GameSpot's Tomb Raider II Survival Guide - Ice Palace

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Ice Palace ...continued

Tibetan Mask and Boiling Oil
Work your way to the large room above. Once at the box, go through the opening in the wall to the right. Make haste straight down the tunnel, take it around left, wax any opposition, and grab the Tibetan Mask you find. Retrace your path down the tunnel, but turn left up the ramp instead of jumping up to the hole in the wall where you entered. Clamber up the ramp of rocks and locate the narrow passage, the entrance of which is obscured to the right (you can think of this tunnel as a continuation of the ramp). Enter the tunnel now, or pause to collect the mission's second secret.

Secret 2

Take the narrow passage to a very narrow cage room. Drop down the hole at the end of the cage, dispatch the Yeti, and head for the far rectangular hole in floor. Face where you entered the area and toss a few flares into the blackness to spot a thundering snowman. Shoot him dead him from above, if possible, then pick a safe spot among the clumps of spikes and drop to the floor. Hug the left wall and search for the second rectangular opening. Pull up and you'll find yourself on the red balcony noted in the previous mission.

Place the Tibetan Mask in its lock, drop down to the main floor, turn right, and find the square opening in the same wall. Dash across the footbridge, take a left when you get to the end, and wiggle into the passage you find. Hop across the ledges en route to the switch in the wall. Pull it to dump boiling oil onto the frozen pond - thus unfreezing it.

Slide down the ramps, drop into the water and sink straight down - you're after the Gong Hammer. Make for the underwater opening and storm the beach, greasing Yeti as you progress. Explore the area if you're in the hunt for 100 percent kills, but to get your chilly hands on the Talion Key you need to follow the passage on the right.

Ice Palace, continued...