Bone Tower

• ■ Skellies for bridges (lvl 55)
• ■ Blue Square
• ■ Stair / Ladder
• ■ Orb (Lvl 50)
• ■ Rune Table
• ■ Teleport Gem

• ■ Skellies for bridges (lvl 57)
• ■ Blue Square
• ■ Stair / Ladder
• ■ Orb (Lvl 50)
• ■ Rune Table
• ■ Teleport Gem

• ■ Skellies for bridges (lvl 58)
• ■ Blue Square
• ■ Stair / Ladder
• ■ Orb (Lvl 50)
• ■ Rune Table
• ■ Teleport Gem

• ■ Skellies for bridges (lvl 59)
• ■ Blue Square
• ■ Stair / Ladder
• ■ Orb (Lvl 50)
• ■ Rune Table
• ■ Teleport Gem

• ■ Skellies for bridges (lvl 61)
• ■ Blue Square
• ■ Stair / Ladder
• ■ Orb (Lvl 50)
• ■ Rune Table
• ■ Teleport Gem

• ■ Orb (Lvl 50)
• ■ Rune Table
• ■ Teleport Gem

• ■ Orbs (Lvl 50)
• ■ Teleport Gem

First off, get as many leg bones from skeletons as you can. Use one on another to assemble them into bridges (5 in a stack complete a bridge). You will need lots of bridges to complete the bone tower, and will more than likely have to assemble more as you go along. Each level from 1 to 9 has a blue square, and all levels (including spider and hidden levels) aside from the first have a green jewel on the floor that you can use to be transported back to the blue square on level 1.

As you go through the Bone Tower, you'll need to kill the Dead Wizard accessed from each level up the staircase. He has a key on his body that opens a chest located somewhere in the area he is in. The chest contains a rune, and each level has a different rune; take 2 of each rune. There are 9 runes in all (A, B, D, E, F, H, Isa, Ing, R).

On levels 1 through 4, all you have to find is 1 lvl40 orb per level, and 2 of each rune. On levels 5 through 9, the orbs are lvl50, and you will also be searching for scrolls found on random zombies. The scrolls are numbered by page, with 5 pages per level (pages 50-54 on level 5, pages 60-64 on lvl 6, etc.). The important thing to realize is that there are 3 different versions of each page! The 3 versions each tell you one rune position so that you get a combo of 3 runes for each page. I recommend you make a table to write down what the scrolls say as you get them ("use" to read). Something like:

Now what good are these runes? For starters, you can place any rune on any table, then activate it ("use" the little button on the table) and you will be transported to the start of the rune's corresponding level.

Next, if you use any pair of runes (on any table), you will be rewarded with a sizeable chunk of experience. I'd do this as soon as you can. If you do all 9 pairs in one run, you'll probably level once or twice.

Finally, if you use one of the combos you found from the scrolls, or the bonus combos, you will be rewarded with +1 in the corresponding stat shown in the tables on this page (it adds just like the zombie showdown hp and mana scrolls). If you are going to be leveling your char high enough to max out your bases, it's best to save these combos till you are almost maxed out, since it costs a lot more exp to raise a skill by one then than it does earlier on.

On level 9, random zombies also have cure poison potions on their bodies. Take at least 10 with you, as you will need them on the spider level (swarms of spiders in there). The orbs in the spider level are at the far east and the far west corners of the map (north is up on your screen). The rune table is found by entering an area similar to the entry building of Earth Underground, which is south-west of the western-most orb. There are some ancient diaries in this area that explain some of the story behind the bone tower, if you care to read about it.

The page 90 combo that you find, if used on table in the spider level, takes you to a Hidden Level with 3 lvl50 orbs. There are 3 skeletons blocking your way, along with about 12 on each side of the path you walk along. These extra skeletons can't be reached, but can be fired at with FB/LB, and if your immunity isn't high enough, (140) they will shoot FBs at you. After getting these 3 orbs, walk back to where you entered from, and use the green jewel on the ground to return to the beginning of the Bone Tower.

Now that you're done, I recommend you keep 1 of each rune in your stash so that you can get your orbs quicker when they respawn. Be careful! The Bone Tower is no place to die.