PhaultGas

**PhaultGas** is the fourth level of the Hand of Odd storyline and fourth overall of Oddworld 3 Stories. It functions as a major gas production and fracking factory run by Filson in the South.

## Overview

PhaultGas was one of many Filson's Gas Production and Fracking Factory as part of his Petrochemicals organisation in which he uses to fund himself out of the lifestyle of a Pud.

## Opening Cinematic

Abe leaps through the bird portal and arrives on a small ledge at PhaultGas in which looked around at the large gas production and fracking factory in which noticed all the seismic equipment and gas detection equipment as he noticed the sign that said "exploration".

## Gameplay

Isometric Mode is disabled for this level.

### Exploration

* Mudokons: 21 (31 with secret)

The game begins as soon as Abe stands up in which the player well have to leap across the gaps before getting to ladder to climb down to ground floor in which three mudokons were waxing the floor while two others were working the workwheels to keep the seismic and gas detection equipment in functional condition in which Abe can loot the nearby lockers, bins, and backpacks for resources and loot including Moolah. The Mudorow shaman asks Abe via chant circle to try to remember to liberate the Mudokons once he was finished getting them to help him shut down PhaultGas as he would need them to do so if wanted to move through factory.

After getting the Mudokons off their duties - a slig guard house was alerted spawning a pair of shotgunner sligs in which Abe was a small amount of time to get the Mudokons out of harms way in which he will need to possess one of the sligs to operate the Slig Voice Lock to disabled the electrical fields and used the slig to get close to the sleeping slogs to possess the slog and use it to stand on the Slog Standing Lock to unlock the set of security doors before heading right.

Abe will be required to leg it along with the five mudokon through the area with the security doors he opened using the slog as a number of shock rocker sligs begin spawning after crossing the ring sensor and Motion Detector and will give chase until jumping across a pitfall and pressing a lever once all five Mudokons are across to drop the trap door they used to get across and send the sligs plummeting to death before jumping back across after raising the trap door and pulled a lever to change path before heading down the new path as chant suppressor orbs prevented the use of chanting to get through the area with slig patrols as he got the five next Mudokons off the workwheels before arriving by the path to **secret area #1** in which takes a bird portal to a container ship in which he has to get by sligs and slogs to open to contains and take the ten Mudokons to the bird portal safely before liberating them after acquiring the Royal Jelly and returning the exploration floor.

After shifting the paths again with lever - he went down a new corridor in which lead to an area where four Mudokons were waxing the floor in which before heading they can go to **secret area #2** to acquire the second Royal Jelly. Abe can return the way he was returning from in which a slig spawns in which can possess to pull the lever again and shift direction of the path in which he can now head down towards the next set of Mudokons that were waxing the floors in which after getting the four of them to follow him with 18 Mudokons now following him returns back tracks using a lever to switch over path and heading back to original path way to leap across the gap again where he had used trap door to kill the pursuing sligs and was now able to use the binary switch to call the lift over before riding it to the right of the screen and rounded down the next path to the next set of workwheels where two additional mudokons were behind a closed door while before Abe uses the work whistle to have all eighteen mudokons following him operate the workwheels which not only shut down the exploration building and lead the mudokons through the recently open door and send them through bird portal optionally before heading out to the walkway.

### Walkway 1

Anti-chanting and chant suppressor sligs were patrolling the walkways with no Mudokons working on the walkways. The player will be introduced to new vendos which was modified zap vendo that will give Abe either a Surge Ring or a Wired Ring respectively which he need to in order to possess one of the sligs to use the Slig Voice Locks to open the door to Drilling and Welling tower, and potentially used the wired rings to get past the sligs.

### Drilling and Welling Tower

* Mudokons: 21 (30 with secret area)

In the drilling and welling tower - many Mudokons were slaving away on the drilling and welling equipment as the chant orbs were flying around the area rather than remaining floating in stationary positions. Abe begins by rounding the down path as he sneaks by sligs and avoids the flying sligs. He approached a lever which will shift the platform to a different path in which after pulling the lever, he can go left to a bird portal **secret area #3** to liberate nine Mudokons working a set of boilers and take the next royal jelly.

After returning from the secret area - Abe can head right in which he rounds the corner in which four Mudokons were working a set of workpullies in which they all sad forcing Abe to use as sympathy mechanic to get them to follow him. In which doing so gets the security trapdoor to open and lift to arrive with heavy anti-chanting sligs arriving with armored slogs. The only way forward was to either use a wired ring or way for the opportunity to get to lift and it to the lower floor where another four Mudokons were working a set of workpullies in which gets to follow him after sympathising with them as he headed down the left side as the path continued in which the player could continue which lead to an area blocked by a grid fence. Other there was another lever back in the middle of path which they can pullt he lever to move the platform 180 degrees and the only way forward was towards the left as moving under the heavy machining in which avoid industrial drills and stone cutters will be taking precise timing before getting the five Mudokons that were operating the stone cutters and drills to follow him which prompted door above to open as squads Sligs began rushing out. The player will have enough time to return to lift and returned to first platform that and climb onto platforms above it before the sligs switched to them before arriving the corridor and heading towards the lift.

After switching the platform back to its original position Abe and the Mudokons can go through the opened security door and get the five Mudokons imprisoned in "Employee Jail" before using the bird portal hidden behind crates to get to **security #4** to reach the opposite side of the boiler room to acquire next royal jelly before returning.

The player will have to use the lever to move the platform in order to climb down and reach the floor he got the first five mudokon and climb down further to the lower floor in which he takes the path to the right and making his way to a set of workpullies where Abe will need to use the work whistle to have them operate the workpullies to shut down the operatings in the drilling and welling tower after avoiding a set of industrial drillers and rocksaws as well as swinging gears, large pits, and and disabling a few UXBs in which a security door below drops letting him sending them and next two Mudokons through the bird portal before heading to the second walkway.

### Walkway 2

On the walkway - large drills and rocksaws were between the large gaps as requiring timing to jump across to avoid being instantly killed by obstacles while also getting past a few slig checkpoints as well as sets of UXBs and Greeter patrols in which he was able to reach the door and turned used the Slig Voice Lock to gain access to the Employee Lounge.

### Employee Lounge

* Mudokon: 21 (29 with secret area)

Abe arrives in the Employee Lounge in which their was series of UXBs on the ground along as the player has to disable the UXBs before being able to get to the hidden bird portal to get to **secret area #5** in which takes him to the Old Trellis which Abe arrived at the first part of the climb he did previously in which 8 Mudokons were hissing and attempting to attack each other in which a Royal Jelly was up on the top right of the area. Abe will have to use the vending machine to craft a cure for feral Mudokons which had electric purple skin in which he had to use the rock candy vending machine to knock the mudokons out before using the cure and sending them through their bird portal before returning to the Employee Lounge.

After returning - several Slogs that have been turned feral were feasting on the bodies of Sligs have to heading left beyond where the hidden bird portal was in which they will go after Abe but will ended up killing themselves on the UXBs that were still active in which 4 wired Mudokons were laughing and disregarding that the other 3 Mudokons had turned feral trying to reach out to them in which Ace sent a vending machine for Abe to use as he explained how to make the cure to feralism in which he had since learnt that it was the effect of eating the new cakes, and told Abe that he will have to knock them out with rock candy or rocks to use the cure. Abe cures the feral Mudokons before slapping some sense into the wired Mudokons before heading to right in which Abe can use the work whistle to get Mudokon to pull each of the leaves to open the security door before heading down towards the left rounding a few corners and reaching an area with four feral Mudokons and three wired Mudokons in which Abe cures the feral Mudokons and slapped some sense into the other three.

Abe takes them down further the Employee Lounge which while avoiding mines and feral slogs in which Abe get eliminate by using a lever to send the slogs plummeting to the deaths before closing the grates and continuing down before arriving at a lift and taking it to the lowest section of the Employee Lounge. Abe arrives by a set of pulley-machines in which before doing so the player can locate the hidden bird portal and use it to take to arrive at **secret area #6** which was a FeeCo train in motion in which they will have to use a pair of monkey bars underneath to get the next royal jelly and avoid a Slig Mama Machine before heading back through the same bird portal.

After using the work whistle to get the Mudokon scrubs to operate the pulley-machines a set of platforms raised up allowing Abe to cross them with enough time cross them before they drop again in which any delay will result in the death of Abe of a scrub. He arrived near the exit where the last seven mudokons were scrubs the floors in which he chanted the bird portal for them to leave as he headed out to the next walkway.

### Walkway 3

As Abe arrived on the walkway in which UXBs were set up along with the ground with Slig snipers in the background as Abe was forced to disable the mines before continuing while avoiding getting sniped. After disabling the mines; the next means of trying to impede his progress came in the form of regular landmines while moving bombs were circular the above platforms in which Abe will have to time correctly in order to evade the moving bombs before approaching entrance to the Refining Tower in which the Mudorow Shaman arrived to tell Abe that there was no way he'd be able to get through the Refining Tower using the he was about to use as gave him a bird portal to enter Administration instead and told him to work backwards to Refining instead.

### Administration

* Mudokons: 21 (40 with secret areas)

As a soon as Abe arrives in Administration the player can head to right first instead to reach the bird portal to **Secret Area #7** which takes them to another FeeCo train in which Abe will have to liberate ten that were separated between cars and get them to bird portal atop the front car before acquiring the seventh royal jelly from under the front a car and using Abe's chanting powers on the bird portal under the front to return to administration.

Upon return - Abe will have to chant a slig in the background after being tutored in our to chant in the 3D direction and use the Slig to drop the security door so that Abe can continue before optional using the Slig Voice Lock to dismiss the other sligs in the area to make traversal quicker before de-possessing the slig and heading toward rights as Abe heads down a corridor rounding a few corners before reaching a door that either can be unlocked via Slig Voice Lock or a Slog Standing Lock by possessing the feral Slog using it to unlock the security door before running it off down the lift shaft by having Abe take the lift up until he reach the next area where 11 feral Mudokons were being kept in a cell with Abe being reacquire to craft more cures to de-feral them before using them to operate the pulley-machines to lower a set of platforms to have 4 additional Mudokons drop down as well as open to security door to their bird portal before taking the second lift further up the Admin tower. The player can stop half way in which the quarma board was hiding the next bird portal which they can use to **secret area #8** which places Abe on another Feeco train with ten Mudokons kept each a carriage each after liberating them before locating the royal jelly under a carriage that had an inactive slig mama on it before using the bird portal under the same carriage to return to Administration.

He returns to lift as he headed up to a high-security area with elite sligs with anti-chanting defenses on them as Abe made his way down the path way to the left in which six Mudokons were being kept cells in which Abe will have to free them individual before heading to exit where he gets them liberate via the bird portal which opens the door and allow them Abe to leave.

### Walkway 6

Upon leaving the Administration tower; Abe was met with a second door in which Ace told him that it was the entrance to the Admin's office but it was locked onto other side and he'll need to continue shutting the plant down in order to get Filson to send his elite security after him in which Abe told him that he will take over it before making his way across Walkway 6 and into

### Transportation and Processing

* Mudokons: 21 (30 with secrets)

As Abe enters the next tower - the player can turn left to head down a corridor and roll/crawl through crawlspace over space with bird portal which he can use to get **secret area #9** which sends him to Phat Station Row 3 in which moving bombs were in the area while 4 scrubs were scrubbing the ground in which Abe has to liberate them without tripping the motion detectors or being sniped by the slig snipers before sending them through the bird portals before getting the royal jelly and than heading back through the bird portal.

After returning - Abe can carry on down the right as he made his way to horizontal lift in which takes to cross the gap while being the crouched position to avoid the snipers as Abe reaches five mudokons operating workwheels which was causing the platforms to raise and lower respectively in which the player will have to use the action button sympathise which each of the anger Mudokons before sending through the bird portal to call over the next lift before stepping onto to lift to cross the next gap while avoiding snipers.

Half way across - the player can stop the lift as in order to use the bird portal to get to **secret area #10** and reach a parofene storage facility in which the player can rescue five mudokons to were working require the player to avoid moving bombs before getting the royal jelly and taking the bird portal to where the lift was intended to take Abe.

With only available way forward was leftwards, Abe made his way down towards a sign post in which player use to change the camera angle as Abe heads down corridor as he now had to avoid the crane hooks as crossed some gaps while also getting each of the mudokons that were working their respective workwheels (five) to follow him as led them back to the sign to switch direction he was heading was back on the original path as he led them to the next lift as he road it with the five using smoke grenades to prevent any of them from being sniped before stopping midway to send them through a bird portal which sent up a second lift for Abe to use to get to the floor below in which moving chant suppressor orbs were patrolling the area along with heavy shotgunners and heavy poppers.

With the only options being take them out Abe can use the bomb vending machine to get a bomb as well as use the fizzy pop, blastos, rock candy, tape, epoxy, rubberband, and gum vending machines to the craft additional weapons, and recycling machine get moolah to operate the Moolah-Lock to open the next security door after taking out the sligs. After taking out the last of sligs and the unlocking the security door - slig guard houses will activate sending flamethrower sligs and flying shotgunner sligs to him with Abe being required to eliminate them. After there was 0 left in the slig guard houses; the second security door will open and a minigunner will attempt to take down Abe in which the player will have to take him out to safely get the next lot of Mudokons to help get to the exit.

Upon getting to the next five mudokons in which they were working the workwheels - Abe gets to follow him to the exit has them use the workwheels to shut down the transportation and processing tower before leading them up to the bird portal and where six others were working and chanted them bird portal to liberate them.

### Walkway 5

After exiting the tower - Abe took Walkway 5 avoiding the moving bombs, slig snipers, flying flamethrower sligs, and greeters along the way before reaching Refining Tower.

### Refining Tower

* Mudokons: 21 (26 with secret)

Upon entering the Refining Tower - Abe will find the corpse of a Mudokon slumped against the security door in which the mudokon appeared to have had been struck repeatedly in the torso in which Abe chalked up to the so-called Mudokon cakes making them ill and feral-minded. Gameplay resumed with the direction go being down and hoping across some gaps while avoiding the toxic plumes of smoke and gas before reaching reaching a lift take up to a bird portal that will allow them to reach an area with sniper sligs and possess one of them in order to take out the sligs on the path and in the foreground before continuing his way.

Upon reaching an area with more plumes of toxic smoke and toxic gas vents; the player can climb down near the left most gas vent where gas turns out to be actually harmless as the player takes the bird portal to **secret area #11** which takes Abe to an area with five Mudokons and a royal jelly in which after liberating the Mudokons and getting the royal jelly the player can return to the refining tower.

After continuing on to an area where five Mudokons were operating the Industrial fans, Abe will need to eliminating the patrolling Slig which will trigger the slig guard houses in which Abe will takes the flying sligs and poppers before sympathising the sad Mudokons and leading them to the bird portal to set them free which triggers the lift to ascend and allow Abe to take it down to set of machines and follow the direction of the cables to six Mudokons maintaining the workwheels. After clearing away a wave of sligs; Abe will be able to lead them over to work whistle to open a security door before sending them through a bird portal and continuing on his way.

After reaching a set of unused pulley-machines; the quarma board was hiding the bird portal to the last **secret area** for Abe to collect the last royal jelly of the level before continuing on his way to the last nine Mudokons in which he gets them to operate the last of the workwheels to lower the security door and shut down the tower in before setting them free in which a cutscene begins.

Filson and Woodson where in the Executive's Office in which Filson was freaking out that his factory was shut down as he had customers that relied on him especially in the region as he doesn't want to go back to Phault Settlements. Woodson told Filson that he'll invest somewhere else if he can't get everything under control in which Filson orders his elite to go after the intruder.

### Race to Woodson

The player resumes gameplay with having Abe backtrack through the Refining Tower as he gets by Filson's elite sligs and was able to avoid moving bombs and avoided landmines before getting back to Walkway 5 in which after going through a motion sensor - he was pursued by a number of Moving bombs and went through the Transportation and Processing Towers as the moving bombs collide with the entrance causing it to collapse as he slips through the elite sligs and return to Walkway 6 and reached the Administrative Executive Office.

## Closing Cinematic

Abe arrived in the executive office and ran into Woodson in which they both fell to ground in which Woodson uttered "You're real!?" in which Abe was confused muttered "of course I am" in which Woodson realises that Molluck was innocent in which Filson called his sligs as they knocked out Abe.