[Doug]

I got Abe's Oddyssee from a bargain bin about 3 years ago, and it's been sitting in a box since then because it wouldn't run on my computer. My 5-year old CD-ROM drive finally crapped out, and when I replaced it, dang it if Abe didn't load up and run just fine!

I have just started playing and getting a feel for the techniques needed to get past sligs, etc. I also have a detailed walkthrough (I believe it's the Sinjin walkthrough mentioned in one of the topics.)

Anyway, I am completely stuck in what that walkthrough labels as Secret Area B. It is very early in the factory, and you have to blow up the landmines in the right pit to get to this area. There are two Muds and a grinder above and one below, and a lever below with which to alternate speeds of the grinders. I can free the Mudokons there, but when I am finished, I can't get back up again, because the hoist-up point on the platform I originally drop in on is over a gap between two lower platforms. I can't figure out how to reach it. I tried chanting down below to go through the warp-gate, but as soon as I stop chanting the gate disappears.

I noticed that the walkthrough description of the very beginning of this area doesn't match what I'm seeing, although the rest does. The w/t says after freeing the Muds just "return to the surface," but I can't figure out how.

Thanks for any help you're able to give me.