Hephaestus

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Contents 1 BioShock 2 History 2.1 Ryan's Trophy Room 2.2 Workshops 2.3 Geothermal control 2.4 Geothermal Core 2.5 Map 3 New Discoveries 3.1 Single Use Events 3.2 New Plasmids and Tonics (Found) 3.3 Audio Diaries 4 Walkthrough 4.1 Entry Hall 4.2 First Room 4.3 Second Room 4.4 Ryan's Trophy Room 4.5 Hephaestus Core 4.6 Heat Loss Monitoring 4.7 Workshops 4.8 Geothermal Control 4.9 Back To Ryan's Office 5 Trivia

[edit] BioShock

Hephaestus is the eighth level of BioShock. Jack reaches Hephaestus via bathysphere from Fort Frolic. The objective is to gain entrance to Ryan's office, in which Andrew Ryan has barricaded himself.

[edit] History

Hephaestus is the main power production facility for Rapture and is located at the base of the city. Designed by Andrew Ryan, it harnesses the heat from geothermic vents on the ocean floor. Without Hephaestus, Rapture could not have been built. Hephaestus also contains the private office of Andrew Ryan.

[edit] Ryan's Trophy Room

This room is the way to the control center and office of Andrew Ryan, which is guarded by an electromagnetic lock system. In this room, various corpses - including those of Anya Andersdotter and Bill McDonagh - are butchered and staked to the pillars, as part of Ryan's morbid trophy display.

[edit] Workshops

Various workshops of Rapture, including Kyburz's office. This is where Jack will find Kyburz's EMP bomb.

[edit] Geothermal control

This facility directs the flow of magma.

[edit] Geothermal Core

Harmonic Core #3 serves as one of the main power sources for Hephaestus. Jack disables the core via a sympathetic overload with Kyburz's EMP bomb.

[edit] Map

[edit] New Discoveries

[edit] Single Use Events

• There are three Little Sisters
• There are two Power to the People vending machines

[edit] New Plasmids and Tonics (Found)

• Frozen Field 2
• Damage Research
• Security Evasion 2
• Shorten Alarms 2

[edit] Audio Diaries

• Bill McDonagh - Ryan Takes F Futuristics - Outside Hephaestus Bathysphere station, search the crate near a Circus of Values
• Kyburz - Scoping the Gate - In the room containing a Circus of Values and Vita-Chamber
• Bill McDonagh - Stopping Ryan - In the room with the entrance to Ryan's office, in the corpse on the first right column
• Anya Andersdotter - Going to Heat Loss - In the room with the entrance to Ryan's office, in the corpse on the third right column
• Andrew Ryan - A Man or a Parasite - In the room with the entrance to Ryan's office, on a desk in the room on the right
• Bill McDonagh - Fontaine's Legacy - Hephaestus Core near the Vita-Chamber
• Anya Andersdotter - Assassin - Hephaestus Core near the Gatherer's Garden
• Pablo Navarro - Kyburz Door Code - Heat Loss Monitoring on the floor in the corner
• Bill McDonagh - Genetic Arms Race - Lower Heat Loss Monitoring in the flooded area on the desk
• Pablo Navarro - Getting a Break - Lower Heat Loss Monitoring on the desk near the gene tonic
• Andrew Ryan - Impossible Anywhere Else - Hephaestus Core on the desk in the bottom walkway
• Pablo Navarro - Running Short on R-34s - On a desk outside the entrance to the Workshops
• Kyburz - Device Almost Finished - Lower Workshops on the desk opposite the base of the stairs
• Andrew Ryan - Great Chain Moves Slowly - Kyburz'z office on the desk in the back of the room
• Kyburz - The Dream - Lower Workshops on a corpse in the room after the crawlspace
• Kyburz - Assembling the Bomb - In the crawlspace room on the desk
• Pablo Navarro - Market Maintenance Code - Take the crawlspace on the left to the entrance of Kyburz's office, which leads under the stairs

[edit] Walkthrough

[edit] Entry Hall

• It circles left and right. Go left.
• At three barrels, pick up a barrel with Telekinesis.
• Round the corner, aim at Splicer, fire barrel at him.
• Turn and pick up seconnd barrel and get the next Splicer.
• Take hall to the left, through door, down ramp to door.
• Turn right, pick up barrel, go to right facing door up steps.
• Fire it at Splicer. Easy kills.
• Go back to center of area and pick up Chemical Thrower.
• Go up steps to first room.

[edit] First Room

• Turret is to the left when you go in.
• Use Target Dummy or Electro Bolt, and hack it.
• Circus of Values is back left corner.
• Two Frag Grenades and money are by it.
• Crate: audio diary, two Distilled Waters, one Enzyme Sample.
• Circus of Values is "very hard" hack, but has Antipersonnel Auto Rounds.

[edit] Second Room

• Circus of Values to far left. Nearby: Potato Chips, audio diary.
• Health Station: hack it or break it.
• Left side of room: EVE Hypo.
• Middle: Grenade Launcher. Grab it.
  • A frag grenade then drops down, which you can get.
    • A Heat-Seeking RPG then drops down, but if you get it, three Spider Splicers attack.

• Around wall at back is a Security Camera above the door.
• U-Invent is at far right of that area.

[edit] Ryan's Trophy Room

• When you enter, go right to see a locked door where Splicers will enter.
  • You may want to put gas tanks with Proximity Mines there.

• Ryan's office door is at the far end and is protected by a electromagnetic lock.
• Searching the last hanging body on the right triggers an attack.
• Search all the bodies but that one.
• Door in middle of right platform opens to flooded room.
  • Loot: audio diary, frag grenade, Frozen Field 2 tonic.
    • Safe under desk: $21, one hundred Napalm, three proximity mines. Exit room.

• Set proximity mines, gas tanks, Cyclone Traps, and Trap Bolts around.
• Search last body and move to end of platform facing the Splicers' door.
• Napalm as many as you can. When traps are all down, move to flooded room.
• When done, exit through the now-open door and turn left.
• Go through another flooded room with dead Big Daddy in the middle to...

[edit] Hephaestus Core

• You enter on a raised walkway. With luck, you'll see a Big Daddy below.
• This is an easy kill because he has to run upstairs to get you.
• You can have your choice of traps waiting for him at the top of the stairs.
• Much later, you will have to kill two Big Daddies, so lay off them until then. (Or if you enjoy killing them, don't wait to kill another one.)
• Reload while he runs upstairs and finish off his last little health.
• There is an audio diary on this level.
• Napalm by machines by stairs. First Aid Kit on machine opposite it.
• Go downstairs.
• Liquid Nitrogen ahead to right. Gatherer's Garden ahead to left. Audio diary next to it
• Power To The People opposite the Gatherer's Garden.
• Sabotaged Circus of Values ahead on the left. Leave it alone.
• Kill the Splicer in front of it.
• To right of the machine, find Automatic Hack Tool by corpse.
• Crate ahead: distilled water.
• Down next set of stairs: Fist Aid Kit, Electric Gel, antipersonnel auto rounds, Circus of Values, and audio diary
• Go back up and head the other way until you reach a Security Camera.
• Hack the "very hard" camera.
• Below it: first aid kit, audio diary.
• End of platform: Crossbow.
• Nook to left: proximity mine, 00 Buck, "very hard" safe. It has $58, antipersonnel auto rounds, and Steel-tip Bolt
• With so much cash around, paying to hack the safe is reasonable.

[edit] Heat Loss Monitoring

• You come to a long room filled with corpses. The last three are feigning death.
• After lights go out the second time, napalm the "corpses" at the end.
• From this moment on, some Splicers will pretend to be dead.
• Next room under stairs on right: EVE hypo, first aid kit, frag grenade.
• Pneumo Tube on the right. Ahead: audio diary, coffee, lockbox.
• Cross the stairs to a Circus of Values with a lockbox by its left side.
• Go back down stairs and turn right. Splicer is playing dead. Make it so. (To test for a faker, try fetching the body with Telekinesis.)
• Down stairs, two of the three bodies are fakers.
• Under stairs: frag grenade, napalm.
• From stairs, nook to left has machine to disable electricity to water.
• Hack it or fire armor-piercing rounds at red light in fan opposite.
• Go down to water: audio diary, Incendiary Bolts, cash.
• Continue to left: Pep Bars, file cabinet with components.
• Stairs down: crate, frag grenade, audio diary, Security Evasion 2.
• Return to core.

[edit] Workshops

• To left, nook with trap wires, Crossbow.
• Take first right.
  • Around corner by desk are two Splicers and a turret.
    • Right of turret: Machine Gun and first aid kit.
      • Left of turret is a "very hard" U-Invent.

• In back are lockers and a "very hard" safe: six frag grenades, 00 buck, steel-tip bolts.
• Go back to the main area (of this room) and turn right. Check desks.
• Go down the stairs by the El Ammo Bandito.
• To the left of the stairs are two turrets.
• Run straight down the stairs and into a small room.
  • First aid kit, proximity mine, audio diary
    • Use Telekinesis to move tanks from back right corner.

• Hop over the desks and go through the passageway.
  • Coming out, move to left across hall to the far end of the sign.

• Turrets are now around the corner to the right. Hack them.
• Kyburz's Office
  • Enter the door code (0126).
    • Clear all the trap wires.

• Liquid nitrogen on desk. Pneumo tube has some electric gel.
• Power To The People machine, proximity mine, audio diary.
• Press button on right side of desk and move behind desk.
  • Turret rises out of floor by entry door.
    • Once handled, get the nitroglycerin at the end of the room.

• Turn left out of the office, down the hall, and enter a room.
  • Audio diary on the corpse.
    • Napalm, frag grenade, health station, EVE hypo, etc.

• Crawl space area: two first aid kits, Damage Research tonic, audio diary
  • This is where you come back to assemble the bomb.

• Exit, then go right back in to insert the nitroglycerin into the bomb.
  • Splicer greets you when you exit crawl space and round the corner.

• Search the Big Daddy. One down, three to go.
• When back to the turrets, enter crawl space in front of left turret.
  • Various ammo, electric Gel, components, audio diary

• Go back upstairs.
• First Big Daddy you meet has over half his health gone. Easy kill.
  • Loot on Big Daddy: second R-34 Wire Cluster, cash.

• Exit the core.
• Go back to the flooded room with the dead Big Daddy in the middle.
  • A Splicer may be playing d=ead in front of the door to the glass tunnel.
    • Loot the third R-34.

• Return to the core and find another Big Daddy.
• This one will have full health.
• That is the last R-34.
• Around the core you will easily find the rest of what you need.
• Run all the way back to the crawl space to avoid Splicers.
• There's often another faker just before crawl space entrance.
• Complete and pick up the bomb.
• Splicers await your exit.
• Take care of them, then go to...

[edit] Geothermal Control

• The room you are going into has turrets on either side.
• These should be hacked for your defense.
• While you are turning the wheel, you cannot defend yourself.
• Get six proximity mines out of a crate on the platform.
• On each side, put one by the door, one on the stairs, one further along.
• When ready, turn the wheel.
• Take the elevator, then the walkways to corpse, automatic hack tool, Shorten Alarms 2.
• Continue to Core Lift Control. Place bomb.

[edit] Back To Ryan's Office

• Nothing is going to blow up, so take your time.
• Some Security Bots will come for you, so just wait where you are until they leave (Assuming you have Natural Camouflage; otherwise, run.)
• Start following the arrow and killing Splicers.
• You will often face multiple Splicers. Target Dummy or Enrage are handy.
• On to Rapture Central Control

[edit] Trivia

• Hephaestus was the Greek god of technology, blacksmithing and smelting etc, making it the perfect name for such a place.