Riven Walkthrough
Temple Island: The Gate Room
Temple Island: The Temple
Jungle Island: Of Sunners and Submarines
Jungle Island: The Submarine Circuit
Jungle Island: Gateway to Moiety
Crater Island: Of Books and Frogs
Plateau Island: Of Mountains and Maps
The Moiety Age: The Rebel Stronghold
Gehn's World: Mystery and Madness
Catherine's Prison: Free the Princess
The End: Or Is It
TEMPLE ISLAND: The Gate Room
When you are released from the cage, check out the mechanism ahead. It's a telescope, but it seems to be pointed at a sealed hatch on a portion of the ground covered by iron plates. Note the lever to the right with a button in the middle-neither works. The mechanism has no power. Go back toward the cage you arrived in, go to the left and follow the steps up. Briefly venture out onto the bridge that leads to your right, stop, turn and look back to see the enormous golden dome behind and to the left of the Gate Room. This is your first goal. Return back the way you came on the bridge and continue straight into the Gate Room antechamber. Note a button on the wall to your right, and the open door ahead that leads into the Gate Room. Proceed into the Gate Room. Explore the Gate Room antechamber. Note a button on the wall to your right and the open door ahead that leads into the Gate Room. Proceed inside. Closely inspect the Gate Room. It is 5 sided with two open doors currently at Positions 1 (where you came in) and 3, which is blocked by a grating. You must open the grating to go through the second doorway at 3, which leads to the giant golden dome. To use the Gate Room, you must understand its geometry. There are five possible gateways numbered for easy discussion, starting at 1(on the southeast wall, where you entered), and proceeding clockwise around the room 2,3,4 and 5. Pushing any of the rotation buttons outside the Gate Room rotates the room by one wall; 72 degrees. Return to the antechamber.
You begin with open gates aligned at 1 and 3. Push the button on the right to rotate the Gate Room clockwise 72 degrees. At this point, the gate into the room is closed but you can peek through a small lens in the recess in front of you and see room's interior. The room's open gates are now aligned with positions 2 and 4. Push the rotation button again to turn the gateways to positions 3 and 5. Push it again to turn the gates to positions 4 and 1. The gateway in front of you is now open once again. Note that a grate closes off the gate at Position 4. Push the button to rotate the room one more time. The ope gateways should now be at 2 and 5. Return to the path, turn left and follow the steps down. When you've gone as far as you can, turn left twice to face a locked gate. Click under the gate to go inside. Go up the ladder and across a board. Ahead, note the open door into the Gate Room at Position 5. Go through the Gate Room and into the cave at Position 2. Throw the steam-valve lever, which turns on the power to the telescope apparatus outside. Turn around and head back toward the Gate Room. Note the rotation button to the right of the door, and a lever to the left. Throw the lever to raise the grate that closes off Position 4. Push the rotation button twice to open Positions 2 and 4. Go through the Gate Room to Position 4. The grating is raised now, enabling access to an antechamber at 4 but a massive door blocks the way beyond. Obviously you'll need to go somewhere else to open this door.
Turn around to see another handle on the left side of the door. Throw it to lower the grate you originally noticed at Position 3. Push the rotate button twice to move the openings to Positions 4 and 1. Go across the Gate Room to the main entrance and rotate twice to align Positions 1 and 3. With the grate at Position 3 now raised, cross the room to Position 3. Go across the bridge to the Great Golden Dome. Note the lever in the dome doorway. Operating the lever does nothing; you will need to restore power. Put the lever back to the position in which you found it. Enter the giant chamber. Note the sign that shows island symbols and indicates that this chamber connects with all five. It also shows the catwalk you are standing on, with a missing piece at 5 o'clock. If you look to your right, you can see the missing catwalk section, and what looks like a large wheel on the far side. Follow the catwalk to the left and follow a long flight of stairs as you circle halfway around the chamber. Outside, there's a short catwalk extending out from the main walkway, where a vertical pipe is bleeding off steam. Throw the steam valve lever to turn on power to the West Drawbridge. Return to the main catwalk and follow it to the left. Note the elevator button on the rock face as you pass, but continue around the outside of the giant dome, passing into and through a rock tunnel. Exit the tunnel and you'll find another steam valve. Throw the lever to restore power to the bridge that connects the giant dome with the Gate Room. Turn around and head back through the tunnel. As you emerge from the tunnel, notice the button set in the wall to your left. You will need it later. Now return to the Golden Dome and go through it up the stairs at the entrance, throw the lever and watch the bridge raise and extend to the Gate Room. Go through to Position 1. You have now solved the Gate Room Puzzle!
