E2M4: The Overlooked Hotel

## The Overlooked Hotel

**The Overlooked Hotel** is the fourth level of the second episode (Even Death May Die) in Blood.

## Secrets

There are a whopping 19 total secrets in this level. Due to a bug in the game, the secret counter originally only shows 17. If you are playing on a source port such as BloodGDX or nBlood, the max secret count should go up past 17 once the 18th and 19th secrets are found. The same may also be true of the official remaster release, Blood: Fresh Supply.

1. Within the hedge maze, there is a small wooden pillar near two Bloated Butchers, that is actually a lift and will take you to the top of the maze. Do so and jump across the hedge tops to get to the exposed secret item ***(Box of Flares)***
2. When you get to the hotel itself, do not go in yet. Instead, go back up the stairs and jump up to the high left side ledge that circles around the courtyard, and take it all the way to the Gargoyle statue ***(Body Armor)***
3. Inside the hotel lobby, go to the far left corner. To the right of the stairs is a stone slab with a cross on it; open it ***(Dynamite Bundles, Box of Shells)***
4. Inside one of the hotel's bedrooms, using the left-side stairs at the lobby, is a bookcase and a closet that has Fire Armor inside it. Use the bookcase to move it ***(Tome)***
5. In this same bedroom, open the closet (beware the Hell Hands!) and jump up on the bed to open a secret door will open inside the closet ***(Access to secret passage)***
6. Go left through this secret passage and you will eventually come to a dead end, with a bathroom that has a mirror you can jump through ***(Voodoo Doll)***
7. Inside the other bedroom, use the back wall behind the headboard of the bed ***(Access to secret passage)***
8. Back in the hallway that contains the doors to the bedrooms, you will spot a grandfather clock along the corner. Use it to move it out of the way ***(Access to secret passage)***
9. Inside the secret passage again, this time head right; you will eventually come to a wall that is differently colored from the rest; open it ***(Access to teleporter that skips Spider Key door)***
10. Simply take the teleporter and go out from where it takes you to register this secret ***(Teleporter back to secret passage)***
11. Back in the passage from the teleporter where the previous 2 secrets were, there is a secret door to the left of the library entrance with a one-way peep hole, and a cupboard inside the room. Go inside and take out the baddies awaiting you ***(Tome, Cloak of Invisibility)***
12. You can access the library from the secret passage by opening the other side of the bookcase like a door, or by opening it from the library side; the shelf is leaning against a wall and looks a bit different from the others ***(Access to secret passage)***
13. Inside the library is another differently-styled bookshelf that acts like a lift; it is standing just across from the secret passage shelf ***(Tome)***
14. Pick up the Tome from the previous secret, then immediately head around the corner and use the back wall here to open it ***(Gasoline x2)***
15. From the previous secret, head along the top of this bookcase until you get to the wall, turn left and push the back wall here to reveal a secret room ***(Guns Akimbo, Tommy Gun Drum Mag, Box of Flares, Box of Shells)***
16. Inside the Moon Key room -- which contains the teleporter to the secret exit once you find all 5 Tomes -- crawl through the fireplace and jump on up inside it; watch for the Gargoyles (including a Stone Gargoyle!) ***(Dynamite Bundles, Box of Shells, Voodoo Doll, Guns Akimbo)***
17. Inside the Dagger Key room, you will find another Tome, as well as the Spider Key. Use the bookshelf in the far corner to open it ***(Case of TNT, Box of Shells)***
18. Inside this same secret, you will notice a high-up ledge; jump to it ***(Doctor's Bag)***
19. Back in the main lobby of the hotel, this time go up the right-side set of stairs and look for a picture of intestines on the wall to your right. Use it to lower the big wall adjacent to it on the left. Have some fire ready! ***(Case of TNT, Tommy Gun Drum Mag, Body Armor***

## Tomes

In order to access the secret level, E2M9: Thin Ice, you will need to find the 5 Tomes hidden in this level -- 3 of which are hidden inside secret areas -- and go back down to the ballroom where you fought 2 Gargoyles and a Stone Gargoyle. 5 black triangles will have appeared on the floor (one for each Tome you found), and a teleporter will have opened up allowing you access to the secret exit. Oddly enough, this teleporter sometimes is bugged and can be used even without finding all the tomes. The Tome locations are as follows, in no particular order:

1. Near the Dagger Key
2. Near the Spider Key (need Dagger Key to get inside)
3. Behind a bookshelf in one of the bedrooms (Secret #4 above)
4. In a hidden room near the library (Secret #11 above)
5. In the library, atop a bookshelf (Secret #13 above)