Hi All
I have gone through the walkthrough and didn't find an answer to my problem. If anyone out there has played Shivers, maybe you can help me. I cannot get the panel in the wall, next to the fountain, open. From reading the walkthrough, I'm sure my last inventory piece, that I need, before I can go further, is in there.
Has anyone else had this problem or know how to get the panel to open?
Thanx

It's been a long time since I've played this, but it may be hard for someone to answer you, because all the pieces you need to pick up are random. Meaning they are not in the same place all the time. Sorry I couldn't help.

Have you checked this walkthrough? See if you missed doing something.

Thanx for the response. I understand about the random placement; but I have all the other pieces, except for the one in the generator; which the walkthrough says I can't get until last. This is the only place the walkthrough mentions that I have not gotten into. It doesn't say how to open it, just that there is an inventory piece in there. There doesn't seem to be a puzzle or anything and the panel on the other side just opens when you click on it. Anyway thanx again for the response.

Nice walkthrough Mag. Wish I had that one when I played a decade ago.

Hi, anderbauche!

The panel beside the fountain opens from the other side. Did you enter the Breathing Room and go down the chute because that's how you get the lid or pot that you're missing? Once you have captured 9 Ixupis and have the 10th completed vessel in your inventory, go to the Generator Room and face the last (and most dangerous) Ixupi.

Good luck!

Susan

Thanks, Susie.

MaG
Thanx for the response. The walkthrough on here is almost the same, except it doesn't mention the toilet or eagles nest as inventory locations. I checked those and found nothing. I did notice the one you suggested doesn't mention the panel next to the fountain; but I did check all the locations it lists. I'll keep looking; something must trigger the opening of that panel. Thanx again.
Anderbauche

Hi, anderbauche!

You need to set all of the skulls correctly and solve all of the fortune teller riddles. If you follow the clues, they will lead you to the chute and the final pot or lid. Did you already capture 9 Ixupis and have a pot or lid in your inventory?

Susan

Susie
Thanx for the response. I have been to the "breathing" room. The trap door has no handle and the round stone is still recessed. Says I need to release the guillotine first, so I can go down the slide, to get the last inventory piece. I have to have 9 ixupi before I can work the guillotine. I can't find the top to the crystals pot, to do this. I also can't get the fuse box open, which is where I thought the piece might be, along with page 17 of the book. Thanx again.

Hi, anderbauche!

Have you solved all of the fortune teller riddles yet? I think one of them refers to the missing page 17 and, you're correct, it is inside the fuse box. After you've read about page 17 in the fortune teller riddles, you should be able to open the fuse box.

The pots and lids are scattered randomly throughout the museum, and their locations change from game to game. You mentioned in your original post that you found a walkthru. Does it contain the locations where the pots and lids may be? If so, unfortunately, you'll have to check them all for that elusive crystal lid. Once you have that, try the guillotine puzzle again.

Susan

Thanks for your help, Susie.

Susan
I still have not found the top for the 9th pot. The walkthrough on gameboomers, did not mention the eagles nest, but MaG's did so I went there but there was nothing in the nest. Can they move this top from place to place while I'm searching? I've been to every hiding spot I know of (24 of them)at least 3 times in the last 24 hours. The way I understand it the panel beneath the fuse box and the trap door in the breathing room and the guillotine won't work until I have 9 ixupi. Thanx

Hi, anderbauche!

The pots and lids are scattered randomly throughout the museum at the beginning of each game, and they will not move before you locate them. However, if you complete your vessel and fail to capture the respective Ixupi, your pot and lid will be rehidden (probably in different locations) and you'll have to find them all over again. Are you sure your elusive lid isn't already in your inventory? If not, all I can suggest is that you recheck the 24 locations again because it's hidden in one of them.

Did you answer all of the fortune teller's riddles, because the fuse box won't open until you've read the reference to page 17 and you can't solve the guillotine puzzle until the riddle tells you to. Once you've solved that puzzle, the trap door in the Breathing Room will open and you'll get your final pot or lid.

Good luck!

Susan

Hi Susan
I can only have one item in inventory and right now that's the bottom for crystal; the bottom for lightning is in the ox and I can't find either top.
I have read the third riddle on the back of the blue coffin; but when I go down to the generator room the panel under the fuse box is still closed; so I can't get the fourth riddle. I believe I have to have 9 ixupi caught before that panel will open.
I screwed up once with the wax pot and lid; I got mixed up and thought it was for crystal and at that point the ixupi took the pot and lid, I found the bottom in the same place; but not the top.
I find it odd that I never found anything in the eagles nest; I didn't even know about that place until MaG's walkthrough. Maybe this game has a glitch. I'm getting tempted to delete and start all over.
I'll try all the places one more time and see what happens.
Thanx

anderbauche,

I haven't played this game, just want to wish you .

Hi, anderbauche!

I wouldn't start all over again because you're too close to the end.

I believe there are 24 possible hiding places for 20 pots and lids, so 4 of them will always be empty. In your particular game, the eagle's nest was left empty but, since the placement is random, if you decide to play again, you may find a pot or lid there.

Yes, you are only allowed to carry 1 pot or lid in your inventory, so if you are already carrying the pot for the crystal Ixupi, you won't have room for the lid when you find it. Why don't you hide it in a spot close to the main lobby and search again for the top. Did you hang the man because there is a pot or lid underneath the gallows? Did you solve the alchemy puzzle, because there should be a pot or lid there as well? Did you find the Egyptian Hieroglyphs book with the missing page 17 at the beginning of the game? Check your "Flashback" file just to make sure because you probably won't be able to open the fuse box to retrieve the missing page until you have read the book and realize that it's missing.

Good luck!

Susan

Hi Susan
When I find the top, if I have the pot with me, they will combine right away. I did the hangman, the alchemy machine and I have all of the flashbacks.
You said there are 24 hiding places, not counting the three for Merrick, Beth and the Professor? - I believe that is what I have. Here is the list of places I have - If anyone knows of any others, please let me know.

SPOILER

Main Floor:
statue on top of one bookcase, Library
Two of the cabinets, in the Library open, though I never found a pot or lid in either
cabinet below drawer puzzle, Workshop
behind curtain, Theatre
desk drawer, Office
on shelves left of entrance, Amazing Plants Room
panel next to Stone Fountain, Main Entry Hall (This is where the last one is and doesn’t open, until you go down the slide, in the breathing room)
middle bird, inside human skull, in the Bird Masks
Eagles nest in Strange Beasts Room

2nd Floor:
pot and lid with Merrick's ghost, Fortune Teller Room
animal sarcophogus drawer, Funeral Rites
in coffin between obelisks, across from Sphinx
carved coffin, Myths and Legends
under red cloth, Janitor’s closet
toilet, in Janitor’s closet
inside bull, Gods and Killing Items
behind curtain in the Spider Music Box

3rd Floor:
spaceship, Planetarium
at bottom of wooden structure, Gallows
in front of 6 skull dial, Puzzle Room
inside alchemy machine, Storage Room

4th Floor:
pot and lid with Beth's ghost, Clock Tower
inside the clock mechanism

Basement:
pot and lid with professor W's ghost, Underground Lake
top of arch past oil pool, Suberranean World
raised object, with the blue prints, in Mysteries of the Deep



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That should be Subterranean World - having trouble with the t on this keyboard.
anderbauche

auderbauche
I am sending you a private e-mail with an attached zip file that includes six saves from a Shivers game that I completed in 1999. A couple of the saves are near the endgame sequence so you can at least complete the game on your machine and see how it ends.
One of the files in the zip archive, resource.win, contains the game configuration settings that were unique to my 1999 computer hardware, so you will want to discard it and NOT overwrite the resource.win file that's on your current machine. Also, I would suggest that you save your current game save files to a safe place so you can recover them in case the file set from me doesn't work.
Good Luck !!

Edit: Don't see an e-mail address in auderbauche's profile, therefore unable to send file per above. Is there an alternate way to send this zip archive to auderbauche thru a GB channel?

Thanks, Pete. That is wonderful of you.
Since auderbache wants his e-mail private to other members - send it to me and I'll send it to him.

Hi, anderbauche!

I must have had a "duh" moment because, of course, the pot and lid will automatically combine when you match them up.

In case Pete's saves don't work for you, did you look inside the masks in the witch doctor's hut in the Shamen Room because I found one there and I don't see that location on your list?

Susan

Thanks, Susan.

Pete,
Got the saved game and have forwarded it to anderbauche.

Thanx to all - Haven't been able to open Pete's saves, but thanx for the effort; MaG too.
I went into the Shamen's hut and there is an empty shelf on the right, where I could put the piece I have, so that must be another location, but sadly, my top was not there.
I checked all the other places once again with no luck. I finally got disgusted and went to where the crystal Ixupi hides and clicked on it, with just my bottom piece; he came out, but I didn't loose any life essence, so I did it again, this time he left, instead of going back into his hiding place; I still didn't loose any essence. I think something has frozen up or I have a glitch.
I think I'll start another game and see if I can find all the pieces - I can maneuver this place in my sleep, shouldn't take too long.
Anderbauche
PS I'm a she

Good luck, anderbauche.

Hi, anderbauche!

Before you start over again, did you check every single cupboard in the Library because, in addition to the spot at the top of the ladder, there is one other possible hiding place there? Also, are you sure you looked right inside the eagle's nest because I remember having a problem getting the correct angle?

Susan