another crab there, so be careful.

Save.

Kill the crab,

Go inside the room and take the key.

Fight another crab, 2 poison mushrooms and one mushroom herder which pour out of the walls and the first ornate key is yours.

Drop something useless in the alcove where the key was, and the wall will open to allow you to go back.

There is another way back with button and lever.

Just reverse your advance back, using the same steps or simply fall down on level 6 and get shortcut.

Now is the time for the secret 😉 :

W-W-N-W-W-(click!)-S-S-E-E-N-N-W-W-S-S-E-E-S-S-E and then turn around… the pit will stay closed.

Bracer of fortitude:

Not a miracle, but will help in the fight ;).

Click the loose brick on the south wall and the pits will make another closing cycle for you to get out (or simply fall down and get back).

Deserted tunnels.

You need to kill some monsters here.

There are a stone and a pressure plate in the first corridor.

There is also a lever.

Need to time your steps to enter in the tunnels.

The lever closes the porticullis, creates a teleport over the pressure plate and opens the wooden door.

If you drop the stone on the plate before this, it will be useless. (teleporter will remove it and depress the plate)

Click the lever, turn around and throw the stone to the pressure plate, turn back and run for the door. If you do it before the clicking ends – you are okay.

“There is not turning back” 🙂 … uh-huh.

Poison mushroom for killing.

One room which can be used as a rest place with chain gauntlets and a herb. Use the chain to close it if you are in need of a rest or there is a crab on the other side. (2 total)

Advance a bit until you hear walls moving and run back to this room.

There will be a mushroom herder, crab and poison cloud mushroom released against you.

Keep exploring and you will find a warhammer (and another crab will be released). Kill the crab either with kiting or hide-and-hit behind the portcullis in the room

There will be another release of herder and poison mushroom near the room where you hide.

Keep killing until there are no more.

Go to the next room and take the second ornate key.

Once you take it, the corridors you were before this will be filled with skeleton pikemen and you need to fight some weaklings.

There is a secret room with a portcullis near the Dragon statue.

It is open by the same lever that opens the door (with clicking sounds).

Just run in the oposite direction this time.

Huntsman cloak, mushroom and fire arrows.

Open the way to level 6 and kill all the skeletons.

Open the iron door by resting in the place where the dragon statues gaze (no, not in fron of where they stand, but on the square of the map, where their gazes actually cross. Not hard to find out (see map, the spot is marked with “X”)).

When you sleep for 10 seconds on the spot, the Iron door will open.

There is lurker vest inside the secret room. Not very good, but without penalty so – it’s up to you if you want to keep it.

This concludes everything you can do on level 5 for now. Descend to level 6.