Medical Pavilion

Goal: Use Emergency Access Route

Your first vending machine is to be found here, although it's unlikely that you really need to buy anything yet, and in fact you should save your money for the moment. Search the area for another audio log and more items, then head upstairs to repeat the process. In the end, though, you'll need to head through the emergency access path to move on; it's the doorway with the security bot that lies broken in the middle of it. You'll need to hack it to move on. It isn't super difficult, as long as you pay attention to the little tutorial: your goal is to connect the fluid that flows from the starting point to the ending terminal. Click on all of the obscured tiles to reveal the piping beneath them, then click on the pieces you need to send them to your holding cell in the bottom left of the hacking area. Move it to the tile where you need it by clicking there as well. You can hit Y (on the 360 version of the game) to speed up the fluid when you think you have a solid connection. It might be confusing at first, but eventually you'll get the hang of it.

Tip: After hacking the security bot, you'll be able to hack the vending machine as well. That'll make more items available and make the available items cheaper. You'll probably want to keep saving your money until you can afford the Electric Buck ammo, though, which you won't need for a while at any rate.

When you get through the door, you'll have a new friend in the security bot. Let it follow you through the door, then hide behind a pillar as it mops up in the battle between the two splicers here. Check their bodies, then head upstairs and flip the switch on the panel to open the doorway behind you.

Goal: Get the key from Steinman

To use the emergency access route, you'll have to get the key from a Dr. Steinman who runs the Medical Pavilion. Head into the nearby hallway, then take a right to find a machinegun. Not much ammo for it at the moment, unfortunately, so you'll probably want to stick with the pistol for now. Anyway, flip the switch here to restore power to the main Medical Pavilion area.

Watch out for the parade of delusion that pops through the door after you flip the switch.

That will cause a number of Splicers to start pouring in your direction, however. Start backtracking towards the Medical Pavilion entrance, shooting enemies as you go. Whenever possible, tag a foe with a single bullet, then let your security bot finish them off, to help save ammo.. Kill everything in your way, then open the door leading to the Surgery Ward, where Steinman resides.

Surgery Ward

Unfortunately for you, there are turrets set up in the surgery ward. They'll make mincemeat out of you if you allow them to remain standing, so you'll have to disable them. Doing so can easily be done with a Electro Bolt hit, but you'll have to expose yourself to gunfire in order to hit them. There are two turrets here, so try to nail both of them and hack them. If you do so, then you'll be able to bring your enemies back into their fields of fire and use the turrets to kill them. Don't expect them to last too long, though.

There are a number of enemies in the area, including a nitro splicer that will throw grenades at you. He's pretty tough, so he'll probably take out one of your turrets before you manage to take him down.

If you can, try to hack the two vending machines in the pool of water to one side of this area. They'll dispense ammo for you that'll be important in an upcoming fight.

Ignore the branching paths here, and head straight through to the Surgery Foyer. When you arrive, Steinman will block your progress by bombing a sign that blocks your progress onward. In order to proceed, you'll need to find a Telekinesis plasmid. Before you can do that, though, you'll need to find some way past the icy barricades that block your paths back in the Surgery Ward.

Finding Incinerate

Before heading out to Surgery, check around the other areas here in the Medical Pavilion. In addition to the Surgery Ward, there's also a crematorium--hack the camera here to prevent it from detecting you. You can find a body by an incinerator nearby; press the button nearby to burn it up, and you'll receive a Hacker's Delight tonic, which will restore some of your health and EVE whenever you hack anything.

Head upstairs and crawl into the locked room to find an Incinerate plasmid. That'll let you set almost anything on fire, including the oil slick outside the room. Do so to burn up the enemies here. In addition, there's also a 30-round clip of machinegun ammo in one of the open lockers.

You can find tonics in the darnedest places.

There's also a supply closet beneath the stairs leading to the surgery ward. Zap your way into it to find an object that will allow you to automatically hack into any object--but only once.

Now that you have Incinerate, you can melt the ice that blocks your path here. One of the ice barriers leads you to the Twilight Fields funeral home, while another blocks the path near the supply closet. Burn both of them.

Funeral Homes

Kill the Splicer near the door here and check the tiny coffin for items. There's a code written on a piece of paper here--0451? Interesting. You can use it on the doorway nearby to unlock it and find some supplies. The morgue room here will lead you to an autopsy table with a Security Expert tonic to find. Nab it and apply it! Lastly, another Splicer will throw a coffin at you when you leave. Avoid it, and especially avoid the turret in the doorway nearby, as it'll pop open when you look for items down there. There's a safe behind the turret, though, which you can pop open as well, or autohack if it's too hard.

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