Invisiclues Hints for Lockout

These hints are currently work-in-progress, based on feedback from beta testers.

How do I turn off the red, flashing light?

1. There is a button to do that.
2. It is located in the vicinity of the port consoles.
3. X CONSOLES. X ORANGE BUTTON. PUSH ORANGE BUTTON.

How do I get the door open?

1. First you need to turn off the red, flashing light.
2. Then you have three goals you can pursue in parallel:
3. (a) Get power to the door conrol circuit.
4. (b) Figure out how to program the door control circuit to manual mode.
5. (c) Learn how to open the door once it is in manual mode.

Where is the door control circuit?

1. Under the door maintenance panel.
2. (once you have a screwdriver) OPEN PANEL.

How do I take off the door maintenance panel?

1. If you try opening it, you notice it is screwed on.
2. Thus, you need a screwdriver.
3. There is a place where "tools and equipment" are stored.
4. The screwdriver is in the round hatch.
5. (once the round hatch is open) GET SCREWDRIVER. OPEN PANEL.

How do I open the round hatch?

1. If you examine it, you'll find the wheel.
2. If you try to turn the wheel, you'll note you're too weak.
3. You'd like more leverage, somehow.
4. There is something wrong with the railing.
5. Can we use the loose piece of railing for leverage?
6. X RAILING. GET LOOSE. PUT PIPE IN WHEEL. TURN WHEEL.

How do I get the door control circuit powered?

1. Examine it to learn about the slot for reserve battery power.
2. You need to find a battery.
3. What about that bulky torch you're carrying?
4. OPEN TORCH. GET BATTERY. PUT BATTERY IN CIRCUIT.

What do I do with the door maintenance controls?

1. Use the keypad to program the door control circuit.
2. Examine the keypad to learn how it is used.
3. You want the number code that sets the door to manual mode.
4. You can find that number code in a help page in the integrated control system. See the question "How do I know which help page to look at?" for how to figure this out on your own.
5. CODE 438.

How do I know which help page to look at?

1. Read the logs.
2. The logs point to a particular training exercise with a door problem similar to yours.
3. There are many training notes to be found in the room.
4. Look in the vicinity of the desk to find training notes.
5. You might not want to read all training notes, but only the relevant one, as referenced by the logs.
6. READ LOGS. G. G. G. SEARCH DESK. X DESK.
7. READ TRAINING NOTES 27.
8. KEY IN HELP 79.

What is the integrated control system?

1. It is the computer controlling many systems onboard.
2. You inteface with it using the keyboard and smaller screen.
3. In this game, you only need to use it to look up one help page.

What do the throttles do?

1. Nothing!
2. But feel free to play with them.
3. If the smaller screen shows ENGINE PERF it changes a little when you push the throttles.

What happens after you initiate the diving sequence?

1. Oh no. You found the one way to die in this game.
2. It's mainly there to discourage blindly keying in commands from training notes.