The Sacred Mirror of Kofun/Walkthrough

Honolulu
You start on the bridge of the Antares. Go to the EDWARD mainframe and click on the column and he will talk to you. Click on the registration and your card will be ready in a short time. Turn to the door and click on the handle and have a talk with Mr. Cousteau. He will explain your mission on exploring the coral reefs and locating an ideal site for the Poseidon One marine station, he will also show you a video of Steve Grant regarding your mission and the mirror.

Look around a bit and when Edward mentions your card, return to the mainframe and click on the right. Your card will be "synthesized"; take it.

You are interrupted by another video from Steve Grant who will tell about his worries regarding John Braddy. An additional crew member will join you in the last minute to locate Braddy. Go to the automap and click the card on the scanner on the right. You will see another video with Ann Fong arriving to the ship.

You will be prompted now to to insert CD #2.

Now that you are registered, you can access EDWARD. Browse the computer. For now the most interesting thing to do is clicking on D and see your next destination (Palau) and the backgrounds of your shipmates; and E to see the encyclopedia.

You can also go to the Intercom and "meet" your crewmates (4- Sinus, 4 - Fong, 6 - Capucci). You are supposed to talk to each one, and click on each of the 3 rows of replies until they are exhausted. Repeat until you exhaust all three, and then proceed to the next crewmember.

Once you are done, go to the autopilot and locate Palau (click on ABC button for help). Click on the red line and draw your course from the red dot on Hawaii to Palau. Press start. When halfway there, you will see another video from Grant with a tape with a captured Braddy. Its source is unknown but he gives you some coordinates (151-46-30E/7-23-55N), which are installed in Edward's databank.

You actually have a choice to branch between two objectives: continue looking for the Poseidon installation site, or start looking for the mirror and Braddy. In reality both objectives must continue in parallel.

Palau
Go to your automap and resume your course to Palau. Once there zoom in.

Plot a course to each of the three sites. Once you arrive there, use the Angel Shark to perform a dive.

Look out for the LED on the lower right. It means that there is a hotspot somewhere where you must click to take a shot.

ISC 1
ISC 1 has one checkpoint and 5 pictures.

Return to Edward and go to the Database. Select ISC Site 1 and perform a bio-analysis. Drag and drop the icons to their respective holes or on the lower bracket to consult the encyclopedia.

The answer is: Common Cnidaria: 1; Common Fish: 3,4; Remarkable Fish: 5.

Then send them to Dr. Capucci. She will return an interest of 15%. Move on to the next destination.

Return to the thumbnails and perform a simple analysis (not bio-analysis). You will get the keywords "Coral Bleaching" "Moray" and "Reef". Enter the words into the World Web and you will be returned with "Coral Bleaching" and "Reef Ecosystem" which you can store to the encyclopedia and look them up.

ISC 2
Same as above. This time you have to take 9 pictures, 3 of them of the Manta Ray. Once you get the last one, quickly quit or else the manta ray will assault you, destroying the Angel Shark.

The bioanalysis now is: Common Fish: 1, 2, 3; Rare Fish: 7, 8, 9; Remarkable Mollusc: 4; Common Echinodermata: 5; Remarkable Cnidaria: 6.

Export them to Dr. Capucci and you will get a 50% interest.

Once more perform an analysis and you will get the keywords "Manta Ray" and "Remora". Looking them up will return "Manta Ray", "Symbiosis and Mutualism" which you can add to the Encyclopedia.

ISC 3
In this dive you will be prompted to select the route. As a consequence when the dive ends you have to select a previous checkpoint and dive again, choosing the other route this time. You will take 8 pictures.

The bioanalysis is: Rare Mollusc: 1; Remarkable Fish: 2, 3, 4; Common Fish: 5, 6, 7, 8.

Capucci's results are 42%.

Analysis brings "Nautilus", "Barracuda" and "Shark" which in turn return "Barracuda", "Nautilus", "Shark Class" and "Shark Attacks".

If you talk to Edward he will congratulate you. If you talk to Dr. Capucci she will tell you that despite some interesting specimens, the sites are inappropriate for the station.

Having nothing else to do, you can return to Edward's Database and analyze Braddy's video. You get Keywords "Bais", "John Braddy", "Legend", "Palau", "Worldwide Heritage" which return "Bais" and "Message from John Braddy to W.W.H.", Adding them to Datastorage will allow you to see Braddy's text.

Analysing it will prompto you to decipher the enigma. Select the roman characters on the top and then click in the symbols you think they correspond. The answer is:

CGSU(blank)RQHVTAYFPIN(blank)KOJBEDWML

It is revealed that Braddy reached Ishuta's tomb but he found traces of a tomb raider. Analyse the translated text and you will get "48th Naval Guard Force", "Daikisan", "Kofun", "Mirror", "Nara" and "Truk". The search will return: "Daikisan Sailors", "Truk" and "People of Truk".

Plot a course to Truk. Once there zoom in and you will see the Braddy coordinates marked. Go there and dive.

Braddy site (Shinkoku)
This dive is quite spectacular as it is inside a shipwreck. You can gather 4 photographs. Near the end of the dive you are on one more junction: go to the door to the right and photograph the skull (the 4rth and last photograph). Don't bother going to the left, as a hazard will break your AngelShark, end your dive and give you a warning from Dr. Sinus.

Back in the bridge, go to Edward.

The bioanalysis is: Common Fish: 1; Remarkable Fish: 2; Common Cnidaria: 3.

Capucci's results are only 12%.

Go back and analyze the pictures. The picture of the skull will return the elements "Bombs", "Hailstone", "Truk" and "Wreck". Feed them in the World Net and it will return several entries. Move them all to the Database/Encyclopedia, especially Fujikawa, Nippo, Betty Bomber, and Daily Pacific 09/30/98 (Bombs).

Go to the Database and read the Daily Pacific text. Run an analysis and then check the new keywords to the World Net. Move the resuls in your Database.

Go to the Encyclopedia and select the Shipwrecks category, and look up for Fujikawa, Nippo and Betty Bomber. Edward will install coordinates for each one, so plot a course.