Hephaestus

Make your way through the tunnels here, noting the increased difficulty of the enemies. The Thuggish splicers have upgraded weapons that deal electrical damage, and the Leadheads have machineguns. every type of enemy will have a lot more health than you used to have to deal with.

Pass through the first large open area here, being sure to activate the Vita-Chamber in the northeastern corner. You'll come to Andrew Ryan's vestibule, which leads to his office. You can find a Frozen Field 2 tonic in the southern room here. Be sure to check all of the corpses that are nailed to the walls in the vestibule; one of them will have an audio log that will give you your next goal: Overload the Core. That will overload the electromagnetic lock on Ryan's office's door.

Hephaestus Core

Head to Hephaestus Core here. Explore it thoroughly before leaving; there's a Power to the People machine across from the Gatherer's Garden machine on one of the middle levels. There are also three exits: one to Geothermal Control, one to the Workshops, and one to the Heat Loss Monitoring area. Your goal is to head to Heat Loss, but feel free to explore the other areas first. You can't do much in Geothermal Control, since the lower level is flooded. The Workshops have some stuff inside of them, but you'll be heading back there in a bit, so for now, head to Heat Loss Monitoring.

Heat Loss Monitoring

Head into Heat Loss Monitoring. The lights will go out a couple of times on the way, which indicates, of course, that an ambush is about to occur. Use napalm or a frag grenade on the bodies that suddenly animate when you reach the far door to quickly clear them out.

It's about this point in the game where some hacking games become actually impossible unless you load up on Autohacks or hacking tonics.

In Monitoring itself, you can find a Kyburz Door Code diary on the ground of the upper level, letting you know that the code to Kyburz's door in the Workshops is the date of Australia Day.

You'll find Pablo's desk at the bottom of this area. Nab the Security Defense 2 tonic off of it, as well as the audio diary. The diary will tell you what you need to know: Pablo sent the would-be assassin, Anya Andersdotter, to Kybutz' Workshop, elsewhere off the Hephaestus Core. Search the Heat Loss area thoroughly before heading back to the Core and into the Workshops.

Workshops

One of the posters here on the first floor will tell you that Australia Day is 01-26, so no need to head to Google just yet. After exploring the upper floor, proceed downstairs and take out the two turrets. Kybutz's workshop is beyond there, so enter the code into the keypad and proceed through. You'll need to proceed through the tripwires to find the goodies within, so you will have to somehow destroy the bolts that are attached to the walls. You probably have a good amount of ammo at this point, so feel free to shoot them with a shotgun or something, or just fry them with Electro Bolt.

Pick up a corpse with Telekinesis and keep it in front of you as you walk to zap away these trap bolts.

When you clear out the office, flip the switch on the side of the desk to open the safe nearby; you'll nab some Nitroglycerin. After searching the office, head back out to the lower level of the Workshops. There's a small crawlspace near the position of one of the turrets that you destroyed; it leads around to a secret area under the stairs, where you'll find an audio diary that gives you the code for a maintenance area all the way back in the Farmer's Market. You probably hacked it back when you were there the first time, though.

In the southeastern corner of the lower level here, you can find another crawlspace leading to a hidden research lab. Grab the diary here to learn how to complete the unfinished EMP bomb on the table nearby. You already have the Nitroglycerin; now all you need is a couple of Ionic Gel cans and four R-34 Wire Clusters. You may have found a diary before complaining about the number of R-34's that the Big Daddies go through, and indeed you'll have to find them on their bodies.

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