Bethesda Susa

Bethesda Susa

	Jungle
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Bethesda Susa

Eons-shifted stone entombs the angleless architecture of Bethsaida's lair.

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Bethesda Susa is a mid-game dungeon that the player is sent to with the quest Decoding the Signal once More Than a Willing Spirit is complete. For a guide on clearing Bethesda Susa, see Bethesda Susa/Guide.

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Floors

Levels	Absolute Z Levels	Name	Temperature
0	10	Surface	25
1	11	ruined wharf	16
2-4	12-14	healing pools	7, -2, -11
5	15	abandoned ward	-20
6-10	16-20	ruined ward	-29, -38, -47, -56, -65
11-12	21-22	abandoned ward 2	-74, -83
13	23	cybernetics ward	-92
14-15	24-25	cryobarrios	-101, -110
16	26	Temple of the Rock	25
17	27	Amplitheatre of the Mind	25
18-19	28-29	Morphorium	25
20	30	Genesis Chamber	25

Surface

A fairly typical jungle exterior with new faction creatures and a down staircase.

ruined wharf

An underground river passes through here from the zones to the north and south.

healing pools

The first of three similar levels, each containing a unique troll. This level is guarded by Jotun, Who Parts Limbs, who carries the bronze key needed to unlock the down staircase. If you are neutral with the Trolls faction, you may trade with them for the key.

The next level is guarded by Fjorn-Kosef, Who Knits The Icy Lattice, who holds the silver key needed to proceed. Similarly to Jotun, they may be traded with if the player's faction reputation is sufficient.

The final healing pools floor is defended by the invisible Haggabah, Who Plies The Umbral Path, the third and most dangerous of the trolls. Haggabah possesses the gold key required to advance.

abandoned ward

On this level is a chrome platform which is an elevator that can be used to skip the next 5 floors. Stand on it and activate the control switch to go down. This same elevator can be recalled to anywhere in its path by using the button stationed there, and can be used to re-ascend to this floor.

ruined ward

The third ruined ward, or the eighth floor of the dungeon, is the only place you can meet and speak to the potentially deadly alchemist, which grants an achievement.

abandoned ward 2

The 11th level holds the destination platform for the elevator from the 5th level. If the elevator platform is not present, it may be called to this floor using the control switch, or the player can jump into the deep shaft where it would be as an alternative to taking the stairs down.

cybernetics ward

On this floor are four becoming nooks.

cryobarrios

There are six cryogenic chambers on the 14th level, and the intact ones are filled with cryogenic mist. A phase spider has been spinning phase webs at the east end of the floor, which are one possible way of passing through the fused security door sealing the stairs downward.

Floor 15 contains six more intact cryogenic chambers, several of which contain (in a frozen state) potentially game-ending creatures. Also, there is a (non-frozen) juicing cannibal carrying a fully operational missile launcher. If the cannibal explodes open any of the chambers, the player may be forced to confront:

• Saad Amus, the Sky-Bear, who carries the Flume-Flier of the Sky-Bear and a ceremonial vibrokhopesh
• a yempuris phi
• a rhinox
• or another phase spider

If the player has no cold resist at all, they can freeze solid on this level.

At the west end of the level is another chrome platform and a switch to go down a single floor to the final level.

Temple of the Rock

If the player has sufficient reputation to enter the holy places of the Mechanimist faction, this is a peaceful level. If not, they may be forced to confront a variety of dangerous Mechanimists, including Phinae Hoshaiah, High Priest of the Rock, in order to make their way to the baetyl and advance the Decoding the Signal quest.

Amplitheatre of the Mind, Morphorium and Genesis Chamber

These deeper levels of Bethesda Susa are not connected to the rest of the level with stairs, and as such are inaccessible without a spiral borer or similar means of digging downwards. They are procedurally generated, using the generic 'ruins' tiles and layout, and are populated principally by lower level creatures found elsewhere in Bethesda Susa. Visiting them is optional.

Tips

This section is opinion-based. Your mileage may vary.

Players should be prepared to deal with increasingly low temperatures as they descend, as well as to fight or bypass the inhabitants and hazards of Bethesda Susa. Some things that may help:

• High reputation with the Mechanimists. Enough can lead to them helping the player as they make their way down.
• Cold resistance equipment, such as an elastyne skull cap or ape fur hat, an ape fur cloak or quilted shawl, ape fur gloves, and any equipment modded to be wooly.
• Protection from gases, such as a vinewood sap mask, gas mask or other equipment that is fitted with filters.
• A weapon that is electrified to deal with the many Robots in Bethesda Susa.
• A source of normality or normality gas, such as an ontological anchor, equipment modded with nulling, a normality gas pump, or normality gas grenades to deal with the infrequent, but dangerous twinning lamprey that roam the abandoned wards past the healing pools.
• Some way to cool down enemies, such as a freeze ray, a freezing weapon, or freeze grenades, as the low temperatures makes everyone else more vulnerable to being frozen as well.
• Explosives or vibro weapons to deal with the Cragmensch that can be found throughout Bethesda Susa.
• Many bandages to deal with the bleeding inflicted by lurking beths. Defoliant can be used to clear clusters of beths without angering other creatures.
• Tonics that help with the cold, such as rubbergum injectors or luminous hoarshrooms, which can also be harvested in Bethesda Susa.

Trivia

• Bethesda Susa can be playtested by wishing for 'stage4'.
• There is always a disciple of the Sightless Way in the Temple of the Rock, though the Mechanimists are not friendly to them.