Walkthrough:Spy Room (Uru)/1

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The Spy Room linking book is hidden in an alcove on Teledahn. In order to get there, you need to finish most (preferably, all) of Teledahn's Uru Prime storyline. You should be familiar with the slave caves and the gates close to them, and with how to use them. If you aren't, definitely consider finishing Teledahn first. For the remainder of this article, it will be assumed that you have.

The gates behind the slave caves operate in such a manner that only either the front ones or the back ones are open at a time. Opening one closes the other, and vice versa — though some more experienced explorers manage to slip through closing gates just in time, this can be quite trial-and-error. By opening the front ones (through adding weight to the appropriate plates to match the switches' positions), you can get to the switches, toggle one, then open the back ones. This is the typical way to further journey cloths.

However, the alcove, too, opens and closes simultaneously with the gates — namely:

• If the front gates are open and the back gates closed, the alcove is open
• If the back gates are open and the front gates closed, the alcove is closed.

The visible outline of the closed alcove.

Even when closed, you can see the outline of the alcove when walking past it: past the back gates, on the left side, you should be able to make out something slightly inset and rectangular.

The trick is, then, to get to this point even when the door right next to it is closed. There are several ways to do it (and, thanks to the switches, quite many actual combinations), and we'll only cover one here.

If the last journey cloth you set is towards the end (i.e., further into the Age than the slave caves and alcove), skip the following set of instructions. If not, make it so it is:

1. Go to Relto's library and pick the Teledahn linking book
2. Touch the normal Teledahn linking panel, arriving at the hut
3. Open the trapdoor and start descending
4. Follow the pipe and exit at its opening
5. Go through the slave caves
6. Set the plates to open the front gates and go through
7. Flip a switch in between and go through the back gates
8. Walk past the drawbridge
9. Touch one of the journey cloths all the way back there.

Now, with the proper journey cloth setting:

1. Go to Relto's library and pick the Teledahn linking book
2. Touch the normal Teledahn linking panel, arriving at the hut
3. Open the trapdoor and start descending
4. Follow the pipe and exit at its opening
5. Go through the slave caves
6. Set the plates to open the front gates

A peek through the Teledahn slave cave gates, revealing the open Spy Room alcove.

Now, go through and take a peek through the closed back gates: if you look closely, you should be able to make out that, indeed, the alcove is, at last, open and accessible. How do we get there, though?

1. Go to Relto's library and pick the Teledahn linking book
2. Touch the journey cloth inside the book (not the normal linking panel!), arriving somewhere behind the caves, i.e. "on the other side"
3. Walk back, past the drawbridge, into the caves

A close-up to the Spy Room alcove's contents. Note that in Uru: To D'ni, these are slightly different.

Congratulations, you're done: if you followed the instructions correctly, the alcove should now be to the right (since you came from the other side) and, most importantly, open, waiting for you to take a closer look!

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