Aldwych - Three Timed Doors and Second Solomon's Key (part 1)

This sequence is also shown in a short video.

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Once you press the right button, you have about 15 seconds to make it through the farthest (i.e., rightmost) timed door before it closes. Immediately roll...

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...make a tight turn to the right...

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...and run up the hallway to the room with the doors. Use sprint on the straight-aways but release it for more control as you round the corners, first to the right...


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....then a U-turn to the left.

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Run around the left side of the pool. (It is possible to run through the shallow corner of the pool or jump over it, but more often than not you end up falling in. So you may just want to avoid it.)

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Then sprint straight on past the middle door and release Sprint as you veer into the farthest door.

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Once you manage to get inside the first room, press the button...

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...to open a trapdoor in the middle room. (You can see it through the grate opposite the button.) Slide down the chute...

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...and follow the corridor back to the buttons, picking up some flares on the way.

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